AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Practice (SAP-C02) Practice Exam

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• Which service provides a secure, durable, and available hosted queue to help decouple distributed software systems and components?
• How can you validate performance and reliability after migration?
• Which pricing plan provides low prices on EC2 and Fargate in exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of usage for a one-year or three-year term?
• Which service provides support for registering an external on-premises server or VM to your ECS cluster?
• Which service helps manage and automate data transfers without needing to write code?
• What is the role of Amazon Kinesis in AWS data streaming?
• Which service removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting of configuring and managing the required infrastructure, similar to traditional batch computing software?
• Which AWS feature helps centralize and aggregate security and audit logs from multiple accounts?
• When hosting a webhook-driven integration in AWS, which security best practice should you implement?
• Which service offers pricing discounts for a commitment to a consistent usage level of EC2 and Fargate?
• Which AWS service is primarily used to detect unusual or malicious activity across accounts?
• Which is the scalable, long-lasting, and low-cost streaming data solution from Amazon?
• Which service helps you set up your application development in the cloud and manage development from a centralized dashboard?
• Why is data validation important during database migration, and what techniques are used?
• Which service provides a report containing line items for each unique combination of AWS products, usage type, and operation in your AWS account?
• Which feature enables private connectivity to AWS services from a VPC without traversing the public Internet?
• Which AWS service offloads the administrative burdens of operating and scaling a distributed database?
• Which approach is standard for secure service-to-service authentication in a microservices architecture on AWS?
• Which service simplifies large-volume data processing with Hadoop on AWS?
• Which service provides messaging channels to engage customers, such as email, SMS, and push notifications?
• Which service displays reported service events for services across AWS Regions?
• Which serverless data integration service discovers, prepares, moves, and integrates data from multiple sources?
• Users can search across multiple content repositories with this intelligent enterprise search service.
• Web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud?
• Which service is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications with highly connected datasets?
• For a multi-region application requiring shared state with low latency, which pattern is suitable?
• How can you ensure idempotent processing in a serverless architecture?
• Which service is primarily used to run applications that rely on highly connected datasets with fast graph queries?
• How does AWS IAM Identity Center support centralized access management in a multi-account environment?
• Which statement best describes the role of AWS Config rules in multi-account governance?
• Which service is used to create customized licensing rules that emulate the terms of licensing agreements, and then enforce these rules?
• Which provides a unified interface for accessing a wide range of AWS services?
• Let you create a chatbot to use as an Interactive Voice Response (IVR).
• Which service stores and shares packages for development teams, supporting npm, Maven, pip, and dotnet?
• Which AWS service is used to collect and track metrics for resources and applications?
• Which service provides a fully managed platform for time-series forecasting using machine learning?
• What design practice supports auditable changes and rapid rollback across accounts?
• Which service provides an integrated set of tools that enable developers to connect devices and services that use different standards, such as units of measure and communication protocols?
• Which service is an open source, distributed search and analytics suite derived from Elasticsearch?
• Which service is commonly used to automate and accelerate lifting and migrating on-premises servers to AWS, with minimal downtime?
• Which service offers a unified web-based interface for accessing a wide range of AWS services?
• Which network design pattern is recommended for sharing services like identity and logging across accounts while maintaining isolation?
• Which service provides control-plane operations for creating, updating, and deleting clusters?
• Which AWS service provides instant access to applications with a responsive user experience on the device of your choice?
• Which service uses the same dataset that is used to generate the AWS Cost and Usage Reports and the detailed billing reports?
• Which AWS service lets you quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud without needing to learn the underlying infrastructure?
• In a hybrid cloud design, which service provides private, secure connectivity between on-premises data centers and AWS?
• Which AWS service helps you inventory on-prem workloads and dependencies before migration?
• Which AWS service eliminates the need to procure and deploy hardware for end-user desktops?
• Which AWS service is commonly used to migrate database schemas and data from on-premises to AWS with minimal downtime?
• Which service helps automate workload monitoring and automatic capacity adjustment for databases?
• When deciding among re-host, re-platform, re-architect, or replace migration strategies, what factors are most critical?
• Which service is an Apache Cassandra-compatible database service?
• How can you implement policy-as-code to maintain guardrails across multiple accounts?
• For a high-throughput, low-latency application, which database option best supports scale and performance?
• Which service can monitor the compliance of your AWS Organizations?
• Which AWS service enables you to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs at any scale?
