All practice questions
1473 questions
A developer is writing a Node.js application that needs to retrieve files from an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. To implement this, the developer wants to make API calls to S3 directly from within the application code using native JavaScript libraries. Which AWS tool is designed to provide this language-specific programmatic interface?
A company has deployed applications across 50 VPCs in multiple AWS accounts and needs to implement a network architecture that allows all VPCs to communicate with each other transitively while minimizing connection complexity. Additionally, the company must implement a stateless firewall mechanism at the boundary of each subnet to restrict traffic from specific IP ranges. Which combination of AWS services and features should the company use to meet these requirements?
A gaming company is developing a new online multiplayer game. The system architecture requires two specific capabilities: an in-memory caching layer to store active player session states with sub-millisecond response times, and a fully managed relational database to handle structured player account transaction records.
Which AWS services should the company select to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
Select all that apply
An organization is evaluating hosting models for their application workloads on AWS. Match each operational requirement to the most appropriate AWS compute service.
Click a left item, then click its matching right item
Items
Matches
A company wants to allow its corporate employees to log in to the AWS Management Console using their existing Active Directory credentials. The security team wants to avoid the administrative overhead of creating and managing individual IAM users for each employee. Which of the following is the AWS-recommended approach to grant this access?
An organization is designing a highly resilient architecture on AWS to comply with strict national data privacy regulations. The workload must remain operational even in the event of a complete data center cluster outage within a geographic territory, and customer data must never leave the country's regulatory boundaries. Which of the following architectural rules describe how AWS Global Infrastructure supports these requirements? (Select TWO.)
Select all that apply
A digital marketing agency needs to deploy two new workloads on AWS:
1. A simple promotional website that requires a pre-configured web server, database, and domain management, all under a predictable monthly pricing plan.
2. A short-lived, event-driven microservice that runs code in response to user contact form submissions, executing for less than five seconds.
Which TWO AWS compute services should the agency select to host these workloads? (Select TWO.)
Select all that apply
A digital publishing platform requires a database solution to store millions of unstructured user preferences and reading histories. This system needs a flexible schema and must deliver single-digit millisecond latency at scale. Additionally, the platform needs to run complex, resource-intensive daily SQL analytical reports on terabytes of historical reader interaction logs without degrading the performance of the live platform. Which TWO database services should be selected to meet these requirements?
Select all that apply
A company is selecting compute services for various workloads. Match each business workload requirement with the AWS compute service that is most appropriate.
Click a left item, then click its matching right item
Items
Matches
A logistics company is migrating its traditional web application to AWS. The application relies on a relational database schema that requires complex SQL queries and table joins. To minimize management effort, the company wants AWS to handle database setup, operating system patching, and automated backups, while maintaining standard MySQL compatibility. Which AWS database option meets these requirements?
A database administrator is configuring a database on an Amazon EC2 instance. The database requires a temporary storage location for scratch space, query caching, and swap files that provides the lowest latency and highest I/O performance. The data in this location does not need to persist if the EC2 instance is stopped or terminated. Which AWS storage option meets these requirements?
A financial services firm hosts a reporting database on Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet. A cloud practitioner needs to configure network security controls to protect the database. They must implement both a security group and a network access control list (network ACL). Which of the following statements correctly describe the behavior of these security controls? (Select TWO.)
Select all that apply
A financial services startup is planning its deployment and operational strategy on AWS. The operations team has two key requirements: first, they must define and deploy the startup's entire network and server infrastructure in a repeatable, automated manner using templates; second, they need to run automated bash scripts from local administrator terminals to query resource status and stop non-production instances during off-hours. Which two AWS methods or tools should the startup use to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
Select all that apply
A company is setting up a temporary data processing workload on Amazon EC2. The application requires two types of storage: a cost-effective, durable storage option to archive final reports that are rarely accessed, and a high-performance, temporary scratch space directly attached to the instance that does not need to persist after the instance is stopped.
Which two AWS storage options should the company select to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
Select all that apply
A software development firm, DevFlow Solutions, is migrating its legacy code compilation and testing server environment to AWS. Currently, they maintain several high-performance physical servers in their office that are only utilized when developers push code, which happens sporadically throughout the day. By moving this workload to AWS and using a pay-as-you-go pricing model with on-demand resources, DevFlow Solutions changes how they account for these infrastructure costs. Which of the following best describes this economic shift?
A software development studio observes that the cost of their computing resources has decreased over time even though their usage has remained constant. They learn that AWS achieves lower prices by aggregating usage from hundreds of thousands of customers and passing the savings on to their users. Which benefit of the AWS Cloud does this trend illustrate?
A media production company has migrated its collaborative design assets from on-premises storage to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following operational tasks are the sole responsibility of the customer? (Select TWO.)
Select all that apply
An organization has just created a new AWS account and is planning its initial security and access control setup. The IT manager needs to secure the account access and configure day-to-day administrative privileges. Which of the following actions align with AWS security best practices for managing access in this scenario? (Select TWO.)
Select all that apply
An online retail store wants to streamline its operations on AWS. The store requires a solution that automatically deploys a web application and manages capacity provisioning, load balancing, and scaling without manual template configuration. Additionally, the development team needs to build a custom application that programmatically uploads transaction logs from their local office to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
Which two AWS offerings should be selected to support these tasks? (Select TWO.)
Select all that apply
An IT administrator is designing a storage architecture for a corporate application on AWS. The application has two key requirements:
1. It needs a persistent block storage volume to serve as the boot drive for a single Amazon EC2 instance.
2. It needs a shared file system that can be accessed and updated simultaneously by multiple EC2 instances using the Network File System (NFS) protocol.
Which two AWS storage services should the administrator select? (Select TWO.)
Select all that apply