AWS STUDY GUIDE 2026 ACTUAL
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● A type of ELB that should you use to handle Layer 4 traffic Answer:
Network Load Balancer
● A type of ELB should you use to handle Layer 7 traffic Answer:
Application Load Balancer
● A security service that blocks XSS, SQL injection, and application
requests from certain geographical locations, like embargoed countries
Answer: AWS WAF
● An asynchronous data replication to another RDS DB instance hosted
in the same or another AWS Region Answer: Read Replica
● A parallel file system for "hot" (frequently accessed) data Answer:
Amazon FSx For Lustre
● Synchronous data replication across Availability Zones with
automatic failover in Amazon RDS. Answer: Multi-AZ deployment
● A storage service for hosting "cold" (infrequently accessed) data in
the most cost-effective way. Answer: Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
, ● A relational database with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1
second and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 1 minute.
Answer: Amazon Aurora Global Database
● A service that automates the creation of Amazon EBS snapshots on a
regular basis Answer: Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager
● An agent/program that monitors the available swap space of your
Amazon EC2 instances. Answer: CloudWatch Agent
● A service that can implement a 90-day backup retention policy on
Amazon Aurora. Answer: AWS Backup
● Provide short-lived access tokens that act as temporary security
credentials to allow access to AWS resources. Answer: AWS Security
Token Service
● A policy that routes the internet traffic to the resources based on the
location of the user. Answer: Route 53 Geolocation Routing policy
● It secures the sensitive data stored in EBS volumes. Answer: EBS
Encryption
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● A type of ELB that should you use to handle Layer 4 traffic Answer:
Network Load Balancer
● A type of ELB should you use to handle Layer 7 traffic Answer:
Application Load Balancer
● A security service that blocks XSS, SQL injection, and application
requests from certain geographical locations, like embargoed countries
Answer: AWS WAF
● An asynchronous data replication to another RDS DB instance hosted
in the same or another AWS Region Answer: Read Replica
● A parallel file system for "hot" (frequently accessed) data Answer:
Amazon FSx For Lustre
● Synchronous data replication across Availability Zones with
automatic failover in Amazon RDS. Answer: Multi-AZ deployment
● A storage service for hosting "cold" (infrequently accessed) data in
the most cost-effective way. Answer: Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
, ● A relational database with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1
second and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 1 minute.
Answer: Amazon Aurora Global Database
● A service that automates the creation of Amazon EBS snapshots on a
regular basis Answer: Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager
● An agent/program that monitors the available swap space of your
Amazon EC2 instances. Answer: CloudWatch Agent
● A service that can implement a 90-day backup retention policy on
Amazon Aurora. Answer: AWS Backup
● Provide short-lived access tokens that act as temporary security
credentials to allow access to AWS resources. Answer: AWS Security
Token Service
● A policy that routes the internet traffic to the resources based on the
location of the user. Answer: Route 53 Geolocation Routing policy
● It secures the sensitive data stored in EBS volumes. Answer: EBS
Encryption
