Guide Exam Questions and Answers
Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying
compute workloads - Answer-Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand
when needed
If your project requires monthly reports that iterate through very large amounts of data,
which Amazon Elastic Cloud (Amazon EC2) purchasing option should you consider? -
Answer-Scheduled Reserved Instances
What is included in an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)? - Answer-All of the above
Which Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) feature ensures your instances
will not share a physical host with instances from any other customer? - Answer-
Dedicated Instances
Which of the following services is a serverless compute service in AWS? - Answer-AWS
Lambda
What is the service provided by AWS that enables developers to easily deploy and
manage applications in the cloud? - Answer-AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Your web application needs four instances to support study traffic all of the time. On the
last day of the month, the traffic triples. What is the most cost-effective way to handle
this pattern? - Answer-Run for Reserved Instances constantly, then add eight On-
Demand Instances on the last day of each month
Containers contain an entire operating system
True or False? - Answer-False
Which Amazon EC2 option is best for long-term workloads with predictable usage
patterns? - Answer-Reserved Instances
Which of the following must be specified when launching a new Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Windows Instance
(Choose 2) - Answer-Amazon EC2 Instance type
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Which of the following is not one of the four areas of the Performance Efficiency pillar of
the AWS Well-Architected Framework? - Answer-Tranceability
Which of the following is a principle when designing cloud-based systems? - Answer-
Assume everything will fail