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Question 1

Which AWS pricing model charges customers only for the resources they actually use?

Select an answer Pay-as-you-goReserved InstancesSavings PlansSpot Instances

Question 2

Which cloud deployment model combines on-premises infrastructure with AWS resources?

Select an answer Community cloudHybrid cloudPublic cloud onlyPrivate cloud only

Question 3

Which AWS Well-Architected Framework pillar focuses on recovering from failures and meeting demand?

Select an answer Operational excellencePerformance efficiencyReliabilityCost optimization

Question 4

Which term describes automatically adding or removing AWS resources as demand changes?

Select an answer DurabilityFault toleranceScalabilityElasticity

Question 5

A company wants lower latency for customers in Europe. Which AWS global infrastructure approach is most direct?

Select an answer Deploy resources in an AWS Region close to those customersUse a single Region in the United StatesDisable edge locationsUse only local on-premises servers

Question 6

How does AWS typically achieve lower prices through economies of scale?

Select an answer By limiting available servicesBy serving a large number of customers and sharing infrastructure costsBy charging every customer the same fixed priceBy requiring long-term contracts from every customer

Question 7

What is an AWS Region?

Select an answer An edge location for CloudFrontA virtual private networkA geographic area containing multiple Availability ZonesA single data center

Question 8

What is an AWS Availability Zone?

Select an answer A group of RegionsA global content delivery networkA user permission boundaryOne or more isolated data centers with redundant power and networking

Question 9

Which AWS service is global and is not tied to a specific Region?

Select an answer AWS Identity and Access ManagementAmazon EC2Amazon RDSAmazon S3

Question 10

Which deployment choice is a best practice for making an application highly available on AWS?

Select an answer Avoid load balancingDeploy across multiple Availability ZonesDeploy in one Availability ZoneStore all data only on one EC2 instance

Question 11

What is an AWS edge location?

Select an answer A private data center owned by the customerAn isolated account boundaryA site used by CloudFront to cache content closer to usersA Region that stores backups

Question 12

Which statement about AWS Regions is true?

Select an answer All resources are automatically replicated to every RegionEvery Region has only one Availability ZoneRegions cannot communicate with each otherResources are not automatically replicated across Regions

Question 13

Which AWS service provides resizable virtual servers?

Select an answer Amazon EC2Amazon S3AWS LambdaAmazon Route 53

Question 14

Which AWS service is used to store objects such as images and backups?

Select an answer AWS CloudFormationAmazon S3Amazon EC2Amazon RDS

Question 15

Which AWS service runs code without requiring the customer to provision servers?

Select an answer Amazon RDSAmazon VPCAWS LambdaAmazon EC2

Question 16

Which AWS service is a managed relational database service?

Select an answer Amazon DynamoDBAmazon S3AWS GlueAmazon RDS

Question 17

Which AWS service is a fully managed NoSQL database?

Select an answer Amazon DynamoDBAmazon RDSAmazon RedshiftAmazon EBS

Question 18

Which AWS service provides a logically isolated virtual network in the cloud?

Select an answer AWS Direct ConnectAmazon VPCAmazon Route 53Amazon CloudFront

Question 19

Which AWS service manages users, groups, roles, and permissions?

Select an answer AWS ShieldAmazon InspectorAWS Identity and Access ManagementAmazon Cognito

Question 20

Which AWS service is a content delivery network?

Select an answer Amazon S3Amazon VPCAWS Direct ConnectAmazon CloudFront

Question 21

Which AWS service provides scalable domain name system services?

Select an answer Amazon Route 53Amazon CloudFrontAWS WAFAmazon VPC

Question 22

Which AWS service collects metrics and logs to monitor resources and applications?

Select an answer AWS Trusted AdvisorAmazon CloudWatchAWS CloudTrailAWS Config

Question 23

Which AWS service records API calls for auditing and governance?

Select an answer AWS ConfigAmazon GuardDutyAWS CloudTrailAmazon CloudWatch

Question 24

Which AWS service distributes incoming traffic across multiple EC2 instances?

Select an answer Amazon Route 53AWS Auto ScalingAmazon CloudFrontElastic Load Balancing

Question 25

Which AWS service automatically adjusts EC2 capacity based on demand?

