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1. A retail company has unpredictable holiday traffic. It wants to avoid buying enough on-premises servers for peak demand while still serving customers during the seasonal surge. Which cloud benefit most directly addresses this need?
  1. Elasticity, which lets capacity scale with demand
  2. Dedicated tenancy, which reserves physical servers
  3. A fixed monthly cost regardless of usage
  4. A single Availability Zone for all workloads

Answer: A. Elasticity, which lets capacity scale with demand

Elasticity allows the company to add and remove capacity as demand changes, avoiding permanent peak-sized infrastructure. A fixed monthly cost and a single Availability Zone do not provide this capacity flexibility.

2. A company wants its application to remain available if one data center experiences a localized failure. Which AWS infrastructure approach best supports this goal?
  1. Place all application components in one Availability Zone and use larger instances
  2. Deploy redundant components across multiple Availability Zones in one Region
  3. Use an edge location as the application's only compute environment
  4. Store a second copy of the application in the same server rack

Answer: B. Deploy redundant components across multiple Availability Zones in one Region

Availability Zones are distinct locations within an AWS Region, so distributing redundant components across them helps withstand a localized data center failure. Larger instances or copies in the same rack do not provide equivalent fault isolation.

3. A media company must serve a global audience with low-latency delivery of cached video and static files. Which AWS global infrastructure component is designed to help deliver content close to viewers?
  1. An AWS Local Zone
  2. An Availability Zone
  3. An AWS Region
  4. An edge location used by Amazon CloudFront

Answer: D. An edge location used by Amazon CloudFront

CloudFront uses a global network of edge locations to cache and deliver content near viewers. Regions and Availability Zones host resources, while Local Zones place select services nearer to a specific metropolitan area.

4. A company migrates a database to Amazon RDS and selects a managed database engine. Which operational task is AWS responsible for under the shared responsibility model?
  1. Choosing which database users may read confidential records
  2. Patching and maintaining the underlying physical infrastructure
  3. Deciding the application's data retention policy
  4. Defining the database schema for the application

Answer: B. Patching and maintaining the underlying physical infrastructure

AWS is responsible for security of the cloud, including physical facilities and underlying infrastructure. The customer remains responsible for data access decisions, application design, and its retention requirements.

5. A company needs a developer to read objects from one specific S3 bucket, but not to administer the account. What is the most secure way to grant this access?
  1. Share the root user credentials with the developer
  2. Create an IAM role or user with a least-privilege policy scoped to that bucket
  3. Attach AdministratorAccess and ask the developer to use only S3
  4. Make the bucket public and send the developer its URL

Answer: B. Create an IAM role or user with a least-privilege policy scoped to that bucket

A narrowly scoped IAM policy grants only the required bucket access and follows least privilege. Root credentials, administrator permissions, and public access expose substantially more authority or data than needed.

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