AWS Associate General Knowledge and Prerequisites 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which AWS service provides a managed relational database that automatically scales storage up to 128 TB?
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon Aurora (Correct answer)
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon Redshift
Correct answer: Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora automatically scales storage in 10 GB increments up to 128 TB without requiring downtime.
Question 2: What does the AWS Shared Responsibility Model state is the customer's responsibility?
- Physical data center security
- Hypervisor patching
- Encryption of customer data at rest (Correct answer)
- Networking infrastructure maintenance
Correct answer: Encryption of customer data at rest
Customers are responsible for security 'in' the cloud, including encrypting their own data at rest and in transit.
Question 3: Which AWS support plan is the minimum tier that provides access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM)?
- Developer
- Business
- Enterprise On-Ramp
- Enterprise (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Enterprise
A dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM) is only available with the Enterprise support plan.
Question 4: An application needs to send messages between decoupled microservices without losing any messages if a service is temporarily down. Which AWS service is best suited?
- Amazon SNS
- Amazon SQS (Correct answer)
- AWS Step Functions
- Amazon EventBridge
Correct answer: Amazon SQS
Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queue that durably stores messages until a consumer retrieves them.
Question 5: Which AWS pricing model offers up to 90% discount over On-Demand pricing in exchange for using spare EC2 capacity?
- Reserved Instances
- Savings Plans
- Spot Instances (Correct answer)
- Dedicated Hosts
Correct answer: Spot Instances
Spot Instances use unused EC2 capacity at steep discounts but can be interrupted by AWS with a two-minute warning.
Question 6: What is the primary purpose of AWS CloudTrail?
- Monitor application performance metrics
- Log and audit all API calls made in an AWS account (Correct answer)
- Provide real-time cost and usage dashboards
- Scan infrastructure for security vulnerabilities
Correct answer: Log and audit all API calls made in an AWS account
CloudTrail records API activity across your AWS account, providing an audit trail for governance and compliance.
Question 7: Which AWS service enables you to run containerized applications without managing servers or clusters?
- Amazon ECS on EC2
- AWS Fargate (Correct answer)
- Amazon EKS on EC2
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Correct answer: AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that removes the need to provision or manage EC2 instances.
AWS Associate General Knowledge and Prerequisites 2
Which AWS service provides a managed relational database that automatically scales storage up to 128 TB?