AWS Well-Architected Framework

Reorder the following items to identify the steps of the Well-Architected Framework Review process

You use AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool) to measure your workload against AWS best practices

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You are charged for using AWS Well-Architected (WA) Tool

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What was the AWS Well-Architected Tool created to do

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Identify the threats associated with the customer's business model

Analyze the configuration of a customer's Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster

Determine if a customer's bill is correct

Measure a customer's workloads and teams against AWS Well-Architected best practices

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What are some parts of the AWS Well-Architected Framework content?

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Pillars

Questions

Checklists

Design principles

Software framework

Metrics

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Why use the Well-Architected Framework?

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Build and deploy faster

Lower or mitigate risks

Make informed decisions

Learn AWS best practices

Avoid AWS complicated architecture frameworks

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The components of the Well-Architected Framework are Content, Tools, and Data

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Choose the six pillars of AWS Well-Architected Framework

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Operational excellence

Security

Reliability

Performance efficiency

Cost optimization

Sustainability

Portability

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Identify the pillars of AWS Well-Architected Framework

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(1) - Focuses on operations in the cloud, including monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.
(2) - Emphasizes protecting data, systems, and assets through strong security practices and controls.
(3) - Concerns the ability of a system to recover from failures and meet business and customer demands.
(4) - Focuses on using computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements and adapting to changing demands.
(5) - Involves managing and reducing costs associated with cloud services while delivering the necessary performance and functionality.
(6) - Addresses the environmental impact of cloud operations and focuses on designing architectures that reduce energy consumption and waste, promoting sustainability in cloud practices.

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Reliability

Security

Performance Efficiency

Operational Excellence

Sustainability

Cost Optimization

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What is the purpose of AWS Well-Architected Framework lenses?

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To provide a framework for integrating third-party tools with AWS services

To allow users to focus on specific industry or technology requirements by providing additional best practices and guidelines

To automatically apply security patches and updates to AWS resources

To monitor and manage billing and cost optimization for AWS accounts

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The six general design principles that are applied across all workloads and pillars are

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Stop guessing your capacity needs

Capacity planning is essential for success

Test systems at product scale

Automate to make architectural experimentation easier

Allow for evolutionary architectures

Drive architectures using data

Improve through game days

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How do game days contribute to improving the reliability and performance of cloud architectures according to the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

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By conducting automated testing to identify security vulnerabilities

By implementing cost-saving measures to reduce cloud expenditures

By optimizing application code to enhance performance efficiency

By simulating real-world incidents and failure scenarios to evaluate and improve response strategies and system resilience

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What is the primary goal of performing a Well-Architected Framework Review?

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To help you understand the design and architecture of your cloud workloads

To develop an official audit report of a workload architecture

To recognize everyone's efforts, and then to dissolve the team

To help you understand the pros and cons of decisions you make while building systems on AWS

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What is a benefit of performing a review using the AWS Well-Architected Framework Financial Services Industry (FSI) Lens?

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It helps financial institutions bypass the initial Well-Architected Framework Review.

It provides organizations an opportunity to publish new best practices and then share them with the financial industry.

It provides an opportunity to evaluate financial workloads against industry best practices.

It focuses on the Financial Industry pillar of the Well-Architected Framework.

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The Financial Services Industry (FSI) Lens design principles guide you in designing well-architected financial services workloads. Which design principle helps you establish clear roles and responsibilities in your business?

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Security by design

Documented operational planning

Automated governance

Automation infrastructure and application deployment

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Which of the following statements is true about who is involved in both the Well-Architected Framework Review and the additional lens-specific review conversations?

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Internal organization stakeholders only

Internal organization stakeholders and the AWS account team only

Internal organization stakeholders, the AWS account team, or AWS Well-Architected Partners

Internal organization stakeholders and AWS Well-Architected Partners only

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Which one of these scenarios is related to financial services architectures?

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Device telemetry

Video on-demand streaming

Regulatory reporting

Game hosting for real-time synchronous gameplay

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Where can you find explanations for all the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Lens questions and best practices?

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AWS Well-Architected Framework whitepaper

Financial Services Industry Lens whitepaper

AWS Well-Architected Framework map

AWS Well-Architected Tool user guide

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What is the intent of the Well-Architected Framework Review?

