AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Sample Question and Answers Set
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QUESTION NO: 101- Which of the following
can an AWS customer use to launch a new Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) cluster?
(A) AWS Concierge.
(B) AWS CloudFormation.
(C) Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
(D) Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling.
(E) AWS Management Console.
Answer: E
QUESTION NO: 102- Which of the following
is an AWS Cloud architecture design principle?
(A) Implement single points of failure.
(B) Implement loose coupling.
(C) Implement monolithic design.
(D) Implement vertical scaling.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 103- Which of the following
security measures protect access to an AWS account? (Choose two.)
(A) Enable AWS CloudTrail.
(B) Grant least privilege access to IAM users.
(C) Create one IAM user and share with many developers and users.
(D) Enable Amazon CloudFront.
(E) Activate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for privileged users.
Answer: B, E
QUESTION NO: 104- Which service provides
a hybrid storage service that enables on-premises applications to seamlessly use cloud storage?
(A) Amazon Glacier.
(B) AWS Snowball.
(C) AWS Storage Gateway.
(D) Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS).
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 105- Which of the following
services falls under the responsibility of the customer to maintain operating system configuration, security
patching, and networking?
(A) Amazon RDS.
(B) Amazon EC2.
(C) Amazon ElastiCache.
(D) AWS Fargate.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 106- Which of the following
is an important architectural design principle when designing cloud applications?
(A) Use multiple Availability Zones.
(B) Use tightly coupled components.
(C) Use open source software.
(D) Provision extra capacity.
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 107- Which AWS support plan
includes a dedicated Technical Account Manager?
(A) Developer.
(B) Enterprise.
(C) Business.
(D) Basic.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 108- Amazon Relational
Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers which of the following benefits over traditional database
management?
(A) AWS manages the data stored in Amazon RDS tables.
(B) AWS manages the maintenance of the operating system.
(C) AWS automatically scales up instance types on demand.
(D) AWS manages the database type.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 109- Which service is best
for storing common database query results, which helps to alleviate database access load?
(A) Amazon Machine Learning.
(B) Amazon SQS.
(C) Amazon ElastiCache.
(D) Amazon EC2 Instance Store.
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 110- Which of the following
is a component of the shared responsibility model managed entirely by AWS?
(A) Patching operating system software.
(B) Encrypting data.
(C) Enforcing multi-factor authentication.
(D) Auditing physical data center assets.
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 111- Which options does AWS
make available for customers who want to learn about security in the cloud in an instructor-led setting? (Choose
two.)
(A) AWS Trusted Advisor.
(B) AWS Online Tech Talks.
(C) AWS Blog.
(D) AWS Forums.
(E) AWS Classroom Training.
Answer: B, E
QUESTION NO: 112- Which of the following
features can be configured through the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud(Amazon VPC) Dashboard? (Choose
two.)
(A) Amazon CloudFront distributions.
(B) Amazon Route 53.
(C) Security Groups.
(D) Subnets.
(E) Elastic Load Balancing.
Answer: C, D
QUESTION NO: 113- If each department
within a company has its own AWS account, what is one way to enable consolidated billing?
(A) Use AWS Budgets on each account to pay only to budget.
(B) Contact AWS Support for a monthly bill.
(C) Create an AWS Organization from the payer account and invite the other accounts to join.
(D) Put all invoices into one Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket, load data into Amazon Redshift, and
then run a billing report.
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 114- How do customers
benefit from Amazon’s massive economies of scale?
(A) Periodic price reductions as the result of Amazon’s operational efficiencies.
(B) New Amazon EC2 instance types providing the latest hardware.
(C) The ability to scale up and down when needed.
(D) Increased reliability in the underlying hardware of Amazon EC2 instances.
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 115- Which AWS services can
be used to gather information about AWS account activity? (Choose two.)
(A) Amazon CloudFront.
(B) AWS Cloud9.
(C) AWS CloudTrail.
(D) AWS CloudHSM.
(E) Amazon CloudWatch.
Answer: C, E
QUESTION NO: 116- Which of the following
common IT tasks can AWS cover to free up company IT resources?(Choose two.)
(A) Patching databases software.
(B) Testing application releases.
(C) Backing up databases.
(D) Creating database schema.
(E) Running penetration tests.
