CPC PRACTICE EXAM 1 COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ A unicorn startup is building an analytics application with
support for a speech-based interface. The application will accept
speech-based input from users and then convey results via speech.
As a Cloud Practitioner, which solution would you recommend for
the given use-case?
Answer: Use Amazon Transcribe to convert speech to text for
downstream analysis. Then use Amazon Polly to convey the text
results via speech
◉ A company would like to optimize Amazon EC2 costs. Which of
the following actions can help with this task? (Select TWO)
Answer: 1. Set up Auto Scaling groups to align the number of
instances with demand
2. Purchase EC2 Reserved Instances
◉ Which AWS service would you choose for a data processing
project that needs a schemaless database?
Answer: Amazon DynamoDB
,◉ A financial services company wants to ensure that its AWS
account activity meets the governance, compliance and auditing
norms. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you
recommend for this use-case?
Answer: CloudTrail
◉ Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
recommends maintaining infrastructure as code?
Answer: Operational Excellence
◉ A photo sharing web application wants to store thumbnails of
user-uploaded images on Amazon S3. The thumbnails are rarely
used but need to be immediately accessible from the web
application. The thumbnails can be regenerated easily if they are
lost. Which is the most cost-effective way to store these thumbnails
on S3?
Answer: Use S3 One-Zone Infrequent Access (One-Zone IA) to store
the thumbnails
◉ The DevOps team at an e-commerce company is trying to debug
performance issues for its serverless application built using a
microservices architecture. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS
service would you recommend addressing this use-case?
Answer: AWS X-Ray
, ◉ Which AWS service can be used to subscribe to an RSS feed to be
notified of the status of all AWS service interruptions?
Answer: AWS Service Health Dashboard
◉ A multi-national corporation wants to get expert professional
advice on migrating to AWS and managing their applications on AWS
Cloud. Which of the following entities would you recommend for this
engagement?
Answer: APN Consulting Partner
◉ Which AWS service can help you analyze your infrastructure to
identify unattached or underutilized EBS volumes?
Answer: AWS Trusted Advisor
◉ A developer would like to automate operations on his on-
premises environment using Chef and Puppet. Which AWS service
can help with this task?
Answer: AWS OpsWorks
◉ A company uses reserved EC2 instances across multiple units
with each unit having its own AWS account. However, some of the
units under-utilize their reserved instances while other units need
more reserved instances. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the
following would you recommend as the most cost-optimal solution?
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ A unicorn startup is building an analytics application with
support for a speech-based interface. The application will accept
speech-based input from users and then convey results via speech.
As a Cloud Practitioner, which solution would you recommend for
the given use-case?
Answer: Use Amazon Transcribe to convert speech to text for
downstream analysis. Then use Amazon Polly to convey the text
results via speech
◉ A company would like to optimize Amazon EC2 costs. Which of
the following actions can help with this task? (Select TWO)
Answer: 1. Set up Auto Scaling groups to align the number of
instances with demand
2. Purchase EC2 Reserved Instances
◉ Which AWS service would you choose for a data processing
project that needs a schemaless database?
Answer: Amazon DynamoDB
,◉ A financial services company wants to ensure that its AWS
account activity meets the governance, compliance and auditing
norms. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you
recommend for this use-case?
Answer: CloudTrail
◉ Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
recommends maintaining infrastructure as code?
Answer: Operational Excellence
◉ A photo sharing web application wants to store thumbnails of
user-uploaded images on Amazon S3. The thumbnails are rarely
used but need to be immediately accessible from the web
application. The thumbnails can be regenerated easily if they are
lost. Which is the most cost-effective way to store these thumbnails
on S3?
Answer: Use S3 One-Zone Infrequent Access (One-Zone IA) to store
the thumbnails
◉ The DevOps team at an e-commerce company is trying to debug
performance issues for its serverless application built using a
microservices architecture. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS
service would you recommend addressing this use-case?
Answer: AWS X-Ray
, ◉ Which AWS service can be used to subscribe to an RSS feed to be
notified of the status of all AWS service interruptions?
Answer: AWS Service Health Dashboard
◉ A multi-national corporation wants to get expert professional
advice on migrating to AWS and managing their applications on AWS
Cloud. Which of the following entities would you recommend for this
engagement?
Answer: APN Consulting Partner
◉ Which AWS service can help you analyze your infrastructure to
identify unattached or underutilized EBS volumes?
Answer: AWS Trusted Advisor
◉ A developer would like to automate operations on his on-
premises environment using Chef and Puppet. Which AWS service
can help with this task?
Answer: AWS OpsWorks
◉ A company uses reserved EC2 instances across multiple units
with each unit having its own AWS account. However, some of the
units under-utilize their reserved instances while other units need
more reserved instances. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the
following would you recommend as the most cost-optimal solution?
