AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate - AWS Introduction - Questions

1. Which of the following describes a physical location around the world where AWS clusters data centers?
Endpoint
Collection
Fleet
Region


2. Each AWS region is composed of two or more locations that offer organizations the ability to operate production systems that are more highly available,fault tolerant,and scalable than would be possible using a single data center.What are these locations called?
Availability Zones
Replication areas
Geographic districts
Compute centers


3. What is the deployement term for an environment that extends an existing on-premises infrasturucture into the cloud to connect cloud resources to internal systems?
All-in deployment
Hybrid deployement
On-premises deployement
Scatter deployement


4. Which AWS Cloud service allows organizations to gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health?
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS CloudFormation


5. Which of the following AWS Cloud services is a fully managed NoSQL database service?
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)


6. Your company experiences fluctuations in traffic patterns to their e-commerce website based on flash sales.What service can help your company dynamically match the required compute capacity to the spike in traffic during flash sales?
Auto Scaling
Amazon Glacier
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)


7. You company provides an online photo sharing service.The developement team is looking for ways to deliver image files with lowest latency to end users so the website content is delievered with the best possible performance.What service can help speed up distribution of these image files to end users around the world?
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Amazon Route 53
AWS Storage Gateway
Amazon CloudFront


8. Your company runs an Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance periodically to perform a batch processing job on a large and growing filesystem. At the end of the batch job,you shut down the Amazon EC2 instance to save money but you need to persist the filesystem on the Amazon EC2 instance from the previous batch runs.What AWS Cloud service can you leverage to meet these requirements?
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Glacier
AWS CloudFormation


9. What AWS Cloud service provides a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where organizations can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that they define?
Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF)
Amazon Route 53
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
AWS CloudFormation


10. Your company provides a mobile voting application for a popular TV show, and 5 to 25 million viewers all vote in 15-second timespan.What mechanism can you use to decouple the voting application from your back-end services that tally the votes?
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Amazon RedShift
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

1. Amazon Glacier is designed for: (Choose 2 answers)
Active database storage.
Infrequently accessed data.
Data archives.
Frequently accessed data.
Cached session data.


2. You configured ELB to perform health checks on these EC2 instances. If an instance fails to pass health checks, which statement will be true?
The instance is replaced automatically by the ELB.
The instance gets terminated automatically by the ELB.
The ELB stops sending traffic to the instance that failed its health check.
The instance gets quarantined by the ELB for root cause analysis.


3. You are building a system to distribute confidential training videos to employees. Using CloudFront, what method could be used to serve content that is stored in S3, but not publically accessible from S3 directly?
Create an Origin Access Identity (OAI) for CloudFront and grant access to the objects in your S3 bucket to that OAI.
Add the CloudFront account security group “amazon-cf/amazon-cf-sg” to the appropriate S3 bucket policy.
Create an Identity and Access Management (IAM) User for CloudFront and grant access to the objects in your S3 bucket to that IAM User.
Create a S3 bucket policy that lists the CloudFront distribution ID as the Principal and the target bucket as the Amazon Resource Name (ARN).


4. Which of the following will occur when an EC2 instance in a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) with an associated Elastic IP is stopped and started? (Choose 2 answers)
The Elastic IP will be dissociated from the instance.
All data on instance-store devices will be lost.
All data on EBS (Elastic Block Store) devices will be lost.
The ENI (Elastic Network Interface) is detached.
The underlying host for the instance is changed.


5. In the basic monitoring package for EC2, Amazon CloudWatch provides the following metrics:
Web server visible metrics such as number failed transaction requests.
Operating system visible metrics such as memory utilization.
Database visible metrics such as number of connections.
Hypervisor visible metrics such as CPU utilization.


6. Which is an operational process performed by AWS for data security?
AES-256 encryption of data stored on any shared storage device.
Decommissioning of storage devices using industry-standard practices.
Background virus scans of EBS volumes and EBS snapshots.
Replication of data across multiple AWS Regions E. Secure wiping of EBS data when an EBS volume is un-mounted.


7. To protect S3 data from both accidental deletion and accidental overwriting, you should:
Enable S3 versioning on the bucket.
Access S3 data using only signed URLs.
Disable S3 delete using an IAM bucket policy.
Enable S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.
Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) protected access.

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