AWS Solutions Architect Associate Test
Which AWS service is effectively a NAS in the cloud, B
allowing you to connect it to multiple EC2 instances at
once?
A. EBS
B. EFS
C. SQS
D. SNS
What AWS Service would you use primarily for data D
warehousing?
A. RDS
B. DMS
C. Dynamodb
D. Redshift
Your digital media agency needs to convert its media files A
to formats that can be viewed on a variety of devices.
Which AWS devices should you use to meet this need?
A. Elastic Transcoder
B. SQS
C. Appstream
D. SWF
You need to implement an automated service that will scan C
your AWS environment with the goal of both improving
security and reducing costs. Which service should you
use?
A. Config Rules
B. Service Catalog
C. Trusted Advisor
D. CloudTrail
What is the fundamental difference between Elastic B
Beanstalk & CloudFormation?
A. There is no difference between the two. Elastic
Beanstalk was simply the code name used internally for
CloudFormation, prior to the product being released.
B. Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment
of your code -- from capacity provisioning, load balancing,
auto-scaling to application health monitoring -- based on
the code you upload to it, whereas CloudFormation is an
automated provisioning engine designed to deploy entire
cloud environments via a JSON script.
C. Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment
of your code -- from capacity provisioning, load balancing,
auto-scaling to application health monitoring -- based on
the code you upload to it, whereas CloudFormation is a
security service designed to harden your cloud against an
attack such as a DDoS.
D. Elastic Beanstalk is a monitoring tool used to view the
performance of your AWS resources, whereas
CloudFormation is an automated provisioning engine
designed to deploy entire cloud environments via a JSON
script.
Which AWS service allows you to run code without having A
to worry about provisioning any underlying resources (such
as virtual machines, databases etc.)
A. Lambda
B. DynamoDB
C. EC2
D. EC2 Container Service
Which AWS service offers durable storage for flat files? B
A. SQS
B. S3
C. Kinesis
D. CloudFront Edge Locations
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Which AWS service is a Content Delivery Network? B
A. CloudPush
B. CloudFront
C. CloudFormation
D. CloudStream
An AWS VPC is a component of which group of AWS D
services?
A. Global Infrastructure
B. Compute Services
C. Database Services
D. Networking Services
Which statement best describes Availability Zones? B
A. A content distribution network used to distribute content
to users
B. Distinct locations from within an AWS region that are
engineered to be isolated from failures
C. Two zones containing compute resources that are
designed to automatically maintain synchronized copies of
each other's data
D. Restricted areas designed specifically for the creation of
Virtual Private Clouds
Which AWS service is specifically designed to assist you in D
processing large data sets?
A. ElastiCache
B. Big Data Processing
C. EC2
D. EMR
You need to supply auditors with logs showing which A
Users provisioned given resources on your AWS
infrastructure. Which service would best satisfy this need?
A. CloudTrail
B. Opsworks
C. CloudFormation
D. CloudWatch
Which of the following is Amazon's No-SQL database C
service?
A. RDS
B. ElastiCache
C. DynamoDB
D. Redshift
What is an AWS Region? B
A. A region is a collection of Edge Locations available in
specific countries.
B. A region is a geographical area divided into Availability
Zones. Each region contains at least two Availability
Zones.
C. A region is an independent data center, located in
different countries around the globe.
D. A region is a subset of AWS technologies. For example,
the Compute region consists of EC2, ECS, Lambda, etc.
Which AWS service is specifically designed to C
automatically provision the resources required to host the
code a developer uploads during the Development
process?
A. CloudFormation
B. CloudTrail
C. Elastic Beanstalk
D. CloudFormer
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You need a configuration management service that will B
allow your system administrators to use Chef to configure
and operate your web applications. Which AWS service
would best suit your needs?
A. Trusted Advisor
B. OpsWorks
C. CloudWatch
D. CloudTrail
You need a service that will aggregate your data from B
multiple data sources (S3, DynamoDB, RDS, etc.) and
provide business intelligence based on this data. Which
AWS service should you use?
A. CloudViewer
B. Quick Sight
C. Spice
D. CloudOracle
What is an Amazon VPC? B
A. Virtual Public Cloud
B. Virtual Private Cloud
C. Virtual Public Compute
D. Virtual Private Compute
Which of the following services connects an on-premise D
software appliance (or virtual machine) with cloud based
storage?
A. Snowball
B. S3
C. Glacier
D. Storage Gateway
Amazon's highly scalable DNS service is known as A
A. Route53
B. CloudTrail
C. Elastic Map Reduce
D. Directory Service
What does an AWS Region consist of? C
A. A collection of data centers that is spread evenly around
a specific continent.
B. A collection of databases that can only be accessed
from a specific geographic region.
C. A distinct location within a geographic area designed to
provide high availability to a specific geography.
D. A console that gives you a quick, global picture of your
cloud computing environment.
Which AWS service offers the following database engines: C
SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Aurora, and Oracle?
A. DynamoDB
B. Kinesis
C. Relational Database Service (RDS)
D. Redshift
Which of the following is a petabyte-scale data transfer C
solution?
A. SQS
B. Avalanche
C. Snowball
D. SWF
You need to add new users to your AWS account and set C
password rotation policies for these new users. Which
AWS service should you use to do so?
A. Directory Service
B. Key Management Service
C. IAM
D. Inspector
Which AWS service is effectively a NAS in the cloud, B
allowing you to connect it to multiple EC2 instances at
once?