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Develop an audit report

Hold each one accountable for mistakes in their decisions

Identify any critical issues that might need to be addressed or areas that could be improved

report findings of issues to the senior management

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What are the three phases of the AWS Well-Architected Framework Review?

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Prepare, review, and audit

Prepare, review, and improve

Prepare, conduct, and identify risks

Prepare, review, and prioritize

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An AWS Well-Architected Framework Review of a larger workload can be broken down into multiple reviews

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What is a component of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

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Content

Pillars

Check list

Architecture diagrams

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Which item is mandatory to define when adding a workload to review using the AWS Well-Architected Tool?

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Region

Industry type

Account ID

Architecture design

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Which mechanism in the AWS Well-Architected Tool can be used to track the improvements in workload architecture?

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Custom lenses

Milestones

Best practices in the Well-Architected Framework

Workload notes

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What is the recommended way to share a workload?

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Use the share feature in the AWS Well-Architected Tool

It's not recommended to share a workload review with customers or the AWS account team

Upload the report to an Amazon S3 bucket, and share the public link

Download the report, encrypt it, and email it to customers

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Match the definitions of playbooks

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(1) provide a high-level strategy or set of guidelines for responding to a particular type of situation or incident. They describe what needs to be done, but not necessarily how to do it in detail.
(2) provide detailed, step-by-step instructions for performing specific tasks or resolving particular issues. They focus on the "how" rather than the "what" or "why."

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Playbooks

Runbooks

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Identify the following scenario if it is an event, alert, or incident

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An email notification is sent to the administrator when the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance exceeds 80% for 5 consecutive minutes.

Alert

Event

Incident

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In the context of AWS Well-Architected Framework, the terms event, alert, and incident have specific meanings related to operational excellence, security, and reliability. Match each term with its scenario

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A new EC2 instance is launched, or a configuration parameter is modified in an RDS database.
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An alert is triggered when the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance exceeds 80% for 5 consecutive minutes.
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A DDoS attack disrupts the availability of your web application, or a data breach occurs due to a security vulnerability.

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Alert

Event

Incidet

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Which of the following are best practice areas for the operational excellence pillar?

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Performance efficiency

Prepare

Cost effectiveness

Organization

Security

Evolve

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What is a design principle of operational excellence

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Implement a strong identity foundation

Automatically recover from failure

Measure overall efficiency

Perform operations as code

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Choose the right Well-Architected pillar based on the definition

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The ability of a workload to perform its required function correctly and consistently over an expected period of time

Operational excellence

Security

Reliability

Performance efficiency

Cost optimization

Sustainability

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Which of the following best describes how idempotency contributes to the reliability of AWS architectures?

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Idempotency ensures that a service scales automatically based on demand

Idempotency guarantees that repeated execution of an operation results in the same outcome, reducing the risk of unintended side effects during retries

Idempotency ensures that an operation is always performed exactly once, without the need for retries

Idempotency improves network performance by reducing latency in API calls

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Which of the following is a key purpose of resiliency testing as directed by AWS Well-Architected Framework?

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To determine the maximum performance throughput of an application

To ensure an application can automatically scale based on user demand

To simulate failures and validate the recovery mechanisms in place, ensuring the application can continue operating under stress

To test the latency of the network connections between different AWS regions

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Which of the following statements correctly describes the difference between Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) in the context of disaster recovery?

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RTO defines the maximum allowable downtime for a system, while RPO specifies the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured from the point of view of time.

RTO refers to the maximum amount of data loss acceptable, while RPO specifies the maximum allowable downtime for a system.

RTO is the amount of data that can be lost during a disaster, while RPO refers to the maximum time it takes to recover from a disaster.

RTO measures the total cost of disaster recovery, while RPO measures the time taken to restore normal operations.

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Which of the following is a reliability best practice area?

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Foundation

Network architecture

Risk management

Cost allocation

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What are examples of reliability best practices in workload architecture?

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Make all responses idempotent

Fail fast and limit queues

Throttle requests

Use cost allocation tag

Secure and encrypt backups

Perform post-incident analysis

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Which of the following are best practices to test reliability?

