WorksheetsAWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - IAM, Compute, and Storage
Total questions: 86
Worksheet time: 43mins
You ONLY want to manage Applications and Data. Which type of Cloud Computing model should you use?
On-premises
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
What is the pricing model of Cloud Computing?
Discounts over time
Pay-as-you-go pricing
Pay once a year
Flat-rate pricing
Which Global Infrastructure identity is composed of one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, and are used to deploy infrastructure?
Edge Locations
Availability Zones
Regions
Which of the following is NOT one of the Five Characteristics of Cloud Computing?
Rapid elasticity and scalability
Multi-tenancy and resource pooling
Dedicated Support Agent to help you deploy applications
On-demand self service
Which are the 3 pricing fundamentals of the AWS Cloud?
Compute, Storage, and Data transfer in the AWS Cloud
Compute, Networking, and Data transfer out of the AWS Cloud
Compute, Storage, and Data transfer out of the AWS Cloud
Storage, Functions, and Data transfer in the AWS Cloud
Which of the following options is NOT a point of consideration when choosing an AWS Region?
Compliance with data governance
Latency
Capacity availability
Pricing
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of Cloud Computing?
Trade capital expense (CAPEX) for operational expense (OPEX)
Train your employees less
Go global in minutes
Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
What are AWS Regions are composed of?
Two or more Edge Locations
One or more discrete data centers
Three or more Availability Zones
Which of the following services has a global scope?
EC2
IAM
Lambda
Rekognition
Which of the following is the definition of Cloud Computing?
Rapidly develop, test and launch software applications.
Automatic and quick ability to acquire resources as you need them and release resources when you no longer need them.
On-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user.
Change resource types when needed
What defines the distribution of responsibilities for security in the AWS Cloud?
AWS Pricing Fundamentals
The Shared Responsibility Model
AWS Acceptable Use Policy
The AWS Management Console
A company would like to benefit from the advantages of the Public Cloud but would like to keep sensitive assets in its own infrastructure. Which deployment model should the company use?
Private Cloud
Public CLoud
Hybrid Cloud
What is NOT authorized to do on AWS according to the AWS Acceptable Use Policy?
Building a gaming application
Deploying a website
Run analytics on stolen content
Backup your data
What is a proper definition of IAM Roles?
An IAM entity that defines a set of permissions for making AWS service requests that will be used by AWS services
IAM Users in multiple Groups
A password policy
Permissions assigned to Users to perform actions
Which of the following is an IAM Security Tool?
IAM Credentials Report
IAM Root Account Manager
IAM Services Report
IAM Security Advisor
Which answer is INCORRECT regarding IAM Users?
IAM Users can belong to multiple groups
IAM Users don't have to belong to a group
IAM Users can have policies assigned to them
IAM Users access AWS with the root account credentials
Which of the following is an IAM best practice?
Don't use the root user account
Create several users for a physical person
Share credentials so a colleague can perform a task for you
Do not enable MFA for easier access
What are IAM Policies?
Actions that AWS services can perform
JSON documents to define the permissions of Users, Groups or Roles
Rules to set up a password for IAM Users
Under the shared responsibility model, what is the customer responsible for which of the following in IAM?
Infrastructure security
Compliance validation
Configuration and vulnerability analysis
Assigning users proper IAM Policies
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
The AWS CLI can interact with AWS using commands in your command-line shell, while the AWS SDK can interact with AWS programmatically.
The AWS SDK can interact with AWS using commands in your command-line shell, while the AWS CLI can interact with AWS programmatically.
Which principle should you apply regarding IAM Permissions?
Grant most privilege
Grant least privlege
Grant permissions if your employee asks you to
Restrict root account permissions
What should you do to increase your root account security?
Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Remove permissions from the root account
Use AWS only through the Command Line Interface (CLI)
Which EC2 Purchasing Option can provide the biggest discount, but is not suitable for critical jobs or databases?
Reserved Instances
Convertible Instances
Dedicated Hosts
Spot Instances
Which network security tool can you use to control traffic in and out of EC2 Instances?
Network Access Control List (NACL)
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
GuardDuty
Security Groups
Under the Shared Responsibility Model, who is responsible for operating-system patches and updates on EC2 Instances?
The customer
AWS
Both AWS and the customer
How long can you reserve an EC2 Reserved Instance?
1 or 3 years
2 or 4 years
6 months or 1 year
Anytime between 1 and 3 years
A company would like to deploy a high-performance computing (HPC) application on EC2. Which EC2 instance type should it choose?
