EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A company's data center is connected to the AWS Cloud over a minimally used 10-Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection with a private virtual interface to its virtual private cloud (VPC). The company internet connection is 200 Mbps, and the company has a 150-TB dataset that is created each Friday. The data must be transferred and available in Amazon S3 on Monday morning.
Which is the LEAST expensive way to meet the requirements while allowing for data transfer growth?

Question2: Regarding Amazon SNS, you can send notification messages to mobile devices through any of the following supported push notification services, EXCEPT:

Question3: True or False: The Amazon ElastiCache clusters are not available for use in VPC at this time.

Question4: A company CFO recently analyzed the company's AWS monthly bill and identified an opportunity to reduce the cost for AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments in use. The CFO has asked a Solutions Architect to design a highly available solution that will spin up an Elastic Beanstalk environment in the morning and terminate it at the end of the day.
The solution should be designed with minimal operational overhead and to minimize costs. It should also be able to handle the increased use of Elastic Beanstalk environments among different teams, and must provide a one-stop scheduler solution for all teams to keep the operational costs low.
What design will meet these requirements?

Question5: How can you check the operational validity of your AWS CloudFormation template?

Question6: A company has a web service deployed in the following two AWS Regions: us-west-2 and us-est-1. Each AWS region runs an identical version of the web service. Amazon Route 53 is used to route customers to the AWS Region that has the lowest latency.
The company wants to improve the availability of the web service in case an outage occurs in one of the two AWS Regions.
A Solutions Architect has recommended that a Route 53 health check be performed. The health check must detect a specific text on an endpoint.
What combination of conditions should the endpoint meet to pass the Route 53 health check? (Choose two.)

Question7: In Amazon ElastiCache, which of the following statements is correct?

Question8: How does in-memory caching improve the performance of applications in ElastiCache?

Question9: A company prefers to limit running Amazon EC2 instances to those that were launched from AMIs pre-approved by the Information Security department. The Development team has an agile continuous integration and deployment process that cannot be stalled by the solution.
Which method enforces the required controls with the LEAST impact on the development process? (Choose two.)

Question10: You have a periodic image analysis application that gets some files in input, analyzes them and tor each file writes some data in output to a ten file the number of files in input per day is high and concentrated in a few hours of the day.
Currently you have a server on EC2 with a large EBS volume that hosts the input data and the results. It takes almost 20 hours per day to complete the process.
What services could be used to reduce the elaboration time and improve the availability of the solution?

Question11: A user is trying to understand the detailed CloudWatch monitoring concept. Which of the below mentioned services does not provide detailed monitoring with CloudWatch?

Question12:
An organization has recently grown through acquisitions. Two of the purchased companies use the same IP CIDR range. There is a new short-term requirement to allow AnyCompany A (VPC-A) to communicate with a server that has the IP address 10.0.0.77 in AnyCompany B (VPC-B). AnyCompany A must also communicate with all resources in AnyCompany C (VPC-C). The Network team has created the VPC peer links, but it is having issues with communications between VPC-A and VPC-B. After an investigation, the team believes that the routing tables in the VPCs are incorrect.
What configuration will allow AnyCompany A to communicate with AnyCompany C in addition to the database in AnyCompany B?

Question13: You have set up a huge amount of network infrastructure in AWS and you now need to think about monitoring all of this. You decide CloudWatch will best fit your needs but you are unsure of the pricing structure and the limitations of CloudWatch.
Which of the following statements is TRUE in relation to the limitations of CloudWatch?

Question14: 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?

Question15: In Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, you can provision up to 3TB storage and 30,000 IOPS per database instance.
For a workload with 50% writes and 50% reads running on a cr1.8xlarge instance, you can realize over 25,000 IOPS for PostgreSQL. However, by provisioning more than this limit, you may be able to achieve:

Question16: Your company is getting ready to do a major public announcement of a social media site on AWS. The website is running on EC2 instances deployed across multiple Availability Zones with a Multi-AZ RDS MySQL Extra Large DB Instance. The site performs a high number of small reads and writes per second and relies on an eventual consistency model. After comprehensive tests you discover that there is read contention on RDS MySQL. Which are the best approaches to meet these requirements? (Choose 2 answers)

Question17: You've been hired to enhance the overall security posture for a very large e-commerce site. They have a well architected multi-tier application running in a VPC that uses ELBs in front of both the web and the app tier with static assets served directly from S3. They are using a combination of RDS and DynamoDB for their dynamic data and then archiving nightly into S3 for further processing with EMR. They are concerned because they found questionable log entries and suspect someone is attempting to gain unauthorized access.
Which approach provides a cost effective scalable mitigation to this kind of attack?

