AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Practice – Quiz 1

You are working for a web development company. In your new web application you need to use a database. The schema of this database will change often. Which is the fully managed AWS NoSQL database that supports both document and key-value store models, and are good for storing frequently schema changing database.

Assume you work for a small startup. In your organization you are about to migrate few of the infrastructure into AWS. Assume you have limited funding and you're extremely cost conscious. Which AWS service can send you alerts via email or SNS topic when you are forecast to exceed your funding capacity so you can take action?

Which of the following service gives you the ability to see and track all the resources changes in your AWS Account?

You are working for a bank as a solution architect. In your bank you needs to monitor all the API activity for audit purposes. This audit would be conducted in the future as well. How would you design your solution to meet the present and future needs?

You are working as a solution architect in a web development company. You want to host an application in AWS. In that application you want to store session data. Which all the services you could use for this. Choose 3 options.

You are working for app development company in Bangalore .You have developed a NodeJS application that is running on Lambda. The application is using describeAccountAttributes to list the Amazon RDS quotas for the account, such as the number of DB instances allowed. If it is not working, what will be the most probable cause?

You are working for a web development company. Your web application front end consists of multiple EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer (Classic ). You configured ELB to perform health checks on these EC2 instances. If an instance fails to pass health checks, which statement will be true?

You work as a solution architect for a software development company. As a solution architect you are considering possible option for improving the security of the data on an amazon EBS volume attached to a Linux EC2 instance. Which solution will improve the security of the data?

Using the AWS Server Migration Service, what's the maximum number of VMWare VMs that can be migrated concurrently?

How many VPCs can an Internet Gateway be attached to at any given time?

What is needed to enable cross region replication between two Amazon s3 buckets?

Suppose you work for a bank as a solution architect. In your bank, as part of bracnh repliaction you decide to use AWS CloudFormation to create a collection of related AWS and third party resources and to provision them in an orderly and predictable fashion. How much does AWS CloudFormation cost?

You are working as database admin in a bank. You have an IO intensive database in your production environment that requires regular backups. You need to configure them in such a way so that when an automated backup is taken, it does not impact your production environment. What RDS option should you choose to help you accomplish this?

You are working as solution architect for a online training institute called Step2c.com. Your institution is building a video streaming service accessible to students who have paid an ongoing subscription. The students who have paid their subscription have their data in DynamoDB. You would like to expose the students to a Serverless architecture allowing them to request the video files who sit in S3 and are distributed by CloudFront, protected by an OAI. What do you recommend? (select two)

Assume you work for a web development company. Because of security issues, you have enabled CloudTrail logs for your company’s AWS account. How will you make sure all this logs are encrypted?

You are working as a network admin of bank. Your bank using AWS cloud for providing some support to bank customer. For this you designed a costume VPC. You would like to add a subnet to this vpc, but you have exceeded the CIDR block range for the vpc. How can you add another subnet to this VPC?

You are working as a data analyst for a bank. In your bank you about use AWS to store your on premises data. What is the maximum size of a object that can be uploaded to S3 bucket in a single PUT.

Amazon SWF is designed to help users____.

You work for a web application development company. Your company use a 2 tier architecture for your web application. Web server are running in public sub net, where as the data base server use private sub net. You have an EC2 instance running a database located in a private subnet. To allow the EC2 instance to download updates you have implemented a NAT Gateway. The instance is unable to download updates. What is the most probable cause?

You work for a Bank. In your bank you are using hybrid cloud using aws. For this you use a AWS Virtual Private Network (AWS VPN), that lets you establish a secure and private tunnel from your network or device to the AWS global network. How will you monitor , whether the vpn connection is up or down ?