A company is running an application that is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances. The usage of the EC2 instances is higher during daytime hours than nighttime hours. The company wants to optimize the number of EC2 instances based on this usage pattern.
Which AWS service or instance purchasing option should the company use to meet these requirements?

A. Spot Instances

B. Reserved Instances

C. AWS CloudFormation

D. AWS Auto Scaling

A company acquired another corporation. The company now has two AWS accounts.
Which AWS service or tool can the company use to consolidate the billing for these two accounts?

A. AWS Systems Manager

B. AWS Organizations

C. AWS License Manager

D. Cost Explorer

Which activity is considered out of scope for AWS Support?

A. Solving problems detected by Amazon EC2 health checks

B. Answering “how to” questions on AWS services and features

C. Troubleshooting AWS APIs

D. Tuning database queries

A company's headquarters is located on a different continent from where the majority of the company's customers live. The company wants an AWS Cloud environment setup that will provide the lowest latency to the customers.
Which solution will provide the LOWEST network latency between the AWS resources and the customers?

A. Place the resources in the AWS Region that is closest to the company’s headquarters. Move the resources to the Availability Zone that is closest to the customers.

B. Place all workloads in the AWS Region that is closest to the company’s headquarters.

C. Place all workloads in the AWS Region that is closest to the majority of customers.

D. Place the resources in AWS edge locations that are closest to the company’s headquarters.

Which AWS solution gives companies the ability to use protocols such as NFS to store and retrieve objects in Amazon S3?

A. Amazon FSx for Lustre

B. AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway

C. AWS Storage Gateway file gateway

D. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

A company wants to create multiple isolated networks in the same AWS account.
Which AWS service or component will provide this functionality?

A. AWS Transit Gateway

B. Internet gateway

C. Amazon VPC

D. Amazon EC2

A retail company is building a new mobile app. The company is evaluating whether to build the app at an on-premises data center or in the AWS Cloud.
Which of the following are benefits of building this app in the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. A large, upfront capital expense and low variable expenses

B. Increased speed for trying out new projects

C. Complete control over the physical security of the infrastructure

D. Flexibility to scale up in minutes as the application becomes popular

E. Ability to pick the specific data centers that will host the application servers

Which AWS service or tool helps companies measure the environmental impact of their AWS usage?

A. AWS customer carbon footprint tool

B. AWS Compute Optimizer

C. Sustainability pillar

D. OS-Climate (Open Source Climate Data Commons)

A company needs to optimize the cost of its compute resources.
Which type of workload should the company run on Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances?

A. A steady-state workload that requires a particular EC2 instance configuration for a long period of time

B. A short-term workload that can be interrupted

C. A steady-state workload that does not require a long-term commitment

D. A short-term workload that cannot be interrupted

A company needs to connect on-premises applications to AWS Cloud storage by using industry-standard internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) connectivity.
Which AWS solution can the company use to meet this requirement?

A. AWS Storage Gateway file gateway

B. Amazon API Gateway

C. AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway

D. AWS Transit Gateway

A company is building an application that will receive millions of database queries each second. The company needs the data store for the application to scale to meet these needs.
Which AWS service will meet this requirement?

A. Amazon DynamoDB

B. AWS Cloud9

C. Amazon Elastic ache for Memcached

D. Amazon Neptune

A company needs to centralize the periodic backups that are being created for Amazon EC2 instances and an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system.
Which AWS service will meet this requirement with MINIMAL operational effort?

A. Amazon S3

B. AWS Data Pipeline

C. AWS Backup

D. AWS Storage Gateway

What is an AWS responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model?

A. Configure the security group rules that determine which ports are open on an Amazon EC2 Linux instance.

B. Ensure the security of the internal network in the AWS data centers.

C. Patch the guest operating system with the latest security patches on Amazon EC2.

D. Turn on server-side encryption for Amazon S3 buckets.

Which AWS service or storage class provides low-cost, long-term data storage?

A. Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

B. AWS Snowball

C. Amazon MQ

D. AWS Storage Gateway

Which option is an advantage of AWS Cloud computing that minimizes variable costs?

