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1. Each department within a company has its own independent AWS account and its own
payment method. New company leadership wants to centralize departmental
governance and consolidate payments.
How can this be achieved using AWS services or features?

Forward monthly invoices for each account. Then create IAM roles to allow cross-account
access.

Create a new AWS account. Then configure AWS Organizations and invite all existing accounts
to join.

Configure AWS Organizations in each of the existing accounts. Then link all accounts together.

Use Cost Explorer to combine costs from all accounts. Then replicate IAM policies across
accounts.
2. The ability to horizontally scale Amazon EC2 instances based on demand is an
example of which concept in the AWS Cloud value proposition?

Economy of scale

Elasticity

High availability

Agility
3. An ecommerce company anticipates a huge increase in web traffic for two very
popular upcoming shopping holidays. Which AWS service or feature can be configured
to dynamically adjust resources to meet this change in demand?

AWS CloudTrail

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Amazon Forecast

AWS Config
4. Which AWS service enables users to securely connect to AWS resources over the
public internet?

Amazon VPC peering

AWS Direct Connect

AWS VPN
 Amazon Pinpoint
5. Which AWS service enables users to securely connect to AWS resources over the
public internet?

Amazon VPC peering

AWS Direct Connect

AWS VPN

Amazon Pinpoint
6. Which tool is used to forecast AWS spending?

AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Organizations

Cost Explorer

Amazon Inspector
7. A company is running an ecommerce application hosted in Europe. To decrease
latency for users who access the website from other parts of the world, the company
would like to cache frequently accessed static content closer to the users.
Which AWS service will support these requirements?

Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

8. Which of the following is a component of the AWS Global Infrastructure?

Amazon Alexa

AWS Regions

Amazon Lightsail

AWS Organizations
9. Which AWS service will help users determine if an application running on an Amazon
EC2 instance has sufficient CPU capacity?

Amazon CloudWatch

AWS Config
 AWS CloudTrail

Amazon Inspector
10. Why is it beneficial to use Elastic Load Balancers with applications?

They allow for the conversion from Application Load Balancers to Classic Load Balancers.

They are capable of handling constant changes in network traffic patterns.

They automatically adjust capacity.

They are provided at no charge to users.

11. Which tasks are the customer’s responsibility in the AWS shared responsibility
model? (Choose two.)

Infrastructure facilities access management

Cloud infrastructure hardware lifecycle management

Configuration management of user’s applications

Networking infrastructure protection

Security groups configuration

12. IT systems should be designed to reduce interdependencies, so that a change or
failure in one component does not cascade to other components.
This is an example of which principle of cloud architecture design?

Scalability

Loose coupling

Automation

Automatic scaling
13. Which AWS service or feature can enhance network security by blocking requests
from a particular network for a web application on AWS? (Choose two.)

AWS WAF

AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Direct Connect

AWS Organizations

Network ACLs
14. An application runs on multiple Amazon EC2 instances that access a shared file
system simultaneously. Which AWS storage service should be used?

Amazon EBS

Amazon EFS

Amazon S3

AWS Artifact
15. A web application is hosted on AWS using an Elastic Load Balancer, multiple Amazon
EC2 instances, and Amazon RDS.
Which security measures fall under the responsibility of AWS? (Choose two.)

Running a virus scan on EC2 instances

Protecting against IP spoofing and packet sniffing

Installing the latest security patches on the RDS instance

Encrypting communication between the EC2 instances and the Elastic Load Balancer

Configuring a security group and a network access control list (NACL) for EC2 instances
16. What is the benefit of elasticity in the AWS Cloud?

Ensure web traffic is automatically spread across multiple AWS Regions.

Minimize storage costs by automatically archiving log data.

Enable AWS to automatically select the most cost-effective services.

Automatically adjust the required compute capacity to maintain consistent performance.

17. The continual reduction of AWS Cloud pricing is due to:

pay-as-you go pricing

the AWS global infrastructure

economies of scale

reserved storage pricing

18. A company needs an Amazon S3 bucket that cannot have any public objects due to
compliance requirements. How can this be accomplished?

Enable S3 Block Public Access from the AWS Management Console.

Hold a team meeting to discuss the importance if only uploading private S3 objects.

Require all S3 objects to be manually approved before uploading.

 Create a service to monitor all S3 uploads and remove any public uploads.
19. A Cloud Practitioner identifies a billing issue after examining the AWS Cost and
Usage report in the AWS Management Console.
Which action can be taken to resolve this?

Open a detailed case related to billing and submit it to AWS Support for help.

Upload data describing the issue to a new object in a private Amazon S3 bucket.

Create a pricing application and deploy it to a right-sized Amazon EC2 instance for
moreinformation.

Proceed with creating a new dashboard in Amazon QuickSight.

20. What does the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator do?

Compares on-premises costs to colocation environments

Estimates monthly billing based on projected usage

Estimates power consumption at existing data centers

Estimates CPU utilization

21. Who is responsible for patching the guest operating system for Amazon RDS?

The AWS Product team

The customer Database Administrator

Managed partners

AWS Support
22. Which AWS services may be scaled using AWS Auto Scaling? (Choose two.)

