AWS SA Associate Practice Questions – 20
Question 1:
What Amazon AWS service is available for container management?
A. ECS
B. Docker
C. Kinesis
D. Lambda
Answer (A)
Question 2:
What is associated with Microservices? (Select two)
A. Application Load Balancer
B. Kinesis
C. RDS
D. DynamoDB
E. ECS
Answer (A,E)
Question 3:
Where does Amazon retrieve web content when it is not in the nearest
CloudFront edge location?
A. secondary location
B. file server
C. EBS
D. S3 bucket
Answer (D)
Question 4:
What two features of an API Gateway minimize the effects of peak traffic
events and minimize latency?
A. load balancing
B. firewalling
C. throttling
D. scaling
E. caching
Answer (C,E)
Question 5:
What three characteristics differentiate Lambda from traditional EC2
deployment or containerization?
A. Lambda is based on Kinesis scripts
B. Lambda is serverless
C. tenant has ownership of EC2 instances
D. tenant has no control of EC2 instances
E. Lambda is a code-based service
F. Lambda supports only S3 and Glacier
Answer (B,D,E)
Question 6:
How is code uploaded to Lambda?
A. Lambda instance
B. Lambda container
C. Lambda entry point
D. Lambda function
E. Lambda AMI
Answer (D)
Question 7:
How are Lambda functions triggered?
A. EC2 instance
B. hypervisor
C. Kinesis
D. operating system
E. event source
Answer (E)
Question 8:
What three statements correctly describe standard Lambda operation?
A. Lambda function is allocated 500 MB ephemeral disk space
B. Lambda function is allocated 100 MB EBS storage
C. Lambda stores code in S3
D. Lambda stores code in a Glacier vault
E. Lambda stores code in containers
F. maximum execution time is 300 seconds
Answer (A,C,F)
Question 9:
What network events are restricted by Lambda? (Select two)
A. only inbound TCP network connections are blocked by AWS Lambda
B. all inbound network connections are blocked by AWS Lambda
C. all inbound and outbound connections are blocked
D. outbound connections support only TCP/IP sockets
E. outbound connections support only SSL sockets
Answer (B,D)
Question 10:
How is versioning supported with Lambda? (Select two)
A. Lambda native support
B. ECS container
C. not supported
D. Aliases
E. replication
F. S3 versioning
Answer (A,D)
Question 11:
What is the difference between Stream-based and AWS Services when
enabling Lambda?
A. streams maintains event source mapping in Lambda
B. streams maintains event source mapping in event source
C. streams maintains event source mapping in EC2 instance
D. streams maintains event source mapping in notification
E. streams maintains event source mapping in API
Answer (A)
Question 12:
Select two custom origin servers from the following?
A. S3 bucket
B. S3 object
C. EC2 instance
D. Elastic Load Balancer
E. API gateway
Answer (C,D)
Question 13:
What two attributes are only associated with CloudFront private content?
A. Amazon S3 URL
B. signed cookies
C. web distribution
D. signed URL
E. object
Answer (B,D)
Question 14:
How are origin servers located within CloudFront (Select two)
A. DNS request
B. distribution list
C. web distribution
D. RTMP protocol
E. source mapping
Answer (A,C)
Question 15:
Where are HTML files sourced from when they are not cached at a
CloudFront edge location?
A. S3 object
B. origin HTTP server
C. S3 bucket
D. nearest edge location
E. RTMP server
F. failover edge location
Answer (B)
Question 16:
What is the capacity of a single Kinesis shard? (Select two)
A. 2000 PUT records per second
B. 1 MB/sec data input and 2 MB/sec data output
C. 10 MB/sec data input and 10 MB/sec data output
D. 1000 PUT records per second
E. unlimited
Answer (B,D)
Question 17:
What Amazon AWS service supports real-time processing of data stream
from multiple consumers and replay of records?
A. DynamoDB
B. EMR
C. Kinesis data streams
D. SQS
E. RedShift
Answer (C)
Question 18:
Your company has asked you to capture and forward a real-time data stream
on a massive scale directly to RedShift for analysis with BI tools. What AWS
tool is most appropriate that provides the feature set and cost effective?
