Question 1: Incorrect

Which statement is correct with regards to AWS service limits? (Choose two)

The Amazon Simple Email Service is responsible for sending email notifications when usage approaches a
service limit.

(Incorrect)

You can use the AWS Trusted Advisor to monitor your service limits.

(Correct)

There are no service limits on AWS.

You can contact AWS support to increase the service limits.

(Correct)

Each IAM user has the same service limits.

Explanation

                  Understanding your service limits (and how close you are to them) is an important part of
managing your AWS deployments – continuous monitoring allows you to request limit increases or shut
down resources before the limit is reached. One of the easiest ways to do this is via AWS Trusted Advisor’s
Service Limit Dashboard.

                  AWS maintains service limits for each account to help guarantee the availability of AWS
resources, as well as to minimize billing risks for new customers. Some service limits are raised
automatically over time as you use AWS, though most AWS services require that you request limit
 increases manually. Most service limit increases can be requested through the AWS Support Center by
choosing Create Case and then choosing Service Limit Increase.

The other options are incorrect:

"There are no service limits on AWS" is incorrect. You can find a full list of the AWS service limits on
this page:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_service_limits.html

"The Amazon Simple Email Service is responsible for sending email notifications when usage
approaches a service limit" is incorrect.  Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cloud-based
email sending service designed to help digital marketers and application developers send marketing,
notification, and transactional emails.

Additional information:

You can configure the AWS Limit Monitor to send email notification when usage approaches a service
limit.

"Each IAM user has the same service limits" is incorrect. Service limits are applied at the AWS account
level by aggregating usage from all users in the account.

References:

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/trusted-advisor/

https://aws.amazon.com/answers/account-management/limit-monitor/

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/manage-service-limits/

Question 2: Correct
Which AWS service can be used to store and reliably deliver messages across distributed systems?

Amazon Simple Queue Service

(Correct)


 Amazon Simple Storage Service

AWS Storage Gateway

Amazon Simple Email Service

Explanation

                Amazon SQS is a highly reliable, scalable message queuing service that enables asynchronous
message-based communication between distributed components of an application. Using SQS, you can
send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume, without losing messages
or requiring other services to be available.

The other options are incorrect:

"Amazon Simple Storage Service" is incorrect.  Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an
object storage service.

"Amazon Simple Email Service" is incorrect. Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cloud-
based email sending service designed to help digital marketers and application developers send
marketing, notification, and transactional emails.

"AWS Storage Gateway" is incorrect.  AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid storage service that enables
your on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS cloud storage. The gateway connects to AWS
storage services - such as Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS - and provides storage for files, volumes,
snapshots, and virtual tapes in AWS.

References:

https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/

Question 3: Correct
Which of the following are important design principles you should adopt when designing systems
on AWS? (Choose two)


 Remove single points of failure

(Correct)

Always use Global Services in your architecture rather than Regional Services

Treat servers as fixed resources

Always choose to pay as you go

Automate wherever possible

(Correct)

Explanation

                A single point of failure (SPOF) is a part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system
from working. You can remove single points of failure by assuming everything will fail and designing your
architecture to automatically detect react to failures. For example, configuring and deploying an auto-
scaling group of EC2 instances will ensure that if one or more of the instances crashes, Auto-scaling will
automatically replace them with new instances. You should also introduce redundancy to remove single
points of failure, by deploying your application across multiple Availability Zones. If one Availability Zone
goes down for any reason, the other Availability Zones can serve requests.

               AWS helps you use automation so you can build faster and more efficiently. Using AWS services,
you can automate manual tasks or processes such as deployments, development & test workflows,
container management, and configuration management.

The other options are incorrect:

"Always choose to pay as you go"  is incorrect.  AWS has other payment models that can save you more
costs depending on your use case. For example, If your application if your application has a steady state
usage, you can use reservations for the Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2 instances to reduce your overall
costs significantly.

"Treat servers as fixed resources" is incorrect.  AWS enables you to treat your servers as disposable
resources not fixed resources. This means that if any issue occurred with a server, you can simply replace it
with a new one (rather trying to fix it).

"Always use Global services in your architecture rather than Regional services" is incorrect.  AWS
services\resources are either Global, Regional or specific to an Availability Zone. Among all the
services\resources that AWS offers, only a few of them are considered global services. Examples of AWS
global services include Amazon CloudFront, AWS Identity and Access Management, Amazon Route 53
and AWS WAF. There is no way you can build your AWS environment without using Regional services
such as Amazon VPC, Amazon RDS, AWS Lambda and Amazon EFS OR Zonal resources (specific to an
Availability Zone) such as Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon EBS volumes.

References:

https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS_Well-Architected_Framework.pdf