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Question 176
Which service enables customers to audit API calls in their AWS accounts?
- A: AWS CloudTrail
- B: AWS Trusted Advisor
- C: Amazon Inspector
- D: AWS X-Ray
Question 177
A company is moving its office and must establish an encrypted connection to AWS.
Which AWS service will help meet this requirement?
- A: AWS VPN
- B: Amazon Route 53
- C: Amazon API Gateway
- D: Amazon Connect
Question 178
A company needs steady and predictable performance from its Amazon EC2 instances at the lowest possible cost. The company also needs the ability to scale resources to ensure that it has the right resources available at the right time.
Which AWS service or resource will meet these requirements?
- A: Amazon CloudWatch
- B: Application Load Balancer
- C: AWS Batch
- D: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Question 179
What are some advantages of using Amazon EC2 instances to host applications in the AWS Cloud instead of on premises? (Choose two.)
- A: EC2 includes operating system patch management.
- B: EC2 integrates with Amazon VPC, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
- C: EC2 has a 100% service level agreement (SLA).
- D: EC2 has a flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing model.
- E: EC2 has automatic storage cost optimization.
Question 180
Which action will provide documentation to help a company evaluate whether its use of the AWS Cloud is compliant with local regulatory standards?
- A: Running Amazon GuardDuty
- B: Using AWS Artifact
- C: Creating an AWS Support ticket
- D: Evaluating AWS CloudTrail logs
Question 181
A company wants a cost-effective option when running its applications in an Amazon EC2 instance for short time periods. The applications can be interrupted.
Which EC2 instance type will meet these requirements?
- A: Spot Instances
- B: On-Demand Instances
- C: Reserved Instances
- D: Dedicated Instances
Question 182
A retail company is building a new mobile app. The company is evaluating whether to build the app at an on-premises data center or in the AWS Cloud.
Which of the following are benefits of building this app in the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)
- A: A large, upfront capital expense and low variable expenses
- B: Increased speed for trying out new projects
- C: Complete control over the physical security of the infrastructure
- D: Flexibility to scale up in minutes as the application becomes popular
- E: Ability to pick the specific data centers that will host the application servers
Question 183
A developer is working on enhancing applications at AWS. The developer needs a service that can securely host GitHub-based code, repositories, and version controls.
Which AWS service should the developer use?
- A: AWS CodeStar
- B: Amazon CodeGuru
- C: AWS CodeCommit
- D: AWS CodePipeline
Question 184
What is an AWS Region?
- A: A broad set of global, cloud-based products that include compute, storage, and databases
- B: A physical location around the world where data centers are clustered
- C: One or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity
- D: A service that developers use to build applications that deliver latencies of single-digit milliseconds to users
Question 185
Which AWS benefit enables users to deploy cloud infrastructure that consists of multiple geographic regions connected by a network with low latency, high throughput, and redundancy?
- A: Economies of scale
- B: Security
- C: Elasticity
- D: Global reach
Question 186
A company is considering a migration from on premises to the AWS Cloud. The company's IT team needs to offload support of the workload.
What should the IT team do to accomplish this goal?
- A: Use AWS Managed Services to provision, run, and support the company infrastructure.
- B: Build hardware refreshes into the operational calendar to ensure availability.
- C: Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on Amazon EC2 instances.
- D: Overprovision compute capacity for seasonal events and traffic spikes to prevent downtime.
Question 187
What is a benefit of using AWS serverless computing?
- A: Application deployment and management are not required.
- B: Application security will be fully managed by AWS.
- C: Monitoring and logging are not needed.
- D: Management of infrastructure is offloaded to AWS.
Question 188
A company plans to launch an application that will run in multiple locations within the United States. The company needs to identify the two AWS Regions where the application can operate at the lowest price.
Which AWS service or feature should the company use to determine the Regions that offer the lowest price?
- A: Cost Explorer
- B: AWS Budgets
- C: AWS Trusted Advisor
- D: AWS Pricing Calculator
Question 189
Which approach will enhance a user's security on AWS?
- A: Use Multi-AZ deployments with Amazon RDS.
- B: Create a hybrid architecture by using AWS Direct Connect.
- C: Monitor application-specific information with AWS X-Ray.
- D: Encrypt data by using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS).
Question 190
A user needs to determine whether an Amazon EC2 instance's security groups were modified in the last month.
How can the user see if a change was made?
- A: Use Amazon EC2 to see if the security group was changed.
- B: Use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to see which user or role changed the security group.
- C: Use AWS CloudTrail to see if the security group was changed.
- D: Use Amazon CloudWatch to see if the security group was changed.
Question 191
Which AWS service or tool is associated with an Amazon EC2 instance and acts as a virtual firewall to control inbound and outbound traffic?
- A: AWS WAF
- B: AWS Shield
- C: Network access control list (ACL)
- D: Security group
Question 192
A company wants to migrate its on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database server to the AWS Cloud. The company has decided to use Amazon EC2 instances to run this database.
Which of the following is the company responsible for managing, according to the AWS shared responsibility model?
- A: EC2 hypervisor
- B: Security patching of the guest operating system
- C: Network connectivity of the host server
- D: Uptime service level agreement (SLA) for the EC2 instances
Question 193
A developer wants to deploy an application on a container-based service. The service must automatically provision and manage the backend instances. The service must provision only the necessary resources.
Which AWS service will meet these requirements?
- A: Amazon EC2
- B: Amazon Lightsail
- C: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
- D: AWS Fargate
Question 194
Which tasks require use of the AWS account root user? (Choose two.)
- A: Changing an AWS Support plan
- B: Modifying an Amazon EC2 instance type
- C: Grouping resources in AWS Systems Manager
- D: Running applications in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
- E: Closing an AWS account
Question 195
Which AWS service enables the decoupling and scaling of applications?
- A: Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
- B: AWS Outposts
- C: Amazon S3
- D: Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)
Question 196
Which of the following describes some of the core functionality of Amazon S3?
- A: Amazon S3 is a high-performance block storage service that is designed for use with Amazon EC2.
- B: Amazon S3 is an object storage service that provides high-level performance, security, scalability, and data availability.
- C: Amazon S3 is a fully managed, highly reliable, and scalable file storage system that is accessible over the industry-standard SMB protocol.
- D: Amazon S3 is a scalable, fully managed elastic NFS for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources.
Question 197
How does consolidated billing help reduce costs for a company that has multiple AWS accounts?
- A: It aggregates usage across accounts so that the company can reach volume discount thresholds sooner.
- B: It offers an additional 5% discount on purchases of All Upfront Reserved Instances.
- C: It provides a simplified billing invoice that the company can process more quickly than a standard invoice.
- D: It gives AWS resellers the ability to bill their customers for usage.
Question 198
A company wants to secure its consumer web application by using SSL/TLS to encrypt traffic.
Which AWS service can the company use to meet this goal?
- A: AWS WAF
- B: AWS Shield
- C: Amazon VPC
- D: AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
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