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A set of practice questions and answers for the aws cloud practitioner exam. It covers various aspects of aws services, including storage, compute, security, networking, and billing. The questions are designed to test your understanding of fundamental aws concepts and best practices.
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1.) Which AWS services can be used to store files? Chose 2 answers from the options given below.
A. Amazon Cloud Watch
B. Amazon Simple Storage Storage (Amazon S3)
C. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
D. AWS Config
E. Amazon Athena - ANSWER B, C
2.) Which of the following services uses AWS edge locations?
A. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
B. Amazon CloudFront
C. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
D. AWS Storage Gateway - ANSWER B
3.) Which of the following is a benefit of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) over physical servers?
A. Automated backup
B. Paying only for what you use
C. The ability to choose hardware vendors
D. Root / administrator access - ANSWER B
4.) Which AWS service provides infrastructure security optimization recommendations?
A. AWS Price List Application Programming Interface (API)
B. Reserved Instances
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Fleet - ANSWER C
5.) Which service allows for the collection and tracking of metrics for AWS services?
A. Amazon Cloud Front
B. Amazon Cloud Search
C. Amazon Cloud Watch
D. Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) - ANSWER C
6.) A Company needs to know which user was responsible for terminating several Amazon Elastic Cloud (Amazon EC2) Instances. Where can the customer find this information?
A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. Amazon EC2 instance usage report
C. Amazon Cloud Watch
D. AWS Cloud Trail Logs - ANSWER D
7.) Which service should an administrator use to register a new domain name with AWS?
A. Amazon Route 53
B. Amazon Cloud Front
A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon DynamoDB
C. Amazon ElastiCache
D. Amazon Aurora - ANSWER A
12.) Which of the following is the responsibility of the AWS customer according to the Shared Security Model?
A. Managing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
B. Securing edge locations
C. Monitoring physical device security
D. Implementing service organization Control (SOC) standards - ANSWER A
13.) Where can a customer go to get more detail about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) billing activity that took place 3 months ago?
A. Amazon EC2 dashboard
B. AWS Cost and Usage reports
C. AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard
D. AWS Cloud Trail logs stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) - ANSWER B
14.) Who has control of the data in an AWS account?
A. AWS Support Team
B. AWS Account Owner
C. AWS Security Team
D. AWS Technical Account Manager (TAM) - ANSWER B
15.) The main benefit of decoupling an application is to:
A. Create a tightly integrated application.
B. Reduce inter-dependencies so failures do not impact other components.
C. Enable data syncronization across the web application layer.
D. Have the ability to execute automated bootstrapping actions. - ANSWER B
16.) Which of the following is a benefit of running an application across two Availability Zones?
A. Performance is improved over running in a single Availability Zone.
B. It is more secure than running in a single Availability Zone.
C. It significantly reduces the total cost of ownership versus running in a single Availiability Zone.
D. It increase the availability of an application compared to running in a single Availability Zone. - ANSWER D
17.) Which of the following security requirements are managed by AWS customers? Select 2 answers from the options given below.
A. Password Policies
B. User permissiones
C. Physical security
D. Disk disposal
E. Hardware patching - ANSWER A, B
B. Amazon Dev Pay
C. AWS Trusted Advisor
D. AWS Cost Explorer - ANSWER D
22.) How can the AWS Management Console be secured against unauthorized access?
A. Apply Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
B. Set up a secondary password
C. Request root access privileges
D. Disable AWS console access - ANSWER A
23.) Which AWS Cloud service is used to turn on Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)?
A. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
B. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
C. AWS Config
D. Amazon Inspector - ANSWER A
24.) A disaster recovery strategy on AWS should be based on launching infrastructure in a separate:
A. Subnet
B. AWS Region
C. AWS edge location
D. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) - ANSWER B
25.) Which of the following is a factor when calculating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the AWS Cloud?
A. The number of servers migrated to AWS
B. The number of users migrated to AWS
C. The number of passwords migrated to AWS
D. The number of keys migrated to AWS - ANSWER A
26.) Which AWS service is used to as a global content delivery network (CDN) service in AWS?
A. Amazon SES
B. Amazon Cloudtrail
C. Amazon Cloudfront
D. Amazon S3 - ANSWER C
27.) Which of the following is a full managed NoSQL database service available with AWS.
B. AWS DynamoDB
C. AWS Redshift
D. AWS MongoDB - ANSWER B
28.) A company wants to store data that is not frequently accessed. What is the best and cost efficient solution that should be considered?
A. Amazon Storage Gateway
B. Amazon Glacier
32.) The Trusted Advisor service provides insight regarding which four categories of an AWS account?
A. Security, fault tolerance, high availiability, and connectivity.
B. Security, access control, high availiability, and performance.
C. Performance, cost optimization, security, and fault tolerance.
D. Performance, cost optimization, access control, and connectivity. - ANSWER C
33.) A company is deploying a two-tier, high available web application to AWS. Which service provides durable static content while utilizing lower Overall CPU resources for the web tier?
A. Amazon EBS volume
B. Amazon S
C. Amazon EC2 instance store
D. Amazon RDS instance - ANSWER B
34.) What best describes the "Principal of Least Privilege"? Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. All users should have the same baseline permissions granted to them to use basic AWS services.
B. Users should be granted permission to access only resources they need to do their assigned job.
C. Users should submit all access request in written so that there is a paper trail of who needs access to different AWS resources.
D. Users should always have a little more access granted to them then they need, just in case they end up needed it in the future. - ANSWER B
35.) Which of the below mentioned services can be used to host virtual servers in the AWS cloud?