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Use playbooks to investigate failures

Perform post-incident analysis

Test security compliance and performance requirements

Conduct a monthly AWS Well-Architected Review

Conduct daily standup meetings to discuss possible breaking points in the system

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AWS recommends to use a single account for development and production workloads

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Why is security important in cloud architecture?

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To operate a workload securely, it is important to apply overarching best practices to every area of security

Envelope encryption makes everything more secure

Without securing cost savings, the business will not be viable

No one will use the application it is secure

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What are the security best practice areas?

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Security formations

Data protection

Incident response

Identity and access management

Preparation for security events

Keeping people away from the data

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What are the areas of security design principles?

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Apply security at all layers

Protect data at transit and at rest

Understand that true security doesn't require planning

Keep people away from data

Use detective controls

Respond to incidents

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What are the areas of focus for performance efficiency pillar questions?

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Selecting the right resource types for compute, storage, database, and networking

Gracefully recovering from failure

Reviewing your selection as AWS continues to innovate with new resource types and features

Making architectural trade-offs to maximize your performance efficiency

Being aware of how your resources are performing through game days and testing

Maintaining confidentiality and integrity of data

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What is an example of a performance efficiency best practice in compute, storage, database, and networking?

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Select the cheapest resource type

Select the largest resource type

Select the smallest resource type

Select the appropriate resource type

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What is an example of a performance efficiency best practice in trade-offs?

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Cache data in one Availability Zone

Position resources or cached data closer to end users

Encrypt storage

Use more instances

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implement both cost and usage goals and targets for your workload

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(1) provide direction to your organization on expected outcomes,

(2) provide specific measurable outcomes to be achieved for your workloads.

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Targets

Goals

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Which is an area of focus for the cost optimization pillar?

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Use serverless computing

Use cost-efficient resources

Control and understand where your money is being spent by conducting regular testing

Use trade-offs

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Which is a cost optimization best practice in expenditure awareness?

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Manage access by creating user policies

Have a third party review the spend

Use spend manager to reduce data transfer costs

Use AWS cost Explorer to categorize and track AWS costs

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Which of the following are drivers for considering sustainability when improving architectures?

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Customer demand

Performance

Competitive positioning

Government regulations

Cost savings

Security

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Which of the following is a Well-Architected sustainability design principle?

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Process and culture

Regional selection

Review cost and usage reports regularly

Understand your impact

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Which of the following are best practices when considering hardware patterns for sustainability?

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Use instance types with the lowest cost

Use managed services

Use instance types with the least impact

Use the minimum amount of hardware to meet your needs

Use policies to manage the lifecycle of your datasets

Optimize areas of code that consume the most resources

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Which are design principles for the reliability pillar?

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Stop guessing capacity

Measure overall efficiency

Scale horizontally to increase aggregate workload availability

Democratize advanced technologies

Adopt a consumption model

Automatically recover from failure

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Which are design principles for the cost optimization pillar?

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Implement a strong identity foundation

Use serverless architectures

Analyze and attribute expenditure

Implement Cloud Financial Management (CFM)

Adopt a consumption model

Apply security on all layers

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What should a team member do before starting the AWS Well-Architected Framework Review?

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Make a list of everything that is wrong with their proposed architecture

Schedule a 30-minute Well-Architected Framework Review meeting, and plan to explain what Well-Architected is for 5 minutes before the review

Immediately schedule a meeting with their engineering team

Reach out to stakeholders who should be involved in the meeting. Send information on the Well-Architected Framework and explain the benefits of performing a Well-Architected Framework Review, and then schedule it

Read up on the Well-Architected Framework and how to do a review

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A solutions architect intends to conduct an AWS Well-Architected Framework Review for a workload that is scheduled to go live soon. A key stakeholder emails to explain that the team is too busy to dedicate time for the review because they are working on a tight timeline before the launch. Which is the best response?

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Explain that it is better to understand potential issues before the launch. Even though they may not be able to implement all changes before going live, it will help the team create an action plan for the future

Explain that a review should be done in advance to provide time to identify and address issues for a smooth launch. This review will identify any potential risks that may happen during launch. If there are too many identified, the team can opt to push back the launch date

Escalate this to a manager to get more resources assigned to the project

Push the review until after the product goes live so the team gets more time to engage

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What is the definition of the reliability pillar?

