EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH DETAILED
RATIONALES/ AWS CLOUD PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION
EXAM 2025 PREP(NEW!) COVERING MOST TESTED
QUESTIONS
THE AWS CLOUD PRACTITIONER EXAM VALIDATES UNDERSTANDING OF
CLOUD CONCEPTS, AWS SERVICES, SECURITY, AND COST MANAGEMENT. IT IS
DESIGNED FOR INDIVIDUALS IN TECHNICAL, MANAGERIAL, SALES, OR
FINANCIAL ROLES SEEKING A BROAD UNDERSTANDING OF THE AWS CLOUD
WITHOUT HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE.
Which are benefits of using Amazon RDS over Amazon EC2 when running relational databases on
AWS? (Select TWO )
A. Automated backups
B. Schema management
C. Indexing of tables
D. Software patching
E. Extract, transform, and load (ETL) management - CORRECT ANSWER-A&D
Which AWS service or feature can be used to prevent SQL injection attacks?
A. Security groups
B. Network ACLs
C. AWS WAF
D. IAM policy - CORRECT ANSWER-C
Which of the following can be used to identify a specific user who stopped an amazon EC2 instance?
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A. AWS CloudTrail
B. Amazon Inspector
C. Amazon CloudWatch
,D. VPC Flow Logs - CORRECT ANSWER-a
What credential components are required to gain programmatic access to an AWS account? (Select
TWO )
A. An access key ID
B. A primary key
C. A secret access key
D. A user ID
E. A secondary key - CORRECT ANSWER-A & C
Which AWS service acts as a data extract transform and load (ETL) tool to make it easy to prepare
data for analytics?
A. Amazon QuickSight
B. Amazon Athena
C. AWS Glue
D. AWS Elastic Beanstalk - CORRECT ANSWER-C
Which AWS feature enables users to categorize and track their AWS costs?
A. Cost Allocation Tags
B. AWS Trusted Advisor
C. AWS Price List API
D. AWS Organizations - CORRECT ANSWER-B
What can users access from AWS Artifact?
A. AWS security and compliance documents
B. A download of configuration management details for all AWS resources
C. Training materials for AWS services
D. A security assessment of the applications deployed in the AWS Cloud - CORRECT ANSWER-A
Which duty is a responsibility of AWS under the AWS shared responsibility model?
A. Identity and access management
,B. Server-side encryption (SSE)
C. Firewall configuration
D. Maintaining physical hardware - CORRECT ANSWER-A
What is an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role?
A. A user associated with an AWS resource
B. A group associated with an AWS resource
C. An entity that defines a set of permissions for use with an AWS resource
D. An authentication credential associated with a multi-factor authentication (MFA) token -
CORRECT ANSWER-A
Which of the following allows an application running on an Amazon EC2 instance to securely write
data to an Amazon S3 bucket without using long term credentials?
A. Amazon Cognito
B. AWS Shield
C. AWS IAM role
D. AWS IAM user access key - CORRECT ANSWER-C
Which AWS service will allow a user to set custom cost and usage limits, and will alert when the
thresholds are exceeded?
A. AWS Organizations
B. AWS Budgets
C. Cost Explorer
D. AWS Trusted Advisor - CORRECT ANSWER-B
Which AWS services can be used to gather information about AWS account activity? (Select TWO.)
A. Amazon CloudFront
B. AWS Cloud9
C. AWS CloudTrail
D. AWS CloudHSM
E. Amazon CloudWatch - CORRECT ANSWER-A & E
, What AWS billing support resource is available to all support levels? A. AWS Support concierge
B. AWS Customer Service
C. AWS technical account manager
D. AWS Business Support - CORRECT ANSWER-B
Which AWS service enables risk auditing of an AWS account by tracking and recording user actions
and source IP addresses?'
A. AWS X-Ray
B. AWS Shield
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS CloudTrail - CORRECT ANSWER-D
Using AWS Identity and Access Management (1AM) what can be attached to an Amazon EC2
instance to make service requests?
A. Group
B. Role
C. Policy
D. Access key - CORRECT ANSWER-B
A company has an application that needs to invoke AWS services, including Amazon Kinesis Data
Firehose, AWS Lambda, and AWS CodePipeline. Which AWS service should the company use to meet
this requirement?
A. Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)
B. Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events)
C. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
D. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) - CORRECT ANSWER-C
A user has underutilized on-premises resources. Which AWS Cloud concept can BEST address this
Issue?
A. High availability
B. Elasticity