Aws Certified Cloud Practitioner Official Practice Exam
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You are an AWS Enterprise customer with questions about billing and you overall AWS account? Which of the following AWS support personnel should you contact? a. AWS Concierge b. AWS Technical Account Manager c. AWS Support d. AWS Billing and Accounts
a. AWS Concierge
Which of the following are Support Levels offered by AWS? select 3 a. Basic b. Developer c. Business d. Start-up e. Individual
a. Basic b. Developer c. Business
Which of the following AWS Support levels offers 24x7 support via phone or chat? a. Developer b. Business c. Basic d. Individual
b. Business
Your Development team uses four on-demand EC2 instances and your QA team has 5 reserved instances, only three of which are being used. Assuming all AWS accounts are under a single AWS Organization, how will the Development team's instances be billed? a. All the Dev team's instances will be billed at the on-demand rate. b. All the Dev instances will be billed at the reserved instance rate. c. The Dev team will be billed for two instances at on-demand prices and two instances at the reserved instance price. d. The pricing for the reserved instances will shift from QA to Dev.
c. The Dev team will be billed for two instances at on-demand prices and two instances at the reserved instance price.
Which of the following support plans features access to AWS support during business hours via email? a. Business b. Developer c. Enterprise d. Basic
b. Developer
True or False: With Consolidated Billing, the Paying Account can make changes to any of the resources owned by a Linked Account. False True
False
Which of the following are payment options for Reserved Instances? select 3 a. DURI b. AURI c. NURI d. MURI e. PURI
b. AURI c. NURI e. PURI Reserves instances are available with all upfront, partial upfront, or no upfront (AURI, PURI, and NURI) pricing.
Which of the following are criteria affecting your billing for RDS? select 3 a. Data transfer in b. Clock hours of server time c. Standby time d. Additional storage e Number of requests
b. Clock hours of server time d. Additional storage e Number of requests
Which of the following best describes a system that is always available — without the need for human intervention? a. Highly Available b. Fault tolerant c. Scalable d. Elastic
a. Highly Available
Which of the following are principles of sound design when it comes to reliability? select 2 a. Stop guessing about your capacity requirements. b. When in doubt, over-provision. c. Scale horizontally. d. Manage change at the individual resource level.
a. Stop guessing about your capacity requirements. c. Scale horizontally.
Which of the following is correct? a. # of Availability Zones > # of Regions > # of Edge Locations b. # of Regions > # of Availability Zones > # of Edge Locations c. # of Edge Locations > # of Availability Zones > # of Regions d. # of Availability Zones > # of Edge Locations > # of Regions
c. # of Edge Locations > # of Availability Zones > # of Regions
Which of the following best describes the ability to scale computing resources up or down easily, while only paying for the resources used? a. High Availability b. Elasticity c. Fault-tolerance d. Scalability
b. Elasticity
Which of the following are principles of sound design when it comes to performance efficiency? select 3 a. Use Serverless architectures. b. Mechanical empathy c. Have your IT staff master all new technologies. d. Deploy into multiple Regions to go global in minutes. e. Democratize advanced technologies.
a. Use Serverless architectures. d. Deploy into multiple Regions to go global in minutes. e. Democratize advanced technologies.
Which of the following are principles of sound cloud design? select 4 a. Scalability b. Disposable resources c. Infrastructure as code d. Tightly-coupled components e. Limit the number of 3rd-party services. f. Treat your servers like pets, not cattle. g. Assume everything will fail.
a. Scalability b. Disposable resources c. Infrastructure as code g. Assume everything will fail.
