A user needs to quickly deploy a non-relational database on AWS. The user does not want to manage the underlying hardware or the database software.
Which AWS service can be used to accomplish this?

A. Amazon RDS

B. Amazon DynamoDB

C. Amazon Aurora

D. Amazon Redshift

A company needs to set a maximum spending limit on AWS services each month. The company also needs to set up alerts for when the company reaches its spending limit.
Which AWS service or tool should the company use to meet these requirements?

A. Cost Explorer

B. AWS Trusted Advisor

C. Service Quotas

D. AWS Budgets

Treating infrastructure as code in the AWS Cloud allows users to:

A. automate migration of on-premises hardware to AWS data centers.

B. let a third party automate an audit of the AWS infrastructure.

C. turn over application code to AWS so it can run on the AWS infrastructure.

D. automate the infrastructure provisioning process.

An application runs on multiple Amazon EC2 instances that access a shared file system simultaneously.
Which AWS storage service should be used?

A. Amazon EBS

B. Amazon EFS

C. Amazon S3

D. AWS Artifact

A cloud practitioner is analyzing Amazon EC2 instance performance and usage to provide recommendations for potential cost savings.
Which cloud concept does this analysis demonstrate?

A. Auto scaling

B. Rightsizing

C. Load balancing

D. High availability

A company's application stores data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company has an AWS Lambda function that processes data in the S3 bucket. The company needs to invoke the function once a day at a specific time.
Which AWS service should the company use to meet this requirement?

A. AWS Managed Services (AMS)

B. AWS CodeStar

C. Amazon EventBridge

D. AWS Step Functions

How does consolidated billing help reduce costs for a company that has multiple AWS accounts?

A. It aggregates usage across accounts so that the company can reach volume discount thresholds sooner.

B. It offers an additional 5% discount on purchases of All Upfront Reserved Instances.

C. It provides a simplified billing invoice that the company can process more quickly than a standard invoice.

D. It gives AWS resellers the ability to bill their customers for usage.

A company is based in a location without an AWS Region but wants to move some of its Windows file servers to AWS. The data must reside in the location that the company is based in.
Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

A. AWS Outposts

B. AWS Local Zones

C. Amazon EC2

D. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

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

Which disaster recovery option is the LEAST expensive?

A. Warm standby

B. Multisite

C. Backup and restore

D. Pilot light

A company implements an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling policy along with an Application Load Balancer to automatically recover unhealthy applications that run on
Amazon EC2 instances.
Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework does this action cover?

A. Security

B. Performance efficiency

C. Operational excellence

D. Reliability

Which responsibility belongs to AWS when a company hosts its databases on Amazon EC2 instances?

A. Database backups

B. Database software patches

C. Operating system patches

D. Operating system installations.

A company is developing a mobile app that needs a high-performance NoSQL database.
Which AWS services could the company use for this database? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Aurora

B. Amazon RDS

C. Amazon Redshift

D. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

E. Amazon DynamoDB

A financial company needs to centrally manage its AWS accounts and use consolidated billing.
Which AWS service or feature should the company use?

A. AWS Cost Explorer

B. AWS Organizations

C. AWS Billing and Cost Management

D. AWS Budgets

Which of the following is an advantage that the AWS Cloud provides to users?

A. Users eliminate the need to guess about infrastructure capacity requirements.

B. Users decrease their variable costs by maintaining sole ownership of IT hardware.

C. Users maintain control of underlying IT infrastructure hardware.

D. Users maintain control of operating systems for managed services.

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.

A company wants to analyze streaming user data and respond to customer queries in real time.
Which AWS service can meet these requirements?

A. Amazon QuickSight

B. Amazon Redshift

C. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

D. AWS Data Pipeline

Which AWS service allows users to download security and compliance reports about the AWS infrastructure on demand?

A. Amazon GuardDuty

B. AWS Security Hub

C. AWS Artifact

D. AWS Shield

Which of the following are benefits that a company receives when it moves an on premises production workload to AWS? (Choose two.)

A. AWS trains the company’s staff on the use of all the AWS services

B. AWS manages all security in the cloud

C. AWS offers free support from technical account managers (TAMs)

D. AWS offers high availability

E. AWS provides economies of scale

In which situations should a company create an IAM user instead of an IAM role? (Choose two.)

A. When an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances requires access to other AWS services

B. When the company creates AWS access credentials for individuals

C. When the company creates an application that runs on a mobile phone that makes requests to AWS

D. When the company needs to add users to IAM groups

E. When users are authenticated in the corporate network and want to be able to use AWS without having to sign in a second time

A company needs to report on events that involve the specific AWS services that the company uses.
Which AWS service or resource can the company use with Amazon CloudWatch to meet this requirement?

A. Amazon Inspector

B. AWS Personal Health Dashboard

C. AWS Trusted Advisor

D. AWS CloudTrail logs

Which AWS service should a cloud practitioner use to receive real-time guidance for provisioning resources, based on AWS best practices related to security, cost optimization, and service limits?

A. AWS Trusted Advisor

B. AWS Config

C. AWS Security Hub

D. AWS Systems Manager

A company wants to accelerate migration from its data center to the AWS Cloud.
Which combination of AWS services should the company use to meet this requirement? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Connect

B. AWS Direct Connect

C. AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS)

D. Amazon Route 53

E. AWS Organizations

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 company needs a solution that can provide automated notifications and perform automated actions if the company’s monthly AWS costs exceed a specific threshold.
Which AWS service or tool provides this functionality?

A. AWS Budgets

B. AWS Cost Explorer

C. AWS Trusted Advisor

D. Amazon Inspector

Which AWS service can provide a dedicated network connection with consistent low latency from on premises to the AWS Cloud?