Question18: 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?

Question19: True or false: In a CloudFormation template, you can reuse the same logical ID several times to reference the resources in other parts of the template.

Question20: A user has created a VPC with public and private subnets using the VPC Wizard. The VPC has CIDR
20.0.0.0/16. The private subnet uses CIDR 20.0.0.0/24.
Which of the below mentioned entries are required in the main route table to allow the instances in VPC to communicate with each other?

Question21: Which of the following components of AWS Data Pipeline specifies the business logic of your data management?

Question22: An ERP application is deployed across multiple AZs in a single region. In the event of failure, the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) must be less than 3 hours, and the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) must be 15 minutes. The customer realizes that data corruption occurred roughly 1.5 hours ago.
What DR strategy could be used to achieve this RTO and RPO in the event of this kind of failure?

Question23: A company needs to run a software package that has a license that must be run on the same physical host for the duration of its use. The software package is only going to be used for 90 days. The company requires patching and restarting of all instances every 30 days.
How can these requirements be met using AWS?

Question24: A company runs a public-facing application that uses a Java-based web service via a RESTful API. It is hosted on Apache Tomcat on a single server in a data center that runs consistently at 30% CPU utilization. Use of the API is expected to increase by 10 times with a new product launch. The business wants to migrate the application to AWS with no disruption, and needs it to scale to meet demand.
The company has already decided to use Amazon Route 53 and CNAME records to redirect traffic. How can these requirements be met with the LEAST amount of effort?

Question25: In the context of AWS IAM, identify a true statement about user passwords (login profiles).

Question26: A company is building an AWS landing zone and has asked a Solutions Architect to design a multi-account access strategy that will allow hundreds of users to use corporate credentials to access the AWS Console. The company is running a Microsoft Active Directory and users will use an AWS Direct Connect connection to connect to AWS. The company also wants to be able to federate to third-party services and providers, including custom applications.
Which solution meets the requirements by using the LEAST amount of management overhead?

Question27: You've been brought in as solutions architect to assist an enterprise customer with their migration of an e-commerce platform to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) The previous architect has already deployed a
3-tier VPC.
The configuration is as follows:
VPC: vpc-2f8bc447
IGW: igw-2d8bc445
NACL: ad-208bc448
Subnets and Route Tables:
Web servers: subnet-258bc44d
Application servers: subnet-248bc44c
Database servers: subnet-9189c6f9
Route Tables:
rrb-218bc449
rtb-238bc44b
Associations:
subnet-258bc44d : rtb-218bc449
subnet-248bc44c : rtb-238bc44b
subnet-9189c6f9 : rtb-238bc44b
You are now ready to begin deploying EC2 instances into the VPC Web servers must have direct access to the internet Application and database servers cannot have direct access to the internet.
Which configuration below will allow you the ability to remotely administer your application and database servers, as well as allow these servers to retrieve updates from the Internet?

Question28: A company has a requirement that only allows specially hardened AMIs to be launched into public subnets in a VPC, and for the AMIs to be associated with a specific security group. Allowing non-compliant instances to launch into the public subnet could present a significant security risk if they are allowed to operate.
A mapping of approved AMIs to subnets to security groups exists in an Amazon DynamoDB table in the same AWS account. The company created an AWS Lambda function that, when invoked, will terminate a given Amazon EC2 instance if the combination of AMI, subnet, and security group are not approved in the DynamoDB table.
What should the Solutions Architect do to MOST quickly mitigate the risk of compliance deviations?

Question29: If no explicit deny is found while applying IAM's Policy Evaluation Logic, the enforcement code looks for any
______ instructions that would apply to the request.

Question30: How does AWS Data Pipeline execute activities on on-premise resources or AWS resources that you manage?

Question31: A company has an application written using an in-house software framework. The framework installation takes 30 minutes and is performed with a user data script. Company Developers deploy changes to the application frequently. The framework installation is becoming a bottleneck in this process.
Which of the following would speed up this process?

Question32: A Solutions Architect has created an AWS CloudFormation template for a three-tier application that contains an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances running a custom AMI.
The Solutions Architect wants to ensure that future updates to the custom AMI can be deployed to a running stack by first updating the template to refer to the new AMI, and then invoking UpdateStack to replace the EC2 instances with instances launched from the new AMI.
How can updates to the AMI be deployed to meet these requirements?

Question33: A user is creating a snapshot of an EBS volume. Which of the below statements is incorrect in relation to the creation of an EBS snapshot?

