AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
(CLF-C02) – Full Practice
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Total Questions: 80
Time Limit: 90 Minutes
Passing Score (School Standard): 70% (56 correct)
Instructions: Choose the best answer for each question. Correct answers
are highlighted in bold.
Section 1: Cloud Concepts & Design Philosophies (Q1-15)
Q1. Which Cloud Computing model allows customers to provision servers,
storage, and networking without requiring an upfront hardware investment?
a) Platform as a Service (PaaS)
b) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
c) Software as a Service (SaaS)
d) Function as a Service (FaaS)
Rationale: IaaS provides virtualized computing resources over the internet. PaaS
provides platforms, SaaS delivers software, FaaS runs code.
Q2. A student wants to pay only for the exact number of minutes their application
runs on a server. Which pricing model is this?
a) Reserved Instances
b) Spot Instances
c) Pay-as-you-go
d) Savings Plans
,Rationale: Pay-as-you-go (on-demand) ensures no upfront cost and you pay per
second/minute/hour of usage.
Q3. Which design principle of the AWS Well-Architected Framework suggests
adding more resources to handle increased load without downtime?
a) Elasticity
b) Scalability (vertical)
c) Disaster Recovery
d) Security
Rationale: Elasticity is the ability to scale resources up/down automatically based
on demand.
Q4. A company moves from a fixed monthly cost for servers to a variable cost
based on actual usage. What benefit is this?
a) Reduced time-to-market
b) Trade capital expense for variable expense
c) Increased security
d) No economies of scale
Rationale: One of 6 key benefits of cloud: No upfront CapEx; you pay as you go
(variable OpEx).
Q5. What does "economies of scale" mean in AWS?
a) You pay more as you use more
b) Lower per-unit cost as AWS purchases resources in bulk
c) Fixed pricing per region
d) Only large enterprises benefit
Rationale: AWS passes savings from massive scale to customers via lower prices.
Q6. Which of the following is an example of PaaS?
a) Amazon EC2
b) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
c) Amazon S3
d) AWS Outposts
Rationale: Elastic Beanstalk deploys apps without managing the underlying
EC2/Servers (platform).
Q7. Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework focuses on recovering
from failures and meeting availability targets?
, a) Operational Excellence
b) Security
c) Performance Efficiency
d) Reliability
Rationale: Reliability includes fault tolerance, recovery, and high availability.
Q8. What is the primary advantage of FaaS (AWS Lambda)?
a) Long-running databases
b) No server management; pay per invocation
c) Fixed monthly pricing
d) Requires container orchestration
Rationale: Lambda runs code for events; no provisioning needed.
Q9. In 2026, which new AWS Well-Architected pillar was formally introduced
alongside Sustainability?
a) Generative AI Excellence
b) FinOps & Cost Governance
c) Quantum Readiness
d) Edge Optimization
Rationale: AWS updated pillars to include FinOps for cloud financial
management.
Q10. Which cloud deployment model is a mix of on-premises and public cloud?
a) Community cloud
b) Hybrid cloud
c) Multi-cloud
d) Private cloud
Rationale: Hybrid connects on-prem (private) with AWS public cloud.
Q11. Which AWS benefit is described as "ability to go global in minutes"?
a) High availability
b) Global reach and low latency
c) Data sovereignty
d) Reserved capacity
Rationale: Deploy in any AWS region worldwide instantly.
(CLF-C02) – Full Practice
Exam||questions and answers with
rationales/graded A+/2026
update/100% correct /instant
download
Total Questions: 80
Time Limit: 90 Minutes
Passing Score (School Standard): 70% (56 correct)
Instructions: Choose the best answer for each question. Correct answers
are highlighted in bold.
Section 1: Cloud Concepts & Design Philosophies (Q1-15)
Q1. Which Cloud Computing model allows customers to provision servers,
storage, and networking without requiring an upfront hardware investment?
a) Platform as a Service (PaaS)
b) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
c) Software as a Service (SaaS)
d) Function as a Service (FaaS)
Rationale: IaaS provides virtualized computing resources over the internet. PaaS
provides platforms, SaaS delivers software, FaaS runs code.
Q2. A student wants to pay only for the exact number of minutes their application
runs on a server. Which pricing model is this?
a) Reserved Instances
b) Spot Instances
c) Pay-as-you-go
d) Savings Plans
,Rationale: Pay-as-you-go (on-demand) ensures no upfront cost and you pay per
second/minute/hour of usage.
Q3. Which design principle of the AWS Well-Architected Framework suggests
adding more resources to handle increased load without downtime?
a) Elasticity
b) Scalability (vertical)
c) Disaster Recovery
d) Security
Rationale: Elasticity is the ability to scale resources up/down automatically based
on demand.
Q4. A company moves from a fixed monthly cost for servers to a variable cost
based on actual usage. What benefit is this?
a) Reduced time-to-market
b) Trade capital expense for variable expense
c) Increased security
d) No economies of scale
Rationale: One of 6 key benefits of cloud: No upfront CapEx; you pay as you go
(variable OpEx).
Q5. What does "economies of scale" mean in AWS?
a) You pay more as you use more
b) Lower per-unit cost as AWS purchases resources in bulk
c) Fixed pricing per region
d) Only large enterprises benefit
Rationale: AWS passes savings from massive scale to customers via lower prices.
Q6. Which of the following is an example of PaaS?
a) Amazon EC2
b) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
c) Amazon S3
d) AWS Outposts
Rationale: Elastic Beanstalk deploys apps without managing the underlying
EC2/Servers (platform).
Q7. Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework focuses on recovering
from failures and meeting availability targets?
, a) Operational Excellence
b) Security
c) Performance Efficiency
d) Reliability
Rationale: Reliability includes fault tolerance, recovery, and high availability.
Q8. What is the primary advantage of FaaS (AWS Lambda)?
a) Long-running databases
b) No server management; pay per invocation
c) Fixed monthly pricing
d) Requires container orchestration
Rationale: Lambda runs code for events; no provisioning needed.
Q9. In 2026, which new AWS Well-Architected pillar was formally introduced
alongside Sustainability?
a) Generative AI Excellence
b) FinOps & Cost Governance
c) Quantum Readiness
d) Edge Optimization
Rationale: AWS updated pillars to include FinOps for cloud financial
management.
Q10. Which cloud deployment model is a mix of on-premises and public cloud?
a) Community cloud
b) Hybrid cloud
c) Multi-cloud
d) Private cloud
Rationale: Hybrid connects on-prem (private) with AWS public cloud.
Q11. Which AWS benefit is described as "ability to go global in minutes"?
a) High availability
b) Global reach and low latency
c) Data sovereignty
d) Reserved capacity
Rationale: Deploy in any AWS region worldwide instantly.
