Practice Questions
36 questions for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam (CLF-CO2). Download all for Anki.
What are the advantages of deploying an application with Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones?
2 answers- A. Allowing the application to serve cross-Region users with low latency
- B. Increasing the load of the application
- C. Preventing a single point of failure
- D. Reducing the operational costs of the application
- E. Increasing the availability of the application
A company has an on-premises Linux-based server with an Oracle database that runs on it. The company wants to migrate the database server to run on an Amazon EC2 instance in AWS. Which service should the company use to complete the migration?
- A. AWS Outposts
- B. AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)
- C. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
- D. AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN)
What are benefits of using the AWS Cloud for companies with customers in many countries around the world?
2 answers- A. Companies can deploy applications in multiple AWS Regions to reduce latency.
- B. Amazon CloudFront has multiple edge locations around the world to reduce latency.
- C. Elastic Load Balancing can distribute application web traffic to multiple AWS Regions around the world, which reduces latency.
- D. Amazon Comprehend allows users to build applications that can respond to user requests in many languages.
- E. Amazon Translate automatically translates third-party website interfaces into multiple languages.
A user deploys an Amazon RDS DB instance in multiple Availability Zones. This strategy involves which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
- A. Security
- B. Performance efficiency
- C. Reliability
- D. Cost Optimization
What are the benefits of developing and running a new application in the AWS Cloud compared to on-premises? (Select TWO.)
2 answers- A. AWS automatically distributes
- B. AWS operates the application.
- C. AWS provides options to architect for high availability.
- D. AWS can scale resources of changing application demands.
- E. AWS patches user applications.
Which of the following is the customer responsible for updating and patching, according to the AWS shared responsibility model?
- A. Amazon Cognito
- B. AWS Directory Service
- C. AWS IAM Identity Center
- D. Amazon API Gateway
Which AWS service identifies security groups that allow unrestricted access to a user's AWS resources?
- A. AWS CloudTrail
- B. AWS Trusted Advisor
- C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- D. Amazon CloudWatch
Which credential components are required to gain programmatic access to an AWS account?
2 answers- A. An access key ID
- B. A secret access key
- C. A user ID
- D. A primary key
- E. A secondary key
Which of the following is the customer responsible for updating and patching, according to the AWS shared responsibility model?
- A. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
- B. Amazon WorkSpaces virtual Windows desktop
- C. AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory
- D. Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server
Which AWS service should be used to implement encryption in transit?
- A. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
- B. AWS Security Hub
- C. AWS Shield
- D. AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM)
Which task is the customer's responsibility for AWS Lambda, according to the AWS shared responsibility model?
- A. Encryption of the application data at rest
- B. Management of the application platform
- C. Patching of the guest operating system
- D. Security of the physical infrastructure
A user needs to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data stored in Amazon S3. Which AWS service can meet these requirements?
- A. Amazon GuardDuty
- B. Amazon Macie
- C. Amazon Inspector
- D. AWS Secrets Manager
Which security-related services or features does AWS offer? (Select TWO.)
2 answers- A. Complete PCI compliance for customer applications that run on AWS
- B. AWS Trusted Advisor security checks
- C. Data encryption
- D. Automated penetration testing
- E. Amazon S3 copyrighted content detection
Which tasks are the customer's responsibility according to the AWS shared responsibility model?
2 answers- A. Configure security groups for Amazon EC2 instances.
- B. Configure IAM users according to the principle of least privilege.
- C. Control physical access to the data center that contains a customer's VPC.
- D. Patch the operating system that AWS Lambda functions use.
- E. Install patches on Amazon RDS DB instances.
Which of the functionalities are characteristics of Amazon S3?
2 answers- A. An object store
- B. A durable storage system
- C. A network file system
- D. A local file store
- E. A global file system
A company requires an encrypted connection between the company's on-premises servers and AWS. The connection must use the company's existing internet connection. Which solution will meet these requirements?
- A. Amazon Connect
- B. AWS Site-to-Site VPN
- C. Amazon CloudFront
- D. AWS Direct Connect
A company requires a relational database on AWS that records new customer orders from a website. Which AWS service or feature will meet this requirement?
- A. Amazon DynamoDB
- B. Amazon Aurora
- C. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
- D. AWS Global Accelerator
A business-critical application requires multi-Region deployment to meet availability service level agreements (SLAs). Which AWS service or feature should be used for network routing and load balancing for this application?
- A. Amazon Route 53
- B. Application Load Balancer (ALB)
- C. Amazon API Gateway
- D. AWS Site-to-Site VPN
A company wants to establish a consistent and private connection from the company's on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?
