AWS Overview

Which of the following AWS services is not a deployment service?

You are a developer who is deploying an application on to AWS and you need to test it for security by performing penetration testing. Which of the following statements is true when it comes to pen tests?

You need to design a highly available and scaleable deployment model for AWS. Which of these would fit the requirement?

You make an API call to AWS, what HTTP response code indicates that this call was successful?

Which of the following is NOT an element in an Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) workflow?

Which of the following is NOT a valid section in an AWS CloudFormation template?

You need to view some data in DynamoDB…What is one way to achieve this?

Which of the following is a responsibility of AWS?

You need to record the logs of all AWS API calls, what service should you use?

You work in the genomics industry and you process large amounts of genomic data using a nightly Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) job. This job processes a single 3 TB file which is stored on S3. The EMR job runs on 3 on-demand core nodes and four on-demand task nodes. The EMR job is now taking longer than anticipated and you have been asked to advise how to reduce the completion time, which of the following would be the best approach?

You company has decided to set up a new AWS account for test and dev purposes. They already use ASW for production, but would like a new account dedicated for test and dev so as to not accidentally break the production environment. You launch an exact replica of your production environment using a CloudFormation template that your company uses in production. However, CloudFormation fails. You use the exact CloudFormation template in production so the failure is something to do with your new AWS account. The CloudFormation template is trying to launch 60 new EC2 instances in a single availability zone. After some research you discover that the problem is:

With which AWS orchestration service can you implement Chef recipes?

Which statement best describes Availability Zones?

What does an AWS Region consist of?

An AWS VPC is a component of which AWS service?

What is the difference between Elastic Beanstalk & CloudFormation?

Amazon's highly scaleable DNS service is know as?

What are the four levels of AWS premium support?

As the AWS platform is PCI DSS 1.0 compliant, I can immediately deploy a website to it that can take and store credit card details. I do not need to get any kind of delta accreditation from a QSA.

The service to allow Big Data processing on the AWS platform is known as AWS "Elastic Big Data"

The AWS platform is certified PCI DDS 1.0 Compliant

The AWS platform consists of how many regions currently?

Amazon's product debut conference is held in Las Vegas each year and is known as?

AWS NoSQL product offering is known as?

What is the maximum response time for a Business Level Premium Support Case?

AWS DNS service is know as?

Auditing user access/API calls etc across the entire AWS estate can be achieved by using?

What is an AWS region?

What is a VPC?

Which AWS compute service is specifically designed to assist you in processing large data sets?

Which AWS service is specifically designed for developers to upload their code to and then it will automatically handle the provisioning of those resources that are required to host that code?

Which AWS Service allows you to run code without having to worry about provisioning any underlying resources (such as virtual machines, databases etc)

Where would be a durable place to store flat files on the AWS platform?

Which AWS service is used as a CDN to distribute content around the world?

Which AWS service would be the best choice for long terms data archival?

Which AWS service is effectively a NAS in the cloud, allowing you to connect it to multiple EC2 instances at once?

Which of the following is a petabyte scale data transfer solution?

What service connects an on-premise software applicance (or vitural machine) with cloud based storage?

What AWS service consists of the following database servcies; SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Aurora, Oracle?

What service is Amazon's NoSQL database service?

What AWS service would you use primarily for data warehousing?

What database service would you use to migrate databases from Oracle to MySQL?

What AWS service is used for collating large amounts of data streamed from multiple sources?

You need a service to aggregate your data from multiple data sources (such as S3, DynamoDB, RDS) etc and then to provide some business intelligence based on this data. What AWS service would best fit?

You need to create new users to access the AWS console and to set password rotation policies for these new users. Which AWS service would best fit your requirements?

You need to supply auditors with logs as to who provisions which resources on your AWS platform. Which service would best suit this?

You need a configuration management service to allow your system administrators to configure and operate your web applications using Chef. Which AWS servcie would best suit your needs?

You need to implement an automated service that will scan your AWS environment and tell you ways that you can improve your security as well as how to save costs. Which service should you use?

You are a digital media agency and you need to convert your media files in to different formats to suit different devices. Which AWS service shoud you consider using to meet these needs?

You need to enable a way so that your system administrators can receive notifications for events that happened on your AWS environment (such as alarms etc), what service should you use?

Your company is interested in implementing a VDI solution

You need to monitor the performance of your EC2 virtual servers (including metrics such as CPU utilization, disk IO etc.). What service would best suit this requirement?