B. AWS Server
C. AWS EC
D. AWS Regions - ANSWER C
36.) Which of the following can be used to protect EC2 Instances hosted in AWS. Chose 2 answers from the options given below:
A. Usage of Security Groups
B. Usage of AMI's
C. Usage of Network Access Control Lists
D. Usage of the Interent Gateway - ANSWER A, C
37.) You work for a company that is planning on using the AWS EC2 service. They currently create golden images of their deployed Operating system. Which of the following correspond to a gold image in AWS.
A. EBS Volumes
B. EBS Snapshots
C. Amazon Machines Image
D. EC2 Copies - ANSWER C
38.) You are developing and planning an application onto the AWS Cloud. This application needs to be PCI Compliance. Which of the below steps would you carry out to ensure the compliance is met for the application. Chose 2 answers from the following:
A. Choose AWS services which are PCI compliant
42.) Which of the following is NOT a feature of an edge location?
A. Distribute content to users
B. Cache common responses
C. Distribute load across multiple resources
D. Used in conjunction with the Cloudfront service - ANSWER C
43.) There is a requirement for storage of objects. The objects should be able to be downloaded via a URL. Which storage option would you choose?
A. Amazon S
B. Amazon Glacier
C. Amazon Storage Gateway
D. Amazon EBS - ANSWER A
44.) There is a requirement to host a database server for a minimum period of one year. Which of the following would result in the least cost?
A. Spot instances
B. On-demand
C. No upfront costs reserved
D. Partial upfront costs reserved - ANSWER D
45.) There is a requirement for a development and test environment for 3 months. Which would you use?
A. Spot Instances
B. On-Demand
C. No Upfront costs reserved
D. Partial upfront costs reserved - ANSWER B
46.) When creating security groups, which of the following is a responsibility of the customer? Choose 2 answers from the options given below:
A. Giving a name and description for the security group.
B. Defining the rules as per the customer requirements.
C. Ensure the rules are applied immediately.
D. Ensure the security groups are linked to the Elastic Network interface. - ANSWER A, B
47.) Which of the following are advantages of having infrastructure hosted on the AWS Cloud? Chose 2 answers from the options given below.
A. Having complete control over the physical infrastructure.
B. Having the pay as you go model
C. No upfront costs
D. Having no need to worry about security - ANSWER B, C
48.) There is an external audit being carried out on your company. The IT auditor needs to have a log of all access for the AWS resources in the company's account. Which of the below services can assist in providing these details?
A. AWS Cloudwatch
B. AWS Cloudtrail
52.) Which of the following is a compatible MySQL database which also has the ability to grow in storage size on its own?
A. Aurora
B. DynamoDB
C. RDS Microsoft SQL Server
D. RDS MySQL - ANSWER A
53.) Which of the following statements are TRUE when it comes to elasticity? Choose 2 answers from the options given below:
A. Diverting traffic to instances based on the demand
B. Diverting traffic to instances with the least load
C. Diverting traffic across multiple regions
D. Diverting traffic to instances with higher capacity - ANSWER A, B
54.) Which of the following is the concept of the Elastic load balancer?
A. To distribute traffic to multiple EC2 instances
B. To scale up EC2 instances
C. To distribute traffic to AWS resources across multiple regions
D. To increase the size of the EC2 Instance based on demand - ANSWER A
55.) Which of the following is the concept of Autoscaling
A. To scale up resources based on demand
B. To distribute traffic to multiple EC2 instances
C. To distribute traffic to AWS resources across multiple regions
D. To increase the size of the EC2 Instance based on demand - ANSWER A
56.) Which of the following is used to derive the costs for moving artifacts from onpremise to AWS?
A. AWS TCO calculator
B. AWS Config
C. AWS Cost Explorer
d. AWS Consolidating billing - ANSWER A
57.) Which of the following is the responsibility of the customer when ensuring that data on EBS volumes is left safe?
A. Deleting the data when the device is destroyed
B. Creating EBS snapshots
C. Attaching volumes to EC2 instances
D. Creating copies of EBS Volumes - ANSWER B
58.) Which of the following can be used to call AWS services from programming languages?
B. AWS Console
C. AWS CLI
D. AWS IAM - ANSWER A
D. AWS Protection - ANSWER B
63.) You want to add an extra layer of protection to the current authentication mechanism of user names and passwords for AWS. Which of the following can help in this regard?
A. Using Password Policies
B. Using a mix of user names
C. Using AWS WAF
D. Using MFA - ANSWER D
64.) Which of the following disaster recovery deployment mechanisms that has the lowest downtime?
A. Pilot light
B. Warm standby
C. Backup REstore
D. Devops - ANSWER B
65.) Which of the following services in AWS allows for object level storage on the cloud?
A. Amazon EBS
B. Amazon Storage gateway
C. Amazon S
D. Amazon SQS - ANSWER C
66.) Which of the following can be attached to EC2 Instances to store data?
A. Amazon Glacier
B. Amazon EBS Volumes
C. Amazon EBS Snapshots
D. Amazon SQS - ANSWER B
67.) Which of the following networking component can be used to host EC2 resources in the AWS cloud?
A. AWS Trusted Advisor
B. AWS VPC
C. AWS Elastic Load Balancer
D. AWS Autoscaling - ANSWER B
68.) Your company is planning to host resources in the AWS Cloud. They want to use services which can be used to decouple resources hosted on the cloud. Which of the following services can be help fulfill this requirement?
A. AWS EBS Volumes
B. AWS EBS Snapshots
C. AWS Glacier
D. AWS SQS - ANSWER D
69.) Which of the following components of the Cloudfront service can be used to distribute contents to users across the globe?
A. Amazon VPC
B. Amazon Regions
C. Amazon Availability Zones