AWS Certification: Trusted Advisor Questions

AWS Trusted Advisor

Overview
AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides you real time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor checks help optimize your AWS infrastructure, increase security and performance, reduce your overall costs, and monitor service limits. Whether establishing new workflows, developing applications, or as part of ongoing improvement, take advantage of the recommendations provided by Trusted Advisor on a regular basis to help keep your solutions provisioned optimally.
1. You want to keep a check on the Active EBS Volumes, Active Snapshots and Elastic IP Addresses you use, to ensure you don’t go beyond the service limit. Which of the below services can help in this regard?

A. AWS CloudWatch

B. AWS EC2

C. AWS Trusted Advisor

D. AWS SNS

Answer

C. AWS Trusted Advisor

Option A is invalid because even though you can monitor resources, it cannot be checked against the service limit. Option B is invalid because this is the Elastic Compute Cloud service. Option D is invalid because it can be used to send notifications but not to check on service limits. For more information on Trusted Advisor monitoring, please visit the below URL: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/ta-faqs/


2. Your company has recently started using AWS services for their daily operations. As a cloud administrator, which of the following services would you recommend using to have an insight on securing the infrastructure and for cost optimization?

A. AWS Inspector

B. AWS Trusted Advisor

C. AWS WAF

D. AWS Config

Answer

B. AWS Trusted Advisor

An online resource to help you reduce cost, increase performance, and improve security by optimizing your AWS environment, Trusted Advisor provides real time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices. For more information on the Trusted Advisor, please visit the below URL: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/trustedadvisor/