50 AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Questions

In this video, we will cover 50 AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner practice exam questions. Feel free to pause the video if you need more time to complete each question. If you like videos like this, make sure you hit the subscribe button. Question 1: In order to ensure that all users of a global marketing application running on the AWS Cloud are able to access and watch videos quickly with minimal latency, which service should the company use? AWS Auto Scaling. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. Elastic Load Balancing. Amazon CloudFront. Question 2: What is the AWS Well-Architected Framework's key area of emphasis when it comes to ensuring a system can recover from service or infrastructure disruptions, and dynamically acquire computing resources as needed? Security. Reliability. Performance efficiency. Cost optimization. Question 3: What are some of the advantages to transitioning your business's data and services over to AWS Cloud? Choose 2. Operational resilience. Discounts for products on Amazon.com. C. Business agility. D. Business excellence. E. Increased staff retention. Question 4: A business is looking to expedite its programmatic operations by replacing on-site physical servers with serverless compute services provided by AWS. By doing so, they will be able to access the latest innovations rapidly following the migration process. Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework does this plan fall under? A. Security. B. Performance efficiency. C. Operational excellence. D. Reliability. Question 5: To maximize the value of their purchase Amazon EC2 reserved instances across all departments, a large company needs to manage their AWS accounts in an efficient manner. To do this, they require a service or tool that will enable them to share reserved instances between different departments, even when some have overpurchased and others underutilized theirs. Each department currently has its own AWS account. Each department has purchased Amazon EC2 reserved instances. With this in mind, which AWS service or tool should the company select? A. AWS Systems Manager. B. Cost Explorer. See AWS Trusted Advisor, DAWs Organizations. Question 6: What portion of the AWS international infrastructure is composed of numerous independent data centers with redundant electricity, networking, and connectivity? AWS Region. Availability Zone. Edge Location. DAWs Outposts. Question 7: Which duties are the responsibility of a company that is employing AWS Lambda? Choose 2. A. Security inside of code. B. Selection of CPU resources. C. Patching of operating system. D. Writing and updating of code. E. Security of underlying infrastructure. Question 8: What AWS services or features can be deployed to help protect Amazon EC2 instances from potential disasters? Choose 2. A. EC2 Reserved Instances. B. EC2 Amazon Machine Images . C. Amazon Elastic Block Store . Snapshots. D. AWS Shield. E. Amazon GuardDuty. Question 9: Moving to the AWS Cloud is a smart decision for companies that want access to sophisticated technology and increased scalability. What are some of the benefits this migration offers? Choose 2. A. Elimination of the need to perform security auditing. B. Increased global reach and agility. C. Ability to deploy globally in minutes. D. Elimination of the cost of IT staff members. E. Redundancy by default for all compute services. Question 10. You are trying to select the most economical purchase option for an application running on Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS. The application cannot be interrupted, and it experiences consistent usage with short-term seasonal spikes that last only a few weeks. It is not possible to modify the application. Which purchase option meets these requirements most cost-effectively? A. Review the AWS Marketplace and buy partial upfront reserved instances to cover the predicted and seasonal load. B. Buy reserved instances for the predicted amount of usage throughout the year. Allow any seasonal usage to run on Spot Instances. C. Buy reserved instances for the predicted amount of usage throughout the year. Allow any seasonal usage to run at an on-demand rate. Buy reserved instances to cover all potential usage that results from the seasonal usage. Question 11. To gain insight into the costs that a company has accrued over the last 12 months for utilizing Amazon EC2 and RDS, which AWS service or tool can they turn to? AWS Trusted Advisor. Cost Explorer. Amazon Forecast. Amazon CloudWatch. Question 12: To maximize operational efficiency and minimize costs, an organization needs a compute solution that can accommodate their critical application migrating to AWS. The app is short in runtime but will be triggered either through changes in data or system state shifts. Every dollar saved on running the application counts; hence, a reliable and cost-effective approach must be taken into consideration. Which AWS solution should the company use to meet these requirements? A. Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances. B. AWS Lambda. C. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances. D. