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1. A startup is moving its application from a company-owned data center to AWS. The finance team wants to avoid purchasing servers years before they are needed. Which cloud benefit best addresses this goal?
  1. AWS takes responsibility for every security control in the application
  2. The company can replace large upfront capital expenses with variable expenses for the resources it uses
  3. The company must reserve enough capacity for its maximum possible demand
  4. AWS eliminates the need for the company to monitor its application

Answer: B. The company can replace large upfront capital expenses with variable expenses for the resources it uses

Pay-as-you-go cloud consumption can replace large upfront infrastructure purchases with variable costs. AWS does not assume all application security or monitoring responsibilities, and customers need not always provision for peak demand.

2. A small organization is comparing the cost of operating its own data center with using AWS at a similar scale. Which AWS cloud advantage can help lower variable costs as usage grows?
  1. Customers can avoid all operational decisions
  2. Each customer receives dedicated AWS data center facilities
  3. AWS can achieve economies of scale by aggregating usage across many customers
  4. Every AWS service has a fixed monthly price regardless of use

Answer: C. AWS can achieve economies of scale by aggregating usage across many customers

AWS aggregates demand across customers and can benefit from economies of scale, which can reduce variable costs. AWS facilities are not dedicated to each customer, and many services are usage-based rather than fixed-price.

3. An online retailer has unpredictable traffic spikes during promotions. Which cloud characteristic lets it adjust resources to match changing demand instead of maintaining peak capacity all year?
  1. Elasticity
  2. Data sovereignty
  3. In-memory caching
  4. Dedicated tenancy

Answer: A. Elasticity

Elasticity allows resources to increase or decrease as demand changes. Data sovereignty concerns data location, caching can improve performance, and dedicated tenancy does not itself adjust capacity.

4. A company needs its customer-facing application to continue operating if a localized data center failure affects one facility. Which AWS design choice most directly improves fault isolation?
  1. Place every component in one Availability Zone and use larger instances
  2. Store application logs only on the web server's root volume
  3. Deploy the application across multiple Availability Zones in one Region
  4. Use a separate AWS account for each application component

Answer: C. Deploy the application across multiple Availability Zones in one Region

Availability Zones are distinct locations within a Region, designed with independent infrastructure, so deploying across multiple Zones helps tolerate a localized facility failure. Larger instances or separate accounts alone do not provide this failure isolation.

5. A Japanese company must keep a workload's data in Japan under its internal policy and wants low latency for users in Tokyo. Which action is the best starting point when deploying the workload?
  1. Choose the AWS Region in Japan and keep the workload's resources and data there
  2. Choose any Region and use an Availability Zone whose name contains the word Tokyo
  3. Deploy only to an edge location, because edge locations are full AWS Regions
  4. Use a global service and assume all of its data is stored only in Japan

Answer: A. Choose the AWS Region in Japan and keep the workload's resources and data there

Selecting a Japan Region is the appropriate starting point for keeping regional workload resources and data in Japan while serving nearby users. Availability Zone names do not identify Tokyo, edge locations are not full Regions, and global services may have different data-location behavior.

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