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Question 1
A company wants to create a generative AI application that can summarize internal documents and answer employee questions using foundation models. Which AWS service is designed for this requirement?
A. Amazon Bedrock
B. Amazon Rekognition
C. Amazon Athena
D. Amazon Transcribe
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Amazon Bedrock provides access to foundation models through APIs for building generative AI applications, such as chatbots, summarization tools, and content-generation solutions. * **Why B is incorrect:** Amazon Rekognition analyzes images and videos, including objects, faces, and activities. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon Athena analyzes data directly in Amazon S3 using SQL. * **Why D is incorrect:** Amazon Transcribe converts speech into text.Question 2
A company has thousands of customer reviews and wants to automatically identify whether each review expresses a positive, negative, or neutral opinion. Which AWS service should the company use?
A. Amazon Comprehend
B. Amazon Translate
C. Amazon Polly
D. Amazon Lex
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Amazon Comprehend uses natural language processing to analyze text, including sentiment, key phrases, entities, and language. * **Why B is incorrect:** Amazon Translate translates text between supported languages. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon Polly converts text into lifelike speech. * **Why D is incorrect:** Amazon Lex is used to build conversational interfaces and chatbots using voice and text.Question 3
A financial institution wants to build an automated telephone assistant that allows customers to check account balances and request information through spoken conversations. Which AWS service is most appropriate?
A. Amazon Lex
B. Amazon Polly
C. Amazon Q
D. Amazon Rekognition
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces using voice and text. It provides capabilities for chatbots and virtual agents. * **Why B is incorrect:** Amazon Polly generates speech from text but does not provide the complete conversational bot capability. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon Q provides generative AI assistance for business and developer use cases rather than being the primary service for building a custom customer voice bot. * **Why D is incorrect:** Amazon Rekognition analyzes images and videos.Question 4
A media company wants to convert recorded interviews into searchable text and automatically identify the language spoken. Which AWS service should the company use?
A. Amazon Transcribe
B. Amazon Translate
C. Amazon Textract
D. Amazon Comprehend
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Amazon Transcribe converts speech in audio or video recordings into text and supports features such as language identification. * **Why B is incorrect:** Amazon Translate converts written text from one language to another. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon Textract extracts printed text, handwriting, forms, and tables from documents and images. * **Why D is incorrect:** Amazon Comprehend analyzes text for meaning, sentiment, entities, and other natural language insights; it does not convert audio to text.Question 5
An insurance company wants to extract text, tables, and form fields from scanned claim documents without manually reviewing every page. Which AWS service meets this requirement?
A. Amazon Textract
B. Amazon Rekognition
C. Amazon Comprehend
D. Amazon Athena
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Amazon Textract automatically extracts text, handwriting, tables, and form data from scanned documents and images. * **Why B is incorrect:** Amazon Rekognition analyzes images and videos for objects, faces, labels, and other visual content. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon Comprehend analyzes the meaning and characteristics of text after the text has been obtained. * **Why D is incorrect:** Amazon Athena queries structured or semi-structured data in Amazon S3 using SQL.Question 6
A company needs to analyze application log files stored in Amazon S3 using SQL without provisioning or managing database servers. Which AWS service should the company use?
A. Amazon Athena
B. Amazon Redshift
C. Amazon EMR
D. Amazon OpenSearch Service
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service that uses SQL to analyze data directly in Amazon S3. * **Why B is incorrect:** Amazon Redshift is a managed data warehouse designed for large-scale analytics and requires data to be loaded into or queried through a Redshift environment. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon EMR is a managed platform for running big data frameworks such as Apache Spark and Hadoop. * **Why D is incorrect:** Amazon OpenSearch Service is commonly used for search, log analytics, and observability workloads, rather than general serverless SQL queries directly against S3.Question 7
A company receives millions of events from IoT devices and needs to collect and process these events in near real time. Which AWS service is best suited for this requirement?
A. Amazon Kinesis
B. AWS Glue
C. Amazon Redshift
D. Amazon QuickSight
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Amazon Kinesis is designed to collect, process, and analyze streaming data in real time or near real time. * **Why B is incorrect:** AWS Glue is a serverless data integration and extract, transform, and load (ETL) service, commonly used for batch and data preparation workloads. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon Redshift is a data warehouse for analytics, not primarily a real-time streaming ingestion service. * **Why D is incorrect:** Amazon QuickSight creates business intelligence dashboards and visualizations from data sources.Question 8
A data engineering team needs a serverless service to discover schemas, catalog data, and run extract, transform, and load jobs across data stored in Amazon S3. Which AWS service should the team use?
