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A financial services firm is deploying a high-performance database application on Amazon EC2 instances. The database requires a persistent block storage volume that supports consistent sub-millisecond latency for transactional writes, where data must remain intact even if the instances are stopped. Additionally, the firm needs to create point-in-time backups of this storage that are stored durably across multiple Availability Zones and can be restored as new volumes.
Which two AWS storage options or features should the company select to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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A media company needs to run a daily video transcoding job that processes user uploads. The workload is stateless, can be interrupted at any time without data loss, and does not have a strict completion deadline. Which Amazon EC2 pricing model is the most cost-effective choice for this workload?
A gaming company is planning to launch a new multiplayer game. The development team needs to estimate the cost of the required AWS resources before deploying them, and they also want to receive email alerts if their actual monthly AWS spending crosses a specific limit.
Which of the following AWS tools should the company use to meet these requirements? (Select TWO)
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A financial services organization is planning to migrate its workloads to AWS. The organization currently owns unused perpetual licenses for a third-party database monitoring agent and also wants to purchase a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) analytics solution from the same software vendor. Which two of the following options describe how the organization can utilize AWS Marketplace to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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A media streaming company wants to run single-digit millisecond latency-sensitive applications for users in a specific metropolitan area, while also caching video content globally. Which two AWS Global Infrastructure components should the company use to meet these requirements?
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A company is designing a network architecture on AWS. They have multiple VPCs across different AWS accounts that need to communicate with each other in a hub-and-spoke model to simplify routing management. Additionally, they must block traffic from a specific range of malicious external IP addresses at the subnet boundary before it reaches any resources. Which AWS networking services or features should be configured to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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A media company needs to run a containerized application to process video rendering jobs. Each rendering job takes approximately two hours to complete. The company wants to run these containerized workloads without provisioning or managing the underlying virtual instances or operating systems. Which AWS compute service is the most suitable to meet these requirements?
A SaaS company needs to review its daily AWS resource consumption from the previous month to identify which specific service components are driving a recent spike in execution costs. They also want to use this historical consumption data to project their cloud expenses for the next billing cycle. Which AWS tool is designed to provide these visual reports and cost projections?
A healthcare provider is setting up a multi-account AWS environment with twenty Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) that all need to communicate with a central shared-services VPC. Additionally, the security team requires the ability to block traffic from specific malicious IP addresses at the subnet boundary.
Which of the following AWS network components or configurations should be implemented to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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A software development firm wants to prevent cost overruns in its testing environment. The company needs to configure a mechanism that will automatically apply a restrictive IAM policy to a developer group if the actual monthly spend in the environment exceeds . Which AWS billing and cost management tool should the company use to configure this automated threshold-based action?
A company needs to implement a solution on AWS that satisfies two operational requirements:
1. Track user activity and API operations across the AWS infrastructure for security auditing and compliance.
2. Monitor application and resource performance, collect log files, and trigger automated alerts when usage thresholds are exceeded.
Which AWS services should the company use to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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A logistics company needs to run a brief data transformation script each time a new telemetry file is uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket. The script takes less than ten seconds to execute, runs only a few times an hour, and the company wants to avoid provisioning or managing any servers. Which AWS compute service is best suited for this workload?
A company needs to adopt the appropriate AWS tools for two different operational requirements:
1. A developer wants to write a custom Python application that programmatically uploads data to Amazon S3.
2. A cloud engineer needs to define, version-control, and replicate their entire multi-tier environment (including networks and databases) using templates.
Which two tools or operating methods should the company use to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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A financial services firm is deploying a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in a new Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The network security team wants to configure a firewall control that operates at the instance level. They require that any inbound traffic allowed into the instance is automatically permitted to flow outbound, without needing to create a corresponding outbound rule. Which AWS resource meets these requirements?
A media company is building an automated metadata archiving pipeline for its catalog of Spanish-language news broadcasts. The pipeline must perform the following tasks:
1. Convert the spoken Spanish audio of the broadcasts into written Spanish text.
2. Translate the generated Spanish text into English text.
3. Analyze the video frames to detect and extract on-screen news banners (text) and identify prominent public figures or brand logos.
To minimize custom machine learning model development, the company wants to use pre-trained AWS AI services. Which combination of AWS services should the company use to meet these requirements?
A healthcare provider plans to build a patient portal on AWS. The portal will run on Amazon EC2 instances and store sensitive medical imaging files in an Amazon S3 bucket. Compliance regulations require all data to be encrypted both at rest and in transit.
Which of the following actions are the responsibility of the customer to ensure data protection under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model? (Select TWO.)
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A healthcare clinic wants to improve accessibility for its patient portal. The clinic needs to convert written patient guides into natural-sounding spoken audio files, and implement a conversational chatbot to help patients schedule appointments. Which two AWS machine learning services should the clinic use to meet these requirements?
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A growing digital marketing agency wants to streamline permissions management for its designers, copywriters, and analysts. The agency needs to ensure that when a new designer joins, they automatically receive the correct permissions, and when they change roles, their permissions are updated easily. Which of the following options represent AWS-recommended best practices to achieve this? (Select TWO.)
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A university research department needs to visualize their AWS spending patterns over the last three months to identify cost trends and generate a report for the department head. Which AWS tool should they use to analyze and graph this historical cost data?
An organization is reviewing AWS Support plans to identify tiers that provide access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM). Which two AWS Support plans should the organization consider? (Select TWO)
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