AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam
2023/2024
1. What does an AWS Region consist of?: independent collection of AWS
com- puting resoruces in a defined geography
2. Which statement best describes Availability Zones?: distinct locations
within aws region that are engineered to be isolated from failures
3. An AWS VPC is a component of which AWS service?: networking
service
4. What is a VPC?: virtual private cloud
5. Which AWS service is specifically designed to run a developer's code on
an infrastructure that is automatically provisioned to host that code?:
elastic beanstalk
6. Which AWS service allows you to run code without having to worry
about provisioning any underlying resources (such as virtual machines,
databases, etc.: Lambda
7. Amazon's highly scaleable DNS service is known as .: Route 53
8. Which AWS compute service is specifically designed to assist you
in processing large data sets?: Elastic map reduce
9. What is the difference between Elastic Beanstalk & CloudFormation?-
: elastic beanstalk handles deployment (load balancing, capacity
provisioning) based on the code you upload, cloud formation is
automated provisioning engine, desinged to deploy enitre cloud
enviroments via a json script
10.Which AWS service is used a CDN to distribute content around
the world?: CloudFront
11.Which of the following AWS solutions offers durable, available
storage for flat files?: S3
12.Which of the following AWS services would be the best choice for
long term data archival?: Glacier
13.Which AWS service offers the following database engines: SQL,
,MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Aurora, and Oracle?: Relational database
services (RDS)
14.Which of the following AWS services is used primarily for data
warehous- ing?: Redshift
15.Which AWS service is used for collating large amounts of data
streamed from multiple sources?: Kinesis
,16.You need to add users to your AWS account and set password rotation
policies for these new users. Which AWS service would best fit your
require- ments?: Identity Access Management (IAM)
17.You need to supply auditors with logs detailing the individual users
that provision specific resources on your AWS platform. Which service
would best meet this need?: CloudTrail
18.You need a configuration management service that enables your
system administrators to configure and operate your web applications
using Chef. Which AWS service would best suit your needs?: OpsWorks
19.Your digital media agency needs to convert their media files in to
different formats to suit different devices. Which AWS service should you
consider using to meet these needs?: Elastic Transcoder
20.What is an AWS region?: geographic area with at least 2 availability
zones
21.Which statement best describes IAM: Allows you to
manage users,groups,roles, and their level of access
22. Which of the following is not a feature of IAM?
Centralised control of your AWS account
Integrates with existing active directory account allowing single sign
on Fine-grained access control to AWS resources
The ability to create User/Group/Roles
Allows you to set up your own password rotation policy
Allows you to setup biometric authentication, so that no passwords are
required: Allows you to setup biometric authentication, so that no
passwords are required
, 23.Power User Access allows .: Access to all ASW services
expect for management of groups and users within IAM
24.What level of access does the "root" account have?: Admin Access
25. You are a solutions architect working for a large engineering company
who are moving their existing legacy hardware to AWS. You have
configured their first AWS account and you have set up IAM. Your company
will be primarily based out of West Germany, however they will have a
small sub- sidiary operating out of South Korea and you will need an AWS
environment configured there as well. Which of the following statements is
true;
You will then need to configure Users and Policy Documents for each
region respectively.
You will need to configure Users and Policy Documents only once, as
these are applied globally.
You will need to configure your users regionally, however your policy
docu- ments are global.
You will need to configure your policy documents regionally, however
your users are global.: you will need to configure users and policy
documents once, as they are applied globally
26.You have a client who is considering moving to AWS services and do
not yet have an account. What is the first thing the company should do to
set up an AWS Account?: Set up an account using their company email
address.