Amazon EC2

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon S3

Amazon Route 53

Amazon Redshift
23. Which of the following are benefits of AWS Global Accelerator? (Choose two.)

Reduced cost to run services on AWS

Improved availability of applications deployed on AWS

 Higher durability of data stored on AWS

Decreased latency to reach applications deployed on AWS

Higher security of data stored on AWS

24.

Reduced cost to run services on AWS

Improved availability of applications deployed on AWS

Higher durability of data stored on AWS

Decreased latency to reach applications deployed on AWS

25. A user who wants to get help with billing and reactivate a suspended account should
submit an account and billing request to:

the AWS Support forum

AWS Abuse

an AWS Solutions Architect

AWS Support
26. Which AWS Cloud best practice uses the elasticity and agility of cloud computing?

Provision capacity based on past usage and theoretical peaks

Dynamically and predictively scale to meet usage demands

Build the application and infrastructure in a data center that grants physical access

Break apart the application into loosely coupled components

27. Which method helps to optimize costs of users moving to the AWS Cloud?

Paying only for what is used

Purchasing hardware before it is needed

Manually provisioning cloud resources

Purchasing for the maximum possible load

28. Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is a customer
responsibility?

Installing security patches for the Xen and KVM hypervisors

 Installing operating system patches for Amazon DynamoDB

Installing operating system security patches for Amazon EC2 databaseinstances

Installing operating system security patches for Amazon RDS databaseinstances

29. The AWS Cost Management tools give users the ability to do which of the following?
(Choose two.)

Terminate all AWS resources automatically if budget thresholds are exceeded.

Break down AWS costs by day, service, and linked AWS account.

Create budgets and receive notifications if current of forecasted usage exceeds the budgets.

Switch automatically to Reserved Instances or Spot Instances, whichever is most cost-effective.

Move data stored in Amazon S3 to a more cost-effective storage class.

30. Under the AWS shared responsibility model, the security and patching of the guest
operating system is the responsibility of:

AWS Support

the customer

AWS Systems Manager

AWS Config
31. Which AWS service makes it easy to create and manage AWS users and groups, and
provide them with secure access to AWS resources at no charge?

AWS Direct Connect

Amazon Connect

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

AWS Firewall Manager

32. Which AWS service provides on-demand of AWS security and compliance
documentation?

AWS Directory Service

AWS Artifact

AWS Trusted Advisor

Amazon Inspector
33. Which AWS service can be used to turn text into life-like speech?
 Amazon Polly

Amazon Transcribe

Amazon Rekognition

Amazon Lex
34. What is one of the core principles to follow when designing a highly available
application in the AWS Cloud?

Design using a serverless architecture

Assume that all components within an application can fail

Design AWS Auto Scaling into every application

Design all components using open-source code

35. A user needs to generate a report that outlines the status of key security checks in
an AWS account. The report must include:
The status of Amazon S3 bucket permissions.
Whether multi-factor authentication is enabled for the AWS account root user. If any
security groups are configured to allow unrestricted access.
Where can all this information be found in one location?

A. Amazon QuickSight dashboard

B. AWS CloudTrail trails

C. AWS Trusted Advisor report

D. IAM credential report

36. A user needs to generate a report that outlines the status of key security checks in
an AWS account. The report must include:
The status of Amazon S3 bucket permissions.
Whether multi-factor authentication is enabled for the AWS account root user. If any
security groups are configured to allow unrestricted access.
Where can all this information be found in one location?

A. Amazon QuickSight dashboard

B. AWS CloudTrail trails

C. AWS Trusted Advisor report

D. IAM credential report

37. Which Amazon EC2 pricing model should be used to comply with per-core software
license requirements?

Dedicated Hosts
 On-Demand Instances

Spot Instances

Reserved Instances
38. Which of the AWS global infrastructure is used to cache copies of content for faster
delivery to users across the globe?

AWS Regions

Availability Zones

Edge locations

Data centers
39. Which of the AWS global infrastructure is used to cache copies of content for faster
delivery to users across the globe?

AWS Regions

Availability Zones

Edge locations

Data centers
40. Using AWS Config to record, audit, and evaluate changes to AWS resources to
enable traceability is an example of which AWS Well-Architected Framework pillar?

Security

Operational excellence

Performance efficiency

Cost optimization
41. A user needs to quickly deploy a non-relational database on AWS. The user does not
want to manage the underlying hardware or the database software.
Which AWS service can be used to accomplish this?

Amazon RDS

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon Aurora

Amazon Redshift
42. A Cloud Practitioner is developing a disaster recovery plan and intends to replicate
data between multiple geographic areas.
Which of the following meets these requirements?
 AWS Accounts

AWS Regions

Availability Zones

Edge locations
43. Which features and benefits does the AWS Organizations service provide? (Choose
two.)

