AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

What is the storage capacity of AWS Snowmobile?

100 PB

The AWS Free Tier includes offers that are available to new AWS customers for a certain period of time following their AWS sign-up date. What is the duration of this period?

12 months

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam results are reported as a score from 100-1,000. What is the minimum passing score?

700

Which statement best describes an Availability Zone?

A fully isolated portion of the AWS global infrastructure.

Which statement best describes Amazon CloudFront?

A global content delivery service.

Which statement best describes Elastic Load Balancing?

A service that distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances.

Which statement best describes Amazon Lex?

A service that enables you to build conversational interfaces using voice and text

Which statement best describes Amazon GuardDuty?

A service that provides intelligent threat detection for your AWS infrastructure and resources.

Which pricing tool enables you to receive alerts when your service usage exceeds a threshold that you have defined?

AWS Budgets

Which tool is used to automate actions for AWS services and applications through scripts?

AWS Command Line Interface

Which pricing tool is used to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time?

AWS Cost Explorer

Which component can be used to establish a private dedicated connection between your company's data center and AWS?

AWS Direct Connect.

Which component or service enables you to establish a dedicated private connection between your data center and virtual private cloud (VPC)?

AWS Direct Connect.

Which service is used to quickly deploy and scale applications on AWS?

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Which service or resource is used to find third-party software that runs on AWS?

AWS Marketplace

Where can a user find information about prohibited actions on the AWS infrastructure?

AWS Trusted Advisor

Which service enables you to review the security of your Amazon S3 buckets by checking for open access permissions?

AWS Trusted Advisor

Which service enables you to build the workflows that are required for human review of machine learning predictions?

Amazon Augmented AI

Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute workloads?

Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on demand when needed.

You want to store data in a volume that is attached to an Amazon EC2 instance. Which service should you use?

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

Which service is used to run containerized applications on AWS?

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

You want Amazon S3 to monitor your objects' access patterns. Which storage class should you use?

Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering

In the S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class, Amazon S3 moves objects between a frequent access tier and an infrequent access tier. Which storage classes are used for these tiers?

Amazon S3 Standard Amazon S3 Standard-IA

Which service enables you to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning models?

Amazon SageMaker

You want to send and receive messages between distributed application components. Which service should you use?

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

Which Support plan includes all AWS Trusted Advisor checks at the lowest cost?

Business

Which action can you perform with consolidated billing?

Combine usage across accounts to receive volume pricing discounts.

Which actions can you perform in Amazon Route 53?

Connect user requests to infrastructure in AWS and outside of AWS. Manage DNS records for domain names.

How would a system administrator add an additional layer of login security to a user's AWS Management Console?

Enable multi-factor authentication

Your company wants to receive support from an AWS Technical Account Manager (TAM). Which support plan should you choose?

Enterprise

What are the benefits of cloud computing?

Increase speed and agility. Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers.

You are running an Amazon EC2 instance and want to store data in an attached resource. Your data is temporary and will not be kept long term. Which resource should you use?

Instance store

Which statement best describes an AWS account's default network access control list?

It is stateless and allows all inbound and outbound traffic.

Which tasks are the responsibilities of AWS?

Maintaining virtualization infrastructure Configuring AWS infrastructure devices

Which actions can you perform using Amazon CloudWatch?

Monitor your resources' utilization and performance. Access metrics from a single dashboard.

Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework includes the ability to run workloads effectively and gain insights into their operations?

Operational Excellence

Which Perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework focuses on recovering IT workloads to meet the requirements of your business stakeholders?

Operations Perspective

Which categories are included in the AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard?

Performance Fault tolerance

Which Perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework helps you design, implement, and optimize your AWS infrastructure based on your business goals and perspectives?

Platform Perspective

Which migration strategy involves changing how an application is architected and developed, typically by using cloud-native features?

Refactoring

Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework focuses on the ability of a workload to consistently and correctly perform its intended functions?

Reliability

Which migration strategy involves moving to a different product?

Repurchasing

Which strategies are included in the six strategies for application migration?

Retaining Rehosting

Which Perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework helps you structure the selection and implementation of permissions?

Security Perspective

How does the scale of cloud computing help you to save costs?

The aggregated cloud usage from a large number of customers results in lower pay-as-you-go prices.

Which tasks can you perform using AWS CloudTrail?

Track user activities and API requests throughout your AWS infrastructure. Filter logs to assist with operational analysis and troubleshooting.