Architecting on AWS Certification Amazon Web Services 4

Question 1

A company wants to migrate an on-premises VMware environment to AWS with minimal changes. Which service is specifically designed for this use case?

Accepted Answer

VMware Cloud on AWS

Answer

VMware Cloud on AWS lets customers run their VMware workloads natively on AWS infrastructure without refactoring.

Question 2

Which AWS networking feature provides a private, dedicated network connection between an on-premises data center and AWS, bypassing the public internet?

Accepted Answer

AWS Direct Connect

Answer

AWS Direct Connect establishes a dedicated private network connection from on-premises to AWS, offering consistent bandwidth and latency.

Question 3

An architect needs to ensure that an RDS database can survive an Availability Zone failure with automatic failover and no data loss. Which feature enables this?

Accepted Answer

RDS Multi-AZ Deployment

Answer

RDS Multi-AZ maintains a synchronous standby replica in a different AZ and automatically fails over to it if the primary instance fails.

Question 4

Which AWS service provides a fully managed Apache Kafka-compatible streaming service for real-time data ingestion and processing?

Accepted Answer

Amazon MSK

Answer

Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka) is a fully managed service that makes it easy to build and run Kafka-based streaming applications.

Question 5

A company needs to run containers without managing underlying servers. Which two AWS services support serverless container execution? (Choose the best single answer representing both)

Accepted Answer

AWS Fargate

Answer

AWS Fargate is the serverless compute engine for containers that works with both ECS and EKS, removing the need to provision or manage servers.

Architecting on AWS Certification Practice Test

Architecting on AWS Certification Practice Test

Architecting on AWS Certification Amazon Web Services 4