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A corporation wishes to move a 1 TB Oracle database from its current location to an Amazon Aurora
PostgreSQL DB cluster. The database specialist at the firm noticed that the Oracle database stores 100 GB
of large binary objects (LOBs) across many tables. The Oracle database supports LOBs up to 500 MB in
size and an average of 350 MB. AWS DMS was picked by the Database Specialist to transfer the data with
the most replication instances.
How should the database specialist improve the transfer of the database to AWS DMS?

A bank intends to utilize Amazon RDS to host a MySQL database instance. The database should be able to
handle high-volume read requests with extremely few repeated queries.
Which solution satisfies these criteria?

The website of a manufacturing firm makes use of an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database cluster.
Which settings will result in the LEAST amount of downtime for the application during failover? (Select
three.)

A large company has a variety of Amazon DB clusters. Each of these clusters has various configurations
that adhere to various requirements. Depending on the team and use case, these configurations can be
organized into broader categories.
A database administrator wants to make the process of storing and modifying these parameters more
systematic. The database administrator also wants to ensure that changes to individual categories of
configurations are automatically applied to all instances when required.
Which AWS service or feature will help automate and achieve this objective?

A manufacturing company’s website uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster.
Which configurations will result in the LEAST application downtime during a failover? (Choose three.)

A small startup company is looking to migrate a 4 TB on-premises MySQL database to AWS using an
Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance.
Which strategy would allow for a successful migration with the LEAST amount of downtime?

Developers have requested a new Amazon Redshift cluster so they can load new third-party marketing dat
a. The new cluster is ready and the user credentials are given to the developers. The developers indicate
that their copy jobs fail with the following error message:
“Amazon Invalid operation: S3ServiceException:Access Denied,Status 403,Error AccessDenied.”
The developers need to load this data soon, so a database specialist must act quickly to solve this issue.
What is the MOST secure solution?

A large company is using an Amazon RDS for Oracle Multi-AZ DB instance with a Java application. As a
part of its disaster recovery annual testing, the company would like to simulate an Availability Zone
failure and record how the application reacts during the DB instance failover activity. The company does
not want to make any code changes for this activity.
What should the company do to achieve this in the shortest amount of time?

A company is running a website on Amazon EC2 instances deployed in multiple Availability Zones (AZs).
The site performs a high number of repetitive reads and writes each second on an Amazon RDS for
MySQL Multi- AZ DB instance with General Purpose SSD (gp2) storage. After comprehensive testing and
analysis, a database specialist discovers that there is high read latency and high CPU utilization on the DB
instance.
Which approach should the database specialist to take to resolve this issue without changing the
application?

A Database Specialist is constructing a new Amazon Neptune DB cluster and tries to load data from
Amazon S3 using the Neptune bulk loader API. The Database Specialist is confronted with the following
error message:
€Unable to establish a connection to the s3 endpoint. The source URL is s3:/mybucket/graphdata/ and
the region code is us-east-1. Kindly confirm your Configuration S3.
Which of the following activities should the Database Specialist take to resolve the issue? (Select two.)

An IT consulting company wants to reduce costs when operating its development environment
databases. The company’s workflow creates multiple Amazon Aurora MySQL DB clusters for each
development group. The Aurora DB clusters are only used for 8 hours a day. The DB clusters can then be
deleted at the end of the development cycle, which lasts 2 weeks.
Which of the following provides the MOST cost-effective solution?

A company has a database fleet that includes an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. During an audit,
the company discovered that the data that is stored on the DB instance is unencrypted.
A database specialist must enable encryption for the DB instance. The database specialist also must
encrypt all connections to the DB instance.
Which combination of actions should the database specialist take to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)

A company with branch offices in Portland, New York, and Singapore has a three-tier web application

that leverages a shared database. The database runs on Amazon RDS for MySQL and is hosted in the us-
west-2 Region. The application has a distributed front end deployed in the us-west-2, ap-southheast-1,

and us-east-2 Regions.
This front end is used as a dashboard for Sales Managers in each branch office to see current sales
statistics. There are complaints that the dashboard performs more slowly in the Singapore location than
it does in Portland or New York. A solution is needed to provide consistent performance for all users in
each location.
Which set of actions will meet these requirements?