Question34: An organization has created 5 IAM users. The organization wants to give them the same login ID but different passwords. How can the organization achieve this?

Question35: You are designing an SSL/TLS solution that requires HTTPS clients to be authenticated by the Web server using client certificate authentication. The solution must be resilient.
Which of the following options would you consider for configuring the web server infrastructure? (Choose 2)

Question36: Your company currently has a 2-tier web application running in an on-premises data center. You have experienced several infrastructure failures in the past two months resulting in significant financial losses. Your CIO is strongly agreeing to move the application to AWS. While working on achieving buy-in from the other company executives, he asks you to develop a disaster recovery plan to help improve Business continuity in the short term. He specifies a target Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 4 hours and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 hour or less. He also asks you to implement the solution within 2 weeks. Your database is 200GB in size and you have a 20Mbps Internet connection.
How would you do this while minimizing costs?

Question37: A user has created a VPC with two subnets: one public and one private. The user is planning to run the patch update for the instances in the private subnet.
How can the instances in the private subnet connect to the internet?

Question38: A company runs its containerized batch jobs on Amazon ECS. The jobs are scheduled by submitting a container image, a task definition, and the relevant data to an Amazon S3 bucket. Container images may be unique per job. Running the jobs as quickly as possible is of utmost importance, so submitting jobs artifacts to the S3 bucket triggers the job to run immediately. Sometimes there may no jobs running at all. However, jobs of any size can be submitted with no prior warning to the IT Operations team. Job definitions include CPU and memory resource requirements.
What solution will allow the batch jobs to complete as quickly as possible after being scheduled?

Question39: Your company has recently extended its datacenter into a VPC on AWS to add burst computing capacity as needed Members of your Network Operations Center need to be able to go to the AWS Management Console and administer Amazon EC2 instances as necessary You don't want to create new IAM users for each NOC member and make those users sign in again to the AWS Management Console.
Which option below will meet the needs for your NOC members?

Question40: A company had a tight deadline to migrate its on-premises environment to AWS. It moved over Microsoft SQL Servers and Microsoft Windows Servers using the virtual machine import/export service and rebuild other applications native to the cloud. The team created both Amazon EC2 databases and used Amazon RDS.
Each team in the company was responsible for migrating their applications, and they have created individual accounts for isolation of resources. The company did not have much time to consider costs, but now it would like suggestions on reducing its AWS spend.
Which steps should a Solutions Architect take to reduce costs?

Question41: Which of the following is not included in the metrics sent from Billing to Amazon CloudWatch?

Question42: 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?

Question43: Auto Scaling requests are signed with a _________ signature calculated from the request and the user's private key.

Question44: By default, temporary security credentials for an IAM user are valid for a maximum of 12 hours, but you can request a duration as long as _________ hours.

Question45: While implementing the policy keys in AWS Direct Connect, if you use and the request comes from an Amazon EC2 instance, the instance's public IP address is evaluated to determine if access is allowed.

Question46: You want to use AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to Amazon EC2 instances running within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
What criterion must be met for this to be possible?

Question47: A web-startup runs its very successful social news application on Amazon EC2 with an Elastic Load Balancer, an Auto-Scaling group of Java/Tomcat application-servers, and DynamoDB as data store. The main web-application best runs on m2 x large instances since it is highly memory- bound Each new deployment requires semi-automated creation and testing of a new AMI for the application servers which takes quite a while ana is therefore only done once per week.
Recently, a new chat feature has been implemented in nodejs and wails to be integrated in the architecture.
First tests show that the new component is CPU bound Because the company has some experience with using Chef, they decided to streamline the deployment process and use AWS Ops Works as an application life cycle tool to simplify management of the application and reduce the deployment cycles.
What configuration in AWS Ops Works is necessary to integrate the new chat module in the most cost-efficient and flexible way?

Question48: A large company experienced a drastic increase in its monthly AWS spend. This is after Developers accidentally launched Amazon EC2 instances in unexpected regions. The company has established practices around least privileges for Developers and controls access to on-premises resources using Active Directory groups. The company now wants to control costs by restricting the level of access that Developers have to the AWS Management Console without impacting their productivity. The company would also like to allow Developers to launch Amazon EC2 in only one region, without limiting access to other services in any region.
How can this company achieve these new security requirements while minimizing the administrative burden on the Operations team?

Question49: A user has launched an EBS optimized instance with EC2. Which of the below mentioned options is the correct statement?

Question50: A company has asked a Solutions Architect to design a secure content management solution that can be accessed by API calls by external customer applications. The company requires that a customer administrator must be able to submit an API call and roll back changes to existing files sent to the content management solution, as needed.
What is the MOST secure deployment design that meets all solution requirements?

