AWS CCP Practice Exam #4 – S3 Storage Classes,
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Which of the following Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) storage classes do not
charge any data retrieval fee? (Select two)
Amazon S3 Standard
Amazon S3 Standard offers high durability, availability, and performance object storage for
frequently accessed data. Amazon S3 Standard offers low latency and high throughput
performance, It is designed for durability of 99.999999999% of objects across multiple
Availability Zones (AZ). Amazon S3 Standard does not charge any data retrieval fee.
Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering
The Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class is designed to optimize costs by automatically
moving data to the most cost-effective access tier, without performance impact or operational
overhead. It works by storing objects in two access tiers: one tier that is optimized for frequent
access and another lower-cost tier that is optimized for infrequent access. Amazon S3
Intelligent-Tiering does not charge any data retrieval fee.
AWS Shield Advanced provides expanded DDoS attack protection for web applications running
on which of the following resources? (Select two)
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
AWS Shield Standard is activated for all AWS customers, by default. For higher levels of
protection against attacks, you can subscribe to AWS Shield Advanced. With Shield Advanced,
you also have exclusive access to advanced, real-time metrics and reports for extensive visibility
into attacks on your AWS resources. With the assistance of the DRT (DDoS response team), AWS
Shield Advanced includes intelligent DDoS attack detection and mitigation for not only for
network layer (layer 3) and transport layer (layer 4) attacks but also for application layer (layer
7) attacks.
AWS Shield Advanced provides expanded DDoS attack protection for web applications running
on the following resources: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB),
Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Route 53, AWS Global Accelerator.
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, AWS CCP Practice Exam #4 – S3 Storage Classes,
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An e-commerce company would like to receive alerts when the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances
(RI) utilization drops below a certain threshold. Which AWS service can be used to address this
use-case?
AWS Budgets
AWS Budgets gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or
usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount. You can also use AWS
Budgets to set reservation utilization or coverage targets and receive alerts when your
utilization drops below the threshold you define. You can define a utilization threshold and
receive alerts when your Reserved Instances (RI) usage falls below that threshold. This lets you
see if your Reserved Instances (RI) are unused or under-utilized. Reservation alerts are
supported for Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon
Elasticsearch reservations.
Reserved Instance (RI) pricing is available for which of the following AWS services? (Select two)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
A Reserved Instance (RI) is a reservation that provides a discounted hourly rate in exchange for
an upfront fee and term contract. Services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) use this approach to sell reserved
capacity for hourly use of Reserved Instances (RI). It is not a virtual machine. It is a commitment
to pay in advance for specific Amazon EC2 or Amazon RDS instances.
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?
AWS Device Farm
AWS Device Farm is an application testing service that lets you improve the quality of your web
and mobile apps by testing them across an extensive range of desktop browsers and real mobile
devices; without having to provision and manage any testing infrastructure. The service enables
you to run your tests concurrently on multiple desktop browsers or real devices to speed up the
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AWS Shield & Cost Management Complete
Verified Questions Provided with A+ Graded
Rationales Latest Updated 2026
Which of the following Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) storage classes do not
charge any data retrieval fee? (Select two)
Amazon S3 Standard
Amazon S3 Standard offers high durability, availability, and performance object storage for
frequently accessed data. Amazon S3 Standard offers low latency and high throughput
performance, It is designed for durability of 99.999999999% of objects across multiple
Availability Zones (AZ). Amazon S3 Standard does not charge any data retrieval fee.
Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering
The Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class is designed to optimize costs by automatically
moving data to the most cost-effective access tier, without performance impact or operational
overhead. It works by storing objects in two access tiers: one tier that is optimized for frequent
access and another lower-cost tier that is optimized for infrequent access. Amazon S3
Intelligent-Tiering does not charge any data retrieval fee.
AWS Shield Advanced provides expanded DDoS attack protection for web applications running
on which of the following resources? (Select two)
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
AWS Shield Standard is activated for all AWS customers, by default. For higher levels of
protection against attacks, you can subscribe to AWS Shield Advanced. With Shield Advanced,
you also have exclusive access to advanced, real-time metrics and reports for extensive visibility
into attacks on your AWS resources. With the assistance of the DRT (DDoS response team), AWS
Shield Advanced includes intelligent DDoS attack detection and mitigation for not only for
network layer (layer 3) and transport layer (layer 4) attacks but also for application layer (layer
7) attacks.
AWS Shield Advanced provides expanded DDoS attack protection for web applications running
on the following resources: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB),
Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Route 53, AWS Global Accelerator.
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, AWS CCP Practice Exam #4 – S3 Storage Classes,
AWS Shield & Cost Management Complete
Verified Questions Provided with A+ Graded
Rationales Latest Updated 2026
An e-commerce company would like to receive alerts when the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances
(RI) utilization drops below a certain threshold. Which AWS service can be used to address this
use-case?
AWS Budgets
AWS Budgets gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or
usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount. You can also use AWS
Budgets to set reservation utilization or coverage targets and receive alerts when your
utilization drops below the threshold you define. You can define a utilization threshold and
receive alerts when your Reserved Instances (RI) usage falls below that threshold. This lets you
see if your Reserved Instances (RI) are unused or under-utilized. Reservation alerts are
supported for Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon
Elasticsearch reservations.
Reserved Instance (RI) pricing is available for which of the following AWS services? (Select two)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
A Reserved Instance (RI) is a reservation that provides a discounted hourly rate in exchange for
an upfront fee and term contract. Services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) use this approach to sell reserved
capacity for hourly use of Reserved Instances (RI). It is not a virtual machine. It is a commitment
to pay in advance for specific Amazon EC2 or Amazon RDS instances.
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?
AWS Device Farm
AWS Device Farm is an application testing service that lets you improve the quality of your web
and mobile apps by testing them across an extensive range of desktop browsers and real mobile
devices; without having to provision and manage any testing infrastructure. The service enables
you to run your tests concurrently on multiple desktop browsers or real devices to speed up the
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