Which of the following are components of the AWS Assurance Program? select 2 a. Partner Validations b. Compliance with Laws and Regulations c. Customer Testimonials d. Certifications/Attestations e. Following industry best practices
b. Compliance with Laws and Regulations d. Certifications/Attestations
True or False: Users are entirely responsible for the security of AWS IaaS services such as EC2 and VPC. False True
True
Which of the following services will help you optimize your entire AWS environment in real time following AWS best practices? a. AWS Inspector b. AWS Shield c. AWS WAF d. AWS Trusted Advisor
d. AWS Trusted Advisor
Which of the following are components of the AWS Risk and Compliance Program? select 3 a. Information Security b. Control Environment c. Risk Management d. Security Principles e. Physical Security f. Identity and Access Management g. Environment Automation
a. Information Security b. Control Environment c. Risk Management
You need to use an AWS service to assess the security and compliance of your EC2 instances. Which of the following services should you use? a. AWS WAF b. AWS Trusted Advisor c. AWS Shield d. AWS Inspector
d. AWS Inspector
The AWS Web Application Firewall can go down to which of the following OSI layers? a. 5 b. 4 c. 7 d. 6
c. 7
You are using your corporate directory to grant your users access to AWS services. What is this called? a. Federated Access b. Role-based Access c. User Group Access d. Multifactor Authentication Access
a. Federated Access
True or False: Customer responsibility for the security of services in the cloud vary by service. False True
True
Which of the following is AWS' managed DDoS protection service? a. AWS WAF b. Access Control Lists c. AWS Shield d. Security Groups
c. AWS Shield
Amazon Lightsail is an example of which of the following? a. Software as a Service b. Functions as a Service c. Infrastructure as a Service d. Platform as a Service
d. Platform as a Service
You need to allow resources in a private subnet to access the internet. Which of the following must be present to enable this access? a. NAT Gateway b. Network Access Control Lists c. Route Tables d. Security Groups
a. NAT Gateway
I can interact with Glacier using ________. select 4 a. The RESTful Glacier web service b. The Java or .NET SDKs c. CloudFormation templates d. The AWS CLI e. Amazon S3 Lifecycle Policies
a. The RESTful Glacier web service b. The Java or .NET SDKs d. The AWS CLI e. Amazon S3 Lifecycle Policies
An EC2 instance in your VPC needs which of the following for the Internet Gateway to route its traffic to the Internet? a. Public IP address b. Private IP address c. C-Name d. A-Name
a. Public IP address
You need to run your code, but you don't want to worry about provisioning or managing servers. Which of the following AWS services would you choose? a. Lambda b. EC2 c. VMWare Cloud d. Elastic Container Service
a. Lambda
AWS VPC is a component of which of the following overall services categories? a. Management Tools b. Compute c. Networking and Content Delivery d. Storage e. Database f. Migration Services
c. Networking and Content Delivery
You need to ensure that you have the correct number of EC2 instances available to handle the load for your application. Which AWS service should you use? a. Route53 b. Application Load Balancer c. Elastic Load Balancer d. Auto Scaling
d. Auto Scaling
True or False: DynamoDB allows the creation of compound primary keys. False True
True
Regarding Amazon Glacier, what is a Vault? a. The rules that determine who may (or may not) access archives. b. A container for storing Archives c. An object — like photos, videos, files, or documents
b. A container for storing Archives
True or False: By default, all subnets within a VPC can communicate with each other. False True
True
Which of the following are components of IAM? select 4 a. Roles b. Users c. Groups d. Permissions e. Authenticator f. Authorizer g. Access controls
a. Roles b. Users c. Groups d. Permissions
True or False: Authentication determines which AWS services a user has access to, and Authorization allows a user access to AWS the overall AWS environment. True False
False
Which of the following AWS services are free to use? select 5 a. RDS b. EC2 c. S3 d. IAM e. Auto-Scaling f. Route53 g. EBS h. VPC i. Elastic Beanstalk j. CloudFormation
d. IAM e. Auto-Scaling h. VPC i. Elastic Beanstalk j. CloudFormation
Which of the following best describes a Resource Group? a. A resource group is a collection of resources of the same type (EC2, S3, etc.) that are deployed in the same Availability Zone. b. A resource group is a collection of resources of the same type (EC2, S3, etc.) that share one or more tags or portions of tags. c. A resource group is a collection of resources that share one or more tags (or portions of tags.) d. A resource group is a collection of resources that are deployed in the same AWS Region.
c. A resource group is a collection of resources that share one or more tags (or portions of tags.)
Which of the following features of an Amazon VPC allows your VPC to span multiple Availability Zones? a. None of these b. Network Access Control Lists c. Route Tables d. Subnets
d. Subnets
You need to find an item in a DynamoDB table using an attribute other than the item's primary key. Which of the following operations should you use? a. Query b. POST c. Scan d. GET
c. Scan
For which of the following categories does AWS Trusted Advisor provide best practices and/or or checks of your AWS environment? select 4 a. Availability of AWS resources b. High-Availability c. Fault Tolerance d. Cost Optimization e. Security f. Performance g. Right-size
c. Fault Tolerance d. Cost Optimization e. Security f. Performance
You want to run your application on a PaaS infrastructure, and you need to be able to select both your instance type and your database. Which of the following services should you choose? a. EC2 b. Lambda c. Lightsail d. Elastic Beanstalk
d. Elastic Beanstalk
Which of the following are principles of sound design when it comes to performance efficiency? select 3 a. Mechanical empathy b. Use Serverless architectures. c Have your IT staff master all new technologies. d. Democratize advanced technologies. e. Deploy into multiple Regions to go global in minutes.
b. Use Serverless architectures. d. Democratize advanced technologies. e. Deploy into multiple Regions to go global in minutes.
Which of the following are advantages of cloud computing? select 4 a. The ability to 'go global' in minutes b. Variable expense c. Elasticity - you need not worry about capacity. d. Requires large amounts of capital e. Increased speed and agility
a. The ability to 'go global' in minutes b. Variable expense c. Elasticity - you need not worry about capacity. e. Increased speed and agility
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