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A company wants to migrate a critical application to AWS. The application has a short runtime. The application is invoked by changes in data or by shifts in system state. The company needs a compute solution that maximizes operational efficiency and minimizes the cost of running the application. Which AWS solution should the company use to meet these requirements?

AWS Lambda

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A company wants to migrate a critical application to AWS or Azure. The application has a short runtime. The application is invoked by changes in data or by shifts in system state. The company needs a compute solution that maximizes operational efficiency and minimizes the cost of running the application. Which AWS or Azure solution should the company use to meet these requirements?

AWS Lambda Function or Azure Function App

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A website for an international sport governing body would like to serve its content to viewers from different parts of the world in their language. Which of the following services provide location-based web personalization using geolocation?

Amazon CloudFront

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A company has a single Amazon EC2 instance. The company wants to adopt a highly available architecture. What can the company do to meet this requirement?

Scale horizontally across multiple Availability Zones.

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You need to allow resources in a private subnet to access the Internet. Which of the following must be present

NAT Gateway

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A company is planning to run a global marketing application in the AIVS Cloud. The application will feature videos that can be viewed by users. The company must ensure that all users can view these videos with low latency. Which AWS service should the company use to meet this requirement?

Amazon CloudFront.

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In your command prompt, you typed the following command: aws s3 Is s3://name_of-my-bucket/ What is the Intent of this command?

List the content of my S3 bucket in the cloud

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What is the benefit of Cloud Elasticity?

Create systems that scale to the required capacity based on changes in demand

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You would like to deploy a Lambda function that will be triggered periodically to execute some tasks. This lambda function will be deployed on top of an EC2 instance

False

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Sun Solar needs to keep using on-premises data centres due to government requirements. However, they want to augment some of their on-premises resources by providing cloud capacities. Which cloud model can they adopt?

Hybrid Cloud.

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Select, among what follows, what are advantages of Cloud Computing

Pay only for the consumed resources

Go global in minutes

Increase speed and agility

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You are trying to organize and import gigabytes of data into AWS that are currently structured in JSON- like, name-value documents. Which AWS service would best fit your needs?

DynamoDB.

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Which of the following features of Amazon RDS allows for better availability of databases? Choose the answer from the options given below.

Multi-AZ

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Which of the following are the recommended resources to be deployed in the Amazon VPC private subnet?

Database Servers

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Which AW'S service provides a fully managed NoSQL database service that providesfast and predictable performance with seamless scalability?

DynamoDB

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What best describes the "Principle of Least Privilege*? Choose the correct answer from the options given below

Users should be granted permission to access only resources they need to do their assigned Job.

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How would a system administrator add an additional layer of login security to a user’s AWS Management Console?

Enable multi-factor authentication.

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For which of the following AWS resources, the Customer is responsible for the infrastructure-related security configurations?

Amazon EC2

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Which of the following is the responsibility of the customer to ensure the availability and backup of the EBS volumes?

Crate EBS snapshots

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Which of the following is an AWS responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model?

Maintaining physical hardware.

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In the shared responsibility model for Infrastructure services, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, which of the below are two customers responsibility?

Security of the Operating System Image

Policies and configuration

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Among the following, select what matters for choosing a region for your VPC - Costs of required services

Quality of Internet from where you connect to the cloud

Data governance and legal requirements Proximity to your Customers

Availability of services

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A company would like to deploy a web server in a VPC, Select the appropriate configurations:

Elastic IP should be assigned to the web server

The web server should be placed in a public subnet

A security group should be attached to the web server instance allowing at least the following inbound traffic: HTTP, HTTPS

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Select addresses that are reserved in AWS subnet.

subnet address

broadcast address

DNS

Internal

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Which of the below-listed services is a region-based AWS service?

Amazon EFS

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You created EC2 instance. To increase its storage capacity, you created an additional EBS volume. Where should you place the new EBS volume?

In the same availability zone as the EC2 instance

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In your command prompt, you typed the following command: aws s3 cp ./my_files.doc s3://name_of-my-bucket/

Upload my_ file. doc to my S3 bucket in the cloud

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amazon S3 replicates all objects (select the best answer).

In multiple availability zones within the same region

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What are the advantages of cloud computing compared to on-premises solutions?

Go global in minutes

Avoid large capital purchase

Increase speed and agility

Use on-demand capacity

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You configured a security group to protect your instances deployed in a public subnet in your VPC. The following figure illustratesthe inbound rules of thissecurity group. What isthe inferred security policy? (Select all what applies)

SSH connections from 193.194.77.15 are allowed in this security group

Only HTTP, HTTPS, SSH connections from everywhere are allowed in this security group

AII SSH connections from the network 193.194.77.0/24 are allowed in this security group

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What is the common pricing model in cloud computing?

Pay as you go

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Which AWS networking service enables a company to create a virtual network within AWS?