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Reliability has specific patterns and best practices to adopt to meet sustainability goals, anti-patterns to avoid, and terminology to help communicate with others. The pillar will also help identify targets to reduce impact and identify organizational structures necessary for long-term success

Building and operating cost-efficient workloads helps achieve business outcomes at the lowest price point. It minimizes wasteful architecture rework and supports greater investment in new business opportunities or technology

The ability of a workload to perform its required function correctly and consistently over an expected period of time

The optimal solution for a particular workload varies, and solutions often combine multiple approaches

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What is the definition of the operational excellence pillar?

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Operational excellence helps a company optimize for higher performance and put in place monitoring that ensures that the performance of the architecture does not degrade over time

The ability to support development and run workloads effectively, gain insight into their operations, and continuously improve supporting processes and procedures to deliver business value

Operational excellence is the ability to protect data, systems, and assets to take advantage of cloud technologies

Operational excellence is the ability to protect data, networks, and databases against risk.

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A team finds a few high-risk issues and medium-risk issues identified in their Improvement Plan. What should they do with this information?

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Create a chart or list of all high-risk issues and medium-risk issues to help prioritize a starting point

Fire the engineer who built part of the workload that has a high-risk issue

Send a company-wide email explaining that they need all hands on deck to fix the identified issues

Pause the entire launch plan

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After using the AWS Well-Architected Tool in the review, the Improvement Plan identifies high-risk issues and medium-risk issues. What is a high-risk issue?

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High potential for failed architecture

An architectural issue that needs to be dealt with immediately and is considered an emergency

An architectural and operational choice that AWS has found could have a significant negative impact to a business, affecting organizational operations, assets, and individuals

An issue that might negatively impact business but is something minor that does not require immediate attention

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What is the definition of the performance efficiency pillar?

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Performance efficiency includes the ability to run systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point

Performance efficiency measures the business output of the workload and the costs associated with delivering it. Use this measure to know the gains realized from increasing output or functionality and reducing costs

Performance efficiency is the ability of a workload to perform its intended function correctly and consistently when it is expected to

Performance efficiency focuses on the efficient use of computing resources to meet requirements, and how to maintain efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve

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If a team thinks that they do not have the right resources to help remediate the issues identified in the AWS Well-Architected Framework Review, what are the options available for help? (Select TWO.)

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Pause the launch plan until they have resources available

Contact human resources

Hire a talent agency to create a new job posting. If the team does not have an AWS account manager, or the expertise or time, they can reach out to AWS Well-Architected Partner Program members

Continue the product launch, and conduct the review later

Contact an AWS account manager for additional support and guidance

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Why is the security pillar important?

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Building and operating cost-efficient workloads helps achieve business outcomes at the lowest price point. It minimizes wasteful architecture rework and supports greater investment in new business opportunities or technology

It measures the business output of the workload and the costs associated with delivering it. Use this measure to know the gains realized from increasing output or functionality and reducing costs

To operate your workload securely, you must apply overarching best practices to every area of security

Cloud workloads are inherently more sustainable than typical on-premises alternatives because they use more efficient technology and only use resources when needed. However, companies can modify workloads to reduce impact even further

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Why is the cost optimization pillar important?

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A cost-optimized workload fully utilizes all resources, achieves an outcome at the lowest possible price point, and meets your functional requirements

It helps a company optimize for higher performance and put in place monitoring to help ensure that the architecture performance does not degrade over time

It is important to protect data, systems, and assets to take advantage of cloud technologies that can improve security

It is important to use computing resources efficiently to meet requirements, maintaining efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve

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Which are design principles for the performance efficiency pillar?

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Stop guessing capacity

Test the recovery procedure

Experiment more often

Democratize advanced technologies

Provide traceability

Use serverless architectures

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All key stakeholders are in the room for an AWS Well-Architected Framework Review. What are the next steps the team should take? (Select THREE.)

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Start planning logistics like ordering lunch so that stakeholders become more engaged

Make a list of everything that could be wrong with the proposed architecture

Ensure that there are no distractions in the room, such as notepads, whiteboards, and so on

Choose a few key business goals that the team should meet from the architecture before doing the review

Ensure that they have the tools to encourage a brainstorming session and a dedicated place to document questions or action items

Realign on the purpose of doing the review with a blame-free approach

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