Prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam with these practice questions and answers. This guide covers cloud concepts, AWS services, security, and pricing models.

Q: Delete root access keys, activate MFA on root account, apply IAM password policy, use groups to assign permissions, create individual IAM users

Answer: Best Practices for Securing Root AWS Account

Q: Federated Access

Answer: To grant users access to AWS services with corporate directory

Q: User Authorized, then Autheniticated

Answer: The order a user is granted access to AWS services

Q: Compliance with Laws & Regulations, Certifications/Attestations

Answer: Components of the AWS Assurance Program

Q: Risk Management, Control Environment, Information Security

Answer: Components of the AWS Risk and Compliance Program

Q: Roles, Groups, Permissions, Users

Answer: Components of IAM

Q: 7

Answer: AWS WAF can go down to which OSI layer

Q: True

Answer: AWS is responsible for the security of managed Foundation Servers, such as RDS

Q: IN

Answer: Users are responsible for security ___ the cloud

Q: OF

Answer: AWS is responsible for security ___ the cloud

Q: HIPAA

Answer: Which Compliance guarantees attests to the fact that the AWS platform has met the standard required for the secure storage of medical records in the US

Q: AWS Trusted Advisor

Answer: Which service will help optimize your entire AWS environment in real time following AWS best practices

Q: AWS Shield

Answer: What is AWS’ managed DDoS protection service

Q: AWS Concierge

Answer: Which AWS support panel should you contact if you are an AWS Enterprise customer with questions about billing and your overall AWS account

Q: AURI, PURI, NURI

Answer: Payment options for Reserved Instances

Q: 20

Answer: Maximum number of Linked Accounts per Paying Account under Consolidated Billing

Q: VPC, Auto-Scaling, CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, IAM

Answer: Free AWS Services

Q: On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, Dedicated Hosts

Answer: EC2 pricing options

Q: Collection of resources that share one or more tags (or portions of tags)

Answer: Resource Group

Q: Enterprise

Answer: AWS Support level with a TAM

Q: Billing Support

Answer: All accounts receive this support service as a standard

Q: Number of requests, additional storage, clock hours of server time

Answer: RDS billing criteria

Q: Elasticity

Answer: The ability to scale computing resources up and down easily, while only paying for the resources used

Q: Assuming everything will fail, scalability, disposable resources, infrastructure as code

Answer: Principles of sound cloud design

Q: Stop guessing about your capacity requirements, scale horizontally

Answer: Principles of sound design when it comes to reliability

Q: Multi-Region

Answer: Which deployment strategy should you follow if you have a mission-critical application which must be globally available at all times

Q: A geographical area divided into AZs. Each contains at least two AZs

Answer: AWS Regions

Q: Variable expense, increased speed and agility, elasticity, go global in minutes

Answer: Advantages of Cloud Computing

Q: Democratize advanced technologies, use serverless architectures, deploy into multiple regions to go global in minutes

Answer: Principles of sound design when it comes to performance efficiency

Q: Regions, AZs, Edge Locations

Answer: AWS Global Infrastructure

Q: Fault-tolerant

Answer: A system that will remain operational even in the even of a component failure

Q: Public, Hybrid, Private

Answer: Cloud Computing Deployments

Q: Highly Available

Answer: A system that is always available, without the need for human intervention

Q: AZ

Answer: Collection of data centers within a specific region

Q: 2

Answer: Minimum number of AZs per region

Q: Business, Enterprise

Answer: Support plans with unlimited contacts and unlimited support cases

Q: Elastic Beanstalk

Answer: Allows you to select both your instance type and your database

Q: ALB 1st selects a target based on a routing rule, then uses a Round-Robin strategy to select a node – Classic uses Round-Robin for TCP listeners only

Answer: AWS Load Balancer types that use a Round-Robin load distribution strategy

Q: Storing application assets, Static web hosting

Answer: Common use cases for S3 include:

Q: True

Answer: Auto Scaling allows you to add or remove EC2 instances from your EC2 fleet based on conditions you specify

Q: Edge Locations

Answer: S3 Transfer Acceleration uses AWS’ network of ___ to more quickly get your data into AWS

Q: Create individual IAM users, activate MFA on root account, use roles to delegate access to IAM users

Answer: Steps you should take in securing your AWS account

Q: AWS Snowball, AWS Application Discovery Service

Answer: Migration Services

Q: Lambda

Answer: Serverless technology that allows you to run your code without provisioning a computing infrastructure

Q: No

Answer: Is there a limit to the number of objects you can put into S3

Q: No

Answer: Can S3 host a dynamic website, like one that runs on a LAMP stack

Q: Fault tolerance, security, cost optimization, performance

Answer: Categories that AWS Trusted Advisor provides best practices and/or checks of your AWS environment

Q: Management Console, SDK, Command Line

Answer: Valid access types for an IAM user

Q: Auto Scaling

Answer: What AWS Service is an automated resource provisioning

Q: JSON

Answer: IAM policies are written using ___

Q: Glacier

Answer: Data archival service that is extremely inexpensive but has a multi hour data retrieval window

Q: Re-create the volume from a snapshot

Answer: How to re-create an EBS volume that you previously used

Q: True

Answer: With DynamoDB, you can specify the amount of throughput you need for read/write operations

Q: AWS Trusted Advisor

Answer: What AWS Services can assist you with cost optimization

Q: DynamoDB

Answer: What is AWS’ managed NoSQL database

Q: True

Answer: By default, all subnets

Q: Public IP Address

Answer: What does an EC2 instance in your VPC need for the Internet Gateway to route its traffic to the internet

Q: Networking and Content Delivery

Answer: AWS VPC is a component of which of the following overall services categories

Q: A container for storing Archives

Answer: What is a Vault in Amazon Glacier

Q: No

Answer: Can the paying account make changes to any of the resources owned by a linked account (with consolidated billing)

Q: Yes

Answer: For a fixed rate, can you choose detailed, once a minute monitoring of your EC2 instances?

Q: Auto Scaling

Answer: You need to ensure that you have the correct number of EC2 instances available to handle the load of your application. What service should you use?

Q: No

Answer: Do private subnets have direct, private access to the internet?

Q: Lambda

Answer: What compute service should you use to execute your code when you need to execute code in response to a specific change to your S3 bucket?

Q: Internet Gateway

Answer: For a subnet to be public and send non-local traffic to the internet gateway, we must update the Route Table of the public subnet and attach which of the following to the VPC that contains the subnet?