Which AWS service allows you to manage Docker containers on a cluster of Amazon EC2 servers?

Which EC2 offering provides the information needed to launch an instance?

Your security team is concerned about sharing the IT resources with any other company. They want you to have the ability to assign the full EC2 server for your company, and you can carve the virtual machines inside the server as you want. As per the security team, if you have to share the compute resource with any other company, you can’t go to the cloud. What can you do in this scenario?

You are running an application in the us-east-1 region. The application needs six EC2 instances running at any given point in time. With five availability zones available in that region (us-east-1a, us-east-1b, us-east-1c, us-east-1d, us-east-1e), which of the following deployment models is going to provide fault tolerance and a cost-optimized architecture if one of the AZs goes down?

You are running a fleet of EC2 instances for a web server, and you have integrated them with Auto Scaling. Whenever a new server is added to the fleet as part of Auto Scaling, your security team wants it to have the latest OS security fixes. What is the best way of achieving this objective?

You are in the process of deploying an application on an EC2 instance. The application must call AWS APIs. What is the secured way of passing the credentials to the application?

You are designing a highly scalable and available web application, and you are using EC2 instances along with Auto Scaling to host the web application. You want to store the session state data in such a way that it should not impact Auto Scaling. What service could not be used to store the session state data?

You are deploying an order management application in AWS, and for that you want to leverage Auto Scaling along with EC2 servers. You don’t want to store the user session information on the EC2 servers because if even one user is connected to the application, you won’t be able to scale down. What services can you use to store the session information?

Which database engine is not supported in Amazon RDS?

What are the different types of virtualization available on AWS?

You are creating an application, and the application is going to store all the transitional data in a relational database system. You are looking for a highly available solution for a relational database for your application. Which option should you consider for this?

You are deploying an application in multiple EC2 instances in different AZs and will be using ELB and Auto Scaling to scale up and scale down as per the demand. You are planning to store the session information in DynamoDB. Since DynamoDB has a public endpoint and you don’t want to give Internet access to the application server, what is the most secure way your application server can talk with DynamoDB?

You are in the process of deploying an application on an EC2 instance. The application must call AWS APIs. What is the secured way of passing the credentials to the application?

In which of the following services can you have root-level access to the operating system?

What are the two different in-memory key-value engines Amazon ElastiCache currently supports?

You want to deploy an application in AWS. The application comes with an Oracle database that needs to be installed on a separate server. The application requires that certain files be installed on the database server. You are also looking at faster performance for the database. What solution should you choose to deploy the database?

You are running a Redshift cluster in the Virginia region. You need to create another Redshift cluster in the California region for DR purposes. How do you quickly create the Redshift DR cluster?

You are running your MySQL database using the Amazon RDS service. You have encrypted the database and are managing the keys using the AWS Key Management System (KMS). You need to create an additional copy of the database in a different region. You have taken a snapshot of the existing database, but when you try to copy the snapshot to the other region, you are not able to copy it. What could be the reason?

You are running your mission-critical production database using a multi-AZ architecture in Amazon RDS with PIOPS. You are going to add some new functionality; therefore, you need to clone the database and give it to the developers so that they can start working on the new functionality. What can you do to minimize the cost?

Which of the following databases is not supported using Amazon RDS?

You are planning to run a mission-critical online order-processing system on AWS, and to run that application, you need a database. The database must be highly available, with high performing, and you can’t lose any data. Which database meets these criteria?

You have created a Redshift cluster without encryption, and now your security team wants you to encrypt all the data. How do you achieve this?

How many copies of data does Amazon Aurora maintain in how many availability zones?

Your company is generating a huge volume of data sets with billions of rows that must be summarized by columns. You are going to use Tableau on top of this data set to build daily and weekly reports. Which AWS service should you use to meet the requirement?

You are running a three-tier web application on AWS. Currently you don’t have a reporting system in place, and your application owner is asking you to add a reporting tier to the application. You are concerned that if you add a reporting layer on top of the existing database, the performance is going to be degraded. Today you are using a multi-AZ RDS MySQL to host the database. What can you do to add the reporting layer at the same time making sure there is no performance impact to the existing application?