| Question | Answers |
|---|---|
| A customer wants to deploy a highly available web application with minimal downtime. Which services should you recommend? | Use EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones (AZs) with an Application Load Balancer (ALB) for traffic distribution, backed by an RDS Multi-AZ database for high availability. |
| A customer reports slow application performance during peak hours. How would you address this? | – Check CloudWatch metrics for EC2 CPU and memory usage. – Scale the application using Auto Scaling. – Optimize database queries and implement caching with Amazon ElastiCache. |
| The customer needs to secure sensitive data stored in Amazon S3. What should they do? | – Enable server-side encryption (SSE) for the S3 bucket. – Use S3 bucket policies to restrict access. – Enable MFA Delete for additional security. |
| A customer wants to analyze their EC2 cost distribution across departments. What should they use? | Use AWS Cost Explorer to view detailed cost reports and AWS Tags to organize resources by department. |
| The customer’s application is experiencing high latency for global users. How would you reduce it? | Use Amazon CloudFront as a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to cache and serve content closer to users globally. |
| The customer wants to migrate an on-premises database to AWS with minimal downtime. What do you suggest? | Use AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) to perform live database replication with minimal downtime. |
| A customer needs to store logs securely and make them queryable. What is the best approach? | Store the logs in Amazon S3 with server-side encryption and use Amazon Athena for querying. |
| A customer’s EC2 instance isn’t responding. What are your troubleshooting steps? | – Check instance status checks in the AWS Management Console. – Verify Security Group rules and NACLs. – Use CloudWatch Logs to review any errors. |
| The customer wants to monitor and receive alerts for resource usage thresholds. What service should they use? | Use Amazon CloudWatch Alarms to monitor metrics and send alerts through SNS. |
| A customer requires a disaster recovery solution for an RDS database. What do you suggest? | Enable RDS Multi-AZ deployment for high availability and use cross-region read replicas for disaster recovery. |
| The customer needs to migrate an on-premises application with minimal re-architecture. What should they do? | Use VM Import/Export to migrate virtual machines to EC2 instances. |
| A customer wants to enforce compliance by tracking AWS resource changes. What service should they use? | Use AWS Config to track and audit resource configurations. |
| A customer wants to reduce costs for non-critical workloads. What’s your recommendation? | Recommend using Spot Instances for non-critical, flexible workloads. |
| The customer needs to maintain consistent access to a frequently used dataset. What should they | Use Amazon ElastiCache (Redis or Memcached) to cache the dataset. |
| A customer wants to prevent accidental deletion of an S3 bucket. How can they do this? | Enable versioning and MFA Delete on the S3 bucket. |
| The customer needs secure, temporary access to AWS resources. What do you recommend? | Use IAM Roles with temporary security credentials. |
| A customer wants to deploy containers without managing servers. What’s the best option? | Use AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for containers. |
| The customer’s server logs show a DDoS attack. How can they mitigate it? | Use AWS Shield Advanced and AWS WAF to protect against DDoS attacks. |
| The customer wants to process streaming data in real-time. What service should they use? | Use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for real-time data processing. |
| A customer needs to store backups for compliance for 7 years. What’s your suggestion? | Use S3 Glacier Deep Archive for long-term, cost-effective storage. |
| The customer needs secure access for their on-premises team to AWS resources. What service should they use? | Set up AWS Client VPN or AWS Direct Connect. |
| A customer wants to reduce latency for a database application. What should they do? | – Enable read replicas for read-heavy workloads. – Use Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) for better performance. |
| The customer wants to encrypt data in transit. What protocol should they use? | Use SSL/TLS for encrypting data in transit. |
| A customer needs a secure file-sharing solution. What do you suggest? | Use Amazon FSx or AWS Transfer Family for secure file sharing. |
| The customer needs to send 1M notifications to mobile devices. What’s the best approach? | Use Amazon SNS for scalable, cost-effective notifications. |
| A customer wants to track application performance metrics. What should they use? | Use AWS X-Ray for application tracing and performance analysis. |
| A customer’s EC2 instance keeps restarting. What are the troubleshooting steps? | – Check instance health checks. – Review System Logs in the console. – Verify application logs for errors. |
| The customer needs to manage multiple AWS accounts securely. What should they use? | Use AWS Organizations to manage accounts and apply service control policies (SCPs). |
| The customer wants to archive data but retrieve it in minutes. What should they use? | Use S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval. |
| A customer needs to host a static website. What’s the best service? | Use Amazon S3 with static website hosting enabled. |
| A customer wants to monitor resource compliance in multiple AWS accounts. | Use AWS Config Aggregators to monitor and consolidate compliance data across multiple accounts. |
| The customer’s application requires low-latency database performance. | Use Amazon Aurora with Read Replicas and Global Database for low-latency performance. |
| A customer wants to automate patch management for EC2 instances. | Use AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to automate patching of EC2 instances. |
| The customer needs real-time fraud detection in transactions. | Use Amazon Fraud Detector to analyze and detect suspicious transactions in real-time. |
| A customer needs to automatically archive old S3 data. | Create an S3 Lifecycle Policy to move data to S3 Glacier after a specified time period. |
| The customer is concerned about insider threats in their AWS environment. | Enable CloudTrail Insights to detect unusual API activity and GuardDuty for threat detection. |
| A customer wants to run big data analytics workloads. | Use Amazon EMR for scalable big data processing and analytics. |
| The customer needs to implement centralized logging across accounts. | Use AWS CloudWatch Logs Insights with CloudWatch Log Groups and cross-account sharing enabled. |
| The customer needs to migrate VMs to AWS with minimal effort. | Use AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) for lift-and-shift migrations. |
| A customer’s application experiences database connection limits. | Use Amazon RDS Proxy to pool and manage database connections efficiently. |
| The customer needs to secure API communications. | Use Amazon API Gateway with AWS WAF for enhanced security and access control. |
| A customer wants to analyze customer interactions with their web app. | Use Amazon Pinpoint for user engagement analysis and insights. |
| The customer wants to use serverless architecture for event-driven apps. | Use AWS Lambda for serverless compute and Amazon EventBridge to manage event-driven workflows. |
| A customer needs to manage key encryption centrally. | Use AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to manage and control encryption keys centrally. |
| The customer needs to isolate workloads in the same VPC. | Use Security Groups and Network ACLs to isolate workloads. |
| A customer wants to scale their NoSQL database automatically. | Use Amazon DynamoDB Auto Scaling to adjust read/write capacity dynamically. |
| The customer wants to analyze and visualize operational data. | Use Amazon QuickSight for business intelligence and operational data visualization. |
| A customer wants to route users to the nearest application endpoint. | Use Amazon Route 53 with geolocation routing for optimized user access. |
| The customer needs to perform real-time video processing. | Use AWS Elemental MediaLive for live video encoding and processing. |
| A customer wants to minimize costs for infrequently accessed S3 objects. | Use the S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class for cost-effective object management. |