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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
AWS Well-Architected Framework - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Perform operations as code
Make frequent, small, reversible changes
Refine operations procedures frequently
Anticipate failure
Learn from all operational failures
Amazon Macie - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data
privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive
data in AWS. Amazon Macie automates the discovery of sensitive data at scale and lowers the cost of
protecting your data.
Amazon Detective - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅visually Analyze dqata and automatically processes
terabytes of event data records about IP traffic, AWS management operations, and malicious or
unauthorized activity.
Amazon Detective - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Automatically processes terabytes of event data
records about IP traffic, AWS management operations, and malicious or unauthorized activity.
AWS Policy Generator - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A tool that enables you to create policies that
control access to Amazon Web Services (AWS) products and resources.
AWS Cloud Development Kit - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅An open source software development
framework to define cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. With AWS CDK
you can stick to using programming languages that are familiar to you and have infrastructure deployed
using AWS CloudFormation.
AWS CodeCommit - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Is a fully-managed source control service that hosts
secure Git-based repositories. It makes it easy for teams to collaborate on code in a secure and highly
scalable ecosystem.
,AWS CodeGuru - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅CodeGuru is used to review code and provide intelligent
recommendations for improvement.
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Is a secure, isolated private cloud hosted
within a public cloud environment, allowing users to have a dedicated section of the cloud with full
control over their virtual networking environment, including IP addresses, subnets, and routing tables.
This setup enables businesses to run sensitive applications and workloads with enhanced security and
compliance, similar to an on-premises data center but with the scalability and flexibility of the public
cloud.
Amazon Kinesis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Used for real-time streaming data and can technically be
used to build a real-time analytics solution, has its own streaming data solution.
Amazon Redshift - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅This is a data warehousing service designed to work with
business intelligence tools for analytical reporting.
Amazon SQS - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅This is a message queue service used to decouple the
components of a cloud application.
Amazon MSK - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Managed Streaming for Kafka is a fully managed service that
facilitates building and running applications built on Apache Kafka without having to manage the
underlying infrastructure. It would allow the financial services firm to focus on building their analytics
platform without being concerned about Kafka's infrastructure management, hence reducing the
operational overhead.
Amazon Aurora - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Is a relational database that is compatible with MySQL
and PostgreSQL database engines. Aurora is extremely fast and scales up to 128 TB. You can also deploy
replicas for read scaling within and across Regions. Aurora also offers automated backups.
Amazon DocumentDB - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅NoSQL database that supports document data
structures.
Convertible Reserved Instances - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A convertible reserved instance enables
you to exchange one or more Convertible Reserved Instances for another Convertible Reserved Instance
with a different configuration, including instance family, operating system, and tenancy.
, Standard Reserved Instances - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅With standard RIs you cannot change the
instance type but you can change the instance size.
Regional Reserved Instances - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Regional RIs apply to instance usage within
any AZ in a specified Region.
Zonal Reserved Instances - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Zonal RIs apply to instance usage within a
specific AZ within an AWS Region.
AWS Data Exchange - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅This service allows customers to find, subscribe to,
and use third-party data in the cloud. Companies can subscribe to a diverse selection of data products
provided by various data providers.
AWS Glue - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that
makes it easy to prepare and load data for analytics. While AWS Glue can work with data, it does not
primarily facilitate the subscription to third-party data sources as described in the scenario.
AWS Data Pipeline - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅This service is designed to facilitate the processing and
transfer of data between different AWS services and on-premises data sources. It isn't primarily used for
subscribing to third-party data sources.
AWS Trusted Advisor - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅This service advises you on best practices for
provisioning resources. Offers a rich set of best practice checks and recommendations across five
categories: cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, performance, and service limits.
AWS Step Functions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Allows developers to coordinate multiple AWS
services into serverless workflows. It provides a visual console to visualize the steps in the workflow,
helping to build and update applications quickly and monitor the status of each step in the process.
