AWS Services Quiz

24 Questions

What type of database is used to record real-time sales transactions?

Transactional database

Which AWS service allows creating a virtual machine instance in the cloud?

Infrastructure-as-Services (IaaS)

Which AWS service is best suited for building a real-time fraud detection engine?

Amazon DynamoDB

Which AWS service provides the ability to use simple structured query language queries on multiple Amazon S3 files?

Amazon Athena

Which AWS service is designed to ingest data from file systems?

AWS DataSync

Which AWS service allows companies to track and categorize spending on a detailed level?

Cost allocation tags

Which AWS service would be the most cost-effective to add instances to support increased web traffic during promotions?

AWS Auto Scaling

Which AWS service would be the best choice to create a launch that sends notification when CPU utilization thresholds are breached?

AWS CloudWatch

What type of data is stored in Amazon DocumentDB with MongoDB compatibility?

Semi-structured

What is the primary use case for AWS Snowball?

Securely transferring large amounts of data to AWS

What type of data storage is typically used for short-term data storage?

Short-term

Which data storage repository is typically loaded through an ETL process?

Data Warehouse

Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework specifies the importance of making frequent, small, reversible changes?

Operational Excellence

Which scenario describes a challenge to velocity?

Data is ingested from regional sales sites and the overnight batch job fails because it runs out of disk space.

Which AWS service is best suited to ingest data from a software as a service?

Amazon AppFlow

Which AWS service is well-suited to consume streaming IoT data from a product that monitors airflow through hospital ducts?

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

Which AWS service can automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data stored in Amazon S3?

Amazon Macie

Which of the following is a customer responsibility under the cloud computing shared responsibility model?

All of the above

What is a key benefit of using Elastic Load Balancing?

automatic distribution of incoming traffic

Which storage option is best suited for storing data that does not change frequently?

Glacier

What is the best tool to use to migrate an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database to AWS RDS?

AWS Database Migration Service

What type of database is Amazon DynamoDB?

Key-Value

How is data typically loaded to a data lake?

Stored in an original format

Which option is not a design principle for data security pillar in Well-Architected Framework?

activate transibility

Study Notes

AWS Services

Amazon AppFlow is best suited to ingest data from a software as a service (SaaS).
Amazon Macie is used to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data stored in Amazon S3.
Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value database.
AWS Database Migration Service is used to migrate an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database to AWS RDS.

Data Storage

Amazon S3 is used to store data that does not change frequently.
Glacier is used to store data that does not change frequently.
EFS is not used to store data that does not change frequently.
Amazon DocumentDB with MongoDB compatibility is used to store nested JSON documents.

Data Security

A key benefit of using Elastic Load Balancing is increased security.
Implementing a strong identity foundation is a design principle for the data security pillar in the Well-Architected Framework.
Apply security at all layers is a design principle for the data security pillar in the Well-Architected Framework.

Data Processing

AWS Glue is used for serverless ETL (Extract, Transform, Load).
AWS Lambda is not used to accomplish a database migration task.
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) provides automated data encryption at rest and in transit.

Data Analytics

AWL Glue is used for serverless ETL.
AWS Lake Formation is used to build a data lake.
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is used to ingest data from IoT devices.
Amazon Athena is used to query multiple Amazon S3 files in a cost-effective way.

Database Management

Amazon Aurora is compatible with PostgreSQL and MySQL.
Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value database.
Amazon RDS is used to manage relational databases.

AWS Well-Architected Framework

The reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework specifies that we should make frequent, small, reversible changes.
Operational Excellence is a pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Shared Responsibility Model

Customer responsibilities under the cloud computing shared responsibility model include encryption of data at rest.
Network cabling is not a customer responsibility under the cloud computing shared responsibility model.

Cloud Computing

Creating a virtual machine EC2 instance in the AWS cloud is an example of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) allows users to create a virtual machine instance without worrying about the underlying infrastructure.
Anything-as-a-Service is not a valid cloud computing service model.

Test your knowledge of AWS services, including data ingestion, sensitive data protection, and load balancing. Choose the best AWS service for each scenario.

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