Question 1
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What does Amazon S3 stand for?
Question 2
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You must assign each server to at least _____ security group
Question 3
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Before I delete an EBS volume, what can I do if I want to recreate the volume later?
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Create a copy of the EBS volume (not a snapshot)
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Store a snapshot of the volume
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Download the content to an EC2 instance
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Back up the data in to a physical disk
Question 4
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Select the most correct answer: The device name /dev/sda1 (within Amazon EC2 ) is _____
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Possible for EBS volumes
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Reserved for the root device
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Recommended for EBS volumes
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Recommended for instance store volumes
Question 5
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If I want an instance to have a public IP address, which IP address should I use?
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Elastic IP Address
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Class B IP Address
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Class A IP Address
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Dynamic IP Address
Question 6
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What does RRS stand for when talking about S3?
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Redundancy Removal System
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Relational Rights Storage
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Regional Rights Standard
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Reduced Redundancy Storage
Question 7
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All Amazon EC2 instances are assigned two IP addresses at launch, out of which one can only be reached from within the Amazon EC2 network?
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Multiple IP address
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Public IP address
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Private IP address
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Elastic IP Address
Question 8
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What does Amazon SWF stand for?
Answer
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Simple Web Flow
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Simple Work Flow
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Simple Wireless Forms
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Simple Web Form
Question 9
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What is the Reduced Redundancy option in Amazon S3?
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Less redundancy for a lower cost.
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It doesn't exist in Amazon S3, but in Amazon EBS.
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It allows you to destroy any copy of your files outside a specific jurisdiction.
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It doesn't exist at all
Question 10
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Fill in the blanks: Resources that are created in AWS are identified by a unique identifier called an _____
Question 11
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If I write the below command, what does it do? ec2-run ami-e3a5408a -n 20 -g appserver
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Start twenty instances as members of appservergroup.
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Creates 20 rules in the security group named appserver
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Terminate twenty instances as members ofappservergroup.
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Start 20 security groups
Question 12
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While creating an Amazon RDS DB, your first task is to set up a DB ______ that controls what IP addresses or EC2 instances have access to your DB Instance.
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Security Pool
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Secure Zone
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Security Token Pool
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Security Group
Question 13
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When you run a DB Instance as a Multi-AZ deployment, the "_____" serves database writes and reads
Answer
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secondary
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backup
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standby
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primary
Question 14
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Every user you create in the IAM system starts with ______.
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partial permissions
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full permissions
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no permissions
Question 15
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Can you create IAM security credentials for existing users?
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Yes, existing users can have security credentials associated with their account.
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No, IAM requires that all users who have credentials set up are not existing users
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No, security credentials are created within GROUPS, and then users are associated to GROUPS at a later time.
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Yes, but only IAM credentials, not ordinary security credentials.
Question 16
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What does Amazon EC2 provide?
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Virtual servers in the Cloud.
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A platform to run code (Java, PHP, Python), paying on an hourly basis.
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Computer Clusters in the Cloud.
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Physical servers, remotely managed by the customer.
Question 17
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Amazon SWF is designed to help users...
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Design graphical user interface interactions
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Manage user identification and authorisation
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Store Web content
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Coordinate synchronous and asynchronous tasks which are distributed and fault tolerant.
Question 18
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Can I control if and when MySQL based RDS Instance is upgraded to new supported versions?
Question 19
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If I modify a DB Instance or the DB parameter group associated with the instance, should I reboot the instance for the changes to take effect?
Question 20
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When you view the block device mapping for your instance, you can see only the EBS volumes, not the instance store volumes.
Question 21
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By default, EBS volumes that are created and attached to an instance at launch are deleted when that instance is terminated. You can modify this behavior by changing the value of the flag_____ to false when you launch the instance
Answer
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DeleteOnTermination
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RemoveOnDeletion
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RemoveOnTermination
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TerminateOnDeletion
Question 22
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What are the initial settings of an user created security group?
