You are building out a layer in a software stack on AWS that needs to be able to scale out to react to increased demand
as fast as possible. You are running the code on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling Group behind an ELB. Which
application code deployment method should you use?

Which EBS volume type is best for high performance NoSQL cluster deployments?

You run accounting software in the AWS cloud. This software needs to be online continuously during the day every day
of the week, and has a very static requirement for compute resources. You also have other, unrelated batch jobs that
need to run once per day at any time of your choosing. How should you minimize cost?

What is the scope of an EC2 security group?

When thinking of AWS Elastic Beanstalk, the ‘Swap Environment URLs’ feature most directly aids in what?

You need to create a simple, holistic check for your system’s general availablity and uptime. Your system presents itself
as an HTTP-speaking API. What is the most simple tool on AWS to achieve this with?

You need to scale an RDS deployment. You are operating at 10% writes and 90% reads, based on your logging. How
best can you scale this in a simple way?

You are creating an application which stores extremely sensitive financial information. All information in the system must
be encrypted at rest and in transit. Which of these is a violation of this policy?

Fill the blanks: ____ helps us track AWS API calls and transitions, ____ helps to understand what resources we have
now, and ____ allows auditing credentials and logins.

You run a clustered NoSQL database on AWS EC2 using AWS EBS. You need to reduce latency for database response
times. Performance is the most important concern, not availability. You did not perform the initial setup, someone without
much AWS knowledge did, so you are not sure if they configured everything optimally. Which of the following is NOT
likely to be an issue contributing to increased latency?