A. DynamoDB
B. SQS
C. Elastic Map Reduce
D. Kinesis Firehose
E. SNS
F. CloudFront
Answer (D)
Question 19:
What feature permits tenants to use a private domain name instead of the
domain name that CloudFront assigns to a distribution?
A. Route 53
B. CNAME record
C. MX record
D. RTMP
E. Signed URL
Answer (B)
Question 20:
What Amazon AWS service is available to guarantee the consuming of a
unique message only once?
A. Beanstalk
B. SQL
C. Exchange
D. SQS
Answer (D)
Question 21:
What is the fastest and easiest method for migrating an on-premises VMware
virtual machine to the AWS cloud?
A. Amazon Marketplace
B. AWS Server Migration Service
C. AWS Storage Gateway
D. EC2 Import/Export
Answer (B)
Question 22:
Select the stateless protocol from the following?
A. FTP
B. TCP
C. HTTP
D. SSH
Answer (C)
Question 23:
What are three valid endpoints for an API gateway?
A. RESTful API
B. Lambda function
C. AWS service
D. web server
E. HTTP method
Answer (B,C,D)
Question 24:
How is a volume selected (identified) when making an EBS Snapshot?
A. account id
B. volume id
C. tag
D. ARN
Answer (D)
Question 25:
What deployment service enables tenants to replicate an existing AWS stack?
A. Beanstalk
B. CloudFormation
C. RedShift
D. EMR
Answer (B)
Question 26:
What three services can invoke a Lambda function?
A. SNS topic
B. CloudWatch event
C. EC2 instance
D. security group
E. S3 bucket notification
Answer (A,B,E)
Question 27:
What two services enable automatic polling of a stream for new records only
and forward them to an AWS storage service?
A. SNS
B. Kinesis
C. Lambda
D. DynamoDB
Answer (B,C)
Question 28:
Your company is deploying a web site with dynamic content to customers in
US, EU and APAC regions of the world. Content will include live streaming
videos to customers. SSL certificates are required for security purposes.
Select the AWS service delivers all requirements and provides the lowest
latency?
A. DynamoDB
B. CloudFront
C. S3
D. Redis
Answer (B)
Question 29:
What are the advantages of Beanstalk? (Select two)
A. orchestration and deployment abstraction
B. template-oriented deployment service
C. easiest solution for developers to deploy cloud applications
D. does not support cloud containers
Answer (A,C)
Question 30:
You are a network analyst with JSON scripting experience and asked to select
an AWS solution that enables automated deployment of cloud services. The
template design would include a nondefault VPC with EC2 instances, ELB,
Auto-Scaling and active/active failover. What AWS solution is
recommended?
A. Beanstalk
B. OpsWorks
C. CloudTrail
D. CloudFormation
Answer (D)
Question 31:
Select two statements that correctly describe OpsWorks?
A. Opsworks provides operational and configuration automation
B. OpsWorks is a lower cost alternative to BeanStalk
C. OpsWorks is primarily a monitoring service
D. Chef scripts (recipes) are a key aspect of OpsWorks
Answer (A,D)
Question 32:
Your company has developed an IoT application that sends Telemetry data
from 100,000 sensors. The sensors send a datapoint of 1 KB at one-minute
intervals to a DynamoDB collector for monitoring purposes. What AWS stack
would enable you to store data for real-time processing and analytics using BI
tools?
A. Sensors -> Kinesis Stream -> Firehose -> DynamoDB
B. Sensors -> Kinesis Stream -> Firehose -> DynamoDB -> S3
C. Sensors -> AWS IoT -> Firehose -> RedShift
D. Sensors -> Kinesis Data Streams -> Firehose -> RDS
Answer (C)
Question 33:
Your company has an application that was developed and migrated to AWS
cloud. The application leverages some AWS services as part of the
architecture. The stack includes EC2 instances, RDS database, S3 buckets,
RedShift and Lambda functions. In addition there is IAM security
permissions configured with defined users, groups and roles.
The application is monitored with CloudWatch and STS was recently added
for permitting Web Identity Federation sign-on from Google accounts. You
want a solution that can leverage the experience of your employees with AWS
cloud infrastructure as well. What AWS service can create a template of the
design and configuration for easier deployment of the application to multiple
regions?
A. Snowball
B. Opsworks
C. CloudFormation
D. Beanstalk
Answer (C)
