Practice Test #1 - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Practice
Test #1 - Questions and Answers
Question 1
Which AWS services can be used to facilitate organizational change management,
part of the Reliability pillar of AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select three)
Correct Answer
AWS CloudTrail - Amazon CloudWatch - AWS Config
Question 2
A data analytics company is running a proprietary batch analytics application on AWS
and wants to use a storage service which would be accessed by hundreds of EC2
instances simultaneously to append data to existing files. As a Cloud Practitioner,
which AWS service would you suggest for this use-case?
Correct Answer
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
Question 3
Which AWS Route 53 routing policy would you use to route traffic to multiple
resources and also choose how much traffic is routed to each resource?
Correct Answer
Weighted routing
Question 4
Under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following is a shared
responsibility of both AWS and the customer?
Correct Answer
Configuration Management
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Question 5
A web application stores all of its data on Amazon S3 buckets. A client has mandated
that data be encrypted before sending it to Amazon S3. Which of the following is the
right technique for encrypting data as needed by the customer?
Correct Answer
Enable client-side encryption using AWS encryption SDK
Question 6
Which AWS services can be used to decouple components of a microservices based
application on AWS Cloud? (Select two)
Correct Answer
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) - Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Question 7
Which of the following AWS services can be used to connect a company's on-
premises environment to a VPC without using the public internet?
Correct Answer
AWS Direct Connect
Question 8
A company wants to have control over creating and using its own keys for encryption
on AWS services. Which of the following can be used for this use-case?
Correct Answer
customer managed key (CMK)
Question 9
Which security service of AWS is enabled for all AWS customers, by default, at no
additional cost?
Correct Answer
AWS Shield Standard
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Question 10
Which of the following is an AWS database service?
Correct Answer
Amazon Redshift
Question 11
Which of the following is an INCORRECT statement about Scaling, a design principle
of Reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
Correct Answer
Fault tolerance is achieved by a scale up operation
Question 12
A company wants to identify the optimal AWS resource configuration for its
workloads so that the company can reduce costs and increase workload performance.
Which of the following services can be used to meet this requirement?
Correct Answer
AWS Compute Optimizer
Question 13
Which type of cloud computing does Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) represent?
Correct Answer
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Question 14
The DevOps team at an IT company is moving 500 GB of data from an EC2 instance to
an S3 bucket in the same region. Which of the following scenario captures the correct
charges for this data transfer?
Correct Answer
The company would not be charged for this data transfer
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Practice
Test #1 - Questions and Answers
Question 1
Which AWS services can be used to facilitate organizational change management,
part of the Reliability pillar of AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select three)
Correct Answer
AWS CloudTrail - Amazon CloudWatch - AWS Config
Question 2
A data analytics company is running a proprietary batch analytics application on AWS
and wants to use a storage service which would be accessed by hundreds of EC2
instances simultaneously to append data to existing files. As a Cloud Practitioner,
which AWS service would you suggest for this use-case?
Correct Answer
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
Question 3
Which AWS Route 53 routing policy would you use to route traffic to multiple
resources and also choose how much traffic is routed to each resource?
Correct Answer
Weighted routing
Question 4
Under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following is a shared
responsibility of both AWS and the customer?
Correct Answer
Configuration Management
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Question 5
A web application stores all of its data on Amazon S3 buckets. A client has mandated
that data be encrypted before sending it to Amazon S3. Which of the following is the
right technique for encrypting data as needed by the customer?
Correct Answer
Enable client-side encryption using AWS encryption SDK
Question 6
Which AWS services can be used to decouple components of a microservices based
application on AWS Cloud? (Select two)
Correct Answer
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) - Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Question 7
Which of the following AWS services can be used to connect a company's on-
premises environment to a VPC without using the public internet?
Correct Answer
AWS Direct Connect
Question 8
A company wants to have control over creating and using its own keys for encryption
on AWS services. Which of the following can be used for this use-case?
Correct Answer
customer managed key (CMK)
Question 9
Which security service of AWS is enabled for all AWS customers, by default, at no
additional cost?
Correct Answer
AWS Shield Standard
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Question 10
Which of the following is an AWS database service?
Correct Answer
Amazon Redshift
Question 11
Which of the following is an INCORRECT statement about Scaling, a design principle
of Reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
Correct Answer
Fault tolerance is achieved by a scale up operation
Question 12
A company wants to identify the optimal AWS resource configuration for its
workloads so that the company can reduce costs and increase workload performance.
Which of the following services can be used to meet this requirement?
Correct Answer
AWS Compute Optimizer
Question 13
Which type of cloud computing does Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) represent?
Correct Answer
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Question 14
The DevOps team at an IT company is moving 500 GB of data from an EC2 instance to
an S3 bucket in the same region. Which of the following scenario captures the correct
charges for this data transfer?
Correct Answer
The company would not be charged for this data transfer
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