AWS Cloud Practitioner Practice Exam

Question 1

Where was the first Region located?

Answer 1

North Virginia

Question 2

Which of the following is an example of SaaS?

Answer 2

Facebook and Google Maps

Question 3

What are two ways that moving to an AWS cloud can benefit an organization?

Answer 3

1. Increase speed and agility

2. Stop guessing about capacity

Question 4

What is the purpose of granting least privileges?

Answer 4

Granting least privileges ensures users may only have access to what is required to perform their assigned tasks

Question 5

Why is it important to create individual IAM users for each person interacting with the AWS account?

Answer 5

Each user is going to be performing their own tasks and will need their own specific permissions

Question 6

What AWS service do you use to create Billing Alarms?

Answer 6

CloudWatch

Question 7

Which of the statements below is correct in relation to Consolidated Billing? (choose 3)

Answer 7

1. You can combine usage and share volume pricing discounts
2. It’s a free service
3. You receive a single bill for multiple accounts

Question 8

Can you have two buckets with the same name.

Answer 8

No

Question 9

Which storage tier should you choose for files that are easily replaceable that you also need to retrieve quickly when you have a tight budget?

Answer 9

Standard One Zone IA (infrequent Access)

Question 10

What is a graph database?

Answer 10

A type of database that stores information where a significant amount of the value is the relationship between the data points

Question 11

Which of the following would you use for OLAP?

Answer 11

Redshift

Question 12

What does it mean to be serverless?

Answer 12

Serverless is the native architecture of the cloud that enables you to shift more of your operational responsibilities to AWS

Question 13

How does AWS Route53 check the health of resources?

Answer 13

By sending requests over regular intervals to verify that it’s reachable, available, and functional

Question 14

What type of information is CloudTrail monitoring?

Answer 14

User activity within the AWS console and platform

Question 15

Is detailed monitoring available at no extra charge

Answer 15

No

Question 16

What is a service that allows you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configuration of individual resources?

Answer 16

AWS Config

Question 17

Which AWS support plan comes with a Technical Account Manager (TAM)?

Answer 17

Enterprise

Question 18

Which of the following is not one of the support plans?

Answer 18

Organization

Question 19

Which of the following are characteristics of consolidated billing? (Select all that apply)

Answer 19

1. Combine resource usage to maximize bulk pricing discounts
2. You get one bill for multiple accounts
3. It is offered at no additional cost

Question 20

When should you turn on multi part uploads?

Answer 20

When uploading files approximately 100 MB or larger

Question 21

Is EBS ephemeral storage?

Answer 21

No, it is an easy to use, high-performance, block-storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for both throughput and transaction intensive workloads at any scale.

Question 22

Which routing policy description describes the following policy type: Geoproximity routing

Answer 22

Use when you want to route traffic based on the location of your resources and, optionally, shift traffic from resources in one location to resources in another.

Question 23

Do Subnets span multiple Availability Zones

Answer 23

No

Question 24

What is Amazon Athena used for?

Answer 24

An interactive query service used to analyze data within S3

Question 25

The AWS snow family of devices are used for: (Select all that apply)

Answer 25

1. Transferring of large amounts of data when the network speed would make the transfer take too long 2. Transferring data without the reliance of a network 3. Processing of data in transit while offline 4. Transferring of data when security regulations don't allow for the data to be transferred over the internet

Question 26

When should you choose Memcached over Redis?

Answer 26

When you need a simple, in memory data store option that supports multi threaded architecture

Question 27

What is the purpose of using Systems Manager?

Answer 27

The management of multiple EC2 instances

Question 28

When you stop an instance, you still have to pay for:

Answer 28

Any EBS volumes being used

Question 29

Which of the following is not a database option offered by AWS?

Answer 29

MongoDB