You have been tasked with migrating an application and the servers it runs on to the company AWS cloud environment. You have created a checklist of steps necessary to perform this migration. A subsection in the checklist is security considerations. One of the things that you need to consider is the shared responsibility model. Which option does AWS handle under the shared responsibility model?

A software company is looking for compute capacity in the cloud for a fault-tolerant and flexible application. The application is not mission-critical, so occasional downtime is acceptable. What type of EC2 servers can be used to meet these requirements at the lowest cost?

You are put in charge of your company’s Disaster Recovery planning. As part of this plan, you intend to create all of the company infrastructure with CloudFormation templates. The templates can then be saved in another region and used to launch a new environment in case of disaster. What determines the costs associated with CloudFormation templates?

Your company is storing stack traces for application errors in an S3 Bucket. The engineers using these stack traces review them when addressing application issues. It has been decided that the files only need to be kept for four weeks then they can be purged. How can you meet this requirement in S3?

Your application team has been approved to create a new machine learning application over the next two years. You intend to leverage numerous Amazon SageMaker instances and components to back your application. Your manager is worried about the cost potential of the services involved.

How could you maximize your savings opportunities for the Amazon SageMaker service?

After an IT Steering Committee meeting, you have been put in charge of configuring a hybrid environment for the company’s compute resources. You weigh the pros and cons of various technologies based on the requirements you are given. The main requirements to drive this selection are overall cost considerations and the ability to reuse existing internet connections. Which technology best meets these requirements?

You have been assigned the review of the security in your company AWS cloud environment. Your final deliverable will be a report detailing potential security issues. One of the first things that you need to describe is the responsibilities of the company under the shared responsibility model. Which measure is the customer’s responsibility?

A previous cloud engineer deployed several Amazon EC2 instances within your AWS account. You have recently taken over control of the account and have noticed there is a significant amount of idle and underutilized instances in place. Hundreds of instances are within the account, and you do not have the time to go through each instance and manually check all of them.

Which AWS service allows you to kick off the collection of metrics and generate recommendations for incorrectly sized EC2 instances?

A car insurance company keeps specific details about accidents on file for a year, for quick retrieval, and then archives those files to long-term storage. The files are mainly accessed in the first 30 days. A recent audit has approved the general steps they are taking but pointed out many deficiencies in the technologies they are using. You have been hired as a consultant to come up with an automated solution. Your solution will recommend AWS storage options. What storage options could you recommend to meet the lifecycle requirements outlined, provide high availability, and offer the most savings?

You have two EC2 instances running in the same VPC, but in different subnets. You are removing the secondary ENI from an EC2 instance and attaching it to another EC2 instance. You want this to be fast and with limited disruption. So you want to attach the ENI to the EC2 instance when it’s running. What is this called?