Compute Optimized
Storage Optimized
Memory Optimized
General Purpose
Which of the following is NOT an EC2 Instance Purchasing Option?
Spot Instances
Reserved Instances
On-demand Instances
Connect Instances
Which EC2 Purchasing Option should you use for an application you plan on running on a server continuously for 1 year?
Reserved Instances
Spot Instances
On-demand Instances
Convertible Instances
What is the main purpose of High Availability in the Cloud?
Increase scalability
Application is operational even in the case of a disaster
Access on computers and smartphones
Handle greater loads by launching EC2 instances based on the demand
Which AWS offered Load Balancer should you use to handle hundreds of thousands of connections with low latency?
Application Load Balancer
Network Load Balancer
Elastic Load Balancer
Changing an EC2 Instance Type from a t3a.medium to a t3a.2xlarge is an example of?
Horizontal Scaling
High Availability
Agility
Vertical Scaling
What can you use to handle quickly and automatically the changing load on your websites and applications by adding compute resources?
An Elastic Load Balancer
A bigger instance type
An Auto Scaling Group
Health Checks on your EC2 Instances
Which of the following statements is INCORRECT regarding Auto Scaling Groups?
Replace unhealthy instances
Are cost-effective by running at optimal capacity
Automatically register new instances to a load balancer
Automatically change EC2 instance types
Which Load Balancer is best suited for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing traffic?
Network Load Balancer
Classic Load Balancer
Elastic Load Balancer
Application Load Balancer
Which of the following is NOT an Auto Scaling Strategy?
Manual Scaling
Dynamic Scaling
Active Scaling
Predictive Scaling
Which AWS service offers easy horizontal scaling of compute capacity?
EBS
AMI
IAM
ASG
Which of the following statements is NOT a feature of Load Balancers?
Performs regular health checks on your instances
Spreads load across multiple downstream instances
Handles failures of downstream instances
Back-end auto-scaling
Which EC2 Storage would you use to create a shared network file system for your EC2 Instances?
EBS Volume
EC2 Instance Store
EBS Snapshots
EFS
Which service can be used to automate image management processes?
AMI
EC2 Image Builder
EBS Snapshots
IAM
Which of the following is a fully managed native Microsoft Windows file system?
EFS
FSx
EBS
What are AMIs NOT used for?
Add your own software license
Add your own configuration
Add your own operating system
Add your own IP addresses
EBS Volumes CANNOT be attached to multiple EC2 instances at a time.
True
False
An EBS Volume is a network drive you can attach to your instances while they run, so your instances' data persist even after their termination.
True
False
Which statement is CORRECT regarding EC2 Instance Store?
It is not good to use as a disk to cache content
It has a better I/O performance, but the data is lost if the EC2 instance is terminated
Your data is always safe with EC2 Instance Store
What is an EBS Snapshot?
The operating-system on an EC2 Instance
A backup of your EBS Volume at a point in time
The amount of CPU and RAM of an EC2 instance
Where can you find a third party's AMI so you can use it to launch your EC2 Instance?
Public AMIs
My own AMIs
AWS Marketplace AMIs
What is an EBS Volume tied to?
A region
A data center
An edge location
An availability zone
Which S3 Storage Class is the most cost-effective for archiving data with no retrieval time requirement?
Amazon Glacier
Amazon Glacier Deep Archive
Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access
Amazon S3 Intelligent Tiering
What hybrid AWS service is used to allow on-premises servers to seamlessly use the AWS Cloud at the storage layer?
Elastic Block Store
Snowball
S3
Storage Gateway
Which of the following services is a petabyte-scale data moving service (as a fleet) in or out of AWS with computing capabilities?
Snowcone
Snowball Edge
Snowmobile
Which of the following is an exabytes-scale data moving service in or out of AWS?
Snowcone
Snowball Edge
Snowmobile
What are Objects NOT composed of?
Key
Value
Access Keys
Metadata
Where are objects stored in Amazon S3?
Folders
Buckets
Files
Bin
A research team deployed in a location with low-internet connection would like to move 5 TBs of data to the Cloud. Which service can it use?
Storage Gateway
Snowball Edge
Snowcone
OpsHub
What can you use to define actions to move S3 objects between different storage classes?
Scaling Policy
Bucket Policies
Lifecycle Rules
Replication
A non-profit organization needs to regularly transfer petabytes of data to the cloud and to have access to local computing capacity. Which service can help with this task?