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Allow all inbound traffic and Allow no outbound traffic
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Allow no inbound traffic and Allow no outbound traffic
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Allow no inbound traffic and Allow all outbound traffic
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Allow all inbound traffic and Allow all outbound traffic
Question 23
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Will my standby RDS instance be in the same Region as my primary?
Question 24
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What does Amazon Elastic Beanstalk provide?
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A scalable storage appliance on top of Amazon Web Services.
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An application container on top of Amazon Web Services.
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A service by this name doesn't exist.
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A scalable cluster of EC2 instances.
Question 25
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True or False: When using IAM to control access to your RDS resources, the key names that can be used are case sensitive. For example, aws:CurrentTime is NOT equivalent to AWS:currenttime.
Question 26
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What will be the status of the snapshot until the snapshot is complete.
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running
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working
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progressing
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pending
Question 27
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Can we attach an EBS volume to more than one EC2 instance at the same time?
Question 28
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True or False: Automated backups are enabled by default for a new DB Instance.
Question 29
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What does the AWS Storage Gateway provide?
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It allows to integrate on-premises IT environments with Cloud Storage.
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A direct encrypted connection to Amazon S3.
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It's a backup solution that provides an on-premises Cloud storage.
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It provides an encrypted SSL endpoint for backups in the Cloud.
Question 30
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Amazon RDS automated backups and DB Snapshots are currently supported for only the ______ storage engine
Question 31
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How many relational database engines does RDS currently support?
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Three: MySQL, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
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Just two: MySQL and Oracle.
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Five: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra and SQLite.
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Just one: MySQL.
Question 32
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Fill in the blanks: The base URI for all requests for instance metadata is _____
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http://254.169.169.254/latest/
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http://169.169.254.254/latest/
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http://127.0.0.1/latest/
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http://169.254.169.254/latest/
Question 33
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While creating the snapshots using the the command line tools, which command should I be using?
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ec2-deploy-snapshot
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ec2-fresh-snapshot
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ec2-create-snapshot
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ec2-new-snapshot
Question 34
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Typically, you want your application to check whether a request generated an error before you spend any time processing results. The easiest way to find out if an error occurred is to look for an______node in the response from the Amazon RDS API.
Question 35
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What are the two permission types used by AWS?
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Resource-based and Product-based
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Product-based and Service-based
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Service-based
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User-based and Resource-based
Question 36
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In the Amazon cloudwatch, which metric should I be checking to ensure that your DB Instance has enough free storage space?
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FreeStorage
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FreeStorageSpace
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FreeStorageVolume
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FreeDBStorageSpace
Question 37
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Amazon RDS DB snapshots and automated backups are stored in...
Answer
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Amazon S3
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Amazon ECS Volume
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Amazon RDS
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Amazon EMR
Question 38
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What is the maximum key length of a tag?
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512 Unicode characters
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64 Unicode characters
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256 Unicode characters
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128 Unicode characters
Question 39
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Groups can't _____.
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be nested more than 3 levels
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be nested at all
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be nested more than 4 levels
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be nested more than 2 levels
Question 40
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You must increase storage size in increments of at least _____ %
Question 41
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Changes to the backup window take effect ______.
Question 42
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Using Amazon CloudWatch's Free Tier, what is the frequency of metric updates which you receive?
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5 minutes
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500 milliseconds.
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30 seconds
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1 minute
Question 43
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Which is the default region in AWS?
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eu-west-1
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us-east-1
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us-east-2
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ap-southeast-1
Question 44
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What are the Amazon EC2 API tools?
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They don't exist. The Amazon EC2 AMI tools, instead, are used to manage permissions.
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Command-line tools to the Amazon EC2 web service.
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They are a set of graphical tools to manage EC2 instances.
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They don't exist. The Amazon API tools are a client interface to Amazon Web Services.
Question 45
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What are the two types of licensing options available for using Amazon RDS for Oracle?
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BYOL and Enterprise License
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BYOL and License Included
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Enterprise License and License Included
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Role based License and License Included
Question 46
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What does a "Domain" refer to in Amazon SWF?