A. High availability

B. Economies of scale

C. Global reach

D. Agility

Which AWS service provides machine learning capability to detect and analyze content in images and videos?

A. Amazon Connect

B. Amazon Lightsail

C. Amazon Personalize

D. Amazon Rekognition

Which type of AWS storage is ephemeral and is deleted when an Amazon EC2 instance is stopped or terminated?

A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

B. Amazon EC2 instance store

C. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

D. Amazon S3

Which Amazon S3 feature or storage class uses the AWS backbone network and edge locations to reduce latencies from the end user to Amazon S3?

A. S3 Cross-Region Replication

B. S3 Transfer Acceleration

C. S3 Event Notifications

D. S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)

What is a benefit of moving to the AWS Cloud in terms of improving time to market?

A. Decreased deployment speed

B. Increased application security

C. Increased business agility

D. Increased backup capabilities

A company's user base needs to remotely access virtual desktop computers from the internet.
Which AWS service provides this functionality?

A. Amazon Connect

B. Amazon Cognito

C. Amazon Workspaces

D. Amazon AppStream 2.0

A company runs thousands of simultaneous simulations using AWS Batch. Each simulation is stateless, is fault tolerant, and runs for up to 3 hours.
Which pricing model enables the company to optimize costs and meet these requirements?

A. Reserved Instances

B. Spot Instances

C. On-Demand Instances

D. Dedicated Instances

Which AWS service can a company use to securely store and encrypt passwords for a database?

A. AWS Shield

B. AWS Secrets Manager

C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

D. Amazon Cognito

A company has stopped all of its Amazon EC2 instances but monthly billing charges continue to occur.
What could be causing this? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage charges

B. Operating system charges

C. Hardware charges

D. Elastic IP charges

E. Input/output (I/O) charges

Which AWS service provides storage that can be mounted across multiple Amazon EC2 instances?

A. Amazon WorkSpaces

B. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

C. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

D. AWS Snowball Edge

In the AWS shared responsibility model, which tasks are the responsibility of AWS? (Choose two.)

A. Patch an Amazon EC2 instance operating system.

B. Configure a security group.

C. Monitor the health of an Availability Zone.

D. Protect the infrastructure that runs Amazon EC2 instances.

E. Manage access to the data in an Amazon S3 bucket.

Which statement is an AWS Cloud best practice that focuses on the elasticity and agility of cloud computing?

A. Provision capacity based on past usage and theoretical peaks.

B. Dynamically scale to meet usage demands.

C. Build the application and infrastructure in a data center that grants physical access.

D. Break apart the application into loosely coupled components.

A company needs to continuously monitor its environment to analyze network and account activity and identify potential security threats.
Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?

A. AWS Artifact

B. Amazon Macie

C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

D. Amazon GuardDuty

A company needs to analyze its AWS Cloud environment to determine whether the company is following security best practices. The company wants recommendations about how to close security gaps.
Which AWS service should the company use to obtain these recommendations?

A. AWS WAF

B. AWS Systems Manager

C. AWS Trusted Advisor

D. AWS Shield

A company is running an order processing system on Amazon EC2 instances. The company wants to migrate to an event-driven, microservices-based application.
Which combination of AWS services can the application use to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

B. AWS Lambda

C. AWS Migration Hub

D. AWS AppSync

E. AWS Application Migration Service

Which AWS services use cloud-native storage that provides replication across multiple Availability Zones by default? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon ElastiCache

B. Amazon RDS for Oracle

C. Amazon Neptune

D. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

E. Amazon Redshift

A company has a fleet of cargo ships. The cargo ships have sensors that collect data at sea, where there is intermittent or no internet connectivity. The company needs to collect, format, and process the data at sea and move the data to AWS later.
Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?

A. AWS IoT Core

B. Amazon Lightsail

C. AWS Storage Gateway

D. AWS Snowball Edge

A company has migrated its workload to AWS. The company wants to forecast the workload's costs for each quarter for the next year.
Which AWS service or tool provides this functionality?

