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Topic: Latest Cloud Concepts, AI Services, Sustainability, Data Governance,
and Modern Billing
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Section 1: Cloud Concepts & Well-Architected Framework (Q1–15)
Q1. Which AWS Well-Architected pillar focuses on the ability to recover from
infrastructure or service failures?
A) Operational Excellence
B) Security
C) Reliability
D) Performance Efficiency
Rationale: Reliability ensures a workload performs its intended function correctly
and consistently, with rapid recovery from failures.
Q2. Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following is the
customer’s responsibility for an AWS Lambda function?
A) Patching the Lambda runtime
B) Security of the code and IAM roles
C) Physical security of servers running Lambda
D) Availability of the Lambda service
Rationale: AWS manages the runtime environment; customer manages code, IAM
permissions, and data.
, Q3. A company wants to reduce its cloud carbon footprint. Which AWS tool
provides visibility into the environmental impact of their AWS usage?
A) AWS Budgets
B) AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool
C) AWS Trusted Advisor
D) AWS Health Dashboard
Rationale: The Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (in AWS Cost Explorer) shows
estimated carbon emissions per workload.
Q4. Which design principle is part of the Sustainability pillar?
A) Optimize for energy efficiency
B) Overprovision resources
C) Use only single-AZ deployments
D) Avoid serverless services
Rationale: Sustainability encourages efficient resource use, right-sizing, and
serverless to reduce waste.
Q5. What is a benefit of the AWS Global Infrastructure?
A) Single point of deployment
B) Low latency via edge locations and Regions
C) Manual failover only
D) No data replication options
Rationale: Multiple Regions and edge locations reduce latency and improve
availability.
Q6. Which service provides a free, automated architecture review based on the
Well-Architected Framework?
A) AWS Config
B) AWS Well-Architected Tool
C) AWS Audit Manager
D) AWS License Manager