AWS Lambda - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Serverless functions
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
AWS Well-Architected Framework - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Perform operations as code
Make frequent, small, reversible changes
Refine operations procedures frequently
Anticipate failure
Learn from all operational failures
Amazon Macie - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data
privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive
data in AWS. Amazon Macie automates the discovery of sensitive data at scale and lowers the cost of
protecting your data.
Amazon Detective - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅visually Analyze dqata and automatically processes
terabytes of event data records about IP traffic, AWS management operations, and malicious or
unauthorized activity.
Amazon Detective - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Automatically processes terabytes of event data
records about IP traffic, AWS management operations, and malicious or unauthorized activity.
AWS Policy Generator - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A tool that enables you to create policies that
control access to Amazon Web Services (AWS) products and resources.
AWS Cloud Development Kit - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅An open source software development
framework to define cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. With AWS CDK
you can stick to using programming languages that are familiar to you and have infrastructure deployed
using AWS CloudFormation.
AWS CodeCommit - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Is a fully-managed source control service that hosts
secure Git-based repositories. It makes it easy for teams to collaborate on code in a secure and highly
scalable ecosystem.
,AWS CodeGuru - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅CodeGuru is used to review code and provide intelligent
recommendations for improvement.
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Is a secure, isolated private cloud hosted
within a public cloud environment, allowing users to have a dedicated section of the cloud with full
control over their virtual networking environment, including IP addresses, subnets, and routing tables.
This setup enables businesses to run sensitive applications and workloads with enhanced security and
compliance, similar to an on-premises data center but with the scalability and flexibility of the public
cloud.
Amazon Kinesis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Used for real-time streaming data and can technically be
used to build a real-time analytics solution, has its own streaming data solution.
Amazon Redshift - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅This is a data warehousing service designed to work with
business intelligence tools for analytical reporting.
Amazon SQS - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅This is a message queue service used to decouple the
components of a cloud application.
Amazon MSK - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Managed Streaming for Kafka is a fully managed service that
facilitates building and running applications built on Apache Kafka without having to manage the
underlying infrastructure. It would allow the financial services firm to focus on building their analytics
platform without being concerned about Kafka's infrastructure management, hence reducing the
operational overhead.
Amazon Aurora - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Is a relational database that is compatible with MySQL
and PostgreSQL database engines. Aurora is extremely fast and scales up to 128 TB. You can also deploy
replicas for read scaling within and across Regions. Aurora also offers automated backups.
Amazon DocumentDB - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅NoSQL database that supports document data
structures.
Convertible Reserved Instances - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A convertible reserved instance enables
you to exchange one or more Convertible Reserved Instances for another Convertible Reserved Instance
with a different configuration, including instance family, operating system, and tenancy.
, Standard Reserved Instances - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅With standard RIs you cannot change the
instance type but you can change the instance size.
Regional Reserved Instances - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Regional RIs apply to instance usage within
any AZ in a specified Region.
Zonal Reserved Instances - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Zonal RIs apply to instance usage within a
specific AZ within an AWS Region.
AWS Data Exchange - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅This service allows customers to find, subscribe to,
and use third-party data in the cloud. Companies can subscribe to a diverse selection of data products
provided by various data providers.
AWS Glue - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that
makes it easy to prepare and load data for analytics. While AWS Glue can work with data, it does not
primarily facilitate the subscription to third-party data sources as described in the scenario.
AWS Data Pipeline - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅This service is designed to facilitate the processing and
transfer of data between different AWS services and on-premises data sources. It isn't primarily used for
subscribing to third-party data sources.
AWS Trusted Advisor - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅This service advises you on best practices for
provisioning resources. Offers a rich set of best practice checks and recommendations across five
categories: cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, performance, and service limits.
AWS Step Functions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Allows developers to coordinate multiple AWS
services into serverless workflows. It provides a visual console to visualize the steps in the workflow,
helping to build and update applications quickly and monitor the status of each step in the process.
AWS Lambda - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Serverless functions
