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A financial institution is deploying a proprietary risk analysis application on a single Amazon EC2 instance. The application requires a dedicated storage volume to serve as its operating system boot drive and to store active database log files that need low-latency, block-level performance. The storage must persist independently of the EC2 instance's lifecycle so that the data is not lost if the instance is stopped or terminated. Which AWS storage service should the institution select to meet these requirements?
A cloud architect is configuring a new Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to host a public website. The architect has created a subnet and launched an EC2 instance within it, but the instance cannot send or receive traffic from the public internet. Which component must the architect attach to the VPC and reference in the route table to enable this public internet connectivity?
A company is designing a new e-commerce application and must choose the correct database services for two distinct workloads. The first workload requires storing product catalog metadata with highly dynamic attributes, needing sub-millisecond response times for lookups. The second workload requires storing customer orders with transactional consistency (ACID compliance) and relational database schemas to support complex table joins.
Which of the following database services should the cloud practitioner recommend to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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An enterprise is migrating its operations to AWS and plans to deploy separate Amazon VPCs for fifty different business units. The network team wants to establish a hub-and-spoke topology to easily manage routing between these VPCs without creating a complex point-to-point mesh. Additionally, they must apply stateless traffic filtering at the boundary of each subnet. Which combination of AWS networking components should the team use to meet these requirements?
A startup with multiple AWS accounts wants to simplify its accounting process by paying a single bill for all accounts. Additionally, the startup wants to qualify for volume discounts on Amazon S3 storage by combining the data usage of all accounts. Which AWS feature should the startup implement?
A business is expanding its AWS footprint and has decided to set up consolidated billing through AWS Organizations. Which two benefits does this feature provide to the organization? (Select TWO.)
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HydroStream Utilities, a regional water utility provider, currently processes telemetry data from smart meters in large batches twice a month. During these processing runs, CPU utilization on their on-premises servers spikes to 95% for approximately 12 hours. For the remainder of the month, the servers run idle at less than 5% capacity. The company plans to migrate this workload to AWS.
Which TWO of the following represent the primary cloud economics benefits that HydroStream Utilities will realize after this migration? (Select TWO.)
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A company's operations team wants to optimize their cloud environment by identifying unused resources, verifying that security groups have no unrestricted access, and checking if any service limits are close to being exceeded. They need a service that provides automated recommendations and real-time guidance based on AWS best practices across multiple categories, including cost optimization, security, and performance. Which AWS service should the operations team use to obtain these recommendations?
A ride-sharing platform is planning its Amazon EC2 deployment strategy for three distinct workloads:
1. Core dispatch database servers that must run continuously with a predictable, steady-state workload profile for a multi-year period.
2. A fleet of application servers that scale dynamically to handle highly volatile, unpredictable spikes in passenger demand during rush hours, where active customer connections cannot be abruptly dropped.
3. A background data-cleansing pipeline that processes non-urgent passenger feedback surveys in batches, which is designed to tolerate interruptions and can resume paused tasks.
Which combination of Amazon EC2 pricing models is the most cost-effective and architecturally appropriate for these workloads?
A company is developing a microservices-based web application deployed across multiple Amazon EC2 instances in different Availability Zones. The architecture requires a shared, concurrent file system for services to read and write application assets, as well as a durable, highly scalable object storage location to store and archive user-uploaded PDF reports. Which two AWS storage services should the company select to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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A custom apparel startup, PrintVibe, experiences highly variable website traffic that spikes unpredictably when social media influencers feature their products. To minimize infrastructure costs, the startup wants to avoid paying for idle server capacity during low-traffic periods while ensuring their application can handle sudden surges. Which of the following cloud concepts directly addresses this economic goal?
A company needs to connect its on-premises corporate office to its resources running in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The connection must be direct and private, or encrypted over the public internet. Which of the following AWS services or features can be used to establish this hybrid network connectivity? (Select TWO.)
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An organization is designing a multi-VPC architecture on AWS. They need to establish a hub-and-spoke topology to interconnect multiple Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and simplify network routing. Additionally, they must implement a network security control that operates as a stateless firewall to filter traffic entering and leaving their subnets.
Which two AWS services or features should the organization use to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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A company is conducting a short-term, three-week stress test on a new application. The testing application must run continuously on Amazon EC2 without any interruptions, but the workload will be completely shut down after the three-week period. Which Amazon EC2 pricing model is the most cost-effective and appropriate for this workload?
An enterprise is planning to migrate several workloads to the AWS Cloud and wants to select the optimal compute service for each application. Match each workload description to the most appropriate AWS compute service.
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When a company transfers data between applications hosted in separate AWS geographic locations (such as US East and Europe), which of the following best describes how this traffic is routed across the AWS global infrastructure?
An enterprise is planning to restructure its AWS Support plans across different organizational units. The operations unit requires an AWS Support plan that provides a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM) to proactively coordinate operational reviews and architectural guidance. The testing unit requires an AWS Support plan that provides 24/7 access to Cloud Support Engineers via phone, email, and chat to resolve testing issues, but does not require any TAM resources. To meet these requirements at the minimum cost, which of the following AWS Support plans should the enterprise select? (Select TWO.)
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A startup is launching a new public web portal and needs to store and distribute marketing assets, such as images, PDF brochures, and videos, directly to global website visitors. The storage solution must scale automatically to support millions of concurrent web requests, be accessible via HTTP/HTTPS, and offer durability of at least . Which AWS storage service should the startup select for this requirement?
A retail company is planning to deploy two new workloads on Amazon EC2:
1. An internal administrative application that is active only during standard business hours (8 hours a day, 5 days a week) and must remain highly available during those hours without any interruption.
2. A monthly data-cleansing batch process that runs for 12 hours, is designed to save its progress to a database every 10 minutes, and can be stopped and restarted at any time without data loss.
Which of the following Amazon EC2 pricing models should the company select to achieve the most cost-effective setup for these workloads? (Select TWO.)
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A retail company has acquired two smaller online stores, each with its own AWS account. The IT director decides to link these accounts using AWS Organizations. Which two benefits does consolidated billing provide to the company? (Select TWO.)
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