Establishing real-time communications between members of an internal team

Facilitating the use of NoSQL databases

Providing automated security checks

Implementing consolidated billing

Enforcing the governance of AWS accounts

44. Which AWS service is used to automate configuration management using Chef and
Puppet?

AWS Config

AWS OpsWorks

AWS CloudFormation

AWS Systems Manager

45. Which tool is best suited for combining the billing of AWS accounts that were
previously independent from one another?

Detailed billing report

Consolidated billing

AWS Cost and Usage report

Cost allocation report

46. The AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator is used to:

receive reports that break down AWS Cloud compute costs by duration, resource, or tags

estimate savings when comparing the AWS Cloud to an on-premises environment

estimate a monthly bill for the AWS Cloud resources that will be used

enable billing alerts to monitor actual AWS costs compared to estimated costs
47. Which AWS services can be used to provide network connectivity between an on-
premises network and a VPC? (Choose two.)

Amazon Route 53

AWS Direct Connect

AWS Data Pipeline

AWS VPN

Amazon Connect
48. Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following are customer
responsibilities? (Choose two.)

Setting up server-side encryption on an Amazon S3 bucket

Amazon RDS instance patching

Network and firewall configurations

Physical security of data center facilities

Compute capacity availability

49. What is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan level that will provide users with access to
the AWS Support API?

Developer

Enterprise

Business

Basic
50. A company has deployed several relational databases on Amazon EC2 instances.
Every month, the database software vendor releases new security patches that need to
be applied to the databases.
What is the MOST efficient way to apply the security patches?

Connect to each database instance on a monthly basis, and download and apply the necessary
security patches from the vendor.

Enable automatic patching for the instances using the Amazon RDS console.

In AWS Config, configure a rule for the instances and the required patch level.

Use AWS Systems Manager to automate database patching according to a schedule.

51. A company wants to use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to deploy a
global commercial application. The deployment solution should be built with the highest
redundancy and fault tolerance.
Based on this situation, the Amazon EC2 instances should be deployed:

in a single Availability Zone in one AWS Region

with multiple Elastic Network Interfaces belonging to different subnets

across multiple Availability Zones in one AWS Region

across multiple Availability Zones in two AWS Regions

52. A company has an application with users in both Australia and Brazil. All the
company infrastructure is currently provisioned in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in
Australia, and Brazilian users are experiencing high latency.
What should the company do to reduce latency?

Implement AWS Direct Connect for users in Brazil

Provision resources in the South America (São Paulo) Region in Brazil

Use AWS Transit Gateway to quickly route users from Brazil to the application

Launch additional Amazon EC2 instances in Sydney to handle the demand

53. A company has an application with users in both Australia and Brazil. All the
company infrastructure is currently provisioned in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in
Australia, and Brazilian users are experiencing high latency.
What should the company do to reduce latency?

Implement AWS Direct Connect for users in Brazil

Provision resources in the South America (São Paulo) Region in Brazil

Use AWS Transit Gateway to quickly route users from Brazil to the application

Launch additional Amazon EC2 instances in Sydney to handle the demand

54. An Amazon EC2 instance runs only when needed yet must remain active for the
duration of the process. What is the most appropriate purchasing option?

Dedicated Instances

Spot Instances

On-Demand Instances

Reserved Instances
55. Which AWS dashboard displays relevant and timely information to help users
manage events in progress, and provides proactive notifications to help plan for
scheduled activities?

AWS Service Health Dashboard

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

 AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard

Amazon CloudWatch dashboard

56. Which AWS hybrid storage service enables a user’s on-premises applications to
seamlessly use AWS Cloud storage?

AWS Backup

Amazon Connect

AWS Direct Connect

AWS Storage Gateway

57. Which of the following acts as a virtual firewall at the Amazon EC2 instance level to
control traffic for one or more instances?

Access keys

Virtual private gateways

Security groups

Access Control Lists (ACL)

58. What is the most efficient way to establish network connectivity from on-premises to
multiple VPCs in different AWS Regions?

Use AWS Direct Connect

Use AWS VPN

Use AWS Client VPN

Use an AWS Transit Gateway

59. What is the most efficient way to establish network connectivity from on-premises to
multiple VPCs in different AWS Regions?

Use AWS Direct Connect

Use AWS VPN

Use AWS Client VPN

Use an AWS Transit Gateway

60. Which AWS Support plan provides access to architectural and operational reviews,
as well as 24/7 access to Senior Cloud Support Engineers through email, online chat,
and phone?

Basic
 Business

Developer

Enterprise
61. Which AWS service or feature helps restrict the AWS services, resources, and
individual API actions the users and roles in each member account can access?

Amazon Cognito

AWS Organizations

AWS Shield

AWS Firewall Manager

62. What is the best resource for a user to find compliance-related information and
reports about AWS?

AWS Artifact

AWS Marketplace

Amazon Inspector

AWS Support
63. Which Amazon S3 storage class is optimized to provide access to data with lower
resiliency requirements, but rapid access when needed such as duplicate backups?

Amazon S3 Standard

Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access

Amazon S3 Glacier
64. What is an Availability Zone in AWS?