A company is running a finance application on an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The application is
governed by multiple financial regulatory agencies. The RDS DB instance is set up with security groups to
allow access to certain Amazon EC2 servers only. AWS KMS is used for encryption at rest.
Which step will provide additional security?

along with the DB instances to ensure employees do not have access to the systems during this time. All
databases are running on Amazon RDS for MySQL.
The Database Specialist wrote and executed a script to stop all the DB instances. When reviewing the
logs, the Database Specialist found that Amazon RDS DB instances with read replicas did not stop.
How should the Database Specialist edit the script to fix this issue?

A company stores session history for its users in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company has a large user base and generates large amounts of session data.
Teams analyze the session data for 1 week, and then the data is no longer needed. A database specialist
needs to design an automated solution to purge session data that is more than 1 week old.
Which strategy meets these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?

A database specialist has been entrusted by an ecommerce firm with designing a reporting dashboard
that visualizes crucial business KPIs derived from the company's primary production database running on
Amazon Auror
a. The dashboard should be able to read data within 100 milliseconds after an update.
The Database Specialist must conduct an audit of the Aurora DB cluster's present setup and provide a
cost-effective alternative. The solution must support the unexpected read demand generated by the
reporting dashboard without impairing the DB cluster's write availability and performance.
Which solution satisfies these criteria?

A company runs hundreds of Microsoft SQL Server databases on Windows servers in its on-premises data
center. A database specialist needs to migrate these databases to Linux on AWS.
Which combination of steps should the database specialist take to meet this requirement? (Choose
three.)

A major organization maintains a number of Amazon DB clusters. Each of these clusters is configured
differently to meet certain needs. These configurations may be classified into wider groups based on the
team and use case.
A database administrator wishes to streamline the process of storing and updating these settings.
Additionally, the database administrator want to guarantee that changes to certain configuration
categories are automatically implemented to all instances as necessary.

Which AWS service or functionality will assist in automating and achieving this goal?

An online shopping company has a large inflow of shopping requests daily. As a result, there is a
consistent load on the company’s Amazon RDS database. A database specialist needs to ensure the
database is up and running at all times. The database specialist wants an automatic notification system
for issues that may cause database downtime or for configuration changes made to the database.
What should the database specialist do to achieve this? (Choose two.)

An information management services company is storing JSON documents on premises. The company is
using a MongoDB 3.6 database but wants to migrate to
AWS. The solution must be compatible, scalable, and fully managed. The solution also must result in as
little downtime as possible during the migration.
Which solution meets these requirements?

A company is using Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The Security team wants all database connection
requests to be logged and retained for 180 days. The RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance is currently using
the default parameter group. A Database Specialist has identified that setting the log_connections
parameter to 1 will enable connections logging.

Which combination of steps should the Database Specialist take to meet the logging and retention
requirements? (Choose two.)

An ecommerce company uses a backend application that stores data in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The
backend application runs in a private subnet in a VPC and must connect to this table.
The company must minimize any network latency that results from network connectivity issues, even
during periods of heavy application usage. A database administrator also needs the ability to use a
private connection to connect to the DynamoDB table from the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company is running an Amazon RDS for PostgeSQL DB instance and wants to migrate it to an Amazon
Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster. The current database is 1 TB in size. The migration needs to have minimal
downtime.
What is the FASTEST way to accomplish this?

A company is running an on-premises application comprised of a web tier, an application tier, and a
MySQL database tier. The database is used primarily during business hours with random activity peaks
throughout the day. A database specialist needs to improve the availability and reduce the cost of the
MySQL database tier as part of the company’s migration to AWS.
Which MySQL database option would meet these requirements?

A company has an on-premises production Microsoft SQL Server with 250 GB of data in one database. A
database specialist needs to migrate this on-premises SQL Server to Amazon RDS for SQL Server. The nightly native SQL Server backup file is approximately 120
GB in size. The application can be down for an extended period of time to complete the migration.
Connectivity between the on-premises environment and AWS can be initiated from on-premises only.
How can the database be migrated from on-premises to Amazon RDS with the LEAST amount of effort?

