Architecting on AWS Certification Amazon Web Services 3

Question 1

A company is designing a data lake on AWS. Which service provides a serverless, interactive query service to analyze data directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL?

Accepted Answer

Amazon Athena

Answer

Amazon Athena is a serverless query service that lets you analyze data in S3 using standard SQL without provisioning infrastructure.

Question 2

Which EC2 purchasing option provides the largest discount (up to 90%) compared to On-Demand pricing for fault-tolerant, flexible workloads?

Accepted Answer

Spot Instances

Answer

Spot Instances offer up to 90% discount over On-Demand but can be interrupted with a two-minute warning when capacity is reclaimed.

Question 3

An application needs to route traffic to different backend services based on the URL path (e.g., /api vs /images). Which load balancer type supports this?

Accepted Answer

Application Load Balancer

Answer

Application Load Balancers support content-based routing including path-based routing rules to different target groups.

Question 4

Which AWS service enables you to centrally manage and enforce compliance rules across multiple AWS accounts by evaluating resource configurations?

Accepted Answer

AWS Config

Answer

AWS Config continuously monitors and records resource configurations and evaluates them against desired compliance rules.

Question 5

A solutions architect needs to replicate data asynchronously to a secondary AWS Region for disaster recovery with minimal configuration. Which S3 feature achieves this?

Accepted Answer

S3 Cross-Region Replication

Answer

S3 Cross-Region Replication automatically and asynchronously copies objects from a source bucket to a destination bucket in another Region.

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Architecting on AWS Certification Amazon Web Services 3