One or more physical data centers

A completely isolated geographic location

One or more edge locations based around the world

A data center location with a single source of power and networking

65. Which AWS services can be used as infrastructure automation tools? (Choose two.)

AWS CloudFormation
 Amazon CloudFront

AWS Batch

AWS OpsWorks

Amazon QuickSight
66. Which AWS service enables users to create copies of resources across AWS Regions?

Amazon ElastiCache

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudTrail

AWS Systems Manager

67.

Amazon ElastiCache

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudTrail

AWS Systems Manager

68. A user would like to encrypt data that is received, stored, and managed by AWS
CloudTrail. Which AWS service will provide this capability?

AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Systems Manager

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

AWS Certificate Manager

69. Which AWS Cloud benefit eliminates the need for users to try estimating future
infrastructure usage?

Easy and fast deployment of applications in multiple Regions around the world

Security of the AWS Cloud

Elasticity of the AWS Cloud

Lower variable costs due to massive economies of scale

70. What credential components are required to gain programmatic access to an AWS
account? (Choose two.)
 An access key ID

A primary key

A secret access key

A user ID

A secondary key
71. Which of the following are AWS compute services? (Choose two.)

Amazon Lightsail

AWS Systems Manager

AWS CloudFormation

AWS Batch

Amazon Inspector
72. How can a company separate costs for network traffic, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and
other AWS services by department?

Add department-specific tags to each resource

Create a separate VPC for each department

Create a separate AWS account for each department

Use AWS Organizations

73. What is a benefit of consolidated billing for AWS accounts?

Access to AWS Personal Health Dashboard

Combined usage volume discounts

Improved account security

Centralized AWS IAM

74. Which AWS service will allow a user to set custom cost and usage limits, and will
alert when the thresholds are exceeded?

AWS Organizations

AWS Budgets

Cost Explorer
 AWS Trusted Advisor
75. Which AWS service provides the ability to detect inadvertent data leaks of
personally identifiable information (PII) and user credential data?

Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon Inspector

Amazon Macie

AWS Shield
76. Which tool can be used to monitor AWS service limits?

AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

AWS Cost and Usage report

77. A company has distributed its workload on both the AWS Cloud and some on-
premises servers. What type of architecture is this?

Virtual private network

Virtual private cloud

Hybrid cloud

Private cloud
78. Which of the following describes a security best practice that can be implemented
using AWS IAM?

Disable AWS Management Console access for all users

Generate secret keys for every IAM user

Grant permissions to users who are required to perform a given task only

Store AWS credentials within Amazon EC2 instances

79. What can be used to automate and manage secure, well-architected, multi-account
AWS environments?

AWS shared responsibility model

AWS Control Tower

AWS Security Hub

 AWS Well-Architected Tool
80. Which AWS service or feature allows a user to easily scale connectivity among
thousands of VPCs?

VPC peering

AWS Transit Gateway

AWS Direct Connect

AWS Global Accelerator

81. A company needs protection from expanded distributed denial of service (DDoS)
attacks on its website and assistance from AWS experts during such events.
Which AWS managed service will meet these requirements?

AWS Shield Advanced

AWS Firewall Manager

AWS WAF

Amazon GuardDuty
82. A company’s application has flexible start and end times.
Which Amazon EC2 pricing model will be the MOST cost-effective?

On-Demand Instances

Spot Instances

Reserved Instances

Dedicated Hosts
83. Under the AWS shared responsibility model, what are the customer’s
responsibilities? (Choose two.)

Physical and environmental security

Physical network devices including firewalls

Storage device decommissioning

Security of data in transit

Data integrity authentication

84. A cloud practitioner has a data analysis workload that is infrequently executed and
can be interrupted without harm.
To optimize for cost, which Amazon EC2 purchasing option should be used?
 On-Demand Instances

Reserved Instances

Spot Instances

Dedicated Hosts
85. Which AWS container service will help a user install, operate, and scale the cluster
management infrastructure?

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

86. Which of the following allows an application running on an Amazon EC2 instance to
securely write data to an Amazon S3 bucket without using long term credentials?

Amazon Cognito

AWS Shield

AWS IAM role

AWS IAM user access key

87. A company with a Developer-level AWS Support plan provisioned an Amazon RDS
database and cannot connect to it.
Who should the developer contact for this level of support?

AWS Support using a support case

AWS Professional Services

AWS technical account manager

AWS consulting partners

88. What is the purpose of having an internet gateway within a VPC?

To create a VPN connection to the VPC

To allow communication between the VPC and the Internet

To impose bandwidth constraints on internet traffic

To load balance traffic from the Internet across Amazon EC2 instances
89. A company must ensure that its endpoint for a database instance remains the same
after a single Availability Zone service interruption. The application needs to resume
database operations without the need for manual administrative intervention.
How can these requirements be met?

Use multiple Amazon Route 53 routes to the standby database instance endpoint hosted on
AWS Storage Gateway.

Configure Amazon RDS Multi-Availability Zone deployments with automatic failover to the
standby.

Add multiple Application Load Balancers and deploy the database instance with AWS Elastic
Beanstalk.

