Exam questions: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Which AWS service uses machine learning to help discover, monitor, and protect sensitive data that is stored in Amazon S3 buckets?

A company wants to improve the overall availability and performance of its applications that are hosted on AWS.

A company does not want to rely on elaborate forecasting to determine its usage of compute resources. Instead, the company wants to pay only for the resources that it uses. The company also needs the ability to increase or decrease its resource usage to meet business requirements.

A company wants to launch its workload on AWS and requires the system to automatically recover from failure.

A large enterprise with multiple VPCs in several AWS Regions around the world needs to connect and centrally manage network connectivity between its VPCs.

A company is preparing to launch a new web store that is expected to receive high traffic for an upcoming event. The web store runs only on AWS, and the company has an AWS Enterprise Support plan.

A user wants to deploy a service to the AWS Cloud by using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles.

A company that has multiple business units wants to centrally manage and govern its AWS Cloud environments. The company wants to automate the creation of AWS accounts, apply service control policies (SCPs), and simplify billing processes.

Which IT controls do AWS and the customer share, according to the AWS shared responsibility model?

A company is launching an application in the AWS Cloud. The application will use Amazon S3 storage. A large team of researchers will have shared access to the data. The company must be able to recover data that is accidentally overwritten or deleted.

A manufacturing company has a critical application that runs at a remote site that has a slow internet connection. The company wants to migrate the workload to
AWS. The application is sensitive to latency and interruptions in connectivity. The company wants a solution that can host this application with minimum latency.

A company wants to migrate its applications from its on-premises data center to a VPC in the AWS Cloud. These applications will need to access on-premises resources.

A company wants to use the AWS Cloud to provide secure access to desktop applications that are running in a fully managed environment.

A company wants to implement threat detection on its AWS infrastructure. However, the company does not want to deploy additional software.

A company needs to install an application in a Docker container.

Which AWS service or feature checks access policies and offers actionable recommendations to help users set secure and functional policies?

A company has a fleet of cargo ships. The cargo ships have sensors that collect data at sea, where there is intermittent or no internet connectivity. The company needs to collect, format, and process the data at sea and move the data to AWS later.

A retail company needs to build a highly available architecture for a new ecommerce platform. The company is using only AWS services that replicate data across multiple Availability Zones.

Which characteristic of the AWS Cloud helps users eliminate underutilized CPU capacity?

Service control policies (SCPs) manage permissions for which of the following?

Which characteristics are advantages of using the AWS Cloud?

A user is storing objects in Amazon S3. The user needs to restrict access to the objects to meet compliance obligations.

A company wants to convert video files and audio files from their source format into a format that will play on smartphones, tablets, and web browsers.

Which of the following are benefits of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

A company has several departments. Each department has its own AWS accounts for its applications. The company wants all AWS costs on a single invoice to simplify payment, but the company wants to know the costs that each department is incurring.

A company runs its workloads on premises. The company wants to forecast the cost of running a large application on AWS.

A company wants to eliminate the need to guess infrastructure capacity before deployments. The company also wants to spend its budget on cloud resources only as the company uses the resources.

Which AWS service supports a hybrid architecture that gives users the ability to extend AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to data centers, co- location environments, or on-premises facilities?

A company has a physical tape library to store data backups. The tape library is running out of space. The company needs to extend the tape library's capacity to the AWS Cloud.

An online retail company has seasonal sales spikes several times a year, primarily around holidays. Demand is lower at other times. The company finds it difficult to predict the increasing infrastructure demand for each season.

Which AWS service or tool can be used to capture information about inbound and outbound traffic in an Amazon VPC?

A company wants to ensure that two Amazon EC2 instances are in separate data centers with minimal communication latency between the data centers.

In which situations should a company create an IAM user instead of an IAM role?

Which AWS services should a company use to read and write data that changes frequently?

Which AWS services make use of global edge locations?

A company is operating several factories where it builds products. The company needs the ability to process data, store data, and run applications with local system interdependencies that require low latency.

Which of the following is a recommended design principle for AWS Cloud architecture?

A company is designing its AWS workloads so that components can be updated regularly and so that changes can be made in small, reversible increments.

Which of the following acts as an instance-level firewall to control inbound and outbound access?

A company has a workload that will run continuously for 1 year. The workload cannot tolerate service interruptions.

Using AWS Config to record, audit, and evaluate changes to AWS resources to enable traceability is an example of which AWS Well-Architected Framework pillar?