Essential AWS Cloud Practitioner Practice Questions: Test Your Knowledge

Test your AWS knowledge with a multiple choice exam with questions you'll find on the Cloud Practitioner certification!

Posted by Jason August 13, 2024

Prepare for your AWS Certified Cloud practitioner exam with this collection of essential multiple-choice questions. This articles covers a range of practice questions including key concepts such as AWS service, cloud storage, compute, networking, and security. This foundational knowledge will make you a more competitive candidate on the job market and help you demonstrate your ability to effectively engage with cloud technologies in a variety of roles.

Welcome to your Aws Cloud Practitioner Practice Exam

Which of the following services can help protect your web applications from SQL injection and other vulnerabilities in your application code?

Your company is designing a new application that will store and retrieve photos and videos. Which of the following services should you recommend as the underlying storage mechanism?

You work as an on-premises MySQL DBA. The work of database configuration, backups, patching, and DR can be time-consuming and repetitive. Your company has decided to migrate to the AWS Cloud. Which of the following can help save time on database maintenance so you can focus on data architecture and performance?

According to the AWS Acceptable Use Policy, which of the following statements is true regarding penetration testing of EC2 instances?

An organization needs to analyze and process a large number of data sets. Which AWS service should they use?

What is the AWS service that enables you to manage all of your AWS accounts from a single master account?

A global company with a large number of AWS accounts is seeking a way in which they can centrally manage billing and security policies across all accounts. Which AWS Service will assist them in meeting these goals?

What is the AWS feature that provides an additional level of security above the default authentication mechanism of usernames and passwords?

A company has a large amount of structured data stored in their on-premises data center. They are planning to migrate all the data to AWS, what is the most appropriate AWS database option?

A company is introducing a new product to their customers, and is expecting a surge in traffic to their web application. As part of their Enterprise Support plan, which of the following provides the company with architectural and scaling guidance?

The principle “design for failure and nothing will fail” is very important when designing your AWS Cloud architecture. Which of the following would help adhere to this principle? (Choose TWO)

What are the AWS services/features that can help you maintain a highly available and fault-tolerant architecture in AWS? (Choose TWO)

What are the default security credentials that are required to access the AWS management console for an IAM user account?

Which of the following is equivalent to a user name and password and is used to authenticate your programmatic access to AWS services and APIs?

What is the AWS service that provides you the highest level of control over the underlying virtual infrastructure?

A company is concerned that they are spending money on underutilized compute resources in AWS. Which AWS feature will help ensure that their applications are automatically adding/removing EC2 compute capacity to closely match the required demand?

Which of the following services allows you to run containerized applications on a cluster of EC2 instances?

AWS has created a large number of Edge Locations as part of its Global Infrastructure. Which of the following is NOT a benefit of using Edge Locations?

Which of the following procedures will help reduce your Amazon S3 costs?

Which service is used to ensure that messages between software components are not lost if one or more components fail?

In your on-premises environment, you can create as many virtual servers as you need from a single template. What can you use to perform the same in AWS?

Which AWS services can be used to improve the performance of a global application and reduce latency for its users? (Choose TWO)

Which of the following aspects of security are managed by AWS? (Choose TWO)

What are two advantages of using Cloud Computing over using traditional data centers? (Choose TWO)

According to the AWS Shared responsibility model, which of the following are the responsibility of the customer? (Choose TWO)

What is the AWS service/feature that takes advantage of Amazon CloudFront’s globally distributed edge locations to transfer files to S3 with higher upload speeds?

Based on the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following are the sole responsibility of AWS? (Choose TWO)

What is the primary purpose of AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)?

What are the change management tools that helps AWS customers audit and monitor all resource changes in their AWS environment? (Choose TWO)

A company has moved to AWS recently. Which of the following AWS Services will help ensure that they have the proper security settings? (Choose TWO)

Which of the following activities may help reduce your AWS monthly costs?

Which of the following AWS services can be used as a compute resource? (Choose TWO)

A company has created a solution that helps AWS customers improve their architectures on AWS. Which AWS program may support this company?

Which of the below is a best-practice when designing solutions on AWS?

Which of the following EC2 instance purchasing options supports the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model for almost every BYOL scenario?

What is the AWS database service that allows you to upload data structured in key-value format?

Which of the following AWS security features is associated with an EC2 instance and functions to filter incoming traffic requests?

What is the AWS serverless service that allows you to run your applications without any administrative burden?

Which service provides object-level storage in AWS?

Which S3 storage class is best for data with unpredictable access patterns?

What is the AWS service that provides a virtual network dedicated to your AWS account?

What does Amazon ElastiCache provide?

Using Amazon RDS falls under the shared responsibility model. Which of the following are customer responsibilities? (Choose TWO)

Which of the following are important design principles you should adopt when designing systems on AWS? (Choose TWO)

You are working on two projects that require completely different network configurations. Which AWS service or feature will allow you to isolate resources and network configurations?

Which of the following is one of the benefits of moving infrastructure from an on-premises data center to AWS?

Which of the following is NOT correct regarding Amazon EC2 On-demand instances?

Which of the following services will help businesses ensure compliance in AWS?

Which AWS Service can be used to establish a dedicated, private network connection between AWS and your datacenter?

Which statement best describes the operational excellence pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?

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