A. Amazon VPC

B. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

C. AWS Direct Connect

D. Amazon OpenSearch Service

A developer needs to maintain a development environment infrastructure and a production environment infrastructure in a repeatable fashion.
Which AWS service should the developer use to meet these requirements?

A. AWS Ground Station

B. AWS Shield

C. AWS IoT Device Defender

D. AWS CloudFormation

Which AWS service will allow a user to set custom cost and usage limits, and will alert when the thresholds are exceeded?

A. AWS Organizations

B. AWS Budgets

C. Cost Explorer

D. AWS Trusted Advisor

A company needs to deploy a PostgreSQL database into Amazon RDS. The database must be highly available and fault tolerant.
Which AWS solution should the company use to meet these requirements?

A. Amazon RDS with a single Availability Zone

B. Amazon RDS snapshots

C. Amazon RDS with multiple Availability Zones

D. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

A global media company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts.
Which AWS service or feature can the company use to limit the access to AWS services for member accounts?

A. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

B. Service control policies (SCPs)

C. Organizational units (OUs)

D. Access control lists (ACLs)

A company is designing an identity access management solution for an application. The company wants users to be able to use their social media, email, or online shopping accounts to access the application.
Which AWS service provides this functionality?

A. AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On)

B. AWS Config

C. Amazon Cognito

D. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

A company wants to use Amazon S3 to store its legacy data. The data is rarely accessed. However, the data is critical and cannot be recreated. The data needs to be available for retrieval within seconds.
Which S3 storage class meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A. S3 Standard

B. S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)

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

D. S3 Glacier

Which of the following describes an AWS Region?

A. Specific location within a geographic area that provides high availability

B. Set of data centers spanning multiple countries

C. A global picture of a user’s cloud computing environment

D. A collection of databases that can be accessed from a specific geographic area only

A company deploys its application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application occasionally experiences sudden increases in demand. The company wants to ensure that its application can respond to changes in demand at the lowest possible cost.
Which AWS service or tool will meet these requirements?

A. AWS Auto Scaling

B. AWS Compute Optimizer

C. AWS Cost Explorer

D. AWS Well-Architected Framework

A company has refined its workload to use specific AWS services to improve efficiency and reduce cost.
Which best practice for cost governance does this example show?

A. Resource controls

B. Cost allocation

C. Architecture optimization

D. Tagging enforcement

A company is running Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet in a VPC.
Which AWS service or feature can provide the EC2 instances with network connections to the internet?

A. Gateway endpoint

B. NAT gateway

C. Network Load Balancer

D. Amazon Route 53

Which AWS services are managed database services? (Choose two.)

A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

B. Amazon S3

C. Amazon RDS

D. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

E. Amazon DynamoDB

A company needs to run some of its workloads on premises to comply with regulatory guidelines. The company wants to use the AWS Cloud to run workloads that are not required to be on premises. The company also wants to be able to use the same API calls for the on-premises workloads and the cloud workloads.
Which AWS service or feature should the company use to meet these requirements?

A. Dedicated Hosts

B. AWS Outposts

C. Availability Zones

D. AWS Wavelength

A company plans to migrate its custom marketing application and order-processing application to AWS. The company needs to deploy the applications on different types of instances with various configurations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity.
Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?

A. AWS Lambda

B. Amazon Cognito

C. Amazon Athena

D. Amazon EC2

Which of the following promotes AWS Cloud architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems?

A. AWS Serverless Application Model framework

B. AWS Business Support

C. Principle of least privilege

D. AWS Well Architected Framework

Which AWS Support plan includes infrastructure event management at no additional cost?

A. AWS Basic Support

B. AWS Business Support

C. AWS Enterprise Support

D. AWS Developer Support

Which AWS Cloud design principle is a company using when the company implements AWS CloudTrail?

A. Activate traceability.

B. Use serverless compute architectures.

C. Perform operations as code.

D. Go global in minutes.

A company runs an ecommerce website that is hosted on AWS. External auditors have requested proof that the AWS services that the company uses are compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
Which AWS service will provide this information?

A. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

B. AWS Artifact

C. AWS License Manager

D. AWS CloudTrail

A company wants its AWS usage to be more sustainable. The company wants to track, measure, review, and forecast polluting emissions that result from its AWS applications.
Which AWS service or tool can the company use to meet these requirements?

A. AWS Health Dashboard

B. AWS customer carbon footprint tool

C. AWS Support Center

D. Amazon QuickSight

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

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

A. The ability to turn over the responsibility for all security to AWS

B. The ability to use the pay as you go model

C. The ability to have full control over the physical infrastructure

D. No longer having to guess what capacity will be required

E. No longer worrying about users access controls

A company needs to design a solution for the efficient use of compute resources for an enterprise workload. The company needs to make informed decisions as its technology needs evolve.
Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework do these requirements represent?

A. Operational excellence

B. Performance efficiency

C. Cost optimization

D. Reliability

Which of the following is the customer responsible for updating and patching, according to the AWS shared responsibility model?

A. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

B. Amazon WorkSpaces virtual Windows desktop

C. AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory

D. Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server

Which pillar of the AWS Well Architected Framework includes the design principle of defining workloads, applications, and infrastructure as code (IaC)?

A. Operational excellence

B. Reliability

C. Performance efficiency

D. Security

A company wants to continuously monitor its AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity. The company also wants to receive detailed security findings for visibility and remediation.
Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?

A. Amazon GuardDuty

B. AWS Shield

C. AWS WAP

D. AWS CloudTrail