A. AWS Glue
B. Amazon Athena
C. Amazon EMR
D. Amazon OpenSearch Service
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS Glue provides serverless data integration capabilities, including crawlers for discovering schemas, a Data Catalog, and ETL jobs. * **Why B is incorrect:** Amazon Athena queries data in Amazon S3 using SQL but does not primarily provide the full data cataloging and ETL workflow described. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon EMR runs big data processing frameworks and requires managing cluster or serverless EMR resources for those workloads. * **Why D is incorrect:** Amazon OpenSearch Service provides search and analytics capabilities for indexed data, rather than general-purpose ETL and data cataloging.Question 9
A business analyst wants to create interactive dashboards that display sales trends from data stored in Amazon Redshift. The analyst should not need to manage servers. Which AWS service should be used?
A. Amazon QuickSight
B. Amazon Redshift
C. Amazon Athena
D. Amazon SageMaker AI
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Amazon QuickSight is a serverless business intelligence service used to create interactive dashboards, visualizations, and reports. * **Why B is incorrect:** Amazon Redshift is the data warehouse that can store and analyze the sales data, but it is not primarily a dashboard and visualization service. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon Athena is used to query data, especially data stored in Amazon S3, rather than to provide the primary business intelligence dashboard capability. * **Why D is incorrect:** Amazon SageMaker AI is used to build, train, and deploy machine learning models.Question 10
A company is selecting AWS services for several workloads. Which two service-to-use-case combinations are correct? (Select TWO)
A. Amazon Rekognition for detecting objects and faces in images and videos
B. Amazon Polly for translating written documents into other languages
C. Amazon Translate for converting text from one language to another
D. Amazon Textract for building conversational voice and text bots
E. Amazon Redshift for converting speech recordings into text
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**Correct Answer:** A and C **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Amazon Rekognition analyzes images and videos and can detect objects, scenes, faces, and other visual content. * **Why C is correct:** Amazon Translate provides machine translation between supported languages. * **Why B is incorrect:** Amazon Polly converts text into lifelike speech. Amazon Translate is used for language translation. * **Why D is incorrect:** Amazon Textract extracts text, handwriting, tables, and form data from documents. Amazon Lex is used to build conversational voice and text bots. * **Why E is incorrect:** Amazon Redshift is a cloud data warehouse for analytics. Amazon Transcribe converts speech recordings into text.Question 11
A company is migrating a web application to Amazon EC2. The application requires persistent block storage that remains available when an EC2 instance is stopped and started again. Which AWS service should the company use?
A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
B. EC2 instance store
C. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
D. Amazon S3
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Amazon EBS provides persistent block storage volumes that can be attached to EC2 instances. EBS data persists independently of the lifecycle of the attached instance. * **Why B is incorrect:** EC2 instance store provides temporary block-level storage that is lost when the instance is stopped, terminated, or fails. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon EFS is a managed file system, not block storage for an individual EC2 instance. * **Why D is incorrect:** Amazon S3 is object storage and is not used as a block device for EC2.Question 12
A media company stores millions of video files that users access directly through an application. The company wants highly durable storage that can store objects of varying sizes without managing servers or file systems. Which AWS service meets these requirements?
A. Amazon S3
B. Amazon EBS
C. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
D. EC2 instance store
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Amazon S3 is object storage designed to store and retrieve large amounts of data, including media files, without requiring server or file system management. * **Why B is incorrect:** Amazon EBS provides block storage volumes primarily for use with EC2 instances. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides managed Windows file shares rather than object storage. * **Why D is incorrect:** EC2 instance store is temporary local block storage and is not suitable for durable storage of media files.Question 13
A company stores customer records in Amazon S3. The records are accessed frequently during the first 30 days and then are rarely accessed, but must remain available immediately when needed. Which S3 storage class is most appropriate for the records after they become infrequently accessed?
