Practice Test #5 - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Stephane)
Which of the following statements is CORRECT regarding the scope of an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)?
A VPC spans all Availability Zones (Ads) within an AWS region
A production company would like to establish an AWS managed virtual private network (VPN) service between its on-premises network and AWS. Which item needs to be set up on the company's side?
A customer gateway
A research lab needs to be notified in case of a configuration change for security and compliance reasons. Which AWS service can assist with this task?
AWS Config
Which AWS service can be used to view the most comprehensive billing details for the past month?
AWS Cost & Usage Report (AWS CUR)
A start-up would like to monitor its cost on the AWS Cloud and would like to choose an optimal Savings Plan. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you use?
AWS Cost Explorer
A company needs to use a secure online data transfer tool/service that can automate the ongoing transfers from on-premises systems into AWS while providing support for incremental data backups. Which AWS tool/service is an optimal fit for this requirement?
AWS DataSync
Which service/tool will you use to create and provide trusted users with temporary security credentials that can control access to your AWS resources?
AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS)
A company would like to move 50 petabytes (PBs) of data from its on-premises data centers to AWS in the MOST cost-effective way. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following solutions would you choose?
AWS Snowmobile
A Cloud Practitioner would like to get operational insights of its resources to quickly identify any issues that might impact applications using those resources. Which AWS service can help with this task?
AWS System Manager
Which AWS tool can provide best practice recommendations for performance, service limits, and cost optimization?
AWS Trusted Advisor
Which AWS service can inspect Amazon CloudFront distributions running on any HTTP web server?
AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF)
The IT infrastructure at a university is deployed on AWS Cloud and it's experiencing a read-intensive workload. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you use to take the load off databases?
Amazon ElastiCache
An e-commerce company would like to build a chatbot for its customer service using Natural Language Understanding (NLU). As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you use?
Amazon Lex
An engineering team is new to the AWS Cloud and it would like to launch a dev/test environment with low monthly pricing. Which AWS service can address this use case?
Amazon LightSail
A company based in Sydney hosts its application on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance in ap-southeast-2. They would like to deploy the same Amazon EC2 instances in eu-south-1. Which of the following AWS entities can address this use case?
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
A growing start-up has trouble identifying and protecting sensitive data at scale. Which AWS fully managed service can assist with this task?
Amazon Macie
A media company wants to enable customized content suggestions for the users of its movie streaming platform. Which AWS service can provide these personalized recommendations based on historic data?
Amazon Personalize
According to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which of the following statements are recommendations in the Operational Excellence pillar? (Select two)
- Anticipate failure - Make frequent, small, reversible changes
According to the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following are the responsibilities of AWS? (Select two)
- Data center security - Network operability
Which of the following services are provided by Amazon Route 53? (Select Two)
- Domain Registration - Health Checks and monitoring
Which of the following options are the benefits of using AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)? (Select TWO)
- Fault Tolerance - High Availably
According to the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following is both the responsibility of AWS and the customer? (Select two)
- Operating system (OS) configuration - Configuration management
Which of the following criteria are used to calculate the charge for Amazon EBS Volumes? (Select Two)
- Provisioned IOPS - Volume type
Which types of monitoring can be provided by Amazon CloudWatch? (Select TWO)
- Resource utilization - Application performance
Which of the following are the best practices when using AWS Organizations? (Select TWO)
- Restrict account privileges using Service Control Policies (SCP) - Create AWS accounts per department
A company would like to move its infrastructure to AWS Cloud. Which of the following should be included in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) estimate? (Select TWO)
- Server administration - Power/Cooling
A company would like to optimize Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) costs. Which of the following actions can help with this task? (Select TWO)
- Set up Auto Scaling groups to align the number of instances with the demand - Purchase Amazon EC2 Reserved instances (RIs)
Which of the following are the advantages of using the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO)
- Stop guessing about capacity - Increased speed and agility
Which Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Auto Scaling feature can help with fault tolerance?
Replacing unhealthy Amazon EC2 instances
A production company with predictable usage would like to reduce the cost of its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances by using reserved instances (RI). Which of the following length terms are available for Amazon EC2 reserved instances (RI)? (Select Two)
- 1 Year - 3 Years
An engineering team would like to cost-effectively run hundreds of thousands of batch computing workloads on AWS. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you use for this task?