A company is releasing a new mobile game featuring a team play mode. As a group of mobile device
users play together, an item containing their statuses is updated in an Amazon DynamoDB table.
Periodically, the other users’ devices read the latest statuses of their teammates from the table using the
BatchGetltemn operation.
Prior to launch, some testers submitted bug reports claiming that the status data they were seeing in the
game was not up-to-date. The developers are unable to replicate this issue and have asked a database
specialist for a recommendation.
Which recommendation would resolve this issue?

Recently, an ecommerce business transferred one of its SQL Server databases to an Amazon RDS for SQL
Server Enterprise Edition database instance. The corporation anticipates an increase in read traffic as a
result of an approaching sale. To accommodate the projected read load, a database professional must
establish a read replica of the database instance.
Which procedures should the database professional do prior to establishing the read replica? (Select two.)

Recently, a gaming firm purchased a popular iOS game that is especially popular during the Christmas
season. The business has opted to include a leaderboard into the game, which will be powered by
Amazon DynamoDB. The application's load is likely to increase significantly throughout the Christmas
season.
Which solution satisfies these criteria at the lowest possible cost?

A Database Specialist is performing a proof of concept with Amazon Aurora using a small instance to
confirm a simple database behavior. When loading a large dataset and creating the index, the Database
Specialist encounters the following error message from Aurora:
ERROR: cloud not write block 7507718 of temporary file: No space left on device
What is the cause of this error and what should the Database Specialist do to resolve this issue?

A company just migrated to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL from an on-premises Oracle database. After the
migration, the company discovered there is a period of time every day around 3:00 PM where the
response time of the application is noticeably slower. The company has narrowed down the cause of this
issue to the database and not the application.
Which set of steps should the Database Specialist take to most efficiently find the problematic
PostgreSQL query?

A large financial services company requires that all data be encrypted in transit. A Developer is
attempting to connect to an Amazon RDS DB instance using the company VPC for the first time with
credentials provided by a Database Specialist. Other members of the Development team can connect,
but this user is consistently receiving an error indicating a communications link failure. The Developer
asked the Database Specialist to reset the password a number of times, but the error persists.
Which step should be taken to troubleshoot this issue?

A business is launching a new Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instance. The organization wishes to
allow auditing of the SQL Server database.
Which measures should a database professional perform in combination to achieve this requirement?(Select two.)

A company's database specialist implements an AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) task for
change data capture (CDC) to replicate data from an on- premises Oracle database to Amazon S3. When
usage of the company's application increases, the database specialist notices multiple hours of latency
with the CDC.
Which solutions will reduce this latency? (Choose two.)

A company has two separate AWS accounts: one for the business unit and another for corporate

analytics. The company wants to replicate the business unit data stored in Amazon RDS for MySQL in us-
east-1 to its corporate analytics Amazon Redshift environment in us-west-1. The company wants to use

AWS DMS with Amazon RDS as the source endpoint and Amazon Redshift as the target endpoint.
Which action will allow AVS DMS to perform the replication?

A Database Specialist is planning to create a read replica of an existing Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ
DB instance. When using the AWS Management Console to conduct this task, the Database Specialist
discovers that the source RDS DB instance does not appear in the read replica source selection box, so
the read replica cannot be created.
What is the most likely reason for this?

A company uses Amazon Aurora MySQL as the primary database engine for many of its applications. A
database specialist must create a dashboard to provide the company with information about user connections to databases. According to compliance requirements, the company must retain all
connection logs for at least 7 years.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A company has a 20 TB production Amazon Aurora DB cluster. The company runs a large batch job
overnight to load data into the Aurora DB cluster. To ensure the company’s development team has the
most up-to-date data for testing, a copy of the DB cluster must be available in the shortest possible time
after the batch job completes.
How should this be accomplished?

Amazon Neptune is being used by a corporation as the graph database for one of its products. During an
ETL procedure, the company's data science team produced enormous volumes of temporary data by
unintentionally. The Neptune DB cluster extended its storage capacity automatically to handle the added
data, but the data science team erased the superfluous data.
What should a database professional do to prevent incurring extra expenditures for cluster volume space
that is not being used?