A. S3 Standard-IA
B. S3 Glacier Deep Archive
C. S3 One Zone-IA
D. S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** S3 Standard-IA is designed for data that is accessed less frequently but still requires millisecond access when needed. It stores data redundantly across multiple Availability Zones. * **Why B is incorrect:** S3 Glacier Deep Archive is intended for long-term archival data with retrieval times that are generally measured in hours. * **Why C is incorrect:** S3 One Zone-IA stores data in a single Availability Zone and is intended for data that can be recreated or does not require multi-AZ resilience. * **Why D is incorrect:** S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval is designed for archival data and may require minutes to hours for retrieval.Question 14
A research organization stores compliance archives that are rarely accessed. The organization wants the lowest possible storage cost and can tolerate retrieval times of several hours. Which S3 storage class should it choose?
A. S3 Standard
B. S3 Intelligent-Tiering
C. S3 Glacier Deep Archive
D. S3 Standard-IA
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**Correct Answer:** C **Explanation:** * **Why C is correct:** S3 Glacier Deep Archive is designed for long-term retention of data that is rarely accessed, such as compliance and regulatory archives. * **Why A is incorrect:** S3 Standard is intended for frequently accessed data and generally costs more than archival storage classes. * **Why B is incorrect:** S3 Intelligent-Tiering automatically moves objects between access tiers but is intended for data with changing or unpredictable access patterns. * **Why D is incorrect:** S3 Standard-IA supports infrequently accessed data that still requires rapid access and is not optimized for long-term deep archiving.Question 15
A company is unsure how often its S3 objects will be accessed. It wants Amazon S3 to automatically move objects between access tiers to reduce storage costs without manually creating separate lifecycle rules for each access pattern. Which storage class should it use?
A. S3 Intelligent-Tiering
B. S3 One Zone-IA
C. S3 Glacier Deep Archive
D. S3 Standard
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** S3 Intelligent-Tiering automatically moves objects between access tiers based on changing access patterns, helping optimize storage costs. * **Why B is incorrect:** S3 One Zone-IA is intended for infrequently accessed data that can tolerate storage in one Availability Zone; it does not automatically optimize across access tiers in the same way. * **Why C is incorrect:** S3 Glacier Deep Archive is intended for data that is rarely accessed and requires archival retrieval. * **Why D is incorrect:** S3 Standard is optimized for frequently accessed data and does not automatically move objects to lower-cost access tiers.Question 16
A financial services company must retain audit files for seven years. The files are frequently accessed during the first 90 days and then should be moved to lower-cost storage automatically. Which capability should the company use?
A. An Amazon S3 lifecycle policy
B. An EC2 instance store
C. An Amazon EBS snapshot schedule only
D. An Amazon EFS mount target
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Amazon S3 lifecycle policies can automatically transition objects to lower-cost storage classes or expire objects based on age, prefixes, or tags. * **Why B is incorrect:** EC2 instance store is temporary storage and is not designed for long-term retention. * **Why C is incorrect:** EBS snapshots protect EBS volumes but do not manage transitions of objects stored in S3. * **Why D is incorrect:** An EFS mount target provides network access to an EFS file system; it does not manage S3 object transitions.Question 17
A Linux application runs on several EC2 instances in different Availability Zones. All instances must access the same shared file system using standard file system operations. Which AWS service is most appropriate?
A. Amazon EFS
B. Amazon EBS
C. Amazon S3 Glacier
D. EC2 instance store
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Amazon EFS is a managed, elastic file system that can be mounted by multiple compute resources and is designed for shared file access. * **Why B is incorrect:** An EBS volume is normally attached to a single EC2 instance and is block storage rather than a shared file system. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon S3 Glacier is archival object storage and is not mounted as a shared file system for standard application file operations. * **Why D is incorrect:** EC2 instance store is local to an instance and cannot provide shared file access across multiple instances.Question 18
A company is migrating a file share used by Windows applications. The applications require SMB access, Windows file permissions, and integration with Microsoft Active Directory. Which AWS service should the company choose?
A. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
B. Amazon EFS
C. Amazon S3
D. Amazon EBS
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides managed Windows file shares using the SMB protocol and supports Windows-based access controls and Active Directory integration. * **Why B is incorrect:** Amazon EFS primarily provides a Linux-compatible file system using NFS and is not designed for native Windows SMB file shares. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon S3 is object storage and does not natively provide a Windows SMB file share. * **Why D is incorrect:** Amazon EBS provides block storage for EC2 and does not provide a managed, shared SMB file service.Question 19
A high-performance computing application requires a shared file system with very high throughput and low latency for processing large datasets. Which AWS service is designed for this use case?
