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WorksheetsAWS Cloud Practitioner Practice Questions (ND)
Total questions: 65
Worksheet time: 1hrs 5mins
Which tasks can a user complete using the AWS Cost Management tools? (Select TWO.)
Automatically terminate AWS resources if budget thresholds are exceeded.
Break down AWS costs by day, service, and linked AWS account.
Create budgets and receive notifications if current or forecasted usage exceeds the budgets.
Launch either EC2 Spot instances or On-Demand instances based on the current pricing.
Move data stored in Amazon S3 Standard to an archiving storage class to reduce cost.
Which of the following AWS services are compute services? (Select TWO.)
AWS Batch
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon EFS
Amazon Inspector
Which design principles are enabled by the AWS Cloud to improve the operation of workloads? (Select TWO.)
Minimize platform design
Loose coupling
Customized hardware
Remove single points of failure
Minimum viable product
Which of the following statements best describes the concept of agility in relation to cloud computing on AWS? (Select TWO.)
The speed at which AWS rolls out new features.
The ability to experiment quickly.
The elimination of wasted capacity.
The ability to automatically scale capacity.
The speed at which AWS resources can be created.
A company must provide access to AWS resources for their employees. Which security practices should they follow? (Select TWO.)
Enable multi-factor authentication for users.
Create IAM policies based on least privilege principles.
Disable password policies and management console access.
Create IAM users in different AWS Regions.
Create IAM Roles and apply them to IAM groups.
A company is designing a new a service that must align with the operational excellence pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Which design principles should the company follow? (Select TWO.)
Anticipate failure.
Make large-scale changes.
Perform operations as code.
Perform manual operations.
Create static operational procedures.
Which of the following are valid benefits of using the AWS Cloud? (Select TWO.)
Outsource all operational risk
Total control over data center infrastructure
Fast provisioning of IT resources
Ability to go global quickly
Outsource all application development to AWS
Which tasks require the use of the AWS account root user? (Select TWO.)
Enabling encryption for S3
Viewing AWS CloudTrail logs
Changing the account name
Changing AWS Support plans
Changing payment currency
Which benefits can a company gain by deploying a relational database on Amazon RDS instead of Amazon EC2? (Select TWO.)
Automated backups
Schema management
Indexing of tables
Software patching
Root access to OS
When running applications in the AWS Cloud, which common tasks can AWS manage on behalf of their customers? (Select TWO.)
Patching database software
Application source code auditing
Creating a database schema
Taking a backup of a database
Application security testing
How does the AWS cloud increase the speed and agility of execution for customers? (Select TWO.)
Fast provisioning of resources
Private connections to data centers
Secured data centers
Lower cost of deployment
Scalable compute capacity
A company has multiple AWS accounts and is using AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. Which advantages will they benefit from? (Select TWO.)
They will receive one bill for the accounts in the Organization
The default service limits in all accounts will be increased
They will receive a fixed discount for all usage across accounts
They may benefit from lower unit pricing for aggregated usage
They will be automatically enrolled in a business support plan
Which AWS services can a company use to gather information about activity in their AWS account? (Select TWO.)
Amazon CloudFront
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Trusted Advisor
Amazon Connect
Amazon CloudWatch
A company is deploying an application in the AWS Cloud. How can they secure the application? (Select TWO.)
Enable encryption for the application data at rest
Configure public access for the AWS services used by the application
Enable monitoring by turning off encryption for data in transit
Limit access privileges according to the principal of least privilege
Provide full admin access to developer and operations staff
Which of the following can an AWS customer use to launch a new ElastiCache cluster? (Select TWO.)
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Concierge
AWS Systems Manager
AWS Management Console
AWS Data Pipeline
A company is deploying a new web application in a single AWS Region that will be used by users globally. Which AWS services will assist with lowering latency and improving transfer speeds for the global users? (Select TWO.)
AWS Direct Connect
AWS Global Accelerator
Amazon CloudFront
AWS Transfer Gateway
AWS Snowcone
Which tasks can a user complete using the AWS Cost Management tools? (Select TWO.)
Automatically terminate AWS resources if budget thresholds are exceeded.
Break down AWS costs by day, service, and linked AWS account.
Create budgets and receive notifications if current or forecasted usage exceeds the budgets.
Launch either EC2 Spot instances or On-Demand instances based on the current pricing.
Move data stored in Amazon S3 Standard to an archiving storage class to reduce cost.
Which of the following AWS services are compute services? (Select TWO.)
AWS Batch
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon EFS
Amazon Inspector
A Cloud Practitioner needs a tool that can assist with viewing and managing AWS costs and usage over time. Which tool should the Cloud Practitioner use?
AWS Budgets
Amazon Inspector
AWS Organizations
AWS Cost Explorer
An Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) can include multiple:
AWS Regions.
Edge locations.
Internet gateways.
Availability Zones.