A. AWS Organizations

B. AWS Budgets

C. AWS Cost Explorer

D. AWS Cost and Usage Report

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

Which AWS services can be used to store files? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon S3

B. AWS Lambda

C. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

D. Amazon SageMaker

E. AWS Storage Gateway

Which AWS service provides threat detection by monitoring for malicious activities and unauthorized actions to protect AWS accounts, workloads, and data that is stored in Amazon S3?

A. AWS Shield

B. AWS Firewall Manager

C. Amazon GuardDuty

D. Amazon Inspector

A user has been granted permission to change their own IAM user password.
Which AWS services can the user use to change the password? (Choose two.)

A. AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

B. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

C. AWS Management Console

D. AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM)

E. AWS Secrets Manager

A company seeks cost savings in exchange for a commitment to use a specific amount of an AWS service or category of AWS services for 1 year or 3 years.
Which AWS pricing model or offering will meet these requirements?

A. Pay-as-you-go pricing

B. Savings Plans

C. AWS Free Tier

D. Volume discounts

A company needs to run a workload that requires low-latency access to an on-premises data center. The company wants a fully managed service to extend its existing VPC to local resources.
Which AWS service or resource should the company use?

A. AWS Outposts

B. Amazon Connect

C. AWS Snowball Edge

D. Amazon WorkLink

Which of the following are security principles in the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Choose two.)

A. Analyze and attribute expenditures.

B. Monitor, alert, and audit actions and changes to AWS resources.

C. Deploy globally in minutes.

D. Protect data in transit and at rest.

E. Perform operations as code.

Which of the following are benefits of migrating to the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. Operational resilience

B. Discounts for products on Amazon.com

C. Business agility

D. Business excellence

E. Increased staff retention

A company needs to install an application in a Docker container.
Which AWS service eliminates the need to provision and manage the container hosts?

A. AWS Fargate

B. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

C. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

D. Amazon EC2

A company plans to host its data warehouse application on AWS. The company has a machine learning (ML) model and wants to use that model within its data warehouse for data forecasting.
Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

A. Amazon DynamoDB

B. Amazon Redshift ML

C. Amazon Aurora ML

D. Amazon MemoryDB for Redis

What are characteristics of Availability Zones? (Choose two.)

A. All Availability Zones in an AWS Region are interconnected with high-bandwidth, low-latency networking.

B. Availability Zones are physically separated by a minimum of distance of 150 km (100 miles).

C. All traffic between Availability Zones is encrypted.

D. Availability Zones within an AWS Region share redundant power, networking, and connectivity.

E. Every Availability Zone contains a single data center.

Which AWS service should be used to migrate a company's on-premises MySQL database to Amazon RDS?

A. AWS Direct Connect

B. AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS)

C. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

D. AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)

A company has several departments. Each department has its own AWS accounts for its applications. The company wants all AWS costs on a single invoice to simplify payment, but the company wants to know the costs that each department is incurring.
Which AWS tool or feature will provide this functionality?

A. AWS Cost and Usage Reports

B. Consolidated billing

C. Savings Plans

D. AWS Budgets

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. Amazon SageMaker

B. AWS Lambda

C. Amazon Lightsail

D. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Which AWS service is always free of charge for users?

A. Amazon S3

B. Amazon Aurora

C. Amazon EC2

D. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

A company needs to configure rules to identify threats and protect applications from malicious network access.
Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?

A. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

B. Amazon QuickSight

C. AWS WAF

D. Amazon Detective

A user is comparing purchase options for an application that runs on Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS. The application cannot sustain any interruption. The application experiences a predictable amount of usage, including some seasonal spikes that last only a few weeks at a time. It is not possible to modify the application.
Which purchase option meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A. Review the AWS Marketplace and buy Partial Upfront Reserved Instances to cover the predicted and seasonal load.

B. Buy Reserved Instances for the predicted amount of usage throughout the year. Allow any seasonal usage to run on Spot Instances.

C. Buy Reserved Instances for the predicted amount of usage throughout the year. Allow any seasonal usage to run at an On-Demand rate.

D. Buy Reserved Instances to cover all potential usage that results from the seasonal usage.

A user needs a dedicated private connection between a colocation facility and a VPC.
Which AWS service or feature should the user choose?

A. AWS VPN

B. AWS PrivateLink

C. AWS Direct Connect

D. AWS Client VPN