AWS Cloud Practitioner Practice Questions

Which AWS service helps you build text chatbots? Amazon Lex Amazon Polly Amazon Transcribe Amazon Comprehend

Amazon Lex

A company needs to publish messages to a thousands of subscribers simultaneously using a push mechanism. Which AWS service should the company use? AWS Step Functions Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

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) AWS CloudTrail AWS Trusted Advisor Amazon Route 53

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

Who is responsible of managing platform and customer data in the AWS Cloud? AWS Customers

Customers

True or False? DNS stands for "Data Name System".

False

Which of the following is an advantage for a company running workloads in the AWS Cloud vs on-premises? (Select TWO.) Increased productivity for application development teams. Increased time to market for new application features. Lower overall utilization of server and storage systems. Less staff time is required to launch new workloads. Higher acquisition costs to support elastic workloads.

Increased productivity for application development teams. Less staff time is required to launch new workloads.

AWS Elastic Block Store Snapshot is: Full data backup Differential data backup Incremental data backup

Incremental data backup

What kind of database is AWS DynamoDB? Document database NoSQL database Relational database

NoSQL Database

Which Amazon S3 storage class has the lowest cost? S3 Glacier Deep Archive S3 Inteligent-Tiering S3 Standard

S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Who is responsible of managing storage and database in AWS Cloud? Customers AWS

AWS

Where can a user find information about prohibited actions on the AWS infrastructure? AWS Trusted Advisor AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) AWS Billing Console AWS Acceptable Use Policy

AWS Acceptable Use Policy

Which AWS service do you need to use to get complete history of user activity? AWS CloudWatch AWS CloudTrail AWS TrustedAdvisor

AWS CloudTrail

Which AWS database service provided historical data of your application changes? AWS Quantum Ledger Database AWS Neptune AWS DocumentDB AWS ElastiCache

AWS Quantum Ledger Database

How can a company separate costs for storage, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and other AWS services by department? Add department-specific tags to each resource Create a separate AWS account for each department Create a separate VPC for each department Use AWS Organizations

Add department-specific tags to each resource

Which database is ideal for large organizations and enterprises? PostgreSQL MySQL Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora

A company has a website that delivers static content from an Amazon S3 bucket to users from around the world. Which AWS service will deliver the content with low latency? AWS Lambda Amazon CloudFront AWS Elastic Beanstalk AWS Global Accelerator

Amazon CloudFront

Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute workloads? Amazon EC2 costs are billed on a monthly basis. Users retain full administrative access to their Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on demand when needed. Users can permanently run enough instances to handle peak workloads.

Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on demand when needed.

Which tasks can a user complete using the AWS Cost Management tools? (Select TWO.) Launch either EC2 Spot instances or On-Demand instances based on the current pricing. Delete all of your AWS resources with a single click. Create budgets and receive notifications if current or forecasted usage exceeds the budgets. Automatically terminate AWS resources if budget thresholds are exceeded. Move data stored in Amazon S3 Standard to an archiving storage class to reduce cost.

Create budgets and receive notifications if current or forecasted usage exceeds the budgets. Automatically terminate AWS resources if budget thresholds are exceeded.

What are Edge Locations? Data centers that deliver data fast to the users Physical hard drives AWS Regions Data centers that store petabytes of data

Data centers that deliver data fast to the users

A Cloud Practitioner is re-architecting a monolithic application. Which design principles for cloud architecture do AWS recommend? (Select TWO.) Implement manual scalability. Design for scalability. Implement loose coupling. Use self-managed servers. Rely on individual components.

Design for scalability. Implement loose coupling.

What does AWS Shield protects from? Infrastructure threats Dos and DDoS attacks Software vulnerabilities

Dos and DDoS attacks

AWS are able to continue to reduce their pricing due to: Reserved instance pricing Economies of scale The AWS global infrastructure Pay-as-you go pricing

Economies of Scale

What is AWS DynamoDB Accelerator capable of? Improves write times of documents Improves read times of non-relational data Improves read times of relational data Improves visualization times of graphs

Improves read times of non-relational data

Which of the following is AWS Migration Strategy? Auditability Governance Replatforming

Replatforming

True or False? Containers are an essential concept in microservice architectures.