A company has deployed an application that uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB cluster. The DB cluster
uses three read replicas. The primary DB instance is an
8XL-sized instance, and the read replicas are each XL-sized instances.
Users report that database queries are returning stale dat
a. The replication lag indicates that the replicas are 5 minutes behind the primary DB instance. Status queries on the replicas show that the SQL_THREAD is 10 binlogs behind the IO_THREAD and that the
IO_THREAD is 1 binlog behind the primary.
Which changes will reduce the lag? (Choose two.)

A company plans to migrate a MySQL-based application from an on-premises environment to AWS. The
application performs database joins across several tables and uses indexes for faster query response
times. The company needs the database to be highly available with automatic failover.
Which solution on AWS will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A large gaming company is creating a centralized solution to store player session state for multiple online
games. The workload required key-value storage with low latency and will be an equal mix of reads and
writes. Data should be written into the AWS Region closest to the user across the games’ geographically
distributed user base. The architecture should minimize the amount of overhead required to manage the
replication of data between Regions.
Which solution meets these requirements?

A company is load testing its three-tier production web application deployed with an AWS
CloudFormation template on AWS. The Application team is making changes to deploy additional Amazon
EC2 and AWS Lambda resources to expand the load testing capacity. A Database Specialist wants to
ensure that the changes made by the Application team will not change the Amazon RDS database
resources already deployed.
Which combination of steps would allow the Database Specialist to accomplish this? (Choose two.)

A large retail company recently migrated its three-tier ecommerce applications to AWS. The company’s
backend database is hosted on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. During peak times, users complain about
longer page load times. A database specialist reviewed Amazon RDS Performance Insights and found a
spike in IO:XactSync wait events. The SQL attached to the wait events are all single INSERT statements.
How should this issue be resolved?

A company recently migrated its line-of-business (LOB) application to AWS. The application uses an
Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instance as its database engine.
The company must set up cross-Region disaster recovery for the application. The company needs a solution with the lowest possible RPO and RTO.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

An electric utility company wants to store power plant sensor data in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The
utility company has over 100 power plants and each power plant has over 200 sensors that send data
every 2 seconds. The sensor data includes time with milliseconds precision, a value, and a fault attribute
if the sensor is malfunctioning. Power plants are identified by a globally unique identifier. Sensors are
identified by a unique identifier within each power plant. A database specialist needs to design the table
to support an efficient method of finding all faulty sensors within a given power plant.
Which schema should the database specialist use when creating the DynamoDB table to achieve the
fastest query time when looking for faulty sensors?

An ecommerce company uses Amazon DynamoDB as the backend for its payments system. A new
regulation requires the company to log all data access requests for financial audits. For this purpose, the
company plans to use AWS logging and save logs to Amazon S3
How can a database specialist activate logging on the database?

A company runs a customer relationship management (CRM) system that is hosted on-premises with a
MySQL database as the backend. A custom stored procedure is used to send email notifications to
another system when data is inserted into a table. The company has noticed that the performance of the
CRM system has decreased due to database reporting applications used by various teams. The company
requires an AWS solution that would reduce maintenance, improve performance, and accommodate the
email notification feature.
Which AWS solution meets these requirements?

AWS CloudFormation stack including an Amazon RDS database instance was mistakenly removed,
resulting in the loss of recent dat
a. A Database Specialist must apply RDS parameters to the CloudFormation template in order to
minimize the possibility of future inadvertent instance data loss.
Which settings will satisfy this criterion? (Select three.)

A database specialist wants to ensure that an Amazon Aurora DB cluster is always automatically
upgraded to the most recent minor version available. Noticing that there is a new minor version
available, the database specialist has issues an AWS CLI command to enable automatic minor version
updates. The command runs successfully, but checking the Aurora DB cluster indicates that no update to
the Aurora version has been made.
What might account for this? (Choose two.)

A business's mission-critical production workload is being operated on a 500 GB Amazon Aurora MySQL
DB cluster. A database engineer must migrate the workload without causing data loss to a new Amazon
Aurora Serverless MySQL DB cluster.
Which approach will result in the LEAST amount of downtime and the LEAST amount of application
impact?

