AWS AWS Well-Architected Framework and Design Principles 5

Question 1

A team holds 'pre-mortem' exercises to find potential failure sources before launch. Which Operational Excellence design principle is this?

Accepted Answer

Anticipate failure

Answer

Pre-mortems find likely failures so they can be removed or mitigated ahead of time.

Question 2

After every incident, a company runs a blameless post-incident analysis and shares the lessons across teams. Which Operational Excellence principle is this?

Accepted Answer

Learn from all operational failures

Answer

Sharing lessons from operational events and failures drives improvement across the organization.

Question 3

Running incident response simulations and using automation to speed up detection and investigation supports which Security design principle?

Accepted Answer

Prepare for security events

Answer

Preparing for incidents with matching processes, simulations, and tools speeds up response and recovery.

Question 4

Using centralized identity management, enforcing least privilege, and eliminating long-term static credentials supports which Security design principle?

Accepted Answer

Implement a strong identity foundation

Answer

A strong identity foundation centralizes privilege management and enforces least privilege with separation of duties.

Question 5

Why does choosing managed services like AWS Fargate support the Sustainability pillar?

Accepted Answer

Shared infrastructure across many customers maximizes resource utilization

Answer

Managed services spread infrastructure across many customers, which raises utilization and lowers the resources needed.

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AWS AWS Well-Architected Framework and Design Principles 5