Why is an AWS Well-Architected review a critical part of the cloud design process?

A. A Well-Architected review is mandatory before a workload can run on AWS.

B. A Well-Architected review helps identify design gaps and helps evaluate design decisions and related documents.

C. A Well-Architected review is an audit mechanism that is a part of requirements for service level agreements.

D. A Well-Architected review eliminates the need for ongoing auditing and compliance tests.

Which of the following is an AWS Well-Architected Framework design principle for operational excellence in the AWS Cloud?

A. Go global in minutes.

B. Make frequent, small, reversible changes.

C. Implement a strong foundation of identity and access management.

D. Stop spending money on hardware infrastructure for data center operations.

Which AWS service helps protect against DDoS attacks?

A. AWS Shield

B. Amazon Inspector

C. Amazon GuardDuty

D. Amazon Detective

A company has a MySQL database running on a single Amazon EC2 instance. The company now requires higher availability in the event of an outage.
Which set of tasks would meet this requirement?

A. Add an Application Load Balancer in front of the EC2 instance.

B. Configure EC2 Auto Recovery to move the instance to another Availability Zone.

C. Migrate to Amazon RDS and enable Multi-AZ.

D. Enable termination protection for the EC2 instance to avoid outages.

A company wants to minimize network latency between its Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances do not need to be highly available.
Which solution meets these requirements?

A. Use EC2 instances in a single Availability Zone.

B. Use Amazon CloudFront as the database for the EC2 instances.

C. Use EC2 instances in the same edge location and the same Availability Zone.

D. Use EC2 instances in the same edge location and the same AWS Region.

Which of the following are characteristics of a serverless application that runs in the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. Users must manually configure Amazon EC2 instances.

B. Users have a choice of operating systems.

C. The application has built-in fault tolerance.

D. Users can run Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.

E. The application can scale based on demand.

A developer who has no AWS Cloud experience wants to use AWS technology to build a web application.
Which AWS service should the developer use to start building the application?

A. AWS Organizations

B. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

C. AWS Billing and Cost Management

D. Amazon Cognito

Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework includes the AWS shared responsibility model?

A. Operational excellence

B. Performance efficiency

C. Reliability

D. Security

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

A. AWS Storage Gateway

B. Virtual private gateway

C. NAT gateway

D. Customer gateway

E. Internet gateway

Which cloud computing benefit does AWS demonstrate with its ability to offer lower variable costs as a result of high purchase volumes?

A. Pay-as-you-go pricing

B. High availability

C. Global reach

D. Economies of scale

A company is looking for a managed machine learning (ML) service that can recommend products based on a customer’s previous behaviors.
Which AWS service meets this requirement?

A. Amazon Personalize

B. Amazon SageMaker

C. Amazon Pinpoint

D. Amazon Comprehend

Which of the following does Amazon CloudFront use to distribute content to users around the world?

A. Amazon VPC

B. AWS Local Zones

C. Edge locations

D. Availability Zones

Which AWS service or feature can be used to create a private connection between an on-premises workload and an AWS Cloud workload?

A. Amazon Route 53

B. Amazon Macie

C. AWS Direct Connect

D. AWS PrivateLink

A company deployed an Amazon EC2 instance last week A developer realizes that the EC2 instance is no longer running. The developer reviews a list of provisioned EC2 instances, and the EC2 instance is no longer on the list.
What can the developer do to generate a recent history of the EC2 instance?

A. Run Cost Explorer to identify the start time and end time of the EC2 instance

B. Use Amazon Inspector to find out when the EC2 instance was stopped

C. Perform a search in AWS CloudTrail to find all EC2 instance-related events

D. Use AWS Secrets Manager to display hidden termination logs of the EC2 instance

In which categories does AWS Trusted Advisor provide recommended actions? (Choose two.)

A. Operating system patches

B. Cost optimization

C. Repetitive tasks

D. Service quotas

E. Account activity records

Which of the following actions are controlled with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? (Choose two.)