A database professional maintains a fleet of Amazon RDS database instances that are configured to
utilize the default database parameter group. A database expert must connect a custom parameter
group with certain database instances.
When will the instances be allocated to this new parameter group once the database specialist performs
this change?

A Database Specialist needs to speed up any failover that might occur on an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
DB cluster. The Aurora DB cluster currently includes the primary instance and three Aurora Replicas.
How can the Database Specialist ensure that failovers occur with the least amount of downtime for the
application?

A company is migrating its on-premises database workloads to the AWS Cloud. A database specialist
performing the move has chosen AWS DMS to migrate an Oracle database with a large table to Amazon
RDS. The database specialist notices that AWS DMS is taking significant time to migrate the data.
Which actions would improve the data migration speed? (Choose three.)

A company requires near-real-time notifications when changes are made to Amazon RDS DB security
groups.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?

A company wants to migrate its on-premises MySQL databases to Amazon RDS for MySQL. To comply
with the company’s security policy, all databases must be encrypted at rest. RDS DB instance snapshots
must also be shared across various accounts to provision testing and staging environments.
Which solution meets these requirements?

On a single Amazon RDS DB instance, a business hosts a MySQL database for its ecommerce application.
Automatically saving application purchases to the database results in high-volume writes. Employees
routinely create purchase reports for the company. The organization wants to boost database performance and minimize downtime associated with upgrade patching.
Which technique will satisfy these criteria with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

A company is developing a multi-tier web application hosted on AWS using Amazon Aurora as the
database. The application needs to be deployed to production and other non-production environments.
A Database Specialist needs to specify different MasterUsername and MasterUserPassword properties in
the AWS CloudFormation templates used for automated deployment. The CloudFormation templates
are version controlled in the company’s code repository. The company also needs to meet compliance
requirement by routinely rotating its database master password for production.
What is most secure solution to store the master password?

An online advertising website uses an Amazon DynamoDB table with on-demand capacity mode as its
data store. The website also has a DynamoDB Accelerator
(DAX) cluster in the same VPC as its web application server. The application needs to perform infrequent
writes and many strongly consistent reads from the data store by querying the DAX cluster.
During a performance audit, a systems administrator notices that the application can look up items by
using the DAX cluster. However, the QueryCacheHits metric for the DAX cluster consistently shows 0
while the QueryCacheMisses metric continuously keeps growing in Amazon CloudWatch.
What is the MOST likely reason for this occurrence?

(TDE). At all times, the organization is obligated to encrypt its data at rest. The decryption key must be
widely distributed, and access to the key must be restricted. The organization must be able to rotate the
encryption key on demand to comply with regulatory requirements. If any possible security
vulnerabilities are discovered, the organization must be able to disable the key. Additionally, the
company's overhead must be kept to a minimal.
What method should the database administrator use to configure the encryption to fulfill these
specifications?

A company manages an on-premises MySQL database on a Windows server. The company wants to
migrate the database to AWS and needs a solution that will reduce the administrative overhead of the
database.
Which AWS service will meet this requirement?

Which AWS service or resource helps on-premises applications connect to AWS Cloud-based storage and
caches the data locally for low-latency access?

A company is running multiple workloads in the AWS Cloud and recently began investigating ways to
reduce costs. The company is already running fault-tolerant workloads on Amazon EC2 that perform
periodic checkpoints in case of an outage.
Which AWS service or pricing model can provide the GREATEST cost savings?

Which AWS service is a fully hosted version control service?

Which guidelines are key AWS architectural design principles? (Select TWO.)

A company needs to automatically protect its Amazon EC2 instances from distributed denial of service
(DDoS) attacks. Which AWS service or tool will provide this protection?

A company runs a web application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application has consistent usage and is
expected to run indefinitely. Which EC2 instance purchasing option will meet these requirements MOST
cost-effectively?

Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework refers to the ability of a system to recover from
infrastructure or service disruptions and dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand?

A company has stopped all of its Amazon EC2 instances but monthly billing charges continue to occur.
What could be causing this? (Select TWO.)

