AWS CCP EXAM Question SET A

Duration: 2 hours

Mark Distribution:

MCQ- 30x1= 30

Broad Question 2x 10 = 20

Short Question 5x10 = 50

Total Marks= 100

MCQ= 30 Marks

Question 1:
Which AWS EC2 pricing model is the most cost-effective and flexible with no
requirement for a long term resource commitment or upfront payment but still
guarantees that instance would not be interrupted?
a) Spot Instances
b) On-demand Instances
c) Dedicated Hosts
d) Reserved Instances

Question 2:
Which of the following is correct about AWS "Developer" Support plan?

a) Allows one contact to open a limited number of cases per month

b) Allows unlimited contacts to open unlimited cases
c) Allows one contact to open unlimited cases
d) Allows unlimited contacts to open a limited number of cases per
month

Question 3:
A photo sharing web application wants to store thumbnails of user-uploaded
images on Amazon S3. The thumbnails are rarely used but need to be
immediately accessible from the web application. The thumbnails can be
regenerated easily if they are lost. Which is the most cost-effective way to store
these thumbnails on S3?
a) Use S3 Standard Infrequent Access (Standard-IA) to store the
thumbnails

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 b) Use S3 One-Zone Infrequent Access (One-Zone IA) to store the
thumbnails
c) Use S3 Standard to store the thumbnails
d) Use S3 Glacier to store the thumbnails

Question 4:
Which AWS service can be used to provision resources to run big data
workloads on Hadoop clusters?
a) AWS Step Function
b) AWS Batch
c) Amazon EC2
d) Amazon EMR
Question 5:
Which of the following is the correct statement regarding the AWS Storage
services?

a) S3 is block based storage, EBS is object based storage and EFS is file
based storage
b) S3 is object based storage, EBS is file based storage and EFS is block
based storage
c) S3 is file based storage, EBS is block based storage and EFS is object
based storage
d) S3 is object based storage, EBS is block based storage and EFS is file
based storage

Question 6:
A retail company has multiple AWS accounts for each of its departments.
Which of the following AWS services can be used to set up consolidated billing
and a single payment method for these AWS accounts?
a) AWS Budgets
b) AWS Organizations
c) AWS Cost Explorer
d) AWS Secrets Manager

Question 7:
Multi AZ (Availability Zone) deployment is an example of which of the
following?
a) High Availability
b) Vertical Scaling
c) Horizontal Scaling
d) Performance Efficiency

Question 8:

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Which of the following AWS services can be used to prevent Distributed
Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack? (Select three)
a) AWS WAF
b) AWS Shield
c) Amazon CloudFront with Route 53
d) AWS CloudHSM
e) Amazon Inspector
f) AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 9:
Which tool will help you review your workloads against current AWS best
practices for cost optimization, security, and performance improvement and
then obtain advice to architect them better?
a) Amazon Inspector
b) AWS Cost Explorer
c) Amazon CloudWatch
d) AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 10:
A gaming company is looking at a technology/service that can deliver a
consistent low-latency gameplay to ensure a great user experience for end-users
in various locations.

Which AWS technology/service will provide the necessary low-latency access

to the end-users?

a) AWS Local Zones

b) AWS Edge Locations
c) AWS Direct Connect
d) AWS Wavelength

Question 11:
An organization deploys its IT infrastructure in a combination of its on-
premises data center along with AWS Cloud. How would you categorize this
deployment model?

a) Hybrid deployment
b) Mixed deployment
c) Private deployment
d) Cloud deployment

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Question 12:
A data analytics company has some data stored on Amazon S3 and wants to do
SQL based analysis on this data with minimum effort. As a Cloud Practitioner,
which of the following AWS services will you suggest for this use case?

a) Amazon Athena
b) Redshift
c) Amazon Aurora
d) DynamoDB

Question 13:
According to the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which of the following are
responsibilities of the customer for Amazon RDS?

a) Applying patches to the RDS database

b) Applying patches to the underlying OS
c) Managing the underlying server hardware on which RDS runs
d) Database encryption

Question 14:
Which service gives a personalized view of the status of the AWS services that
are part of your Cloud architecture so that you can quickly assess the impact on
your business when AWS service(s) are experiencing issues?

a) AWS Service Health Dashboard

b) Amazon CloudWatch
c) AWS Inspector
d) AWS Personal Health Dashboard

Question 15:
Which policy describes prohibited uses of the web services offered by Amazon
Web Services?

a) AWS Acceptable Use Policy

b) AWS Trusted Advisor
c) AWS Applicable Use Policy
d) AWS Fair Use Policy

Question 16:

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Which of the following AWS services are part of the AWS Foundation services
for the Reliability pillar of the Well-Architected Framework in AWS Cloud?
(Select two)

a) AWS Service Quotas

b) AWS CloudFormation
c) AWS CloudTrail
d) AWS Trusted Advisor
e) Amazon CloudWatch

Question 17:
Which AWS service publishes up-to-the-minute information on the general
status and availability of all AWS services in all the Regions of AWS Cloud?

