AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Test
A company is introducing a new product to their d) Infrastructure Event Management
customers, and is expecting a surge in traffic to their
web application. As part of their Enterprise Support
plan, which of the following provides the company with
architectural and scaling guidance?
a) AWS Support Concierge Service
b) AWS Personal Health Dashboard
c) AWS Support API
d) Infrastructure Event Management
An organization has decided to reserve EC2 compute c) Convertible RIs
capacity for three years in order to reduce costs. It is
possible that the application workloads could change
during the reservation time period. What is the EC2
Reserved Instance (RI) type that will allow the company
to modify the reservation if they need to?
a) Elastic RIs
b) Scheduled RIs
c) Convertible RIs
d) Standard RIs
What is the AWS feature that provides an additional a) AWS MFA
level of security above the default authentication
mechanism of usernames and passwords?
a) AWS MFA
b) Email verification
c) Encrypted keys
d) AWS KMS
Which of the following is NOT correct regarding b) You have to pay a start up fee when launching a new instance for the first
Amazon EC2 On-demand instances? time
a) The on-demand instances follow the AWS pay-as-
you-go pricing model
b) You have to pay a start up fee when launching a new
instance for the first time
c) With on-demand instances, no longer term
commitments or upfront payments are needed
d) When using on-demand Linux instances, you are
charged per second based on an hourly rate
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What is the advantage of the AWS-recommended c) Reduces inter-dependencies so that failures do not impact other
practice of "decoupling" applications? components of the application
a) Allows treating an application as a single, cohesive
unit
b) Allows updates of any monolithic application quickly
and easily
c) Reduces inter-dependencies so that failures do not
impact other components of the application
d) Allows tracking of any API call made to any AWS
service
Select TWO examples of the AWS shared controls. d) Configuration Management
e) Patch Management
a) Data Center Operations
b) VPC Management
c) IAM Management
d) Configuration Management
e) Patch Management
Which of the following helps a customer view the a) AWS Cost & Usage Reports
Amazon EC2 billing activity for the past month?
a) AWS Cost & Usage Reports
b) AWS Budgets
c) AWS TCO
d) AWS Systems Manager
A developer is planning to build a two-tier web d) Amazon Aurora
application that has a MySQL database layer. Which of
the following AWS database services would provide
automated backups for the application?
a) Amazon DynamoDB
b) A MySQL database installed on an EC2 instance
c) Amazon DocumentDB
d) Amazon Aurora
Which of the following does NOT belong to the AWS b) Networking as a Service (NaaS)
Cloud Computing models?
a) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
b) Networking as a Service (NaaS)
c) Platform as a Service (PaaS)
d) Software as a Service (SaaS)
Which service provides DNS in the AWS cloud? d) Route 53
a) AWS Config
b) Amazon CloudFront
c) Amazon EMR
d) Route 53
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A company is planning to host an educational website c) Amazon CloudFront
on AWS. Their video courses will be streamed all
around the world. Which of the following AWS services
will help achieve high transfer speeds?
a) AWS CloudFormation
b) Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
c) Amazon CloudFront
d) Amazon SNS
Under the shared responsibility model, Which of the c) Configuring infrastructure devices
following is the AWS' responsibility?
a) Filtering traffic with Security Groups
b) Client-side encryption
c) Configuring infrastructure devices
d) Server-side encryption
The principle "design for failure and nothing will fail" is
very important when designing your AWS Cloud a) AWS Elastic Load Balancer
architecture. Which of the following would help adhere d) Availability Zones
to this principle? (Choose two)
a) AWS Elastic Load Balancer
b) Amazon Elastic MapReduce
c) AWS KMS
d) Availability Zones
e) Amazon Elastic File System
You are working on a project that involves creating b) Spot Instances
thumbnails of millions of images. Consistent uptime is
not an issue, and continuous processing is not required.
Which EC2 buying option would be the most cost-
effective?
a) Reserved Instances
b) Spot Instances
c) On-demand Instances
d) Dedicated Instances
Which of the following can be described as a global d) Amazon CloudFront
content delivery network (CDN) service?
a) AWS VPN
b) AWS Regions
c) AWS Direct Connect
d) Amazon CloudFront
, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Test
What should you do in order to keep the data on EBS a) Ensure that EBS data is encrypted at rest
volumes safe? (Choose two) b) Create EBS snapshots
a) Ensure that EBS data is encrypted at rest
b) Create EBS snapshots
c) Store a backup daily in an external drive
d) Prevent any unauthorized access to AWS data
centers
e) Regularly update firmware on EBS devices
What is the AWS service that enables AWS architects to b) AWS CloudFormation
manage infrastructure as code?
a) AWS Config
b) AWS CloudFormation
c) Amazon EMR
d) Amazon SES
You work as an on-premises MySQL DBA. The work of c) Amazon RDS
database configuration, backups, patching, and DR can
be time-consuming and repetitive. Your company has
decided to migrate to the AWS Cloud. Which of the
following can help save time on database maintenance
so you can focus on data architecture and
performance?
a) Amazon CloudWatch
b) Amazon Redshift
c) Amazon RDS
d) Amazon DynamoDB
What does the "Principle of Least Privilege" refer to? a) You should grant your users only the permissions they need when they need
them and nothing more
a) You should grant your users only the permissions
they need when they need them and nothing more
b) All IAM users should have at least the necessary
permissions to access the core AWS services
c) IAM users should not be granted any permissions; to
keep your account safe
d) All trusted IAM users should have access to any AWS
service in the respective AWS account
A company is introducing a new product to their d) Infrastructure Event Management
customers, and is expecting a surge in traffic to their
web application. As part of their Enterprise Support
plan, which of the following provides the company with
architectural and scaling guidance?