A company wants to accelerate migration from its data center to the AWS Cloud.
Which combination of AWS services should the company use to meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)

A user has an AWS account with a Business-level AWS Support plan and needs assistance with handling
a production service disruption. Which action should the user take?

A company wants to offer direct phone and chat channels for customer service. The company needs a
pay-as-you-go solution that remote customer service agents can use to create and manage voice and
chat contact flows.
Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

A company uses a database that has a simple sign-up page to create users, and a basic login form to
authenticate users so they can access the database. The company wants to give users the ability to store
personal information, but user access must be controlled in a more secure and reliable way.
Which AWS service or feature will meet these requirements?

A company that uses AWS needs to transfer 2 TB of data.
Which type of transfer of that data would result in no cost for the company?

Which design principles of the AWS WelI-Architected Framework help increase reliability? (Select TWO.)

Which of the following does Amazon CloudFront use to distribute content to users around the world?

A company has a global website with static content.
Which AWS service will deliver the static content with low latency?

A company wants to improve the overall availability and performance of its applications that are hosted
on AWS.
Which AWS service should the company use?

What is the customer ALWAYS responsible for managing, according to the AWS shared responsibility
model?

A company is running an Amazon EC2 instance in a VPC.
Which of the following can the company use to route and filter incoming network requests for the EC2
instance?

A company is undergoing a security audit. The audit includes security validation and compliance
validation of the AWS infrastructure and services that the company uses. The auditor needs to locate
compliance-related information and must download AWS security and compliance documents. These
documents include the System and Organization Control (SOC) reports.
Which AWS service or group can provide these documents?

Elasticity in the AWS Cloud refers to which of the following? (Select TWO.)

A company is reviewing the current costs of running its own infrastructure on premises. The company
wants to compare these on-premises costs to the costs of running infrastructure in the AWS Cloud.
How should the company make this comparison?

Which AWS service is a relational database compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL?

Which AWS service allows for file sharing between multiple Amazon EC2 instances?

A user has been granted permission to change their own IAM user password. Which AWS services can
the user use to change the password? (Select TWO.)

Which AWS service supports the analysis, investigation, and identification of the root cause of security
events and suspicious activities in an AWS account?

Which databases are available on Amazon RDS? (Select TWO.)

Which AWS service or tool lists all the users in an account and reports on the status of account details,
including passwords, access keys, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) devices?

Which AWS service or feature enables users to block the incoming or outgoing traffic associated with
specific IP addresses flowing through a VPC?

A company is running and managing its own Docker environment on Amazon EC2 instances. The
company wants an alternative to help manage cluster size, scheduling, and environment maintenance.
Which AWS service meets these requirements?

Which of the following is the customer responsible for updating and patching, according to the AWS
shared responsibility model?

According to the AWS shared responsibility model, which activities are the customer's responsibility for
security in the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO.)

A company needs to design an AWS disaster recovery plan to cover multiple geographic areas. Which
action will meet this requirement?

A company requires an isolated environment within AWS for security purposes. Which action can be
taken to accomplish this?

A company wants to set up an entire development and continuous delivery toolchain for coding,
building, testing, and deploying application code. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

Which Amazon S3 feature or storage class uses the AWS backbone network and edge locations to
reduce latencies from the end user to Amazon S3?

Which AWS service or feature enables users to get one bill and easily track charges for multiple AWS
accounts?

Which service is an AWS in-memory data store service?

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

A user is a new AWS account owner who has no special access requirements. What should this user do
with the AWS account root user access keys?

Which of the following are design principles of the reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected
Framework? (Select TWO.)

A company needs to perform data processing once a week that typically takes about 5 hours to
complete. Which AWS service should the company use for this workload?

Which AWS services provide high availability across multiple Availability Zones by default? (Select TWO.)

A company is moving its on-premises NoSQL database to the AWS Cloud Which AWS service should the
company use for the NoSQL database?

A company is planning to build a workload in the AWS Cloud. The company needs to estimate the costs
of the network, compute, storage, and database for the workload. Which AWS service or tool should the
company use to generate this estimate?