a) AWS CloudFormation
b) Amazon CloudWatch
c) AWS Personal Health Dashboard
d) AWS Service Health Dashboard

Question 18:
Which of the following AWS services comes under the Software as a Service
(SaaS) Cloud Computing Type?

a) Amazon Rekognition
b) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
c) Amazon EC2
d) Elastic Load Balancing

Question 19:
A company wants a fully managed, flexible, and scalable file storage system,
with low latency access, for its Windows-based applications. Which AWS
service is the right choice for the company?

a) Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

b) Amazon FSx for Lustre
c) Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
d) Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS)

Question 20:
A developer has written a simple web application in PHP and he wants to just
upload his code to AWS Cloud and have AWS handle the deployment
automatically but still wants access to the underlying operating system for

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further enhancements. As a Cloud Practioner, which of the following AWS
services would you recommend for this use-case?

a) Amazon EC2
b) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
c) AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)
d) AWS CloudFormation

Question 21:
Which AWS technology/service helps you to scale your resources to match
supply with demand while still keeping your cloud solution cost-effective?

a) AWS Auto Scaling

b) AWS CloudFormation
c) AWS OpsWorks
d) AWS Cost Explorer

Question 22:
What is the primary benefit of deploying an RDS database in a Multi-AZ
configuration?

a) Multi-AZ enhances database availability

b) Multi-AZ protects the database from a regional failure
c) Multi-AZ reduces database usage costs
d) Multi-AZ improves database performance for read-heavy workloads

Question 23:
The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides guidance on building cloud
based applications using AWS best practices. Which of the following options
are the pillars mentioned in the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select
two)

a) Cost Optimization
b) Reliability
c) Elasticity
d) Availability
e) Scalability

Question 24:
Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about AWS Auto Scaling?

a) You can automatically remove unhealthy instances

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 b) You can automatically deploy AWS Shield when a DDoS attack is
detected
c) You can automatically register new instances to a Load Balancer
d) You can scale out and add more EC2 instances to match an increase
in demand as well as scale in and remove EC2 instances to match a
reduced demand

Question 25:
Which of the following are examples of Horizontal Scalability (aka Elasticity)?
(Select two)
a) Read Replicas in Amazon RDS
b) Elastic Load Balancing
c) Modify an EC2 instance type from t2.nano to u-12tb1.metal
d) Add a bigger CPU to a computer
e) Modify a Database instance to higher CPU and RAM

Question 26:
Which AWS support plan provides access to a Technical Account Manager
(TAM)?

a) Enterprise
b) Business
c) Developer
d) Business & Enterprise

Question 27:

As per the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is a

responsibility of AWS from a security and compliance point of view?

a) Edge Location Management

b) Customer Data
c) Identity and Access Management
d) Server-side Encryption

Question 28:
Which of the following use-cases is NOT supported by Amazon Rekognition?

a) Identify person in a photo

b) Quickly resize photos to create thumbnails
c) Label objects in a photo
d) Detect text in a photo

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Question 29:
Which of the following options can be used to access and manage all AWS
services (Select three)?

a) AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

b) Amazon API Gateway
c) AWS Management Console
d) AWS Software Developer Kit (SDK)
e) AWS Systems Manager
f) AWS Secrets Manager
Question 30:
A company is using a message broker service on its on-premises application and
wants to move this messaging functionality to AWS Cloud. Which of the
following AWS services is the right choice to move the existing functionality
easily?

a) Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

b) Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
c) Amazon Kinesis Data Stream
d) Amazon MQ

Broad Question: 2x10= 20 Marks

1. How is Amazon EC2 different from traditional hosting systems? Explain

it.

2. Which AWS service would you choose for a data processing project that
needs a schemaless database? Why do you choose? Explain with proper
arguments.

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 Short Question: 10x5= 50 Marks

1. A streaming media company wants to convert English language subtitles

into Spanish language subtitles. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS
service would you recommend for this use-case?

2. A financial services company wants to migrate from its on-premises data

center to AWS Cloud. As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service
would you recommend so that the company can compare the cost of
running their IT infrastructure on-premises vs AWS Cloud?

3. Which AWS service can help you analyze your infrastructure to identify
unattached or underutilized EBS volumes?

4. Which disaster recovery strategy is well-suited as well as cost-effective

for this requirement?

5. Which benefit of Cloud Computing allows AWS to offer lower pay-as-

you-go prices as usage from hundreds of thousands of customers is
aggregated in the cloud?

6. According to the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which are

responsibilities of the customer for IAM?

7. The QA team at a company wants a tool/service that can provide access

to different mobile devices with variations in firmware and Operating
System versions. Which AWS service can address this use case?

8. Which is best-suited for load-balancing HTTP and HTTPS traffic?

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9. A social media company wants to have the MOST cost-optimal strategy
for deploying EC2 instances. As a Cloud Practitioner, which available
options would you recommend?
10. The DevOps team at an IT company wants to centrally manage its servers
on AWS Cloud as well as on-premise data center so that it can collect
software inventory, run commands, configure and patch servers at scale.
As a Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend for
this use-case?

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