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A security group in which only tasks inside can communicate with each other
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A special type of worker
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A collection of related Workflows
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The DNS record for the Amazon SWF service
Question 47
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EBS Snapshots occur _____
Answer
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Asynchronously
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Synchronously
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Weekly
Question 48
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Disabling automated backups ______ disable the point-in-time recovery.
Answer
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if configured to can
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will never
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will
Question 49
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Out of the stripping options available for the EBS volumes, which one has the following disadvantage : 'Doubles the amount of I/O required from the instance to EBS compared to RAID 0, because you're mirroring all writes to a pair of volumes, limiting how much you can stripe.' ?
Answer
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Raid 0
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RAID 1+0 (RAID 10)
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Raid 1
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Raid 2
Question 50
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Is creating a Read Replica of another Read Replica supported?
Question 51
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Can Amazon S3 uploads resume on failure or do they need to restart?
Question 52
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Which of the following cannot be used in Amazon EC2 to control who has access to specific Amazon EC2 instances?
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Security Groups
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IAM System
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SSH keys
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Windows passwords
Question 53
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Fill in the blanks : _____ let you categorize your EC2 resources in different ways, for example, by purpose, owner, or environment.
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wildcards
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pointers
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Tags
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special filters
Question 54
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How can I change the security group membership for interfaces owned by other AWS, such as Elastic Load Balancing?
Question 55
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What is the maximum write throughput I can provision for a single DynamoDB table?
Answer
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1,000 write capacity units
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100,000 write capacity units
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DynamoDB is designed to scale without limits, but if you go beyond 10,000 you have to contact AWS first
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10,000 write capacity units
Question 56
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What does the following command do with respect to the Amazon EC2 security groups?
ec2-revoke RevokeSecurityGroupIngress
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Removes one or more security groups from a rule.
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Removes one or more security groups from an Amazon EC2 instance.
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Removes one or more rules from a security group.
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Removes a security group from our account.
Question 57
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Can a 'user' be associated with multiple AWS accounts?
Question 58
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Manually created DB Snapshots are deleted after the DB Instance is deleted.
Question 59
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Can I move a Reserved Instance from one Region to another?
Question 60
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What is Amazon Glacier?
Answer
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You mean Amazon "Iceberg": it's a low-cost storage service.
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A security tool that allows to "freeze" an EBS volume and perform computer forensics on it.
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A low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup.
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It's a security tool that allows to "freeze" an EC2 instance and perform computer forensics on it.
Question 61
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What is the durability of S3 RRS?
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99.99%
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99.95%
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99.995%
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99.999999999%
Question 62
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What does specifying the mapping /dev/sdc=none when launching an instance do?
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Prevents /dev/sdc from creating the instance.
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Prevents /dev/sdc from deleting the instance.
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Set the value of /dev/sdc to 'zero'.
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Prevents /dev/sdc from attaching to the instance.
Question 63
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Is Federated Storage Engine currently supported by Amazon RDS for MySQL?
Question 64
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Is there a limit to how many groups a user can be in?
Question 65
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When you perform a restore operation to a point in time or from a DB Snapshot, a new DB Instance is created with a new endpoint.
Question 66
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A/An _____ acts as a firewall that controls the traffic allowed to reach one or more instances.
Answer
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security group
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ACL
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IAM
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Private IP Addresses
Question 67
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Will my standby RDS instance be in the same Availability Zone as my primary?
Question 68
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While launching an RDS DB instance, on which page I can select the Availability Zone?
Answer
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REVIEW
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DB INSTANCE DETAILS
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MANAGEMENT OPTIONS
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ADDITIONAL CONFIGURATION
Question 69
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What does the following command do with respect to the Amazon EC2 security groups?
ec2-create-group CreateSecurityGroup
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Groups the user created security groups in to a new group for easy access.
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Creates a new security group for use with your account.
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Creates a new group inside the security group.
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Creates a new rule inside the security group.
