Amazon Amazon Certifications CLF-C01 Questions & Answers

• Question 361:

  A company needs to monitor compute usage and receive an email message notification every time an Amazon EC2 instance starts or stops. Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?

  A. Amazon EventBridge

  B. Amazon WorkMail

  C. Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)

  D. AWS Trusted Advisor

  Correct Answer: A

  Amazon EventBridge is an event-driven service that makes it easy to integrate your applications with data from a variety of sources. It can be used to monitor AWS resources and third-party applications, and respond to events in real-time.

  To set up the required notifications, you can create an EventBridge rule that triggers an AWS Lambda function whenever an EC2 instance starts or stops. The Lambda function can then send an email notification using Amazon SES or Amazon WorkMail.

• Question 362:

  A company needs a solution that can provide automated notifications and perform automated actions if the company's monthly AWS costs exceed a specific threshold. Which AWS service or tool provides this functionality?

  A. AWS Budgets

  B. AWS Cost Explorer

  C. AWS Trusted Advisor

  D. Amazon Inspector

  Correct Answer: A

  AWS Budgets is a free service that allows you to set custom cost and usage budgets that alert you when you exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount. You can also set up to 10 email or SMS notifications for each budget and you can use AWS Lambda to automate actions, such as stopping an Amazon EC2 instance, when a budget threshold is exceeded. AWS Cost Explorer provides cost and usage data, but it doesn't provide automated notifications or actions. AWS Trusted Advisor provides cost optimization recommendations, but it doesn't provide cost monitoring or automated actions. Amazon Inspector is a security assessment service and not related to cost management

• Question 363:

  A user needs a dedicated private connection between a colocation facility and a VPC. Which AWS service or feature should the user choose?

  A. AWS VPN

  B. AWS PrivateLink

  C. AWS Direct Connect

  D. AWS Client VPN

  Correct Answer: C

  The AWS service or feature that a user should choose for a dedicated private connection between a colocation facility and a VPC is C. AWS Direct Connect.

  AWS Direct Connect is a service that provides dedicated, private network connections from an on- premises environment to AWS. It allows the user to establish a dedicated network connection from their premises to AWS, which can help to reduce network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than internet-based connections.

• Question 364:

  A company plans to move its test workloads to Amazon EC2. The test workloads can be interrupted and are not required to start at a particular time. Which EC2 instance purchasing option is MOST cost-effective for this use case?

  A. On-Demand Instances:

  B. Spot Instances

  C. Reserved Instances

  D. Dedicated Hosts

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 365:

  A company wants to set up a secure network connection from on premises to the AWS Cloud within 1 week. Which solution will meet these requirements?

  A. AWS Direct Connect

  B. Amazon VPC

  C. AWS Site-to-Site VPN

  D. Edge location

  Correct Answer: C

  A. AWS Direct Connect- according to the documentation this can take several weeks to set up with a local provider.

  B. Amazon VPC- this is primarily used for subnetting internal instances. C. AWS Site-to-Site VPN- can be set up in minutes from branch / data center to aws. D. Edge location- these are mainly content based distribution hubs for end users/ clients.

• Question 366:

  A company needs to create and manage a portfolio of IT workloads that the company approves for use on AWS. Which AWS service provides this functionality?

  A. AWS config

  B. AWS Service Catalog

  C. AWS Systems Manager

  D. AWS CloudFormation

  Correct Answer: B

  AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. These catalogs can include everything from simple virtual machine images to multi-tier applications and services. Users can quickly and easily launch pre-approved services from the catalog, without needing to go through the procurement and provisioning processes typically associated with IT service delivery.

• Question 367:

  Which AWS database service provides in-memory data storage?

  A. Amazon DynamoDB

  B. Amazon ElastiCache

  C. Amazon RDS

  D. Amazon Timestream

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 368:

  A company is running a workload in the AWS Cloud.

  Which AWS best practice ensures the MOST cost-effective architecture for the workload?

  A. Loose coupling

  B. Rightsizing

  C. Caching

  D. Redundancy

  Correct Answer: B

  Right sizing is the process of matching instance types and sizes to your workload performance and capacity requirements at the lowest possible cost.

  Ref link: https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-cost-optimization/right-sizing/#:~:text=Right %20sizing%20is%20the%20process,at%20the%20lowest%20possible%20cost.

• Question 369:

  Which AWS service allows users to model and provision AWS resources using common programming languages?

  A. AWS CloudFormation

  B. AWS CodePipeline

  C. AWS Cloud Development kit (AWS CDK)

  D. AWS Systems Manager

  Correct Answer: C

  C The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open source software development framework to model and provision your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages.

• Question 370:

  A company needs to reserve a certain amount of Amazon EC2 compute resources in a specific Availability Zone within an AWS Region. Which purchasing option should the company use to meet this requirement?

  A. EC2 Instance Savings Plans

  B. Compute Savings Plans

  C. Regional Reserved Instances

  D. Zonal Reserved Instances

  Correct Answer: D

  When you purchase a Reserved Instance, you determine the scope of the Reserved Instance. The scope is either regional or zonal.

  Regional: When you purchase a Reserved Instance for a Region, it's referred to as a regional Reserved Instance.

  Zonal: When you purchase a Reserved Instance for a specific Availability Zone, it's referred to as a zonal Reserved Instance.