Answer: A, C
QUESTION NO: 117- In which scenario
should Amazon EC2 Spot Instances be used?
(A) A company wants to move its main website to AWS from an on-premises web server.
(B) A company has a number of application services whose Service Level Agreement (SLA) requires 99.999% uptime.
(C) A company’s heavily used legacy database is currently running on-premises.
(D) A company has a number of infrequent, interruptible jobs that are currently using On-Demand Instances.
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 118- Which AWS feature
should a customer leverage to achieve high availability of an application?
(A) AWS Direct Connect.
(B) Availability Zones.
(C) Data centers.
(D) Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 119- Which is the minimum
AWS Support plan that includes Infrastructure Event Management without additional costs?
(A) Enterprise.
(B) Business.
(C) Developer.
(D) Basic.
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 120- Which AWS service can
serve a static website?
(A) Amazon S3.
(B) Amazon Route 53.
(C) Amazon QuickSight.
(D) AWS X-Ray.
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 121- How does AWS shorten
the time to provision IT resources?
(A) It supplies an online IT ticketing platform for resource requests.
(B) It supports automatic code validation services.
(C) It provides the ability to programmatically provision existing resources.
(D) It automates the resource request process from a company’s IT vendor list.
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 122- What can AWS edge
locations be used for? (Choose two.)
(A) Hosting applications.
(B) Delivering content closer to users.
(C) Running NoSQL database caching services.
(D) Reducing traffic on the server by caching responses.
(E) Sending notification messages to end users.
Answer: B, D
QUESTION NO: 123- Which of the following
can limit Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket access to specific users?
(A) A public and private key-pair.
(B) Amazon Inspector.
(C) AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies.
(D) Security Groups.
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 124- A solution that is able
to support growth in users, traffic, or data size with no drop in performance aligns with which cloud
architecture principle?
(A) Think parallel.
(B) Implement elasticity.
(C) Decouple your components.
(D) Design for failure.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 125- A company will be
moving from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. What would be one financial difference after the
move?
(A) Moving from variable operational expense (opex) to upfront capital expense (capex).
(B) Moving from upfront capital expense (capex) to variable capital expense (capex).
(C) Moving from upfront capital expense (capex) to variable operational expense (opex).
(D) Elimination of upfront capital expense (capex) and elimination of variable operational expense(opex).
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 126- How should a customer
forecast the future costs for running a new web application?
(A) Amazon Aurora Backtrack.
(B) Amazon CloudWatch Billing Alarms.
(C) AWS Simple Monthly Calculator.
(D) AWS Cost and Usage report.
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 127- Which is the MINIMUM
AWS Support plan that provides technical support through phone calls?
(A) Enterprise.
(B) Business.
(C) Developer.
(D) Basic.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 128- Which of the following
tasks is the responsibility of AWS?
(A) Encrypting client-side data.
(B) Configuring AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles.
(C) Securing the Amazon EC2 hypervisor.
(D) Setting user password policies.
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 129- One benefit of
On-Demand Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) pricing is
(A) the ability to bid for a lower hourly cost.
(B) paying a daily rate regardless of time used.
(C) paying only for time used.
(D) pre-paying for instances and paying a lower hourly rate.
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 130- An administrator needs
to rapidly deploy a popular IT solution and start using it immediately. Where can the administrator find
assistance?
(A) Where can the administrator find assistance?.
(B) Amazon CloudFront.
(C) AWS CodeCommit.
(D) AWS Quick Start reference deployments.
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 131- Which of the following
services is in the category of AWS serverless platform?
(A) Amazon EMR.
(B) Elastic Load Balancing.
(C) AWS Lambda.
(D) AWS Lambda.
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 132- Which services are
parts of the AWS serverless platform?
QUESTION NO: 133- According to the AWS
shared responsibility model, what is the sole responsibility of AWS?
(A) Application security.
(B) Edge location management.
(C) Patch management.
(D) Client-side data.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 134- Which AWS IAM feature
is used to associate a set of permissions with multiple users?
(A) Multi-factor authentication.
(B) Groups.
(C) Password policies.
(D) Access keys.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 135- Which of the following
are benefits of the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)
(A) Unlimited uptime.
(B) Elasticity.
(C) Agility.
(D) Colocation.
(E) Capital expenses.
