(NOT) an AWS Solution Architect Certification Practice Test

For the last few days I've been playing around with the AWS Solution Architect Certification practice tests provided by both Wiley and a few other try before you buy ones online. So far I've found them frustrating as the questions are either "obvious", impossible, or wrong.  Some of the questions make incorrect simplifications (or just don't supply enough details to make any of the answers more correct than another), or are just plain wrong (e.g. none of the answers are actually correct when you double check the AWS docs).  So I've decided to make up my own practice questions. Have a go and see if you can do it! (there's no right answers by the way).

Question 1:  What is the best animal to finish the following sentence? "Fail X" Dog? Cat? Fish? Whale? Pot plant?

Question 2: Think of a number between: -100 and 1 million?

Question 3: What are possible problems using AWS? The pricing may change without notice making a cheap solution more expensive than the expensive solution? Arbitrary and random throttling? Hitting limits? Inability to monitor application performance inside AWS managed services? Bill-shock? Economic DDOS? All of the above?

Question 4: Name all of the AWS services (right now!)

Question 5: Which AWS services are interoperable? Theoretically? Usefully?

Question 6: How much would it cost to run the Australian Census on AWS and what services could/should you use? Would it work? (better than the actual attempt?

Question 7: Which of the following in NOT an AWS? (that I know of, just now):

Snowmobile, Snowball, Chime, X-Ray, Beanstalk, Device Farm, Device Pipeline, Code Pipeline, Poly, Lex, Shield?

Question 8: When should you cache dynamic content in CloudFront?  Always, whenever you feel like it, never, only on February the 29th?

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