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Which AWS service builds code automatically from source?
Which AWS service automates application deployment to EC2, Lambda, or on-premises?
In Amazon Route 53, what is the name for the configuration item that holds a collection of records belonging to a domain?
What is a benefit of moving an on-premises database to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?
Which service can be used to cost-effectively move exabytes of data into AWS?
The DevOps team at an e-commerce company is trying to debug performance issues for its serverless application built using a microservices architecture. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend addressing this use-case?
A unicorn startup is building an analytics application with support for a speech-based interface. The application will accept speech-based input from users and then convey results via speech. As a Cloud Practitioner, which solution would you recommend for the given use-case?
An organization deploys its IT infrastructure in a combination of its on-premises data center along with AWS Cloud. How would you categorize this deployment model?
Which policy describes prohibited uses of the web services offered by Amazon Web Services?
Which AWS service will you use to provision the same AWS infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts and regions?
The DevOps team at an IT company wants to centrally manage its servers on AWS Cloud as well as on-premise data center so that it can run commands, configure and patch servers at scale. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend for this use-case?
Which AWS service would you choose for a data processing project to store unstructured data?
Which of the following can you use to run a bootstrap script while launching an EC2 instance?
Which AWS Route 53 routing policy would you use when you want to route your traffic in an active-passive configuration?
Which of the following AWS entities provides the information required to launch an EC2 instance?
Which AWS service can be used to execute code triggered by new files being uploaded to S3?
AWS Lambda pricing is based on which of the following criteria? (Select two)
Which of the following capabilities does Amazon Rekognition provide as a ready-to-use feature?
Which AWS services support High Availability by default? (Select two)
An IT company would like to move its IT infrastructure from an AWS Region in the US to another AWS Region in Europe. Which of the following represents the correct solution for this use-case?
As a Cloud Practitioner, which S3 storage class would you recommend for data archival?
A research lab wants to optimize the caching capabilities for its scientific computations application running on EC2 instances. Which EC2 storage option is best suited for this use-case?
Which S3 storage class offers the lowest availability?
Which of the following statements are CORRECT about the AWS Auto Scaling group? (Select two)
Which of the following statements is correct regarding the AWS Elastic File System (EFS) storage service?
Which AWS service can be used to automate code deployment to EC2 instances as well as on-premises instances?
Which of the following AWS services offer block-level storage? (Select two)
An AWS user is trying to launch an EC2 instance in a given region. What is the region-specific constraint that the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) must meet so that it can be used for this EC2 instance?
Which AWS service will you use to privately connect your VPC to Amazon S3?
AWS Trusted Advisor analyzes your AWS environment and provides best practice recommendations for which of the following categories? (Select two)?
Which of the following is the best way to protect your data from accidental deletion on Amazon S3?
Which feature of AWS Cloud offers the ability to innovate faster and rapidly develop, test and launch software applications?
Which AWS service can be used for online analytical processing?
A research group wants to provision an EC2 instance for a flexible application that can be interrupted. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following would you recommend as the MOST cost-optimal option?
Which AWS service can be used as an in-memory database with high-performance and low latency?
Which of the following statements are true regarding Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) (Select two)?
A company wants to migrate a critical application to AWS. The application has a short runtime. The application is invoked by changes in data or by shifts in system state. The company needs a compute solution that maximizes operational efficiency and minimizes the cost of running the application. Which AWS solution should the company use to meet these requirements?
What is the scope of a VPC within the AWS network?
Which of the following are benefits of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling? (Choose two.)
An ecommerce company has migrated its IT infrastructure from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. Which cost is the company’s direct responsibility?
A company has 5 TB of data stored in Amazon S3. The company plans to occasionally run queries on the data for analysis. Which AWS service should the company use to run these queries in the MOST cost-effective manner?
A company wants to make an upfront commitment for continued use of its production Amazon EC2 instances in exchange for a reduced overall cost. Which pricing options meet these requirements with the LOWEST cost? (Choose two.)
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 company wants to gain insights from its data and build interactive data visualization dashboards. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?
A cloud engineer wants to store data in Amazon S3. The engineer will access some of the data yearly and some of the data daily. Which S3 storage class will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company needs to create and publish interactive business intelligence dashboards. The dashboards require insights that are powered by machine learning. Which AWS service or tool will meet these requirements?
A company wants to use AWS. The company has stringent requirements about low-latency access to on-premises systems and data residency. Which AWS service should the company use to design a solution that meets these requirements?
A company needs the ability to acquire resources when the resources are needed. The company also needs the ability to release the resources when the resources are no longer needed. Which AWS concept represents the company's goals?
A company wants to use a serverless compute service for an application. Which AWS service will meet this requirement?
A company wants a solution that will automatically adjust the number of Amazon EC2 instances that are being used based on the current load. Which AWS offering will meet these requirements?
Which AWS services can host PostgreSQL databases? (Choose two.)
Which combination of AWS services can be used to move a commercial relational database to an Amazon-managed open-source database? (Choose two.)
A company wants to run a graph query that provides credit card users’ names, addresses, and transactions. The company wants the graph to show if the names, addresses, and transactions indicates possible fraud. Which AWS database service will meet these requirements?
A company needs to provide customer service by using voice calls and web chat features. Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?
Which AWS service is designed to help users handle large amounts of data in a data warehouse environment?
Which AWS compute service gives users the ability to securely and reliably run containers at scale?
A cloud practitioner wants to use a highly available and scalable DNS service for its AWS workload. Which AWS service will meet this requirement?
A company has a MariaDB database on premises. The company wants to move the data to the AWS Cloud. Which AWS service will host this database with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
Which AWS service supports a company's ability to treat infrastructure as code?
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 company's application is running on Amazon EC2 instances. The company is planning a partial migration to a serverless architecture in the next year and wants to pay for resources up front. Which AWS purchasing option will optimize the company's costs?
A company has batch workloads that need to run for short periods of time on Amazon EC2. The workloads can handle interruptions and can start again from where they ended. What is the MOST cost-effective EC2 instance purchasing option to meet these requirements?
Which statements accurately describe the relationships among components of AWS global infrastructure? (Choose two.)
Which AWS service provides DNS resolution?
A company needs to host a web server on Amazon EC2 instances for at least 1 year. The web server cannot tolerate interruption. Which EC2 instance purchasing option will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
Which AWS services or features form the AWS Cloud global infrastructure? (Choose two.)
A company's employees are working from home. The company wants its employees to use their personal devices to connect to a managed workstation in the AWS Cloud. Which AWS service should the company use to provide the remote environment?
A company needs to use SQL syntax to perform a direct query of objects in an Amazon S3 bucket. Which AWS service can the company use to meet this requirement?
A company uses Amazon RDS for a product database. The company wants to ensure the database is highly available. Which feature of Amazon RDS will meet this requirement?
Which AWS service provides serverless compute for use with containers?
A company is planning to use the Amazon EC2 instances as web servers. Customers from around the world will use the web servers. Most customers will use the web servers only during certain hours of the day. How should the company deploy the EC2 instances to achieve the LOWEST operational cost?
A company uses Amazon EC2 instances to run its application. The application needs to be available and running continuously for three or more years. What type of EC2 instance should the company purchase for a discount on the EC2 pricing?
A company needs to use AWS technology to deploy a static website. Which solution meets this requirement with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
Which Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances term commitment will give users the MOST cost savings?
