Hummel - AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Associate Exam Practice Questions

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Associate Practice Questions

Copyright 2018 Shaun L. Hummel

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Shaun Hummel is a Senior Network Engineer with 15 years enterprise network planning, design and implementation experience. Author of AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate: Exam Study Notes .

Contents

Introduction

The skills required for information technology are changing rapidly with cloud computing and network programmability. The virtualization of servers, applications and network devices is causing an overlap of management domains for network, systems and security engineers. The network devices and applications now reside at network servers as virtual machines (VM). In addition there is a shift toward an internet-based connectivity model that is changing how the network is managed. The server-centric architecture redefines how network capacity is managed as well. There are newer virtualized management solutions have been developed for integrating physical and virtual platforms.

Each group must develop new skills for virtualization, server-based troubleshooting and cloud management. The virtualization of applications and devices allow for an on-demand connectivity and operational model. It is characterized by a dynamic, elastic, scalable architecture that is hardware independent. The new networking paradigm uses Open APIs, overlays and SDN programmable network devices. The virtualization overlay abstracts the underlying network infrastructure from the application layer. The virtualization architecture is now enabling seamless access and global connectivity of enterprise and cloud data center applications. The increasing popularity of cloud computing is the result of an operational model that now has companies migrating data center applications to cloud facilities. According to a study almost 70% of all IP internet traffic will terminate at a cloud facility by 2018 .

AWS certification has become popular as a training platform for systems administrators, engineers and architects. Candidates must answer technical questions and have the skills required to select, deploy, integrate and maintain AWS cloud solutions. The study guide is comprised of 300+ practice questions. All questions are based on official AWS certification guidelines that cover all exam topics required to pass AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect:

Associate Exam

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EC2 Compute

Question 1:

What three attributes are selectable when creating an EBS volume for an EC2 instance?

1. volume type

1. IOPS

1. region

1. CMK

1. ELB

1. EIP

Question 2:

You have been asked to migrate a 10 GB unencrypted EBS volume to an encrypted volume for security purposes. What are three key steps required as part of the migration?

1. pause the unencrypted instance

1. create a new encrypted volume of the same size and availability zone

1. create a new encrypted volume of the same size in any availability zone

1. start converter instance

1. shutdown and detach the unencrypted instance

Question 3:

What is EC2 instance protection?

1. prevents Auto Scaling from selecting specific EC2 instance to be replaced when scaling in

1. prevents Auto Scaling from selecting specific EC2 instance to be replaced when scaling out

1. prevents Auto Scaling from selecting specific EC2 instance for termination when scaling out

1. prevents Auto Scaling from selecting specific EC2 instance for termination when scaling in

1. prevents Auto Scaling from selecting specific EC2 instance for termination when paused

1. prevents Auto Scaling from selecting specific EC2 instance for termination when stopped

Question 4:

What two features are supported with EBS volume Snapshot feature?

1. EBS replication across regions

1. EBS multi-zone replication

1. EBS single region only

1. full snapshot data only

1. unencrypted snapshot only

Question 5:

What two resource tags are supported for an EC2 instance?

1. VPC endpoint

1. EIP

1. network interface

1. security group

1. Flow Log

Question 6:

What two options are available to alert tenants when an EC2 instance is terminated?

1. SNS

1. CloudTrail

1. Lambda function

1. SQS

1. STS

Question 7:

What class of EC2 instance type is recommended for running data analytics?

1. memory optimized

1. compute optimized

1. storage optimized

1. general purpose optimized

Question 8:

What class of EC2 instance type is recommended for database servers?

1. memory optimized

1. compute optimized

1. storage optimized

1. general purpose optimized

Question 9:

What two attributes distinguish each pricing model?

1. reliability

1. amazon service

1. discount

1. performance

1. redundancy

Question 10:

What are three standard AWS pricing models?

1. elastic

1. spot

1. reserved

1. dynamic

1. demand

Question 11:

How is an EBS root volume created when launching an EC2 instance from a new EBS-backed AMI?

1. S3 template

1. original AMI

1. snapshot

1. instance store

Question 12:

What Amazon AWS sources are available for creating an EBS-Backed Linux AMI? (select two)

1. EC2 instance

1. Amazon SMS

1. VM Import/Export

1. EBS Snapshot

1. S3 bucket

Question 13:

What is required to prevent an instance from being launched and incurring costs?

1. stop instance

1. terminate instance

1. terminate AMI and de-register instance

1. stop and de-register instance

1. stop, deregister AMI and terminate instance

Question 14:

What is an EBS Snapshot?

1. backup of an EBS root volume and instance data

1. backup of an EC2 instance

1. backup of configuration settings

1. backup of instance store

Question 15:

Where are ELB and Auto-Scaling groups deployed as a unified solution for horizontal scaling?

1. database instances

1. all instances

1. web server instances

1. default VPC only

Question 16:

What feature is supported when attaching or detaching an EBS volume from an EC2 instance?

1. EBS volume can be attached and detached to an EC2 instance in the same region

1. EBS volume can be attached and detached to an EC2 instance that is cross-region

1. EBS volume can only be copied and attached to an EC2 instance that is cross-region