A. Amazon FSx for Lustre
B. Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
C. Amazon EBS
D. AWS Backup
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Amazon FSx for Lustre is a managed, high-performance file system designed for workloads such as machine learning, high-performance computing, and large-scale data processing. * **Why B is incorrect:** S3 Glacier Deep Archive is designed for low-cost, long-term archival storage, not high-performance active processing. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon EBS provides block storage for EC2 instances but is not a shared, high-performance parallel file system for this scenario. * **Why D is incorrect:** AWS Backup centralizes backup management and does not provide an active high-performance file system.Question 20
A manufacturing company has an on-premises application that uses standard file protocols. The company wants users to access frequently used files locally while storing the files in Amazon S3. Which AWS service should it use?
A. AWS Storage Gateway
B. Amazon EBS
C. Amazon FSx for Lustre
D. Amazon S3 Glacier
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS Storage Gateway, including S3 File Gateway, provides on-premises file access while storing objects in Amazon S3. Frequently accessed data can be cached locally. * **Why B is incorrect:** Amazon EBS is block storage for EC2 instances and does not provide an on-premises file gateway to S3. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon FSx for Lustre is a managed high-performance file system for AWS workloads and is not the general-purpose on-premises S3 file gateway in this scenario. * **Why D is incorrect:** Amazon S3 Glacier is archival storage and is not used to provide a local cached file share.Question 21
A company needs to protect several Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon EFS file systems, and Amazon S3 buckets using centrally managed backup policies. Which AWS service should it use?
A. AWS Backup
B. AWS Storage Gateway
C. Amazon S3 lifecycle policies
D. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS Backup provides centralized backup management and policy-based protection for supported AWS resources, including EBS, EFS, and S3. * **Why B is incorrect:** AWS Storage Gateway connects on-premises environments with AWS storage services but is not a centralized backup policy service for these resources. * **Why C is incorrect:** S3 lifecycle policies manage transitions and expiration of S3 objects, not centralized backups across multiple AWS services. * **Why D is incorrect:** AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is used to replicate servers for disaster recovery rather than centrally managing backups for multiple AWS storage resources.Question 22
A company wants to automatically create daily backups of Amazon EBS volumes and retain them for 90 days according to a policy. Which service is most appropriate?
A. AWS Backup
B. Amazon EFS
C. Amazon S3 Standard-IA
D. EC2 instance store
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS Backup can create scheduled backups of EBS volumes and apply retention policies, such as retaining backups for 90 days. * **Why B is incorrect:** Amazon EFS is a file storage service and does not itself provide centralized scheduled backup management for EBS volumes. * **Why C is incorrect:** S3 Standard-IA is a storage class for infrequently accessed S3 objects, not a service for creating EBS backups. * **Why D is incorrect:** EC2 instance store is temporary storage and does not provide scheduled backup capabilities.Question 23
An organization needs to move an on-premises physical server workload to AWS after a regional disaster. It requires continuous replication and fast recovery of the server in AWS. Which AWS service is designed for this requirement?
A. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
B. AWS Backup
C. AWS Storage Gateway
D. Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery continuously replicates supported source servers to AWS and helps organizations recover applications in the event of a disaster. * **Why B is incorrect:** AWS Backup provides backup and restore management but is not the primary service for continuous server replication and rapid disaster recovery. * **Why C is incorrect:** AWS Storage Gateway provides hybrid storage integration and caching, not full server disaster recovery replication. * **Why D is incorrect:** S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval is an archival storage class and does not replicate or recover running servers.Question 24
A company is choosing between Amazon EBS and EC2 instance store for a temporary scratch area used during data processing. The data can be recreated if the EC2 instance stops or fails. Which storage option is most appropriate?
A. EC2 instance store
B. Amazon EBS
C. Amazon EFS
D. Amazon S3 Standard
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** EC2 instance store provides temporary, high-performance local storage that is appropriate for caches, scratch data, and data that can be recreated. * **Why B is incorrect:** Amazon EBS is persistent block storage and is more appropriate when data must survive instance stops or failures. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon EFS is shared network file storage and may be unnecessary for temporary local scratch data. * **Why D is incorrect:** Amazon S3 Standard is durable object storage but is not local block storage for temporary processing operations.Question 25
A company wants to store data that is accessed only a few times per year but must be retrieved within milliseconds when needed. The company also wants multi-AZ resilience. Which S3 storage class is most appropriate?
