AWS Interactive Knowledge Tool
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You’re on a journey toward AWS Certification. Validating your experience with an industry-recognized credential is a great way to gain new skills, solidify knowledge, highlight your value, and accelerate your career trajectory. These Interactive sample questions will help you prepare for the structure and topics covered on the official AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.
In addition to the questions, you’ll see answers, explanations, and other resources designed to enhance your understanding of the principles needed to pass the exam. After you’re comfortable with these principles and sample questions, you’ll be ready to evaluate your knowledge with the official practice exam.
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Your knowledge in review
You'll find a summary of your learning experience below. Take a deeper look at all the questions, review your answers, and find links to learning resources specific to that topic. Or, if you’re ready, sign up to take the official practice exam.
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Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute workloads?
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The ability to launch instances on demand when needed allows users to launch and terminate instances in response to a varying workload. This is a more economical practice than purchasing enough on-premises servers to handle the peak load.
Which AWS service would simplify the migration of a database to AWS?
Details
AWS DMS helps users migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely. The source database remains fully operational during the migration, minimizing downtime to applications that rely on the database. AWS DMS can migrate data to and from most widely used commercial and open-source databases.
Which AWS offering enables users to find, buy, and immediately start using software solutions in their AWS environment?
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AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that makes it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS.
Which AWS networking service enables a company to create a virtual network within AWS?
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Amazon VPC lets users provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where users can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that they define
Which of the following is an AWS responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model?
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Maintaining physical hardware is an AWS responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model.
Which component of the AWS global infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery?
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To deliver content to users with lower latency, Amazon CloudFront uses a global network of points of presence (edge locations and regional edge caches) worldwide.
How would a system administrator add an additional layer of login security to a user's AWS Management Console?
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Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a simple best practice that adds an extra layer of protection on top of a username and password. With MFA enabled, when a user signs in to an AWS Management Console, they will be prompted for their username and password (the first factor—what they know), as well as for an authentication code from their MFA device (the second factor—what they have). Taken together, these multiple factors provide increased security for AWS account settings and resources.
Which service can identify the user that made the API call when an Amazon EC2 instance is terminated?
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AWS CloudTrail helps users enable governance, compliance, and operational and risk auditing of their AWS accounts. Actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service are recorded as events in CloudTrail. Events include actions taken in the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs and APIs.
Which service would be used to send alerts based on Amazon CloudWatch alarms?
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Amazon SNS and Amazon CloudWatch are integrated so users can collect, view, and analyze metrics for every active SNS. Once users have configured CloudWatch for Amazon SNS, they can gain better insight into the performance of their Amazon SNS topics, push notifications, and SMS deliveries.
Where can a user find information about prohibited actions on the AWS infrastructure?
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The AWS Acceptable Use Policy provides information regarding prohibited actions on the AWS infrastructure.
Question 1
Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute workloads?
Answer
Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on demand when needed.
The ability to launch instances on demand when needed allows users to launch and terminate instances in response to a varying workload. This is a more economical practice than purchasing enough on-premises servers to handle the peak load.
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Question 2
Which AWS service would simplify the migration of a database to AWS?
Answer
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
AWS DMS helps users migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely. The source database remains fully operational during the migration, minimizing downtime to applications that rely on the database. AWS DMS can migrate data to and from most widely used commercial and open-source databases.
Helpful Links
Question 3
Which AWS offering enables users to find, buy, and immediately start using software solutions in their AWS environment?
Answer
AWS Marketplace
AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that makes it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS.
Helpful Links
Question 4
Which AWS networking service enables a company to create a virtual network within AWS?
Answer
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
Amazon VPC lets users provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where users can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that they define.
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Question 5
Which of the following is an AWS responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model?
Answer
Maintaining physical hardware
Maintaining physical hardware is an AWS responsibility under the AWS shared responsibility model.
Helpful Links
Question 6
Which component of the AWS global infrastructure does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery?
Answer
Edge locations
To deliver content to users with lower latency, Amazon CloudFront uses a global network of points of presence (edge locations and regional edge caches) worldwide.
Helpful Links
Question 7
How would a system administrator add an additional layer of login security to a user's AWS Management Console?
Answer
Enable multi-factor authentication
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a simple best practice that adds an extra layer of protection on top of a username and password. With MFA enabled, when a user signs in to an AWS Management Console, they will be prompted for their username and password (the first factor—what they know), as well as for an authentication code from their MFA device (the second factor—what they have). Taken together, these multiple factors provide increased security for AWS account settings and resources.
Helpful Links
Question 8
Which service can identify the user that made the API call when an Amazon EC2 instance is terminated?
Answer
AWS CloudTrail
AWS CloudTrail helps users enable governance, compliance, and operational and risk auditing of their AWS accounts. Actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service are recorded as events in CloudTrail. Events include actions taken in the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs and APIs.
Helpful Links
Question 9
Which service would be used to send alerts based on Amazon CloudWatch alarms?
Answer
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
Amazon SNS and Amazon CloudWatch are integrated so users can collect, view, and analyze metrics for every active SNS. Once users have configured CloudWatch for Amazon SNS, they can gain better insight into the performance of their Amazon SNS topics, push notifications, and SMS deliveries.
Helpful Links
Question 10
Where can a user find information about prohibited actions on the AWS infrastructure?
Answer
AWS Acceptable Use Policy
The AWS Acceptable Use Policy provides information regarding prohibited actions on the AWS infrastructure.