A company is using Amazon RDS.
Which task is the company's responsibility, according to the AWS shared responsibility model?

A company needs to deploy an Amazon EC2 instance and attach a storage mount for the operating
system and application files. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

A company's system administrator discovers that someone logged in to the company's AWS account
during the weekend and terminated an Amazon EC2 instance Which AWS service should the system
administrator use to identify who made this change?

An ecommerce company has migrated its IT infrastructure from an on-premises data center to the AWS
Cloud. Which cost is the company's direct responsibility?

Which of the following consists of one or more isolated data centers in the same regional area that are
interconnected through low-latency networks?

Which AWS service provides alerts when an AWS event may impact a company's AWS resources?

A company is using an Amazon RDS database to run reports that are input/output (I/O) intensive. Which
AWS service can be used to improve the database performance?

A company wants to use a template to reliably provision, manage, and update its infrastructure in the
AWS Cloud. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

Which AWS service offers threat detection and continuously monitors for malicious activity and
unauthorized behavior in AWS accounts?

Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework includes the continual improvement of processes
and procedures as a priority?

Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework includes the continual improvement of processes
and procedures as a priority?

Which Reserved Instance (Rl) provides the HIGHEST average cost savings compared to an On-Demand
Instance?

Which of the following are advantages of the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO.)

A company wants to use a server less compute service for an application.
When AWS service will meet tins requirement?

A system administrator notices that several Amazon EC2 instances nave been terminated. The system
administrator needs to identity the user or AWS API call that terminated these instances. Which AWS
service should the system administrator use to meet this requirement?

A company wants to push VPC Flow Logs to an Amazon S3 bucket.
Which action is the company's responsibility?

A company wants to provide managed Windows virtual desktops and applications to its remote
employees over secure network connections.
When AWS services can the company use to meet the requirements? (Select TWO.)

Which of the following is an advantage of AWS Cloud computing?

Which AWS service tool or feature helps companies reduce costs by identifying underutilized Amazon
EC2 instances?

A company is running a workload on AWS. The company wants to protect the workload from DDoS
attacks.
When AWS service will meet these requirements?

Which AWS service provides managed DDoS protection?

A company needs a data warehouse for analytical workloads. The data warehouse must support
standard SQL queries.
Which AWS service meets these requirements?

Which of the following are advantages of the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO.)

Which actions is the responsibility of AWS according to the AWS shared responsibility model? (Select
TWO.)

Which actions is the responsibility of AWS under the AWS shared responsibility model (Select TWO.)

Which fully managed AWS service allows a user to bring their own machine teaming algorithm?

A company uses AWS Direct Conned and wants to establish connectivity that spans VPCs across multiple
AWS Regions. Which AWS service or feature should the company use to meet these requirements?

A company wants to organize its users so that the company can grant permissions to the users as a
group. Which AWS service or tool can the company use to meet this requirement?

How can a user protect an Amazon EC2 instance from a suspicious IP address?

Which of the following is a component of the AWS Global infrastructure?

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 company needs a central user portal so that users can log in to third-party business applications that
support Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0.
Which AWS service will meet this requirement?

A company recently mutated to AWS and wants to enable intelligent threat protection and continuous
monitoring across all of its AWS accounts.
Which AWS service should the company use lo achieve this goal?

A company has acquired several other companies. All the companies host their IT infrastructure in the
AWS Cloud. Which AWS service should the acquiring company use to centralize the account
management?

What are characteristics of AWS IAM users and groups? (Select TWO.)

How does the AWS global infrastructure offer high availability and fault tolerance lo its users?

What is the MOST secure way lo store passwords on AWS?

A company wants to design its cloud architecture so that its workloads are resilient can consistently
perform their intended functions correctly and can recover from failure quickly. Which pillar of the AWS
Well-Architected Framework does this architecture represent?

Which of the following gives a company the ability to fake advantage of tiered pricing tor services across
multiple AWS member accounts?

An ecommerce comply is using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups to manage a fleet of web servers
running on Amazon EC2. This architecture follows which AWS Well/architected Framework best
practice?