A. S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval
B. S3 Standard-IA
C. S3 One Zone-IA
D. S3 Glacier Deep Archive
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**Correct Answer:** B **Explanation:** * **Why B is correct:** S3 Standard-IA is designed for infrequently accessed data that requires immediate access and provides storage across multiple Availability Zones. * **Why A is incorrect:** S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval is intended for archival data and retrieval can take minutes to hours. * **Why C is incorrect:** S3 One Zone-IA stores data in one Availability Zone and does not provide the multi-AZ resilience required here. * **Why D is incorrect:** S3 Glacier Deep Archive is intended for long-term archival data and does not provide millisecond retrieval.Question 26
A company has reproducible data stored in Amazon S3. The data is accessed infrequently and the company wants to reduce costs by storing it in only one Availability Zone. Which storage class should it consider?
A. S3 One Zone-IA
B. S3 Standard
C. S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
D. S3 Intelligent-Tiering
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** S3 One Zone-IA is designed for infrequently accessed data that can be recreated and does not require resilience across multiple Availability Zones. * **Why B is incorrect:** S3 Standard is intended for frequently accessed data and generally has a higher storage cost. * **Why C is incorrect:** S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is an archival storage class for rarely accessed data that still requires immediate retrieval. * **Why D is incorrect:** S3 Intelligent-Tiering is useful when access patterns are unknown or change over time; this scenario specifically identifies infrequent, reproducible data suitable for one-zone storage.Question 27
A company needs a shared file system for Linux-based EC2 instances. The file system must automatically grow and shrink as files are added or deleted, without the company provisioning storage capacity in advance. Which service should it use?
A. Amazon EFS
B. Amazon EBS
C. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
D. Amazon S3 Glacier
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Amazon EFS is an elastic managed file system that automatically scales its storage capacity as data is added or removed. * **Why B is incorrect:** Amazon EBS provides provisioned block storage volumes and is not a shared elastic file system for multiple Linux instances. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is designed for Windows-compatible SMB file shares rather than this Linux file system requirement. * **Why D is incorrect:** Amazon S3 Glacier is archival object storage and does not provide a Linux file system for active workloads.Question 28
A company wants to archive application logs in Amazon S3. Logs older than one year are rarely accessed, but occasional retrieval must be possible without the several-hour retrieval time associated with the deepest archive tier. Which storage class is most appropriate?
A. S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
B. S3 Standard
C. S3 One Zone-IA
D. S3 Glacier Deep Archive
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**Correct Answer:** A **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is designed for rarely accessed archival data that still requires immediate access when retrieved. * **Why B is incorrect:** S3 Standard is intended for frequently accessed data and generally costs more for long-term archival use. * **Why C is incorrect:** S3 One Zone-IA is for infrequently accessed data stored in one Availability Zone and is not the archival tier emphasized in this scenario. * **Why D is incorrect:** S3 Glacier Deep Archive provides lower-cost long-term archival storage but is intended for data that can tolerate longer retrieval times.Question 29
A company needs to provide a Windows-based application with a managed file system that supports SMB, while a separate Linux application needs a shared file system using NFS. Which two services should the company use? (Select TWO)
A. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
B. Amazon EFS
C. Amazon EBS
D. Amazon S3
E. EC2 instance store
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**Correct Answer:** A and B **Explanation:** * **Why A is correct:** Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides managed SMB file shares for Windows applications. * **Why B is correct:** Amazon EFS provides a managed shared file system suitable for Linux workloads using NFS. * **Why C is incorrect:** Amazon EBS is block storage and does not natively provide the required shared SMB and NFS file services. * **Why D is incorrect:** Amazon S3 is object storage and does not natively provide the required file system protocols. * **Why E is incorrect:** EC2 instance store is temporary local storage for a single instance and is not a shared file service.Question 30
A company wants to reduce the cost of storing S3 objects that have unpredictable access patterns. Some objects may be accessed frequently, while others may not be accessed for months. Which two approaches can help manage storage costs? (Select TWO)
A. Use S3 Intelligent-Tiering
B. Configure an S3 lifecycle policy to transition older objects to an appropriate archival storage class
C. Store all objects on EC2 instance store
D. Move all objects to Amazon EBS volumes
E. Use Amazon EFS for all S3 objects