Snowball Edge - Storage Optimized
Snowbalal Edge - Compute Optimized
Snowcone
Snowmobile
Which S3 Storage Class is suitable for less frequently accessed data, but with rapid access when needed, while keeping a high durability and allowing an Availability Zone failure?
Amazon S3 Standard - General Purpose
Amazon Glacier
Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access
Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access
You want to create a decentralized blockchain on AWS. Which AWS service would you use?
DocumentDB
QLDB
Managed Blockchain
QuickSight
Which AWS database is a data warehouse?
DynamoDB
ElastiCache
Redshift
RDS
Which AWS service is always serverless and has SQL capabilities?
RDS
Aurora
DynamoDB
Athena
You would like to use a serverless service to prepare data so it can be loaded for analytics. Which service would you use?
Athena
RDS
Glue
ElastiCache
Which relational database is a proprietary technology from AWS and is cloud-optimized?
DynamoDB
Oracle
Athena
Aurora
You would like to migrate databases to AWS while still being able to use the database during the migration. What service allows you to do this?
Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
Database Migration Service (DMS)
AWS Storage Gateway
Snowball
How can you create Hadoop clusters to analyze and process a vast amount of data?
EMR
Athena
EC2 Instances
Redshift
Which in-memory AWS database can you use to reduce the load off databases and has high performance, low latency?
Redshift
ElastiCache
RDS
DynamoDB
What is the name of a central repository to store structural and operational metadata for data assets in AWS Glue?
Glue Data Table
Glue Data Dictionary
Glue Data Catalog
Which of the following databases is a managed service with SQL capability suited for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)?
DynamoDB
Redshift
RDS
MySQL on EC2
Which AWS service is an immutable ledger database?
QLDB
EMR
Managed Blockchain
Inspector
You would like to set up a NoSQL database that can scale with no downtime and can handle millions of requests per second. Which AWS database is best suited for this work?
DynamoDB
RDS
Redshift
Athena
Which AWS service can create complex graphs for fraud detection?
Redshift
Neptune
QLDB
Glue
Which AWS serverless service can use machine learning-powered business intelligence to create interactive dashboards such as business analytics?
QuickSight
Aurora
Athena
Managed Blockchain
A company would like to set up a fully managed MongoDB database. Which AWS database is best-suited for this task?
DocumentDB
ElastiCache
RDS
Neptune
Which exclusive DynamoDB feature is an in-memory cache that can improve your performance up to 10x?
ElastiCache
Edge Locations
DynamoDB Accelerator
Snowball Edge
RDS Multi-AZ deployments’ main purpose is high availability, while RDS Read replicas’ main purpose is scalability.
True
False
How do you get charged in AWS Lambda?
Per programming language
Per number of functions
Per call and per duration
Per inactive time
You would like to launch Docker containers in AWS without worrying about provisioning or managing any infrastructure. The Docker containers will be used to host a heavy workloads to serve different types of requests. Some requests may need up to 30 minutes to be completed. Which AWS service should you use to run Docker containers in a Serverless way and satisfy the requirements?
ECS
Fargate
ECR
Lambda
A complete cloud beginner would like to create a simple application with predictable pricing. What service should this person use?
EC2
Lambda
Lightsail
EasyStart
What is the name of the software development platform that allows you to run applications the same way, regardless of where they are run?
Dolphin
Shark
Docker
ECS
How would you best describe "event-driven" in AWS Lambda?
Happens on a certain day
Happens at a certain time
Happens on a regular basis
Happens when needed
Which AWS service allows you to launch Docker containers on AWS, but requires you to provision and maintain the infrastructure?
ECR
EC2
ECS
Fargate
Which of the following statements is INCORRECT regarding the definition of the term "serverless"?
Serverless allows you to deploy functions as a service
There are no servers
You don't need to manage servers
Lambda is the serverless pioneer
Which of the following statements is NOT a feature of AWS Lambda?
Integration with the whole AWS suite of services
Virtual functions
Automated and continuous scaling
Definition of a minimum and maximum of EC2 instances running
A company needs to run thousands of jobs but would like to NOT manage the compute resources. What service can it use?
ECS
EC2 Spot Instances
EC2 Instances
Batch
Where should you store your private Docker images so they can be run by ECS or Fargate?
Elastic Docker Registry
Elastic Docker File Registry
Elastic Container Registry
Elastic Private Container Registry
Which AWS serverless service can be used by developers to create APIs?
ECR
Lambda
API Gateway