A. Control access to AWS service APIs and to other specific resources.

B. Provide intelligent threat detection and continuous monitoring.

C. Protect the AWS environment using multi-factor authentication (MFA).

D. Grant users access to AWS data centers.

E. Provide firewall protection for applications from common web attacks.

A company needs fully managed, highly reliable, and scalable file storage that is accessible over the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.
Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

A. Amazon S3

B. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

C. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

D. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

A company wants guidance to optimize the cost and performance of its current AWS environment.
Which AWS service or tool should the company use to identify areas for optimization?

A. Amazon OuickSight

B. AWS TrustedAdvisor

C. AWS Organizations

D. AWS Budgets

A cloud practitioner needs to design a NoSQL database that is highly scalable, is durable, and requires minimal maintenance.
Which AWS service meets these requirements?

A. Amazon RDS for MySQL

B. Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon EC2

C. Amazon DynamoDB

D. Amazon Redshift

An ecommerce company wants to use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to add and remove EC2 instances based on CPU utilization.
Which AWS service or feature can initiate an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling action to achieve this goal?

A. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

B. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

C. AWS Systems Manager

D. Amazon CloudWatch alarm

In which of the following AWS services should database credentials be stored for maximum security?

A. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

B. AWS Secrets Manager

C. Amazon S3

D. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

A company has deployed its publicly accessible application in two different AWS Regions. The company has designated one Region as primary and the other Region as secondary for disaster recovery purposes.
Which AWS service or resource can automatically divert all incoming application requests to the secondary Region?

A. Application Load Balancer

B. Amazon Route 53

C. AWS Direct Connect

D. AWS VPN

Which component of the AWS global infrastructure provides low-latency access to content in multiple geographic areas by storing copies of data close to end users?

A. AWS Regions

B. Availability Zones

C. Local Zones

D. Edge locations

A company wants to run its workload on Amazon EC2 instances for more than 1 year. This workload will run continuously.
Which option offers a discounted hourly rate compared to the hourly rate of On-Demand Instances?

A. AWS Graviton processor

B. Dedicated Hosts

C. EC2 Instance Savings Plans

D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling instances

A system administrator wants to allow IT department users to access the AWS CLI.
What is the MINIMUM credential that is required to achieve this goal?

A. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) code

B. Key pair

C. IAM user name and password

D. AWS access keys

An online retail company has seasonal sales spikes several times a year, primarily around holidays. Demand is lower at other times. The company finds it difficult to predict the increasing infrastructure demand for each season.
Which advantages of moving to the AWS Cloud would MOST benefit the company? (Choose two.)

A. Global footprint

B. Elasticity

C. AWS service quotas

D. AWS shared responsibility model

E. Pay-as-you-go pricing

A company wants to deploy some of its resources in the AWS Cloud. To meet regulatory requirements, the data must remain local and on premises. There must be low latency between AWS and the company resources.
Which AWS service or feature can be used to meet these requirements?

A. AWS Local Zones

B. Availability Zones

C. AWS Outposts

D. AWS Wavelength Zones

Which AWS network services or features allow CIDR block notation when providing an IP address range? (Choose two.)

A. Security groups

B. Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

C. Network access control list (network ACL)

D. AWS Budgets

E. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

A company is using AWS for all its IT infrastructure. The company's developers are allowed to deploy applications on their own. The developers want to deploy their applications without having to provision the infrastructure themselves.
Which AWS service should the developers use to meet these requirements?

A. AWS Cloud Formation

B. AWS CodeBuild

C. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

D. AWS CodeDeploy

Which characteristics are advantages of using the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. A 100% service level agreement (SLA) for all AWS services

B. Compute capacity that is adjusted on demand

C. Availability of AWS Support for code development

D. Enhanced security

E. Increases in cost and complexity

A company needs to generate reports for business intelligence and operational analytics on petabytes of semistructured and structured data. These reports are produced from standard SQL queries on data that is in an Amazon S3 data lake.
Which AWS service provides the ability to analyze this data?

A. Amazon RDS

B. Amazon Neptune

C. Amazon DynamoDB

D. Amazon Redshift

A company wants to troubleshoot and debug a serverless application that is deployed in the AWS Cloud.
Which AWS service should the company use to achieve this goal?

A. AWS Config

B. AWS CloudFormation

C. AWS X-Ray

D. AWS CloudTrail

A company has a physical tape library to store data backups. The tape library is running out of space. The company needs to extend the tape library's capacity to the AWS Cloud.
Which AWS service should the company use to meet this requirement?