A company is running big data analytics and massive parallel computations on its AWS test and development servers. The company can tolerate occasional downtime. What is the MOST cost-effective Amazon EC2 purchasing option for the company to use?
A company will run a predictable compute workload on Amazon EC2 instances for the next 3 years. The workload is critical for the company. The company wants to optimize costs to run the workload. Which solution will meet these requirements?
Which AWS service helps users plan and track their server and application inventory migration data to AWS?
A company needs to purchase Amazon EC2 instances to support an application that will run continuously for more than 1 year. Which EC2 instance purchasing option meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
Which programming languages does AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) currently support? (Choose two.)
Why are AWS CloudFormation templates used?
A company wants to run relationship databases in the AWS Cloud. The company wants to use a managed service that will install the database and run regular software updates. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?
Which AWS service provides a fully managed graph database for highly connected datasets?
Which AWS service is designed for users running workloads that include a NoSQL database?
A company has a website on AWS. The company wants to deliver the website to a worldwide audience and provide low-latency response times for global users. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?
A company wants to add a conversational chatbot to its website. Which AWS service can the company use to meet this requirement?
A company has applications that control on-premises factory equipment. Which AWS service should the company use to run these applications with the LEAST latency?
A company plans to perform a one-time migration of a large dataset with millions of files from its on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. Which AWS service should the company use for the migration?
A company wants to develop an accessibility application that will convert text into audible speech. Which AWS service will meet this requirement?
To reduce costs, a company is planning to migrate a NoSQL database to AWS. Which AWS service is fully managed and can automatically scale throughput capacity to meet database workload demands?
A company has a test AWS environment. A company is planning on testing an application within AWS. The application testing can be interrupted and does not need to run continuously. Which Amazon EC2 purchasing option will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
Which of the following is an AWS value proposition that describes a user’s ability to scale infrastructure based on demand?
Which actions are examples of a company’s effort to rightsize its AWS resources to control cloud costs? (Choose two.)
A company needs to engage third-party consultants to help maintain and support its AWS environment and the company’s business needs. Which AWS service or resource will meet these requirements?
A company wants to provision and manage its AWS infrastructure by using the common programming languages Typescript, Python, Java, and .NET. Which AWS service will meet this requirement?
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 company has decided to adopt Amazon EC2 infrastructure and wants to scale various stateless services for short-term usage. Which EC2 pricing model is MOST cost-efficient to meet these requirements?
A company wants to save costs by archiving data that is no longer frequently accessed by end users. Which Amazon S3 feature will meet this requirement?
A user needs a relational database but does not have the resources to manage the hardware, resiliency, and replication. Which AWS service option meets the user's requirements?
Which AWS services or features give users the ability to create a network connection between two VPCs? (Choose two.)
Which AWS services are supported by Savings Plans? (Choose two.)
A company launched an Amazon EC2 instance with the latest Amazon Linux 2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI). Which actions can a system administrator take to connect to the EC2 instance? (Choose two.)
A company is planning to migrate to the AWS Cloud. The company wants to identify measurable business outcomes that will explain the value of the company's decision to migrate. Which phase of the cloud transformation journey includes these activities?
Which of the following AWS services are serverless? (Choose two.)
Which AWS resource can help a company reduce its costs in exchange for a usage commitment when using Amazon EC2 instances?
A company wants to migrate its on-premises NoSQL workload to Amazon DynamoDB. Which AWS service will meet this requirement?
A company wants to deploy a non-containerized Java-based web application on AWS. The company wants to use a managed service to quickly deploy the application. The company wants the service to automatically provision capacity, load balance, scale, and monitor application health. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?
Which AWS service or tool gives users the ability to connect with AWS and deploy resources programmatically?
Which AWS service can migrate data between AWS storage services?
Which feature of Amazon RDS provides the ability to automatically create a primary database instance and to synchronously replicate data to an instance in another Availability Zone?
Which of the following can be components of a VPC in the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)
Which AWS service or tool gives a company the ability to release application changes in an automated way?
A company hosts its website on Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs to ensure that the website reaches a global audience and provides minimum latency to users. Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?
A company wants to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources for data analytics and machine learning. Which AWS serverless data integration service should the company use to meet these requirements?
A company is moving its development and test environments to AWS to increase agility and reduce cost. Because these are not production workloads and the servers are not fully utilized, occasional unavailability is acceptable. What is the MOST cost-effective Amazon EC2 pricing model that will meet these requirements?
A company has an application that produces unstructured data continuously. The company needs to store the data so that the data is durable and easy to query. Which AWS service can the company use to meet these requirements?
A company wants to migrate a company’s on-premises container infrastructure to the AWS Cloud. The company wants to prevent unplanned administration and operation cost and adapt to a serverless architecture. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?
Which AWS service or feature gives users the ability to connect VPCs and on-premises networks to a central hub?
A company wants to run CPU-intensive workload across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Which EC2 instance type should the company use to meet this requirement?
A company is connecting multiple VPCs and on-premises networks. The company needs to use an AWS service as a cloud router to simplify peering relationships. Which AWS service can the company use to meet this requirement?
A company wants to store its files in the AWS Cloud. Users need to be able to download these files directly using a public URL. Which AWS service or feature will meet this requirement?
An ecommerce company has migrated its IT infrastructure from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. Which cost is the company's direct responsibility?
A company is deploying a machine learning (ML) research project that will require a lot of compute power over several months. The ML processing jobs do not need to run at specific times. Which Amazon EC2 instance purchasing option will meet these requirements at the lowest cost?
Which AWS Cloud benefit is shown by an architecture's ability to withstand failures with minimal downtime?
Which actions are examples of a company's effort to rightsize its AWS resources to control cloud costs? (Choose two.)
A team of researchers is going to collect data at remote locations around the world. Many locations do not have internet connectivity. The team needs to capture the data in the field, and transfer it to the AWS Cloud later. Which AWS service will support these requirements?
Which AWS Cloud benefit gives a company the ability to quickly deploy cloud resources to access compute, storage, and database infrastructures in a matter of minutes?
A company wants to move its on-premises databases to managed cloud database services by using a simplified migration process. Which AWS service or tool can help the company meet this requirement?
A company wants to use application stacks to run a workload in the AWS Cloud. The company wants to use pre-configured instances. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?
A library wants to automate the classification of electronic books based on the contents of the books. Which AWS service should the library use to meet this requirement?
A company is planning to migrate to the AWS Cloud. The company wants to identify measurable business outcomes that will explain the value of the company’s decision to migrate. Which phase of the cloud transformation journey includes these activities?
What does Amazon CloudFront provide?
Which AWS service will help a company plan a migration to AWS by collecting the configuration, usage, and behavior data of on-premises data centers?
What technology enables compute capacity to adjust as loads change?
Which options does AWS make available for customers who want to learn about security in the cloud in an instructor-led setting? (Choose two.)
Which AWS service can serve a static website?
After selecting an Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host reservation, which pricing option would provide the largest discount?
A company is planning to launch an ecommerce site in a single AWS Region to a worldwide user base. Which AWS services will allow the company to reach users and provide low latency and high transfer speeds? (Choose two.)
Which AWS service is suitable for an event-driven workload?
A batch workload takes 5 hours to finish on an Amazon EC2 instance. The amount of data to be processed doubles monthly and the processing time is proportional. What is the best cloud architecture to address this consistently growing demand?
