AWS Cloud Practitioner

What is the storage capacity of AWS Snowmobile?

100 PB

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

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Which service is used to run containerized applications on AWS?

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

You want to deploy and manage containerized applications. Which service should you use?

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Which service is used to query and analyze data across a data warehouse?

Amazon Redshift

Which statement or statements are TRUE about Amazon EBS volumes and Amazon EFS file systems?

EBS volumes store data within a single Availability Zone. Amazon EFS file systems store data across multiple Availability Zones.

Which site does Amazon CloudFront use to cache copies of content for faster delivery to users at any location?

Edge location

What is cloud computing?

On-demand delivery of IT resources and applications through the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing

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 AWS Trusted Advisor category includes checks for your service limits and overutilized instances?

Performance

Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework focuses on using computing resources in ways that meet system requirements?

Performance Efficiency

Your company has an application that uses Amazon EC2 instances to run the customer-facing website and Amazon RDS database instances to store customers' personal information. How should the developer configure the VPC according to best practices?

Place the Amazon EC2 instances in a public subnet and the Amazon RDS database instances in a private subnet.

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 moving to a different product?

Repurchasing

You want to store data that is infrequently accessed but must be immediately available when needed. Which Amazon S3 storage class should you use?

S3 Standard-IA

Which compute option reduces costs when you commit to a consistent amount of compute usage for a 1-year or 3-year term?

Savings Plans

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

Security Perspective

You have a workload that will run for a total of 6 months and can withstand interruptions. What would be the most cost-efficient Amazon EC2 purchasing option?

Spot Instance

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 statement best describes security groups?

They are stateful and deny all inbound traffic by default.

Which statement best describes DNS resolution?

Translating a domain name to an IP address

What are the contract length options for Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances? (Select TWO.)

- 1 year - 3 years

Which tasks can you complete in AWS Artifact? (Select TWO.)

- Access AWS compliance reports on-demand. - Review, accept, and manage agreements with AWS.

You are configuring service control policies (SCPs) in AWS Organizations. Which identities and resources can SCPs be applied to? (Select TWO.)

- An individual member account - An organizational unit (OU)

Which domains are included on the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam? (Select TWO.)

- Billing and Pricing - Security and Compliance

Which Support plans include access to all AWS Trusted Advisor checks? (Select TWO.)

- Business - Enterprise

Which factors should be considered when selecting a Region? (Select TWO.)

- Compliance with data governance and legal requirements - Proximity to your customers

What are the benefits of cloud computing? (Select TWO.)

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

Which tasks are the responsibilities of AWS? (Select TWO.)

- Maintaining virtualization infrastructure - Configuring AWS infrastructure devices

Which actions can you perform in Amazon Route 53? (Select TWO.)

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

Which actions can you perform using Amazon CloudWatch? (Select TWO.)

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

Which tasks are the responsibilities of customers? (Select TWO.)

- Patching software on Amazon EC2 instances - Setting permissions for Amazon S3 objects

Which categories are included in the AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard? (Select TWO.)

- Performance - Fault tolerance

Which strategies are included in the six strategies for application migration? (Select TWO.)

- Rehosting - Retaining

Which Amazon S3 storage classes are optimized for archival data? (Select TWO.)

- S3 Glacier - S3 Glacier Deep Archive

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? (Select TWO.)

- S3 Standard - S3 Standard-IA

Which tasks can you perform using AWS CloudTrail? (Select TWO.)

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

What are the scenarios in which you should use Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)? (Select TWO.)

- Using SQL to organize data - Storing data in an Amazon Aurora database

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

What is the storage capacity of Snowball Edge Storage Optimized?

80 TB

Which statement best describes AWS Marketplace?

A digital catalog that includes thousands of software listings from independent software vendors

Which statement best describes an IAM policy?

A document that grants or denies permissions to AWS services and resources

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 Amazon DynamoDB?

A serverless key-value database 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 statement best describes an Availability Zone?

A single data center or group of data centers within a Region

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

AWS Acceptable Use Policy

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

AWS Budgets

Which service can identify the user that made the API call when an Amazon EC2 instance is terminated?

AWS CloudTrail

Which service enables you to review details for user activities and API calls that have occurred within your AWS environment?

AWS CloudTrail

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

AWS Cost Explorer

Which tool enables you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time?

AWS Cost Explorer

Which AWS service would simplify the migration of a database to AWS?

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

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 AWS offering enables users to find, buy, and immediately start using software solutions in their AWS environment?

AWS Marketplace

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

AWS Marketplace

Which service enables you to consolidate and manage multiple AWS accounts from a central location?

AWS Organizations

Which service helps protect your applications against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks?

AWS Shield

Which service is used to transfer up to 80 PB of data to AWS?

AWS Snowmobile

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

You want to store data in a key-value database. Which service should you use?

Amazon DynamoDB

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 manage the DNS records for domain names?

Amazon Route 53

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

Amazon SageMaker

Which AWS service is the best choice for publishing messages to subscribers?

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

Which service would be used to send alerts based on Amazon CloudWatch alarms?

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

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

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

You want to store data in an object storage service. Which AWS service is best for this type of storage?

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Which AWS networking service enables a company to create a virtual network within AWS?

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

Which statement is TRUE for the AWS global infrastructure?

An Availability Zone consists of two or more Regions.

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.

You want to use an Amazon EC2 instance for a batch processing workload. What would be the best Amazon EC2 instance type to use?

Compute optimized

Which task can AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) perform?

Create cryptographic keys.

Which action can you perform in Amazon CloudFront?

Deliver content to customers through a global network of edge locations.

Which component of the AWS global infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery?

Edge locations

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

Enable multi-factor authentication

Which process is an example of Elastic Load Balancing?

Ensuring that no single Amazon EC2 instance has to carry the full workload on its own

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

Enterprise

Which action can you perform with AWS Outposts?

Extend AWS infrastructure and services to your on-premises data center.

Which statement best describes the principle of least privilege?

Granting only the permissions that are needed to perform specific tasks

An employee requires temporary access to create several Amazon S3 buckets. Which option would be the best choice for this task?

IAM role

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 component is used to connect a VPC to the internet?

Internet gateway

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

It is stateless and allows all inbound and outbound traffic.

Which of the following is an AWS responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model?

Maintaining physical hardware

What is another name for on-premises deployment?

Private cloud deployment

Which process is an example of benefiting from massive economies of scale?

Receiving lower pay-as-you-go prices as the result of AWS customers' aggregated usage of services

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 virtual private cloud (VPC) component controls inbound and outbound traffic for Amazon EC2 instances?

Security group

Which statement is TRUE for AWS Lambda?

You pay only for compute time while your code is running.