SAP-C01 Free Practice Test

A company uses an Amazon EMR cluster to process data once a day. The raw data comes from Amazon S3, and the resulting processed data is also stored in Amazon S3. The processing must complete within 4 hours; currently, it only takes 3 hours. However, the processing time is taking 5 to 10 minutes. longer each week due to an increasing volume of raw data.
The team is also concerned about rising costs as the compute capacity increases. The EMR cluster is currently running on three m3.xlarge instances (one master and two core nodes).
Which of the following solutions will reduce costs related to the increasing compute needs?

1. A. Add additional task nodes, but have the team purchase an all-upfront convertible Reserved Instance for each additional nod e to offset the costs.
2. B. Add additional task nodes, but use instance fleets with the master node in on-Demand mode and a mix of On-Demand and Spot Instances for the core and task node
3. C. Purchase a scheduled Reserved Instances for the master node.
4. D. Add additional task nodes, but use instance fleets with the master node in Spot mode and a mix of On-Demand and Spot Instances for the core and task node
5. E. Purchase enough scheduled Reserved Instances to offset the cost of running any On-Demand instances.
6. F. Add additional task nodes, but use instance fleets with the master node in On-Demand mode and a mix of On-Demand and Spot Instances for the core and task node
7. G. Purchase a standard all-upfront Reserved Instance for the master node.

Correct Answer: B

A company stores sales transaction data in Amazon DynamoDB tables. To detect anomalous behaviors and respond quickly, all changes to the items stored in the DynamoDB tables must be logged within 30 minutes. Which solution meets the requirements?

1. A. Copy the DynamoDB tables into Apache Hive tables on Amazon EMR every hour and analyze them for anomalous behavior
2. B. Send Amazon SNS notifications when anomalous behaviors are detected.
3. C. Use AWS CloudTrail to capture all the APIs that change the DynamoDB table
4. D. Send SNS notifications when anomalous behaviors are detected using CloudTrail event filtering.
5. E. Use Amazon DynamoDB Streams to capture and send updates to AWS Lambd
6. F. Create a Lambda function to output records to Amazon Kinesis Data Stream
7. G. Analyze any anomalies with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytic
8. H. Send SNS notifications when anomalous behaviors are detected.
9. I. Use event patterns in Amazon CloudWatch Events to capture DynamoDB API call events with an AWS Lambda function as a target to analyze behavio
10. J. Send SNS notifications when anomalous behaviors are detected.

Correct Answer: C
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Streams.html

A Solution Architect is designing a deployment strategy for an application tier and gas the following requirements.
* The application code will need a 500 HB static dataset to be present before application startup.
* The application tier be able to scale Up and down based on demand with as little startup time as possible.
* The development team should be able to update the code multiple times each day.
* Critical operating system (OS) patches must be installed within 48 hours of being released. Which deployment strategy meets these requirements?

1. A. Use AWS Manager to create a new AMI with the updated OS patches . Update the Auto Scaling group to use the patches AMI and replace existing unpatche
2. B. Use AWS CodeDeploy to push the application code to the instance
3. C. Store the static data in Amazon EFS.
4. D. Use AWS System Manager to create a new AMI with upload OS patche
5. E. Update the Auto Scaling group to use the patches AMI and replace existing unpatches and the application code as a batch job every nigh
6. F. Store the static data in Amazon EFS.
7. G. Use an Amazon provided AMI for the OS Configure an Auto Scaling group set to a static instance coun
8. H. Configure an Amazon EC2 data script to download the data from Amazon S3 install OS patches with AWS system Manager when they are release
9. I. Use Codedeploy to push the application code to the instances.
10. J. Use an Amazon provided AMI for the OS Configure an Auto Scaling group Configure an Amazon EC2 user data script to download the data from Amazon S3. Replace existing instances after eachAmazon-provided AMI releas
11. K. Use AWS CodeDeploy to push the application code to the instances.

Correct Answer: C

A company is implementing a multi-account strategy; however, the Management team has expressed concerns that services like DNS may become overly complex. The company needs a solution that allows private DNS to be shared among virtual private clouds (VPCs) in different accounts. The company will have approximately 50 accounts in total.
What solution would create the LEAST complex DNS architecture and ensure that each VPC can resolve all AWS resources?

1. A. Create a shared services VPC in a central account, and create a VPC peering connection from the shared services VPC to each of the VPCs in the other account
2. B. Within Amazon Route 53, create a privately hosted zone in the shared services VPC and resource record sets for the domain and subdomains.Programmatically associate other VPCs with the hosted zone.
3. C. Create a VPC peering connection among the VPCs in all account
4. D. Set the VPC attributes enableDnsHostnames and enableDnsSupport to “true” for each VP
5. E. Create an Amazon Route 53 private zone for each VP
6. F. Create resource record sets for the domain and subdomain
7. G. Programmatically associate the hosted zones in each VPC with the other VPCs.
8. H. Create a shared services VPC in a central accoun
9. I. Create a VPC peering connection from the VPCs in other accounts to the shared services VP
10. J. Create an Amazon Route 53 privately hosted zone in the shared services VPC with resource record sets for the domain and subdomain
11. K. Allow UDP and TCP port 53 over the VPC peering connections.
12. L. Set the VPC attributes enableDnsHostnames and enableDnsSupport to “false” in every VP
13. M. Create an AWS Direct Connect connection with a private virtual interfac
14. N. Allow UDP and TCP port 53 over the virtual interfac
15. O. Use the on-premises DNS servers to resolve the IP addresses in each VPC on AWS.

Correct Answer: A
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/centralized-dns-management-of-hybrid-cloud-w

A company has a 24 TB MySQL database in its on-premises data center that grows at the rate of 10 GB per day. The data center is connected to the company’s AWS infrastructure with a 50 Mbps VPN connection.
The company is migrating the application and workload to AWS. The application code is already installed and tested on Amazon EC2. The company now needs to migrate the database and wants to go live on AWS within 3 weeks.
Which of the following approaches meets the schedule with LEAST downtime?

1. A. 1. Use the VM Import/Export service to import a snapshot on the on-premises database into AWS.2.Launch a new EC2 instance from the snapshot.3. Set up ongoing database replication from on premises to the EC2 database over the VPN.4. Change the DNS entry to point to the EC2 database.5. Stop the replication.
2. B. 1. Launch an AWS DMS instance.2. Launch an Amazon RDS Aurora MySQL DB instance.3. Configure the AWS DMS instance with on-premises and Amazon RDS database information.4. Start the replication task within AWS DMS over the VPN.5. Change the DNS entry to point to the Amazon RDS MySQL database.6. Stop the replication.
3. C. 1. Create a database export locally using database-native tools.2. Import that into AWS using AWS Snowball.3. Launch an Amazon RDS Aurora DB instance.4. Load the data in the RDS Aurora DB instance from the export.5. Set up database replication from the on-premises database to the RDS Aurora DB instance over the VPN.6. Change the DNS entry to point to the RDS Aurora DB instance.7. Stop the replication.
4. D. 1. Take the on-premises application offline.2. Create a database export locally using database-native tools.3. Import that into AWS using AWS Snowball.4. Launch an Amazon RDS Aurora DB instance.5. Load the data in the RDS Aurora DB instance from the export.6. Change the DNS entry to point to the Amazon RDS Aurora DB instance.7. Put the Amazon EC2 hosted application online.

Correct Answer: C