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1. A sys admin is maintaining an application on AWS. The application is installed on EC2 and the user has configured ELB and Auto Scaling. Considering future load increase, the user is planning to launch new servers proactively so that they can be registered with ELB. How can the user add these instances with Auto Scaling?
 
 
 
 

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2. An organization has created five IAM users. The organization wants to give them the same login ID but different passwords. How can the organization achieve this?
 
 
 
 

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3. To retain full administrative privileges of the underlying EC2 instances, which services should be used? (Choose two)
 
 
 
 
 

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4. How can the domain’s zone apex, for example ‘myzoneapexdomain com’, be pointed toward an Elastic Load Balancer?
 
 
 
 

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5. What is Amazon Elastic Transcoder?
 
 
 
 

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6. A user has created an ELB with three instances. How many security groups will ELB create by default?
 
 
 
 

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7. A user has launched ten instances from the same AMI ID using Auto Scaling. The user is trying to see the average CPU utilization across all instances over the last two weeks under the CloudWatch console. How can the user achieve this?
 
 
 

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8. What would happen after a scale down policy action if an instance is under termination protection?
 
 
 
 

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9. A user is trying to pre-warm a blank EBS volume attached to a Linux instance. Which of the following steps should be performed by the user? 

 
 
 
 
 

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10. An organization is deploying a new web application. The project manager asks you to provide a multi-region deployment of a web-facing application where a controlled portion of the traffic is being processed by an alternate region. Which configuration would achieve that goal?
 
 
 
 

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11. An application is generating a log file every 5 minutes. The log file is not critical but may be required only for verification in case of some major issue. The file should be accessible over the internet whenever required. Which of the following options is the best possible storage solution?
 
 
 
 

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12. The finance team wants to visualize the pattern of an organization’s AWS spending.  The AWS tool that helps with this requirement is .

  1. AWS Cost Manager
  2. AWS Cost Explorer
  3. AWS CloudWatch
  4. AWS Consolidated Billing

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13. A user has configured CloudWatch monitoring on an EBS backed EC2 instance. If the user has not attached any additional device, which of the following metrics will always show a 0 value?
 
 
 
 

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14. A user is trying to configure the CloudWatch billing alarm. Which of the below mentioned steps should the user perform for first time alarm creation in the AWS Account Management section?
 
 
 
 

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15. A user is trying to aggregate all the CloudWatch metric data from the last week. Which of the following statistics is not available for the user as a part of data aggregation?
 
 
 
 

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16. An organization has created 50 IAM users. The organization wants each user to be able to change his or her password but not change his or her access keys. How can the organization achieve this?
 
 
 
 

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17. An admin is planning to monitor the ELB. Which of the below mentioned services does not help the admin capture the monitoring information about the ELB activity?
 
 
 
 

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18. You are running a database on an EC2 instance, with the data stored on Elastic Block Store (EBS) for persistence. At times throughout the day, you are seeing a large variance in the database queries’ response times. Looking into the instance with the isolate command, you see a lot of wait time on the disk volume that the database’s data is stored on. What two ways can you improve the performance of the database’s storage, while maintaining the current persistence of the data? (Choose two)
 
 
 
 

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19. A user has received a message from the support team that an issue occurred one week ago between 3 AM to 4 AM, and the EC2 server was not reachable. The user is checking the CloudWatch metrics of that instance. How can the user easily find the data using the CloudWatch console?
 
 
 
 

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20. For a AWS cloud project, the team lead created individual AWS accounts for each project. However, project manager asked to make sure that the AWS Infrastructure costs do not exceed the budget set per project for each month. Which of the following approaches can help ensure that you do not exceed the budget each month?
 
 
 
 

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21. A user has configured an Auto Scaling group with ELB. The user has enabled detailed CloudWatch monitoring on Elastic Load balancing. Which of the following statements will help the user better understand this functionality?
 
 
 
 

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22. A user has configured an Auto Scaling group with ELB. The user has enabled detailed CloudWatch monitoring on Auto Scaling. Which of the following statements will help the user better understand the functionality?
 
