Which AWS service is used to host static websites?
Amazon S3
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
AWS CloudFormation
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
Answer is Amazon S3
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) can be used to host static websites. It provides a cost-effective and scalable solution for storing and serving static web content, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript files, images, and videos. With Amazon S3, you can create a bucket, configure it for static website hosting, and upload your website content to the bucket. Amazon S3 then makes the content available for access via a website endpoint.
Which AWS service contains built-in engines to protect web applications that run in the cloud from SQL injection attacks and cross-site scripting?
AWS WAF
AWS Shield Advanced
Amazon GuardDuty
Amazon Detective
Answer is AWS WAF
AWS WAF is a web application firewall service that helps protect web applications from common web exploits, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. It allows you to create rules to filter and monitor HTTP and HTTPS requests to your web applications. By defining conditions and rules, AWS WAF can inspect and filter incoming requests based on various criteria, including SQL injection and XSS patterns. It integrates with other AWS services, such as Amazon CloudFront and Application Load Balancer, to provide an additional layer of security for web applications.
B. AWS Shield Advanced: Provides DDoS protection to applications that are running on AWS.
C. Amazon GuardDuty: Continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior in AWS accounts and workloads.
D. Amazon Detective: Helps to analyze, investigate, and identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities within AWS resources.
A company needs to set up user authentication for a new application. Users must be able to sign in directly with a user name and password, or through a third- party provider.
Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?
AWS Single Sign-On
AWS Signer
Amazon Cognito
AWS Directory Service
Answer is Amazon Cognito
Amazon Cognito is an identity platform for web and mobile apps. It’s a user directory, an authentication server, and an authorization service for OAuth 2.0 access tokens and AWS credentials. With Amazon Cognito, you can authenticate and authorize users from the built-in user directory, from your enterprise directory, and from consumer identity providers like Google and Facebook.
A company's IT team is managing MySQL database server clusters. The IT team has to patch the database and take backup snapshots of the data in the clusters.
The company wants to move this workload to AWS so that these tasks will be completed automatically.
What should the company do to meet these requirements?
Deploy MySQL database server clusters on Amazon EC2 instances.
Use Amazon RDS with a MySQL database.
Use an AWS CloudFormation template to deploy MySQL database servers on Amazon EC2 instances.
Migrate all the MySQL database data to Amazon S3.
Answer is Use Amazon RDS with a MySQL database.
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) is a managed database service provided by AWS. It offers fully automated database management tasks, including patching the database software and performing backups. By using Amazon RDS with a MySQL database, the company can offload the responsibility of managing the underlying infrastructure, including the database server clusters, to AWS.
With Amazon RDS, AWS takes care of tasks such as database software patching, performing backups, and managing high availability and automatic failover. The company can focus on using the database and its data without the need to worry about the operational aspects of managing the underlying infrastructure.
Secret here is the company wants to automate this repetitive tasks, AWS RDS is a relational database server that automatically updates the SQL database so you just worry about the data. (Serverless)
A company has a centralized group of users with large file storage requirements that have exceeded the space available on premises. The company wants to extend its file storage capabilities for this group while retaining the performance benefit of sharing content locally.
What is the MOST operationally efficient AWS solution for this scenario?
Create an Amazon S3 bucket for each user. Mount each bucket by using an S3 file system mounting utility.
Configure and deploy an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway. Connect each user’s workstation to the file gateway.
Move each user’s working environment to Amazon WorkSpaces. Set up an Amazon WorkDocs account for each user.
Deploy an Amazon EC2 instance and attach an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Provisioned IOPS volume. Share the EBS volume directly with the users.
Answer is Configure and deploy an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway. Connect each user’s workstation to the file gateway.
AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid storage service
Question 266
What is one technique to provide unified billing if each department within a firm has its own AWS account?
Use AWS Budgets on each account to pay only to budget.
Contact AWS Support for a monthly bill.
Create an AWS Organization from the payer account and invite the other accounts to join.
Put all invoices into one Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket, load data into Amazon Redshift, and then run a billing report.
Answer is Create an AWS Organization from the payer account and invite the other accounts to join.
Which of the following are capabilities of the AWS Cost Management tools? (Select two.)
Terminate all AWS resources automatically if budget thresholds are exceeded.
Break down AWS costs by day, service, and linked AWS account.
Create budgets and receive notifications if current of forecasted usage exceeds the budgets.
Switch automatically to Reserved Instances or Spot Instances, whichever is most cost-effective.
Move data stored in Amazon S3 to a more cost-effective storage class.
Answers are;
B. Break down AWS costs by day, service, and linked AWS account.
C. Create budgets and receive notifications if current of forecasted usage exceeds the budgets.