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A manufacturing company is planning the migration of two distinct workloads to Amazon EC2. The first workload is a core Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) database that must run continuously 24/7 with consistent, predictable performance for at least three years. The second workload is a daily supply chain simulation batch job that runs overnight for 3 hours; this simulation is designed to be fault-tolerant and can be interrupted and resumed later without impact. Which two Amazon EC2 pricing models should the company select to minimize costs for these workloads? (Select TWO.)
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A research institute is preparing a grant proposal to fund a new genomic sequencing project. They plan to build a high-performance computing pipeline on AWS using AWS Batch, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and Amazon S3. Before any resources are provisioned or any code is written, the finance team requires a detailed, modeled estimation of the projected monthly costs for these specific services under various utilization assumptions. Which AWS tool should the institute use to model these prospective costs?
A company wants to migrate an on-premises database tool to AWS. The company already owns a prepaid software license for this tool and wants to avoid paying for another license through AWS. Which option in AWS Marketplace allows the company to deploy this software on AWS using their existing license?
A digital marketing firm, LeadFlow, is migrating its ad-tracking application to the AWS Cloud. Currently, the company owns and maintains physical servers in a private colocation facility, which requires significant upfront investments and multi-year lease agreements. By moving to AWS, LeadFlow wants to replace these fixed technology costs with variable expenses that scale in real time based on active ad campaigns. Which of the following describes this economic transition?
An e-commerce company is hosting a web application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances distributed across multiple Availability Zones. The application requires a shared repository to store product catalog images. This repository must support concurrent read-and-write access from all EC2 instances simultaneously and automatically scale as the volume of images grows. Which AWS storage service should the company use to meet these requirements?
A retail corporation wants to optimize its cloud financial management. The finance team needs to set up a system that automatically sends email notifications if forecasted monthly spend exceeds their designated limit. Additionally, they need to generate historical charts showing cost trends by service over the last 90 days. Which AWS tools should the corporation use to meet these requirements? (Select TWO)
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A company is tracking cloud spend by department and wants to monitor who is creating resources. A cloud engineer tags all Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon S3 buckets with a user-defined tag key of Department, and wants to use the AWS-generated tag key aws:createdBy. After one week, the finance team reports that neither tag key is appearing as a filter option in AWS Cost Explorer. Which of the following actions are required to resolve this issue and ensure department-specific costs are tracked going forward? (Select TWO.)
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A team is setting up a database subnet in an Amazon VPC and needs to block all inbound traffic from a specific malicious IP address before it reaches any resource within that subnet. Which AWS firewall feature should they configure to enforce this subnet-level, stateless traffic filtering?
An organization is looking to procure a third-party security scanner to run on their Amazon EC2 instances. Which of the following are primary benefits of purchasing this software through AWS Marketplace? (Select TWO.)
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An e-commerce company is launching a three-day promotional campaign. The web application, hosted on Amazon EC2, is expected to experience sudden, unpredictable traffic spikes during this period. The company requires that any newly launched instances to handle the peak traffic remain continuously active without interruption to ensure a seamless customer experience. Which Amazon EC2 pricing model is the most appropriate and cost-effective for these temporary scaling instances?
A technology consulting firm manages AWS accounts for several clients under a single consolidated billing family using AWS Organizations. The firm needs to generate customized billing reports for each client that apply a administrative markup on their Amazon EC2 usage, while still paying the standard consolidated invoice to AWS. Which AWS service or tool should the firm use to create these custom billing views?
A digital media publishing company is building an automated news broadcasting application. The application must convert written news articles into natural-sounding spoken audio files, and it must also translate the written articles from English into Spanish and French. Which two AWS services should the company use to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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A student is preparing for an AWS certification and wants to build a small personal project. The student requires the ability to open technical support cases for troubleshooting assistance, but only needs email communication during local business hours. Which AWS Support plan is the minimum tier that satisfies these requirements?
A company uses AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. A developer in a member account subscribes to a 12-month contract for a third-party security scanner via AWS Marketplace. Six months into the contract, due to a corporate restructuring, this member account is removed from the company's AWS Organization and becomes a standalone account. How are the remaining six months of the software subscription contract handled and billed?
A gaming company is launching a new multiplayer game and needs to deploy two workloads on Amazon EC2. The first workload is a leaderboard analysis microservice that processes telemetry data in batches; this job is highly flexible, can run at any time of day, and is completely fault-tolerant to unexpected node terminations. The second workload is a matchmaking backend service that must run continuously to process player requests, requiring constant and predictable CPU performance over a one-year period. Which two pricing models should the gaming company select to minimize costs?
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A startup recently launched several Amazon EC2 instances. To track costs by business unit, the team applied a user-defined tag with the key 'Department' and values such as 'Engineering' or 'Marketing' to the instances. However, when they open AWS Cost Explorer, they cannot filter their costs by this new tag. What must the startup do to ensure this user-defined tag appears in their billing reports and Cost Explorer?
A logistics firm wants to analyze customer emails to automatically identify key phrases, sentiment, and brand names mentioned in the messages. Which AWS service should the firm use to perform this natural language processing (NLP) task?
A smart-home IoT provider manages separate AWS accounts for its device telemetry backend, customer database, and mobile application services. The finance department wants to consolidate billing for these accounts under a single AWS organization to optimize costs. Which of the following is a direct benefit of utilizing consolidated billing in AWS Organizations for this scenario?
A global e-commerce company is deploying its customer-facing shopping portal on AWS. The system architecture must ensure that the web servers are resilient to localized disaster events, such as a power grid failure or flooding in a specific facility. Additionally, the company needs to cache product images and media files closer to shoppers around the world to ensure fast page load times. Which of the following AWS Global Infrastructure components should the company utilize to meet these requirements? (Select TWO)
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A company is deploying a global web application. They need to route user traffic to the closest geographical endpoint to minimize latency and cache static content at edge locations worldwide. Which two AWS network and content delivery services should the company use to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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