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. Question 13: Through which AWS service or feature can users connect with and deploy AWS services programmatically? A. AWS Management Console. B. AWS Cloud9. C. AWS CodePipeline. D. AWS Software Development Kits . Question 14: When constructing a data lake on Amazon S3, what factor will have the greatest impact on cost? A. The selection of S3 storage tiers. B. Charges to transfer existing data into Amazon S3. C. The addition of S3 bucket policies. D. S3 ingest fees for each request. Question 15. To ensure the utmost accessibility, a company is introducing an e-commerce application that will be operational on Amazon EC2 instances for the next 12 months with no interruptions. What is the most cost-effective instance purchasing option that meets these requirements? A. Spot instances. B. Savings plans. C. Dedicated hosts. D. On-demand instances. Question 16: What AWS service or feature can an organization use to see which division is utilizing specific AWS resources? A. Cost Allocation Tags. B. Key Pairs. C. Amazon Inspector. D. AWS Trusted Advisor. Question 17: This company desires to transfer its workloads over to AWS, yet it is lacking the necessary proficiency in AWS cloud computing. Which AWS service or feature will help the company with its migration? A. AWS Trusted Advisor. B. AWS Consulting Partners. C. AWS Artifacts. D. AWS Managed Services. Question 18: To centrally request and monitor service limit increases, what AWS service or tool should businesses use? A. AWS Config. B. Service Quotas. C. AWS Service Catalog. D. AWS Budgets. Question 19. What type of documentation does AWS Artifact offer? A. Amazon EC2 Terms and Conditions. B. AWS ISO Certifications. C. A history of a company's AWS spending. D. A list of previous-generation Amazon EC2 instance types. Question 20: Under what circumstances is it necessary to use an AWS account root user's credentials? A. Viewing billing information. B. Changing the AWS support plan. C. Starting and stopping Amazon EC2 instances. D. Opening an AWS support case. Question 21: To operate efficiently, What combination of AWS services should a company use to handle hundreds of requests from multiple users? Amazon Simple Queue Service and AWS Lambda. AWS Data Pipeline and Amazon EC2. Amazon Kinesis and Amazon Athena. AWS Amplify and AWS AppSync. How does a Virtual Private Cloud fit into the larger scope of the AWS network? A VPC can span all availability zones globally. A VPC must span at least 2 subnets in each AWS Region. A VPC must span at least 2 edge locations in each AWS Region. A VPC can span all availability zones within an AWS Region. Question 23: Which of the following components are included in an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection? Choose 2. AWS Storage Gateway. Virtual Private Gateway. CNAT Gateway. Customer Gateway. Internet Gateway. Question 24. If a company is wanting to bridge the gap between 2 VPCs located in separate AWS Regions, it should leverage its existing infrastructure for creating this connection. This will make sure that both Regions are running optimally and securely with minimal additional cost or effort. Which AWS service or feature can be used to establish this connection? AWS Client VPN . AWS Direct Connect . Question 25: When using Amazon RDS to host a database, what responsibility lies with the customer under AWS Shared Responsibility Model? Manage connections to the database. Install Microsoft SQL Server. Design encryption-at-rest strategies. D. Apply minor database patches. Question 26. What are some advantages of using Amazon EC2 instances to host applications in the AWS cloud instead of on-premises? Choose 2. A. EC2 includes operating system patch management. B. EC2 integrates with Amazon VPC, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon Route 53. AWS Identity and Access Management . cEC2 has a 100% Service Level Agreement . DEC2 has a flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing model. EC2 has automatic storage cost optimization. Question 27. To discover if any alterations have been made to an Amazon EC2 instance's security groups within the past month, a user must investigate: How can the user see if a change was made? A. Use Amazon EC2 to see if the security group was changed. B. Use AWS Identity and Access Management to see which user or role changed the security group. C. Use AWS CloudTrail to see if the security group was changed. D. Use Amazon CloudWatch to see if the security group was changed. Question 28: What AWS service can provide your applications with robust protection from DDoS attacks? A. Amazon GuardDuty. B. AWS WAF. C. AWS Shield. D. Amazon Inspector. Question 29: What AWS service or feature provides a firewall for Amazon EC2 instances? Network ACL. Elastic Network Interface. Amazon VPC. Security Group. Question 30: In what ways does AWS cloud pricing stand out from traditional on-site storage pricing model? AWS resources do not incur costs. There are no infrastructure operating costs. There are no upfront cost commitments. There are no software licensing costs. Question 31. To ensure uninterrupted service and an optimal user experience, this company is transitioning to a high-availability architecture using Amazon EC2. They currently have one instance running and want to set up additional ones for redundancy. What can the company do to meet this requirement? A. Scale vertically to a larger EC2 instance size. B. Scale horizontally across multiple availability zones. C. Purchase an EC2 Dedicated Instance. D. Change the EC2 instance family to a compute-optimized instance. Question 32: With the on-premises application deployment cycle lasting up to 4 weeks, the company demonstrated a remarkable transformation after migrating to AWS Cloud and now deploys applications within 2-3 days. Which benefit has this company experienced by moving to the AWS Cloud? A. Elasticity. B. Flexibility. C. Agility. D. Resilience. Question 33. AWS Enterprise Support includes— choose 2. A. AWS Technical Account Manager . B. AWS partner-led support. C. AWS Professional Services. D. Support of third-party software integration to AWS. E. 5-minute response time for critical issues. Question 34. If a global media company is using AWS Organizations to handle their numerous AWS