Question 70
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In the Launch Db Instance Wizard, where can I select the backup and maintennance options?
Question 71
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What happens to the data on an instance if the instance reboots (intentionally or unintentionally)?
Question 72
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How many types of block devices does Amazon EC2 support?
Question 73
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Provisioned IOPS Costs: you are charged for the IOPS and storage whether or not you use them in a given month. True or False?
Question 74
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IAM provides several policy templates you can use to automatically assign permissions to the groups you create. The _____ policy template gives the Admins group permission to access all account resources,except your AWS account information
Question 75
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Can Amazon S3 uploads resume on failure or do they need to restart?
Answer
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Resume on failure
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You can resume them, if you flag the "resume on failure" option before uploading.
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Restart from beginning
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This question doesn't make sense
Question 76
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While performing the volume status checks, if the status is insufficient-data, what does it mean?
Question 77
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IAM's Policy Evaluation Logic always starts with a default ______ for every request, except for those that use the AWS account's root security credentials
Question 78
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By default, when an EBS volume is attached to a Windows instance, it may show up as any drive letter on the instance. You can change the settings of the _____ Service to set the drive letters of the EBS volumes per your specifications.
Answer
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EBSConfig Service
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AMIConfig Service
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Ec2Config Service
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Ec2-AMIConfig Service
Question 79
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For each DB Instance class, what is the maximum size of associated storage capacity?
Question 80
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SQL Server _____ store logins and passwords in the master database.
Question 81
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What is Oracle SQL Developer?
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An AWS developer who is an expert in Amazon RDS using both the Oracle and SQL Server DB engines
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A graphical Java tool distributed without cost by Oracle.
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It is a variant of the SQL Server Management Studio designed by Microsoft to support Oracle DBMS functionalities
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A different DBMS released by Microsoft free of cost
Question 82
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Does Amazon RDS allow direct host access via Telnet, Secure Shell (SSH), or Windows Remote Desktop Connection?
Question 83
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To view information about an Amazon EBS volume, open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/, click _____ in the Navigation pane.
Answer
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EBS
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Describe
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Details
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Volumes
Question 84
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You must increase storage size in increments of at least _____ %
Question 85
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Using Amazon IAM, can I give permission based on organizational groups?
Question 86
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What is an isolated database environment running in the cloud (Amazon RDS) called?
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DB Instance
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DB Server
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DB Unit
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DB Volume
Question 87
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While signing in REST/ Query requests, for additional security, you should transmit your requests using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) by using _____
Question 88
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What happens to the I/O operations while you take a database snapshot?
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I/O operations to the database are suspended for a few minutes while the backup is in progress.
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I/O operations to the database are sent to a Replica (if available) for a few minutes while the backup is in progress.
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I/O operations will be functioning normally
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I/O operations to the database are suspended for an hour while the backup is in progress
Question 89
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Read Replicas require a transactional storage engine and are only supported for the _____ storage engine
Answer
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OracleISAM
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MSSQLDB
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InnoDB
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MyISAM
Question 90
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When running my DB Instance as a Multi-AZ deployment, can I use the standby for read or write operations?
Question 91
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When should I choose Provisioned IOPS over Standard RDS storage?
Answer
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If you have batch-oriented workloads
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If you use production online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads.
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If you have workloads that are not sensitive to consistent performance
Question 92
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In the 'Detailed' monitoring data available for your Amazon EBS volumes, Provisioned IOPS volumes automatically send _____ minute metrics to Amazon CloudWatch.
Question 93
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What is the minimum charge for the data transferred between Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2 Instances in the same Availability Zone?
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USD 0.10 per GB
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No charge. It is free.
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USD 0.02 per GB
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USD 0.01 per GB
Question 94
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Are Reserved Instances available for Multi-AZ Deployments?
Question 95
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Which service enables AWS customers to manage users and permissions in AWS?
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AWS Access Control Service (ACS)
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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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AWS Identity Manager (AIM)
Question 96
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Which Amazon Storage behaves like raw, unformatted, external block devices that you can attach to your instances?