Deploy a single Network Load Balancer to distribute incoming traffic across multiple Amazon
CloudFront origins.
90. Which AWS managed service can be used to distribute traffic between one or more
Amazon EC2 instances?

NAT gateway

Elastic Load Balancing

Amazon Athena

AWS PrivateLink
91. AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations on which of the following? (Choose
two.)

Cost optimization

Auditing

Serverless architecture

Performance

Scalability
92. Which of the following tasks can only be performed after signing in with AWS
account root user credentials? (Choose two.)

Closing an AWS account

Creating a new IAM policy

Changing AWS Support plans

Attaching a role to an Amazon EC2 instance

Generating access keys for IAM users

93. Fault tolerance refers to:

the ability of an application to accommodate growth without changing design

how well and how quickly an application’s environment can have lost data restored

how secure your application is

the built-in redundancy of an application’s components

94. A company operating in the AWS Cloud requires separate invoices for specific
environments, such as development, testing, and production.
How can this be achieved?

Use multiple AWS accounts

Use resource tagging

Use multiple VPCs

Use Cost Explorer

95. Which AWS service can be used in the application deployment process?

AWS AppSync

AWS Batch

AWS CodePipeline

AWS DataSync
96. What can be used to reduce the cost of running Amazon EC2 instances? (Choose
two.)

Spot Instances for stateless and flexible workloads

Memory optimized instances for high-compute workloads

On-Demand Instances for high-cost and sustained workloads

Reserved Instances for sustained workloads

Spend limits set using AWS Budgets

97. A company is launching an e-commerce site that will store and process credit card
data. The company requires information about AWS compliance reports and AWS
agreements.
Which AWS service provides on-demand access to these items?

AWS Certificate Manager

AWS Config
 AWS Artifact

AWS CloudTrail
98. Which AWS service or feature allows the user to manager cross-region application
traffic?

Amazon AppStream 2.0

Amazon VPC

Elastic Load Balancer

Amazon Route 53
99. Which AWS service can be used to track unauthorized API calls?

AWS Config

AWS CloudTrail

AWS Trusted Advisor

Amazon Inspector
100. A user needs to regularly audit and evaluate the setup of all AWS resources,
identify non-compliant accounts, and be notified when a resource changes.
Which AWS service can be used to meet these requirements?

AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Config

AWS Resource Access Manager

AWS Systems Manager

101. A user is planning to launch two additional Amazon EC2 instances to increase
availability. Which action should the user take?

Launch the instances across multiple Availability Zones in a single AWS Region.

Launch the instances as EC2 Reserved Instances in the same AWS Region and the same
Availability Zone.

Launch the instances in multiple AWS Regions, but in the same Availability Zone.

Launch the instances as EC2 Spot Instances in the same AWS Region, but in different
Availability Zones.
102. A company must store critical business data in Amazon S3 with a backup to another
AWS Region. How can this be achieved?
 Use an Amazon CloudFront Content Delivery Network (CDN) to cache data globally

Set up Amazon S3 cross-region replication to another AWS Region

Configure the AWS Backup service to back up to the data to another AWS Region

Take Amazon S3 bucket snapshots and copy that data to another AWS Region
103. Which AWS Cloud service can send alerts to customers if custom spending
thresholds are exceeded?

AWS Budgets

AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Cost Allocation Tags

AWS Organizations
104. What is the recommended method to request penetration testing on AWS
resources?

Open a support case

Fill out the Penetration Testing Request Form

Request a penetration test from your technical account manager

Contact your AWS sales representative

105. A user needs to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data stored
in Amazon S3. Which AWS service can meet these requirements?

Amazon Inspector

Amazon Macie

Amazon GuardDuty

AWS Secrets Manager

106. Which components are required to build a successful site-to-site VPN connection on
AWS? (Choose two.)

Internet gateway

NAT gateway

Customer gateway

Transit gateway
 Virtual private gateway
107. Which Amazon EC2 pricing option is best suited for applications with short-term,
spiky, or unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted?

Spot Instances

Dedicated Hosts

On-Demand Instances

Reserved Instances
108. Which AWS cloud architecture principle states that systems should reduce
interdependencies?

Scalability

Services, not servers

Removing single points of failure

Loose coupling
109. What is the MOST effective resource for staying up to date on AWS security
announcements?

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Security Bulletins

Amazon Inspector
110. Which AWS service offers persistent storage for a file system?

Amazon S3

Amazon EC2 instance store

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

Amazon ElastiCache
111. Which of the following allows AWS users to manage cost allocations for billing?

Tagging resources

Limiting who can create resources

Adding a secondary payment method

 Running all operations on a single AWS account
112. Which AWS service allows users to download security and compliance reports
about the AWS infrastructure on demand?

Amazon GuardDuty

AWS Security Hub

AWS Artifact

AWS Shield
113. Which of the following AWS services are serverless? (Choose two.)

AWS Lambda

Amazon Elasticsearch Service

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon Redshift
114. Which AWS managed services can be used to extend an on-premises data center to
the AWS network? (Choose two.)

