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WorksheetsAWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 21mins
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
A new application needs temporary access to resources in AWS. How can this best be achieved?
Create an IAM Policy and attach it to the application.
Create an IAM Role and have the application assume the role.
Store access key in an S3 Bucket and give the application access to the bucket.
Add the application to a group that has the appropriate permissions.
In Identity and Access Management, which term refers to the IAM resource objects that AWS uses for authentication?
Identity
Resource
Entity
Principal
A company needs to manage and automate tasks on large numbers of resources at one time. Which AWS feature can do this?
IAM Groups
Tagging
IAM
Resource Groups
After configuring your VPC and all of the resources within it, you want to add an extra layer of security at the subnet level. Which will you use to add this security?
Security Group
Network ACL
Private IP Address
IAM
Developers in your company need to interact with AWS from the Command Line Interface. Which security item will you need to provide to the developers?
Login ID
Root password
Security Token
Access Key
Microsoft has announced a new patch for its operating system on an AWS service you use as platform as a service. Within the Shared Responsibility Model, who needs to apply this patch?
Either can apply this patch.
AWS
Customer
The customer for spot instances only.
A small startup is configuring its AWS cloud environment. Which AWS service will allow grouping these users together and applying permissions to them as a group?
Resource Groups
AWS Organizations
Tagging
AWS IAM
In Identity and Access Management, which term applies to a person or application that uses the AWS account root user, an IAM user, or an IAM role to sign in and make requests to AWS?
Principal
Resource
Identity
Entity
A company is configuring IAM for its new AWS account. There are 5 departments with between 5 to 10 users in each department. How can they efficiently apply access permissions for each of these departments?
Create an IAM group for each department. Add the department's members to the group.
Create an IAM role defining the permissions needed. Create an IAM group and attach the policy to the group. Add the department's members to the group.
Create a policy defining the permissions needed. Attach the policy to all users in the department.
Create a policy defining the permissions needed. Create an IAM group for each department and attach the policy to each group. Add each department's members to their respective IAM group.
You are working with IAM and need to attach policies to users, groups, and roles. Which will you be attaching these policies to?
Resources
Entities
Identities
Principals
You have two Software systems that need to communicate, and you also need to ensure that messages are not lost between them. Which AWS service can help meet these requirements?
SNS
CloudWatch
SES
SQS
Your company hosts gaming applications online and would like to deliver these apps to a worldwide audience. Which AWS Service would enable delivery to users worldwide and greatly improve response times?
DynamoDB
Elasticache
CloudFront
CloudFormation
If you have an RDS database, which is very I/O intensive, which service is most suitable to improve performance?
DAX
DynamoDB
Elasticache
RedShift
In order to improve fault tolerance, you would like to begin using services that provide fault tolerance. Which AWS services provide automatic replication across Availability Zones?
DynamoDb
VPC
EC2
S3
You want to group together EC2 instances and manage them as a group. One thing you want to do is issue commands remotely to these instances. Which AWS service will you use?
Auto Scaling
Systems Manager
Load Balancing
CloudFormation
You need to stream data in real-time for a dashboard application. Which AWS service would you use?
AWS Kinesis
AWS CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon RedShift
There have been some questionable activities in your AWS account. You need to review your event history, such as actions taken from the Management Console and the CLI. Which service records this type of information?
AWS CloudTrail
AWS CLoudWatch
IAM
AWS Config
You need to set up a data warehouse on AWS for financial/actuary data. Which AWS service will you use?
Elasticache
Redshift
DynamoDB
RDS
You need to store key-value pairs of users and their high scores for a gaming application. Which is the best option for this type of data?
AWS S3
DynamoDB
RDS MySQL
Amazon RedShift
A financial company needs to migrate large amounts of data, at a peta-byte scale, to AWS. Which AWS service can perform this type of migration?
AWS Data Pipeline
API Gateway
Database Migration Service
AWS Snowball
A small software company is starting to work with the AWS Cloud. Which service will allow them to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS?
Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Marketplace
Service Catalog
CloudSearch
Your Finance Department has instructed you to save costs wherever possible when using the AWS Cloud. You notice that using reserved EC2 instances on a 1-year contract will save money. What payment method will save the most money?
Deferred
Partial Upfront
All Upfront
No Upfront
You work for a financial company that has several mission-critical workloads. Which AWS Support Plan should you use?
Business
Basic
Enterprise
Developer
You have a short term computing task to complete. It is essential that this task run uninterrupted from start to finish. Which is the best EC2 option for this task?
Spot Instance
On-Demand Instance
Reserved Instance
Dedicated Host
What is the most cost effective AWS Support Plan if you want the full set of Trusted Advisor checks?
Basic
Developer
Business
Enterprise
You have decided to use the AWS Cost and Usage Report to track your EC2 Reserved Instance costs. To where can these reports be published?
Trusted Advisor
An S3 Bucket that you own.
CloudWatch
An AWS owned S3 Bucket.
What can we do in AWS to receive the benefits of volume pricing for your multiple AWS accounts?
Use consolidated billing in AWS Organizations.
Purchase services in bulk from AWS Marketplace.
Use AWS Trusted Advisor
You will receive volume pricing by default.
Your company has entered into a 3-year contract with a government agency. Your best option for EC2 is reserved instances. Which AWS service would you use to track your reserved instance usage?
Trusted Advisor
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Cost and Usage Report
AWS Organizations
A large company needs to benefit from available volume discounts in AWS. Which AWS feature will enable the company to get volume discounts?
Use free tier as much as possible.
Upgrade to an Enterprise Support Plan.
Enable consolidated billing in AWS Organizations.
Contact AWS to request volume discounts.
A company has multiple AWS accounts across multiple regions. Which AWS service can be used to manage these accounts and provide consolidated billing?
CloudFormation
Trusted Advisor
Identity and Access Management
AWS Organizations