a) AWS Support Concierge Service
b) AWS Personal Health Dashboard
c) AWS Support API
d) Infrastructure Event Management
An organization has decided to reserve EC2 compute c) Convertible RIs
capacity for three years in order to reduce costs. It is
possible that the application workloads could change
during the reservation time period. What is the EC2
Reserved Instance (RI) type that will allow the company
to modify the reservation if they need to?
a) Elastic RIs
b) Scheduled RIs
c) Convertible RIs
d) Standard RIs
What is the AWS feature that provides an additional a) AWS MFA
level of security above the default authentication
mechanism of usernames and passwords?
a) AWS MFA
b) Email verification
c) Encrypted keys
d) AWS KMS
Which of the following is NOT correct regarding b) You have to pay a start up fee when launching a new instance for the first
Amazon EC2 On-demand instances? time
a) The on-demand instances follow the AWS pay-as-
you-go pricing model
b) You have to pay a start up fee when launching a new
instance for the first time
c) With on-demand instances, no longer term
commitments or upfront payments are needed
d) When using on-demand Linux instances, you are
charged per second based on an hourly rate
, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Test
What is the advantage of the AWS-recommended c) Reduces inter-dependencies so that failures do not impact other
practice of "decoupling" applications? components of the application
a) Allows treating an application as a single, cohesive
unit
b) Allows updates of any monolithic application quickly
and easily
c) Reduces inter-dependencies so that failures do not
impact other components of the application
d) Allows tracking of any API call made to any AWS
service
Select TWO examples of the AWS shared controls. d) Configuration Management
e) Patch Management
a) Data Center Operations
b) VPC Management
c) IAM Management
d) Configuration Management
e) Patch Management
Which of the following helps a customer view the a) AWS Cost & Usage Reports
Amazon EC2 billing activity for the past month?
a) AWS Cost & Usage Reports
b) AWS Budgets
c) AWS TCO
d) AWS Systems Manager
A developer is planning to build a two-tier web d) Amazon Aurora
application that has a MySQL database layer. Which of
the following AWS database services would provide
automated backups for the application?
a) Amazon DynamoDB
b) A MySQL database installed on an EC2 instance
c) Amazon DocumentDB
d) Amazon Aurora
Which of the following does NOT belong to the AWS b) Networking as a Service (NaaS)
Cloud Computing models?
a) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
b) Networking as a Service (NaaS)
c) Platform as a Service (PaaS)
d) Software as a Service (SaaS)
Which service provides DNS in the AWS cloud? d) Route 53
a) AWS Config
b) Amazon CloudFront
c) Amazon EMR
d) Route 53
, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Test
A company is planning to host an educational website c) Amazon CloudFront
on AWS. Their video courses will be streamed all
around the world. Which of the following AWS services
will help achieve high transfer speeds?
a) AWS CloudFormation
b) Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
c) Amazon CloudFront
d) Amazon SNS
Under the shared responsibility model, Which of the c) Configuring infrastructure devices
following is the AWS' responsibility?
a) Filtering traffic with Security Groups
b) Client-side encryption
c) Configuring infrastructure devices
d) Server-side encryption
The principle "design for failure and nothing will fail" is
very important when designing your AWS Cloud a) AWS Elastic Load Balancer
architecture. Which of the following would help adhere d) Availability Zones
to this principle? (Choose two)
a) AWS Elastic Load Balancer
b) Amazon Elastic MapReduce
c) AWS KMS
d) Availability Zones
e) Amazon Elastic File System
You are working on a project that involves creating b) Spot Instances
thumbnails of millions of images. Consistent uptime is
not an issue, and continuous processing is not required.
Which EC2 buying option would be the most cost-
effective?
a) Reserved Instances
b) Spot Instances
c) On-demand Instances
d) Dedicated Instances
Which of the following can be described as a global d) Amazon CloudFront
content delivery network (CDN) service?
a) AWS VPN
b) AWS Regions
c) AWS Direct Connect
d) Amazon CloudFront
, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Test
What should you do in order to keep the data on EBS a) Ensure that EBS data is encrypted at rest
volumes safe? (Choose two) b) Create EBS snapshots
a) Ensure that EBS data is encrypted at rest
b) Create EBS snapshots
c) Store a backup daily in an external drive
d) Prevent any unauthorized access to AWS data
centers
e) Regularly update firmware on EBS devices
What is the AWS service that enables AWS architects to b) AWS CloudFormation
manage infrastructure as code?
a) AWS Config
b) AWS CloudFormation
c) Amazon EMR
d) Amazon SES
You work as an on-premises MySQL DBA. The work of c) Amazon RDS
database configuration, backups, patching, and DR can
be time-consuming and repetitive. Your company has
decided to migrate to the AWS Cloud. Which of the
following can help save time on database maintenance
so you can focus on data architecture and
performance?
a) Amazon CloudWatch
b) Amazon Redshift
c) Amazon RDS
d) Amazon DynamoDB
What does the "Principle of Least Privilege" refer to? a) You should grant your users only the permissions they need when they need
them and nothing more
a) You should grant your users only the permissions
they need when they need them and nothing more
b) All IAM users should have at least the necessary
permissions to access the core AWS services
c) IAM users should not be granted any permissions; to
keep your account safe
d) All trusted IAM users should have access to any AWS
service in the respective AWS account