AWS Batch
Which of the following AWS Support plans is the MOST cost-effective when getting enhanced technical support by Cloud Support Engineers?
AWS Business Support
Which AWS tool/service will help you define your cloud infrastructure using popular programming languages such as Python and JavaScript?
AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
A Cloud Practitioner would like to deploy identical resources across all AWS regions and accounts using templates while estimating costs. Which AWS service can assist with this task?
AWS CloudFormation
Which of the following AWS services can be used to generate, use, and manage encryption keys on the AWS Cloud?
AWS CloudHSM
A company would like to create a private, high bandwidth network connection between its on-premises data centers and AWS Cloud. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following options would you recommend?
AWS Direct Connect
A company is planning to implement Chaos Engineering to expose any blind spots that can disrupt the resiliency of the application. Which AWS service will help implement this requirement with the least effort?
AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS)
Which AWS serverless service allows you to prepare data for analytics?
AWS Glue
Which AWS service can be used to subscribe to an RSS feed to be notified of the status of all AWS service interruptions?
AWS Health Dashboard - Service Health
A corporation would like to simplify access management to multiple AWS accounts as well as facilitate AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) access to its AWS accounts. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you use for this task?
AWS IAM Identity Center
Which of the following AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) Security Tools allows you to review permissions granted to an IAM user?
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) access advisor
A developer would like to automate operations on his on-premises environment using Chef and Puppet. Which AWS service can help with this task?
AWS OpsWork
A start-up would like to quickly deploy a popular technology on AWS. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS tool would you use for this task?
AWS Partner Solutions (formerly Quick Starts)
The development team at a company manages 300 microservices and it is now trying to automate the code reviews to improve the code quality. Which tool/service is the right fit for this requirement?
Amazon CodeGuru
Which AWS service allows you to quickly and easily add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to web and mobile applications?
Amazon Cognito
Which of the following statements is INCORRECT regarding Amazon EBS Elastic Volumes?
Amazon EBS Elastic Volumes can be bound to several Availability Zones (AZs)
A company using a hybrid cloud would like to store secondary backup copies of the on-premises data. Which Amazon S3 Storage Class would you use for a cost-optimal yet rapid access solution?
Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)
A data science team would like to build Machine Learning models for its projects. Which AWS service can it use?
Amazon SageMaker
Which AWS service can be used to send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume to decouple application tiers?
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
An organization would like to copy data across different Availability Zones (AZs) using Amazon EBS snapshots. Where are Amazon EBS snapshots stored in the AWS Cloud?
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
A company would like to audit requests made to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. As a Cloud Practitioner, which Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) feature would you recommend addressing this use-case?
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Access Logs
A company would like to define a set of rules to manage objects cost-effectively between Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) storage classes. As a Cloud Practitioner, which Amazon S3 feature would you use?
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Lifecycle configuration
Which of the following statements is an AWS best practice when architecting for the Cloud?
Automation
A company would like to reserve Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) compute capacity for three years to reduce costs. The company also plans to increase their workloads during this period. As a Cloud Practitioner, which Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) reserved instance (RI) type would you recommend?
Convertible reserved instance (RI)
A company would like to separate cost for AWS services by the department for cost allocation. Which of the following is the simplest way to achieve this task?
Create tags for each department
Which of the following statements is the MOST accurate when describing AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
It is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that allows you to deploy and scale web applications and services
Which security control tool can be used to deny traffic from a specific IP address?
Network Access Control List (network ACL)
Which of the following billing timeframes is applied when running a Windows EC2 on-demand instance?
Pay per second
A brand-new startup would like to remove its need to manage the underlying infrastructure and focus on the deployment and management of its applications. Which type of cloud computing does this refer to?
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
According to the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following is the responsibility of the customer?
Firewall & networking configuration of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
A company needs to keep sensitive data in its own data center due to compliance but would still like to deploy resources using AWS. Which Cloud deployment model does this refer to?
Hybrid Cloud
A multinational company has just moved its infrastructure to AWS Cloud and has employees traveling to different offices around the world. How should the company set the AWS accounts?
There is nothing to do, AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) is a global service
Which of the following options is NOT a feature of Amazon Inspector?
Track configuration changes
According to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which of the following action is recommended in the Security pillar?
Use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt data
Adding more CPU/RAM to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance represents which of the following?
Vertical scaling
