AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner -100 Questions & Answers (Part 2)

1. Which of the following allows you to create new RDS instances? (Choose TWO)

2. Sarah has deployed an application in the Northern California (us-west-1) region.
After examining the application's traffic, she notices that about 30% of the traffic is
coming from Asia. What can she do to reduce latency for the users in Asia?

3. Which statement is correct with regards to AWS service limits? (Choose TWO)

4. Both AWS and traditional IT distributors provide a wide range of virtual servers to
meet their customers' requirements. What is the name of these virtual servers in
AWS?

5. What is one benefit and one drawback of buying a reserved EC2 instance? (Select
TWO)

6. What is the most cost-effective purchasing option for running a set of EC2
instances that must always be available for a period of two months?

7. What does Amazon Elastic Beanstalk provide?

8. How are AWS customers billed for Linux-based Amazon EC2 usage?

9. Why does every AWS Region contain multiple Availability Zones?

10. A company plans to migrate a large amount of archived data to AWS. The archived
data must be maintained for a period of 5 years and must be retrievable within 5
hours of a request. What is the most cost-effective AWS storage service to use?

11. What are the Amazon RDS features that can be used to improve the availability of
your database? (Choose TWO)

12. 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?

13. A company has discovered that multiple S3 buckets were deleted, but it is unclear
who deleted the buckets. Which of the following can the company use to
determine the identity that deleted the buckets?

14. Why would an organization decide to use AWS over an on-premises data center?
(Choose TWO)

15. What is the AWS service that performs automated network assessments of
Amazon EC2 instances to check for vulnerabilities?

16. A developer needs to set up an SSL security certificate for a client's eCommerce
website in order to use the HTTPS protocol. Which of the following AWS services
can be used to deploy the required SSL server certificates? (Choose TWO)

17. Which AWS Service provides the current status of all AWS Services in all AWS
Regions?

18. Which of the following is used to control network traffic in AWS? (Choose TWO)

19. What is the framework created by AWS Professional Services that helps
organizations design a road map to successful cloud adoption?

20. Which AWS service can be used to send promotional text messages (SMS) to more
than 200 countries worldwide?

21. A company has business critical workloads hosted on AWS and they are unwilling
to accept any downtime. Which of the following is a recommended best practice
to protect their workloads in the event of an unexpected natural disaster?

22. Using Amazon EC2 falls under which of the following cloud computing models?

23. Which of the following AWS offerings is a MySQL-compatible relational database
service that can scale capacity automatically based on demand?

24. A customer is planning to move billions of images and videos to be stored on
Amazon S3. The customer has approximately 60 Petabytes of data to move. Which
of the following AWS Services is the best choice to transfer the data to AWS?

25. One of the major advantages of using AWS is cost savings. What does AWS
provide to reduce the cost of running Amazon EC2 instances?

26. Which AWS Service allows customers to download AWS SOC & PCI reports?

27. Where can you store files in AWS? (Choose TWO)

28. A company is trying to analyze the costs applied to their AWS account recently.
Which of the following provides them the most granular data about their AWS
costs and usage?

29. Which of the below is a best-practice when building applications on AWS?

30. A company uses AWS Organizations to manage all of its AWS accounts. Which of
the following allows the company to restrict what services and actions are allowed
in each individual account?

31. Which of the following are use cases for Amazon S3? (Choose TWO)

32. Which of the following statements describes the AWS Cloud's agility?

33. An organization runs many systems and uses many AWS products. Which of the
following services enables them to control how each developer interacts with
these products?

34. Which AWS service or feature is used to manage the keys used to encrypt
customer data?

35. What is the AWS data warehouse service that supports a high level of query
performance on large amounts of datasets?

36. What are the connectivity options that can be used to build hybrid cloud
architectures? (Choose TWO)

37. What is the AWS' recommendation regarding access keys?

38. Which of the following AWS services is designed with native Multi-AZ fault
tolerance in mind? (Choose TWO)

39. What are the benefits of using the Amazon Relational Database Service? (Choose
TWO)

40. Why do many startup companies prefer AWS over traditional on-premises
solutions? (Choose TWO)

41. Which statement best describes the concept of an AWS region?

42. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2)?

43. A company needs to host a database in Amazon RDS for at least three years.
Which of the following options would be the most cost-effective solution?

44. What are the benefits of using an AWS-managed service? (Choose TWO)

45. Which AWS Service can be used to register a new domain name?

46. Which AWS service can be used to store and reliably deliver messages across
distributed systems?

47. Which AWS Group assists customers in achieving their desired business
outcomes?

48. Which AWS service or feature can be used to call AWS Services from different
programming languages?

49. A company needs to track resource changes using the API call history. Which AWS
service can help the company achieve this goal?

50. Which of the following are factors in determining the appropriate database
technology to use for a specific workload? (Choose TWO)

51. Which of the following AWS services can help you perform security analysis and
regulatory compliance auditing? (Choose TWO)

52. Data security is one of the top priorities of AWS. How does AWS deal with old
storage devices that have reached the end of their useful life?

