AWS CCP Prep - Multiple Choice
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
What are the AWS services\features that can help you maintain a highly available and fault-
tolerant architecture in AWS? (Choose TWO)
-AWS Direct Connect
-Network ACLs
-Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
-Elastic Load Balancer
-CloudFormation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Elastic Load Balancer
An organization needs to analyze and process a large number of data sets. Which AWS
service should they use?
-Amazon SQS
- Amazon MQ
- Amazon EMR
- Amazon SNS - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Amazon EMR
Which of the following procedures will help reduce your Amazon S3 costs?
-Pick the right Availability Zone for your S3 bucket
-Use the Import/Export feature to move old files automatically to Amazon Glacier
-Move all the data stored in S3 standard to EBS
-Use the right combination of storage classes based on different use cases - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Use the right combination of storage classes based on different use cases
What does Amazon ElastiCache provide?
- An online software store that allows Customers to launch pre-configured software with just
few clicks
- In-memory caching for read-heavy applications
,- A domain name system in the cloud
- An Ehcache compatible in-memory data store - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔In-memory
caching for read-heavy applications
How much data can you store in S3?
- You can store up to 1 PetaByte of data
- Storage capacity is virtually unlimited
- You can store up to 1 PetaByte of data, then you are required to pay an additional fee
- There is a soft limit of 100 TeraBytes for each AWS account - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Storage capacity is virtually unlimited
What is the AWS service that performs automated network assessments of Amazon EC2
instances to check for vulnerabilities?
- Amazon Inspector
- Security groups
- Amazon Kinesis
- AWS Network Access Control Lists - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Amazon Inspector
Based on the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following are the sole
responsibility of AWS? (Choose TWO)
- Creating hypervisors
- Configuring Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- Installing software on EC2 instances
- Hardware maintenance
- Monitoring network performance - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Creating hypervisors
- Hardware maintenance
Which of the following should be considered when performing a TCO analysis to compare
the costs of running an application on AWS instead of on-premises?
- Application development
- Physical hardware
- Market research
,- Business analysis - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Physical hardware
What are two advantages of using Cloud Computing over using traditional data centers?
(Choose TWO)
- Reserved Compute capacity
- Distributed infrastructure
- Virtualized compute resources
- Dedicated hosting
- Eliminating Single Points of Failure (SPOFs) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Distributed
infrastructure
- Eliminating Single Points of Failure (SPOFs)
A company has deployed a new web application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Which
of the following should they use to ensure that the incoming HTTP traffic is distributed
evenly across the instances?
- AWS Auto Scaling
- AWS Network Load Balancer
- AWS Application Load Balancer
- AWS EC2 Auto Recovery - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- AWS Application Load Balancer
Which AWS service uses Edge Locations to cache content?
- Amazon Glacier
- AWS Direct Connect
- Amazon CloudFront
- AWS KMS - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Amazon CloudFront
Which of the following activities may help reduce your AWS monthly costs?
- Deploying your AWS resources across multiple Availability Zones
- Using the AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) to load balance the incoming HTTP requests
- Removing all of your Cost Allocation Tags
- Enabling Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for all of your workloads - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔- Enabling Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for all of your workloads
, What is the AWS service\feature that takes advantage of Amazon CloudFront's globally
distributed edge locations to transfer files to S3 with higher upload speeds?
- AWS Snowmobile
- AWS WAF
- AWS Snowball
- S3 Transfer Acceleration - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔S3 Transfer Acceleration
Which of the following AWS services can be used as a compute resource? (Choose TWO)
- Amazon VPC
- Amazon S3
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon EC2
- AWS Lambda - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Amazon EC2
- AWS Lambda
A company needs to host a database in Amazon RDS for at least three years. Which of the
following options would be the most cost-effective solution?
- On-Demand instances
- Reserved instances - No Upfront
- Reserved instances - Partial Upfront
- Spot Instances - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Reserved instances - Partial Upfront
You are working on two projects that require completely different network configurations.
Which AWS service or feature will allow you to isolate resources and network
configurations?
