AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Test
You have AWS Basic support, and you have discovered that some AWS resources are being
used maliciously, and those resources could potentially compromise your data. What should
you do?
a) Contact the AWS Concierge team
b) Contact the AWS Security team
c) Contact the AWS Abuse team
d) Contact the AWS Customer Service team -correct answer-c) Contact the AWS Abuse team
Which service provides object-level storage in AWS?
a) Amazon EBS
b) Amazon S3
c) Amazon EFS
d) Amazon Instance Store -correct answer-b) Amazon S3
A company is introducing a new product to their customers, and is expecting a surge in
traffic to their web application. As part of their Enterprise Support plan, which of the
following provides the company with architectural and scaling guidance?
a) AWS Support Concierge Service
b) AWS Personal Health Dashboard
c) AWS Support API
d) Infrastructure Event Management -correct answer-d) Infrastructure Event Management
An organization has decided to reserve EC2 compute capacity for three years in order to
reduce costs. It is possible that the application workloads could change during the
reservation time period. What is the EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) type that will allow the
company to modify the reservation if they need to?
,a) Elastic RIs
b) Scheduled RIs
c) Convertible RIs
d) Standard RIs -correct answer-c) Convertible RIs
What is the AWS feature that provides an additional level of security above the default
authentication mechanism of usernames and passwords?
a) AWS MFA
b) Email verification
c) Encrypted keys
d) AWS KMS -correct answer-a) AWS MFA
Which of the following is NOT correct regarding Amazon EC2 On-demand instances?
a) The on-demand instances follow the AWS pay-as-you-go pricing model
b) You have to pay a start up fee when launching a new instance for the first time
c) With on-demand instances, no longer term commitments or upfront payments are
needed
d) When using on-demand Linux instances, you are charged per second based on an hourly
rate -correct answer-b) You have to pay a start up fee when launching a new instance for the
first time
What is the advantage of the AWS-recommended practice of "decoupling" applications?
a) Allows treating an application as a single, cohesive unit
b) Allows updates of any monolithic application quickly and easily
c) Reduces inter-dependencies so that failures do not impact other components of the
application
d) Allows tracking of any API call made to any AWS service -correct answer-c) Reduces inter-
dependencies so that failures do not impact other components of the application
Select TWO examples of the AWS shared controls.
,a) Data Center Operations
b) VPC Management
c) IAM Management
d) Configuration Management
e) Patch Management -correct answer-d) Configuration Management
e) Patch Management
Which of the following helps a customer view the Amazon EC2 billing activity for the past
month?
a) AWS Cost & Usage Reports
b) AWS Budgets
c) AWS TCO
d) AWS Systems Manager -correct answer-a) AWS Cost & Usage Reports
A developer is planning to build a two-tier web application that has a MySQL database layer.
Which of the following AWS database services would provide automated backups for the
application?
a) Amazon DynamoDB
b) A MySQL database installed on an EC2 instance
c) Amazon DocumentDB
d) Amazon Aurora -correct answer-d) Amazon Aurora
Which of the following does NOT belong to the AWS Cloud Computing models?
a) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
b) Networking as a Service (NaaS)
c) Platform as a Service (PaaS)
d) Software as a Service (SaaS) -correct answer-b) Networking as a Service (NaaS)
Which service provides DNS in the AWS cloud?
, a) AWS Config
b) Amazon CloudFront
c) Amazon EMR
d) Route 53 -correct answer-d) Route 53
A company is planning to host an educational website on AWS. Their video courses will be
streamed all around the world. Which of the following AWS services will help achieve high
transfer speeds?
a) AWS CloudFormation
b) Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
c) Amazon CloudFront
d) Amazon SNS -correct answer-c) Amazon CloudFront
Under the shared responsibility model, Which of the following is the AWS' responsibility?
a) Filtering traffic with Security Groups
b) Client-side encryption
c) Configuring infrastructure devices
d) Server-side encryption -correct answer-c) Configuring infrastructure devices
The principle "design for failure and nothing will fail" is very important when designing your
AWS Cloud architecture. Which of the following would help adhere to this principle?