53. AWS recommends some practices to help organizations avoid unexpected charges
on their bill. Which of the following is NOT one of these practices?

54. App development companies move their business to AWS to reduce time-tomarket and improve customer satisfaction, what are the AWS automation tools
that help them deploy their applications faster? (Choose TWO)

55. What is the connectivity option that uses Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) to
establish encrypted connectivity between an on-premises network and the AWS
Cloud?

56. Savings Plans are available for which of the following AWS compute services?
(Choose TWO)

57. What is the AWS tool that enables you to use scripts to manage all AWS services
and resources?

58. Which of the following can help protect your EC2 instances from DDoS attacks?
(Choose TWO)

59. What are the benefits of implementing a tagging strategy for AWS resources?
(Choose TWO)

60. A company is planning to migrate a database with high read/write activity to AWS.
What is the best storage option to use?

61. What is the primary storage service used by Amazon RDS database instances?

62. A company needs to migrate their website from on-premises to AWS. Security is a
major concern for them, so they need to host their website on hardware that is
NOT shared with other AWS customers. Which of the following EC2 instance
options meets this requirement?

63. Amazon Glacier is an Amazon S3 storage class that is suitable for storing [...] & [...].
(Choose TWO

64. Which of the following will impact the price paid for an EC2 instance? (Choose
TWO)

65. TYMO Cloud Corp is looking forward to migrating their entire on-premises data
center to AWS. What tool can they use to perform a cost-benefit analysis of
moving to the AWS Cloud?

66. What are AWS shared controls?

67. A company has developed a media transcoding application in AWS. The
application is designed to recover quickly from hardware failures. Which one of
the following types of instance would be the most cost-effective choice to use?

68. What is the AWS tool that can help a company visualize their AWS spending in the
last few months?

69. How can AWS customers track and avoid over-spending on underutilized reserved
instances?

70. What is the AWS IAM feature that provides an additional layer of security on top
of user-name and password authentication?

71. Which of the below are responsibilities of the customer when using Amazon EC2?
(Choose TWO)

72. Which of the following should be considered when performing a TCO analysis to
compare the costs of running an application on AWS instead of on-premises?

73. Which of the following is a benefit of running an application in multiple
Availability Zones?

74. Which AWS Service is used to manage user permissions?

75. Which of the following AWS services scale automatically without your
intervention? (Choose TWO)

76. A company has hundreds of VPCs in multiple AWS Regions worldwide. What
service does AWS offer to simplify the connection management among the VPCs?

77. What is the minimum level of AWS support that provides 24x7 access to technical
support engineers via phone and chat?

78. What is the benefit of using an API to access AWS Services?

79. Which of the following AWS Services helps with planning application migration to
the AWS Cloud?

80. Which design principles relate to performance efficiency in AWS? (Choose TWO)

81. A company is developing a new application using a microservices framework. The
new application is having performance and latency issues. Which AWS Service
should be used to troubleshoot these issues?

82. Your application has recently experienced significant global growth, and
international users are complaining of high latency. What is the AWS characteristic
that can help improve your international users' experience?

83. For managed services like Amazon DynamoDB, which of the below is AWS
responsible for? (Choose TWO)

84. Which AWS service provides cost-optimization recommendations?

85. When running a workload in AWS, the customer is NOT responsible for: (Select
TWO)

86. A company has deployed a new web application on multiple Amazon EC2
instances. Which of the following should they use to ensure that the incoming
HTTP traffic is distributed evenly across the instances?

87. Which of the following activities supports the Operational Excellence pillar of the
AWS Well-Architected Framework?

88. How do ELBs improve the reliability of your application?

89. What is the AWS service that provides five times the performance of a standard
MySQL database?

90. What are the benefits of using DynamoDB? (Choose TWO)

91. Under the Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following controls do
customers fully inherit from AWS? (Choose TWO)

92. As part of the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), what does AWS
provide to accelerate Enterprise adoption of AWS? (Choose TWO)

93. Which of the following can be used to protect data at rest on Amazon S3?
(Choose TWO)

94. Which support plan includes AWS Support Concierge Service?

95. Which of the following describes the payment model that AWS makes available for
customers that can commit to using Amazon EC2 over a one or 3-year term to
reduce their total computing costs?

96. A customer spent a lot of time configuring a newly deployed Amazon EC2
instance. After the workload increases, the customer decides to provision another
EC2 instance with an identical configuration. How can the customer achieve this?

97. What does AWS Service Catalog provide?

98. What is the AWS Compute service that executes code only when triggered by
events?

99. A company is planning to migrate an application from Amazon EC2 to AWS
Lambda to use a serverless architecture. Which of the following will be the
responsibility of AWS after migration? (Choose TWO)

100. A company is migrating its on-premises database to Amazon RDS. What should
the company do to ensure Amazon RDS costs are kept to a minimum?