Which of the following is a component of the AWS Global Infrastructure?
Which Amazon EC2 pricing model should be used to comply with per-core software license requirements?
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?
Which AWS service can be used to provide an on-demand, cloud-based contact center?
A company is expecting a short-term spike in internet traffic for its application. During the traffic increase, the application cannot be interrupted. The company also needs to minimize cost and maximize flexibility. Which Amazon EC2 instance type should the company use to meet these requirements?
A pharmaceutical company operates its infrastructure in a single AWS Region. The company has thousands of VPCs in a various AWS accounts that it wants to interconnect. Which AWS service or feature should the company use to help simplify management and reduce operational costs?
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 bank needs to store recordings of calls made to its contact center for 6 years. The recordings must be accessible within 48 hours from the time they are requested. Which AWS service will provide a secure and cost-effective solution for retaining these files?
A company would like to host its MySQL databases on AWS and maintain full control over the operating system, database installation, and configuration. Which AWS service should the company use to host the databases?
Which databases are available on Amazon RDS? (Choose two.)
A company wants to migrate its Microsoft SQL Server database management system from on premises to the AWS Cloud. Which AWS service should the company use to reduce management overhead for this environment?
A company wants an in-memory data store that is compatible with open source in the cloud. Which AWS service should the company use?
A company recently migrated to the AWS Cloud. The company needs to determine whether its newly imported Amazon EC2 instances are the appropriate size and type. Which AWS services can provide this information to the company? {Select TWO.)
A company needs to run code in response to an event notification that occurs when objects are uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket. Which AWS service will integrate directly with the event notification?
Which AWS database service provides in-memory data storage?
A company is migrating an application that includes an Oracle database to AWS. The company cannot rewrite the application. To which AWS service could the company migrate the database?
A company has an application that runs periodically in an on-premises environment. The application runs for a few hours most days, but runs for 8 hours a day for a week at the end of each month. Which AWS service or feature should be used to host the application in the AWS Cloud?
A company is running an order processing system on Amazon EC2 instances. The company wants to migrate microservices-based application. Which combination of AWS services can the application use to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company wants to create multiple isolated networks in the same AWS account. Which AWS service or component will provide this functionality?
Which AWS services can a company use to host and run a MySQL database? (Select TWO.)
A company is building a serverless architecture that connects application data from multiple data sources. The company needs a solution that does not require additional code. Which AWS service meets these requirements?
An Availability Zone consists of:
A developer needs to build an application for a retail company. The application must provide real-time product recommendations that are based on machine learning. Which AWS service should the developer use to meet this requirement?
Which AWS service helps developers use loose coupling and reliable messaging between microservices?
A company wants to define a central data protection policy that works across AWS services for compute, storage, and database resources. Which AWS service will meet this requirement?
Which of the following is a software development framework that a company can use to define cloud resources as code and provision the resources through AWS CloudFormation?
Which AWS service is an in-memory data store service?
A company wants to use Amazon EC2 instances to provide a static website to users all over the world. The company needs to minimize latency for the users. Which solution meets these requirements?
What is a benefit of using AWS serverless computing?
Which AWS service gives users the ability to deploy highly repeatable infrastructure configurations?
When designing AWS workloads to be operational even when there are component failures, what is an AWS best practice?
A manufacturing company has a critical application that runs at a remote site that has a slow internet connection. The company wants to migrate the workload to AWS. The application is sensitive to latency and interruptions in connectivity. The company wants a solution that can host this application with minimum latency. Which AWS service or feature should the company use to meet these requirements?
A company has a social media platform in which users upload and share photos with other users. The company wants to identify and remove inappropriate photos. The company has no machine learning (ML) scientists and must build this detection capability with no ML expertise. Which AWS service should the company use to build this capability?
Which of the following is a benefit of decoupling an AWS Cloud architecture?
Which of the following describes AWS Local Zones?
Which service is an AWS in-memory data store service?
Which benefit does Amazon Rekognition provide?
A company is launching a new application in the AWS Cloud. The application will run on an Amazon EC2 instance. More EC2 instances will be needed when the workload increases. Which AWS service or tool can the company use to launch the number of EC2 instances that will be needed to handle the workload?
A company needs an AWS design solution for a distributed system. The system's components need to be set up so that one system component cannot negatively impact another component. Which AWS architectural best practice will meet this requirement?
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 company has a business-critical Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance that resides in a single Availability Zone. Which solution will improve the availability of the DB instance?
Which AWS service is designed to help users orchestrate a workflow process for a set of AWS Lambda functions?
A company needs to host a highly available application in the AWS Cloud. The application runs infrequently for short periods of time. Which AWS service will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
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?
Which AWS service requires the customer to patch the guest operating system?
An ecommerce company wants to design a highly available application that will be hosted on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. How should the company deploy the EC2 instances to meet these requirements?
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?
Which of these databases is recommended for data-warehousing, reporting and analytics usecases?
Which AWS service or feature gives users the ability to run containers and Kubernetes applications without the need to manage scaling?
Why are AWS CloudFormation templates used?
A startup wants to reduce costs but doesn’t mind if workloads are interrupted. Which EC2 pricing is best?
Which of the following best describes interoperability?
Which cloud concept would most interest a company that wants flexibility in choosing different cloud providers as their needs change?
Which of the following best describes scalability?
Which of the following situations would most benefit a company’s costs by utilizing cloud computing?
Which protocol is most commonly used for federated authentication systems?
What term refers to capabilities that are attached to an account and enable them to perform specific functions or control services?
Underutilized systems will be flagged under which component of the Trusted Advisor?
Which of the following is not one of the purposes of instance types under EC2?
Which AWS service allows a user to run code in the AWS infrastructure without having to specifically provision resources?
When creating an S3 bucket, how many versions are maintained by default for objects?
Which AWS database service is the data warehousing service?
Which AWS service is a Desktop as a Service offering for virtual desktop computing?
Which AWS service is a developer tool that fully implements the popular Git utility?
If your application is moving to AWS and is currently built on MySQL, which AWS service would you migrate your data into?
Which type of reserve instance receives the largest cost savings over on-demand pricing?
How many recipients can you send budget reports to?
How many budgets may be created within an AWS account?
At what level are AWS service quotas applied?
Which of the following frequencies of reports is not offered by the budget reports service?
What service connects AWS users with AWS Certified freelancers or consulting firms?
What data format is supported for exporting your bill?
When versioning is enabled within the S3 service, at what level is it controlled?
Amazon Aurora is a database service that incorporates two popular databases that are widely used by software packages. Which two databases are part of Aurora?
You need to store data objects in S3 that will be infrequently requested, but when they are requested, you need to have immediate response and high availability. Which S3 storage class would be the most cost-effective to use for this requirement?
few services. Which of the following AWS services use Edge? (Choose two.)
In order to add resources to your system, there is a cost in the form of required downtime or starts to services. With this assumption, what is your system said to be?
Your data center has become unreliable and slow in terms of Internet connectivity due to a natural disaster. You have decided it is time to move all data into AWS and retire your data center to prevent this problem from happening again. With the problems of unreliability and slowness, which AWS service would facilitate moving this large amount of data into AWS?
Which AWS service would be used by developers for packaging deployment packages for application code?
What types of reserved instances are available on AWS? (Choose two.)
Which AWS service allows you to purchase reserved instances?
