AWS Cloud Exam Practice Questions PDF

Chapter 1: Cloud Basics and Advantages Question 1: Why would an organization decide to use AWS over an on- premises data center? (choose two.)  ✅ Cost savings  ✅ Elastic resources Question 2: Which of the following are advantages of using the AWS cloud computing over legacy IT? (choos...

Chapter 1: Cloud Basics and Advantages Question 1: Why would an organization decide to use AWS over an on- premises data center? (choose two.)  ✅ Cost savings  ✅ Elastic resources Question 2: Which of the following are advantages of using the AWS cloud computing over legacy IT? (choose two.)  ✅ You don't need to worry about over provisioning as you can elastically scale  ✅ You can bring new applications to market faster Question 3: True or False? AWS owns and maintains the network-connected hardware required for application services, while you provision and use what you need.  ✅ True Question 4: Which of the following represent economic advantages of moving to the AWS cloud? (choose two.)  ✅ Reduce the need to manage infrastructure  ✅ Increase efficiencies through automation Question 5: True or False. The AWS SDKs provides guidance and best practices to help organizations identify gaps in skills and processes.  ❌ False Question 6: What is the framework created by AWS Professional Services that helps organizations design a road map to successful cloud adoption?  ✅ AWS CAF Question 7: What is the definition of a web service? (select the best answer.)  ✅ It is a piece of software that makes itself available over the internet and utilizes a standardized format. Question 8: An application has highly dynamic usage patterns. Which characteristics of the AWS Cloud make it cost-effective for this type of workload? (choose two.)  ✅ Elasticity  ✅ Pay-as-you-go pricing Question 9: Which benefit of the AWS Cloud eliminates the need for users to try estimating future infrastructure usage?  ✅ Elasticity of the AWS cloud Question 10: True or False? Cloud computing allows you to stop thinking of your infrastructure as hardware, and instead think of it as software?  ✅ True Chapter 2: Billing and Support Question 1: For which services does Amazon not charge customers? (choose two.)  ✅ Amazon VPC  ✅ AWS CloudFormation Question 2: A company would like to maximize their potential volume and reserved instance discounts across multiple accounts and also apply service control policies on member accounts. What can they use gain these benefits?  ✅ AWS Organizations Question 3: Which of the following is not a fundamental driver of cost with AWS?  ✅ Inbound data transfer Question 4: The AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service can be used to manage which object?  ✅ Roles Question 5: How can an organization compare the cost of running applications in an on-premise or collocation environment against the AWS cloud?  ✅ TCO Calculator Question 6: What are the different support plans offered by AWS Support?  ✅ Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise Question 7: True or False? To receive the discounted rate associated with Reserved Instances, you must make a full, upfront payment for the term of the agreement.  ❌ False Question 8: Which tool enables you to visualize your usage patterns over time and to identify your underlying cost drivers?  ✅ AWS Cost Explorer Question 9: True or False? AWS offers a variety of services at no charge, for example, Amazon VPC, AWS IAM, Consolidated Billing, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, automatic scaling, AWS OpsWords and AWS CloudFormation. However, you might be charged for other AWS services that you use in conjunction with these services.  ✅ True Question 10: As AWS grows, the cost of doing business is reduced and savings are passed back to the customer with lower pricing. What is this optimization called?  ✅ Economies of scale Chapter 3: AWS Infrastructure and Edge Services Question 1: Which service can an organization use to track API activity within their account?  ✅ AWS CloudTrail Question 2: Which of the following are geographic areas that host two or more Availability Zones?  ✅ AWS Regions Question 3: How does Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling help with resiliency?  ✅ By launching and terminating instances as needed Question 4: ___________ means that the infrastructure has built-in component redundancy and ___________ means that resources dynamically adjust to increases or decreases in capacity requirements.  ✅ Fault tolerant, elastic and scalable Question 5: Which AWS service provides elastic web-scale cloud computing allowing you to deploy operating system instances?  ✅ Amazon EC2 Question 6: Which service provides visibility into user activity by recording actions taken on your account?  ✅ Amazon CloudTrail Question 7: The identification process of an online financial services company requires that new users must complete an online interview with their security team. The completed recorded interviews are only required in the event of a legal issue or a regulatory compliance breach. What is the most cost-effective service to store the recorded videos?  ✅ Amazon Glacier Question 8: What is a benefit provided by Amazon CloudFront?  ✅ Content is cached at Edge locations for fast distribution to customers Question 9: Which of the following best describes an Availability Zone in the AWS Cloud?  ✅ One or more physical data centres Question 10: Amazon Glacier is an Amazon S3 storage class that is suitable for storing ____________ & ______________. (choose two.)   ✅ Active archives  ✅ Long-term analytic data Chapter 4: Security and IAM Question 1: When running a workload in AWS, the customer is NOT responsible for: (choose two.)  ✅ Data centre operations  ✅ Infrastructure security Question 2: Which of the following strategies helps protect your AWS root account?  ✅ Don't create an API access key unless you need to Question 3: Which IAM entity can best be used to grant temporary access to your AWS resources?  ✅ IAM Roles Question 4: What are AWS shared controls?  ✅ Controls that apply to both the infrastructure layer and customer layers Question 5: An organization runs many systems and uses many AWS products. Which of the following services enables them to control how each developer interacts with these products?  ✅ AWS Identity and Access Management Question 6: A company has discovered that multiple S3 buckets were deleted, but it is unclear who deleted the buckets. Which of the following can the company use to determine the identity that deleted the buckets?  ✅ CloudTrail logs Question 7: Which AWS service or feature is used to manage the keys used to encrypt customer data?   ✅ AWS KMS Question 8: What are the default security credentials that are required to access the AWS management console for an IAM user account?  ✅ A username and password Question 9: Which of the following can help secure your sensitive data in Amazon S3? (choose two.)  ✅ Encrypt the data prior to uploading it  ✅ Enable S3 Encryption Question 10: How would a system administrator add an additional layer of login security to a user's AWS Management Console?  ✅ Enable multi-factor authentication Chapter 5: Networking, Route 53, and Content Delivery Question 1: Which of the following services does Amazon Route 53 provide? (choose two.)  ✅ Domain registration  ✅ Domain Name Service (DNS) Question 2: With Amazon VPC, what is the smallest size subnet you can have in a VPC?  ✅ /28 Question 3: What is the relationship between subnets and availability zones?  ✅ You can create one or more subnets within each availability zone Question 4: How do ELBs improve the reliability of your application?  ✅ By ensuring that only healthy targets receive traffic Question 5: What is the scope of an Amazon VPC?   ✅ A region Question 6: In addition to DNS services, what other services does Amazon Route 53 provide? (choose two.)  ✅ Traffic flow  ✅ Domain registration Question 7: A cloud practitioner needs to decrease application latency and increase performance for globally distributed users. Which service can assist?  ✅ Amazon CloudFront Question 8: Which service supports the resolution of public domain names to IP addresses or AWS resources?  ✅ Amazon Route 53 Question 9: What advantages does deploying Amazon CloudFront provide? (choose two.)  ✅ Improved performance for end users  ✅ Reduced latency Question 10: Which of the following can help protect your EC2 instances from DDoS attacks? (choose two.)  ✅ NACL  ✅ Security Groups Chapter 6: EC2 and Auto Scaling Question 1: What is the function of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?  ✅ Scales the number of EC2 instances in or out automatically, based on demand. Question 2: Which AWS service is known as a "serverless" service and runs code as functions triggered by events?   ✅ AWS Lambda Question 3: How should an organization deploy an application running on multiple EC2 instances to ensure that a power failure does not cause an application outage?  ✅ Launch the EC2 instances into different Availability Zones Question 4: An Amazon EC2 instance running the Amazon Linux 2 AMI is billed in what increment?  ✅ Per second Question 5: Which pricing options are available when using Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances?  ✅ All upfront Question 6: You need to run a production process that will use several EC2 instances and run constantly on an ongoing basis. The process cannot be interrupted or restarted without issue. What EC2 pricing model would be best for this workload?  ✅ Reserved instances Question 7: Which Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud feature ensures your instances will not share a physical host with instances from any other AWS customer?  ✅ Dedicated instances Question 8: What is the service provided by AWS that enables developers to easily deploy and manage applications in the cloud?  ✅ AWS Elastic Beanstalk Question 9: Which Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance type enables you to match your capacity reservation to predictable recurring dates and times?  ✅ Scheduled RI Question 10: Which of the following must be specified when launching a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Windows instance? (choose two.)   ✅ AMI  ✅ Amazon EC2 instance type Chapter 7: AWS Storage Services Question 1: The identification process of an online financial services company requires that new users must complete an online interview with their security team. The completed recorded interviews are only required in the event of a legal issue or a regulatory compliance breach. What is the most cost-effective service to store the recorded videos?  ✅ Amazon Glacier Question 2: Regarding Amazon S3 Glacier, what is a Vault?  ✅ A container for storing archives Question 3: Which service provides object-level storage in AWS?  ✅ Amazon S3 Question 4: Which of the following is not a benefit of Amazon S3? (choose two.)  ✅ Amazon S3 can run any type of application or backend system  ✅ Amazon S3 can be scaled manually to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere Question 5: Amazon EBS is recommended when data _____ and _____.  ✅ Must be quickly accessible, requiring long-term persistence Question 6: What should you consider when storing data in Amazon Glacier?  ✅ Amazon Glacier does not provide immediate retrieval of data Question 7: Which AWS storage technology can be considered a "virtual hard disk in the cloud"?  ✅ Amazon EBS volume Question 8: Which S3 storage class is best for data with unpredictable access patterns?  ✅ Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering Question 9: Which of the following are features of Amazon EBS? (choose two.)  ✅ Amazon EBS volumes can be encrypted transparently to workloads on the attached instance.  ✅ Data stored on Amazon EBS is automatically replicated within an Availability Zone. Question 10: Which of the following will affect how much you are charged for storing objects in S3? (choose two.)  ✅ The storage class used for the objects stored  ✅ The total size in gigabytes of all objects stored Chapter 8: AWS Database Services Question 1: What should you consider when choosing a database type?  ✅ All options should be considered Question 2: True or False? Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period and enabling point-in-time recovery  ✅ True Question 3: What features does Amazon RDS provide to deliver scalability, availability and durability? (choose two.)  ✅ Multi-AZ  ✅ Read Replicas Question 4: A developer is planning to build a two-tier web application that has a MySQL database layer. Which of the following AWS database services would provide automated backups for the application?   ✅ Amazon Aurora Question 5: You are designing an ecommerce web application that will scale to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users. Which database technology is best suited to hold the session state in this example?  ✅ DynamoDB Question 6: A company has a large amount of structured data stored in their on-premises data center. They are planning to migrate all the data to AWS, what is the most appropriate AWS database option?  ✅ Amazon RDS Question 7: What are the benefits of using the Amazon Relational Database Service? (choose two.)  ✅ Resizable compute capacity  ✅ Lower administrative burden Question 8: Which of the below AWS services supports automated backups as a default configuration?  ✅ Amazon RDS Question 9: What are the benefits of using DynamoDB? (choose two.)  ✅ Automatically scales to meet required throughput capacity  ✅ Offers extremely low (single-digit millisecond) latency Question 10: You need to find an item in an Amazon DynamoDB table using an attribute other than the item's primary key. Which of the following operations should you use?  ✅ Scan Chapter 9: AWS Architecture and Design Question 1: Which of the following best describes a system that can withstand some measures of degradation, experiences minimal downtime, and requires minimal human intervention?   ✅ Highly available Question 2: Which of the following are architectural best practices for the AWS Cloud? (choose two.)  ✅ Design for fault tolerance  ✅ Deploy into multiple Availability Zones Question 3: Which of the below is an example of an architectural benefit of moving to the cloud?  ✅ Elasticity Question 4: According to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, what change management steps should be taken to achieve reliability in the AWS Cloud? (choose two.)  ✅ Use AWS CloudTrail to record AWS API calls into an auditable log file  ✅ Use AWS Config to generate an inventory of AWS Resources Question 5: What is an example of scaling vertically?  ✅ Increasing the instance size with Amazon RDS Question 6: Which of the following is not a pillar of the AWS Well- Architected Framework?  ✅ Persistence Question 7: Which design principles are recommended when considering performance efficiency? (choose two.)  ✅ Use serverless architectures  ✅ Democratize advanced technologies Question 8: Which AWS Cloud design principles can help increase reliability? (choose two.)  ✅ Testing recovery procedures  ✅ Automatically recovering from failure Question 9: A Cloud Practitioner wants to build an application stack that will be highly elastic. What AWS services can be used that don’t require you to make any capacity decisions upfront? (choose two.)   ✅ Amazon S3  ✅ AWS Lambda Question 10: Which of the following is not one of the four areas of the Performance Efficiency pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?  ✅ Traceability Chapter 10: Auto Scaling and Load Balancing Question 1: Which of the following must be configured on an Elastic Load Balancing load balancer to expect incoming traffic?  ✅ A listener Question 2: Which service would you use to send alerts based on Amazon CloudWatch alarms?  ✅ Amazon Simple Notifications Service (Amazon SNS) Question 3: Which configuration changes are associated with scaling horizontally? (choose two.)  ✅ Adding additional EC2 instances through Auto Scaling  ✅ Adding hard drives to a storage array Question 4: Which service is used introduce fault tolerance into an application architecture?  ✅ Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Question 5: Which of the following is not an element of an Auto Scaling group?  ✅ Health checks Question 6: You need to ensure you have the right amount of compute available to service demand. Which AWS service can automatically scale the number of EC2 instances for your application?  ✅ Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Question 7: You need to ensure you have the right amount of compute available to service demand. Which AWS service can automatically scale the number of EC2 instances for your application?  ✅ Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Question 8: Which of the following AWS services is free to use?  ✅ Auto Scaling Question 9: A user is planning to launch three EC2 instances behind a single Elastic Load Balancer. The deployment should be highly available.  ✅ Launch the instance across multiple Availability Zones in a single AWS Region. Question 10: Your application requirements for CPU and RAM are changing in an unpredictable way. Which service can be used to dynamically adjust these resources based on load?  ✅ Auto Scaling