Second Set of AWS CCP Questions

A company is using EC2 Instances to run their e-commerce site on AWS. If the site becomes unavailable, the company will lose a significant amount of money for each minute the site is unavailable. Which design principle should the company use to minimize the risk of an outage?

Fault Tolerance

You decide to buy a Reserved Instance for a term of one year. Which option provides the largest total discount?

All Upfront reservation

What features does AWS offer to help protect your data in the Cloud? (Choose TWO)

Access control; Data encryption

An AWS customer has used one Amazon Linux instance for 2 hours, 5 minutes and 9 seconds, and one CentOS instance for 4 hours, 23 minutes and 7 seconds. How much time will the customer be billed for?

2 hours, 5 minutes and 9 seconds for the Linux instance and 4 hours, 23 minutes and 7 seconds for the CentOS instance

What is the AWS Support feature that allows customers to manage support cases programmatically?

AWS Support API

Which methods can be used by customers to interact with AWS IAM? (Choose TWO)

AWS CLI; AWS SDKs

Which of the following are types of IAM identities? (Choose TWO)

IAM Roles; IAM Users

Which Amazon RDS feature facilitates offloading database read activity?

Read Replicas

How does AWS notify customers about security and privacy events pertaining to AWS services?

Security Bulletins

Which IAM entity can best be used to grant temporary access to AWS resources?

IAM Roles

A company deploys three EC2 instances in parallel and needs to distribute traffic evenly. Which AWS service should be used?

AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB)

Which approach helps eliminate human error and automate creating and updating AWS environments?

Use code to provision and operate your AWS infrastructure

A company wants to better secure its AWS account from unauthorized access. What should it do?

Require Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all IAM user access

Which AWS service offers volume discounts based on usage?

Amazon S3

Which factors should be considered when determining the AWS Region for deployment? (Choose TWO)

Data sovereignty; Cost

Which AWS service improves application performance using fast in-memory caches?

Amazon ElastiCache

What are the advantages of Auto Scaling Groups for EC2 instances?

Scales EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones for higher availability and fault tolerance

Why has the TCO gap between AWS and traditional infrastructure widened over the years?

AWS continues to lower cloud computing costs

Which are examples of the customer's responsibility for security IN the cloud? (Choose TWO)

Building an application schema; File system encryption

Which MFA device can customers use to protect AWS resources?

U2F Security Key

A company wants to deploy an existing .NET application onto AWS as quickly as possible. Which service should it use?

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Which of the following are NOT factors when estimating Amazon EC2 costs? (Choose TWO)

Number of security groups; Number of Hosted Zones

Which AWS service helps extend on-premises storage to AWS cost-effectively?

AWS Storage Gateway

A company is building an online cloud storage platform and needs automatically scalable storage at low cost. Which service should it use?

Amazon S3

A new IAM user cannot create EBS snapshots or S3 buckets. What is the likely reason?

There is an implicit deny to all actions unless permissions are granted

Which service provides auditors with a log of all access to AWS resources?

AWS CloudTrail

What is Amazon Cloud Directory?

A service that organizes hierarchies of data across multiple dimensions

A user opened a "Production System Down" support case. What is the expected response time?

1 hour

Which is a best practice for making applications highly available on AWS?

Deploy the application across at least two Availability Zones

Which should be included in a TCO analysis comparing AWS and on-premises? (Choose TWO)

Labor and IT costs; Cooling and power consumption

Which AWS Support Plan provides a response time of less than 15 minutes for business-critical systems?

Enterprise Support

Which AWS offerings are serverless services? (Choose TWO)

AWS Lambda; Amazon DynamoDB

Which AWS service enables quick purchase and deployment of SSL/TLS certificates?

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

Which AWS service integrates with Chef to automate EC2 configuration?

AWS OpsWorks

Which AWS service stores objects and makes them downloadable over the internet?

Amazon S3

Which service can monitor HTTP and HTTPS requests forwarded to Amazon CloudFront?

AWS WAF

A web application runs continuously throughout the year. Which EC2 purchasing option is most cost-effective?

Reserved Instances

A company wants to grant a new employee long-term access to manage DynamoDB. What is the best practice?

Create an IAM user and attach a policy with DynamoDB permissions

What is the best practice for granting permissions to applications running on EC2 instances?

Use IAM Roles with temporary security credentials

Which action can help AWS customers save money when migrating workloads to AWS?

Use existing third-party software licenses on AWS

Which AWS service can decouple components in a monolithic application?

Amazon SQS

Which services can be used to enable Virtual MFA? (Choose TWO)

AWS IAM; AWS CLI

According to best practices, what is best for processing a large number of binary files?

Running EC2 instances in parallel

What tool should a company use to estimate the cost of Amazon S3 and CloudFront?

AWS Pricing Calculator

What should you do if you find AWS resources you do not remember creating? (Choose TWO)

Delete potentially compromised IAM users after investigation; Change root and IAM user passwords

What is the practice of minimizing dependencies between components called?

Loosely coupling

Which AWS service provides an NFS file system that can be mounted by multiple EC2 instances simultaneously?

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

What is a benefit of low-latency links between Availability Zones?

Makes synchronous data replication possible

Which statements about AWS Lambda supported languages are true? (Choose TWO)

Lambda natively supports languages such as Python, Node.js, and Java; Lambda can support other languages through custom runtimes/API mechanisms

What are the capabilities of AWS X-Ray? (Choose TWO)

Tracks user requests to identify issues; Helps improve application performance