AWS EXAM FOR CLOUD PRACTITIONER

1. Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following is the customer responsible for?
 A. Ensuring that disk drives are wiped after use.
 B. Ensuring that firmware is updated on hardware devices.
 C. Ensuring that data is encrypted at rest..
 D. Ensuring that network cables are category six or higher.

2. Which allows companies to track and categorize spending on a detailed level?

 A. Cost allocation tags.
 B. Consolidated billing
 C. AWS Budgets
 D. AWS Marketplace

3. Which allows companies to track and categorize spending on a detailed level?

 A. Cost allocation tags.
 B. Consolidated billing
 C. AWS Budgets
 D. AWS Marketplace

4. What AWS team assists customers with accelerating cloud adoption through paid
engagements in any of several specialty practice areas?
 A. AWS Enterprise Support
 B. AWS Solutions Architects
 C. AWS Professional Services.
 D. AWS Account Managers

5. Distributing workloads across multiple Availability Zones supports which cloud

architecture design principle?
 A. Implement automation.
 B. Design for agility.
 C. Design for failure…
 D. Implement elasticity.

6 Which of the following inspects AWS environments to find opportunities that can save
money for users and also improve system performance?
 A. AWS Cost Explorer
 B. AWS Trusted Advisor.
 C. Consolidated billing
  D. Detailed billing

7 Which AWS characteristics make AWS cost effective for a workload with dynamic user
demand? (Choose two.)
 A. High availability
 B. Shared security model
 C. Elasticity.
 D. Pay-as-you-go pricing.
 E. Reliability

8 Which of the following are characteristics of Amazon S3? (Choose two.)

 A. A global file system
 B. An object store.
 C. A local file store
 D. A network file system
 E. A durable storage system.

9 What costs are included when comparing AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with
on-premises TCO?
 A. Project management
 B. Antivirus software licensing
 C. Data center security.
 D. Software development

10 Which of the following is a correct relationship between regions, Availability Zones, and
edge locations?
 A. Data centers contain regions.
 B. Regions contain Availability Zones…
 C. Availability Zones contain edge locations.
 D. Edge locations contain regions.

11. Which of the following are advantages of AWS consolidated billing? (Choose two.)
 A. The ability to receive one bill for multiple accounts.
 B. Service limits increasing by default in all accounts
 C. A fixed discount on the monthly bill
 D. Potential volume discounts, as usage in all accounts is combined.
 E. The automatic extension of the master account's AWS support plan to all accounts

12 . Compared with costs in traditional and virtualized data centers, AWS has:
 A. greater variable costs and greater upfront costs.
 B. fixed usage costs and lower upfront costs.
 C. lower variable costs and greater upfront costs.
  D. lower variable costs and lower upfront costs…

13 Which of the following can limit Amazon Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket access to
specific users?
 A. A public and private key-pair
 B. Amazon Inspector
 C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies.
 D. Security Groups

14 Which of the Reserved Instance (RI) pricing models can change the attributes of the RI as long
as the exchange results in the creation of RIs of equal or greater value?
 A. Dedicated RIs
 B. Scheduled RIs
 C. Convertible RIs.
 D. Standard RIs

15 Which of the following services will automatically scale with an expected increase in web
traffic?
 A. AWS CodePipeline
 B. Elastic Load Balancing
 C. Amazon EBS
 D. AWS Direct Connect

16 Under the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following activities are the
customer's responsibility? (Choose two.)
 A. Patching operating system components for Amazon Relational Database Server
(Amazon RDS)
 B. Encrypting data on the client-side
 C. Training the data center staff
 D. Configuring Network Access Control Lists (ACL)
 E. Maintaining environmental controls within a data center

17 According to best practices, how should an application be designed to run in the AWS Cloud?
 A. Use tighly coupled components.
 B. Use loosely coupled components.
 C. Use infrequently coupled components.
 D. Use frequently coupled components.

18 Which AWS services should be used for read/write of constantly changing data?
(Choose two.)
 A. Amazon Glacier
  B. Amazon RDS
 C. AWS Snowball
 D. Amazon Redshift
 E. Amazon EFS

19 A customer needs to run a MySQL database that easily scales. Which AWS service should
they use?
 A. Amazon Aurora
 B. Amazon Redshift
 C. Amazon DynamoDB
 D. Amazon ElastiCache

20 Which of the following is a shared control between the customer and AWS?
 A. Providing a key for Amazon S3 client-side encryption
 B. Configuration of an Amazon EC2 instance
 C. Environmental controls of physical AWS data centers
 D. Awareness and training

21 One of the advantages to moving infrastructure from an on-premises data center to the
AWS Cloud is:
 A. it allows the business to eliminate IT bills.
 B. it allows the business to put a server in each customer's data center.
 C. it allows the business to focus on business activities.
 D. it allows the business to leave servers unpatched.