Which resource should a new user on AWS use to get help with deploying popular technologies based on AWS best practices, including architecture and deployment instructions?
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Artifact
AWS Config
AWS Quick Starts
A large company is interested in avoiding long-term contracts and moving from fixed costs to variable costs. What is the value proposition of AWS for this company?
Economies of scale
Pay-as-you-go pricing
Volume pricing discounts
Automated cost optimization
A company uses Amazon EC2 instances to run applications that are dedicated to different departments. The company needs to break out the costs of these applications and allocate them to the relevant department. The EC2 instances run in a single VPC. How can the company achieve these requirements?
Enable billing access for IAM users and view the costs in Cost Explorer.
Enable billing alerts through Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon SNS.
Create tags by department on the instances and then run a cost allocation report.
Add additional Amazon VPCs and launch each application in a separate VPC.
Which of the following will help a user determine if they need to request an Amazon EC2 service limit increase?
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Service Health Dashboard
A company needs to publish messages to a thousands of subscribers simultaneously using a push mechanism. Which AWS service should the company use?
AWS Step Functions
Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
A user is planning to launch three EC2 instances behind a single Elastic Load Balancer. The deployment should be highly available.
Launch the instances across multiple Availability Zones in a single AWS Region.
Launch the instances as EC2 Spot Instances in the same AWS Region and the same Availability Zone.
Launch the instances in multiple AWS Regions, and use Elastic IP addresses.
Launch the instances as EC2 Reserved Instances in the same AWS Region, but in different Availability Zones.
A company runs a batch job on an Amazon EC2 instance and it takes 6 hours to complete. The workload is expected to double in volume each month with a proportional increase in processing time. What is the most efficient cloud architecture to address the growing workload?
Run the batch job on a larger Amazon EC2 instance type with more CPU.
Change the Amazon EC2 volume type to a Provisioned IOPS SSD volume.
Run the application on a bare metal Amazon EC2 instance.
Run the batch workload in parallel across multiple Amazon EC2 instances.
A customer needs to determine Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for a workload that requires physical isolation. Which hosting model should be accounted for?
Dedicated Hosts
Reserved Instances
On-Demand Instances
Spot Instances
A Cloud Practitioner requires point-in-time recovery (PITR) for an Amazon DynamoDB table. Who is responsible for configuring and performing backups?
AWS is responsible for both tasks.
The customer is responsible for configuring and AWS is responsible for performing backups.
The customer is responsible for both tasks.
AWS is responsible for configuring and the user is responsible for performing backups.
An individual IAM user must be granted access to an Amazon S3 bucket using a bucket policy. Which element in the S3 bucket policy should be updated to define the user account for which access will be granted?
Action
Principal
Resource
Condition
A Cloud Practitioner anticipates an increase in application traffic at a future date and time when a sales event will take place. How can the Cloud Practitioner configure Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to ensure the right number of Amazon EC2 instances are available ahead of the event?
Configure predictive scaling.
Configure a target tracking scaling policy.
Configure a scheduled scaling policy.
Configure a step scaling policy.
An application uses a PostgreSQL database running on a single Amazon EC2 instance. A Cloud Practitioner has been asked to increase the availability of the database so there is automatic recovery in the case of a failure. Which tasks can the Cloud Practitioner take to meet this requirement?
Migrate the database to Amazon RDS and enable the Multi-AZ feature.
Configure an Elastic Load Balancer in front of the EC2 instance.
Configure EC2 Auto Recovery to move the instance to another Region.
Set the DeleteOnTermination value to false for the EBS root volume.
A company is launching a new website which is expected to have highly variable levels of traffic. The website will run on Amazon EC2 and must be highly available. What is the MOST cost-effective approach?
Use the AWS CLI to launch and terminate Amazon EC2 instances to match demand.
Create an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group and configure an Elastic Load Balancer.
Determine the highest expected traffic and use an appropriate instance type.
Launch the website using an Amazon EC2 instance running on a dedicated host.
Customers using AWS services must patch operating systems on which of the following services?
AWS Lambda
Amazon EC2
AWS Fargate
Amazon DynamoDB
What advantages does a database administrator obtain by using the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?
RDS provides 99.99999999999% reliability and durability.
RDS databases automatically scale based on load.
RDS enables users to dynamically adjust CPU and RAM resources.
RDS simplifies relational database administration tasks.
A company plans to deploy a relational database on AWS. The IT department will perform database administration. Which service should the company use?
Amazon EC2
Amazon RedShift
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon DynamoDB
Which AWS feature can be used to launch a pre-configured Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance?
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Amazon EC2 Systems Manager
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon AppStream 2.0
Which AWS Cloud service provides recommendations on how to optimize performance for AWS services?
Amazon Inspector
AWS Trusted Advisor
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
A company is migrating a monolithic application that does not scale well into the cloud and refactoring it into a microservices architecture. Which best practice of the AWS Well-Architected Framework does this plan relate to?
