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Knowledge Assessment SAA
Knowledge Assessment SAA
Part 1
1. With amazon virtual private cloud (VPC) what is the smallest size subnet you can have in
VPC?
A: / 28
2. With Amazon VPC, what is the maximum IP address rangeyou can have?
A: /16
3. You need to allow resources in private subnet to access the internet. Which of the following
must be present to enable access ?
A: NAT gateway
4. Which AWS networking service enables a company to create a virtual network within AWS?
A: Amazon VPC
5. Private subnets have direct access to internet ?
A: False
6. Which component of AWS global infrastructure does Amazon cloud front to ensure low
latency delivery?
A: AWS edge locations
7. Which of the following is an optional security control that can be applied at the subnet layer
if VPC?
A: Network ACL
8. What happens when you use amazon virtual private cloud (Amazon VPC) to create a new
VPC ?
A: route table is created by default; must manually create subnets and internet gateway
9. Which of the following can be used to protect amazon elastic compute cloud (EC2) instance
hosted in AWS?
A: Security Group
10. You are a solution architect who works at a large retail company that is migrating its existing
infrastructure to aws. You recommend that they use a cutom VPC. When you create a VPC,
you assign it to IPv4, how many IP address are available
A: 251
Part 2
1. For certain service like Amazon elastic compute cloud and amazon relational database
service (RDS) you can invest in reserved capacity. What options are available for reserved
Instance? Choose 3
A: AURI, NURI, PURI
2. Where can a customer go to get more details about EC2 billing activity that took place 3
months ago ?
A: AWS cost explorer
3. True or False, to receive the discounted rate associated with reserved isntances, you must
make a full, upfront payment for the term of the agreement?
A: False
4. There is no charge for which of the following. Choose 2.
A: Inbound data transfer (with some exceptions); data transfer between services within the
same AWS region
5. What are the 4 support plans offered by aws support ?
A: Basic, developer, business, enterprise
6. What aws tool compares the cost of running your application in an on-premises data center
to aws?
A: TCO (Total Cost Ownership) Calculator
7. As AWS grows, thecost of doing business is reduced and savings are passed back to the
customer with lower pricing. What is this optimisation called?
A: Econimic of scale
8. True or False. AWS offers a variety of services at no charge, for example VPC, IAM. But you
might be charged for other AWS services that you use in conjunction with these services
A: True
9. When are free data transfers applicable across AWS? Choose 2
A: Free inbound data transfer; free oubond data transfer between AWS services within the
same region
10. True or False. Unlimited services are available with the AWS free tier to new AWS customers
for 12 months following their AWS sign update ?
A: False
Part 3
1. true or false. amazon simple storage service s3 is an object storage suitable for the storage
of flat files like microsoft word documents, photos, etc
A: true
2. amazon s3 replicates all objects?
A: in multiple availability zones within the same region
3. which of the following can be used as a storage class for an s3 object lifecycle policy?
A: glacier, s3 infrequent access and s3 standard access
4. the name of an s3 bucket must be unique?
A: worldwide across all aws accounts
5. you can use amazon elastic file system efc to..?
A: implement storage for ec2 instances that multiple virtual machines can access at the
same time
6. amazon elastic block storage ebs is a recommended when data?
A: must be quickly accessible, requiring longterm persistence and requires an encryption
solution
7. true or false, by default all data stored in amazon s3 is viewable by the public?
A: False
8. regarding amazon s3 glacier, what is a vault?
A: container for storing archives
9. when you create a bucket in amazon s3, it is associated with a specific aws region?
A: Trure
10. which of the following are features of amazon elastic block store ebs?
A: data is automatically replicated within an availability zone, can be encrypted upon
creation and used by an instance, as if they were not encrypted
Part 4.
1. why is aws more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying
compute workloads?
A: amazon ec2 instances can be launched on demand when needed
2. if your project requires monthly reports that iterate through very large amounts of data,
which amazon elastic compute cloud ec2 purchasing option should you consider?
A: scheduled reserved instances
3. what is included in an amazon machine image ami?
A: all of the above (what)?
4. which amazon elastic compute cloud ec2 feature ensures your instances will not share a
physical host with instances from any other aws customer?
A: dedicated instances
5. which of the following services is a serverless compute service in aws?
A: aws lambda
6. what is the service provided by aws that enables developers to easily deploy and manage
applications in the cloud?
A: aws elastic beanstalk
7. your web application needs four instances to support steady traffic all of the time. on the
last day of the month, the traffic triples. what is the most cost-effective way to handle this
patter?
A: run four reserved instances constantly, then add eight on-demand instances on the last
day of each month.
8. containers contain an entire operating system?
A: False
9. which amazon ec2 optiion is best for long-term workload with predictable usage patterns?
A: reserved instances
10. which of the following must be specified when launching a new amazon elastic cloud
compute ec2 windows instance
A: amazon machine image ami, amazon ec2 instance type
Part 5.
1. you are designing an ecommerce web application that will scale to hundreds of thousand of
concurrent users. what database technology is best suited to hold session state?
A: amazon DynamoDB
2. you need to find an item in an amazon dynamoDB table using an attribute other than item's
primary key?
