AWS Solutions Architect Associate Test Questions ALL SOLUTION 100% CORRECT SPRING FALL-2023/24 EDITION AID GRADE A+

Amazon SWF is designed to help users: a. Manage user identification and authorization b. Coordinate synchronous and asynchronous tasks c. Secure their VPCs d. Help users store file based objects b In RDS, what is the maximum value I can set for my backup retention period? a. 15 days b. 30 days c. 35 days d. 45 days c True or False. Automated backups are enabled by default for new DB Instance? True Amazon RDS does not currently support increasing storage on a ___ DB instance. a. MySQL b. Aurora c. Oracle d. MSSQL d In what circumstances would I choose provisioned IOPS in RDS over standard storage? a. If you use production online transaction processing b. If you have workloads that are not sensitive to latency/lag c. If your business was trying to save money d. If this was a test DB a Amazon S3 is a. Object Based Storage b. Block Based Storage c. A Data Warehouse Solution d. Suitable for data archival, not frequently used files. a In S3 with RRS the availability is a. 99.% b. 100% c. 99% d. 99.99% d Amazon's EBS volumes are a. Object based storage b. Block based storage c. Encrypted by default d. Not suitable for databases b If I want to run a database on an EC2 instance, which is the most recommended Amazon storage option? a. RDS b. S3 c. Glacier d. EBS d In S3 the durability of my files is a. 99.99% b. 99.% c. 99% d. 100% b Can you access Amazon EBS Snapshots? a. Yes, through the AWS APIs/CLI & AWS Console b. No c. Depends on the region d. EBS does not have snapshot functionality a A _____ is a document that provides a formal statement of one or more permissions. a. Policy b. User c. Group d. Role a In a default VPC, all Amazon EC2 instances are assigned 2 IP addresses at launch, what are these? a. Private IP and Public IP b. Public IP and Secret IP c. Elastic IP and Public IP d. IPv6 and Elastic IP a If an Amazon EBS volume is the root device of an instance, can I detach it without stopping the instance? a. Yes b. No b If you want your application to check whether a request generated an error, then you look for an ____ node in the response from the Amazon RDS API a. Incorrect b. Error c. False d. True b True or False. AWS recommends providing EC2 instances with credentials so they can access other resources (such as S3 buckets) instead of assigning roles. False Can I move a reserved instance from one region to another? a. Yes b. Only in the US c. No d. Depends on the region c In S3 RRS, the durability of my files is a. 99.99% b. 99.% c. 99% d. 100% a In RDS, changes to the backup window take effect a. After 30 mins b. The next day c. Immediately d. you cannot back up in RDS c In RDS, what is the maximum size for a Microsoft SQL Server DB Instance with SQL server Express edition? a. 10GB/db b. 100GB/db c. 1TB/db d. 2TB/db a In S3, what does RRS stand for? a. Relational Reduced Storage b. Reactive Replicating Storage c. Reduced Replication Storage d. Reduced Redundancy Storage d Can I "force" a failover for any RDS instance that has Multi-AZ configured? a. Yes b. No c. Only for Oracle RDS instances a What does EBS stand for? a. Energetic Block Storage b. Elastic Based Storage c. Equal Block Storage d. Elastic Block Storage d True or False. You can conduct your own vulnerability scans within your own VPC without alerting AWS first. False True or False. Reserved instances are available for multi-AZ deployments. True True or False. Amazon's Glacier service is a Content Distribution Network which integrates with S3. False MySQL installations default to port number a. 1433 b. 3306 c. 3389 d. 80 b If an Amazon EBS volume is an additional partition (ie. not the root volume), can I detach it without stopping the instance? a. Yes, but it may take some time b. No, you still need to stop the instance a Every user you create in the IAM system starts with ____ a. Full permissions b. Partial permissions c. No permissions c True or False. You can RDP or SSH into an RDS instance to see what is going on with the operating system. False True or False. When creating a new security group, all inbound traffic is allowed by default. False True or False. Amazon recommends that you leave all security groups in web facing subnets open on port 22 to 0.0.0.0/0 CIDR, that way you can connect wherever you are in the world. False What are the 4 level of AWS premium support? a. It's an IAAS platform, there sis no support b. Free, Bronze, Silver, Gold c. Basic, Startup, Business, Enterprise d. Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise d True or False. As the AWS is PCI DSS 1.00 compliant, I can immediately deploy a website to it that takes credit card details. I do not need any kind of delta accreditation from a QSA. False To help manage your Amazon EC2 instances, you can assign you own metadata in the form of a. Wildcards b. Certificates c. Tags d. Notes c Which statement best describes Availability Zones a. Content distribution network which is used to distribute content to users b. A restricted area designed specifically for creating VPCs c. Two zones containing compute resources that are designed to maintain synchronized copies of data within each other d. Distinct locations from within an AWS region that are engineered to be isolated from failures d True or False. The service to allow Big Data Processing on the AWS platform is known as AWS "Elastic Big Data". False Individual instances are provisioned in a. Regions only, you cannot choose anything below this b. Availability Zones c. Global b True or False. When using a custom VPC and placing an EC2 instance into a public subnet, it will automatically be internet accessible (ie. you don't need to apply an elastic IP or ELB to the instance). False What is the underlying Hypervisor for EC2? a. Hyper-V b. ESX c. Xen d. OVM c True or False. The AWS platform is certified PCI DSS 1.0 compliant. True The AWS platform consists of how many regions currently? a. 5 b. 10 c. 11 d. 12 c How many copies of my data does RDS - Aurora store by default? a. 3 b. 6 c. 2 d. 1 b What is the difference between Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation? a. Elastic Beanstalk is a monitoring tool to view performance of your AWS resources. CloudFormation is an automated provisioning engine to deploy entire cloud environments via JSON. b. Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring based on the code you upload to it. CloudFormation is an automated provisioning engine to deploy entire cloud environments via JSON. c. There is no difference. d. Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring based on the code you upload to it. CloudFormation is a security service designed to harden your cloud against an attack, like a DDOS. b True or False. In RDS, you are responsible for maintaining OS & application security patching, antivirus, etc. False What is the maximum response time for a Business Level Premium support case? a. 1 day b. 12 hrs c. 15 mins d. 1 hr d True or False. When I create a new security group, all outbound traffic is allowed by default. True What types of RDS databases are currently available a. Aurora, MySQL, MSSQL, Cassandra b. PostGres, Cassandra, MongoDB, Aurora c. Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, Cassandra d. Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres d I can enable multi-factor authentication by using a. RDS b. IAM c. DynamoDB d. Account Settings b True or False. When deploying databases on your own EC2 instances, it is recommended that you deploy these on magnetic storage rather than SSD as you get better performance. False AWS DNS service is known as a. CloudDNS b. CloudFront c. CloudTrail d. Route53 d Auditing user access/API calls, etc., across the entire AWS estate can be achieved using a. CloudFront b. CloudWatch c. CloudFlare d. CloudTrail d EC2 instances are launched from Amazon Machine Images (AMI). An AMI can a. Be used to launch EC2 instances in any AWS region b. Only launch EC2 instances in the same Country as the AMI is stored c. Only launch EC2 instances in the same AWS region as the AMI is stored d. Only launch EC2 instances in the same AWS AZ as the AMI is stored c CONTINUED.....