22 Which AWS IAM feature allows developers to access AWS services through the AWS CLI?
 A. API keys
 B. Access keys
 C. User names/Passwords
 D. SSH keys

23 What is an example of agility in the AWS Cloud?

 A. Access to multiple instance types
 B. Access to managed services
 C. Using Consolidated Billing to produce one bill
 D. Decreased acquisition time for new compute resources

24 What approach to transcoding a large number of individual video files adheres to AWS
architecture principles?
  A. Using many instances in parallel
 B. Using a single large instance during off-peak hours
 C. Using dedicated hardware
 D. Using a large GPU instance type

25 Which feature of the AWS Cloud will support an international company's requirement for low
latency to all of its customers?
 A. Fault tolerance
 B. Global reach
 C. Pay-as-you-go pricing
 D. High availability

26 A customer is using multiple AWS accounts with separate billing. How can the customer take
advantage of volume discounts with minimal impact to the AWS resources?
 A. Create one global AWS acount and move all AWS resources to that account.
 B. Sign up for three years of Reserved Instance pricing up front.
 C. Use the consolidated billing feature from AWS Organizations.
 D. Sign up for the AWS Enterprise support plan to get volume discounts.

27 A customer is deploying a new application and needs to choose an AWS Region. Which
of the following factors could influence the customer's decision? (Choose two.)
 A. Reduced latency to users
 B. The application's presentation in the local language
 C. Data sovereignty compliance
 D. Cooling costs in hotter climates
 E. Proximity to the customer's office for on-site visits

28 Which Amazon EC2 instance pricing model can provide discounts of up to 90%?
 A. Reserved Instances
 B. On-Demand
 C. Dedicated Hosts
 D. Spot Instances

29 What is the AWS customer responsible for according to the AWS shared responsibility model?
 A. Physical access controls
 B. Data encryption
 C. Secure disposal of storage devices
 D. Environmental risk management
30 A company is looking for a scalable data warehouse solution. Which of the following AWS
solutions would meet the company's needs?
 A. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
 B. Amazon DynamoDB
 C. Amazon Kinesis
 D. Amazon Redshift

31 Which of the following are valid ways for a customer to interact with AWS services?
(Choose two.)
 A. Command line interface
 B. On-premises
 C. Software Development Kits
 D. Software-as-a-service
 E. Hybrid

32 Which of the following AWS services can be used to serve large amounts of online video
content with the lowest possible latency? (Choose two.)
 A. AWS Storage Gateway
 B. Amazon S3
 C. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
 D. Amazon Glacier
 E. Amazom CloudFront

33 What is the benefit of using AWS managed services, such as Amazon ElastiCache and
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?
 A. They require the customer to monitor and replace failing instances.
 B. They have better performance than customer-managed services.
 C. They simplify patching and updating underlying OSs.
 D. They do not require the customer to optimize instance type or size selections.

34 Which of the following Identity and Access Management (IAM) entities is associated with an
access key ID and secret access key when using AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)?
 A. IAM group
 B. IAM user
 C. IAM role
 D. IAM policy
35 Which AWS managed service is used to host databases?
 A. AWS Batch
 B. AWS Artifact
 C. AWS Data Pipeline
 D. Amazon RDS

36 When architecting cloud applications, which of the following are a key design principle?
 A. Use the largest instance possible
 B. Provision capacity for peak load
 C. Use the Scrum development process
 D. Implement elasticity

37 Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following is a shared control
between a customer and AWS?
 A. Physical controls
 B. Patch management
 C. Zone security
 D. Data center auditing

38 company wants to reduce the physical compute footprint that developers use to run code.
Which service would meet that need by enabling serverless architectures?
 A. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
 B. AWS Lambda
 C. Amazon DynamoDB
 D. AWS CodeCommit

39 Which of the following are categories of AWS Trusted Advisor? (Choose two.)
 A. Fault Tolerance
 B. Instance Usage
 C. Infrastructure
 D. Performance
 E. Storage Capacity

40 Where should a company go to search software listings from independent software vendors
to find, test, buy and deploy software that runs on AWS?
 A. AWS Marketplace
 B. Amazon Lumberyard
 C. AWS Artifact
  D. Amazon CloudSearch

41 When performing a cost analysis that supports physical isolation of a customer workload,
which compute hosting model should be accounted for in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)?
 A. Dedicated Hosts
 B. Reserved Instances
 C. On-Demand Instances
 D. No Upfront Reserved Instances

42 If a customer needs to audit the change management of AWS resources, which of the
following AWS services should the customer use?
 A. AWS Config
 B. AWS Trusted Advisor
 C. Amazon CloudWatch
 D. Amazon Inspector

43 Which service allows a company with multiple AWS accounts to combine its usage to obtain
volume discounts?
 A. AWS Server Migration Service
 B. AWS Organizations
 C. AWS Budgets
 D. AWS Trusted Advisor
 E. Amazon Quicksight
 F. Amazon Forecast