• To ensure data durability for S3-based storage used by a data lake, which set of features should be enabled?
• In cross-account design, which practice best manages identities and access?
• Which service analyzes audio to transcribe speech into text?
• When needs require low-latency access to data from multiple regions, which pattern is commonly used?
• What is a common strategy to reduce Lambda cold starts in latency-sensitive workloads?
• Which service helps monitor compliance across AWS Organizations?
• Which service enables developers to connect their applications and services to data and events with secure, serverless and high-performing GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs?
• Which AWS service is designed to lift and migrate on-premises servers to AWS with minimal downtime?
• Which is serverless, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for container metrics?
• Which AWS service provides frontend web and mobile developers with tools to build full-stack applications on AWS?
• Which AWS service can be used to process streaming data with serverless compute and is commonly integrated with Kinesis for real-time analytics?
• What is the benefit of a centralized logging account in a SAP-C02 design?
• Which service enables centralized governance, policy enforcement, and landing zone management for multi-account environments?
• Which AWS service can be used to update the firmware of IoT devices?
• Which service is a fully managed service designed to help you build resilient Web3 applications on both public and private blockchains?
• Which service is the fully managed offering for Apache Kafka on AWS?
• Which AWS service should you use to monitor performance and reliability post-migration?
• Which service is commonly used to audit and monitor access to data in a data lake, providing an auditable trail of access events?
• For migrating legacy on-prem storage with large data volumes, which pattern helps minimize downtime?
• Which service provides message delivery from publishers to subscribers (also known as producers and consumers)?
• Which service is used to detect and recognize text from scanned old newspapers?
• Which AWS service pattern is best for running code in response to events with automatic scaling and pay-per-use pricing?
• Which service enables you to find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the AWS Cloud?
• When designing API-based workloads, which pattern provides a fully managed serverless API fronting back-end services?
• Which service provides intelligent recommendations for improving application performance, efficiency, security, and code quality?
• Which service is the AWS managed container image registry that is secure, scalable, and reliable?
• Which service helps you connect devices and services that use different standards, such as units of measure and communication protocols?
• Which service collects data about requests your application serves and provides tools to view, filter, and gain insights for optimization?
• Which service helps you securely host code repositories in AWS and supports private access by default?
• Which service serves as a serverless orchestration service that coordinates AWS services to build resilient workflows?
• Which service offers a rich code-editing experience with support for multiple programming languages, runtime debuggers, and a built-in terminal?
• Which AWS service provides secure bi-directional communication for IoT devices to connect to the AWS Cloud over MQTT, HTTPS, and LoRaWAN?
• Which service provides high-quality text translation on demand?
• Which service is a managed message broker service that makes it easy to migrate to a message broker in the cloud?
• It uses machine learning that automates the detection of potentially fraudulent activities online.
• Which AWS service provides an interactive query interface to analyze data in Amazon S3 using SQL?
• Which service enables you to enforce governance rules for security, operations, and compliance at scale across all your organizations and accounts?
• Which service allows you to monitor, store, and access log files from EC2 instances and other sources?
• Which service provides a hosted notebook environment to run data science and machine learning experiments without managing servers?
• Which technique is described for initial data transfer when data volumes are large, aside from ongoing replication?
• Which service is primarily used to provision and manage AWS resources as code?
• Which service enables running batch workloads with automatic scaling and without managing infrastructure?
• What is a common technique to minimize downtime during critical database migration?
• Which migration approach is typically faster initially for moving legacy apps to AWS, with the understanding that refactoring can follow later?
• Ensuring you have sufficient Amazon EC2 instances to handle your application's load?
• Which AWS service provides access to real mobile devices for testing apps across Android and iOS?
• How would you implement a data lake with strong security and fine-grained access controls?
• Which service is considered the easiest way for developers to get started with AWS for building websites or web applications?
• Which AWS service helps you engage customers through multiple messaging channels?
• During data validation, which technique is used specifically to verify that DMS replication has accurately captured changes?
• Which unified tool provides a consistent interface for interacting with all AWS services?
• In AWS Organizations, what is the primary purpose of using an organizational unit (OU) structure?
• Which service stores and manages Git repositories in the cloud with private by default repositories?
• Which ETL service reliably captures, transforms, and delivers streaming data to data lakes, data stores, and analytics services?
• It is a fully managed deep learning service for time-series forecasting.
• In a multi-account network design, what is the primary role of Transit Gateway?
• Which AWS service is based on the same deep learning technology used by Amazon's computer vision scientists to analyze billions of images and videos daily?