Route 53 can dynamically return different answers to DNS queries based on different circumstances within the AWS infrastructure. Which of the following are circumstances that can be configured with Route 53 to give dynamic responses? (Choose two.)
Three types of load balancing are used under Elastic Load Balancing. Which of the following is not one of the three types?
The data your application hosts has strict regulatory requirements that you must meet. Which component of the AWS infrastructure would you be most focused on when deploying resources?
Savings plans on AWS offer deep discounts over on-demand pricing based on a commitment for future purchase. Which service is not covered by savings plans?
AWS OpsWorks provides managed instances of popular automation and configuration tools. Which popular utilities are available within OpsWorks? (Choose two.)
AWS offers the ability to download or export many reports within the Management Console that you can then use for local processing or importing into other tools. Which data format is offered to export the data from the Management Console?
Rather than using your on-premises VDI solutions, which AWS service could be leveraged to provide your users the same functionality while removing your need to maintain and support a hardware infrastructure?
You need to provide application access to a subset of users to test and verify functionality but do not want them to see production data. What type of data deidentification process would you use for this?
Your company has decided to retire their on-premises data warehouse and move to a similar solution in AWS for increased capacity and lower costs. Which AWS service would you explore for this initiative?
Which type of service offerings pushes the responsibility for configuration and operations to AWS and leaves the customer only responsible for loading their data?
A system is able to keep functioning when some portions of it experience an outage of resources. What concept refers to this ability?
AWS allows for resources to be added to a system without any downtime or interruption to services. What is this concept called?
To help manage versioning in AWS S3, the service provides automation tools, called actions, to handle how versions are stored and when they are removed from the system. Which of the following are the types of actions available? (Choose two.)
Rather than creating accounts with passwords in AWS, your corporate policies require you to use your internal credentials via federation with AWS. Which technology could you use to establish federated authentication with AWS?
Which core concept of cloud computing most relates to the cost-savings benefits you can realize through AWS offerings?
Your company has decided for the first time to start using AWS services for storage. As a precondition, your CEO has demanded assurances that you can quickly remove data from AWS should the need arise. Which core concept of cloud computing would this pertain to?
The Trust Advisor can flag AWS services that you have provisioned but are inactive or being used below the level for which they are configured. Which area of Trust Advisor would you explore to find this report?
Which concept of cloud computing refers to the ability of a system to easily move between different cloud providers?
Which AWS database service does not use SQL and is highly optimized for key-value data storage?
Which component of the AWS Management Console allows a user to access the shell and CLI for managing EC2 instances without the use of keys or exposing ports?
An academic institution has a suite of software packages that it wants to make available to students but does not want to distribute software or be responsible for the support of it on student devices. Which AWS service would be the easiest and most cost-effective means to accomplish this?
Which AWS storage service is used by EC2 instances for high-throughput data operations?
You want to use a set of configurations within your code that will use the same key value on all systems but have different values based upon the specific system. Which AWS tool allows you to do this?
A company wants to reduce EC2 costs for a workload that runs 24/7 but can tolerate interruptions and restarting jobs. Which purchase option provides the DEEPEST discount?
Which of the following is TRUE about how AWS charges for Amazon RDS?
Which of the following is an accurate statement about outbound data transfer pricing in AWS?
Which of the following BEST describes how AWS Compute Optimizer differs from AWS Trusted Advisor?
Which of the following describes how S3 storage pricing works for the S3 Standard storage class?
Which of the following BEST describes the role of the AWS Partner Network (APN) for customers?
A retail company experiences 10x normal traffic during Black Friday. After the sale, traffic returns to normal. Which cloud benefit MOST directly addresses the cost efficiency of this pattern?
Which of the following BEST describes how the AWS Cloud model changes the procurement process for IT infrastructure?
Which of the following is an example of the AWS Cloud benefit of "increasing speed and agility" specifically for software development teams?
A company wants to understand the difference between "stopping" and "terminating" an EC2 instance. Which statement is CORRECT?
Which of the following BEST describes the "shared fate" risk that the AWS Cloud eliminates compared to on-premises infrastructure?
Which of the following BEST describes the AWS concept of "everything fails all the time" and how it influences cloud architecture?
A company's application running on EC2 in a private subnet needs to access the AWS Systems Manager API without going through the internet. Which VPC feature enables this without modifying the application?
Which of the following BEST describes the difference between Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS?
A company wants to implement blue/green deployments for their Lambda functions to gradually shift traffic from the old version to the new version and roll back instantly if issues arise. Which service manages this?
Which Amazon S3 storage class provides the LOWEST storage cost but requires objects to be stored in a single Availability Zone, accepting the risk of data loss if that AZ is destroyed?
A company wants to route API traffic to different backend services based on the URL path — /users to one Lambda function and /orders to another. Which AWS service provides this path-based routing?
Which AWS service provides a managed, serverless, pay-per-query interactive query service that can run SQL directly against data in S3, and also supports federated queries across RDS and DynamoDB?
A company wants to connect two VPCs in different AWS accounts so resources in each can communicate privately using private IP addresses. Which is the SIMPLEST networking solution?
Which AWS compute service is MOST appropriate for running a containerized data processing job that needs 32 GB of memory, runs for 2 hours, and doesn't require a persistent environment?
A company wants to use a single DNS name that automatically routes users to the nearest AWS Region. Which Route 53 routing policy achieves the LOWEST latency for geographically distributed users?
Which AWS service provides a fully managed in-memory caching solution compatible with Memcached and is designed for simple, high-performance caching of database query results without data persistence?
Which of the following BEST describes Amazon DynamoDB Streams?
A company stores 5 PB of genomics research data that is rarely accessed. They need to retrieve it occasionally within a few hours. Which S3 storage class provides the BEST balance of cost and retrieval speed?
Which AWS service provides a managed, high-performance file system optimized for Linux-based HPC workloads, machine learning training, and media processing requiring fast parallel access to large datasets?
A company wants to run a legacy application that requires Windows Server 2012 on AWS. Which service allows them to run this with full control over the OS configuration?
A company wants to capture every data modification made to an Amazon DynamoDB table and use it to trigger downstream processing in real time, such as updating a search index. Which feature enables this?
Which AWS service provides a managed, scalable search and discovery engine for data in AWS — allowing users to search structured and unstructured content across Amazon S3, RDS, Salesforce, and other sources using natural language?
A company wants to automatically migrate their physical on-premises servers to Amazon EC2 with minimal downtime using agent-based continuous block-level replication. Which service provides this?
Which AWS service provides a managed message broker service compatible with JMS (Java Message Service) and other messaging protocols, making it easy to migrate existing enterprise messaging applications to the cloud?
A company has a workload that is critical and runs 24/7 but needs the flexibility to change instance sizes as their requirements evolve over a 3-year period. Which purchase option provides the BEST balance of cost savings and flexibility?
Which of the following is an accurate statement about how AWS Trusted Advisor's "Service Limits" category works?
A company wants to be notified within 1 hour when any AWS service they use experiences a service disruption that may affect their workloads. Which AWS service provides this personalized notification?
A company wants to use AWS to replace their on-premises tape backup library with a cost-efficient cloud-based archival solution. Which combination of AWS services provides the LOWEST cost for long-term archival with infrequent access?
A company wants to migrate to AWS to reduce the time it takes to launch new products from 6 months to 2 weeks. Which cloud benefit does this BEST represent?