True

Which service can identify the user that made the API call when an Amazon EC2 instance is terminated? AWS Trusted Advisor AWS CloudTrail AWS X-Ray AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)

AWS CloudTrail

Which tool lets you visualize and manage your AWS costs? AWS Price Calculator AWS Cost Explorer AWS Budgets

AWS Cost Explorer

Which AWS service would simplify the migration of a database to AWS? AWS Storage Gateway AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) Amazon EC2 Amazon AppStream 2.0

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

What is AWS EC2? AWS EC2 is a resource monitoring service AWS EC2 is a serverless compute service AWS EC2 is a virtual server in the AWS Cloud AWS EC2 is a data center

AWS EC2 is a virtual server in the AWS Cloud

What is AWS EFS? AWS Elastic File System AWS Efficient File System AWS Enterprise File System

AWS Elastic File System

Which AWS service helps you create users and provide them security access? AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) AWS CloudFormation AWS Redshift AWS Direct Connect

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Which AWS service manages encryption and decryption of data? AWS Inspector AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) AWS GuardDuty AWS WAF

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

How is called a service that lets you run code without needing to think about servers? AWS Serverless AWS ECS AWS Lambda AWS EC2 Auto Scaling

AWS Lambda

Which AWS offering enables users to find, buy, and immediately start using software solutions in their AWS environment? AWS Config AWS OpsWorks AWS SDK AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace

What does AWS Marketplace allows you to do? AWS Marketplace lets you list all AWS Cloud Services AWS Marketplace lets you see the cost analysis of all AWS Cloud Services AWS Marketplace lets you list and sell software

AWS Marketplace lets you list and sell software

Which AWS services can be used as infrastructure automation tools? (Select TWO.) AWS Batch AWS OpsWorks AWS CloudFormation Amazon CloudFront Amazon QuickSight

AWS OpsWorks AWS CloudFormation

Which AWS service or feature can be used to restrict the individual API actions that users and roles in each member account can access? AWS Shield AWS Organizations AWS IAM Amazon Macie

AWS Organizations

What is the purpose of AWS Organizations service? AWS Organizations organizes your services and makes service usage reports AWS Organizations optimizes your system performance AWS Organizations helps you manage multiple AWS Accounts AWS Organizations groups your applications and manages them

AWS Organizations helps you manage multiple AWS Accounts

Which service helps you reduce development time and complexity of Machine Learning (ML)? AWS SageMaker AWS Elastic Beanstalk AWS Redshift AWS Lex

AWS SageMaker

A company needs protection from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on its website and assistance from AWS experts during such events. Which AWS managed service will meet these requirements? AWS Shield Advanced AWS Firewall Manager AWS Web Application Firewall Amazon GuardDuty

AWS Shield Advanced

Which service sends and receives messages between application components? AWS Simple Queue Service (AWS SQS) AWS Lambda AWS Snowmbile AWS CloudTrail

AWS Simple Queue Service (AWS SQS)

A cloud practitioner needs to migrate a 70 TB of data from an on-premises data center into the AWS Cloud. The company has a slow and unreliable internet connection. Which AWS service can the cloud practitioner leverage to transfer the data? Amazon S3 Glacier AWS Snowball AWS Storage Gateway AWS DataSync

AWS Snowball

Which AWS storage service is designed to transfer petabytes of data in and out of the cloud? AWS Redshift AWS Snowball AWS S3

AWS Snowball

Which AWS service reduces network latency? AWS Transit Gateway AWS Direct Connect Elastic Load Balancing Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront

A company requires a dashboard for reporting when using a business intelligence solution. Which AWS service can a Cloud Practitioner use? Amazon Redshift Amazon Kinesis Amazon Athena Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight

Which AWS networking service enables a company to create a virtual network within AWS? AWS Config Amazon Route 53 AWS Direct Connect Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

Which sentence best describes AWS CloudWatch? CloudWatch monitors your account and recommends you cost optimization and performance improvement actions. CloudWatch is a monitoring service that monitors your resources, and configures automatic alarms. CloudWatch is a service that logs your AWS environment Actions. It is used to create events that describe how your application is being used.