(Choose two)
a) AWS Elastic Load Balancer
b) Amazon Elastic MapReduce
c) AWS KMS
d) Availability Zones
e) Amazon Elastic File System -correct answer-a) AWS Elastic Load Balancer
d) Availability Zones
You have AWS Basic support, and you have discovered that some AWS resources are being
used maliciously, and those resources could potentially compromise your data. What should
you do?
a) Contact the AWS Concierge team
b) Contact the AWS Security team
c) Contact the AWS Abuse team
d) Contact the AWS Customer Service team -correct answer-c) Contact the AWS Abuse team
Which service provides object-level storage in AWS?
a) Amazon EBS
b) Amazon S3
c) Amazon EFS
d) Amazon Instance Store -correct answer-b) Amazon S3
A company is introducing a new product to their customers, and is expecting a surge in
traffic to their web application. As part of their Enterprise Support plan, which of the
following provides the company with architectural and scaling guidance?
a) AWS Support Concierge Service
b) AWS Personal Health Dashboard
c) AWS Support API
d) Infrastructure Event Management -correct answer-d) Infrastructure Event Management
An organization has decided to reserve EC2 compute capacity for three years in order to
reduce costs. It is possible that the application workloads could change during the
reservation time period. What is the EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) type that will allow the
company to modify the reservation if they need to?
,a) Elastic RIs
b) Scheduled RIs
c) Convertible RIs
d) Standard RIs -correct answer-c) Convertible RIs
What is the AWS feature that provides an additional level of security above the default
authentication mechanism of usernames and passwords?
a) AWS MFA
b) Email verification
c) Encrypted keys
d) AWS KMS -correct answer-a) AWS MFA
Which of the following is NOT correct regarding Amazon EC2 On-demand instances?
a) The on-demand instances follow the AWS pay-as-you-go pricing model
b) You have to pay a start up fee when launching a new instance for the first time
c) With on-demand instances, no longer term commitments or upfront payments are
needed
d) When using on-demand Linux instances, you are charged per second based on an hourly
rate -correct answer-b) You have to pay a start up fee when launching a new instance for the
first time
What is the advantage of the AWS-recommended practice of "decoupling" applications?
a) Allows treating an application as a single, cohesive unit
b) Allows updates of any monolithic application quickly and easily
c) Reduces inter-dependencies so that failures do not impact other components of the
application
d) Allows tracking of any API call made to any AWS service -correct answer-c) Reduces inter-
dependencies so that failures do not impact other components of the application
Select TWO examples of the AWS shared controls.
,a) Data Center Operations
b) VPC Management
c) IAM Management
d) Configuration Management
e) Patch Management -correct answer-d) Configuration Management
e) Patch Management
Which of the following helps a customer view the Amazon EC2 billing activity for the past
month?
a) AWS Cost & Usage Reports
b) AWS Budgets
c) AWS TCO
d) AWS Systems Manager -correct answer-a) AWS Cost & Usage Reports
A developer is planning to build a two-tier web application that has a MySQL database layer.
Which of the following AWS database services would provide automated backups for the
application?
a) Amazon DynamoDB
b) A MySQL database installed on an EC2 instance
c) Amazon DocumentDB
d) Amazon Aurora -correct answer-d) Amazon Aurora
Which of the following does NOT belong to the AWS Cloud Computing models?
a) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
b) Networking as a Service (NaaS)
c) Platform as a Service (PaaS)
d) Software as a Service (SaaS) -correct answer-b) Networking as a Service (NaaS)
Which service provides DNS in the AWS cloud?
, a) AWS Config
b) Amazon CloudFront
c) Amazon EMR
d) Route 53 -correct answer-d) Route 53
A company is planning to host an educational website on AWS. Their video courses will be
streamed all around the world. Which of the following AWS services will help achieve high
transfer speeds?
a) AWS CloudFormation
b) Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
c) Amazon CloudFront
d) Amazon SNS -correct answer-c) Amazon CloudFront
Under the shared responsibility model, Which of the following is the AWS' responsibility?
a) Filtering traffic with Security Groups
b) Client-side encryption
c) Configuring infrastructure devices
d) Server-side encryption -correct answer-c) Configuring infrastructure devices
The principle "design for failure and nothing will fail" is very important when designing your
AWS Cloud architecture. Which of the following would help adhere to this principle?
(Choose two)
a) AWS Elastic Load Balancer
b) Amazon Elastic MapReduce
c) AWS KMS
d) Availability Zones
e) Amazon Elastic File System -correct answer-a) AWS Elastic Load Balancer
d) Availability Zones
