AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

1.You are using Amazon RDS, which of the following features performs automatic failover when the primary database fails to respond?

RDS Standby Replica .
RDS Write Replica
RDS Multi-AZ .
RDS Single-AZ .

2. Which of the following services gives you access to all AWS auditor-issued reports?

AWS Artifact
Amazon SNS
AWS CloudWatch
AWS Audit

3. In order to keep your data safe, you need to take a backup of your database regularly.
What is the most cost-effective storage option that provides immediate retrieval of your backups?

Instance Store
Amazon S3 .
Amazon Glacier .
Amazon EBS .

4.When giving permission to users via the AWS Identity and Access Management tool, which of the following principles should be applied when granting permissions?

Principle of greatest privilege.
Principle of most privilege .
Principle of lower privilege.
Principle of least privilege .

5. What does the AWS Storage Gateway provide?

It provides an encrypted SSL endpoint for backups in the Cloud.
It is a direct encrypted connection to Amazon S3.
Set an S3 bucket policy.
It allows one to integrate on premises IT environments with Cloud Storage.

6. Which of the following is true regarding Elastic IP addresses?

EIPs are not free
You can have any number of EIPs free of charge.
You can have three EIPs free of charge for each EC2 instance you provision.
You can have one EIP free of charge.

7. You have a real-time IoT application that requires sub-millisecond latency.
Which of the following services would you use?

Amazon IoT Accelerator
Amazon IoT caching
Amazon Redshift
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis

8. AWS provides the ability to create backups of any Amazon EC2 volume into what is known as a/an:

image
instance backup
mirror
snapshot

9. What is the maximum amount of data that can be stored in S3?

5 TB
1 PB
I TB
Virtually unlimited storage

10. You are running a financial services web application on AWS. The application uses a MySQL database to store the data.
Which of the following AWS services would improve the performance of your application by allowing you to retrieve information from fast in-memory caches?

AWS EFS
AWS Neptune
DAX
AWS ElastiCache

11.Which service can you use to route traffic to the endpoint that provides the best application performance for your users worldwide?

AWS DAX Accelerator.
None of these.
AWS Transfer Acceleration.
AWS Global Accelerator.

12. Availability Zones within a Region are connected over low-latency links.
Which of the following is a benefit of these links?

Achieve global high availability
Create private connection to your data center
Make synchronous replication of your data possible
Automate the process of provisioning new compute resources

13. The concept of elasticity is most closely associated with which of the following?

Elastic Load Balancing
Network Security
Serverless Computing
Auto Scaling

14. AWS provides excellent cloud-based disaster recovery services utilizing their multiple _____________ .

Edge locations
Support plans
Regions
Transportation devices

15. You want to store some objects in AWS and make them downloadable via a URL.
Which service can you use to achieve this goal?

Amazon EBS
Amazon S3
Amazon Storage Gateway
Amazon EFS

16. AWS allows you to create a “Golden Environment”, where you can capture your security policies (such as firewall rules, network access controls, internal/external subnets, and operating system hardening), reuse it among multiple projects, and have it become part of your continuous integration pipeline.

Which of the following AWS services is most involved in creating such an environment?

AWS Config
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Auto Scaling
AWS CloudFormation

17. Which of the following features of Amazon RDS allows for the offloading of database read activity?

None of these
Multi-AZ
Read Replicas
Snapshots

18. You are building an online cloud storage platform. You are unsure about the storage capacity requirements.
Which AWS storage service would you use?

AWS Storage Gateway.
AWS Elastic Container Service.
Elastic Block Store.
Simple Storage Service.

19. Who can help your organization achieve their desired business outcomes with AWS?

None of these
AWS Trusted Advisor.
AWS Professional Services
AWS Concierge.

20.How long does the AWS free usage tier for EC2 last for?

6 Months upon signup
1 Month upon signup
12 Months upon signup
Forever

You work for a large consulting firm that has just hired a junior consultant named Nina, who will be working on a large AWS project. She will be working remotely. You create a new IAM user for her in your company’s AWS account.

On Nina’s first day, you ask her to make a change to a CloudWatch alarm in an Auto Scaling group. Nina reports back that she does not have access to CloudWatch or auto scaling in the AWS console. What might be the reason for this?

Because she is working remotely, she cannot modify anything in the Auto Scaling group via her terminal.
There is a non-explicit deny to all new users.
When you created the new user you forgot to assign access keys.
Only IAM account sys-admins can make changes to the AutoScaling groups.

