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Question 1 of 10

1. Question
You are a Solutions Architect at Digital Cloud Training. A client from a large multinational corporation is working on a deployment of a significant amount of resources into AWS. The client would like to be able to deploy resources across multiple AWS accounts and regions using a single toolset and template. You have been asked to suggest a toolset that can provide this functionality?
- Use a CloudFormation template that creates a stack and specify the logical IDs of each account and region
- Use a CloudFormation StackSet and specify the target accounts and regions in which the stacks will be created
- Use a third-party product such as Terraform that has support for multiple AWS accounts and regions
- This cannot be done, use separate CloudFormation templates per AWS account and region
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Question 2 of 10

2. Question
The operations team in your company are looking for a method to automatically respond to failed status check alarms that are being received from an EC2 instance. The system in question is experiencing intermittent problems with its operating system software.

Which two steps will help you to automate the resolution of the operating system software issues? (Select TWO.)
- Create a CloudWatch alarm that monitors the “StatusCheckFailed_System” metric
- Create a CloudWatch alarm that monitors the “StatusCheckFailed_Instance” metric
- Configure an EC2 action that recovers the instance
- Configure an EC2 action that terminates the instance
- Configure an EC2 action that reboots the instance
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Question 3 of 10

3. Question
Developers regularly create and update CloudFormation stacks using API calls. For security reasons you need to ensure that users are restricted to a specified template. How can this be achieved?
- Store the template on Amazon S3 and use a bucket policy to restrict access
- Create an IAM policy with a Condition: TemplateURL parameter
- Create an IAM policy with a Condition: StackPolicyURL parameter
- Create an IAM policy with a Condition: ResourceTypes parameter
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4. Question
An application running video-editing software is using significant memory on an Amazon EC2 instance. How can a user track memory usage on the Amazon EC2 instance?
- Call Amazon CloudWatch to retrieve the memory usage metric data that exists for the EC2 instance
- Assign an IAM role to the EC2 instance with an IAM policy granting access to the desired metric
- Use an instance type that supports memory usage reporting to a metric by default
- Install the CloudWatch agent on the EC2 instance to push memory usage to an Amazon CloudWatch custom metric
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Question 5 of 10

5. Question
A Solutions Architect has created a VPC design that meets the security requirements of their organization. Any new applications that are deployed must use this VPC design.

How can project teams deploy, manage, and delete VPCs that meet this design with the LEAST administrative effort?
- Deploy an AWS CloudFormation template that defines components of the VPC
- Run a script that uses the AWS Command Line interface to deploy the VPC
- Clone the existing authorized VPC for each new project
- Use AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy both the VPC and the application
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Question 6 of 10

6. Question
An organization is considering ways to reduce administrative overhead and automate build processes. An Architect has suggested using CloudFormation. Which of the statements below are true regarding CloudFormation? (Select TWO.)
- Allows you to model your entire infrastructure in a text file
- It is used to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, and set alarms
- It provides visibility into user activity by recording actions taken on your account
- It provides a common language for you to describe and provision all the infrastructure resources in your cloud environment
- You pay for CloudFormation and the AWS resources created
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7. Question
You are creating a CloudFormation template that will provision a new EC2 instance and new EBS volume. What do you need to specify to associate the block store with the instance?
- Both the EC2 logical ID and the EBS logical ID
- The EC2 logical ID
- Both the EC2 physical ID and the EBS physical ID
- The EC2 physical ID
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8. Question
An event in CloudTrail is the record of an activity in an AWS account. What are the two types of events that can be logged in CloudTrail? (Select TWO.)
- System Events which are also known as instance level operations
- Management Events which are also known as control plane operations
- Platform Events which are also known as hardware level operations
- Data Events which are also known as data plane operations
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9. Question
You have deployed a number of AWS resources using CloudFormation. You need to make some changes to a couple of resources within the stack and are planning how to implement the updates. Due to recent bad experiences, you’re a little concerned about what the effects of implementing updates to the resources might have on other resources in the stack.

What is the easiest way to proceed cautiously?
- Use OpsWorks to manage the configuration changes
- Use a direct update
- Deploy a new stack to test the changes
- Create and execute a change set
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Question 10 of 10

10. Question
You are concerned that you may be getting close to some of the default service limits for several AWS services. Which AWS tool can be used to display current usage and limits?
- AWS CloudWatch
- AWS Dashboard
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- AWS Systems Manager
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