Stop spending money on undifferentiated heavy lifting
Implement loosely coupled services
Manage change in automation
Use multiple solutions to improve performance
Which AWS service can a company use to discover and protect sensitive data that is stored in Amazon S3 buckets.
Amazon GuardDuty
AWS Policy Generator
Amazon Detective
Amazon Macie
A user needs to identify underutilized Amazon EC2 instances to reduce costs. Which AWS service or feature will meet this requirement?
AWS CodeBuild
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
What is the best practice for managing AWS IAM access keys?
There is no need to manage access keys
Customers should rotate access keys regularly
AWS rotate access keys on a schedule
Never use access keys, always use IAM roles
Which type of credential should a Cloud Practitioner use for programmatic access to AWS resources from the AWS CLI/API?
SSL/TLS certificate
SSH public keys
Access keys
User name and password
A Cloud Practitioner needs to monitor a new Amazon EC2 instances CPU and network utilization. Which AWS service should be used?
Amazon Inspector
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Systems Manager
Amazon CloudWatch
A company is deploying an application on Amazon EC2 that requires low-latency access to application components in an on-premises data center. Which AWS service or resource can the company use to extend their existing VPC to the on-premises data center?
Amazon Connect
AWS Outposts
AWS Direct Connect
Amazon Workspaces
How much data can a company store in the Amazon S3 service?
1 PB
100 TB
100 PB
Virtually unlimited
Which of the following AWS features or services can be used to provide root storage volumes for Amazon EC2 instances?
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Amazon Machine Image
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Which of the following is a sole responsibility of AWS?
Application deployment
Patch management
Availability Zone management
Customer data access controls
What can a Cloud Practitioner use to categorize and track AWS costs by project?
Cost Allocation Tags
AWS Trusted Advisor
Consolidated billing
Multiple accounts
According to the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is a responsibility of AWS?
Configuring network ACLs to block malicious attacks.
Patching software running on Amazon EC2 instances.
Updating the firmware on the underlying EC2 hosts.
Updating security group rules to enable connectivity.
Which AWS service or feature can assist with protecting a website that is hosted outside of AWS?
Amazon VPC route tables
Amazon EC2 security groups
Amazon VPC network ACLs
AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
A company is planning to deploy an application with a relational database on AWS. The application layer requires access to the The company prefer to keep management overhead to a minimum. Which deployment should be used for the database?
Amazon RDS
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
AWS are able to continually reduce their pricing due to:
Economies of scale
Pay-as-you go pricing
Elastic compute services
Compute savings plans
A company has many underutilized compute resources on-premises. Which AWS Cloud feature will help resolve this issue?
High availability
Elasticity
Global deployment
Fault tolerance
A website has a global customer base and users have reported poor performance when connecting to the site. Which AWS service will improve the customer experience by reducing latency?
AWS Direct Connect
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon ElastiCache
What are AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) access keys used for?
Logging in to the AWS Management Console
Ensuring the integrity of log files
Making programmatic calls to AWS from AWS APIs
Enabling encryption in transit for web servers
A company is deploying a new workload and software licensing requirements dictate that the workload must be run on a specific, physical server. Which Amazon EC2 instance deployment option should be used?
Dedicated Instances
Spot Instances
Reserved Instances
Dedicated Hosts
Which of the following deployments involves the reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment
Amazon EBS provisioned IOPS volume
Attach a WebACL to a CloudFront distribution
Use CloudFormation to deploy infrastructure
A company plans to use reserved instances to get discounted pricing for Amazon EC2 instances. The company may need to change the EC2 instance type during the one year period. Which instance purchasing option is the MOST cost-effective for this use case?
Standard Reserved Instances
Convertible Reserved Instances
Zonal Reserved Instances
Regional Reserved Instances
What is one method of protecting against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the AWS Cloud?
Use Amazon CloudWatch monitoring.
Configure a firewall in front of resources.
Monitor the Service Health Dashboard.
Enable AWS CloudTrail logging.
Which AWS service provides a managed software version control system?
Amazon CodeDeploy
AWS CodePipeline
AWS DataSync
AWS CodeCommit
For what purpose would a Cloud Practitioner access AWS Artifact?
Download configuration details for all AWS resources
Access training materials for AWS services
Create a securityassessment report for AWS services
Gain access to AWS security and compliance documents
A Cloud Practitioner is developing a new application and wishes to integrate features of AWS services directly into the application. Which of the following is the BEST tool for this purpose?
AWS Software Development Kit
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
AWS CodePipeline
A company is deploying a MySQL database on AWS. The database must easily scale and have automatic backup enabled. Which AWS service should the company?
Amazon Athena
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Aurora
Amazon DocumentDB
Which of the following represents a value proposition for using the AWS Cloud?
AWS is responsible for securing your applications
It is not necessary to enter into long term contracts
Customers can request specialized hardware
AWS provides full access to their data centers
