An intern at an IT company provisioned a Linux based On-demand EC2 instance with per-second billing but terminated it within 30 seconds as he wanted to provision another instance type. What is the duration for which the instance would be charged?

• 30 seconds
• 300 seconds
• 60 seconds
• 90 seconds

A company wants to move to AWS cloud and release new features with quick iterations by utilizing relevant AWS services whenever required. Which of the following characteristics of AWS Cloud does it want to leverage?

• Elasticity
• Reliability
• Scalability
• Agility

A company named XYZ Corp wants to have control over creating and using its own keys for encryption on AWS services. Which of the following can be used for this use-case?

• AWS managed key

• Customer managed key (CMK)

• AWS Secrets Manager

• AWS owned key

Which type of cloud computing does Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) represent?

• Network as a Service (NaaS)
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Software as a Service (SaaS)

Which cloud service can be used to protect a website from a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack?

• Amazon CloudWatch

• AWS Systems Manager

• AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

• AWS Shield

A company wants to identify the optimal AWS resource configuration for its workloads so that the company can reduce costs and increase workload performance. Which of the following services can be used to meet this requirement?

• AWS Budgets
• AWS Systems Manager
• AWS Cost Explorer
• AWS Compute Optimizer

A financial services company wants to ensure that its AWS account activity meets the governance, compliance and auditing norms. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend for this use-case?

• AWS Trusted Advisor
• AWS Config
• Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS CloudTrail

Which of the following is a recommended way to provide programmatic access to AWS resources?

• Use AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (AWS MFA) to access AWS resources programmatically
• Create a new IAM user and share the username and password
• Use IAM user group to access AWS resources programmatically
• Use Access Key ID and Secret Access Key to access AWS resources programmatically

A big data analytics company is moving its IT infrastructure from an on-premises data center to AWS Cloud. The company has some server-bound software licenses that it wants to use on AWS. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following EC2 instance types would you recommend to the company?

• Dedicated Instance
• Dedicated Host
• On-Demand Instance
• Reserved Instance (RI)

A research team is considering using EC2 instances to run a scientific computation application that requires fault-tolerant architecture. The application demands high-performance hardware disks for fast I/O performance. As a Cloud Practitioner, which of the following storage options would you recommend as the MOST cost-effective solution?

• Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

• Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

• Instance Store