A: Scan
3. in amazon dynamoDB, what does the query operation enable you to do?
A: query a table using partition key and an optional sort key filter
-query any secondary indexes that exist for a table
-efficiently retrieve items form a table or secondary index
4. which AWS cloud service is best suited for analysing your data by using standard structured
query language(SQL) and existing business intelligence (BI) tools
A: amazon redshift
5. in amazon dynamoDB, an attribute is?
A: fundamental data element
6. which of the following use cases is appropriate for using amazon relational database services
(amazon RDS)?
A: complex transactions
7. a company has an application, which consists of .NET layer that connects to mysql database
-they want to move this application to AWS and use AWS features such as high availability
and automated backups. which of the following would be an ideal database for this use case
A: Amazon Aurora
8. if you are developing an application that requires a database with extremely fast
performance, fast scalability, and flexibility in database schema, which service should you
consider
A: amazon DynamoDB
9. amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database
storing the backups for a user defined retention period and enabling point in time recovery?
A: True
10. what should you consider when choosing a database type?
A: data size, data access period, query frequency, highly available
Part 6
1. which of the following is not one of the four areas of the performance efficiency pillar of the
aws well-architected framework?
A: Traceability
2. which of the following is a principle when designing cloud-based systems
A: Assume everything will fail
3. which of the following are pillars of the aws well-architected framework?
A: operational excellence, security, cost optimization
4. which design principles are recommended when considering performance efficiency
A: use serverless architectures, democratize advanced technologies
5. aws trusted advisor provides insight regarding which five categories of an aws account
A: performance, cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, and service limits
6. aws well-architectured framework is organized into how many pillars
A: five
7. after you move to the aws cloud, you want to ensure that the right security settings are put
in place. which online tool can assist in security compliance?
A: AWS Trusted Advisor
8. which of the following is a measure of your system's ability to provide functionality when
desired by the user?
A: reliability
9. what is defined as the ability for a system to remain operational even if some of the
components of that system fail?
A: Fault tolerance
10. which of the following best describes a system that can withstand some measures of
degradation, experiences minimal downtime, and requires minimal human intervention?
A: Highly available
Part 7
1. Which of the following AWS tools help your application scale up or down based on demand?
A: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Elastic Load Balancing
2. Which service would you use to send alerts based on Amazon CloudWatch alarms?
A: Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
3. Which of the following are characteristics of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?
Choose three
A: Responds to changing conditions by adding or terminating instances
Launches instances from a specified Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Enforces a minimum number of running Amazon EC2 instances
4. Which of the following must be configured on an Elastic Load Balancing load balancer to
expect incoming traffic
A: A Lsitener (what is it?)
5. Which of the following elements are used to create an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling launch
configuration?
A: Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Instance type
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes
6. Which of the following services can help you conflict important metrics from Amazon
Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
instances?
A: Amazon CloudTrail
7. Which of the following are elements of an Auto Scaling group
(Choose three)
A: Maximum size
Desired capacity
Minimum size
8. There is an adult at your company and they need to have a big log of all access to AWS
resources in the account. Which of the following services can assist in providing these
details?
A: AWS CloudTrail
9. In Elastic Load Balancing, when the load balancing detects an unhealthy target, which of the
following are true
(Choose three)
A: Stops routing traffic to that target
Resumes routing traffic when it detects that the target is healthy again
Routes traffic to a healthy target
10. What are the three types of load balancers that Elastic Load Balancing offers?
(Choose three)
A: Application Load Balancer
Network Load Balancer
Classic Load Balancer
Part 8
Part 9
1. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) provide a good solution for which of the
following use cases?
A: An internet-accessible storage location for video files that an external website accesses
2. A company is interested in using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) alone
to host their website, instead of a traditional web server. Which types of content does
Amazon S3 support for static web hosting? (Select THREE.)
A: Video and sound files; Client-side scripts; HTML files and image files
3. Which scenarios represent a good use for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon
S3)? (Select TWO.)
A: Storing computation and analytics data; Backing up critical data
4. A company wants to use an S3 bucket to store sensitive data. Which actions can they
take to protect their data? (Select TWO.)
A: Using client-side encryption to protect data in transit; Enabling server-side encryption
on the S3 bucket after uploading sensitive data
5. A company must create a common place to store shared files. Which requirements
does Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) support? (Select TWO.)
A: Maintain different versions of files; Recover deleted files
6. A customer service team accesses case data daily for up to 30 days. Cases can be
reopened and require immediate access for 1 year after they are closed. Reopened
cases require 2 days to process. Which solution meets the requirements and is the
most cost-efficient?
A: Store case data in S3 Standard. Use a lifecycle policy to move the data into S3
Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) after 30 days.
7. Which Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) unaccelerated data transfers
have an associated cost? (Select TWO.)
A: OUT to other AWS Regions; OUT to the internet
8. A company is migrating 100 terabytes (TB) of data from their on-premises data center
to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The company connects to Amazon
Web Services (AWS) by using a single 155 megabits per second (Mbps) internet
connection. Which data transfer option is the fastest and most cost-effective?
