Keith's AWS Practitioners Class Quiz
Keith's AWS Practitioners Class Quiz
Welcome to the AWS Practitioners Class Quiz! This quiz is designed to test your knowledge of Amazon Web Services and its various features.
Whether you are preparing for a certification exam or just want to enhance your understanding, this quiz covers key concepts including:
- Cloud computing fundamentals
- AWS services and their benefits
- Best practices for AWS architecture
- Security and compliance in the AWS environment
What advantages does a database administrator obtain by using the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?
RDS provides 99.99999999999% reliability and durability
RDS databases automatically scale based on load
RDS enables users to dynamically adjust CPU and RAM resources
RDS simplifies relational database administration tasks
A large company is interested in avoiding long-term contracts and moving from fixed costs to variable costs. What is the value proposition of AWS for this company?
Economies of scale
Pay-as-you-go pricing
Volume pricing discounts
Automated cost optimization
A customer needs to determine Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for a workload that requires physical isolation. Which hosting model should be used?
Dedicated Hosts
Reserved Instances
On-Demand Instances
Spot Instances
Which design principles are enabled by the AWS Cloud to improve the operation of workloads? (Select TWO)
Minimize platform design
Loose coupling
Customized hardware
Remove single points of failure
Minimum viable product
A user is planning to launch three EC2 instances behind a single Elastic Load Balancer. The deployment should be highly available.
Launch the instances across multiple Availability Zones in a single AWS Region.
Launch the instances as EC2 Spot Instances in the same AWS Region and the same Availability Zone.
Launch the instances in multiple AWS Regions, and use Elastic IP addresses.
Launch the instances as EC2 Reserved Instances in the same AWS Region, but in different Availability Zones.
According to AWS, what is the benefit of Elasticity?
Minimize storage requirements by reducing logging and auditing activities
Create systems that scale to the required capacity based on changes in demand
Enable AWS to automatically select the most cost-effective services.
Accelerate the design process because recovery from failure is automated, reducing the need for testing
Which tool can you use to forecast your AWS spending?
AWS Organizations
Amazon Dev Pay
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Cost Explorer
A business analyst would like to move away from creating complex database queries and static spreadsheets when generating regular reports for high-level management. They would like to publish insightful, graphically appealing reports with interactive dashboards. Which service can they use to accomplish this?
Amazon QuickSight
Business intelligence on Amazon Redshift
Amazon CloudWatch dashboards
Amazon Athena integrated with Amazon Glue
What best describes the “Principle of Least Privilege”? Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
All users should have the same baseline permissions granted to them to use basic AWS services.
Users should be granted permission to access only resources they need to do their assigned job.
Users should submit all access requests in written form so that there is a paper trail of who needs access to different AWS resources
Users should always have a little more permission than they need.
Which of the following is the responsibility of the customer to ensure the availability and backup of the EBS volumes?
Delete the data and create a new EBS volume.
Create EBS snapshots.
Attach new volumes to EC2 Instances.
Create copies of EBS Volumes.
Which of the following services can be used as an application firewall in AWS?
AWS Snowball
AWS WAF
AWS Firewall
AWS Protection
Your design team is planning to design an application that will be hosted on the AWS Cloud. One of their main non-functional requirements is given below: Reduce inter-dependencies so failures do not impact other components. Which of the following concepts does this requirement relate to?
Integration
Decoupling
Aggregation
Segregation
Which of the following AWS services can be used to retrieve configuration changes made to AWS resources causing operational issues?
Amazon Inspector
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Config
An organization runs several EC2 instances inside a VPC using three subnets, one for Development, one for Test, and one for Production. The Security team has some concerns about the VPC configuration. It requires restricting communication across the EC2 instances using Security Groups. Which of the following options is true for Security Groups related to the scenario?
You can change a Security Group associated with an instance if the instance is in the running state.
You can change a Security Group associated with an instance if the instance is in the hibernate state.
You can change a Security Group only if there are no instances associated to it.
The only Security Group you can change is the Default Security Group.
Which of the following features of Amazon RDS allows for better availability of databases? Choose the answer from the options given below.
VPC Peering
Multi-AZ
Read Replicas
Data encryption
Your company wants to move an existing Oracle database to the AWS Cloud. Which of the following services can help facilitate this move?
AWS Database Migration Service
AWS VM Migration Service
AWS Inspector
AWS Trusted Advisor
Which of the following services allows you to analyze EC2 Instances against pre-defined security templates to check for vulnerabilities?
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Inspector
AWS WAF
AWS Shield
A website for an international sport governing body would like to serve its content to viewers from different parts of the world in their vernacular language. Which of the following services provide location-based web personalization using geolocation headers?
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon EC2 Instance
Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Route 53
Which of the following are the recommended resources to be deployed in the Amazon VPC private subnet?
NAT Gateways
Bastion Hosts
Database Servers
Internet Gateways
A company wants to utilize AWS storage. For them, low storage cost is paramount. The data is rarely retrieved and a data retrieval time of 13-14 hours is acceptable for them. What is the best storage option to use?
Amazon S3 Glacier
S3 Glacier Deep Archive
Amazon EBS volumes
AWS CloudFront
Which AWS service provides a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability?
AWS RDS
DynamoDB
Oracle RDS
Elastic Map Reduce
For which of the following AWS resources, the Customer is responsible for the infrastructure-related security configurations?
Amazon RDS
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon EC2
AWS Fargate
In the shared responsibility model for infrastructure services, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, which of the below two are customers responsibility?
Network infrastructure
Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
Virtualization infrastructure
Physical security of hardware
Policies and configuration
A large Oil & gas company is planning to deploy a high-volume application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Which of the following can help to reduce operational expenses?
Deploy Amazon EC2 instance with Auto-scaling
Deploy Amazon EC2 instance in multiple AZ’s
Deploy Amazon EC2 instance with Amazon instance store-backed AMI
Deploy Amazon EC2 instance with Cluster placement group
When it comes to the security of an AWS EC2 instance, choose 2 things that users are responsible for.
Patching and maintenance of application
Security Configuration
Physical and Environmental controls
Patching and maintenance of server hardware
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