22. Which of the following services can be used to secure network communications and establish the identity of websites over the Internet?

AWS Certificate Manager
AWS Communications Auditor
AWS Direct Connect
Amazon Cloud Directory

23. By default, who has complete administrative control over all resources in the respective AWS account?

AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Resource Access Manager
AWS Account Owner
AWS Programmers

24. The TCO gap between AWS infrastructure and traditional infrastructure has widened over the last couple of years.
Which of the following could be the reason for that?

AWS uses better security mechanisms so you don’t need to think about security at all
AWS allows deployment of multiple resources
AWS continually reduces the cost of cloud computing
AWS decommissions older hardware

25. If you are using an On-Demand EC2 Instance, how are you being charged for it?

You are charged per second, based on an hourly rate, and there are termination fees.
You are charged per second, based on an hourly rate, and there are no termination fees.
You are charged per second, based on an daily rate, and there are no termination fees.
You are charged per minute, based on an hourly rate, and there are no termination fees.

26. Which service can be used to monitor the health of your web server?

None of the above.
Amazon Chime
Amazon Route 53
Amazon Aurora

27. Where does one go to find and download AWS SOC& PCI reports?

AWS Glue .
AWS Chime
AWS Artifact
AWS Polly

28. You are working as a web app developer. You are currently facing issues in media playback for mobile devices. The problem is that the current format of your media does not support playback on mobile devices. Which of the following AWS services can help you in this regard?

Amazon Rekognition
None of the above
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Amazon Pinpoint

29. Your company is running an online sale over the coming weekend. You will need additional compute resources to handle the additional load.
The availability of these additional instances must be guaranteed for the duration of the sale, what is the most cost-effective EC2 instance pricing option for this job?

Dedicated Instance
Reserved Instances.
On-Demand Instances
Spot Instances

30. ou have multiple standalone accounts and you want to decrease your AWS charges.
What should you do ?

None of these can help.
Try to remove unnecessary accounts.
Track the AWS charges that are incurred by the member accounts.
Add the accounts to an organization and use Consolidated Billing.

31. Which of the following is the responsibility of AWS according to the Shared Security Model?

Performing auditing tasks
Monitoring AWS resources usage
Securing access to AWS resources
Security of the underlying infrastructure

32. A company has a distributed application that periodically processes large volumes of data across multiple Amazon EC2 Instances.
The application is designed to recover gracefully from Amazon EC2 instance failures. There is a requirement to accomplish this task in the most cost-effective way.
Which one of the following types of instance would be most appropriate choice to use?

Dedicated instances
On-Demand instances
Spot Instances
Reserved instances

33. Which statement best describes what AWS is?

None of these
AWS is a security services provider.
AWS is a hosting services provider.
AWS is a cloud services provider.

34. Which AWS service must you use if you want to configure an AWS billing alarm?

Consolidated billing
CloudTrail
CloudWatch
AWS Cost Explorer

35. What is the feature provided by AWS that enables fast and secure transfer of files over long distances between your client and your Amazon S3 bucket?

File transfer Accelerator
Snowball
HTTP Snowball Transfer
S3 Transfer Accelerations

36. A company currently uses VM Templates to spin up virtual machines on their on-premise infrastructure.
Which of the following can be used in a similar way to spin up EC2 instances on the AWS Cloud?

EBS Snapshots
Amazon VMware
EBS Volumes
Amazon Machine Images

37. Which of the following AWS security features is associated with a subnet in a VPC and functions to filter incoming traffic requests?

Subnet Groups
NACL
Security Groups
AWS Inspector

38. Which of the following is NOT a factor when estimating the cost of Amazon CloudFront?

The edge location through which your content is serve.
Inbound traffic.
Data Transfer Out
The number and type of requests (HTTP or HTTPS) made.

39.Your company experiences fluctuations in traffic patterns to their e-commerce website when running flash sales.

What service can help your company dynamically match the required compute capacity to handle spikes in traffic during flash sales?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
Auto Scaling
Amazon Elastic Container Service.
Amazon ElastiCache

40. Which of the following is a cloud computing deployment model that connects infrastructure and applications between cloud-based resources and existing resources not located in the cloud ?

None of these
On-premises
Hybrid
Cloud

41. You want to quickly deploy your .NET application on the AWS Cloud.
Which of the following AWS services can best help you?

