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Week 2 Assessment :Architecting Solutions on AWS (AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate) Answers 2025

1. Question 1

Serverless static website hosting

  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

  • ❌ Amazon EC2

  • ❌ DynamoDB

  • ❌ Kinesis

Explanation:
S3 provides serverless static website hosting with almost zero maintenance.


2. Question 2

Service for real-time data ingestion (lowest latency)

  • ❌ Firehose (lower latency)

  • ❌ Firehose (higher latency)

  • Kinesis Data Streams, because it has lower latency

  • ❌ Kinesis Data Streams (higher latency)

Explanation:
Kinesis Data Streams → real-time, ~70ms latency.
Firehose → near real-time, latency ~60 seconds.


3. Question 3

S3 as a preferred data lake storage

  • True

  • ❌ False

Explanation:
S3 is the foundation of AWS data lakes and integrates with Athena, EMR, Glue, QuickSight.


4. Question 4

Serverless SQL queries over JSON objects in S3

  • Amazon Athena

  • ❌ AWS DMS

  • ❌ S3 Select

  • ❌ AWS Data Exchange

Explanation:
Athena lets you run serverless SQL queries over structured data stored in S3.


5. Question 5

CloudFront in front of S3 for high demand, caching, SSL, DDoS

  • True

  • ❌ False

Explanation:
CloudFront adds edge caching, custom domain names, free ACM SSL, and DDoS protection.


🧾 Summary Table

Q# Correct Answer Key Concept
1 Amazon S3 Static website hosting
2 Kinesis Data Streams Real-time ingestion
3 True S3 = data lake
4 Amazon Athena Serverless SQL over S3
5 True CloudFront benefits