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title: (131-195) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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# (131-195) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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131. Which of the following services is in the category of AWS serverless platform?
**C. AWS Lambda**

132. :x: Which services are parts of the AWS serverless platform?
~~B. Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SQS, Amazon EMR~~
**C. AWS Step Functions, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS**
>:::info
>https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/
> ## The AWS serverless platform
> * Lambda
> * Fargate
> * S3
> * EFS
> * DynamoDB
> * Auora Serverless
> * RDS Proxy
> * API Gateway
> * SNS
> * SQSAppSync
> * EventBridge
> * Step Functions
> * Kinesis
> * Athena
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133. According to the AWS shared responsibility model, what is the sole responsibility of AWS?
**B. Edge location management**
134. Which AWS IAM feature is used to associate a set of permissions with multiple users?
**B. Groups**
135. Which of the following are benefits of the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)
**B. Elasticity
C. Agility**
136. Which of the following can a customer use to enable single sign-on (SSO) to the AWS Console?
**B. AWS Directory Service**
137. What are the multiple, isolated locations within an AWS Region that are connected by low-latency networks called?
**D. Availability Zones**
138. :x: Which of the following benefits does the AWS Compliance program provide to AWS customers? (Choose two.)
**A. It verifies that hosted workloads are automatically compliant with the controls of supported compliance frameworks.
B. AWS is responsible for the maintenance of common compliance framework documentation.**
~~C. It assures customers that AWS is maintaining physical security and data protection.~~
139. Which of the following services provides on-demand access to AWS compliance reports?
B. AWS Artifact**
140. As part of the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following operational controls do users fully inherit from AWS?
**A. Security management of data center**
141. When comparing AWS Cloud with on-premises Total Cost of Ownership, which expenses must be considered? (Choose two.)
**C. Storage hardware
D. Physical servers**
142. Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following tasks are the responsibility of the customer? (Choose two.)
**B. Managing the VPC network access control lists.
C. Encrypting data in transit and at rest.**
143. Which scenarios represent the concept of elasticity on AWS? (Choose two.)
**A. Scaling the number of Amazon EC2 instances based on traffic.
B. Resizing Amazon RDS instances as business needs change.**

144. When is it beneficial for a company to use a Spot Instance?
**A. When there is flexibility in when an application needs to run.**
145. :x: A company is considering moving its on-premises data center to AWS. What factors should be included in doing a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis? (Choose two.)
~~A. Amazon EC2 instance availability~~
**B. Power consumption of the data center
C. Labor costs to replace old servers**
~~D. Application developer time~~
>:::info
>https://aws.amazon.com/tco-calculator/?nc1=h_ls
>AWS helps you **reduce Total Cost of Ownership**(TCO) by **reducing** the need to invest in large **capital expenditures (CAPEX)** and providing a **pay-as-you-go** model that empowers you to invest in the capacity you need and use it only when the business requires it. 
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146. How does AWS charge for AWS Lambda?
**D. Users pay based on the number of requests and consumed compute resources.**

147. What function do security groups serve related Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance security?
**A. Act as a virtual firewall for the Amazon EC2 instance.**
148. :x:Which disaster recovery scenario offers the lowest probability of down time?
~~C. Warm standby~~
**D. Multi-site active-active**
>:::info
>https://cloudranger.com/best-practices-aws-disaster-recovery-planning/
>![](https://i.imgur.com/WLITyr1.png)
149. What will help a company perform a cost benefit analysis of migrating to the AWS Cloud?
**B. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator**

