WGU D282 CLOUD FOUNDATIONS AWS
CLOUD PRACTITIONER ESSENTIALS
PRACTICE TEST 2026 UPDATED
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
GRADED A+
⩥ What are the six advantages of cloud computing?
Answer: Variable expense, economies of scale, stop guessing capacity,
increased agility, reduced data center costs, and global deployment.
⩥ What is the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)?
Answer: A framework that helps organizations successfully adopt cloud
technologies using six perspectives: Business, People, Governance,
Platform, Security, and Operations.
⩥ What is the AWS Shared Responsibility Model?
Answer: AWS secures the cloud infrastructure while customers secure
what they put in the cloud.
⩥ What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
Answer: Managing and provisioning infrastructure using code templates,
commonly through AWS CloudFormation.
,⩥ What is Amazon EC2?
Answer: A web service for launching and managing virtual servers in
AWS.
⩥ What are EC2 On-Demand instances?
Answer: Pay-as-you-go EC2 instances with no long-term commitment.
⩥ What are Reserved Instances?
Answer: EC2 instances purchased with long-term commitments for
discounted pricing.
⩥ What are Spot Instances?
Answer: Low-cost EC2 instances using unused AWS capacity that can
be interrupted.
⩥ What is AWS Batch?
Answer: A service for running batch computing workloads on AWS.
⩥ What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
Answer: A service for deploying and managing applications without
handling infrastructure.
⩥ What is Amazon Lightsail?
, Answer: A simplified VPS service with bundled pricing.
⩥ What are AWS Local Zones?
Answer: AWS infrastructure placed near large population centers for low
latency.
⩥ What is AWS Outposts?
Answer: AWS infrastructure and services extended to on-premises
environments.
⩥ What is AWS Wavelength?
Answer: AWS compute and storage embedded into 5G networks for
ultra-low latency.
⩥ What is Amazon ECR?
Answer: A managed Docker container registry.
⩥ What is Amazon ECS?
Answer: A container orchestration service for Docker containers.
⩥ What is Amazon EKS?
Answer: A managed Kubernetes service.
CLOUD PRACTITIONER ESSENTIALS
PRACTICE TEST 2026 UPDATED
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
GRADED A+
⩥ What are the six advantages of cloud computing?
Answer: Variable expense, economies of scale, stop guessing capacity,
increased agility, reduced data center costs, and global deployment.
⩥ What is the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)?
Answer: A framework that helps organizations successfully adopt cloud
technologies using six perspectives: Business, People, Governance,
Platform, Security, and Operations.
⩥ What is the AWS Shared Responsibility Model?
Answer: AWS secures the cloud infrastructure while customers secure
what they put in the cloud.
⩥ What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
Answer: Managing and provisioning infrastructure using code templates,
commonly through AWS CloudFormation.
,⩥ What is Amazon EC2?
Answer: A web service for launching and managing virtual servers in
AWS.
⩥ What are EC2 On-Demand instances?
Answer: Pay-as-you-go EC2 instances with no long-term commitment.
⩥ What are Reserved Instances?
Answer: EC2 instances purchased with long-term commitments for
discounted pricing.
⩥ What are Spot Instances?
Answer: Low-cost EC2 instances using unused AWS capacity that can
be interrupted.
⩥ What is AWS Batch?
Answer: A service for running batch computing workloads on AWS.
⩥ What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
Answer: A service for deploying and managing applications without
handling infrastructure.
⩥ What is Amazon Lightsail?
, Answer: A simplified VPS service with bundled pricing.
⩥ What are AWS Local Zones?
Answer: AWS infrastructure placed near large population centers for low
latency.
⩥ What is AWS Outposts?
Answer: AWS infrastructure and services extended to on-premises
environments.
⩥ What is AWS Wavelength?
Answer: AWS compute and storage embedded into 5G networks for
ultra-low latency.
⩥ What is Amazon ECR?
Answer: A managed Docker container registry.
⩥ What is Amazon ECS?
Answer: A container orchestration service for Docker containers.
⩥ What is Amazon EKS?
Answer: A managed Kubernetes service.