A. AWS VPN

B. NAT gateway

C. AWS Direct Connect

D. Amazon Connect

E. Amazon Route 53
115. Which requirement must be met for a member account to be unlinked from an AWS
Organizations account?

The linked account must be actively compliant with AWS System and Organization Controls
(SOC).

The payer and the linked account must both create AWS Support cases to request that the
member account be unlinked from the organization.

The member account must meet the requirements of a standalone account.

The payer account must be used to remove the linked account from the organization.
116. What AWS benefit refers to a customer’s ability to deploy applications that scale up
and down the meet variable demand?
 Elasticity

Agility

Security

Scalability
117. During a compliance review, one of the auditors requires a copy of the AWS SOC 2
report. Which service should be used to submit this request?

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Artifact

Amazon S3
118. A company wants to set up a highly available workload in AWS with a disaster
recovery plan that will allow the company to recover in case of a regional service
interruption.
Which configuration will meet these requirements?

Run on two Availability Zones in one AWS Region, using the additional Availability Zones in the
AWS Region for the disaster recovery site.

Run on two Availability Zones in one AWS Region, using another AWS Region for the disaster
recovery site.

Run on two Availability Zones in one AWS Region, using a local AWS Region for the disaster
recovery site.

Run across two AWS Regions, using a third AWS Region for the disaster recovery site.
119. A company wants to set up a highly available workload in AWS with a disaster
recovery plan that will allow the company to recover in case of a regional service
interruption.
Which configuration will meet these requirements?

Run on two Availability Zones in one AWS Region, using the additional Availability Zones in the
AWS Region for the disaster recovery site.

Run on two Availability Zones in one AWS Region, using another AWS Region for the disaster
recovery site.

Run on two Availability Zones in one AWS Region, using a local AWS Region for the disaster
recovery site.

Run across two AWS Regions, using a third AWS Region for the disaster recovery site.
120. A company has a 500 TB image repository that needs to be transported to AWS for
processing. Which AWS service can import this data MOST cost-effectively?

A. AWS Snowball
 B. AWS Direct Connect

C. AWS VPN

D. Amazon S3
121. A company has a 500 TB image repository that needs to be transported to AWS for
processing. Which AWS service can import this data MOST cost-effectively?

AWS Snowball

AWS Direct Connect

AWS VPN

Amazon S3
122. Which AWS service can run a managed PostgreSQL database that provides online
transaction processing (OLTP)?

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon Athena

Amazon RDS

Amazon EMR
123. Which of the following assist in identifying costs by department? (Choose two.)

Using tags on resources

Using multiple AWS accounts

Using an account manager

Using AWS Trusted Advisor

Using Consolidated Billing

124. A company wants to allow full access to an Amazon S3 bucket for a particular user.
Which element in the S3 bucket policy holds the user details that describe who needs
access to the S3 bucket?

Principal

Action

Resource

Statement
125. Which AWS service allows for effective cost management of multiple AWS
accounts?

AWS Organizations

AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Direct Connect

Amazon Connect
126. A company is piloting a new customer-facing application on Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for one month.
What pricing model is appropriate?

Reserved Instances

Spot Instances

On-Demand Instances

Dedicated Hosts
127. Which AWS tools automatically forecast future AWS costs?

AWS Support Center

AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

Cost Explorer
128. Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is a
responsibility of AWS?

Enabling server-side encryption for objects stored in S3

Applying AWS IAM security policies

Patching the operating system on an Amazon EC2 instance

Applying updates to the hypervisor

129. A user is able to set up a master payer account to view consolidated billing reports
through:

AWS Budgets.

Amazon Macie.

Amazon QuickSight.
 AWS Organizations.
130. Performing operations as code is a design principle that supports which pillar of
the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

Performance efficiency

Operational excellence

Reliability

Security
131. Which design principle is achieved by following the reliability pillar of the AWS
Well-Architected Framework?

Vertical scaling

Manual failure recovery

Testing recovery procedures

Changing infrastructure manually

132. What is a characteristic of Convertible Reserved Instances (RIs)?

Users can exchange Convertible RIs for other Convertible RIs from a different instance family.

Users can exchange Convertible RIs for other Convertible RIs in different AWS Regions.

Users can sell and buy Convertible RIs on the AWS Marketplace.

Users can shorten the term of their Convertible RIs by merging them with other Convertible
RIs.
133. The user is fully responsible for which action when running workloads on AWS?

Patching the infrastructure components

Implementing controls to route application traffic

Maintaining physical and environmental controls

Maintaining the underlying infrastructure components

134. An architecture design includes Amazon EC2, an Elastic Load Balancer, and Amazon
RDS. What is the BEST way to get a monthly cost estimation for this architecture?

Open an AWS Support case, provide the architecture proposal, and ask for a monthly cost
estimation.

Collect the published prices of the AWS services and calculate the monthly estimate.
 Use the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator to estimate the monthly cost.

Use the AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator to estimate the monthly cost.
135. Which are benefits of using Amazon RDS over Amazon EC2 when running relational
databases on AWS? (Choose two.)