Question51: A photo-sharing and publishing company receives 10,000 to 150,000 images daily. The company receives the images from multiple suppliers and users registered with the service. The company is moving to AWS and wants to enrich the existing metadata by adding data using Amazon Rekognition.
The following is an example of the additional data:

As part of the cloud migration program, the company uploaded existing image data to Amazon S3 and told users to upload images directly to Amazon S3.
What should the Solutions Architect do to support these requirements?

Question52: AWS has launched T2 instances which come with CPU usage credit. An organization has a requirement which keeps an instance running for 24 hours. However, the organization has high usage only during 11 AM to 12 PM. The organization is planning to use a T2 small instance for this purpose.
If the organization already has multiple instances running since Jan 2012, which of the below mentioned options should the organization implement while launching a T2 instance?

Question53: ____________pricing offers significant savings over the normal price of DynamoDB provisioned throughput capacity.

Question54: A user has enabled detailed CloudWatch monitoring with the AWS Simple Notification Service. Which of the below mentioned statements helps the user understand detailed monitoring better?

Question55: A company is finalizing the architecture for its backup solution for applications running on AWS. All of the applications run on AWS and use at least two Availability Zones in each tier.
Company policy requires IT to durably store nightly backups for all its data in at least two locations:
production and disaster recovery. The locations must be in different geographic regions. The company also needs the backup to be available to restore immediately at the production data center, and within 24 hours at the disaster recovery location. All backup processes must be fully automated.
What is the MOST cost-effective backup solution that will meet all requirements?

Question56: The following are AWS Storage services? Choose 2.

Question57: You create a VPN connection, and your VPN device supports Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
Which of the following should be specified to configure the VPN connection?

Question58: An AWS customer is deploying an application mat is composed of an AutoScaling group of EC2 Instances.
The customers security policy requires that every outbound connection from these instances to any other service within the customers Virtual Private Cloud must be authenticated using a unique x 509 certificate that contains the specific instance-id.
In addition, an x 509 certificates must Designed by the customer's Key management service in order to be trusted for authentication.
Which of the following configurations will support these requirements?

Question59: An International company has deployed a multi-tier web application that relies on DynamoDB in a single region. For regulatory reasons they need disaster recovery capability in a separate region with a Recovery Time Objective of 2 hours and a Recovery Point Objective of 24 hours. They should synchronize their data on a regular basis and be able to provision me web application rapidly using CloudFormation.
The objective is to minimize changes to the existing web application, control the throughput of DynamoDB used for the synchronization of data and synchronize only the modified elements.
Which design would you choose to meet these requirements?

Question60: An organization has created multiple components of a single application for compartmentalization. Currently all the components are hosted on a single EC2 instance. Due to security reasons the organization wants to implement two separate SSLs for the separate modules although it is already using VPC.
How can the organization achieve this with a single instance?

Question61: Which statement is NOT true about a stack which has been created in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in AWS OpsWorks?

Question62: You are designing a multi-platform web application for AWS The application will run on EC2 instances and will be accessed from PCs. Tablets and smart phones Supported accessing platforms are Windows, MacOS, IOS and Android Separate sticky session and SSL certificate setups are required for different platform types.
Which of the following describes the most cost effective and performance efficient architecture setup?

Question63: In which step of "start using AWS Direct Connect" steps is the virtual interface you created tagged with a customer-provided tag that complies with the Ethernet 802.1Q standard?

Question64: If you have a running instance using an Amazon EBS boot partition, you can call the _______ API to release the compute resources but preserve the data on the boot partition.

Question65: IAM Secure and Scalable is an organization which provides scalable and secure SAAS to its clients. They are planning to host a web server and App server on AWS VPC as separate tiers. The organization wants to implement the scalability by configuring Auto Scaling and load balancer with their app servers (middle tier) too.
Which of the below mentioned options suits their requirements?

Question66: A user has created a VPC with CIDR 20.0.0.0/16. The user has created one subnet with CIDR 20.0.0.0/16 in this VPC. The user is trying to create another subnet with the same VPC for CIDR 20.0.0.1/24.
What will happen in this scenario?

Question67: Which of the following does Amazon DynamoDB perform?

Question68: A user has created a VPC with CIDR 20.0.0.0/16. The user has created one subnet with CIDR 20.0.0.0/16 by mistake. The user is trying to create another subnet of CIDR 20.0.1.0/24.
How can the user create the second subnet?

Question69: For AWS CloudFormation, which stack state refuses UpdateStack calls?