Which of the following is the MOST accurate description of an AWS "Region"?
Which AWS service helps companies identify which of their on-premises servers are candidates for migration, their utilization patterns, and which AWS instance types would be appropriate replacements?
Which of the following is a key difference between deploying workloads in a single AWS Availability Zone versus multiple Availability Zones?
Which AWS service provides a fully managed relational database that is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL but delivers up to 5x the throughput of standard MySQL with automated storage scaling?
A company wants to build a serverless REST API that scales automatically, requires no server management, and charges only when API calls are made. Which combination achieves this?
Which Amazon EC2 instance family is optimized for storage-intensive workloads requiring high, sequential read/write access to large datasets on local storage, such as Hadoop distributed computing?
A company wants to deploy their application infrastructure in a repeatable, consistent way across development, staging, and production environments. Which AWS service enables this through templates?
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of Amazon Route 53's "weighted routing" policy?
A company wants to replicate their Amazon RDS database to a read replica in a different AWS Region to serve users in Asia with lower read latency. Which RDS feature enables this?
Which AWS service provides managed infrastructure for running Apache Spark workloads to process and analyze large datasets, with support for auto-scaling clusters?
A company wants to implement a message queue where messages from multiple producers are processed by consumers in the order they were sent, with no duplicate processing. Which SQS feature ensures this?
Which AWS service provides a fully managed service for creating, testing, and deploying APIs at any scale, with features like throttling, caching, and authorization?
A company stores millions of objects in Amazon S3. They want objects that haven't been accessed in 30 days to automatically move to a cheaper tier without manual intervention. Which feature achieves this?
Which AWS service provides a serverless orchestration service for coordinating multiple Lambda functions and AWS services into complex, multi-step workflows with error handling and retry logic?
A company wants to use AI to automatically identify and blur faces in a video before publishing it to comply with privacy regulations. Which AWS service provides this capability?
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of Amazon Kinesis Data Streams versus Amazon SQS?
A company wants to migrate their on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. Which TWO AWS services together automate schema conversion and ongoing data replication? (Select TWO)
Which AWS service provides a managed, scalable search service built on Apache Lucene/OpenSearch that enables full-text search, log analytics, and real-time application monitoring?
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
A company stores terabytes of log files in Amazon S3 and wants to run occasional SQL queries to analyze them without loading the data into a database. They want to minimize cost. Which service is BEST?
Which AWS service provides a managed, highly available in-memory data store compatible with Redis that adds durability with multi-AZ replication and is designed for use cases requiring Redis with persistent storage?
A company wants to implement Infrastructure as Code using a familiar object-oriented programming language (Python, Java, TypeScript) to define AWS resources rather than writing YAML or JSON templates. Which AWS tool enables this?
A company wants to reduce costs for their Amazon EC2 workload that runs continuously for predictable steady-state usage. They want the MAXIMUM discount without any flexibility constraints. Which option provides this?
Which of the following describes how AWS charges for Amazon DynamoDB in "On-Demand" capacity mode?
Which of the following is TRUE about data transfer costs for Amazon CloudFront?
Which of the following AWS pricing principles means that customers benefit from AWS infrastructure improvements automatically without renegotiating contracts?
Which of the following BEST describes the AWS Cloud benefit known as "stopping guessing about capacity"?
A company wants to take advantage of the latest database technology without hiring database administrators or managing upgrades. Which type of AWS service provides this benefit?
Which of the following BEST explains why a company would choose the AWS Region in Frankfurt (eu-central-1) over US East (us-east-1) for their workloads?
A company's application must continue to operate even when two of its three Availability Zones experience simultaneous failures. Which design pattern achieves this?
Which of the following AWS services provides a managed environment specifically designed for running Apache Hadoop and Spark big data frameworks with automatic cluster provisioning and scaling?
Which of the following BEST describes what happens to data stored in Amazon S3 by default if an AWS Region experiences a complete failure?
A company needs to run a web application with high availability. They deploy 4 EC2 instances across 2 Availability Zones and want traffic distributed evenly. What must they add?
Which of the following BEST describes the difference between "Amazon RDS Automated Backups" and "RDS Snapshots"?
Which AWS service provides a fully managed Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) service that automatically discovers, catalogs, and prepares data for analytics, running serverless Spark jobs?
A company wants to build a real-time dashboard showing sales metrics that update every second. Which combination of AWS services is MOST appropriate?
Which AWS service provides a fully managed service for synchronizing data between on-premises storage and AWS storage services (S3, EFS, FSx) with high-speed transfer and data integrity checks?
A company wants to deploy a static website on AWS that can handle millions of requests per second globally. Which combination of services is MOST cost-effective and scalable?
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of Amazon VPC "Subnets"?
A company is using Amazon SQS and notices some messages are not being processed after 5 delivery attempts. They want to capture these failed messages for investigation. Which SQS feature handles this?
Which AWS AI service provides text-to-speech synthesis, converting written text into natural-sounding audio in multiple languages and voices?
A company wants to identify objects and scenes in images uploaded by users — such as detecting whether a photo contains a dog, a car, or a beach — to automatically tag and categorize content. Which AWS service provides this?
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of AWS CloudFormation "StackSets"?
A company wants to run a Kubernetes cluster on AWS but their team is familiar with EKS and wants to avoid managing the control plane. They also want the worker nodes to run on EC2 for maximum control. Which is the CORRECT service combination?
Which AWS service provides a managed relational database option that lets you pause the database when not in use and automatically resumes when a connection request arrives?
A company wants to send event notifications when objects are uploaded to S3, so downstream services can process them immediately. Which S3 feature enables this?
Which AWS service provides a managed IoT platform that enables edge devices to run AWS Lambda functions locally and sync with the AWS Cloud?
A company wants to use AWS to convert audio recordings of customer calls into searchable text transcripts stored in Amazon S3. Which AWS AI service handles the audio-to-text conversion?
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of "Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights"?
A company needs to migrate 200 TB of data from their on-premises NAS to Amazon S3 over a slow internet connection. Their transfer would take months. Which physical transfer service should they use?
A company wants to use AWS to automatically translate customer support emails from 20 different languages into English so their English-speaking support team can respond. Which AWS service handles this?
Which AWS service provides a managed, cloud-native CI/CD service that compiles source code, runs unit tests, and produces deployable software packages?
Which of the following BEST describes the use case for Amazon CloudFront versus AWS Global Accelerator?
A company runs workloads using a mix of EC2, Lambda, and Fargate. They want a single purchase commitment that reduces costs across all three services. Which option achieves this?
Which of the following is TRUE about data transfer costs between AWS services in the SAME Availability Zone?
Which of the following BEST describes how "tiered pricing" works for Amazon S3?
Which of the following BEST describes a use case for "AWS IQ"?
Which of the following is TRUE about how AWS charges for data transfer between two EC2 instances in DIFFERENT AWS Regions?
A company's IT director argues that maintaining their own data center gives them "more control." Which AWS response BEST addresses this while acknowledging the tradeoff?
A company wants to serve users in Japan with the lowest possible latency. They currently run their entire application in us-east-1. What is the BEST architectural change?
Which of the following correctly describes the number and relationship of AWS edge locations compared to AWS Regions?
A company wants to ensure their critical database can recover from a disk failure in under 60 seconds with no data loss. Which AWS design approach achieves this?
Which of the following is an example of how the AWS Cloud enables "experimentation at low cost"?
