AWS certified solutions architect exam is offered by amazon web services that does demonstrates the proficiency of an individual as a competent AWs architect to migrate existing projects onto cloud, design and deploy new projects in AWS cloud utilizing the AWS services.
This exam is offered in two levels starting with associate, experienced professional level
The pre-requisite to appear for AWS certified solutions architect associate is basic understanding and some hands on experience in AWs
To appear for AWS certified solutions architect professional exam the candidate must have passed minimum one of the associate level certifications. Preferable basic requirement is AWS certified solutions architect associate
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AWS certification cost :
AWS certification cost is something that needs to be considered while choosing your certification track in AWS.
To start with is an AWS certification does worth the cost?
In our opinion it is much more valuable than what it has been offered for right now. Always look at your career growth, stability, future negotiation prospects in long run maybe atleast 3 years form now on
Is AWS a stable company?
There are plethora of certification tracks from ton lots of vendors. Before shedding money all of us want to know if AWS will survive longer. Here are some facts that we’ve gathered from our regular news updates on technology stocks and tech industry:
1) A recent amazon related stock news was talking about $4.1 billion revenue that amazon has made this year from AWS alone. Looks like the e-commerce giant will fulcrum its businesses based on revenue from AWS
2) With such money spinning potential expect AWS to sustain and survive for another 20 years minimum. See to that AWS is developing a solid Cloud computing platform that will outbeat microsoft azure
3) If you are starting your career as new IT professional, already experienced infrastructure professional including system administrator, database administrator, security administrator, network administrator start preparing for AWS, learn to migrate the systems onto AWS via test trial runs so that you can be least assured that you are the last one to get pink slip in your department
4) AWS will be expanding its regions across china, sweden and many more countries in coming days
What is the cost of each and every AWS certification?
Here is the certification roadmap based on AWS website
AWS Architect Certification Track
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam Details:
Multiple choice and multiple answer questions
80 minutes to complete the exam. This includes regular exam Q&A as well as feedback type questions
Available in different languages like English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, German, Russian, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese
Certification Exam cost is $150
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional – This can be availed upon completion of any one of associate certification track
Certification exam cost is $300
AWS Developer Certification Track
AWS Certified Developer Associate – Certification Exam cost is $150
AWS Certified Devops Engineer Professional – This can be availed upon completion of any one of associate certification track
Certification exam cost is $300
AWS Operations Certification Track
AWS Certified Sysops administrator associate – Certification Exam cost is $150
AWS Certified Devops Engineer Professional – This can be availed upon completion of any one of associate certification track
Certification exam cost is $300
Specialty Certifications that requires one current associate or professional certification
Certification exam cost is $300 for both the speciality certification tracks
AWS Certified Bigdata Speciality
AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty
To summarize associate certs are priced at $150, professional level and specialty certifications cost $300
1) As the AWS platform is PCI DSS Level 1 Certified, I can immediately deploy a website to it that can take and store credit card details without getting a delta accreditation from a QSA. Am I correct?
a) True
b) False
Answer : b
Explanation : A merchant’s QSA can always rely on AWS Attestation of Compliance (AOC) to demonstrate an extensive assessment of physical security controls of AWS data centers.
2) What does RRS stand for in S3?
a) Relational Reduced Storage
b) Reactive Replicating Storage
c) Reduced Replication Storage
d) Reduced Redundancy Storage
Answer : d
3) With new RDS Db instances, automated backups are enabled by default?
a) True
b) False
Answer : a
4) What are the four levels of AWS premium support?
a) It’s an IAAS platform, so there is no support
b) Free, Bronze, Silver, and Gold
c) Basic, Startup, Business, and Enterprise
d) Basic, Developer, Business, and Enterprise
Answer : d
5) Which set of RDS database engines is currently available?
a) Aurora, MySQL, SQL, Cassandra
b) PostGres, Cassandra, MongoDB, Aurora
c) Oracle, SQL, MySQL, Cassandra
d) Oracle, SQL, MySQL, Postgres
Answer : d
6) Amazon’s Glacier service is a Content Distribution Network that integrates with S3. Say if it is true or false?
a) True
b) False
Answer : b
Explanation : Amazon archival is data backup and archival solution not CDN in AWS
7) You can RDP or SSH in to an RDS instance to see what is going on with the operating system. Say if this is possible?
a) True
b) False
Answer : b
Explanation : In AWS environment EC2, sysopswork are some services that have OS access not RDS
8) In a default VPC, all Amazon EC2 instances are assigned 2 IP addresses at launch. What are they?
