D282 WGU Cloud Foundations Exam
2026/2027: Updated Questions with Actual
Answers
Six advantages of cloud computing
1. Trade capital expense for variable expense
2. Benefit from massive economies of scale
3. Stop guessing capacity
4. Increase speed and agility
5. Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
6. Go global in minutes
Athena
Serverless SQL service used to analyze data in S3.
Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
Serverless big data platform used to process vast amounts of data with open source tools like
Apache.
Redshift
SQL data warehouse
QuickSight
BI service used to create dashboards to deliver insights into analytics.
Glue
Extract, transform, load service used to prepare and load data for analytics.
Simple Queue Service (SQS)
,Fully managed message queuing service that facilitates decoupling; stores messages until
processed by consumers.
Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Pub/sub messaging service; can send messages to multiple subscribers at once; facilitates
decoupling.
Cost Explorer
Interface that lets you visualize and manage your costs and usage over time; create reports.
Budgets
Set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or forecasted to exceed)
your budgeted amount.
Savings Plans
Flexible pricing for EC2 and Fargate offering lower prices compared to on-demand pricing in
exchange for a usage commitment ($/hour) for 1- or 3-year terms.
Lightsail
Easy way to launch and manage a virtual private server; includes everything you need to start a
project; low, predictable pricing.
Elastic Beanstalk
Service for deploying and scaling web applications and services; upload your code and EB
automatically deploys, etc.
Fargate
Serverless compute engine for ECS (Elastic Container Service).
Lamda
Serverless computing to run code; no charge when code is not running.
Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
Fully-managed Docker container registry used to store, manage, and deploy Docker container
images.
Elastic Container Service (ECS)
,Highly scalable, high-performance container service that supports Docker containers and allows
you to run and scale containerized apps on AWS.
Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Runs Kubernetes management infrastructure to deploy, manage, and scale containerized apps
using Kubernetes on AWS.
Aurora
Fully managed MySQL relational database engine combining speed and availability of high-end
commercial databases w/ simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases; auto-
scales up to 128TB per dB instance.
DynamoDB
NoSQL, key-value and document database; fully managed; fast.
ElastiCache
Web service to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud; supports Redis and
Memcached caching engines.
Neptune
Fully-managed graph database service to build and run apps that work with highly connected
datasets.
Relational Database Service (RDS)
Cost-efficient and resizable capacity; automated hardware provisioning, database setup,
patching and backups; SQL.
Cloud9
Cloud-based IDE with a browser.
CloudShell
Browser-based shell.
CodeArtifact
Fully managed repository used to store, publish, and share software packages used in software
development processes.
CodeBuild
, Fully managed service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages
ready to deploy.
CodeCommit
Fully managed source control service used to host Git repos.
CodeDeploy
Service that automates code deployments to any instance, inc. EC2 and instances running on
premises.
AppStream 2.0
Fully managed application streaming service.
WorkSpaces
Fully managed cloud desktop service.
CloudFormation
Templates that allow you to create and manage a collection of resources.
Trusted Advisor
Inspects environment and makes recommendations to help you save money, and improve
security, performance, and availability of resources.
Inspector
Searches for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure for EC2, Lambda, and
ECR.
CloudWatch
Continually monitors and collects metrics on resources and apps that run on AWS in real time;
gain insights, create alarms, and send notifications.
CloudTrail
Continuously monitors and logs activity in an AWS account; includes actions taken through
console, SDKs, API calls, and CLI.
VPN
Managed service that establishes a secure encrypted connection between AWS and on-
premises networks.
2026/2027: Updated Questions with Actual
Answers
Six advantages of cloud computing
1. Trade capital expense for variable expense
2. Benefit from massive economies of scale
3. Stop guessing capacity
4. Increase speed and agility
5. Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
6. Go global in minutes
Athena
Serverless SQL service used to analyze data in S3.
Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
Serverless big data platform used to process vast amounts of data with open source tools like
Apache.
Redshift
SQL data warehouse
QuickSight
BI service used to create dashboards to deliver insights into analytics.
Glue
Extract, transform, load service used to prepare and load data for analytics.
Simple Queue Service (SQS)
,Fully managed message queuing service that facilitates decoupling; stores messages until
processed by consumers.
Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Pub/sub messaging service; can send messages to multiple subscribers at once; facilitates
decoupling.
Cost Explorer
Interface that lets you visualize and manage your costs and usage over time; create reports.
Budgets
Set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or forecasted to exceed)
your budgeted amount.
Savings Plans
Flexible pricing for EC2 and Fargate offering lower prices compared to on-demand pricing in
exchange for a usage commitment ($/hour) for 1- or 3-year terms.
Lightsail
Easy way to launch and manage a virtual private server; includes everything you need to start a
project; low, predictable pricing.
Elastic Beanstalk
Service for deploying and scaling web applications and services; upload your code and EB
automatically deploys, etc.
Fargate
Serverless compute engine for ECS (Elastic Container Service).
Lamda
Serverless computing to run code; no charge when code is not running.
Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
Fully-managed Docker container registry used to store, manage, and deploy Docker container
images.
Elastic Container Service (ECS)
,Highly scalable, high-performance container service that supports Docker containers and allows
you to run and scale containerized apps on AWS.
Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Runs Kubernetes management infrastructure to deploy, manage, and scale containerized apps
using Kubernetes on AWS.
Aurora
Fully managed MySQL relational database engine combining speed and availability of high-end
commercial databases w/ simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases; auto-
scales up to 128TB per dB instance.
DynamoDB
NoSQL, key-value and document database; fully managed; fast.
ElastiCache
Web service to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud; supports Redis and
Memcached caching engines.
Neptune
Fully-managed graph database service to build and run apps that work with highly connected
datasets.
Relational Database Service (RDS)
Cost-efficient and resizable capacity; automated hardware provisioning, database setup,
patching and backups; SQL.
Cloud9
Cloud-based IDE with a browser.
CloudShell
Browser-based shell.
CodeArtifact
Fully managed repository used to store, publish, and share software packages used in software
development processes.
CodeBuild
, Fully managed service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages
ready to deploy.
CodeCommit
Fully managed source control service used to host Git repos.
CodeDeploy
Service that automates code deployments to any instance, inc. EC2 and instances running on
premises.
AppStream 2.0
Fully managed application streaming service.
WorkSpaces
Fully managed cloud desktop service.
CloudFormation
Templates that allow you to create and manage a collection of resources.
Trusted Advisor
Inspects environment and makes recommendations to help you save money, and improve
security, performance, and availability of resources.
Inspector
Searches for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure for EC2, Lambda, and
ECR.
CloudWatch
Continually monitors and collects metrics on resources and apps that run on AWS in real time;
gain insights, create alarms, and send notifications.
CloudTrail
Continuously monitors and logs activity in an AWS account; includes actions taken through
console, SDKs, API calls, and CLI.
VPN
Managed service that establishes a secure encrypted connection between AWS and on-
premises networks.