A company has deployed its IT infrastructure in the AWS Cloud. The company's database must support
reads with sub-millisecond latency.
Which AWS service will meet this requirement?

Which AWS service can a company use to access compliance documentation and AWS agreements?

A company wants to receive alerts when resources that are launched in the company's AWS account
reach 80% of their service quotas. Which AWS service should the company use to meet this
requirement?

Which component of the AWS global infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to deliver content to
end users with low latency?

A company that is migrating to the AWS Cloud wants to reduce the operational costs of running its
databases. Which combination of actions should the company take to achieve this goal (Select TWO.)

Which AWS Cloud benefit is shown by architecture’s ability to withstand with minimal downtime?

A company's procurement department wants volume discounts on AWS services for the company but
numerous departments have separate AWS accounts. Which AWS service or tool can the company use
to receive volume discounts across multiple AWS accounts?

Which task is the responsibility of the customer according to the AWS snared responsibility model?

A user needs the ability to access as many resources as are needed. The user also needs the ability to
scale up and scale down with only a few minutes of notice. Which benefit of the AWS Cloud describes
these abilities?

Which of the following can be used to identity a specific user who slopped an Amazon EC2 instance?

Which AWS services are delivered globally instead of regionally? (Select TWO.)

Which of the following are benefits that a company receives when it moves an on-premises internet-
lacing website to the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO.)

A company has an on-premises Oracle database. The company spends a significant amount of time on
database administration activities. The company is moving the database to AWS and needs to minimize
the time that is requited lot these administration activities
Which AWS service should the company use to meet this requirement?

A company uses Amazon EC2 infrastructure to host steady-stale workloads and needs to achieve
significant cost savings. Which EC2 instance pricing model should the company select?

Wh.cn of lite following is advantages of the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO.)

A company plans to migrate complex legacy systems to AWS. The company will use several operating
systems multiple databases and multiple programming languages. Which benefit of the AWS Cloud does
this scenario represent?

Which AWS service will help a company plan a migration to AWS by collecting the configuration usage
and behavior data of on-premises data centers?

A company is running a Microsoft SOL Server instance on premises and is migrating its application to
AWS. The company lacks the resources needed to refactor the application but management wants to
reduce operational overhead as part of the migration.
Which database service would MOST effectively support these requirements?

Which AWS service or feature will search for and identify AWS resources that are stared externally?

A company puns to move its on-premises servers to Amazon EC2 instances. The company has 50
different business units and wants to separate each billing lot each unit. What should a cloud
practitioner recommend?

A company needs to use thud-party software for its workload on AWS.
Which AWS service or feature can the company use to purchase the software?

A company moves a workload to AWS lo run on Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs to run the
workload in the most cost-effective way.
What can the company do lo meet this requirement?

A company is developing a new Node.js application. The application must have a scalabe NoSQL
database to meet increasing demand as the popularity of the application grown.
Which AWS services will meet the requirements for the database?

A company is hosting an application in the AWS Cloud. The company wants to verify that underlying
AWS services and general AWS infrastructure are operating normally.
Which combination of AWS services can the company use to gather the required information? (Select
TWO).

Which of the following are advantages of moving to the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO.)

A company wants to deploy, scale, and manage third-party virtual appliances in a cluster in the AWS
Cloud. These applications include firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and deep
packet inspection systems.
Which AWS service or resource will meet these requirements?

A company implements an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling policy along with an Application Load Balancer to
automatically recover unhealthy applications that run on Amazon EC2 instances.
Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework does this action cover?

A company has set up its IT infrastructure in the AWS Cloud. The company wants to receive detailed
reports that break down AWS costs by the hour. The reports must be placed in an Amazon S3 bucket.
Which AWS tool will meet these requirements?

A company recently created its first AWS account.
Which AWS services will require the use of a VPC? (Select TWO.)

A company distributes traffic evenly among a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances must
accommodate unpredictable increases in traffic.
Which benefit does the AWS Cloud provide to meet this requirement?

Which benefit of cloud computing gives a company the ability to deploy applications to users all over the
world through a network of AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations?

Which duty is a responsibility of AWS under the AWS shared responsibility model?