AWS CLOUD PRACTITIONER 2026 FINAL EXAM ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔What is APN partner central? - ✔✔resource providing APN partners with tools and
content they need to grow their business on AWS
✔✔Advantages of cloud computing? - ✔✔benefit from massive economies of scale
increase speed and agility
✔✔What best describes AWS regions? - ✔✔separate, isolated geographic areas that
contain availability zones
✔✔What best describes EC2 memory optimized instance types? - ✔✔designed to
deliver fast performance for workloads that process large data sets in memory
✔✔What migration strategy consists of simple transfer of app resources from on-prem
to the cloud? - ✔✔rehost: lift and shift
✔✔What best describes EC2 compute optimized instance types? - ✔✔ideal for compute
bound apps that benefit from high performance processors
✔✔what best describes serverless architectures? - ✔✔server less architectures runs
apps without provisioning, maintaining, and administering servers
✔✔Can APN technology partners include independent software vendors? - ✔✔Yes they
may include (ISVs)
✔✔A customer wishes to increase the availability of their AWS cloud-hosted application.
Which approaches will help them achieve their goal? - ✔✔host app instances on
multiple availability zones
use multiple instances instead of one
✔✔Which could serve as a migration target for an on-prem MYSQL database? -
✔✔amazon relational database service (Amazon RDS)
✔✔What best describes AWS edge locations? - ✔✔designed to deliver content to end
users
✔✔What best describes the functionality of containers? - ✔✔package app code,
configurations, and dependencies into a single object
✔✔What best describes the cost savings analysis? - ✔✔calculates the total cost of
ownership for running an end-to-end traditional IT environment vs. deploying to AWS
,✔✔What best describes the best value of a cost savings analysis for a customer? -
✔✔providing a complete view of costs to deliver equal or improved performance with
AWS when compared to an on-prem or co-location infrastructure
✔✔What are ways AWS helps customers lower costs? - ✔✔A consumption based
model
aws pricing models
frequent price reductions
✔✔What best describes staff productivity? - ✔✔refers to the efficiency gained from
reducing or eliminating tasks no longer needed with cloud services
✔✔Server, network, and storage staff functions: - ✔✔involve managing hardware and
infrastructure
✔✔Application staff functions: - ✔✔roles such as database administrator, AppDev, QA,
and support functions
✔✔Facilities Staff Functions: - ✔✔facilities management for customers who have on-
premises data centers
✔✔Security Staff functions - ✔✔ensures infrastructures meets compliance, regulatory,
and corporate standards
✔✔Applications Benefits of AWS: - ✔✔time spent coding, testing, and supporting
business apps is greatly reduced
✔✔Security Benefits of AWS - ✔✔penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, and
security audits are greatly improved
✔✔Facilities benefits of AWS: - ✔✔Time spent managing power cooling systems are
eliminated
✔✔Network benefits of AWS - ✔✔time spent on network planning and forecasting to
provision hardware is greatly reduced
✔✔Server benefits of AWS - ✔✔Time spent installing, upgrading, and removing
hardware is reduced by up to half
✔✔Storage Benefits of AWS: - ✔✔time spent on supporting physical arrays is
eliminated
✔✔What are the cloud value framework pillars: - ✔✔1. Costing Savings
2. Staff productivity
, 3. Operational resilience
4. Business Agility
5.
✔✔What are the ways to lower costs with AWS? - ✔✔1. Consumption based model
2. AWS pricing models
3.Price Reductions
✔✔What are the building blocks of AWS? - ✔✔The AWS foundational services are:
1. Compute
2. Storage
3. Networking
4. Database
5. Security
6. Management
✔✔You are sure that your application deployed in AWS needs frequent updates for the
next 6 months.
Which of the following services would allow you to make these updates easily, retaining
the ability to change the AWS resources powering the application any time? - ✔✔AWS
Elastic Beanstalk
✔✔Which AWS offering enables customers to find, buy, and immediately start using
software solutions in their AWS environment? - ✔✔AWS Marketplace
✔✔Which AWS service would simplify migration of a database to AWS? - ✔✔AWS
Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
✔✔Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with
varying compute workloads? - ✔✔Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand
when needed.