accounts, what service or feature can they leverage in order to restrict access of member accounts to the various AWS services? A. AWS Identity and Access Management . B. Service Control Policies . C. Organizational Units . D. Access Control Lists . Question 35: To ensure restricted access to a portfolio of predefined AWS resources for limited employees, what AWS solution should a company utilize? AWS Config. AWS Software Development Kits . AWS Service Catalog. Question 36. This online business was struggling to launch products and features, yet after migrating to AWS, they can quickly bring new products and capabilities out into the world and can scale its infrastructure as required. Which AWS Cloud Value Proposition does this scenario describe? Cost savings. Cost savings. Cost savings. Cost savings. Business agility. High availability. Security. Decentralized auditing. Question 37: What are the advantages of utilizing AWS Cloud? Choose 2. AWS management of user-owned infrastructure. Ability to quickly change required capacity. High economies of scale. Increased deployment time to market. Increased fixed expenses. Question 38. AWS offers incredibly affordable pay-as-you-go pricing through the aggregation of usage from hundreds of thousands of users. This describes which advantage of the AWS Cloud? Launch globally in minutes. Increase speed and agility. C. High economies of scale. No guessing about compute capacity. Question 39. To manage its database server, this company has chosen Amazon EC2 instances which are the perfect size for their workload. With a 1-year runtime, they can rest assured that the data will remain securely hosted and backed up on these reliable servers during that entire period. Which EC2 instance purchasing option will meet these requirements most cost-effectively? A. Standard Reserved Instances. B. On-Demand Instances. C. Spot Instances. D. Convertible Reserved Instances. Question 40: To ensure a seamless user experience, what AWS services can your company adopt to drive the development of a high-performance NoSQL database for its mobile app? Choose 2. A. Amazon Aurora. B. Amazon RDS. C. Amazon Redshift. D. Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility. E. Amazon DynamoDB. Question 41: What tasks is AWS accountable for under its Shared Responsibility Model? Choose 2. A. Patch the Amazon EC2 guest operating system. Upgrade the firmware of the network infrastructure. Apply password rotation for IAM users. Maintain the physical security of edge locations. Maintain least privilege access to the root user account. Question 42: What advantages does AWS Cloud offer when utilizing Network Access Control lists? Choose 2. A. They are stateless. B. They are stateful. C. They evaluate all rules before allowing traffic. D. They process rules in order, starting with the lowest-numbered rule, when deciding whether to allow traffic. E. They operate at the instance level. Question 43: By designing its AWS cloud infrastructure in an optimal way and having protocols that are regularly reviewed for improvement, This company is ensuring their workloads will run seamlessly. Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework does this scenario represent? Security. Performance efficiency. Cost optimization. Operational excellence. Question 44: For creating a secure, private connection between an on-site workload and one hosted in the AWS Cloud, Amazon Route 53. Amazon Macie. AWS Direct Connect. AWS PrivateLink. Question 45. Staying on top of your AWS billing and usage is essential for any company. That's why having a graphical representation of the data over time can help you gain better insights into your monthly costs. With this visual analysis, it's easier to identify opportunities for cost savings and make informed decisions about how best to utilize AWS services in the future. Which AWS billing and cost management tool provides this data in a graphical format? A. AWS Bills. B. Cost Explorer. C. AWS Cost and Usage Report. D. AWS Budgets. Question 46. If your business is looking to run production workloads on AWS, then you'll need concierge service and an appointed AWS Technical Account Manager for guidance. On top of that, it's essential to have technical support available 24/7 in case any issues arise. Which AWS support plan will meet these requirements? AWS Basic Support. AWS Enterprise Support. AWS Business Support. AWS Developer Support. Question 47: In order to isolate failures between dependent components in the AWS cloud, which architecture design principle should be followed? Use a monolithic design. Design for automation. Design for single points of failure. Loosely couple components. Question 48: What AWS services are designed to manage database services? Choose 2. Amazon Elastic Block Store . Amazon S3. Amazon RDS. Amazon Elastic File System . Amazon DynamoDB. Question 49. If your company's application usage surpasses the AWS Free Tier limits or if the free period of service expires, what can you expect? The company will be charged the standard pay-as-you-go service rates for the usage that exceeds the Free Tier usage. Support will contact the company to set up standard service charges. The company will be charged for the services it consumed during the free tier period, plus additional charges for service consumption after the free tier period. The company AWS account will be frozen and can be restarted after a payment plan is established. Recently, a business incorporated an Amazon RDS instance in its VPC and now needs to establish a stateful firewall to restrict traffic into the corporate private network. Which AWS service or feature should the company use to limit network traffic directly to its RDS instance? Network ACLs. Security Groups. AWS WAF. Amazon GuardDuty.