CloudWatch is a monitoring service that monitors your resources, and configures automatic alarms.

A manager is planning to migrate applications to the AWS Cloud and needs to obtain AWS compliance reports. How can these reports be generated? Contact the AWS Compliance team. Download the reports from AWS Secrets Manager. Download the reports from AWS Artifact. Create a support ticket with AWS Support.

Download the reports from AWS Secrets Manager.

Which component of the AWS global infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery? AWS Regions Edge locations Availability Zones Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Edge locations

The ability to horizontally scale Amazon EC2 instances based on demand is an example of which concept? Agility Economy of scale Elasticity High availability

Elasticity

How would a system administrator add an additional layer of login security to a user's AWS Management Console? Use Amazon Cloud Directory Audit AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles Enable multi-factor authentication Enable AWS CloudTrail

Enable multi-factor authentication

Which AWS Support plan provides access to architectural and operational reviews, as well as 24/7 access to Cloud Support Engineers through email, online chat, and phone? Business Basic Developer Enterprise

Enterprise

True or False? Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack comes from different sources.

False

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is an example of security in the AWS Cloud? Global infrastructure Firewall configuration Managing edge locations Physical security

Firewall configuration

Which perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework focuses on minimizing the business risks? People Perspective Operations Perspective Business Perspective Governance Perspective

Governance Perspective

What is an IAM Policy? IAM Policy is a document that customizes user permissions for AWS services and resources IAM Policy is an entity that interacts with AWS resources or services IAM Policy is a temporary access to AWS services or resources

IAM Policy is a document that customizes user permissions for AWS services and resources

Which of the following is an AWS responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model? Configuring third-party applications Maintaining physical hardware Securing application access and data D) Managing guest operating systems

Maintaining physical hardware

According to the shared responsibility model, which security-related task is the responsibility of the customer? Maintaining server-side encryption. Securing servers and racks at AWS data centers. Maintaining firewall configurations at a hardware level. Maintaining physical networking configuration.

Maintaining server-side encryption.

A user has an AWS account with a Business-level AWS Support plan and needs assistance with handling a production service disruption. Which action should the user take? Contact the dedicated AWS Concierge Support team Open a production system down support case Contact the dedicated Technical Account Manager Open a business-critical system down support case

Open a production system down support case

Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework focuses on recovering from service or infrastructure disruptions? Performance efficiency Reliability Operational excellence

Reliability

Which of the following statements is correct about Amazon S3 cross-region replication? S3 buckets configured for cross-region replication can be owned by a single AWS account or by different accounts Both source and destination S3 buckets must have versioning disabled The source S3 bucket owner must have the source and destination AWS Regions disabled for their account The source and destination S3 buckets cannot be in different AWS Regions

S3 buckets configured for cross-region replication can be owned by a single AWS account or by different accounts

A Cloud Practitioner requires point-in-time recovery (PITR) for an Amazon DynamoDB table. Who is responsible for configuring and performing backups? AWS is responsible for configuring and the user is responsible for performing backups. AWS is responsible for both tasks. The customer is responsible for configuring and AWS is responsible for performing backups. The customer is responsible for both tasks.

The customer is responsible for configuring and AWS is responsible for performing backups.

True or False? With AWS EC2 you only pay for the compute time that you use.

True

True or False? AWS Artifact is a service that provides access to AWS security and complicance reports.

True

True or False? AWS Elastic Beantalk is a service that manages web infrastructure.

True

True or False? AWS Regions is part of the AWS Global Infrastructure.

True

True or False? Based on application's network requests, AWS Web Application Firewall can block network traffic.

True

True or False? Economies of scale continually reduce AWS Cloud pricing.

True

Can all accounts of an AWS Organization be billed with a single bill? Yes No

Yes

If an instance store reboots, does the data in the instance persist? Yes No

Yes