A company wants to track the progress of migrating 200 servers from their data center to AWS EC2, with a single dashboard showing migration status across all servers. Which AWS service provides this?
Which of the following BEST describes a benefit of AWS's "pay for what you use" model for a company running a 24/7 production workload compared to a development workload that runs 8 hours/day?
A company wants to run a relational database that automatically scales storage from 10 GB to 128 TB without downtime, with six copies of data across three AZs. Which service provides this?
Which of the following BEST describes when a company should use "Amazon SQS Standard" versus "Amazon SQS FIFO"?
A company wants to use AWS to process and enrich data as it arrives in S3 — converting JSON files to Parquet format for Athena queries — on a schedule. Which service automates this ETL pipeline without managing servers?
Which AWS service provides a managed, in-memory data store that acts as a caching layer between an application and its database, supporting both Redis and Memcached engines?
A company wants to create a custom machine image (AMI) of their EC2 instance with pre-installed software so they can launch identical instances quickly. Which AWS feature enables this?
A company wants to use a content delivery network that also provides real-time WebSocket connections for their chat application. Which AWS service supports WebSocket protocols?
Which AWS service provides a managed OpenSearch (Elasticsearch) environment that enables log analytics with built-in Kibana/OpenSearch Dashboards for visualization?
A company wants to use machine learning to analyze thousands of product reviews and automatically identify the main topics discussed. Which AWS service provides this topic modeling capability?
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of "AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments"?
A company uses Amazon DynamoDB and needs to perform complex aggregations and analytics across their data. DynamoDB doesn't support these natively. Which AWS architecture pattern is recommended?
Which AWS service provides automated build pipelines that compile code, run tests, and produce Docker images, all triggered by code commits?
A company wants to implement an event-driven architecture where an "order placed" event triggers multiple downstream services simultaneously. Which AWS service provides this event routing with filtering capabilities?
Which of the following CORRECTLY describes the difference between Amazon S3 "Standard-IA" and "One Zone-IA" storage classes?
Which AWS service enables you to run container workloads on your own on-premises hardware using the same ECS or EKS APIs you use in the cloud?
A company uses Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and wants to reduce the number of database connections from their Lambda functions, which open and close connections rapidly causing connection pool exhaustion. Which service solves this?
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of "AWS CodeStar"?
Which AWS service provides real-time business intelligence dashboards with the ability to ask questions in natural language ("What were our top 10 products last month?") and get visual answers?
A company wants to ensure all API traffic to their microservices is authenticated, throttled, and logged. Which AWS service provides all three capabilities as a managed service?
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of "VPC Peering" and its key limitation?
Which of the following is a key advantage of using "AWS Fargate" over "Amazon ECS on EC2" for running containers?
Which of the following BEST describes the financial benefit of "Reserved Instances" for a company running a MySQL database 24/7 for the next 2 years?
Which of the following is TRUE about how Savings Plans interact with Reserved Instances when both are active in an account?
Which of the following CORRECTLY explains why a company might see different AWS pricing for the same service in different Regions?
A company's CTO asks: "If we move to AWS, do we still need an IT team?" Which answer BEST describes the actual impact?
A software company wants to release new features every day instead of quarterly. Which cloud benefit MOST enables this faster release cadence?
Which of the following BEST describes how AWS Local Zones differ from AWS Regions?
A company wants to build a resilient application where traffic automatically shifts from a failed component to a healthy one without any human intervention. Which AWS feature primarily enables this automatic traffic rerouting?
Which AWS service enables companies to run AWS services in their own on-premises data center using AWS-managed hardware, APIs, and tools — effectively extending the AWS cloud into their facility?
Which of the following CORRECTLY describes the concept of "serverless" in AWS?
Which of the following BEST describes the difference between "AWS Managed Policies" and "Customer Managed Policies"?
Which of the following CORRECTLY describes the security purpose of "VPC Flow Logs"?
Which AWS service provides a managed Kubernetes service that handles the control plane (API server, etcd, scheduler) while customers manage the worker nodes or use Fargate for serverless pods?
A company uses Amazon RDS and wants to reduce their RTO (Recovery Time Objective) for a database failure to under 60 seconds. Which RDS feature achieves this?
Which of the following BEST describes Amazon S3's "eleven nines" (99.999999999%) durability guarantee?
A company wants to process thousands of small, independent jobs in parallel — such as resizing images — without managing servers. Which combination is BEST?
A company wants to migrate their on-premises Cassandra NoSQL database to AWS with minimal code changes. Which AWS service provides a compatible managed alternative?
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of "Amazon ElastiCache for Redis" in a web application architecture?
A company wants to provide read access to their DynamoDB table data with microsecond latency for their high-traffic product catalog. Which feature should they add?
Which AWS service enables teams to automatically deploy application updates to groups of EC2 instances with configurable deployment strategies, traffic shifting, and automatic rollback on failure?
A company stores 50 PB of archived genomics data that may need to be retrieved occasionally within 48 hours. Which storage solution provides the LOWEST storage cost?
Which AWS service provides managed infrastructure for running Apache Kafka with full Kafka API compatibility, automated provisioning, patching, and scaling?
A company wants to analyze 100 GB of sales data stored in Amazon S3 using Python and visualize results. Which combination of services provides the MOST cost-effective approach for occasional analysis?
Which AWS service provides a managed document database that stores data as JSON-like documents and is compatible with MongoDB applications?
A company wants to use AWS IoT Core to connect 10,000 sensors that send temperature readings every minute. Which protocol does AWS IoT Core use for these low-bandwidth device communications?
Which of the following BEST describes the difference between "Amazon CloudFront" and "Amazon Route 53" for global traffic management?
Which of the following BEST describes the use case for "Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)" versus "Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)"?
A company wants to implement a "retry with exponential backoff" pattern when their Lambda function fails to process an SQS message. Which SQS feature supports this by re-delivering messages that fail processing?
Which AWS service provides a managed pipeline that can ingest, buffer, and deliver streaming data to multiple AWS destinations simultaneously?
A company wants to use AI to automatically generate product descriptions from images uploaded to their e-commerce platform. Which combination of AWS AI services achieves this?
Which of the following is TRUE about the cost of data transfer between Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 in the SAME AWS Region?
A company wants to reduce costs for their development EC2 instances that only need to run during business hours (9 AM–6 PM, Monday–Friday, 45 hours/week). Which configuration minimizes cost while ensuring instances are available when needed?
A company wants to purchase a 1-year Savings Plan that they can cancel after 6 months if their requirements change. Which statement about Savings Plans cancellation is TRUE?
Which of the following is an ACCURATE description of how AWS charges for Amazon Lambda?
Which AWS pricing model provides the MAXIMUM discount for EC2 but requires accepting that instances can be reclaimed by AWS with a 2-minute notice?
A company's CFO asks why they should move to AWS instead of building a new data center. Which benefit of AWS BEST addresses the concern about predicting future infrastructure needs?
Which of the following statements about AWS Regions and Availability Zones is INCORRECT?
A company needs to run a batch job that can be interrupted and restarted without data loss, at the lowest possible cost. Which EC2 purchasing option is BEST?
A company needs a database that can automatically scale to handle millions of requests per second with single-digit millisecond latency. Which AWS service is MOST appropriate?
A developer wants to run code in response to events without managing any servers. The code runs for less than 15 minutes at a time. Which service should they use?