27.You are a security administrator working for a hotel chain. You have a
new member of staff who has started as a systems administrator and they
will need full access to the AWS console. You have created the user
account and generated the access key id and the secret access key. You
have moved this user into the group where the other administrators are
and you have provided the new user with their secret access key and their
access key id. However when they go to log in to the AWS console, they
2023/2024
1. What does an AWS Region consist of?: independent collection of AWS
com- puting resoruces in a defined geography
2. Which statement best describes Availability Zones?: distinct locations
within aws region that are engineered to be isolated from failures
3. An AWS VPC is a component of which AWS service?: networking
service
4. What is a VPC?: virtual private cloud
5. Which AWS service is specifically designed to run a developer's code on
an infrastructure that is automatically provisioned to host that code?:
elastic beanstalk
6. Which AWS service allows you to run code without having to worry
about provisioning any underlying resources (such as virtual machines,
databases, etc.: Lambda
7. Amazon's highly scaleable DNS service is known as .: Route 53
8. Which AWS compute service is specifically designed to assist you
in processing large data sets?: Elastic map reduce
9. What is the difference between Elastic Beanstalk & CloudFormation?-
: elastic beanstalk handles deployment (load balancing, capacity
provisioning) based on the code you upload, cloud formation is
automated provisioning engine, desinged to deploy enitre cloud
enviroments via a json script
10.Which AWS service is used a CDN to distribute content around
the world?: CloudFront
11.Which of the following AWS solutions offers durable, available
storage for flat files?: S3
12.Which of the following AWS services would be the best choice for
long term data archival?: Glacier
13.Which AWS service offers the following database engines: SQL,
,MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Aurora, and Oracle?: Relational database
services (RDS)
14.Which of the following AWS services is used primarily for data
warehous- ing?: Redshift
15.Which AWS service is used for collating large amounts of data
streamed from multiple sources?: Kinesis
,16.You need to add users to your AWS account and set password rotation
policies for these new users. Which AWS service would best fit your
require- ments?: Identity Access Management (IAM)
17.You need to supply auditors with logs detailing the individual users
that provision specific resources on your AWS platform. Which service
would best meet this need?: CloudTrail
18.You need a configuration management service that enables your
system administrators to configure and operate your web applications
using Chef. Which AWS service would best suit your needs?: OpsWorks
19.Your digital media agency needs to convert their media files in to
different formats to suit different devices. Which AWS service should you
consider using to meet these needs?: Elastic Transcoder
20.What is an AWS region?: geographic area with at least 2 availability
zones
21.Which statement best describes IAM: Allows you to
manage users,groups,roles, and their level of access
22. Which of the following is not a feature of IAM?
Centralised control of your AWS account
Integrates with existing active directory account allowing single sign
on Fine-grained access control to AWS resources
The ability to create User/Group/Roles
Allows you to set up your own password rotation policy
Allows you to setup biometric authentication, so that no passwords are
required: Allows you to setup biometric authentication, so that no
passwords are required
, 23.Power User Access allows .: Access to all ASW services
expect for management of groups and users within IAM
24.What level of access does the "root" account have?: Admin Access
25. You are a solutions architect working for a large engineering company
who are moving their existing legacy hardware to AWS. You have
configured their first AWS account and you have set up IAM. Your company
will be primarily based out of West Germany, however they will have a
small sub- sidiary operating out of South Korea and you will need an AWS
environment configured there as well. Which of the following statements is
true;
You will then need to configure Users and Policy Documents for each
region respectively.
You will need to configure Users and Policy Documents only once, as
these are applied globally.
You will need to configure your users regionally, however your policy
docu- ments are global.
You will need to configure your policy documents regionally, however
your users are global.: you will need to configure users and policy
documents once, as they are applied globally
26.You have a client who is considering moving to AWS services and do
not yet have an account. What is the first thing the company should do to
set up an AWS Account?: Set up an account using their company email
address.
27.You are a security administrator working for a hotel chain. You have a
new member of staff who has started as a systems administrator and they
will need full access to the AWS console. You have created the user
account and generated the access key id and the secret access key. You
have moved this user into the group where the other administrators are
and you have provided the new user with their secret access key and their
access key id. However when they go to log in to the AWS console, they
