AWS Associate General Knowledge and Prerequisites 2

Question 1

Which AWS service provides a managed relational database that automatically scales storage up to 128 TB?

Accepted Answer

Amazon Aurora

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Encryption of customer data at rest

Answer

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)?

Accepted Answer

Enterprise

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Amazon SQS

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Spot Instances

Answer

Spot Instances use unused EC2 capacity at steep discounts but can be interrupted by AWS with a two-minute warning.

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AWS Associate General Knowledge and Prerequisites 2