AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam

Which AWS service can help you optimize your AWS environment by giving recommendations to reduce cost, increase security, and improve performance?

• AWS Optimizations

• AWS Trusted Advisor

• AWS Inspector

• AWS CloudWatch

Your company is moving to the AWS Cloud and is reviewing the shared responsibility model. Which item is entirely the responsibility of AWS?

• Physical and Environmental Controls

• Implementing IAM Groups

• Patching of the guest OS

• Storing CloudFormation Templates in another region for Disaster Recovery.

Which of the following is an AWS Global Service?

• VPC

• RDS

• EC2

• CloudFront

Which is a core design principle for deploying resources in AWS?

• Use a tight coupling of your resources and applications.

• Plan ahead for hardware capacity.

• Deploy in Multiple Availability Zones.

• Estimate your S3 storage needs up front.

Which of the following is an AWS Global Service?

• Amazon RDS

• EC2

• IAM

• VPC

After creating an EC2 instance to host an application, the traffic to the site far exceeds what was expected. You decide to move to a larger instance type. What AWS principal does this represent?

• Durability

• Horizontal Scaling

• Elasticity

• Vertical Scaling

A small company wants to deploy a new system in the AWS cloud but does not have anyone with the required AWS skill set to perform the deployment. Which AWS service can help with this?

• Trusted Advisor

• AWS CloudFormation

• AWS Partner Network (APN) Technology Partners

• AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners

Your company would like to begin using auto-scaling to add servers when CPU utilization reaches a certain threshold (say 70%). What can you use to signal when CPU utilization crosses the threshold?

• Elastic Load Balancers

• EC2 Logs

• CloudWatch Alarms

• Simple Notification Service

Upon venturing into using the AWS Cloud, your company decides to follow the 5 pillars of the AWS Well Architected Framework. Which items are pillars of the Well Architected Framework?

• Reliability

• Scalability

• Elasticity

• Operational Excellence

• Ease of Use

Which statement is true regarding the AWS Global Infrastructure?

• Each AWS region contains multiple availability zones.

• Availability Zones contain Edge Locations

• Each AWS Availability Zone contains multiple regions.

• Edge Locations contain Regions