200 PREP QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS FOR CORE
SERVICES, STORAGE, SECURITY, AND BILLING/ WITH MOST TESTED
QUESTIONS GRADED A+
THIS RESOURCE CONTAINS PRACTICE QUESTIONS THAT COVER A WIDE RANGE OF AWS
SERVICES, INCLUDING COMPUTE, STORAGE, SECURITY, MONITORING, AND BILLING.
DESIGNED TO MIMIC REAL EXAM SCENARIOS, THESE QUESTIONS HELP CANDIDATES BUILD
CONFIDENCE AND UNDERSTAND KEY CONCEPTS NEEDED FOR AWS CERTIFICATIONS IN 2025.
IT IS IDEAL FOR THOSE PREPARING FOR CLOUD PRACTITIONER, SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, OR
OTHER ASSOCIATE-LEVEL EXAMS.
What acts as a firewall that controls the traffic allowed to reach one or more instances?
Select one:
a. ACL
b. IAM
c. IAM
d. Security group - CORRECT ANSWER-D. Security Group
A company is deploying a two-tier, highly available web application to AWS. The application needs a
storage layer to store artefacts such as photos and videos. Which of the following services can be
used as the underlying storage mechanism.
Select one:
a. Amazon EBS volume
b. Amazon S3
c. Amazon EC2 instance store
d. Amazon RDS instance - CORRECT ANSWER-B. Amazon S3
Which of the following does AWS perform on its behalf for EBS volumes to make it less probe to
failure?
Select one:
a. Replication of the volume in the same Availability Zone
b. Replication of the volume across Edge locations
c. Replication of the volume across Regions
d. Replication of the volume across Availability Zones - CORRECT ANSWER-A. Replication of the
volume in the same Availability Zone
,Which of the following storage mechanisms can be used to store messages effectively which can be
used across distributed systems.
Select one:
a. Amazon Glacier
b. Amazon EBS Snapshots
c. Amazon EBS Volumes
d. Amazon SQS - CORRECT ANSWER-D. Amazon SQS
The main benefit of decoupling an application is to:
Select one:
a. Create a tightly integrated application
b. Have the ability to execute automated bootstrapping actions.
c. Enable data synchronization across the web application layer.
d. Reduce inter-dependencies so failures do not impact other components - CORRECT ANSWER-D.
reduce inter-dependancies so failures do not impact other components
As per the AWS Acceptable Use Policy, penetration testing of EC2 instances:
Select one:
a. Are expressly prohibited under all circumstances.
b. May be performed by the customer on their own instances with prior authorization from AWS.
c. May be performed by the customer on their own instances, only if performed from EC2 instances.
d. May be performed by AWS, and is periodically performed by AWS.
e. May be performed by AWS,and will be performed by AWS upon customer request. - CORRECT
ANSWER-B. May be performed by the customer on their own instance with prior authorization
from AWS
There is an external audit being carried out on your company. The IT auditor needs to have a log of
all access to the AWS resources in the company's account. Which of the below services can assist in
providing these details?
Select one:
a. AWS SNS
b. AWS Cloudwatch
,c. AWS Cloudtrail
d. AWS EC2 - CORRECT ANSWER-C. AWS CloudTrail
There is a requirement for a development and test environment for 3 months. Which would you
use?
Select one:
a. On-Demand
b. Spot Instances
c. No Upfront costs Reserved
d. Partial Upfront costs Reserved - CORRECT ANSWER-A. On Demand
Which of the following initiatives from AWS helps organizations reduce the overall expenditure for IT
companies when they host resources on the AWS Cloud?
Select one:
a. They decommission older hardware
b. They use better security mechanisms so you don't need to think about security at all
c. They allow deployment of multiple resources
d. They continually reduce the cost of cloud computing - CORRECT ANSWER-D. They continually
reduce the cost of cloud computing
What are the four levels of AWS Premium Support?
Select one:
a. Basic, Startup, Business, Enterprise
b. All support is free
c. Free, Bronze, Silver, Gold
d. Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise - CORRECT ANSWER-D. basic, developer, business,
enterprise
There is a requirement to move 10 TB data warehouse to the AWS cloud. Which of the following is
an ideal service which can be used to move this amount of data to the AWS Cloud.
Select one:
a. Amazon Direct Connect
, b. Amazon Snowball
c. Amazon S3 Multipart Upload
d. Amazon S3 Connector - CORRECT ANSWER-B. Amazon Snowball
Which of the following is AWS services allows you to build a data warehouse on the cloud.
Select one:
a. AWS Redshift
b. AWS Snowball
c. AWS EMR
d. AWS Storage Gateway - CORRECT ANSWER-A. AWS Redshift
Which tool can display the distribution of AWS spending?
Select one:
a. AWS organizations
b. AWS Trusted Advisor
c. AWS Cost Explorer
d. Amazon Dev Pay - CORRECT ANSWER-C. AWS Cost Explorer
A company wants to create standard templates for deployment of their Infrastructure. Which AWS
service can be used in this regard? Please choose one option.
Select one:
a. AWS OpsWorks
b. AWS CloudFormation
c. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
d. Amazon Simple Workflow Service - CORRECT ANSWER-B. AWS Cloudformation
Which of the following networking component can be used to host EC2 resources in the AWS Cloud?
Select one:
a. AWS Trusted Advisor
b. AWS Autoscaling
c. AWS VPC