AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner ( AWS Cloud Practitioner ) Quiz Questions and Answers

A Solutions Architect is designing a critical business application with a relational database that runs on an EC2 instance. It requires a single EBS volume that can support up to 16,000 IOPS. Which Amazon EBS volume type can meet the performance requirements of this application?

Answer :
  • EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD

Explanation :

<p>With Provisioned IOPS, you specify an IOPS rate when creating a volume, and then Amazon EBS provisions that rate for the lifetime of the volume. Amazon EBS currently supports up to<strong>&nbsp;1,000 IOPS</strong>&nbsp;per Provisioned IOPS volume, with higher limits coming soon.</p>

There is a requirement to collect important metrics from AWS RDS and EC2 Instances. Which of the following services can help fulfill this requirement?

Answer :
  • Amazon CloudWatch

Explanation :

<p><a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/rds-metrics.html">Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon RDS - Amazon Relational Database Service</a></p>

An administrator runs a highly available application in AWS. A file storage layer is needed that can share between EC2 instances and scale the platform more easily. Which AWS service can perform this action?

Answer :
  • EFS

Explanation :

<p><a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/whatisefs.html">What is Amazon Elastic File System? - Amazon Elastic File System</a></p>

You’ve been asked to migrate a static website onto AWS. You have been told that the solution should be cost-effective. Which of the following solutions would you consider?

Answer :
  • Create a website using S3 static website hosting

Explanation :

<p><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cloud-migration/how-to-migrate/">How to Migrate - Amazon Web Services</a></p>

You have a DevOps team in your current organisational structure. They are keen to know if there is any service available in AWS which can be used to manage infrastructure as code. Which of the following can be met with such a requirement?

Answer :
  • Using AWS Cloudformation

Explanation :

<p><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/devops/">DevOps - Amazon Web Services (AWS)</a></p>

You need to migrate an existing on-premise application on AWS. It is a legacy-based application with little development support. Which of the following would be the best way to host this service in AWS?

Answer :
  • EC2 instances with EBS backed volumes

Explanation :

Lift and shift migration is done to EC2. Other services requires changes.

Your company is planning to host resources in the AWS Cloud. They want to use services that can be used to decouple resources hosted on the cloud. Which of the following services can help fulfill this requirement?

Answer :
  • AWS SQS

Explanation :

SQS is a message repository used to decouple applications

Which of the following components of the Cloudfront service can be used to distribute content to users across the globe?

Answer :
  • Amazon Edge locations

Explanation :

Edge Locations are datacenters for caching of data