Select an answer Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingElastic Load BalancingAWS LambdaAWS Budgets

Question 26

Which storage service provides durable block storage for an EC2 instance?

Select an answer Amazon DynamoDBAmazon EBSAmazon S3Amazon EFS

Question 27

Which AWS service is a managed message queue for decoupling applications?

Select an answer Amazon KinesisAWS Step FunctionsAmazon SQSAmazon SNS

Question 28

Which AWS service provides publish/subscribe messaging?

Select an answer Amazon SQSAmazon EventBridgeAWS LambdaAmazon SNS

Question 29

Which AWS service provides an in-memory data store and cache?

Select an answer Amazon ElastiCacheAmazon RDSAmazon DynamoDBAmazon Redshift

Question 30

Which AWS compute option runs containers without requiring the customer to provision servers?

Select an answer Amazon LightsailAWS FargateAmazon EC2AWS Lambda

Question 31

Which AWS service is a managed Kubernetes service?

Select an answer Amazon ECSAmazon EC2Amazon EKSAWS Fargate

Question 32

Which AWS service can host a static website?

Select an answer Amazon RDSAmazon EC2AWS LambdaAmazon S3

Question 33

Which AWS service is a fully managed data warehouse?

Select an answer Amazon RedshiftAmazon RDSAmazon DynamoDBAWS Glue

Question 34

Which AWS service is a serverless data integration service?

Select an answer AWS LambdaAWS GlueAmazon RedshiftAmazon Kinesis

Question 35

Which AWS service creates and manages REST APIs?

Select an answer Amazon CloudFrontAmazon Route 53Amazon API GatewayAWS Lambda

Question 36

Which AWS service provides a managed file system for Linux workloads?

Select an answer Amazon EBSAmazon S3Amazon DynamoDBAmazon EFS

Question 37

Which S3 storage class is best for long-term archive data that is accessed rarely?

Select an answer S3 GlacierS3 StandardS3 Intelligent-TieringS3 Express One Zone

Question 38

Which AWS service provides cloud-based virtual desktops?

Select an answer Amazon LightsailAmazon WorkSpacesAmazon EC2AWS App Runner

Question 39

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, who is responsible for patching the guest operating system on EC2?

Select an answer The AWS root userThe operating system vendor onlyThe customerAWS only

Question 40

Which AWS service enables central management of multiple AWS accounts?

Select an answer AWS IAMAWS ConfigAWS ArtifactAWS Organizations

Question 41

Which AWS service protects applications from distributed denial-of-service attacks?

Select an answer AWS ShieldAWS WAFAmazon InspectorAWS KMS

Question 42

Which AWS service filters malicious web traffic at the application layer?

Select an answer Amazon GuardDutyAWS WAFAWS ShieldAWS Firewall Manager

Question 43

Which AWS service manages encryption keys?

Select an answer AWS ShieldAmazon InspectorAWS KMSAWS WAF

Question 44

Which AWS service provides on-demand compliance reports?

Select an answer AWS ConfigAWS CloudTrailAWS Trusted AdvisorAWS Artifact

Question 45

Which AWS service continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior?

Select an answer Amazon GuardDutyAWS WAFAWS ShieldAWS Artifact

Question 46

Which security best practice is most important for the AWS root user?

Select an answer Disable billing alertsEnable multi-factor authenticationShare the password broadlyGrant full access to every developer

Question 47

What does the principle of least privilege mean?

Select an answer Share credentials to speed up workRemove all security controlsGrant users only the permissions they needGrant every user administrator access

Question 48

Which AWS tool estimates the monthly cost of planned AWS resources?

Select an answer AWS Cost ExplorerAWS BudgetsAWS Cost and Usage ReportsAWS Pricing Calculator

Question 49

Which AWS service provides real-time recommendations for cost optimization, security, and performance?

Select an answer AWS Trusted AdvisorAWS ConfigAmazon CloudWatchAWS CloudTrail

Question 50

Which AWS service visualizes and manages AWS costs and usage over time?

Select an answer AWS OrganizationsAWS Cost ExplorerAWS Pricing CalculatorAWS Budgets