Which AWS storage service is BEST for storing frequently changing files that need to be accessed simultaneously by multiple EC2 instances?
What is the key difference between Amazon CloudFront and AWS Global Accelerator?
A company wants to migrate 50 TB of data to S3 within 5 days. The internet connection is 100 Mbps but also supports business traffic. Which is the BEST transfer option?
Which AWS service is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse for running complex analytical queries?
A company wants to decouple its application components so that a failure in one component doesn't immediately affect others. Which service BEST supports this?
Which of the following is TRUE about Amazon S3 storage classes?
An application needs to send a single notification to multiple different endpoints (email, SMS, Lambda, SQS) simultaneously. Which AWS service is MOST appropriate?
What is the MAXIMUM size of a single object that can be stored in Amazon S3?
A company uses Auto Scaling and wants to ensure their EC2 instances remain available even if an entire AWS data center fails. What should they configure?
Which AWS service provides a managed Kubernetes service?
Which AWS database service is compatible with both MySQL and PostgreSQL and provides up to 5x the throughput of standard MySQL?
A company wants to migrate its on-premises VMware VMs to AWS with minimal downtime. Which service BEST supports this?
Which AWS service provides a global, fully managed DNS service with health checking and traffic routing policies?
A company wants to run a Linux-based high-performance computing (HPC) workload that requires extremely low-latency, high-throughput networking between instances. Which EC2 feature should they enable?
A company needs a content delivery network that can serve static and dynamic content globally with low latency. Which service provides this?
Which AWS service would you use to automatically discover, classify, and migrate on-premises servers to AWS?
What does Amazon S3 "versioning" protect against?
A company has a web application that receives traffic spikes for 3 hours every Saturday. Which EC2 purchasing model minimizes cost MOST effectively?
Which AWS service allows you to run containerized applications without managing the underlying EC2 infrastructure?
Which AWS service is BEST suited for orchestrating a multi-step workflow that involves Lambda functions, human approvals, and error handling?
A company wants to reserve compute capacity and pay the least possible over a 3-year term, and they're willing to commit upfront. Which Reserved Instance payment option gives the BIGGEST discount?
Which AWS Savings Plan type provides the MOST flexibility by applying discounts to EC2 instances regardless of instance family, size, OS, or region?
Which pricing model does Amazon EC2 use for data transfer OUT to the internet?
Which of the following AWS services is SERVERLESS? (Choose TWO)
Which AWS service provides a "dashboard of dashboards" for aggregating health events across AWS services in an account?
Which EC2 feature allows you to automatically recover an instance if it becomes impaired due to underlying hardware issues?
Which statement about Amazon S3 is INCORRECT?
A company wants to implement a "blue/green" deployment to minimize downtime during application updates. Which AWS services SUPPORT this pattern? (Choose TWO)
Which AWS database service is purpose-built for storing and querying highly connected data (graph relationships)?
An application running in us-east-1 needs to replicate data to ap-southeast-1 for disaster recovery. Which S3 feature enables this automatically?
Which of the following describes "horizontal scaling" in the AWS context?
Which AWS service is used to MIGRATE an existing on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database to Amazon Aurora with minimal downtime?
Which of the following services enables "infrastructure as code" to provision AWS resources in a repeatable, version-controlled way?
Which of the following AWS services would you use to send transactional emails (e.g., password reset, order confirmation) from an application?
A company is evaluating whether to use AWS Reserved Instances or Compute Savings Plans. Which statement CORRECTLY differentiates them?
A company evaluates the concept of "failure domains" when designing their AWS architecture. Which AWS infrastructure concept directly maps to a failure domain?
A company uses EC2 with an Application Load Balancer. They want to GRADUALLY SHIFT TRAFFIC from one version of their application to another — sending 10% to v2 and 90% to v1, then adjusting over time. Which ALB feature enables this?
A company uses AMAZON S3 and wants to REPLICATE objects to a SECOND S3 BUCKET IN THE SAME REGION — for backup and to meet a requirement that data exists in two locations within the same region. Which S3 feature enables this?
A company uses AMAZON CLOUDWATCH. They want to create an OPERATIONAL RUNBOOK that automatically executes when a specific alarm triggers — for example, automatically restarting a service on an EC2 instance when a health check alarm fires. Which integration enables this?
A company wants to run an ANALYTICS WORKLOAD on AWS that queries STRUCTURED DATA from multiple sources — including S3, RDS, and DynamoDB — in a single SQL query without moving data. Which service enables this federated query capability?
Which AWS service provides MANAGED CACHING for RELATIONAL DATABASE queries — storing frequently executed query results in memory to reduce database load?
A company uses AWS FARGATE and wants each container task to have its own UNIQUE, ISOLATED NETWORK INTERFACE with its own private IP address. Which Fargate networking mode enables this?
What is the PRIMARY use case for AWS BATCH?
A company uses AMAZON SQS with MULTIPLE CONSUMERS reading from the same queue. They notice that messages are being PROCESSED MULTIPLE TIMES by different consumers. What is the CORRECT explanation and solution?
Which AMAZON VPC component provides a STATIC, ELASTIC IPv4 ADDRESS that can be rapidly remapped between EC2 instances — enabling fast failover without DNS changes?
A company uses AWS CLOUDFORMATION and wants to DEPLOY THE SAME TEMPLATE to 20 accounts in 3 Regions simultaneously. Which CloudFormation feature enables this single-operation multi-account, multi-Region deployment?
A company uses AMAZON ECS and wants their CONTAINERIZED APPLICATION to automatically scale based on the AVERAGE CPU UTILIZATION across all tasks in a service. Which ECS feature provides this?
A company uses AMAZON KINESIS DATA FIREHOSE. They want to TRANSFORM raw JSON records to PARQUET format before delivering to S3 — for efficient Athena queries. Which feature handles this transformation?
A company uses AMAZON ROUTE 53 and wants to route users to the NEAREST AWS REGION based on their GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION — not latency, but their actual physical country. Which routing policy achieves this?
A company uses AMAZON CLOUDWATCH LOGS. They want to EXPORT LOG DATA to AMAZON S3 for long-term archival and processing with Amazon Athena. Which feature enables this?
Which AWS service provides a MANAGED ENVIRONMENT for JUPYTER NOTEBOOKS connected to BIG DATA CLUSTERS — specifically for interactive Spark development and analysis?
A company uses AWS CODEPIPELINE. They want to RUN AUTOMATED INTEGRATION TESTS after each deployment before promoting to the next stage. Which CodePipeline action type runs tests?
Which AMAZON EC2 feature allows you to define a STARTUP SCRIPT that runs EVERY TIME an instance STARTS (not just first launch)?
A company uses AMAZON DynamoDB and wants to ensure that their TABLE'S PARTITION KEY provides even distribution of reads and writes — avoiding "hot partitions." Which strategy achieves this?
Which AWS service provides a MANAGED RABBITMQ AND ACTIVEMQ message broker — enabling LIFT-AND-SHIFT migration of on-premises messaging workloads to AWS without code changes?
A company uses AMAZON API GATEWAY REST API. They want to CACHE RESPONSES for 5 minutes to reduce backend Lambda invocations. Which API Gateway feature enables this?
A company wants to BUILD A CONVERSATIONAL INTERFACE for their internal HR system — allowing employees to ask questions like "How many vacation days do I have?" and receive answers. Which AWS service BUILDS the conversational interface?