Answer: B, C
QUESTION NO: 136- Which of the following
can a customer use to enable single sign-on (SSO) to the AWS Console?
(A) Amazon Connect.
(B) AWS Directory Service.
(C) Amazon Pinpoint.
(D) Amazon Rekognition.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 137- What are the multiple,
isolated locations within an AWS Region that are connected by low-latency networks called?
(A) AWS Direct Connects.
(B) Amazon VPCs.
(C) Edge locations.
(D) Availability Zones.
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 138- Which of the following
benefits does the AWS Compliance program provide to AWS customers?
(Choose two.)
(A) It verifies that hosted workloads are automatically compliant with the controls of supported
compliance frameworks.
(B) AWS is responsible for the maintenance of common compliance framework documentation.
(C) It assures customers that AWS is maintaining physical security and data protection.
(D) It ensures the use of compliance frameworks that are being used by other cloud providers.
(E) It will adopt new compliance frameworks as they become relevant to customer workloads.
Answer: B, C
QUESTION NO: 139- Which of the following
services provides on-demand access to AWS compliance reports?
(A) AWS IAM.
(B) AWS Artifact.
(C) Amazon GuardDuty.
(D) AWS KMS.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 140- As part of the AWS
shared responsibility model, which of the following operational controls do
users fully inherit from AWS?
(A) Security management of data center.
(B) Patch management.
(C) Configuration management.
(D) User and access management.
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 141- When comparing AWS
Cloud with on-premises Total Cost of Ownership, which expenses must be
considered? (Choose two.)
(A) Software development.
(B) Project management.
(C) Storage hardware.
(D) Physical servers.
(E) Antivirus software license.
Answer: C, D
QUESTION NO: 142- Under the shared
responsibility model, which of the following tasks are the responsibility of the customer? (Choose two.)
(A) Maintaining the underlying Amazon EC2 hardware.
(B) Managing the VPC network access control lists.
(C) Encrypting data in transit and at rest.
(D) Replacing failed hard disk drives.
(E) Deploying hardware in different Availability Zones.
Answer: B, C
QUESTION NO: 143- Which scenarios
represent the concept of elasticity on AWS? (Choose two.)
(A) Scaling the number of Amazon EC2 instances based on traffic.
(B) Resizing Amazon RDS instances as business needs change.
(C) Automatically directing traffic to less-utilized Amazon EC2 instances.
(D) Using AWS compliance documents to accelerate the compliance process.
(E) Having the ability to create and govern environments using code.
Answer: A, B
QUESTION NO: 144- When is it beneficial
for a company to use a Spot Instance?
(A) When there is flexibility in when an application needs to run.
(B) When there are mission-critical workloads.
(C) When dedicated capacity is needed.
(D) When an instance should not be stopped.
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 145- A company is
considering moving its on-premises data center to AWS. What factors should be included in doing a Total Cost
of Ownership (TCO) analysis? (Choose two.)
(A) Amazon EC2 instance availability.
(B) Power consumption of the data center.
(C) Labor costs to replace old servers.
(D) Application developer time.
(E) Database engine capacity.
Answer: B, C
QUESTION NO: 146- How does AWS charge for
AWS Lambda?
(A) Users bid on the maximum price they are willing to pay per hour.
(B) Users choose a 1-, 3- or 5-year upfront payment term.
(C) Users pay for the required permanent storage on a file system or in a database.
(D) Users pay based on the number of requests and consumed compute resources.
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 147- What function do
security groups serve related to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
instance security?
(A) Act as a virtual firewall for the Amazon EC2 instance.
(B) Secure AWS user accounts with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies.
(C) Provide DDoS protection with AWS Shield.
(D) Use Amazon CloudFront to protect the Amazon EC2 instance.
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 148- Which disaster recovery
scenario offers the lowest probability of down time?
(A) Backup and restore.
(B) Pilot light.
(C) Warm standby.
(D) Multi-site active-active.
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 149- What will help a
company perform a cost benefit analysis of migrating to the AWS Cloud?
(A) Cost Explorer.
(B) AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator.
(C) AWS Simple Monthly Calculator.
(D) AWS Trusted Advisor.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 150- Which of the following
provides the ability to share the cost benefits of Reserved Instances across AWS accounts?