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Question 11 of 100
A client application requires operating system privileges on a relational database server. What is an appropriate configuration for highly available database architecture?
AA standalone Amazon EC2 instance
BAmazon RDS in a Multi-AZ configuration
CAmazon EC2 instances in a replication configuration utilizing a single Availability Zone
DAmazon EC2 instances in a replication configuration utilizing two different Availability Zones
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Question 12 of 100
You have an application running on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instance, that uploads 5 GB video objects to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Video uploads are taking longer than expected, resulting in poor application performance. Which method will help improve performance of your application?
AEnable enhanced networking
BUse Amazon S3 multipart upload
CLeveraging Amazon CloudFront, use the HTTP POST method to reduce latency.
DUse Amazon Elastic Block Store Provisioned IOPS and use an Amazon EBS-optimized instance
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Question 13 of 100
You have been asked to architect a life system for user’s home directories. The solution must be accessible simultaneously to individuals across an organization. Users and groups must have permissions defined at the file or directory level. What AWS service can meet all of these requirements?
AAmazon EBS
BAmazon S3
CAmazon EFS
DAmazon DynamoDB
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Question 14 of 100
Your company is running an online sale over the coming weekend, and you will need additional compute resources to carry the additional load. If the availability of these additional instances must be guaranteed for the duration of the sale, what is the most cost-effective EC2 pricing option for this job?
AOn-Demand Instances
BSpot Instances + On-Demand Instances
CReserved Instances (3 year contract)
DDedicated Instances
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Question 15 of 100
A company is preparing to give AWS Management Console access to developers. Company policy mandates identity federation and role-based access control. Roles are currently assigned using groups in the corporate Active Directory. What combination of the following will give developers access to the AWS console? Choose 2 answers
AAWS Directory Service AD Connector
BAWS Directory Service Simple AD
CAWS Identity and Access Management groups
DAWS Identity and Access Management roles
EAWS Identity and Access Management users
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Question 16 of 100
Company ABCD has recently launched an online commerce site for bicycles on AWS. They have a "Product" DynamoDB table that stores details for each bicycle, such as, manufacturer, color, price, quantity and size to display in the online store. Due to customer demand, they want to include an image for each bicycle along with the existing details. Which approach below provides the least impact to provisioned throughput on the "Product" table?
ASerialize the image and store it in multiple DynamoDB tables
BCreate an "Images" DynamoDB table to store the Image with a foreign key constraint to the "Product" table.
CAdd an image data type to the "Product" table to store the images in binary format
DStore the images in Amazon S3 and add an S3 URL pointer to the "Product" table item for each image
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Question 17 of 100Multiple Choice
A Company is launching a static website using the zone apex (mycompany.com). The company wants to use Amazon Route 53 for DNS. Which steps should the company perform to implement a scalable and cost-effective solution? (Select TWO)
AHost the website on an Amazon EC2 instance with ELB and Auto scaling and map a Route 53 alias record to the ELB endpoint.
BHost the website using AWS Elastic Beanstalk and map a Route 53 alias record to the Beanstalk stack.
CHost the website on an Amazon EC2 instance and map a Route 53 alias record to the public IP address of the Amazon EC2 instance.
DServe the website from an Amazon S3 bucket and map a Route 53 alias record to the website endpoint.
ECreate a Route 53 hosted zone and set the NS records of the domain to use Route 53 name servers.
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Question 18 of 100
You are architecting a web application that will be backed by a relational database. The application will be read-heavy, and database queries will be computationally intensive. How can you improve overall application response for users?
AUse ElastiCache to store critical pieces of data in memory for low-latency access.
BUse Amazon SQS to distribute messages among workers that are less busy
CUse an Auto Scaling group and ELB Classic Load Balancer for the application tier.
DUse Data Pipeline to replicate your relational data across all of your web tier nodes
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Question 19 of 100
You are designing a web application that stores static assets in an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket. You expect this bucket to immediately receive over 150 PUT requests per second. What should you do to ensure optimal performance?
AUse multi-part upload.
BAdd a random prefix to the key names
CAmazon S3 will automatically manage performance at this scale.
DUse a predictable naming scheme, such as sequential numbers or date time sequences, in the key names
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Question 20 of 100
You are running a 2-tier app with the following: an ELB, three web app server on EC2, and 1 MySQL RDS db. With grown load, db queries take longer and longer and slow down the overall response time for user request. What options could speed up performance? (Choose 3)
ACreate an RDS read-replica and redirect half of the database read request to it
BCache database queries in amazon ElastiCache
CSetup RDS in multi-availability zone mode.
DShard the database and distribute loads between shards.
EUse amazon CloudFront to cache database queries.
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