Amazon SAP-C01 Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 51
List of questions
Question 501

Does an AWS Direct Connect location provide access to Amazon Web Services in the region it is associated with as well as access to other US regions?
Explanation:
An AWS Direct Connect location provides access to Amazon Web Services in the region it is associated with, as well as access to other US regions. For example, you can provision a single connection to any AWS Direct Connect location in the US and use it to access public AWS services in all US Regions and AWS GovCloud (US).
Reference: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/directconnect/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html
Question 502

A financial services company logs personally identifiable information to its application logs stored in Amazon S3. Due to regulatory compliance requirements, the log files must be encrypted at rest. The security team has mandated that the company’s on-premises hardware security modules (HSMs) be used to generate the CMK material.
Which steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements?
Question 503

A scientific company needs to process text and image data from an Amazon S3 bucket. The data is collected from several radar stations during a live, time-critical phase of a deep space mission. The radar stations upload the data to the source S3 bucket. The data is prefixed by radar station identification number.
The company created a destination S3 bucket in a second account. Data must be copied from the source S3 bucket to the destination S3 bucket to meet a compliance objective. The replication occurs through the use of an S3 replication rule to cover all objects in the source S3 bucket.
One specific radar station is identified as having the most accurate data. Data replication at this radar station must be monitored for completion within 30 minutes after the radar station uploads the objects to the source S3 bucket. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question 504

A financial company is building a system to generate monthly, immutable bank account statements for its users. Statements are stored in Amazon S3. Users should have immediate access to their monthly statements for up to 2 years. Some users access their statements frequently, whereas others rarely access their statements. The company’s security and compliance policy requires that the statements be retained for at least 7 years. What is the MOST cost-effective solution to meet the company’s needs?
Question 505

In order for a table write to succeed, the provisioned throughput settings for the table and global secondary indexes, in DynamoDB, must have__________; otherwise, the write to the table will be throttled.
Explanation:
In order for a table write to succeed in DynamoDB, the provisioned throughput settings for the table and global secondary indexes must have enough write capacity to accommodate the write; otherwise, the write will be throttled.
Reference: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/GSI.html
Question 506

You have set up Auto Scaling to automatically scale in. Consequently, you must decide which instances Auto Scaling should end first. What should you use to configure this?
Explanation:
If you instruct Auto Scaling to automatically scale in, you must decide which instances Auto Scaling should terminate first. This can be configured through the use of a termination policy.
Reference: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AutoScaling/latest/DeveloperGuide/AutoScalingBehavior.InstanceTermination.html
Question 507

A company is having issues with a newly deployed serverless infrastructure that uses Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB. In a steady state, the application performs as expected. However, during peak load, tens of thousands of simultaneous invocations are needed and user requests fail multiple times before succeeding. The company has checked the logs for each component, focusing specifically on Amazon CloudWatch Logs for Lambda. There are no errors logged by the services or applications. What might cause this problem?
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/api-gateway-request-throttling.html
Question 508

Will you be able to access EC2 snapshots using the regular Amazon S3 APIs?
Explanation:
No, snapshots are only available through the Amazon EC2 APIs.
Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/
Question 509

Does Amazon RDS API provide actions to modify DB instances inside a VPC and associate them with DB Security Groups?
Explanation:
You can use the action Modify DB Instance, available in the Amazon RDS API, to pass values for the parameters DB Instance Identifier and DB Security Groups specifying the instance ID and the DB Security Groups you want your instance to be part of.
Reference: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_ModifyDBInstance.html
Question 510

Your company hosts a social media site supporting users in multiple countries. You have been asked to provide a highly available design tor the application that leverages multiple regions tor the most recently accessed content and latency sensitive portions of the wet) site The most latency sensitive component of the application involves reading user preferences to support web site personalization and ad selection. In addition to running your application in multiple regions, which option will support this application’s requirements?
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