- A. AWS Direct Connect
- B. AWS Site-to-Site VPN
- C. Amazon Connect
- D. AWS Client VPN
A company is hosting a static website from a single Amazon S3 bucket. Which AWS service will achieve lower latency and high transfer speeds?
- A. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- B. Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
- C. Amazon Route 53
- D. Amazon CloudFront
What should AWS edge locations be used for? (Select TWO.)
2 answers- A. Hosting applications and databases
- B. Delivering content closer to users
- C. Running NoSQL database caching services
- D. Reducing the load on Amazon EC2 based web servers
- E. Sending notification messages to end users
A web developer has limited knowledge of AWS networking services such as Amazon VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling, but wants to host a highly available web application. Which AWS service would automatically handle the deployment and reduce the complexity for the developer?
- A. AWS CodeDeploy
- B. AWS Resource Access Manager
- C. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- D. AWS CloudFormation
An application development team needs a solution that sends an alert to an entire development team if a quality assurance test fails on an application. Which AWS service should the application development team use to meet the requirement?
- A. Amazon EventBridge
- B. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
- C. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
- D. Amazon Connect
Which AWS services or features support data replication across AWS Regions? (Select TWO.)
2 answers- A. Amazon S3
- B. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
- C. Amazon EC2 instance store
- D. AWS Storage Gateway
- E. Amazon RDS
A company wants to create a learning application for students. The learning application must give students the option to choose a button to have the text read out loud to them. Which AWS machine learning service will meet this requirement?
- A. Amazon Transcribe
- B. Amazon Polly
- C. Amazon Translate
- D. Amazon Textract
Which AWS service automatically handles application health monitoring?
- A. Amazon API Gateway
- B. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- C. AWS Lambda
- D. AWS Config
Which AWS service allows customers to purchase unused Amazon EC2 capacity at an often discounted rate?
- A. Spot Instances
- B. Reserved Instances
- C. On-Demand Instances
- D. Dedicated Instances
What is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that provides technical support through phone calls?
- A. Business
- B. Basic
- C. Developer
- D. Enterprise
Where should users find a catalog of free or purchasable AWS-recognized providers of third-party solutions?
- A. AWS Service Catalog
- B. AWS Marketplace
- C. AWS Partner Solutions
- D. AWS CodeDeploy
Each department within a company has its own independent AWS account and its own payment method. The company needs to centralize departmental governance and consolidate payments. How can the company achieve these objectives by using AWS services or features?
- A. Create an organization in AWS Organizations with all features enabled within one account. Invite all accounts to join the organization.
- B. Use the AWS Cost and Usage Reports page of the AWS Billing and Cost Management console.
- C. Use AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter.
- D. Configure AWS IAM Identity Center in each account.
What can be used to reduce the cost of running Amazon EC2 instances? (Select TWO.)
2 answers- A. Spot Instances for stateless and flexible workloads
- B. Memory optimized instances for high-compute workloads
- C. On-Demand Instances for high-cost and sustained workloads
- D. Reserved Instances for sustained workloads
- E. Spend limits set using AWS Budgets
A company needs phone, email, and chat access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The response time must be less than 1 hour if a production system has a service interruption. Which AWS Support plan meets these requirements at the LOWEST cost?
- A. AWS Basic Support
- B. AWS Developer Support
- C. AWS Business Support
- D. AWS Enterprise Support
How does AWS charge for AWS Lambda usage once the free tier has been exceeded?
2 answers- A. By the total number of Lambda functions in an AWS account
- B. By the programming language that is used for the Lambda function
- C. By the time it takes for the Lambda function to run
- D. By the number of requests made for a given Lambda function
- E. By the number of versions of a specific Lambda function
What does AWS Marketplace allow users to do? (Select TWO.)
2 answers- A. Sell unused Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.
- B. Sell solutions to other AWS users.
- C. Buy third-party software that runs on AWS.
- D. Purchase AWS security and compliance documents.
- E. Order AWS Snowball Edge.
Which AWS tool or feature compares prices of different services, creates rough estimates of the total monthly costs, and exports the estimates to a .csv file?
- A. Cost Explorer
- B. AWS Pricing Calculator
- C. Consolidated billing
- D. AWS Budgets
Which Amazon EC2 pricing model adjusts the cost based on supply and demand of EC2 instances?
- A. On-Demand Instances
- B. Reserved Instances
- C. Spot Instances
- D. Convertible Reserved Instances