Amazon VPC

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Which of the following must be specified when launching a new EC2 instance? (Choose three)

SSH key

Template like Amazon machine image

Instance type

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Which of these is not a cloud computing model?

System administration as a service

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Amazon S3 is an object storage suitable for the storage of flat files like Microsoft documents, Photos, etc.

True

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What are the benefits of virtualization? Choose the best answer

Cost savings, reduce downtime, ease of configuration, centralized management

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Select the correct statements about virtualization.

Virtualization allows softwarization of the infrastructure

Virtualization can be used to aggregate multiple resources into a single resource

Virtualization can be used to replicate a server into multiple copies

Virtualization hides physical characteristics of hardware to end-users

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How is virtualization managed? Choose the best answer

By an administrator who uses software called a hypervisor to create and run virtual machines

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Select the correct statements relating to Hypervisor

It is of two types: bare metal and hosted

It is a virtual machine monitor

It is of two types: type 1 and type 2

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What is Virtualization?

Transforming hardware into service

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Which of the following allows virtualization without modifying the guest operating system?

Hardware assisted virtualization and full virtualization

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What is cloud computing?

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services over the internet.

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According to the shared responsibility model, which cloud service type places the most responsibility on the customer? *

laaS places the most responsibility on the consumer, with the cloud provider being responsible for the basics of physical security, power, and connectivity.

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Which type of scaling involves adding or removing resources (such as virtual machines or containers) to meet demand? *

Horizontal scaling is adding or subtracting the number of resources.

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What is characterized as the ability of a system to recover from failures and continue to function?

Reliability is the ability of a system to recover from failures and continue to function, and it is one ofthe pillars of the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework.

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A company is migrating to the Cloud instead of running its infrastructure on premises. Which of the following are advantages of this migration? Select 2 correct answer(s)

Ability to deploy globally in minutes

Increased global reach and agility

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Which of the following are benefits of migrating to the Cloud? Select 2 correct answer(s)

Operational resilience

Business agility

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You need to run a number of Amazon EC2 Instances that are physically isolated at the host hardware level from instances that belong to any other AWS account. How can you meet this requirement in a cost- effective way?

Use EC2 Dedicated Hosts

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Which of these is NOT a benefit of Cloud Computing over on-premises computing?

Pay for racking, stacking, and powering servers

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When configuring an Azure Function App, what aspects can be defined? (select all the apply)

Memory size

Runtime stack (the programming language)

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Which of the following are features of network ACLs as they are used in the AWS Cloud?

They are stateless.

They process rule in order, starting with the lowest numbered rule, when deciding whether to allow traffic.

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What type of service in Azure allows you to execute code in response to various events without explicitly provisioning or managing infrastructure?

Azure Function App

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A large enterprise with multiple VPCs in several AWS Regions around the world needs to connect and centrally manage network connectivity between its VPCs. Which AWS service or feature meets these requirements?

AWS Transit Gateway

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What is the function of Azure Bastion?

Being an entry-point to a virtual network (the frontent), it provides secure connectivity to virtual machines

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Your development team is working on a new web application that will be hosted in Azure. The application needs to securely communicate with your on-premises database server without exposing the database to the public internet. Which Azure service should you use to enable secure and private network connectivity?

Azure VPN Gateway

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You are designing a web application that will be hosted on EC2 instances in a private subnet. Your application needs to securely access the internet for software updates without exposing your network to inbound traffic. Which AWS service should you use?

NAT Gateway

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What is the primary purpose of an Azure Resource Group?

Logical grouping of related resource

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A company is developing a mobile app that needs a high-performance NoSQL database. Which AWS services could the company use for this database? (Choose two.)

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

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A company wants to review its monthly costs of using Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS for the past year. Which AWS service or tool provides this information?

Cost Explorer

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Which AWS service or feature allows users to connect with and deploy AWS services programmatically?

AWS software development kits (SDKs)

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A company is launching an ecommerce application that must always be available. The application will run on Amazon EC2 instances continuously for the next 12 months. What is the MOST cost-effective instance purchasing option that meets these requirements?

Savings Plans

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A company plans to create a data lake that uses Amazon S3. Which factor will have the MOST effect on cost?

The selection of S3 storage tiers

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What is the scope of a VPC within the AWS network?

A VPC can span all Availability Zones within an AWS Region.

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Which task requires using AWS account root user credentials

Changing the AWS Support plan

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A company wants to migrate its workloads to AWS, but it lacks expertise in AWS Cloud computing. Which AWS service or feature will help the company with its migration?

AWS Managed Services

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AWS has the ability to achieve lower pay-as-you-go pricing by aggregating usage across hundreds of thousands of users. This describes which advantage of the AWS Cloud?

High economies of scale

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A company has a single Amazon EC2 instance. The company wants to adopt a highly available architecture. What can the company do to meet this requirement?

Scale horizontally across multiple Availability Zones

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Which of the following are components of an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection? (Choose two.)

