AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner practice questions, page 26 of 40, with answer review and explanations.

Question 126

Who has the responsibility to patch the host operating system of an Amazon EC2 instance, according to the AWS shared responsibility model?

  1. Both AWS and the customer
  2. The customer only
  3. The EC2 hardware manufacturer
  4. AWS only

Question 127

A company is using an Amazon RDS DB instance for an application that is deployed in the AWS Cloud. The company needs regular patching of the operating system of the server where the DB instance runs. What is the company's responsibility in this situation, according to the AWS shared responsibility model?

  1. Open a support case to obtain administrative access to the server so that the company can patch the DB instance operating system.
  2. Open a support case and request that AWS patch the DB instance operating system.
  3. Use administrative access to the server, and apply the operating system patches during the regular maintenance window that is defined for the DB instance.
  4. Establish a regular maintenance window that tells AWS when to patch the DB instance operating system.

Question 128

Why is an AWS Well-Architected review a critical part of the cloud design process?

  1. A Well-Architected review is mandatory before a workload can run on AWS.
  2. A Well-Architected review helps identify design gaps and helps evaluate design decisions and related documents.
  3. A Well-Architected review is an audit mechanism that is a part of requirements for service level agreements.
  4. A Well-Architected review eliminates the need for ongoing auditing and compliance tests.

Question 129

A company implements an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling policy along with an Application Load Balancer to automatically recover unhealthy applications that run on Amazon EC2 instances. Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework does this action cover?

  1. Security
  2. Performance efficiency
  3. Operational excellence
  4. Reliability

Question 130

Which AWS Cloud benefit is shown by an architecture's ability to withstand failures with minimal downtime?

  1. Agility
  2. Elasticity
  3. Scalability
  4. High availability