Automated backups

Schema management

Indexing of tables

Software patching

Extract, transform, and load (ETL) management

136. Which are benefits of using Amazon RDS over Amazon EC2 when running relational
databases on AWS? (Choose two.)

Automated backups

Schema management

Indexing of tables

Software patching
137. What does the Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class offer?

Payment flexibility by reserving storage capacity

Long-term retention of data by copying the data to an encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store
(Amazon EBS) volume

Automatic cost savings by moving objects between tiers based on access pattern changes

Secure, durable, and lowest cost storage for data archival

138. A company has multiple data sources across the organization and wants to
consolidate data into one data warehouse.
Which AWS service can be used to meet this requirement?

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Athena

Amazon QuickSight
139. Which AWS service can be used to track resource changes and establish
compliance?
 Amazon CloudWatch

AWS Config

AWS CloudTrail

AWS Trusted Advisor

140. A user has underutilized on-premises resources.
Which AWS Cloud concept can BEST address this issue?

High availability

Elasticity

Security

Loose coupling
141. A user has a stateful workload that will run on Amazon EC2 for the next 3 years.
What is the MOST cost-effective pricing model for this workload?

On-Demand Instances

Reserved Instances

Dedicated Instances

Spot Instances
142. A cloud practitioner needs an Amazon EC2 instance to launch and run for 7 hours
without interruptions. What is the most suitable and cost-effective option for this task?

A. On-Demand Instance

B. Reserved Instance

C. Dedicated Host

D. Spot Instance
143. Which of the following are benefits of using AWS Trusted Advisor? (Choose two.)

Providing high-performance container orchestration

Creating and rotating encryption keys

Detecting underutilized resources to save costs

Improving security by proactively monitoring the AWS environment

Implementing enforced tagging across AWS resources

144. Which of the following are benefits of using AWS Trusted Advisor? (Choose two.)

Providing high-performance container orchestration

Creating and rotating encryption keys

Detecting underutilized resources to save costs

Improving security by proactively monitoring the AWS environment

145. A developer has been hired by a large company and needs AWS credentials. Which
are security best practices that should be followed? (Choose two.)

Grant the developer access to only the AWS resources needed to perform the job.

Share the AWS account root user credentials with the developer.

Add the developer to the administrator's group in AWS IAM.

Configure a password policy that ensures the developer's password cannot be changed.

Ensure the account password policy requires a minimum length.

146. Which AWS storage service is designed to transfer petabytes of data in and out of
the cloud?

AWS Storage Gateway

Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Amazon Lightsail

AWS Snowball
147. Which service provides a user the ability to warehouse data in the AWS Cloud?

Amazon EFS

Amazon Redshift

Amazon RDS

Amazon VPC
148. A user is planning to migrate an application workload to the AWS Cloud.
Which control becomes the responsibility of AWS once the migration is complete?

Patching the guest operating system

Maintaining physical and environmental controls

Protecting communications and maintaining zone security

 Patching specific applications
149. Which services can be used to deploy applications on AWS? (Choose two.)

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Config

AWS OpsWorks

AWS Application Discovery Service

Amazon Kinesis
150. Which AWS service can be used to provide an on-demand, cloud-based contact
center?

AWS Direct Connect

Amazon Connect

AWS Support Center

AWS Managed Services

151. What tool enables customers without an AWS account to estimate costs for almost
all AWS services?

Cost Explorer

TCO Calculator

AWS Budgets

Simple Monthly Calculator

152. Which component must be attached to a VPC to enable inbound Internet access?

NAT gateway

VPC endpoint

VPN connection

Internet gateway
153. Which pricing model would result in maximum Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2) savings for a database server that must be online for one year?

Spot Instance

On-Demand Instance
 Partial Upfront Reserved Instance

No Upfront Reserved Instance

154. A company has a MySQL database running on a single Amazon EC2 instance. The
company now requires higher availability in the event of an outage.
Which set of tasks would meet this requirement?

Add an Application Load Balancer in front of the EC2 instance

Configure EC2 Auto Recovery to move the instance to another Availability Zone

Migrate to Amazon RDS and enable Multi-AZ

Enable termination protection for the EC2 instance to avoid outages

155. A company wants to ensure that AWS Management Console users are meeting
password complexity requirements. How can the company configure password
complexity?

Using an AWS IAM user policy

Using an AWS Organizations service control policy (SCP)

Using an AWS IAM account password policy

Using an AWS Security Hub managed insight

156. Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is the
customer’s responsibility?

Patching guest OS and applications

Patching and fixing flaws in the infrastructure

Physical and environmental controls

Configuration of AWS infrastructure devices

157. Which of the following tasks is required to deploy a PCI-compliant workload on
AWS?

Use any AWS service and implement PCI controls at the application layer

Use an AWS service that is in-scope for PCI compliance and raise an AWS support ticket to
enable PCI compliance at the application layer

Use any AWS service and raise an AWS support ticket to enable PCI compliance on that service

Use an AWS service that is in scope for PCI compliance and apply PCI controls at the
application layer
158. A company is building an application that requires the ability to send, store, and
receive messages between application components. The company has another
requirement to process messages in first-in, first-out (FIFO) order.
Which AWS service should the company use?