Answer
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None of these.
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Amazon Instance Storage
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Amazon EBS
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All of these
Question 97
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Which Amazon service can I use to define a virtual network that closely resembles a traditional data center?
Answer
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Amazon VPC
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Amazon ServiceBus
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Amazon EMR
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Amazon RDS
Question 98
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Amazon RDS automated backups and DB Snapshots are currently supported for only the ______ storage engine
Question 99
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MySQL installations default to port _____.
Question 100
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If you have chosen Multi-AZ deployment, in the event of a planned or unplanned outage of your primary DB Instance, Amazon RDS automatically switches to the standby replica. The automatic failover mechanism simply changes the ______ record of the main DB Instance to point to the standby DB Instance.
Question 101
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If I want to run a database in an Amazon instance, which is the most recommended Amazon storage option?
Question 102
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In regards to IAM you can edit user properties later, but you cannot use the console to change the _____.
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user name
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password
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default group
Question 103
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Can I test my DB Instance against a new version before upgrading?
Question 104
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If you add a tag that has the same key as an existing tag on a DB Instance, the new value overwrites the old value.
Question 105
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Can I use Provisioned IOPS with VPC?
Question 106
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Making your snapshot public shares all snapshot data with everyone. Can the snapshots with AWS Marketplace product codes be made public?
Question 107
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Fill in the blanks: "To ensure failover capabilities, consider using a _____ for incoming traffic on a network interface".
Answer
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primary public IP
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secondary private IP
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secondary public IP
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add on secondary IP
Question 108
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If I have multiple Read Replicas for my master DB Instance and I promote one of them, what happens to the rest of the Read Replicas?
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The remaining Read Replicas will still replicate from the older master DB Instance
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The remaining Read Replicas will be deleted
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The remaining Read Replicas will be combined to one read replica
Question 109
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What does Amazon CloudFormation provide?
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The ability to setup Autoscaling for Amazon EC2 instances.
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None of these.
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A templated resource creation for Amazon Web Services.
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A template to map network resources for Amazon Web Services.
Question 110
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Can I encrypt connections between my application and my DB Instance using SSL?
Answer
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No
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Yes
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Only in VPC
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Only in certain regions
Question 111
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What are the four levels of AWS Premium Support?
Answer
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Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise
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Basic, Startup, Business, Enterprise
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Free, Bronze, Silver, Gold
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All support is free
Question 112
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What can I access by visiting the URL: http://status.aws.amazon.com/ ?
Question 113
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Please select the Amazon EC2 resource which cannot be tagged.
Question 114
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Because of the extensibility limitations of striped storage attached to Windows Server, Amazon RDS does not currently support increasing storage on a _____ DB Instance.
Question 115
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Through which of the following interfaces is AWS Identity and Access Management available?
A) AWS Management Console;
B) Command line interface (CLI);
C) IAM Query API;
D) Existing libraries
Question 116
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Select the incorrect statement
Answer
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In Amazon EC2, the private IP address is only returned to Amazon EC2 when the instance is stopped or terminated
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In Amazon VPC, an instance retains its private IP addresses when the instance is stopped.
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In Amazon VPC, an instance does NOT retain its private IP addresses when the instance is stopped.
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In Amazon EC2, the private IP address is associated exclusively with the instance for its lifetime
Question 117
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How are the EBS snapshots saved on Amazon S3?
Question 118
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What is the type of monitoring data (for Amazon EBS volumes) which is available automatically in 5-minute periods at no charge called?
Answer
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Basic
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Primary
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Detailed
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Local
Question 119
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The new DB Instance that is created when you promote a Read Replica retains the backup window period.
Question 120
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What happens when you create a topic on Amazon SNS?
Answer
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The topic is created, and it has the name you specified for it.
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An ARN (Amazon Resource Name) is created.
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You can create a topic on Amazon SQS, not on Amazon SNS.
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This question doesn't make sense.