- Virtual Private Cloud
- Amazon CloudFront
- Security Groups
- Internet gateways - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Virtual Private Cloud
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
What are the AWS services\features that can help you maintain a highly available and fault-
tolerant architecture in AWS? (Choose TWO)
-AWS Direct Connect
-Network ACLs
-Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
-Elastic Load Balancer
-CloudFormation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Elastic Load Balancer
An organization needs to analyze and process a large number of data sets. Which AWS
service should they use?
-Amazon SQS
- Amazon MQ
- Amazon EMR
- Amazon SNS - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Amazon EMR
Which of the following procedures will help reduce your Amazon S3 costs?
-Pick the right Availability Zone for your S3 bucket
-Use the Import/Export feature to move old files automatically to Amazon Glacier
-Move all the data stored in S3 standard to EBS
-Use the right combination of storage classes based on different use cases - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Use the right combination of storage classes based on different use cases
What does Amazon ElastiCache provide?
- An online software store that allows Customers to launch pre-configured software with just
few clicks
- In-memory caching for read-heavy applications
,- A domain name system in the cloud
- An Ehcache compatible in-memory data store - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔In-memory
caching for read-heavy applications
How much data can you store in S3?
- You can store up to 1 PetaByte of data
- Storage capacity is virtually unlimited
- You can store up to 1 PetaByte of data, then you are required to pay an additional fee
- There is a soft limit of 100 TeraBytes for each AWS account - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Storage capacity is virtually unlimited
What is the AWS service that performs automated network assessments of Amazon EC2
instances to check for vulnerabilities?
- Amazon Inspector
- Security groups
- Amazon Kinesis
- AWS Network Access Control Lists - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Amazon Inspector
Based on the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following are the sole
responsibility of AWS? (Choose TWO)
- Creating hypervisors
- Configuring Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- Installing software on EC2 instances
- Hardware maintenance
- Monitoring network performance - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Creating hypervisors
- Hardware maintenance
Which of the following should be considered when performing a TCO analysis to compare
the costs of running an application on AWS instead of on-premises?
- Application development
- Physical hardware
- Market research
,- Business analysis - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Physical hardware
What are two advantages of using Cloud Computing over using traditional data centers?
(Choose TWO)
- Reserved Compute capacity
- Distributed infrastructure
- Virtualized compute resources
- Dedicated hosting
- Eliminating Single Points of Failure (SPOFs) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Distributed
infrastructure
- Eliminating Single Points of Failure (SPOFs)
A company has deployed a new web application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Which
of the following should they use to ensure that the incoming HTTP traffic is distributed
evenly across the instances?
- AWS Auto Scaling
- AWS Network Load Balancer
- AWS Application Load Balancer
- AWS EC2 Auto Recovery - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- AWS Application Load Balancer
Which AWS service uses Edge Locations to cache content?
- Amazon Glacier
- AWS Direct Connect
- Amazon CloudFront
- AWS KMS - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Amazon CloudFront
Which of the following activities may help reduce your AWS monthly costs?
- Deploying your AWS resources across multiple Availability Zones
- Using the AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) to load balance the incoming HTTP requests
- Removing all of your Cost Allocation Tags
- Enabling Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for all of your workloads - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔- Enabling Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for all of your workloads
, What is the AWS service\feature that takes advantage of Amazon CloudFront's globally
distributed edge locations to transfer files to S3 with higher upload speeds?
- AWS Snowmobile
- AWS WAF
- AWS Snowball
- S3 Transfer Acceleration - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔S3 Transfer Acceleration
Which of the following AWS services can be used as a compute resource? (Choose TWO)
- Amazon VPC
- Amazon S3
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon EC2
- AWS Lambda - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Amazon EC2
- AWS Lambda
A company needs to host a database in Amazon RDS for at least three years. Which of the
following options would be the most cost-effective solution?
- On-Demand instances
- Reserved instances - No Upfront
- Reserved instances - Partial Upfront
- Spot Instances - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Reserved instances - Partial Upfront
You are working on two projects that require completely different network configurations.
Which AWS service or feature will allow you to isolate resources and network
configurations?
- Virtual Private Cloud
- Amazon CloudFront
- Security Groups
- Internet gateways - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Virtual Private Cloud