A. EBS
B. EFS
C. SQS
D. SNS
What AWS Service would you use primarily for data D
warehousing?
A. RDS
B. DMS
C. Dynamodb
D. Redshift
Your digital media agency needs to convert its media files A
to formats that can be viewed on a variety of devices.
Which AWS devices should you use to meet this need?
A. Elastic Transcoder
B. SQS
C. Appstream
D. SWF
You need to implement an automated service that will scan C
your AWS environment with the goal of both improving
security and reducing costs. Which service should you
use?
A. Config Rules
B. Service Catalog
C. Trusted Advisor
D. CloudTrail
What is the fundamental difference between Elastic B
Beanstalk & CloudFormation?
A. There is no difference between the two. Elastic
Beanstalk was simply the code name used internally for
CloudFormation, prior to the product being released.
B. Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment
of your code -- from capacity provisioning, load balancing,
auto-scaling to application health monitoring -- based on
the code you upload to it, whereas CloudFormation is an
automated provisioning engine designed to deploy entire
cloud environments via a JSON script.
C. Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment
of your code -- from capacity provisioning, load balancing,
auto-scaling to application health monitoring -- based on
the code you upload to it, whereas CloudFormation is a
security service designed to harden your cloud against an
attack such as a DDoS.
D. Elastic Beanstalk is a monitoring tool used to view the
performance of your AWS resources, whereas
CloudFormation is an automated provisioning engine
designed to deploy entire cloud environments via a JSON
script.
Which AWS service allows you to run code without having A
to worry about provisioning any underlying resources (such
as virtual machines, databases etc.)
A. Lambda
B. DynamoDB
C. EC2
D. EC2 Container Service
Which AWS service offers durable storage for flat files? B
A. SQS
B. S3
C. Kinesis
D. CloudFront Edge Locations
, AWS Solutions Architect Associate Test
Which AWS service is a Content Delivery Network? B
A. CloudPush
B. CloudFront
C. CloudFormation
D. CloudStream
An AWS VPC is a component of which group of AWS D
services?
A. Global Infrastructure
B. Compute Services
C. Database Services
D. Networking Services
Which statement best describes Availability Zones? B
A. A content distribution network used to distribute content
to users
B. Distinct locations from within an AWS region that are
engineered to be isolated from failures
C. Two zones containing compute resources that are
designed to automatically maintain synchronized copies of
each other's data
D. Restricted areas designed specifically for the creation of
Virtual Private Clouds
Which AWS service is specifically designed to assist you in D
processing large data sets?
A. ElastiCache
B. Big Data Processing
C. EC2
D. EMR
You need to supply auditors with logs showing which A
Users provisioned given resources on your AWS
infrastructure. Which service would best satisfy this need?
A. CloudTrail
B. Opsworks
C. CloudFormation
D. CloudWatch
Which of the following is Amazon's No-SQL database C
service?
A. RDS
B. ElastiCache
C. DynamoDB
D. Redshift
What is an AWS Region? B
A. A region is a collection of Edge Locations available in
specific countries.
B. A region is a geographical area divided into Availability
Zones. Each region contains at least two Availability
Zones.
C. A region is an independent data center, located in
different countries around the globe.
D. A region is a subset of AWS technologies. For example,
the Compute region consists of EC2, ECS, Lambda, etc.
Which AWS service is specifically designed to C
automatically provision the resources required to host the
code a developer uploads during the Development
process?
A. CloudFormation
B. CloudTrail
C. Elastic Beanstalk
D. CloudFormer
, AWS Solutions Architect Associate Test
You need a configuration management service that will B
allow your system administrators to use Chef to configure
and operate your web applications. Which AWS service
would best suit your needs?
A. Trusted Advisor
B. OpsWorks
C. CloudWatch
D. CloudTrail
You need a service that will aggregate your data from B
multiple data sources (S3, DynamoDB, RDS, etc.) and
provide business intelligence based on this data. Which
AWS service should you use?
A. CloudViewer
B. Quick Sight
C. Spice
D. CloudOracle
What is an Amazon VPC? B
A. Virtual Public Cloud
B. Virtual Private Cloud
C. Virtual Public Compute
D. Virtual Private Compute
Which of the following services connects an on-premise D
software appliance (or virtual machine) with cloud based
storage?
A. Snowball
B. S3
C. Glacier
D. Storage Gateway
Amazon's highly scalable DNS service is known as A
A. Route53
B. CloudTrail
C. Elastic Map Reduce
D. Directory Service
What does an AWS Region consist of? C
A. A collection of data centers that is spread evenly around
a specific continent.
B. A collection of databases that can only be accessed
from a specific geographic region.
C. A distinct location within a geographic area designed to
provide high availability to a specific geography.
D. A console that gives you a quick, global picture of your
cloud computing environment.
Which AWS service offers the following database engines: C
SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Aurora, and Oracle?
A. DynamoDB
B. Kinesis
C. Relational Database Service (RDS)
D. Redshift
Which of the following is a petabyte-scale data transfer C
solution?
A. SQS
B. Avalanche
C. Snowball
D. SWF
You need to add new users to your AWS account and set C
password rotation policies for these new users. Which
AWS service should you use to do so?
A. Directory Service
B. Key Management Service
C. IAM
D. Inspector
