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WGU D282 OA AND PRE-ASSESSMENT – CLOUD FOUNDATIONS FINAL EXAM
NEWEST 2026 ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED) {140 Q &
A} GRADED A+ | D282 CLOUD FOUNDATIONS | NEWEST UPDATE 2026-2027 |
100% GUARANTEED PASS - WGU
An e-commerce giant has migrated all its legacy applications to
webbased applications running on the AWS cloud. The company is
worried about distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and wants to
be sure its applications are well protected should there be a DDoS
attack.
Which AWS solution can the company use to protect its web application
against infrastructure attacks? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > AWS Shield
A systems analyst wants to monitor the CPU utilization rate for the EC2
instances and get notified when the CPU utilization is greater than 60%
for five minutes.
What can the analyst implement to measure this metric to know when
this threshold is breached? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Amazon CloudWatch
alarm
A startup uses Amazon EC2 auto scaling to adjust scaling of the EC2
instances running its business applications. The startup wants the ability
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to automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to conditions
the business defines.
Which ability of the AWS Cloud is the startup leveraging in this
scenario? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Elasticity
A small business that is just starting out in the cloud is building an
ecommerce website that will be hosted on Amazon EC2 instances and
will be reachable from the internet. For better customer experience, it
needs a fixed IP address that will not change when it starts or stops the
instance for updates.
Which type of IP address is recommended for the small business to
attach to its instance? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Elastic IP Address
A cloud solutions architect is setting up a VPC to have an address space
of 172.16.1.0/16. There is a requirement that all resources within the
VPC must be able to talk locally to one another without any additional
configuration.
What is the best destination CIDR block to route the network traffic to
in the route table to meet this requirement? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
172.16.1.0/16
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A cloud solutions architect is setting up a custom VPC in the AWS cloud.
The architect has assigned the VPC to an IPv4 classless inter-domain
routing (CIDR) block size of 10.0.1.0/26 and created four equal-sized
subnets.
How many IP addresses will be available for use by each subnet?
- ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > 11
A cloud solution architect is working for a software development
company. A developer is testing a new application hosted within a
custom VPC and wants only the workstation to access the application
during the test.
Which IP address should the cloud solution architect recommend that
the developer include in the firewall rule to give access to a single host?
- ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > 192.0.2.0/32
A cloud solutions architect is creating a custom VPC to house a threetier
application for an e-commerce startup and assigned the VPC to an IPv4
classless inter-domain routing (CIDR) block size of 10.0.1.0/24.
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How many IP addresses are available for the startup to use for its
resources? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > 251
A company wants to migrate some legacy applications to the AWS
cloud. After migration, the engineering manager wants the developers
to be able to run their code and deploy applications faster without
worrying about provisioning or managing servers.
Which compute service will allow the developers to set triggers for
when the code executes? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > AWS Lambda
A cloud consultant for a global media company wants to harness the
power of the cloud for delivering high quality video and audio streams
to customers around the world.
Which Amazon EC2 instance type is best suited for deploying the
company's video encoding systems to effectively scale its services? -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Compute optimized instances
A solutions architect for a law firm wants to create a storage system for
archiving multiple clients' case files. The files are critical for audit and
compliance, and multiple EC2 instances must be able to access the files
simultaneously.
WGU D282 OA AND PRE-ASSESSMENT – CLOUD FOUNDATIONS FINAL EXAM
NEWEST 2026 ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED) {140 Q &
A} GRADED A+ | D282 CLOUD FOUNDATIONS | NEWEST UPDATE 2026-2027 |
100% GUARANTEED PASS - WGU
An e-commerce giant has migrated all its legacy applications to
webbased applications running on the AWS cloud. The company is
worried about distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and wants to
be sure its applications are well protected should there be a DDoS
attack.
Which AWS solution can the company use to protect its web application
against infrastructure attacks? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > AWS Shield
A systems analyst wants to monitor the CPU utilization rate for the EC2
instances and get notified when the CPU utilization is greater than 60%
for five minutes.
What can the analyst implement to measure this metric to know when
this threshold is breached? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Amazon CloudWatch
alarm
A startup uses Amazon EC2 auto scaling to adjust scaling of the EC2
instances running its business applications. The startup wants the ability
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to automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to conditions
the business defines.
Which ability of the AWS Cloud is the startup leveraging in this
scenario? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Elasticity
A small business that is just starting out in the cloud is building an
ecommerce website that will be hosted on Amazon EC2 instances and
will be reachable from the internet. For better customer experience, it
needs a fixed IP address that will not change when it starts or stops the
instance for updates.
Which type of IP address is recommended for the small business to
attach to its instance? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Elastic IP Address
A cloud solutions architect is setting up a VPC to have an address space
of 172.16.1.0/16. There is a requirement that all resources within the
VPC must be able to talk locally to one another without any additional
configuration.
What is the best destination CIDR block to route the network traffic to
in the route table to meet this requirement? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
172.16.1.0/16
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A cloud solutions architect is setting up a custom VPC in the AWS cloud.
The architect has assigned the VPC to an IPv4 classless inter-domain
routing (CIDR) block size of 10.0.1.0/26 and created four equal-sized
subnets.
How many IP addresses will be available for use by each subnet?
- ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > 11
A cloud solution architect is working for a software development
company. A developer is testing a new application hosted within a
custom VPC and wants only the workstation to access the application
during the test.
Which IP address should the cloud solution architect recommend that
the developer include in the firewall rule to give access to a single host?
- ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > 192.0.2.0/32
A cloud solutions architect is creating a custom VPC to house a threetier
application for an e-commerce startup and assigned the VPC to an IPv4
classless inter-domain routing (CIDR) block size of 10.0.1.0/24.
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How many IP addresses are available for the startup to use for its
resources? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > 251
A company wants to migrate some legacy applications to the AWS
cloud. After migration, the engineering manager wants the developers
to be able to run their code and deploy applications faster without
worrying about provisioning or managing servers.
Which compute service will allow the developers to set triggers for
when the code executes? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > AWS Lambda
A cloud consultant for a global media company wants to harness the
power of the cloud for delivering high quality video and audio streams
to customers around the world.
Which Amazon EC2 instance type is best suited for deploying the
company's video encoding systems to effectively scale its services? -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Compute optimized instances
A solutions architect for a law firm wants to create a storage system for
archiving multiple clients' case files. The files are critical for audit and
compliance, and multiple EC2 instances must be able to access the files
simultaneously.
