Questions and Answers - AWS Certified Cloud Architect Associate

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Questions

1. What is the maximum number of vaults an AWS account can create in a region?
2. What is longest duration of an SWF workflow execution
3. 12 months
4. 30 days
5. 364 days
6. 10 days

7. Which services provide full administrative control of EC2 instances

   • Elastic Beanstalk
   • RDS
   • MapReduce
   • LightSail
   • DynamoDB
   • ElasticCache

8. Standard retrieval of S3 Glacier data typically completes between.

   • 1 - 24 hours
   • 3 - 5 hours
   • 1 - 5 hours
   • 5 - 24 hours
9. Which of the following are true?
10. Transfer Acceleration is only supported on virtual style requests.
11. Transfer Acceleration is only supported on path style requests.
12. Transfer Acceleration is supported for both virtual and path style requests.
13. The name of the bucket used for Transfer Acceleration must be DNS-compliant and must not contain periods (”.”).

14. Which of the following 3 API actions in AWS STS return temporary security credentials with a default expiration time of one hour

    • GetFederationToken
    • AssumeRole
    • AssumeRolewithSAML
    • AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity
    • GetSessionToken

15. Which of the following are true

    • S3 One Zone Infrequent Access does not support SSL
    • S3 Intelligent-Tiering accrues a small monthly monitoring and auto-tiering fee
    • S3 Glacier provides three retrieval options that range from a few minutes to hours.
    • Data stored in S3 One Zone Infrequent Access will be lost in the event of Availability Zone destruction.
16. Database requires occasional internet connection to download system and database updates
17. Db in private subnet
18. Db in public subnet
19. NAT instance in public subnet and route internet bound traffic to NAT from private subnet
20. NAT instance in private subnet and route internet bound traffic to NAT from private subnet

21. Which is true. S3 supports

    • Eventual consistency for overwrite PUTS and UPDATES
    • Eventual consistency for overwrite PUTS and DELETES
    • Read after write consistency for PUTS of new objects in all regions
    • Read after write consistency for PUTS of new objects in US regions
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24. Which AWS network feature gives low latency and high packet per second network performance
25. Amazon Hypervisor
26. Security Group
27. Amazon HVM
28. Placement Group
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31. Where to get info like timestamps, client ip, latencies, request paths from load balancers.
32. Metrics from CloudWatch
33. Acess Logs from the web servers
34. Acess Logs from the load balancers
35. Metrics from CloudTrail
36. Connecting to EC2 via putty receives ‘Connection timed out’ error. What possible causes? Check the:
37. Role attached to EC2 instance
38. Security Group rules
39. Private/public keys
40. Route table for the subnet
41. Username/password
42. Network access control list
43. Default visibility time for a queue in SQS
44. 12 hours
45. 30 secs
46. 1 day
47. 1 hour
48. ADD QUESTIONS HERE on SNS and SQS limitations

Answers

1. What is the maximum number of vaults an AWS account can create in a region? 1000 *
2. What is longest duration of an SWF workflow execution
3. 12 months
4. 30 days *
5. 364 days
6. 10 days

7. Which services provide full administrative control of EC2 instances

   • Elastic Beanstalk *
   • RDS
   • MapReduce *
   • LightSail
   • DynamoDB
   • ElasticCache

8. Standard retrieval of S3 Glacier data typically completes between.

   • 1 - 24 hours
   • 3 - 5 hours *
   • 1 - 5 hours
   • 5 - 24 hours

9. Which of the following are true?

   • Transfer Acceleration is only supported on virtual style requests.
   • Transfer Acceleration is only supported on path style requests.
   • Transfer Acceleration is supported for both virtual and path style requests.
   • The name of the bucket used for Transfer Acceleration must be DNS-compliant and must not contain periods (”.”).

10. Which of the following 3 API actions in AWS STS return temporary security credentials with a default expiration time of one hour

    • GetFederationToken
    • AssumeRole *
    • AssumeRolewithSAML *
    • AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity *
    • GetSessionToken

11. Which of the following are true

    • S3 One Zone Infrequent Access does not support SSL
    • S3 Intelligent-Tiering accrues a small monthly monitoring and auto-tiering fee *
    • S3 Glacier provides three retrieval options that range from a few minutes to hours. *
    • Data stored in S3 One Zone Infrequent Access will be lost in the event of Availability Zone destruction. *
12. Database requires occaissional internet connection to download system and database updates
13. Db in private subnet
14. Db in public subnet
15. NAT instance in public subnet and route internet bound traffic to NAT from private subnet *
16. NAT instance in private subnet and route internet bound traffic to NAT from private subnet

17. Which is true. S3 supports

    • Eventual consistency for overwrite PUTS and UPDATES
    • Eventual consistency for overwrite PUTS and DELETES *
    • Read after write consistency for PUTS of new objects in all regions *
    • Read after write consistency for PUTS of new objects in US regions
18. ADD QUESTION HERE
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20. Which AWS network feature gives low latency and high packet per second network performance
21. Amazon Hypervisor
22. Security Group
23. Amazon HVM
24. Placement Group *
25. ADD QUESTION HERE
26. ADD QUESTION HERE
27. Where to get info like timestamps, client ip, latencies, request paths from load balancers.
28. Metrics from CloudWatch
29. Acess Logs from the web servers
30. Acess Logs from the load balancers *
31. Metrics from CloudTrail
32. Connecting to EC2 via putty receives ‘Connection timed out’ error. What possible causes? Check the:
33. Role attached to EC2 instance
34. Security Group rules *
35. Private/public keys
36. Route table for the subnet *
37. Username/password
38. Network access control list *
39. Default visibility time for a queue in SQS
40. 12 hours
41. 30 secs *
42. 1 day
43. 1 hour
44. ADD QUESTIONS HERE on SNS and SQS limitations