A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

B. Amazon S3

C. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

D. AWS Storage Gateway

Which design principles are included in the reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Choose two.)

A. Automatically recover from failure.

B. Grant everyone access to increase AWS service quotas.

C. Stop guessing capacity.

D. Design applications to run in a single Availability Zone.

E. Plan to increase AWS service quotas first in a secondary AWS Region.

A company wants to run a NoSQL database on Amazon EC2 instances.
Which task is the responsibility of AWS in this scenario?

A. Update the guest operating system of the EC2 instances.

B. Maintain high availability at the database layer.

C. Patch the physical infrastructure that hosts the EC2 instances.

D. Configure the security group firewall.

Which AWS service gives users the ability to download compliance reports from third party auditors?

A. AWS Lambda

B. AWS Trusted Advisor

C. AWS Artifact

D. AWS Audit Manager

A company reeds help managing multiple AWS linked accounts that are reported on a consolidated bill.
Which AWS Supped plan includes an AWS concierge whom the company can ask for assistance?

A. AWS Developer Support

B. AWS Enterprise Support

C. AWS Business Support

D. AWS Basic Support

What is the purpose of having an internet gateway within a VPC?

A. To create a VPN connection to the VPC

B. To allow communication between the VPC and the internet

C. To impose bandwidth constraints on internet traffic

D. To load balance traffic from the internet across Amazon EC2 instances

A company needs an AWS Support plan that provides programmatic case management through the AWS Support API.
Which support plan will meet this requirement MOST cost-effectively?

A. AWS Business Support

B. AWS Basic Support

C. AWS Developer Support

D. AWS Enterprise Support

Which of the following are economic advantages of the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. Increased workforce productivity

B. Decreased need to encrypt user data

C. Manual compliance audits

D. Simplified total cost of ownership (TCO) accounting

E. Faster product launches

A company wants to run its applications in the AWS Cloud. The company does not have enough staff to maintain and protect its critical business applications.
Which AWS service should the company use to perform these tasks?

A. AWS Shield

B. Amazon RDS

C. AWS Config

D. AWS Managed Services (AMS)

Which of the following is a pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

A. Redundancy

B. Operational excellence

C. Availability

D. Multi-Region

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

A. AWS resources do not incur costs

B. There are no infrastructure operating costs

C. There are no upfront cost commitments

D. There are no software licensing costs

A company needs to migrate its website from on premises to the AWS Cloud. The website must be hosted on hardware that is not shared with other companies. The company wants to use its existing per-socket, per-core software licenses.
Which Amazon EC2 instance purchasing option will meet these requirements?

A. Dedicated Instance

B. Reserved Instance

C. Dedicated Host

D. On-Demand Instance

A gaming company wants to move its on-premises environment to AWS. The company needs its resources to be highly available.
Which benefit does the AWS Cloud provide to meet this requirement?

A. Reliability

B. The AWS shared responsibility model

C. Security

D. Agility

Which AWS service or feature is associated with a subnet in a VPC and is used to control inbound and outbound traffic?

A. Amazon Inspector

B. Network ACLs

C. AWS Shield

D. VPC Flow Logs

A company wants to run production workloads on AWS. The company needs concierge service, a designated AWS technical account manager (TAM), and technical support that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Which AWS Support plan will meet these requirements?

A. AWS Basic Support

B. AWS Enterprise Support

C. AWS Business Support

D. AWS Developer Support

A company wants to create a chatbot and integrate the chatbot with its current web application.
Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

A. Amazon Kendra

B. Amazon Lex

C. Amazon Textract

D. Amazon Polly

A retail company needs to build a highly available architecture for a new ecommerce platform. The company is using only AWS services that replicate data across multiple Availability Zones.
Which AWS services should the company use to meet this requirement? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon EC2

B. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

C. Amazon Aurora

D. Amazon DynamoDB

E. Amazon Redshift

Which of the following are shared controls that apply to both AWS and the customer, according to the AWS shared responsibility model? (Choose two.)

A. Resource configuration management

B. Network data integrity

C. Employee awareness and training

D. Physical and environmental security

E. Replacement and disposal of disk drives