150. Which of the following provides the ability to share the cost benefits of Reserved Instances across AWS accounts?
**B. Linked accounts and consolidated billing**
151. A company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to simplify and consolidate its billing process. Which AWS service will achieve this?
**B. AWS Organizations**
152. A company is designing an application hosted in a single AWS Region serving end-users spread across the world. The company wants to provide the end-users low latency access to the application data. Which of the following services will help fulfill this requirement?
**A. Amazon CloudFront**
153. Which of the following deployment models enables customers to fully trade their capital IT expenses for operational expenses?
**C. Cloud**
154. :x: How is asset management on AWS easier than asset management in a physical data center?
**B. AWS performs infrastructure discovery scans on the customer's behalf.**
~~D. Users can gather asset metadata reliably with a few API calls.~~
>:::info
>AWS assets are centrally managed through an inventory management system that stores and tracks owner, location, status, maintenance, and descriptive information for AWS-owned assets. Following procurement, assets are scanned and tracked, and assets undergoing maintenance are checked and monitored for ownership, status, and resolution.
>???
155. What feature of Amazon RDS helps to create globally redundant databases?
**C. Cross-Region read replicas**
156. Using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to grant access only to the resources needed to perform a task is a concept known as:
**C. least privilege access.**
157. Which methods can be used to identify AWS costs by departments? (Choose two.)
**B. Create separate accounts for each department.
D. Use tags to associate each instance with a particular department.**
158. Under the AWS shared responsibility model, customer responsibilities include which one of the following?
**C. Configuring the operating system, network, and firewall.**
159. Which managed AWS service provides real-time guidance on AWS security best practices?
**B. AWS Trusted Advisor**
160. Which feature adds elasticity to Amazon EC2 instances to handle the changing demand for workloads?
**D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling**
161. Under the AWS shared responsibility model, customers are responsible for which aspects of security in the cloud? (Choose two.)
**C. Encryption management
E. Firewall management**
162. Which AWS hybrid storage service enables on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS Cloud storage through standard file-storage protocols?
**C. AWS Storage Gateway**
163. What is a responsibility of AWS in the shared responsibility model?
**C. Updating the firmware on the underlying EC2 hosts.**
164. Which architectural principle is used when deploying an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance in Multiple Availability Zone mode?
**B. Design for failure.**
165. What does it mean to grant least privilege to AWS IAM users?
**D. It is granting only the permissions required to perform a given task.**
166. What is a benefit of loose coupling as a principle of cloud architecture design?
**C. It prevents cascading failures between different components.**
167. A director has been tasked with investigating hybrid cloud architecture. The company currently accesses AWS over the public internet. Which service will facilitate private hybrid connectivity?
**B. AWS Direct Connect**
168. A company's web application currently has tight dependencies on underlying components, so when one component fails the entire web application fails. Applying which AWS Cloud design principle will address the current design issue?
**C. Focusing on decoupling components by isolating them and ensuring individual components can function when other components fail.**
169. How can a customer increase security to AWS account logons? (Choose two.)
**B. Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
D. Configure a strong password policy**
170. What AWS service would be used to centrally manage AWS access across multiple accounts?
**D. AWS Organizations**
171. Which AWS service can a customer use to set up an alert notification when the account is approaching a particular dollar amount?
**B. AWS Budgets**
172. What can users access from AWS Artifact?
**A. AWS security and compliance documents**
173. Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that provides designated Technical Account Managers?
**A. Enterprise**
174. Which of the following is an AWS Well-Architected Framework design principle related to reliability?
**B. Ability to recover from failure**
175. Which type of AWS storage is ephemeral and is deleted when an instance is stopped or terminated?
**B. Amazon EC2 instance store**
176. What is an advantage of using the AWS Cloud over a traditional on-premises solution?
**A. Users do not have to guess about future capacity needs.**
177. Which of the following is an AWS-managed compute service?
~~B. Amazon EC2~~
**C. AWS Lambda**
178. Which of the following is an important architectural principle when designing cloud applications?
**D. Design for failure**
179. Which mechanism allows developers to access AWS services from application code?
**A. AWS Software Development Kit**
180. Which Amazon EC2 pricing model is the MOST cost efficient for an uninterruptible workload that runs once a year for 24 hours?
**A. On-Demand Instances**
181. Which of the following services is a MySQL-compatible database that automatically grows storage as needed?
**D. Amazon Aurora**

182. Which Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) feature enables users to connect two VPCs together?
**C. Amazon VPC peering**
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>https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/peering/what-is-vpc-peering.html
183. Which service's PRIMARY purpose is software version control?
**D. AWS CodeCommit**

184. A company is considering migrating its applications to AWS. The company wants to compare the cost of running the workload on-premises to running the equivalent workload on the AWS platform. Which tool can be used to perform this comparison?
**B. AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator**
185. :x:Which AWS service provides a secure, fast, and cost-effective way to migrate or transport exabyte-scale datasets into AWS?
**D. AWS Snowmobile**
>:::info
> # 大卡車
>https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/move-exabyte-scale-data-sets-with-aws-snowmobile/
186. Which of the following BEST describe the AWS pricing model? (Choose two.)
**B. Pay-as-you-go
E. Variable cost**
187. Which load balancer types are available with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)? (Choose two.)
**C. Classic Load Balancers
E. Application Load Balancers**
188. Why should a company choose AWS instead of a traditional data center?
**B. AWS does not require long-term contracts and provides a pay-as-you-go model.**
189. Which solution provides the FASTEST application response times to frequently accessed data to users in multiple AWS Regions?
**B. Amazon CloudFront to edge locations**
190. Which AWS service provides a self-service portal for on-demand access to AWS compliance reports?
**D. AWS Artifact**
191. Which of the following AWS services can be used to run a self-managed database?
**D. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)**
192. What exclusive benefit is provided to users with Enterprise Support?
**B. Access to a Technical Account Manager**
193. How can a user protect against AWS service disruptions if a natural disaster affects an entire geographic area?
**C. Deploy applications across multiple AWS Regions.**
194. :x:How does AWS MOST effectively reduce computing costs for a growing start-up company?
**A. It provides on-demand resources for peak usage.**
~~B. It automates the provisioning of individual developer environments.~~

195. :x:A startup is working on a new application that needs to go to market quickly. The application requirements may need to be adjusted in the near future. Which of the following is a characteristic of the AWS Cloud that would meet this specific need?
~~A. Elasticity~~
**D. Agility**