• What is the key benefit of using Elastic Load Balancing across multiple Availability Zones?
• Which fully managed artifact repository supports language-native package managers such as npm, Maven, pip, and dotnet?
• What is the primary difference between lift-and-shift (rehost) and re-architecture (refactor) migration strategies?
• What combination best supports auditable changes and rapid rollback across multiple AWS accounts?
• Which service uses machine learning to detect fraudulent online activities?
• Which deployment strategy is commonly used during post-migration validation to minimize risk by gradually shifting traffic to the new environment?
• Which service helps frontend developers build full-stack apps with authentication and data stores, without managing servers?
• Which service enables devices to act locally on the data they generate, run predictions based on machine learning models, and filter and aggregate device data?
• Which service specializes in time-series data and near real-time analytics for IoT and operational data?
• When choosing between Lambda and EC2/Fargate for a stateless worker with bursty workloads, what is a key consideration?
• Which service is designed to support graph-based workloads with highly connected data?
• Which architecture pattern is typically used to decouple compute and data layers for scalability in AWS?
• Which AWS service is used to securely store and rotate application secrets and credentials?
• Which AWS service helps IT and facilities managers measure and increase the utilization of the existing meeting rooms in the workplace?
• Which service offers a fully managed visualization platform to query, correlate, and visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources?
• Which AWS service provides governance and fine-grained access to data in a data lake?
• Which service is a serverless orchestration service that lets you integrate with AWS Lambda functions and other AWS services to build business-critical applications?
• Which service automatically converts spoken language in audio into written text?
• Which service makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale MongoDB-compatible databases in the cloud?
• Which service is described as a serverless ETL and data integration platform?
• Which deployment option for Amazon EKS helps you create and operate Kubernetes clusters on your on-premises infrastructure?
• Which content delivery service can improve latency for globally distributed data and content?
• Which service securely stores and manages Git repositories in the cloud while keeping them private?
• Which service runs Docker apps across a cluster of EC2 instances with orchestration support?
• Which services are commonly used for asynchronous messaging in decoupled architectures?
• Which AWS service enables you to monitor equipment fleets for failures or changes in operation and trigger actions accordingly?
• Which approach most accurately enables auditable, region-aware governance across AWS accounts?
• Which service allows you to track and take action on your AWS costs and usage?
• Which service can be used to connect applications with data streams and events across AWS via a serverless messaging pattern?
• Which interactive query service processes and analyzes streaming data using standard SQL?
• Which service provides streaming data analytics using SQL for real-time queries on data streams?
• Which service provides a fast, simple, and cost-effective way to deploy from source code or a container image directly to a scalable and secure web application in the AWS Cloud?
• Which service generates a detailed billing report containing line items for each AWS product and usage type?
• Which AWS service pattern is designed to enable cross-region replication and low-latency reads for multi-region applications involving non-relational data?
• Which service is designed to deploy from source code or container images directly to a scalable web application?
• Which service extends AWS infrastructure to customer premises, enabling a hybrid cloud environment?
• Which technology, when used with Amazon ECS, enables you to run containers without managing servers or EC2 instances?
• Which service is used to compile source code, run unit tests, and produce deployable artifacts?
• Which service is an AWS managed container image registry that is secure, scalable, and reliable?
• Which managed service makes it easy to run Kubernetes on AWS without installing and operating your own Kubernetes clusters?
• Which AWS service provides MongoDB compatibility as a fully managed, cloud-based database?
• Which service is an open source, distributed search and analytics suite derived from Elasticsearch?
• In the context of data residency and compliance, how can you enforce region-based controls across AWS accounts?
• Which service would you use to analyze and process images and videos with deep learning?
• Which service is best suited for building conversational interfaces and chatbots?
• Which AWS service provides text-to-speech in contact flows?
• Which service provides built-in time series analytics to identify trends in near real-time?
• Which AWS service is commonly used to orchestrate multi-step workflows across serverless components?
• Which service is designed for enterprise search across content repositories?
• Which service provides a serverless, Prometheus-compatible monitoring solution for container metrics?
• It uses natural language processing (NLP) to extract insights about the content of documents.
• What is a recommended pattern for sharing services (like identity and logging) across accounts while maintaining strong isolation?
• What is the purpose of AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)?
• Which service provides dashboards and tools to explore and visualize cost and usage trends across AWS accounts?
• Which service is designed to publish, monitor, and secure APIs exposed to applications?