Virtual private gateway

Customer gateway

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A company has a database server that is always running. The company hosts the server on Amazon EC2 instances. The instance sizes are suitable for the workload. The workload will run for 1 year. Which EC2 instance purchasing option will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Standard Reserved Instances

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An online company was running a workload on premises and was struggling to launch new products and features. After migrating the workload to AWS, the company can quickly launch products and features and can scale its infrastructure as required. Which AWS Cloud value proposition does this scenario describe?

Business agility

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Which of the following are advantages of the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.) - AWS management of user-owned infrastructure

Ability to quickly change required capacity.

High economies of scale

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What are some advantages of using Amazon EC2 instances to host applications in the AWS Cloud instead of on premises? (Choose two.)

EC2 integrates with Amazon VPC, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

EC2 has a flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing model.

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Which AWS service will help protect applications running on AWS from DDoS attacks?

AWS Shield

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- A company's on-premises application deployment cycle was 3-4 weeks. After migrating to the AWS Cloud, the company can deploy the application in 2-3 days. Which benefit has this company experienced by moving to the AWS Cloud?

Agility

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A company needs to establish a connection between two VPCs. The VPCs are located in two different AWS Regions. The company wantsto use the existing infrastructure of the VPCsfor this connection. Which AWS service or feature can be used to establish this connection?

VPC peering

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A global media company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. Which AWS service or feature can the company use to limit the access to AWS services for member accounts?

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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How does the AWS Cloud pricing model differ from the traditional on premises storage pricing model?

How does the AWS Cloud pricing model differ from the traditional on premises storage pricing model?

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Which AWS service or feature acts as a firewall for Amazon EC2 instances?

Security group

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A user needs to determine whether an Amazon EC2 instance's security groups were modified in the last month. How can the user see if a change was made?

Use AWS CloudTrail to see if the security group was changed. Most Voted

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Which of the following are included in AWS Enterprise Support? (Choose two.)

AWS technical account manager (TAM)

5-minute response time for critical issues

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According to the AWS shared responsibility model, what responsibility does a customer have when using Amazon RDS to host a database?

Manage connections to the database.

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You are designing a solution that requires a relational database service that automatically grows it’s storage capacity as the amount of data stored increases. Which AWS service offers this capability?

Amazon RDS with Aurora

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)?

It is considered a serverless web service.

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A pharmaceutical company operates its infrastructure in a single AWS Region. The company has thousands of VPCs in a various AWS accounts that it wants to interconnect. Which AWS service or feature should the company use to help simplify management and reduce operational costs?

AWS Transit Gateway

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Which of the following acts as an instance-level firewall to control inbound and outbound access?

Security groups

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Which of the following are features of Azure Function Apps? (Select all that apply)

Supports multiple programming languages

Auto-scaling capabilities

Can be triggered by events in other Azure services

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When creating an Azure VM, which of the following is NOT an option to configure?

Internet speed

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What are the functionalities of the Azure VPN Gateway? (select all that apply) select 2 correct answers(s)

Sending encrypted traffic between an Azure virtual network and on-premises location

Providing a private connection facilitated by a connectivity provider

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In a scenario where a Blob Trigger is used in Azure Function App, and the function outputs messages to an Azure Queue Storage, what role does Azure Queue Storage play in?

Facilitating asynchronous communication and message processing

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Your application experiences variable access patterns, with some data accessed frequently and other data rarely accessed. You want a storage class that automatically adjusts to these patterns. Which Amazon S3 storage class is the best fit?

Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering

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A company hosts an application on an Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 instance needs to access several AWS resources, including Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB. What is the MOST operationally efficient solution to delegate permissions?

Create an IAM role with the required permissions. Attach the role to the EC2 instance

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Which AWS service provides monitoring capabilities for Elastic Load Balancers?

Amazon CloudWatch

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Which documentation does AWS Artifact provide?

AWS ISO certifications

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In which situations should a company create an IAM user instead of an IAM role? Select 2 correct answer(s)

When the company creates an application that runs on a mobile phone that makes requests to AWS

When the company creates AWS access credentials for individuals

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Which of the following is a characteristic of the AWS account root user?

The root user is the first sign-in identity that is available when an AWS account is created

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Which of the following is NOT an essential component of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

AWS Management Console

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The cloud service provider is solely responsible for every aspect of cloud security

False

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Which AWS service allows users to download security and compliance reports about the AWS infrastructure on demand?

AWS Artifact

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In Elastic Load Balancing, when the load balancer detects an unhealthy target, which of the following are true? Select 3 correct answer(s)

Resumes routing traffic when it detects that the target is healthy again

Routes the traffic to a healthy target

Stops routing traffic to that target

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In AWS, what are the three types of load balance that Elastic Load Balancing offers? Select 3 correct answer(s)

Network Load Balance

Classic Load Balance

Application Load Balancer