AWS Cloud Practitioner - Quiz

Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework focuses on a system’s ability to recover from failures and dynamically meet demand?

Which of the following is NOT a pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

What is a primary financial benefit of moving to the AWS Cloud?

A workload’s traffic spikes every evening and drops overnight. Which cloud characteristic lets AWS automatically add and remove capacity to match this?

Which component of AWS global infrastructure is a physically separate, isolated location made up of one or more data centers within a Region?

Which EC2 purchasing option offers the largest discount (up to 90%) and is best for fault-tolerant, flexible, or interruptible workloads?

A company wants to run some workloads in its own data center while connecting them to resources in AWS. Which deployment model is this?

Which benefit of cloud computing lets a company deploy its application to customers around the world in minutes?

Because AWS aggregates usage from hundreds of thousands of customers, it can lower prices over time. This is an example of what?

What does the cloud benefit “stop guessing capacity” allow a business to do?

Which practice most improves the high availability of an application running on Amazon EC2?

A healthcare company must store patient data within a specific country to satisfy local law. Which factor should most influence its AWS Region choice?

Adding more, smaller instances to handle increased load (rather than resizing to a bigger instance) is known as what?

Which cloud benefit refers to being able to experiment and provision resources in minutes instead of weeks?

What is the main purpose of comparing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) between on-premises and AWS?

Designing application components so that a failure in one does not cascade to others is best described as what?

Under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, who is responsible for patching the guest operating system on an Amazon EC2 instance?

Under the Shared Responsibility Model, which of these is always AWS’s responsibility?

Which AWS service is used to create users and groups and control their permissions to AWS resources?

Which is a security best practice for the AWS account root user?

Which service continuously monitors AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity using machine learning and threat intelligence?

Which service provides on-demand access to AWS compliance reports such as SOC and PCI DSS?

Which service protects web applications from common exploits like SQL injection and cross-site scripting?

Which AWS service helps defend applications against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, with a Standard tier enabled automatically at no extra cost?

Which service lets you create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data across AWS services?

Which service uses machine learning to discover and protect sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) stored in Amazon S3?

Which service performs automated security assessments to find software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure in workloads?

An application on EC2 needs to read from an S3 bucket. What is the AWS-recommended way to grant this access?

What does the principle of “least privilege” mean when assigning IAM permissions?

What does multi-factor authentication (MFA) add to an AWS sign-in?

Which statement about security groups and network ACLs in a VPC is correct?

Which service records API calls made in your account - capturing who did what, when, and from where - for auditing and governance?

Which service continuously assesses, audits, and evaluates the configurations of your AWS resources against desired rules?

Which service helps you securely store, retrieve, and automatically rotate secrets such as database credentials and API keys?

In AWS Organizations, what is the purpose of a Service Control Policy (SCP)?

Which AWS service provides resizable virtual servers (compute capacity) in the cloud?

Which AWS service is a fully managed relational database service?

Which service lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers, paying only for the compute time consumed?

A team needs a managed NoSQL key-value database with single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. Which service fits best?

Which service is object storage designed for 99.999999999% (eleven nines) durability?

Which service provides persistent block storage volumes that attach to a single EC2 instance, like a virtual hard drive?

Which service provides a shared file system that can be mounted concurrently by many Linux EC2 instances?

Which service is a content delivery network (CDN) that caches content at edge locations to reduce latency for users worldwide?

Which service lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud with your own IP ranges, subnets, and route tables?

Which fully managed service decouples application components by passing messages through a queue?

Which service is a publish/subscribe messaging service used to send notifications to many subscribers (email, SMS, SQS, Lambda) at once?

Which service provides infrastructure as code, letting you model and provision AWS resources from templates?

Which service should you use to physically transfer petabytes of data into AWS when transferring over the network would be too slow?

Which service automatically adjusts the number of EC2 instances to match application demand?

Which service distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances in several Availability Zones?

Which service provides scalable Domain Name System (DNS) and domain registration?

Which service is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse for running analytics with SQL?

Which service lets you run containers without provisioning or managing the underlying servers?

A developer wants to deploy a web app and let AWS handle capacity provisioning, load balancing, and scaling automatically. Which service fits best?

Which service collects metrics, logs, and alarms to monitor the operational health of AWS resources and applications?

Which serverless service lets you query data directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL, with no infrastructure to manage?

Which of these is a programmatic way to interact with AWS services from a terminal using commands and scripts?

Which service provides a dedicated, private network connection from an on-premises data center to AWS?

Which Amazon S3 storage class is designed for low-cost, long-term data archiving where retrieval times of minutes to hours are acceptable?

Which fully managed service is used to build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale?

Which tool lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time?

Which service lets you set a custom cost or usage threshold and get alerted when spending is forecast to exceed it?

Which AWS Support plan is the lowest tier that includes a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM)?

What is a primary benefit of consolidated billing in AWS Organizations?

A company runs a steady, predictable EC2 workload 24/7 and wants the lowest cost with a 1- or 3-year commitment. Which option is most appropriate?

Which service inspects your environment and gives real-time recommendations across cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits?

Which tool helps you estimate the cost of an AWS architecture before you build it?

Which statement about the AWS Free Tier is correct?

Which AWS Support plan provides 24/7 access to Cloud Support Engineers by phone, email, and chat, plus full Trusted Advisor checks - at the lowest price that includes those?

Which pricing principle is true for data transfer with AWS?

A company wants to break down its AWS bill by project and department. Which feature best enables this?

Which resource is a digital catalog where customers can find, buy, and deploy third-party software that runs on AWS?