Question 1

Which are reasons to use automation to provision resources? (Select TWO.)

Greater expense with manual processes
Automation requirement for creating some resources
Alignment with the reliability design principle
Automation requirement for high availability
Lack of version control with manual processes

With automation, you can introduce version control to control updates and track version history. Automation aligns with the reliability design principle, which requires the use of automation to manage change.

Question 2

Which are benefits of using infrastructure as code (IaC) over manual processes? (Select TWO.)

Manage all account users.
Protect environments from deletion.
Deploy environments with configuration consistency.
Automate system-wide security scans.
Propagate updates from a single environment to all environments.

With IaC, you can deploy environments with consistency and propagate updates across environments. IaC aligns with the reliability design principle, which requires the use of automation to manage change.

Question 3

A cloud architect wants to quickly set up a secure implementation of an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server that follows AWS best practices. Which solution should they use?

AWS CloudFormation Designer
An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) on AWS Marketplace
An AWS CloudFormation template that was downloaded from the internet
An AWS Quick Start

AWS solutions architects and AWS Partners build Quick Starts to help you deploy popular technologies on AWS. They are based on AWS best practices for security and high availability.

Question 4

What is Amazon Q Developer?

An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding companion
An integrated development environment (IDE)
A set of automated reference architectures
A template for rapid application deployment

Amazon Q Developer is an AI-powered code generator that integrates with your IDE.

Question 5

Which are reasons to use Amazon Q Developer? (Select TWO.)

Write compliance tests.
Enhance application security.
Share open-source code.
Automate for high availability.
Accelerate coding tasks.

With Amazon Q Developer, you can accelerate coding tasks and enhance application security.

Question 6

What is AWS CloudFormation?

A template that describes your infrastructure
A package of all the information that is needed to launch an Amazon EC2 instance
A description of best practices for designing an AWS implementation
An AWS service that you can use to create, model, and manage AWS resources

AWS CloudFormation provides a simplified way to model, create, and manage a collection of AWS resources. It enables you to treat infrastructure as code.

Question 7

What is AWS CloudFormation Designer?

A collection of reusable templates
A graphical design interface for creating AWS CloudFormation templates
A source code repository for AWS CloudFormation templates
A tool for automating deployments

You can use AWS CloudFormation Designer to author AWS CloudFormation templates in the AWS Management Console.

Question 8

Which option can be used to accomplish deployment-specific differences in an AWS CloudFormation template?

Use conditions.
Use drift detection.
Use change sets.
Use AWS CloudFormation Designer.

You can use conditions to configure different environments from the same template. This allows for deployment-specific environments that are otherwise configured identically.

Question 9

Which option is a good way to preview changes before implementing them in AWS CloudFormation Designer?

Create a change set.
Visually inspect the template.
Run Detect Drift.
Run Update Stack.

By creating a change set, you can see the changes to the template before you apply them.

Question 10

Which option is a good way to know which resources in an application environment were manually modified if the environment was created by running an AWS CloudFormation stack?

Run a change set on the stack.
Run drift detection on the stack.
Run a comparison in AWS CloudFormation Designer on the stack.
Run conditions on the stack.

By running drift detection, you can compare the current stack to the expected template configuration to identify where manual changes were made.

Created 27 February 2025 by Dennis Kibbe. Last modified $Date: 2025/03/27 09:05:11 $ by $Author: dnk $.

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