A company uses AWS and wants to SEND BULK SMS MESSAGES to 100,000 customers for a marketing campaign AND ALSO send TRANSACTIONAL SMS for order confirmations. Which AWS service handles BOTH use cases?
Which of the following is a CORRECT statement about AWS RESERVED INSTANCES and INSTANCE SIZE FLEXIBILITY?
A company uses AWS and receives notification that AWS will retire an EC2 instance type they use. What is the AWS process for EC2 INSTANCE RETIREMENT?
A company wants to OPTIMIZE COSTS for their AMAZON S3 usage. They notice they're making millions of S3 GET requests per month to frequently accessed objects. Which approach REDUCES S3 request costs while improving performance?
A company uses AWS CODEPIPELINE. Their pipeline: Source (CodeCommit) → Build (CodeBuild) → Deploy (CloudFormation). After CloudFormation deployment, they want to run AUTOMATED ACCEPTANCE TESTS against the newly deployed application before the pipeline succeeds. What should they add?
A company uses AMAZON SQS. Messages are being REPROCESSED after the consumer successfully processes them — because the consumer doesn't delete messages fast enough and the VISIBILITY TIMEOUT EXPIRES. What is the CORRECT FIX?
A company uses AWS LAMBDA with SQS. They notice the Lambda function is failing on SOME messages but the batch FAILS ENTIRELY — causing ALL messages in the batch to be retried (including already-processed ones). Which Lambda feature resolves this?
A company uses AWS and wants to ensure that their MULTI-TIER APPLICATION recovers automatically from an EC2 INSTANCE FAILURE in under 5 MINUTES. Which combination of services achieves this with the LEAST OPERATIONAL OVERHEAD?
A company uses AMAZON RDS. They run a report that reads 100 GB of data from the production database every night, causing performance degradation. What is the RECOMMENDED solution?
A company uses AMAZON CLOUDWATCH. They want to AUTOMATICALLY RESTART a specific EC2 INSTANCE when it becomes unhealthy due to system-level hardware issues — without Auto Scaling Group. Which CloudWatch feature handles this?
A company uses AWS STEP FUNCTIONS. They want to PROCESS AN ARRAY OF ITEMS in PARALLEL — running the same processing logic on each item simultaneously. Which Step Functions feature enables this?
A company uses AMAZON EC2 with a LOAD BALANCER. They want to ensure that a USER'S SESSION always goes to the SAME EC2 INSTANCE for the duration of their session. Which ALB feature enables this?
A company uses AMAZON ECS. They want CONTAINER LOGS from all tasks to be centrally available in CLOUDWATCH LOGS for monitoring and debugging. Which ECS configuration achieves this?
A company uses AWS CODEDEPLOY to deploy to EC2 instances. After a deployment, 30% of instances report the application is unhealthy. What happens with the default deployment configuration?
A company uses AWS and wants to IMPLEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE with the ABILITY TO USE PYTHON for defining resources. Which service supports this?
A company uses AMAZON KINESIS DATA STREAMS. They want to RE-PROCESS all events from the LAST 7 DAYS — for example, after fixing a bug in their consumer Lambda function. Which Kinesis feature enables this?
A company uses AWS LAMBDA and notices that a function is BEING THROTTLED (receiving 429 errors) during traffic peaks. Which TWO changes would reduce throttling?
A company uses AWS AMPLIFY to host their React web application. After pushing a new commit, they notice the site still shows the old version. What is the MOST LIKELY cause and solution?
A company uses AMAZON API GATEWAY with LAMBDA and wants to handle REQUESTS THAT TAKE LONGER THAN 29 SECONDS (API Gateway's maximum integration timeout). Which pattern resolves this?
A company uses AMAZON CLOUDWATCH. They want their OPERATIONS TEAM to receive a PHONE CALL when a critical alarm triggers — not just an email. Which integration provides this?
A company uses AWS CLOUDFORMATION. They want to REUSE THE SAME TEMPLATE across DEVELOPMENT, STAGING, and PRODUCTION environments — with different values for instance types and RDS sizes per environment. Which CloudFormation feature enables this environment parameterization?
A company uses AMAZON SQS and wants to TEST their consumer application by SENDING MESSAGES to a QUEUE AND VERIFYING THE CONSUMER PROCESSES THEM CORRECTLY. Which SQS API operation sends a TEST MESSAGE?
A company uses AWS SYSTEMS MANAGER. They want to STORE CONFIGURATION DATA that is shared across multiple Lambda functions and EC2 instances — such as API endpoints, feature flags, and database connection strings. Which Systems Manager feature is BEST for this?
A company uses AMAZON CLOUDWATCH. They notice their CUSTOM METRIC is not appearing in the console. What is the MOST LIKELY cause?
A company uses AMAZON EKS and wants to AUTOMATICALLY SCALE KUBERNETES PODS based on CUSTOM METRICS (e.g., SQS queue depth). Which AWS/Kubernetes feature enables this?
A company uses AMAZON ROUTE 53. Their PRIMARY region (us-east-1) fails a health check. Route 53 is configured with FAILOVER ROUTING. How quickly does Route 53 STOP routing traffic to the failed primary?
A company runs a batch analytics job every Sunday that takes 6 hours and requires 50 servers. The rest of the week, they need only 2 servers for their web application. On-premises, they own 52 servers to handle peak demand. What is the FINANCIAL WASTE in the on-premises model?
Which statement about AWS REGIONS is MOST accurate for a company concerned about LATENCY for their end users in Japan?
A company recently migrated from on-premises to AWS and expects to save money. After 6 months, their AWS bill is higher than expected. Their architect identifies idle EC2 instances running 24/7, oversized instance types, and unattached EBS volumes. Which CLOUD PRINCIPLE were they failing to apply?
A company is using AWS and wants to receive NOTIFICATIONS when AWS performs PLANNED MAINTENANCE on hardware running their EC2 instances. Which service provides these personalized alerts?
What is the purpose of AMAZON CLOUDWATCH LOGS INSIGHTS?
Which Amazon EC2 INSTANCE FAMILY is MOST appropriate for a video encoding workload that requires GPU acceleration?
A company uses AWS LAMBDA and receives the error "Task timed out after 900.00 seconds." What does this mean and what should they do?
Which AWS SERVICE allows you to run APACHE SPARK jobs at scale without provisioning or managing Spark cluster infrastructure?
A company's web application receives a sudden traffic spike that is 10x normal volume for 30 minutes. The application is deployed on EC2 with an Application Load Balancer and EC2 Auto Scaling. What happens AUTOMATICALLY?
A company uses Amazon DYNAMODB and wants to ensure that their tables are automatically backed up and can be restored to any second within the last 35 days. Which feature enables this?
Which AWS service is MOST appropriate for building a RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM that generates personalized product suggestions based on a user's browsing and purchase history?
What is the MAIN PURPOSE of AMAZON EVENTBRIDGE SCHEDULER (distinct from EventBridge Rules)?
A company uses AMAZON S3 to store user-uploaded images. Users are complaining that image upload speeds are slow from offices in Australia. The S3 bucket is in us-east-1. Which S3 feature improves upload performance for distant users?
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of AWS CLOUDFORMATION "CHANGE SETS"?
A company wants to CONVERT SPEECH TO TEXT from recorded customer service calls stored in S3. Which AWS service performs this?