 
 
 

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23. is not the right option to grant permission for S3.

  1. User Access Policy
  2. S3 Object Access Policy
  3. S3 Bucket Access Policy
  4. S3 ACL

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24. What will happen to the instances if the user deletes the ELB by mistake?
 
 
 
 

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25. A user has configured ELB with three instances. The user wants to achieve High Availability, as well as redundancy, with ELB. Which of the following AWS services will help the user achieve this for ELB?
 
 
 
 

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26. If the primary instance fails, what will happen to an RDS (Relational Database Service) multi-Availability Zone deployment?
 
 
 
 

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27. In which area should the instance type definition be changed if we change the instance type for instances running in the application tier using Auto Scaling?
 
 
 
 

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28. For each AWS account, what is the maximum number of EBS volumes that can be created?
 
 
 
 

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29. An organization wants to move to Cloud. It is looking for a secure encrypted database storage option. Which of the following AWS functionalities will help them to achieve this?
 
 
 
 

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30. A user has enabled detailed CloudWatch metric monitoring on an Auto Scaling group. Which of the following metrics will help the user identify the total number of instances in an Auto Scaling group,  including pending, terminating, and running instances?
 
 
 
 

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31. A user has setup a billing alarm using CloudWatch for $200. The usage of AWS exceeded $200 after some days. The user wants to increase the limit from $200 to $400. What should the user do?
 
 
 
 

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32. Which of the below mentioned actions is not supported by the CloudWatch alarm for an EC2 instance?
 
 
 
 

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33. A user is trying to understand AWS SNS. To which of the following end points is SNS unable to send a notification?
 
 
 
 

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34. What is a placement group?
 
 
 
 

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35. Which of the following services will help the admin set up notifications on RDS?
 
 
 
 

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36. Which of the following statements are true and should be considered by the sysadmin who is managing buckets, objects, and folders with AWS S3?
 
 
 
 

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37. What are the steps to delete an Auto Scaling group from CLI?
 
 
 
 

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38. A user has configured the Auto Scaling group with a minimum capacity of 3 and a maximum capacity of 5. When the user configures the AS group, how many instances will Auto Scaling launch?
 
 
 
 

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39. Which of the following parameters is not required to setup a scheduled scaling activity using Auto Scaling?
 
 
 
 

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40. A user has deployed an application on his private cloud. The user is using his own monitoring tool. He wants to configure it so that whenever there is an error, the monitoring tool will notify him via SMS. Which of the following AWS services will help in this scenario?
 
 
 
 

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41. __________ requires a custom CloudWatch metric to monitor.
 
 
 
 

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42. How can we share the stored data on an encrypted EBS volume with another AWS account?
 
 
 
 

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43. Which of the following options will not save some costs on the AWS services?
 
 
 
 

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44. What happens to the data when an EC2 EBS-backed (EBS root) instance is stopped?
 
 
 
 

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45. What are the characteristics of Amazon S3? (Choose two)
 
 
 
 
 

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46. A user runs the command “dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xvdfbs=1M” on a fresh blank EBS volume attached to a Linux instance. Which of the following activities is the user performing with the command given above?
 
 
 
 

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47. You use S3 to store critical data for your company. Several users within your group currently have lull permissions to your S3 buckets. You need to come up with a solution that does not impact your users and also protects against the accidental deletion of objects. Which two options will address this issue? (Choose two)
 
 
 
 

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48. You receive a frantic call from a new DBA who accidentally dropped a table containing all your customers. Which Amazon RDS feature will allow you to reliably restore your database to within five minutes of when the mistake was made?
 
 
 
 

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49. You are running a web-application on AWS consisting of the following components: An Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), an Auto-Scaling Group of EC2 instances running Linux/PHP/Apache, and Relational DataBase Service (RDS) MySQL. Which security measures fall into AWS’s responsibility?
 
 
 
 

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50. AWS Cloud formation can be used for automatic deployment requirements. Which of the following components are required as a part of the template?
 
 
 
 

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