PURE STORAGE CERTIFIED FLASHARRAY
ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE FINAL PAPER 2026
EXAM STUDY SHEET WITH VERIFIED CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ What is a Spot Request? Answer: It's a way to request spot
instances where you specify maximum price, desired number of
instances, launch specification (ami and so on) and the request type.
◉ How many types of Spot Request are there? Answer: Two: one-
time and persistent.
◉ What are Spot Fleets? Answer: A combined group of spot
instances that are launched according to the characteristic described
in the fleet. You can specify OS, AZ, instance type (t3.small) as a
launch pool and then the fleet chooses the best instances that match
the price constraints.
◉ What are some Spot Fleet strategies? Answer: - lowest price
- diversified
- Capacity Optimized
,◉ Can you associate an Spot Fleet Request to a target group / ELB?
Answer: Yes
◉ What are the three types of Placement Groups? Answer: - Cluster:
for intensive workload and reduced latency. Same Rack and AZ.
- Spread: high availability between AZ and hardware. Limit is 7
instances.
- Partition: high availability between hardware (same AZ, different
Rack). Use case: Hadoop. Limit 100 instances.
◉ Can you create ENI independently and attach them or move them
on EC2? Answer: Yes
◉ Are ENI bound to AZ? Answer: Yes
◉ What are the attributes of an ENI? Answer: - Private Ip
- Public Ip
- Elastic Public Ip
- MAC address
◉ What are some of the constraints for using EC2 Hibernate?
Answer: - The EBS volume must be large enough to store RAM
- EBS volume must be encrypted
,- EBS volume cannot be Instance Store
- Available for on Demand, Reserved and Spot
- Only some families of instances can use it
- Hibernation cannot take longer than 60 days.
- Only SSD is supported
◉ What is EC2 Nitro? Answer: It's the next generation of EC2
instances with a newer virtualization technology. Allows better
performance.
◉ Can you reach 64k EBS iops without Nitro? Answer: No, the limit
without Nitro is 32k iops.
◉ How many threads per core do you have by default? Answer: 2 per
core
◉ An instance with 4 cpu, how many vCPU may have? Answer: 8
vCPU, remember 2 threads per core.
◉ Can you tweak the number of CPU cores and threads in an
instance? Answer: Yes, specially for saving money if you don't need
so much compute power.
, ◉ Can you do capacity reservation without the commitment for 1 or
3 years? Answer: Yes.
◉ Which EBS family can do Multi-Attach? Answer: EBS io1/io2
family
◉ Is Multi-Attach AZ bounded? Answer: Yes.
◉ Use case for Multi-attach? Answer: Application must manage
multiple concurrent write operations.
◉ A constraint (prerequisite) for Multi Attach? Answer: The file
system must be cluster aware.
◉ Is EFS multi AZ? Answer: Yes, but there is also the option EFS One
Zone if you don't need high availability.
◉ How can you encrypt an existing EFS? Answer: You have to create
a new encrypted EFS and then transfer the data to the encrypted one
from the old EFS using the AWS DataSync.
◉ Are EBS volums AZ bound? Answer: Yes
◉ Are AMI AZ bound? Answer: No, they are Region bound.
ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE FINAL PAPER 2026
EXAM STUDY SHEET WITH VERIFIED CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ What is a Spot Request? Answer: It's a way to request spot
instances where you specify maximum price, desired number of
instances, launch specification (ami and so on) and the request type.
◉ How many types of Spot Request are there? Answer: Two: one-
time and persistent.
◉ What are Spot Fleets? Answer: A combined group of spot
instances that are launched according to the characteristic described
in the fleet. You can specify OS, AZ, instance type (t3.small) as a
launch pool and then the fleet chooses the best instances that match
the price constraints.
◉ What are some Spot Fleet strategies? Answer: - lowest price
- diversified
- Capacity Optimized
,◉ Can you associate an Spot Fleet Request to a target group / ELB?
Answer: Yes
◉ What are the three types of Placement Groups? Answer: - Cluster:
for intensive workload and reduced latency. Same Rack and AZ.
- Spread: high availability between AZ and hardware. Limit is 7
instances.
- Partition: high availability between hardware (same AZ, different
Rack). Use case: Hadoop. Limit 100 instances.
◉ Can you create ENI independently and attach them or move them
on EC2? Answer: Yes
◉ Are ENI bound to AZ? Answer: Yes
◉ What are the attributes of an ENI? Answer: - Private Ip
- Public Ip
- Elastic Public Ip
- MAC address
◉ What are some of the constraints for using EC2 Hibernate?
Answer: - The EBS volume must be large enough to store RAM
- EBS volume must be encrypted
,- EBS volume cannot be Instance Store
- Available for on Demand, Reserved and Spot
- Only some families of instances can use it
- Hibernation cannot take longer than 60 days.
- Only SSD is supported
◉ What is EC2 Nitro? Answer: It's the next generation of EC2
instances with a newer virtualization technology. Allows better
performance.
◉ Can you reach 64k EBS iops without Nitro? Answer: No, the limit
without Nitro is 32k iops.
◉ How many threads per core do you have by default? Answer: 2 per
core
◉ An instance with 4 cpu, how many vCPU may have? Answer: 8
vCPU, remember 2 threads per core.
◉ Can you tweak the number of CPU cores and threads in an
instance? Answer: Yes, specially for saving money if you don't need
so much compute power.
, ◉ Can you do capacity reservation without the commitment for 1 or
3 years? Answer: Yes.
◉ Which EBS family can do Multi-Attach? Answer: EBS io1/io2
family
◉ Is Multi-Attach AZ bounded? Answer: Yes.
◉ Use case for Multi-attach? Answer: Application must manage
multiple concurrent write operations.
◉ A constraint (prerequisite) for Multi Attach? Answer: The file
system must be cluster aware.
◉ Is EFS multi AZ? Answer: Yes, but there is also the option EFS One
Zone if you don't need high availability.
◉ How can you encrypt an existing EFS? Answer: You have to create
a new encrypted EFS and then transfer the data to the encrypted one
from the old EFS using the AWS DataSync.
◉ Are EBS volums AZ bound? Answer: Yes
◉ Are AMI AZ bound? Answer: No, they are Region bound.