AWS Step Functions

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

159. AnyCompany recently purchased Example Corp. Both companies use AWS
resources, and AnyCompany wants a single aggregated bill.
Which option allows AnyCompany to receive a single bill?

Example Corp. must submit a request to its AWS solutions architect or AWS technical account
manager to link the accounts and consolidate billing.

AnyCompany must create a new support case in the AWS Support Center requesting that both
bills be combined.

Send an invitation to join the organization from AnyCompany’s AWS Organizations master
account to Example Corp.

Migrate the Example Corp. VPCs, Amazon EC2 instances, and other resources into the
AnyCompany AWS account.
160. Which tool can be used to create alerts when the actual or forecasted cost of AWS
services exceeds a certain threshold?

Cost Explorer

AWS Budgets

AWS Cost and Usage Report

AWS CloudTrail
161. A user has limited knowledge of AWS services, but wants to quickly deploy a
scalable Node.js application in the AWS Cloud.
Which service should be used to deploy the application?

AWS CloudFormation

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon EC2

AWS OpsWorks
162. Which AWS Trusted Advisor check is available to all AWS users?

Core checks
 All checks

Cost optimization checks

Fault tolerance checks

163. A web developer is concerned that a DDoS attack could target an application.
Which AWS services or features can help protect against such an attack? (Choose two.)

AWS Shield

AWS CloudTrail

Amazon CloudFront

AWS Support Center

AWS Service Health Dashboard

164. Which AWS service gives users on-demand, self-service access to AWS compliance
control reports?

AWS Config

Amazon GuardDuty

AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Artifact
165. A company wants to provide one of its employees with access to Amazon RDS. The
company also wants to limit the interaction to only the AWS CLI and AWS software
development kits (SDKs).
Which combination of actions should the company take to meet these requirements
while following the principles of least privilege? (Choose two.)

Create an IAM user and provide AWS Management Console access only.

Create an IAM user and provide programmatic access only.

Create an IAM role and provide AWS Management Console access only.

Create an IAM policy with administrator access and attach it to the IAM user.

Create an IAM policy with Amazon RDS access and attach it to the IAM user.
166. A company has a compliance requirement to record and evaluate configuration
changes, as well as perform remediation actions on AWS resources.
Which AWS service should the company use?

AWS Config

AWS Secrets Manager

 AWS CloudTrail

AWS Trusted Advisor

167. What are the advantages of deploying an application with Amazon EC2 instances in
multiple Availability Zones? (Choose two.)

Preventing a single point of failure

Reducing the operational costs of the application

Allowing the application to serve cross-region users with low latency

Increasing the availability of the application

Increasing the load of the application

168. A workload on AWS will run for the foreseeable future by using a consistent
number of Amazon EC2 instances. What pricing model will minimize cost while ensuring
that compute resources remain available?

Dedicated Hosts

On-Demand Instances

Spot Instances

Reserved Instances
169. Which tool can be used to identify scheduled changes to the AWS infrastructure?

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

AWS Trusted Advisor

Billing Dashboard

AWS Config
170. Which of the following is the customer’s responsibility when using Amazon RDS?

Patching the operating system of underlying hardware

Controlling traffic to and from the database through security groups

Running backups that enable point-in-time recovery of a DB instance

Replacing failed DB instances

171. What is the customer’s responsibility when using AWS Lambda?

Operating system configuration

 Application management

Platform management

Code encryption
172. A company wants to be notified when its AWS Cloud costs or usage exceed defined
thresholds. Which AWS service will support these requirements?

AWS Budgets

Cost Explorer

AWS CloudTrail

Amazon Macie
173. Which AWS service provides the ability to host a NoSQL database in the AWS
Cloud?

Amazon Aurora

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon RDS

Amazon Redshift
174. Which AWS service allows customers to purchase unused Amazon EC2 capacity at
an often discounted rate?

Reserved Instances

On-Demand Instances

Dedicated Instances

Spot Instances
175. Which AWS service or feature requires an internet service provider (ISP) and a
colocation facility to be implemented?

AWS VPN

Amazon Connect

AWS Direct Connect

Internet gateway
176. Which AWS services offer compute capabilities? (Choose two.)

Amazon EC2
 Amazon S3

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

Amazon Cognito

AWS Lambda
177. Which AWS service can be used to privately store and manage versions of source
code?

AWS CodeBuild

AWS CodeCommit

AWS CodePipeline

AWS CodeStar
178. Which AWS service should a cloud practitioner use to identify security
vulnerabilities of an AWS account?

AWS Secrets Manager

Amazon Cognito

Amazon Macie

AWS Trusted Advisor

179. A company wants to ensure its infrastructure is designed for fault tolerance and
business continuity in the event of an environmental disruption.
Which AWS infrastructure component should the company replicate across?

Edge locations

Availability Zones

Regions

Amazon Route 53
180. Which AWS service or feature is used to send both text and email messages from
distributed applications?

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)

Amazon CloudWatch alerts

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)