a) A Private IP Address & Public IP Address
b) A Public IP Address & Secret IP Address
c) An Elastic IP Address & Public IP Address
d) An IPv6 Address and Elastic IP Address
Answer : a
9) You have configured your EBS volume to be used with EC2 instance with DeleteOnTermination set to deafult settings. The EBS volume is used as root volume. Instance has been terminated. What will happen to EBS volume?
a) EBS root volume is retained
b) EBS root volume is corrupted
c) EBS root volume is deleted
d) EBS root volume is orphaned and moved to lost+found directory
Answer : c
Explanation : The default setting of DeleteOnTermination attribute for root volumes is set to true. EBS root volume is deleted when its associated instance is terminated
10) You have configured your ec2 instance to make use of EBS root volume with a setting to retain EBS root volume while the instance is terminated. Is it possible?
a) No not possible. Always DeleteOnTermination is set to true so EBS root volume is deleted
b) Yes possible to modify using AWS console or AWS CLI the command line interface
c) Not possible. Only additional EBS volumes can be retained by modifying DeleteOnTermination
d) Not possible as EBS volume is always deleted irrespective of setting
Answer : b
Explanation : Using AWS console or AWS CLI we can modify DeleteOnTermination to retain EBS root volume upon termination of EC2 instance
11) You’ve created an EC2 instance to make use of EBS root volume with DeleteOnTermination set to its default tru value. While the instance is running there is a requirement to retain the EBS root volume upon instance termination. How will you accomplish this?
a) Make use of AWS CLI to modify DeleteOnTermination setting of a running instance
b) Not possible to change the value for a running instance
c) Directly edit this setting from OS level file
Answer: a
12) You have created a S3 bucket with versioning enabled. After sometime there comes a management decision to disable versioning in there. You have been asked to create lifecycle policies on that S3 bucket. Is this possible?
a) Yes. Lifecycle rules can be added to buckets that have versioning in enabled or disabled status
b) No because versioning is enabled
c) There is no concept of lifecycle rules when it comes to S3 objects
d) None of the above
Answer : a
13) You have created 3 versions of same objects in S3 bucket. You are going to add lifecycle rules onto this S3 bucket objects. Can you add lifecycle configuration to all three version of these objects of which one is current and two are con-current?
a) Yes
b) No
Answer : a
Explanation : Using lifecycle configuration it is possible to add actions specific to both current and non-current version of amazon S3 bucket objects
14) You try to enable lifecycle policies on one of the S3 buckets created by you, but you are not able to do so on that particular bucket. What could be causing this issue?
a) Bucket is corrupted and not available
b) Versioning is not enabled on that bucket
c) Bucket type is not correct
d) Versioning is enabled on the bucket causing the issue
Answer: b
15) How will you manage the lifecycle of objects in amazon S3 buckets?
a) By enabling lifecycle policies
b) By enabling versioning
c) By enabling backup
d) By enabling replication
Answer : a
Explanation : Lifecycle policies define how Amazon S3 manages objects during their lifetime. You need to enable bucket versioning to manage S3 lifecycle policies. The versioning can be in enabled or disabled status but should have been initially enabled
16) What is a Elastic Network Interface ENI in AWS?
a) Additional network interfaces that can be created and attached to any Amazon EC2 instance in your VPC
b) Primary network interface that can be created and attached to any Amazon EC2 instance in your VPC
c) Private network interface that can be created and attached to any Amazon EC2 instance in your VPC
d) Subnet that can be created and attached to any Amazon EC2 instance in your VPC
Answer : a
17) What is included in ENI?
a) Primary Public IP address
b) Primary Private IP address
c) Public subnet address
d) Routing tables
Answer : b
18) What kind of storage is amazon EBS storage volume?
a) Object based storage
b) Block based storage
c) Encrypted by default
d) Not suitable for databases
Answer : b
19) You have EBS snapshots. You want to perform some actions in existing snapshot. Is it possible to perform actions on an existing Amazon EBS Snapshot?
a) Yes, through the AWS APIs, CLI, and AWS Console safely
b) No. Not possible as snapshots are incremental point-in-time backups that will be corrupt once touched
c) It depends on the region
d) None of the above
Answer : a
20) I’ve a running EC2 instance with EBS volume as the root device of the instance. Can I detach it without stopping the instance?
a) Yes
b) No
Answer : b
Explanation : As in normal linux (or) unix machines root volume is the main volume that needs to be accessible for the machine to be up and running without any issues. Same does apply to EC2 instances as well