• Which service is used to manage and automate data transfers without needing to write code?
• Which AWS service is designed to provide low-latency, scalable storage for key-value workloads?
• Which service provides APIs and a console to help reduce costs by recommending the optimal AWS resources for workloads?
• Which AWS service audits device configurations, monitors connected devices to detect abnormal behavior, and mitigates security risks?
• Which AWS service is designed to provide fine-grained access control and governance over data stored in a data lake?
• Which service is designed for real-time personalization and recommendations?
• Which service is designed for petabyte-scale data warehousing and integrates with business intelligence tools?
• In migration strategy, what is the concept of a "pilot light"?
• Which AWS service processes IoT data by filtering, transforming, and enriching it before storing for analysis?
• Which service is a fully managed service designed to help you build resilient Web3 applications on public and private blockchains?
• Which service is a fully managed relational database engine compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL?
• Which fully managed service enables you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data?
• Which service makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale distributed in-memory cache environments in the AWS Cloud?
• What security measures should you apply to migration traffic to AWS?
• Which AWS service supports testing native and hybrid Android, iOS, and progressive web apps across multiple devices and frameworks?
• Which server-side encryption option uses AWS Key Management Service keys to encrypt data at rest in S3?
• In a serverless data processing pipeline, which services enable an event-driven, pay-per-use processing flow?
• Which AWS service is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse that integrates with BI tools?
• Which service provides cost-efficient, resizeable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks?
• Which AWS service provides a central metadata repository to catalog and search data lake assets?
• Which S3 feature set is essential to protect against accidental deletions and ensure long-term durability in a data lake?
• Which fully managed data visualization service lets you query, correlate, and visualize operational metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources?
• Which service offers an integrated Jupyter notebook environment for data exploration with no server management?
• Why is performing a cutover during a maintenance window recommended during database migration?
• Which service connects IoT devices to the AWS cloud using protocols like MQTT, HTTPS, and LoRaWAN?
• Which service can model, visualize, and automate the steps required to release your software?
• Which service is an email platform that provides a cost-effective way to send and receive email using your own addresses and domains?
• Which combination of AWS services forms a scalable, event-driven architecture with minimal operational overhead?
• Which service is described as a fully managed platform that handles deployment and reduces the need to manage underlying infrastructure?
• Which service runs your code on a high-availability compute infrastructure and handles server and OS maintenance, capacity provisioning, automatic scaling, and logging?
• How do you ensure data encryption at rest and in transit in AWS designs?
• Which fully managed service extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to customer premises?
• Which service serves as a scalable, durable streaming data platform for ingestion into AWS analytics?
• Which service is associated with data lake governance, access control, and auditing?
• Which service enables you to model a collection of related AWS resources and provision them quickly as code?
• In AWS migration, what is the role of AWS Migration Hub?
• Which service is a fast business analytics service to build visualizations, perform ad hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data?
• How can you securely grant cross-account access to a secret in Secrets Manager?
• Which service is a serverless event bus service that makes it easy to connect your applications with data from a variety of sources?
• Which practice reduces blast radius and improves security in a multi-account design?
• Which service is used for on-demand language translation?
• Which service should you use to track changes made by any AWS service, resource, or API?
• Which service easily collects, organizes, and analyzes data from industrial equipment at scale?
• What is a Service Control Policy (SCP) and how does it affect permissions for an AWS account?
• Which web service processes and moves data at scheduled intervals?
• Which AWS service is a managed, Cassandra-compatible database suitable for Cassandra workloads?
• Which AWS construct helps manage IP addressing across multiple VPCs and accounts?
• Which distribution is the same open-source Kubernetes and dependencies deployed by Amazon EKS, enabling you to manually run Kubernetes clusters anywhere?
• When building a secure data lake, how should you enforce access controls on data?
• What is the primary purpose of a cutover plan in a cloud migration, and what are common strategies used to execute it?
• Which managed database service is commonly used for scalable relational workloads in AWS?
• Which AWS database service is a managed relational option suitable for relational data requiring high performance and scalability in microservices?
• Which AWS service allows you to run Docker apps across a cluster of EC2?
• Which service provides secure, bi-directional communication for Internet-connected devices to connect to the AWS Cloud over MQTT, HTTPS, and LoRaWAN?
• This service makes it easy for simple devices to trigger AWS Lambda functions that execute a specific action.
• Which service would you use to run Kubernetes on AWS without installing your own clusters?