✔✔Which service can identify the user that made the API call when an Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance is terminated? - ✔✔AWS CloudTrail
✔✔Which component of AWS global infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to
ensure low-latency delivery? - ✔✔AWS edge locations
✔✔How would a system administrator add an additional layer of login security to a
user's AWS Management Console? - ✔✔Enable Multi-Factor Authentication
✔✔Which of the following is AWS's responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility
model? - ✔✔Maintaining physical hardware
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔What is APN partner central? - ✔✔resource providing APN partners with tools and
content they need to grow their business on AWS
✔✔Advantages of cloud computing? - ✔✔benefit from massive economies of scale
increase speed and agility
✔✔What best describes AWS regions? - ✔✔separate, isolated geographic areas that
contain availability zones
✔✔What best describes EC2 memory optimized instance types? - ✔✔designed to
deliver fast performance for workloads that process large data sets in memory
✔✔What migration strategy consists of simple transfer of app resources from on-prem
to the cloud? - ✔✔rehost: lift and shift
✔✔What best describes EC2 compute optimized instance types? - ✔✔ideal for compute
bound apps that benefit from high performance processors
✔✔what best describes serverless architectures? - ✔✔server less architectures runs
apps without provisioning, maintaining, and administering servers
✔✔Can APN technology partners include independent software vendors? - ✔✔Yes they
may include (ISVs)
✔✔A customer wishes to increase the availability of their AWS cloud-hosted application.
Which approaches will help them achieve their goal? - ✔✔host app instances on
multiple availability zones
use multiple instances instead of one
✔✔Which could serve as a migration target for an on-prem MYSQL database? -
✔✔amazon relational database service (Amazon RDS)
✔✔What best describes AWS edge locations? - ✔✔designed to deliver content to end
users
✔✔What best describes the functionality of containers? - ✔✔package app code,
configurations, and dependencies into a single object
✔✔What best describes the cost savings analysis? - ✔✔calculates the total cost of
ownership for running an end-to-end traditional IT environment vs. deploying to AWS
,✔✔What best describes the best value of a cost savings analysis for a customer? -
✔✔providing a complete view of costs to deliver equal or improved performance with
AWS when compared to an on-prem or co-location infrastructure
✔✔What are ways AWS helps customers lower costs? - ✔✔A consumption based
model
aws pricing models
frequent price reductions
✔✔What best describes staff productivity? - ✔✔refers to the efficiency gained from
reducing or eliminating tasks no longer needed with cloud services
✔✔Server, network, and storage staff functions: - ✔✔involve managing hardware and
infrastructure
✔✔Application staff functions: - ✔✔roles such as database administrator, AppDev, QA,
and support functions
✔✔Facilities Staff Functions: - ✔✔facilities management for customers who have on-
premises data centers
✔✔Security Staff functions - ✔✔ensures infrastructures meets compliance, regulatory,
and corporate standards
✔✔Applications Benefits of AWS: - ✔✔time spent coding, testing, and supporting
business apps is greatly reduced
✔✔Security Benefits of AWS - ✔✔penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, and
security audits are greatly improved
✔✔Facilities benefits of AWS: - ✔✔Time spent managing power cooling systems are
eliminated
✔✔Network benefits of AWS - ✔✔time spent on network planning and forecasting to
provision hardware is greatly reduced
✔✔Server benefits of AWS - ✔✔Time spent installing, upgrading, and removing
hardware is reduced by up to half
✔✔Storage Benefits of AWS: - ✔✔time spent on supporting physical arrays is
eliminated
✔✔What are the cloud value framework pillars: - ✔✔1. Costing Savings
2. Staff productivity
, 3. Operational resilience
4. Business Agility
5.
✔✔What are the ways to lower costs with AWS? - ✔✔1. Consumption based model
2. AWS pricing models
3.Price Reductions
✔✔What are the building blocks of AWS? - ✔✔The AWS foundational services are:
1. Compute
2. Storage
3. Networking
4. Database
5. Security
6. Management
✔✔You are sure that your application deployed in AWS needs frequent updates for the
next 6 months.
Which of the following services would allow you to make these updates easily, retaining
the ability to change the AWS resources powering the application any time? - ✔✔AWS
Elastic Beanstalk
✔✔Which AWS offering enables customers to find, buy, and immediately start using
software solutions in their AWS environment? - ✔✔AWS Marketplace
✔✔Which AWS service would simplify migration of a database to AWS? - ✔✔AWS
Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
✔✔Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with
varying compute workloads? - ✔✔Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand
when needed.
✔✔Which service can identify the user that made the API call when an Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance is terminated? - ✔✔AWS CloudTrail
✔✔Which component of AWS global infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to
ensure low-latency delivery? - ✔✔AWS edge locations
✔✔How would a system administrator add an additional layer of login security to a
user's AWS Management Console? - ✔✔Enable Multi-Factor Authentication
✔✔Which of the following is AWS's responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility
model? - ✔✔Maintaining physical hardware
