2024 AWS CLOUD PRACTITIONER TEST
VOLUME 1 WITH 300 ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH DETAILED
RATIONALES/ AWS CLOUD PRACTITIONER
CERTIFICATION EXAM 2024/2025 PREP (NEW!)
A company is migrating to the AWS Cloud. They need to set up DNS in the cloud.
Which service is a highly available and scalable cloud DNS service in AWS?
A) CloudFront
B) Amazon Macie
C) Route 53
D) Amazon VPC - ANSWER-C) Route 53
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System
(DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely
reliable and cost-effective way to route end users to Internet applications by
translating names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like
192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect. Amazon Route 53 is fully compliant with
IPv6 as well.
A gaming company is using the AWS Developer Tool Suite to develop, build, and
deploy their applications. Which AWS service can be used to trace user requests
from end-to-end through the application?
A) AWS X-Ray
B) CloudTrail
C) AWS Inspector
D) CloudWatch - ANSWER-A) AWS X-Ray
pg. 1
,AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed
applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray,
you can understand how your application and its underlying services are
performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and
errors. X-Ray provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your
application, and shows a map of your application's underlying components.
A financial company needs to migrate large amounts of data, at a peta-byte scale,
to AWS. Which AWS service can perform this type of migration?
A) AWS Data Pipeline
B) Database Migration Service
C) AWS Snowball
D) API Gateway - ANSWER-C) AWS Snowball
Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to
transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS cloud. Using Snowball
addresses common challenges with large-scale data transfers including high
network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns
A recent audit has dictated that a company begin keeping a log of AWS
Management Console actions and API calls. Which AWS service can help with
this?
A) CloudWatch
B) AWS Inspector
C) AWS CloudTrail
D) AWS X-Ray - ANSWER-C) AWS CloudTrail
pg. 2
,AWS CloudTrail increases visibility into your user and resource activity by
recording AWS Management Console actions and API calls. You can identify
which users and accounts called AWS, the source IP address from which the calls
were made, and when the calls occurred
What is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers,
developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers - ANSWER-
Amazon CloudWatch
A new application rolled out by the development team is going to require load
balancing of HTTP and HTTPS traffic. Which Load Balancer is best suited for this
type of traffic?
A) HTTP Load Balancer
B) Classic Load Balancer
C) Network Load Balancer
D) Application Load Balancer - ANSWER-D) Application Load Balancer
Application Load Balancer is best suited for load balancing of HTTP and HTTPS
traffic and provides advanced request routing targeted at the delivery of modern
application architectures, including microservices and containers.
A colleague tells you about a service that uses machine learning to discover and
protect sensitive data stored in S3 Buckets. Which AWS service does this?
A) Macie
B) Inspector
C) Rekognition
D) Cognito - ANSWER-A) Macie
pg. 3
, Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses
machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data
in AWS.
What is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security
and compliance of applications deployed on AWS, automatically assesses
applications for exposure, vulnerabilities, and deviations from best practices, and
after performing an assessment, it produces a detailed list of security findings
prioritized by level of severity - ANSWER-Amazon Inspector
A Healthcare agency needs to store certain patient information for up to 10 years.
To save cost, they want to archive this data to cheaper storage. The data needs to
be retrieved within 12 hours. Which is the cheapest option?
A) Glacier Deep Archive
B) Redshift
C) S3 Standard IA
D) Glacier - ANSWER-A) Glacier Deep Archive
Glacier Deep Archive meets the requirement and is the cheapest option. Amazon
S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive are a secure, durable, and extremely low-
cost Amazon S3 cloud storage classes for data archiving and long-term backup.
They are designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and provide
comprehensive security and compliance capabilities that can help meet even the
most stringent regulatory requirements.
There have been some questionable activities in your AWS account. You need to
review your event history, such as actions taken from the Management Console
and the CLI. Which service records this type of information?
A) AWS Config
B) IAM
pg. 4
VOLUME 1 WITH 300 ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH DETAILED
RATIONALES/ AWS CLOUD PRACTITIONER
CERTIFICATION EXAM 2024/2025 PREP (NEW!)
A company is migrating to the AWS Cloud. They need to set up DNS in the cloud.
Which service is a highly available and scalable cloud DNS service in AWS?
A) CloudFront
B) Amazon Macie
C) Route 53
D) Amazon VPC - ANSWER-C) Route 53
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System
(DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely
reliable and cost-effective way to route end users to Internet applications by
translating names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like
192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect. Amazon Route 53 is fully compliant with
IPv6 as well.
A gaming company is using the AWS Developer Tool Suite to develop, build, and
deploy their applications. Which AWS service can be used to trace user requests
from end-to-end through the application?
A) AWS X-Ray
B) CloudTrail
C) AWS Inspector
D) CloudWatch - ANSWER-A) AWS X-Ray
pg. 1
,AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed
applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray,
you can understand how your application and its underlying services are
performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and
errors. X-Ray provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your
application, and shows a map of your application's underlying components.
A financial company needs to migrate large amounts of data, at a peta-byte scale,
to AWS. Which AWS service can perform this type of migration?
A) AWS Data Pipeline
B) Database Migration Service
C) AWS Snowball
D) API Gateway - ANSWER-C) AWS Snowball
Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to
transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS cloud. Using Snowball
addresses common challenges with large-scale data transfers including high
network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns
A recent audit has dictated that a company begin keeping a log of AWS
Management Console actions and API calls. Which AWS service can help with
this?
A) CloudWatch
B) AWS Inspector
C) AWS CloudTrail
D) AWS X-Ray - ANSWER-C) AWS CloudTrail
pg. 2
,AWS CloudTrail increases visibility into your user and resource activity by
recording AWS Management Console actions and API calls. You can identify
which users and accounts called AWS, the source IP address from which the calls
were made, and when the calls occurred
What is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers,
developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers - ANSWER-
Amazon CloudWatch
A new application rolled out by the development team is going to require load
balancing of HTTP and HTTPS traffic. Which Load Balancer is best suited for this
type of traffic?
A) HTTP Load Balancer
B) Classic Load Balancer
C) Network Load Balancer
D) Application Load Balancer - ANSWER-D) Application Load Balancer
Application Load Balancer is best suited for load balancing of HTTP and HTTPS
traffic and provides advanced request routing targeted at the delivery of modern
application architectures, including microservices and containers.
A colleague tells you about a service that uses machine learning to discover and
protect sensitive data stored in S3 Buckets. Which AWS service does this?
A) Macie
B) Inspector
C) Rekognition
D) Cognito - ANSWER-A) Macie
pg. 3
, Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses
machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data
in AWS.
What is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security
and compliance of applications deployed on AWS, automatically assesses
applications for exposure, vulnerabilities, and deviations from best practices, and
after performing an assessment, it produces a detailed list of security findings
prioritized by level of severity - ANSWER-Amazon Inspector
A Healthcare agency needs to store certain patient information for up to 10 years.
To save cost, they want to archive this data to cheaper storage. The data needs to
be retrieved within 12 hours. Which is the cheapest option?
A) Glacier Deep Archive
B) Redshift
C) S3 Standard IA
D) Glacier - ANSWER-A) Glacier Deep Archive
Glacier Deep Archive meets the requirement and is the cheapest option. Amazon
S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive are a secure, durable, and extremely low-
cost Amazon S3 cloud storage classes for data archiving and long-term backup.
They are designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and provide
comprehensive security and compliance capabilities that can help meet even the
most stringent regulatory requirements.
There have been some questionable activities in your AWS account. You need to
review your event history, such as actions taken from the Management Console
and the CLI. Which service records this type of information?
A) AWS Config
B) IAM
pg. 4