Question70: A company is creating an account strategy so that they can begin using AWS. The Security team will provide each team with the permissions they need to follow the principle or least privileged access. Teams would like to keep their resources isolated from other groups, and the Finance team would like each team's resource usage separated for billing purposes.
Which account creation process meets these requirements and allows for changes?

Question71: A user is sending a custom metric to CloudWatch. If the call to the CloudWatch APIs has different dimensions, but the same metric name, how will CloudWatch treat all the requests?

Question72: Which statement is NOT true about accessing remote AWS region in the US by your AWS Direct Connect which is located in the US?

Question73: What is the maximum number of data points for an HTTP data request that a user can include in PutMetricRequest in the CloudWatch?

Question74: Your system recently experienced down time during the troubleshooting process. You found that a new administrator mistakenly terminated several production EC2 instances.
Which of the following strategies will help prevent a similar situation in the future?
The administrator still must be able to:
* launch, start stop, and terminate development resources.
* launch and start production instances.

Question75: A company has a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster in its on-premises data center which runs thousands of jobs in parallel for one week every month, processing petabytes of images. The images are stored on a network file server, which is replicated to a disaster recovery site. The on-premises data center has reached capacity and has started to spread the jobs out over the course of month in order to better utilize the cluster, causing a delay in the job completion.
The company has asked its Solutions Architect to design a cost-effective solution on AWS to scale beyond the current capacity of 5,000 cores and 10 petabytes of data. The solution must require the least amount of management overhead and maintain the current level of durability.
Which solution will meet the company's requirements?

Question76: When using Numeric Conditions within IAM, short versions of the available comparators can be used instead of the more verbose versions.
Which of the following is the short version of the Numeric Condition "NumericLessThanEquals"?

Question77: An organization is planning to host a Wordpress blog as well a joomla CMS on a single instance launched with VPC. The organization wants to have separate domains for each application and assign them using Route
53. The organization may have about ten instances each with two applications as mentioned above. While launching the instance, the organization configured two separate network interfaces (primary + ENI) and wanted to have two elastic IPs for that instance. It was suggested to use a public IP from AWS instead of an elastic IP as the number of elastic IPs is restricted.
What action will you recommend to the organization?

Question78: An enterprise wants to use a third-party SaaS application. The SaaS application needs to have access to issue several API commands to discover Amazon EC2 resources running within the enterprise's account The enterprise has internal security policies that require any outside access to their environment must conform to the principles of least privilege and there must be controls in place to ensure that the credentials used by the SaaS vendor cannot be used by any other third party.
Which of the following would meet all of these conditions?

Question79: To get started using AWS Direct Connect, in which of the following steps do you configure Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)?

Question80: A company wants to manage the costs associated with a group of 20 applications that are critical, by migrating to AWS. The applications are a mix of Java and Node.js spread across different instance clusters. The company wants to minimize costs while standardizing by using a single deployment methodology. Most of the applications are part of month-end processing routines with a small number of concurrent users, but they are occasionally run at other times. Average application memory consumption is less than 1 GB, though some applications use as much as 2.5 GB of memory during peak processing. The most important application in the group is a billing report written in Java that accesses multiple data sources and often for several hours.
Which is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question81: When using the AWS CLI for AWS CloudFormation, which of the following commands returns a description of the specified resource in the specified stack?

Question82: You have launched an EC2 instance with four (4) 500 GB EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes attached. The EC2 instance is EBS-Optimized and supports 500 Mbps throughput between EC2 and EBS. The four EBS volumes are configured as a single RAID 0 device, and each Provisioned IOPS volume is provisioned with 4,000 IOPS (4,000 16KB reads or writes), for a total of 16,000 random IOPS on the instance. The EC2 instance initially delivers the expected 16,000 IOPS random read and write performance. Sometime later, in order to increase the total random I/O performance of the instance, you add an additional two 500 GB EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes to the RAID. Each volume is provisioned to 4,000 IOPs like the original four, for a total of 24,000 IOPS on the EC2 instance. Monitoring shows that the EC2 instance CPU utilization increased from 50% to
70%, but the total random IOPS measured at the instance level does not increase at all.
What is the problem and a valid solution?

Question83: How much memory does the cr1.8xlarge instance type provide?

Question84: A company runs a Windows Server host in a public subnet that is configured to allow a team of administrators to connect over RDP to troubleshoot issues with hosts in a private subnet. The host must be available at all times outside of a scheduled maintenance window, and needs to receive the latest operating system updates within 3 days of release.
What should be done to manage the host with the LEAST amount of administrative effort?