Question 1

What is the maximum length for a certificate ID in AWS IAM?

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Question 2

A user is planning to use EBS for his DB requirement. The user already has an EC2 instance running in the VPC private subnet. How can the user attach the EBS volume to a running instance?

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Question 3

An organization is setting up an application on AWS to have both High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR). The organization wants to have both Recovery point objective (RPO) and Recovery time objective (RTO) of 10 minutes. Which of the below mentioned service configurations does not help the organization achieve the said RPO and RTO?

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Question 4

An organization is setting up a highly scalable application using Elastic Beanstalk. They are using Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) as well as a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with public and private subnets. They have the following requirements: - All the EC2 instances should have a private IP - All the EC2 instances should receive data via the ELB's. Which of these will not be needed in this setup?

Accepted Answer

EC2 instances should be launched in private subnets, not public subnets, to ensure they have private IPs and receive traffic through the ELB.

Question 5

Amazon ElastiCache supports the Redis key-value store.

Accepted Answer

Amazon ElastiCache fully supports the Redis key-value store, providing a managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling Redis in the cloud.

Question 6

If a single condition within an IAM policy includes multiple values for one key, it will be evaluated using a logical______.

Accepted Answer

If a single condition within an IAM policy includes multiple values for one key, it will be evaluated using a logical OR. This means that if any of the values in the key are true, the condition will be true.

Question 7

An organization is having an application which can start and stop an EC2 instance as per schedule. The organization needs the MAC address of the instance to be registered with its software. The instance is launched in EC2-CLASSIC. How can the organization update the MAC registration every time an instance is booted?

Accepted Answer

The organization can use a bootstrapping script to retrieve the MAC address from the instance metadata and register it with the application each time the instance is booted.

Question 8

What RAID method is used on the Cloud Block Storage back-end to implement a very high level of reliability and performance?

Accepted Answer

RAID 10 combines the features of RAID 1 and RAID 0, providing both mirroring and striping. This setup offers high reliability due to mirroring and improved performance due to striping, making it suitable for cloud storage back-ends.

Question 9

Which of the following cannot be done using AWS Data Pipeline?

Accepted Answer

AWS Data Pipeline is designed for data processing and movement, not for generating reports. Report generation typically requires additional tools or services like AWS QuickSight or other BI tools.

Question 10

Which of the following is true while using an IAM role to grant permissions to applications running on Amazon EC2 instances?

Accepted Answer

An EC2 instance can only have one IAM role assigned to it at a time, which provides the permissions for all applications running on that instance.

Question 11

Which of the following cache engines does Amazon ElastiCache support?

Accepted Answer

Amazon ElastiCache supports both Memcached and Redis as cache engines.

Question 12

An organization is purchasing licensed software. The software license can be registered only to a specific MAC Address. The organization is going to host the software in the AWS environment. How can the organization fulfil the license requirement as the MAC address changes every time an instance is started/stopped/terminated?

Accepted Answer

Using an Elastic Network Interface (ENI) in AWS allows the organization to have a fixed MAC address, which can be attached to an EC2 instance, fulfilling the software license requirement.

Question 13

A user is trying to create a vault in AWS Glacier. The user wants to enable notifications. In which of the below mentioned options can the user enable the notifications from the AWS console?

Accepted Answer

AWS Glacier allows users to enable notifications for specific job completions, such as the Vault Inventory Retrieval Job Complete, through the AWS console.

Question 14

Which of the following components of AWS Data Pipeline specifies the business logic of your data management?

Accepted Answer

The pipeline definition in AWS Data Pipeline specifies the business logic, including the data sources, destinations, and the processing steps required to manage the data workflow.

Question 15

Which statement is NOT true about a stack which has been created in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in AWS OpsWorks?

Accepted Answer

Subnets whose instances cannot communicate with the Internet are referred to as private subnets, not public subnets. Public subnets have instances that can communicate with the Internet.

Question 16

Select the correct statement about Amazon ElastiCache.

Accepted Answer

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed service that simplifies the process of setting up, managing, and scaling distributed in-memory cache environments in the cloud.

Question 17

How much memory does the cr1.8xlarge instance type provide?

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Question 18

By default, what is the maximum number of Cache Nodes you can run in Amazon ElastiCache?

Accepted Answer

By default, Amazon ElastiCache allows you to run up to 20 cache nodes per region.

Question 19

A user is trying to create a PIOPS EBS volume with 3 GB size and 90 IOPS. Will AWS create the volume?

Accepted Answer

AWS requires a minimum size of 4GB for a PIOPS EBS volume.

Question 20

How can a user list the IAM Role configured as a part of the launch config?

Accepted Answer

The option "-show-long" provides detailed information about the launch configuration, including the IAM Role.

Exam 10: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C01)