AWS VPC
AWS SQS
AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
AWS Elastic Beanstalk

42. What are AWS’ recommendations regarding root access keys?

Only share them with trusted people
None of these
Save them in a secure place
Delete them.

43. What is a key benefit of accessing AWS Cloud services through an API?

Reduction in the number of programmers
Improved performance of AWS resources
Reduction in time needed to provision resources from minutes to seconds
Ability to manage AWS services programmatically

44.Big Cloud Jumbo Corp is beginning to explore migrating their entire on-premises data center to AWS. They are very concerned about how much it will cost once their entire IT infrastructure is running on AWS.

What tool would you recommend they use to perform a cost-benefit analysis of moving to the AWS Cloud?

AWS Migration Cost Calculator .
AWS Estimate Calculator .
AWS TCO Calculator
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45. What are the main benefits of using the AWS Service Catalog?

Quickly find descriptions and use cases for any service
Allows you to model and provision all your cloud infrastructure resources using code
Centrally manage commonly deployed IT services
Discover machine learning services quickly

46. Which of the following tools can be used to estimate your monthly bill?

AWS Advanced Monthly Cost Explorer
Advanced Monthly Calculator
AWS Monthly Cost Explorer
Simple Monthly Calculator

47. You are designing a web application that will be hosted in the AWS Cloud.

Which of the following should you pay attention to in order to reduce interdependencies so that the failure of one component does not impact other components?

Aggregation
Segregation
Integration
Decoupling

48. What is the key difference between an availability zone and an edge location?

None of these
Edge locations are used as control stations for AWS resources
An edge location exists within a region; An availability zone is a grouping of AWS resources in a specific region.
An availability zone exists within a region, whereas edge locations deliver cached content from the closest location to the user to reduce latency.

49. What does the term “Economies of scale” mean?

It means that you save more when you consume more
It means as more time passes using AWS, you pay more for its services
It means that AWS will continuously lower costs as it grows
It means that you have the ability to pay as you go

50. The owner of an E-Commerce application notices that the computing workloads vary heavily from time to time.

What makes AWS more economical than traditional data centers for this type of application?

AWS allows customers to launch powerful EC2 instances to handle spikes in load
AWS allows customers to pay upfront to get bigger discounts
AWS allows customers to choose cheaper types of EC2 instances that best fit their needs
AWS allows customers to launch and terminate EC2 instances based on demand

51.What are the benefits of the AWS Marketplace service? (Choose two)

Per-second billing
Provides cheaper options to buy Amazon EC2 on-demand instances
Provides software solutions that run on AWS or any other Cloud vendor
Protect customers by performing periodic security checks on listed products
Provides flexible pricing options that suit most customer needs

52. Where to go to search for and buy third-party software solutions and services that run on AWS?

Amazon DevPay
Resource Groups
AWS Application Discovery service
AWS Marketplace

53. Which of the following affect Amazon EBS costs? (Choose two)

Elastic IPs
RAM
Volume types
Snapshots
Number of cores

54. There are a lot of advantages in changing your traditional hosting provider to AWS. One of these advantages is the ability to save costs.

What does Amazon EC2 provide to save you costs?

You only pay for what you use.
You have the ability to tag instances which reduces your overall cost.
You have the ability to choose low cost AMIs to prepare EC2 Instances.
You have the ability to automate backups of the EC2 instance, so that you don’t need to worry about the maintenance costs.

55. A company needs to migrate their web application to AWS. Most of the compute capacity is continually utilized throughout the year.

Which of the following would be the most cost-effective solution

On-demand instances
Spot instances
Reserved instances
Regular instances

56. A company is planning to introduce a new product to their customers. They are expecting high traffic to their web application.

As part of the Enterprise support plan, which of the following could provide them with architectural and scaling guidance?

Infrastructure Event Management
AWS Support Concierge Service
AWS Management Support
AWS Support API

57. You have developed a web application that has a “.NET layer” that connects to a MySQL database.

Which of the following AWS database deployments would provide automated backups to your application?

Aurora
An EC2 instance with Aurora installed.
DynamoDB
An EC2 instance with MySQL installed.

58. Which of the following services allow you to run your application when needed, without having to provision servers all the time?

AWS RDS instances
AWS EC2 instances
AWS Lambda
AWS LightSail