44 Which Amazon EC2 pricing model adjusts based on supply and demand of EC2 instances?
 A. On-Demand Instances
 B. Reserved Instances
 C. Spot Instances
 D. Convertible Reserved Instances

45 Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that allows for one-hour target response time for
support cases?
 A. Enterprise
 B. Business
 C. Developer
 D. Basic
46 Which AWS service provides a customized view of the health of specific AWS services that
power a customer's workloads running on AWS?
 A. AWS Service Health Dashboard
 B. AWS X-Ray
 C. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
 D. Amazon CloudWatch

47 Which of the following steps should be taken by a customer when conducting penetration
testing on an AWS ?
 A. Conduct penetration testing using Amazon Inspector, and then notify AWS support.
 B. Request and wait for approval from the customer's internal security team, and then
conduct testing.
 C. Notify AWS support, and then conduct testing immediately.
 D. Request and wait for approval from AWS support, and then conduct testing.

48 How would an AWS customer easily apply common access controls to a large set of users?
 A. Apply an IAM policy to an IAM group.
 B. Apply an IAM policy to an IAM role.
 C. Apply the same IAM policy to all IAM users with access to the same workload.
 D. Apply an IAM policy to an Amazon Cognito user pool.

49 Which AWS services are defined as global instead of regional? (Choose two.)
 A. Amazon Route 53
 B. Amazon EC2
 C. Amazon S3
 D. Amazon CloudFront
 E. Amazon DynamoDB

50 Which AWS service can be used to manually launch instances based on resource
requirements?
 A. Amazon EBS
 B. Amazon S3
 C. Amazon EC2
 D. Amazon ECS

51 The financial benefits of using AWS are: (Choose two.)

  A. reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
 B. increased capital expenditure (capex).
 C. reduced operational expenditure (opex).
 D. deferred payment plans for startups.
 E. business credit lines for startups.

52 Which of the following can an AWS customer use to launch a new Amazon Relational
Database Service (Amazon RDS) cluster? (Choose two.)
 A. AWS Concierge
 B. AWS CloudFormation
 C. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
 D. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
 E. AWS Management Console

53 Which of the following security measures protect access to an AWS account? (Choose two.)
 A. Enable AWS CloudTrail.
 B. Grant least privilege access to IAM users.
 C. Create one IAM user and share with many developers and users.
 D. Enable Amazon CloudFront.
 E. Activate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for privileged users.

54 Which of the following services falls under the responsibility of the customer to
maintain operating system configuration, security patching, and networking?
 A. Amazon RDS
 B. Amazon EC2
 C. Amazon ElastiCache
 D. AWS Fargate

55 Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers which of the following
benefits over traditional database management?
 A. AWS manages the data stored in Amazon RDS tables.
 B. AWS manages the maintenance of the operating system.
 C. AWS automatically scales up instance types on demand.
 D. AWS manages the database type.

56 Which of the following is a component of the shared responsibility model managed entirely
by AWS?
 A. Patching operating system software
  B. Encrypting data
 C. Enforcing multi-factor authentication
 D. Auditing physical data center assets

57 Which of the following features can be configured through the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
(Amazon VPC) Dashboard? (Choose two.)
 A. Amazon CloudFront distributions
 B. Amazon Route 53
 C. Security Groups
 D. Subnets
 E. Elastic Load Balancing

58 How do customers benefit from Amazon's massive economies of scale?

 A. Periodic price reductions as the result of Amazon's operational efficiencies
 B. New Amazon EC2 instance types providing the latest hardware
 C. The ability to scale up and down when needed
 D. Increased reliability in the underlying hardware of Amazon EC2 instances

59 Which of the following common IT tasks can AWS cover to free up company IT resources?
(Choose two.)
 A. Patching databases software
 B. Testing application releases
 C. Backing up databases
 D. Creating database schema
 E. Running penetration tests

60 Which AWS feature should a customer leverage to achieve high availability of an

application?
 A. AWS Direct Connect
 B. Availability Zones
 C. Data centers
 D. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

61 Which AWS service can serve a static website?

 A. Amazon S3
 B. Amazon Route 53
 C. Amazon QuickSight
 D. AWS X-Ray
62 What can AWS edge locations be used for? (Choose two.)
 A. Hosting applications
 B. Delivering content closer to users
 C. Running NoSQL database caching services
 D. Reducing traffic on the server by caching responses
 E. Sending notification messages to end users

63 A solution that is able to support growth in users, traffic, or data size with no drop in
performance aligns with which cloud architecture principle?
 A. Think parallel
 B. Implement elasticity
 C. Decouple your components
 D. Design for failure

64 How should a customer forecast the future costs for running a new web application?
 A. Amazon Aurora Backtrack
 B. Amazon CloudWatch Billing Alarms
 C. AWS Pricing Calculator
 D. AWS Cost and Usage report

65 Which of the following tasks is the responsibility of AWS?

 A. Encrypting client-side data
 B. Configuring AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles
 C. Securing the Amazon EC2 hypervisor
 D. Setting user password policies