A: AWS Snowball
9. A video producer must regularly transfer several video files to Amazon Simple Storage
Service (Amazon S3). The files range from 100700 MB. The internet connection has
been unreliable, causing some uploads to fail. Which solution provides the fastest,
most reliable, and most cost-effective way to transfer these files to Amazon S3?
A: Amazon S3 multipart uploads
10. Which qualities vary by AWS Region? (Select TWO.)
A: Service and feature availability; Cost-effectiveness of workloads
Part 11
1. Which attributes are reasons to choose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon
EC2)? (Select TWO.
A: Complete control of computing resources; Ability to run any type of workload
2. What are the benefits of using an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)? (Select THREE.)
A: Selling or sharing software solutions packaged as an AMI; Using an AMI as a server
backup for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances; Launching instances
with the same configuration
3. A system administrator must change the instance types of multiple running Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. The instances were launched with a
mix of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)-backed Amazon Machine Images
(AMIs) and instance store-backed AMIs. Which method is a valid way to change the
instance type?
A: Stop an Amazon EBS-backed instance , change its instance type, and start the instance.
4. A workload requires high read/write access to large local datasets. Which instance
types would perform best for this workload? (Select TWO.)
A: Storage optimized; Memory optimized
5. An application requires the media access control (MAC) address of the host Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance. The architecture uses an AWS Auto
Scaling group to dynamically launch and terminate instances. Which way is best for
the application to obtain the MAC address?
A: Use the user data of each instance to access the MAC address through the instance
metadata.
6. A transactional workload on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
instance performs high amounts of frequent read and write operations. Which
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume type is best for this workload?
A: Provisioned IOPS solid state drive (SSD)
7. It is possible to create an NFS share on an Amazon EBS-backed Linux instance by
installing and configuring an NFS server on the instance. In this way, multiple Linux
systems can share the file system of that instance. Which advantages does Amazon
Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provide, compared to this solution? (Select TWO.)
A: High availability; Automatic scaling
8. Which feature does Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provide?
A: Fully managed Windows file servers
9. Which descriptions of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) pricing options
are correct? (Select TWO.)
A: Spot Instances offer spare compute capacity at discounted prices, and can be
interrupted; On-Demand Instances enable you to pay for compute capacity by usage time,
with no long-term commitments.
10. A company has three high-performance computing instances that must communicate
with each other. The company would like to achieve maximum network performance
between the instances. The most important requirement is that these systems do not
share the same rack. Which placement strategy should they use?
A: Spread
Part 12
1. Which use cases indicate that a non-relational database might be a better solution
than a relational database? (Select TWO.)
A: Data with unpredictable attributes; Horizontal scaling for massive data volume
2. Which statement that compares a database service that Amazon Web Services (AWS)
manages with a database on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
instance is true?
A: AWS manages DB patches for a database on a managed database service.
3. Which examples are good use cases for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon
RDS)? (Select THREE.)
A: Running a Microsoft SQL Server in Amazon Web Services (AWS); An application that
requires complex joins of data; An application that requires the database to enforce
syntax rules
4. A small company is deciding which service to use for an enrollment system for their
online training website. Choices are MySQL on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2), MySQL in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and
Amazon DynamoDB. Which combination of use cases suggests using Amazon RDS?
(Select THREE.)
A: he company doesn't want to manage database patches; Student, course, and
registration data are stored in many different tables; The data is highly structured.
5. Which scenarios are good use cases for Amazon DynamoDB? (Select THREE.)
A: Document database for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)-based documents;
Applications that require ACID transactions; Database for serverless architectures
6. A small game company is designing an online game, where thousands of players can
create their own in-game objects. The current design uses a MySQL database in
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) to store data for player-created
objects. Which use cases suggest that DynamoDB might be a better solution? (Select
TWO.)
A: Unpredictable attributes for player-created objects; Large number of player-created
objects, each with different attributes
7. Which techniques should you use to secure an Amazon Relational Database Service
(Amazon RDS) database? (Select THREE.)
A: Encryption to protect sensitive data; A virtual private cloud (VPC) to provide instance isolation
and firewall protection; Security groups to control network access to individual instances
8. Which techniques should you use to secure Amazon DynamoDB? (Select THREE.)
A: Encryption to protect sensitive data; An Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) gateway
endpoint to prevent traffic from traversing the internet; AWS Identity and Access Management
(IAM) policies to define access at the table, item, or attribute level
A: Use AWS Schema Conversion Tool to convert the schema, and then use AWS Database
Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate the data.
10. You must perform a heterogeneous migration from your on-premises facility to a
database in a virtual private cloud (VPC). You will use AWS Snowball Edge and AWS
Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). At which point do you use AWS Schema
Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)?
A: At the start, to extract data from the source database into the Snowball Edge, before shipping
the device
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Writing data to the cache only when a cache miss occurs is called lazy loading.
Writing data to the cache every time that the application writes data to the database
is called write-through.
2. Which scenarios indicate that you should use an Amazon Simple Queue Service
(Amazon SQS) standard queue? (Select TWO.)
A: Messages can be sent in any order; A message might need to be delivered more than once