AWS - Solutions Architect Associate
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
VPC - CORRECT ANSWER - *Virtual Private Cloud*
(A __________ is a virtual network dedicated to your AWS account. It is logically isolated from
other virtual networks in the AWS cloud.)
(A __________ is a component of the Networking Service.)
(A __________ must set DNS Hostnames to "Yes" for instances launched in the subnet to get
DNS Names.)
(By default you can only have 5 __________ per AWS region.)
Elastic Beanstalk - CORRECT ANSWER - __________ is an Orchestration service for
deploying infrastructure including EC, S3, SNS, CloudWatch, Autoscaling, and Elastic Load
Balancers.
__________ is specifically designed to run a developer's code on an infrastructure that is
automatically provisioned to host that code.
__________ can be used to create Web Server and Worker environments.
LAMBDA - CORRECT ANSWER - AWS __________ is a Server-less compute service
that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute
resources for you.
Route 53 - CORRECT ANSWER - __________ is a scalable and highly available (DNS).
,The name __________ is a reference to TCP or UDP port, where DNS server requests are
addressed.
With __________ You can register domains, Route Internet traffic to domain resources and
conduct health checks of resources.
__________ supports a Maximum of 50 domain names, however this limit can be increased by
contacting AWS support
EMR - CORRECT ANSWER - *Elastic Map Reduce*
__________ processes big data across a Hadoop cluster of virtual servers on EC2 and S3.
__________ is a compute service specifically designed to assist you in processing large data sets.
CloudFormation - CORRECT ANSWER - An easy way to create and manage a collection
of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion.
CloudFront - CORRECT ANSWER - A web service that speeds up distribution of your
static and dynamic web content, such as .html, .css, .php, and image files, to your users.
A service that uses a CDN to distribute content around the world.
CDN - CORRECT ANSWER - *Content Delivery Network*
Delivers content based on geographic locations of the user, origin of the webpage and the content
delivery server.
A system of distributed servers that deliver pages and other Web content to a user
Glacier - CORRECT ANSWER - A secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage
service for data archiving and long-term backup.
The best choice for long term data archival
, S3 - CORRECT ANSWER - *Simple Storage Service*
__________ offers durable, available storage for flat files.
Makes it simple and practical to collect, store, and analyze data - regardless of format - all at
massive scale.
Durability of 99.999999999% (11x9's)
Availability of 99.99%
Applies to Standard, Infrequent Access (IA) and Glacier
Has a minimum file size of 0 Bytes
This is a Global service, and its reliability and durability are not bound to any Region or
Availability Zone.
RDS - CORRECT ANSWER - *Relational Database Services*
__________ offers the following database engines: SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL,
Aurora, and Oracle.
__________ is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational
database in the cloud.
If you are using Provisioned IOPS storage with MySQL and Oracle, the maximum size Volume
is 6 TB by default.
I/O operations are suspended for the duration of a snapshot.
You cannot use the secondary database as an independent read node.
The maximum provisioned IOPS capacity on and Oracle and MySQL instance (Using
Provisioned IOPS) is 30,000 IOPS
Redshift - CORRECT ANSWER - __________ is a fast, fully managed data warehouse
that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your
existing BI tools
This Service is used primarily for data warehousing.
__________ Supports Cross-Region Snapshots.
Amazon __________ uses a hierarchy of encryption keys to encrypt the database. You can use a
KMS or HMS to manage top level encryption keys in this hierarchy.
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
VPC - CORRECT ANSWER - *Virtual Private Cloud*
(A __________ is a virtual network dedicated to your AWS account. It is logically isolated from
other virtual networks in the AWS cloud.)
(A __________ is a component of the Networking Service.)
(A __________ must set DNS Hostnames to "Yes" for instances launched in the subnet to get
DNS Names.)
(By default you can only have 5 __________ per AWS region.)
Elastic Beanstalk - CORRECT ANSWER - __________ is an Orchestration service for
deploying infrastructure including EC, S3, SNS, CloudWatch, Autoscaling, and Elastic Load
Balancers.
__________ is specifically designed to run a developer's code on an infrastructure that is
automatically provisioned to host that code.
__________ can be used to create Web Server and Worker environments.
LAMBDA - CORRECT ANSWER - AWS __________ is a Server-less compute service
that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute
resources for you.
Route 53 - CORRECT ANSWER - __________ is a scalable and highly available (DNS).
,The name __________ is a reference to TCP or UDP port, where DNS server requests are
addressed.
With __________ You can register domains, Route Internet traffic to domain resources and
conduct health checks of resources.
__________ supports a Maximum of 50 domain names, however this limit can be increased by
contacting AWS support
EMR - CORRECT ANSWER - *Elastic Map Reduce*
__________ processes big data across a Hadoop cluster of virtual servers on EC2 and S3.
__________ is a compute service specifically designed to assist you in processing large data sets.
CloudFormation - CORRECT ANSWER - An easy way to create and manage a collection
of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion.
CloudFront - CORRECT ANSWER - A web service that speeds up distribution of your
static and dynamic web content, such as .html, .css, .php, and image files, to your users.
A service that uses a CDN to distribute content around the world.
CDN - CORRECT ANSWER - *Content Delivery Network*
Delivers content based on geographic locations of the user, origin of the webpage and the content
delivery server.
A system of distributed servers that deliver pages and other Web content to a user
Glacier - CORRECT ANSWER - A secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage
service for data archiving and long-term backup.
The best choice for long term data archival
, S3 - CORRECT ANSWER - *Simple Storage Service*
__________ offers durable, available storage for flat files.
Makes it simple and practical to collect, store, and analyze data - regardless of format - all at
massive scale.
Durability of 99.999999999% (11x9's)
Availability of 99.99%
Applies to Standard, Infrequent Access (IA) and Glacier
Has a minimum file size of 0 Bytes
This is a Global service, and its reliability and durability are not bound to any Region or
Availability Zone.
RDS - CORRECT ANSWER - *Relational Database Services*
__________ offers the following database engines: SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL,
Aurora, and Oracle.
__________ is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational
database in the cloud.
If you are using Provisioned IOPS storage with MySQL and Oracle, the maximum size Volume
is 6 TB by default.
I/O operations are suspended for the duration of a snapshot.
You cannot use the secondary database as an independent read node.
The maximum provisioned IOPS capacity on and Oracle and MySQL instance (Using
Provisioned IOPS) is 30,000 IOPS
Redshift - CORRECT ANSWER - __________ is a fast, fully managed data warehouse
that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your
existing BI tools
This Service is used primarily for data warehousing.
__________ Supports Cross-Region Snapshots.
Amazon __________ uses a hierarchy of encryption keys to encrypt the database. You can use a
KMS or HMS to manage top level encryption keys in this hierarchy.
