Knowledge Check

AWS S3 Knowledge Check

Question 1

Due to a company merger, a data engineer needs to increase their object storage capacity. They are not sure how much storage they will need. They want a highly scalable service that can store unstructured, semistructured, and structured data. Which service would be the most cost effective to accomplish this task?

AWS Storage Gateway
Amazon RDS
Amazon S3 ✓
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

Question 2

Amazon S3 provides a good solution for which use case?

Hourly storage of frequently accessed temporary files
A data warehouse for business intelligence
Ledger data that is updated and accessed frequently
An internet-accessible storage location for video files that an external website can access ✓

Question 3

A company is interested in using Amazon S3 to host their website instead of a traditional web server. Which types of content does Amazon S3 support for static web hosting? (Select THREE.)

HTML files and image files ✓
Server-side scripts
Client-side scripts ✓
Database engine
Dynamic HTML files
Video and sound files ✓

Question 4

A company wants to use an S3 bucket to store sensitive data. Which actions can they take to protect their data? (Select TWO.)

Uploading unencrypted files to Amazon S3 because Amazon S3 encrypts the files by default
Enabling server-side encryption on the S3 bucket after uploading sensitive data
Using client-side encryption to protect data in transit before it is sent to Amazon S3 ✓
Enabling server-side encryption on the S3 bucket before uploading sensitive data ✓
Using Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to connect directly to Amazon S3

Question 5

A company must create a common place to store shared files. Which requirements does Amazon S3 support? (Select TWO.)

Recover deleted files. ✓
Maintain different versions of files. ✓
Compare file contents between files.
Attach comments to files.
Lock a file so that only one person at a time can edit it.

Question 6

A customer service team accesses case data daily for up to 30 days. Cases can be reopened and require immediate access for 1 year after they are closed. Reopened cases require 2 days to process. Which solution meets the requirements and is the most cost efficient?

Store case data in S3 Intelligent-Tiering to automatically move data between tiers based on access frequency.
Store all case data in S3 Standard so that it is available whenever it is needed.
Store case data in S3 Standard. Use a lifecycle policy to move the data into Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval after 30 days.
Store case data in S3 Standard. Use a lifecycle policy to move the data into S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) after 30 days. ✓

Question 7

Which option takes advantage of edge locations in Amazon CloudFront to transfer files over long distances to an S3 bucket?

AWS Transfer Family
Amazon S3 REST API
SDKs
Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration ✓

Question 8

A video producer must regularly transfer several video files to Amazon S3. The files range from 100—700 MB. The internet connection has been unreliable, causing some uploads to fail. Which solution provides the fastest, most reliable, and most cost-effective way to transfer these files to Amazon S3?

AWS Transfer Family
AWS Management Console
Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
Amazon S3 multipart uploads ✓

Question 9

Which Amazon S3 storage class is designed for backup copies of on-premises data or easily re-creatable data?

S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)
S3 Intelligent-Tiering
S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) ✓

Question 10

A company needs to retain records for regulatory purposes for a 7-year period. These records are rarely accessed (once or twice a year). What is the lowest-cost storage class for Amazon S3?

S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)
S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)
S3 Intelligent-Tiering
S3 Glacier Deep Archive ✓