AWS CLOUD CERTIFICATION EXAM 2026
AMAZON WEB SERVICES ARCHITECTURE
STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
◉ As AWS grows, the cost of doing business is reduced and savings
are passed back to the customer with lower pricing. What is this
optimization called? Answer: Economies of scale
◉ AWS offers some services at no charge (such as Amazon VPC, IAM,
Consolidated Billing, Elastic Beanstalk, Auto Scaling, OpsWorks, and
CloudFormation), but you might be charged for other AWS services
used in conjunction with these services. Answer: True
◉ What are benefits of using AWS Organizations? Answer: Provides
the ability to create groups of accounts and then attach policies to a
group.
Simplifies automating account creation and management by using
APIs.
◉ True or false? Unlimited services are available with the AWS Free
Tier to new AWS customers for 12 months following their AWS sign-
up date. Answer: False
,◉ Which component of the AWS Global Infrastructure does Amazon
CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery? Answer: AWS edge
locations
◉ You can run applications and workloads from a Region closer to
the end users to______latency. Answer: decrease
◉ True of False? Networking, storage, compute, and databases are
examples of service categories that AWS offers. Answer: True
◉ Which of the following are geographic areas that host two or more
Availability Zones? Answer: AWS Regions
◉ ______ means the infrastructure has built-in component
redundancy and ______ means that dynamically adjust to increases or
decreases in capacity requirements. Answer: Fault tolerant, elastic
and scalable
◉ True or False? Availability Zones within a Region are connected
through low-latency links. Answer: True
◉ Which of these statements about Availability Zones is not true?
Answer: A data center can be used for more than one Availability
Zone
, ◉ What is true about Regions? Answer: Each Region is located in a
separate geographic area
A Region is a physical location that has multiple Availability Zones
◉ AWS highly recommends provisioning your compute resources___
Availability Zones. Answer: multiple
◉ True or False? Edge locations are only located in the same general
area as Regions. Answer: False
◉ In the shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for
providing what? Answer: Security of the cloud
◉ In the shared responsibility model, which of the following are
examples of "security in the cloud?" Answer: Security group
configurations
Encryption of data at rest and data in transit
◉ Which of the following is the responsibility of AWS under the AWS
shared responsibility model? Answer: Maintaining physical
hardware
AMAZON WEB SERVICES ARCHITECTURE
STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
◉ As AWS grows, the cost of doing business is reduced and savings
are passed back to the customer with lower pricing. What is this
optimization called? Answer: Economies of scale
◉ AWS offers some services at no charge (such as Amazon VPC, IAM,
Consolidated Billing, Elastic Beanstalk, Auto Scaling, OpsWorks, and
CloudFormation), but you might be charged for other AWS services
used in conjunction with these services. Answer: True
◉ What are benefits of using AWS Organizations? Answer: Provides
the ability to create groups of accounts and then attach policies to a
group.
Simplifies automating account creation and management by using
APIs.
◉ True or false? Unlimited services are available with the AWS Free
Tier to new AWS customers for 12 months following their AWS sign-
up date. Answer: False
,◉ Which component of the AWS Global Infrastructure does Amazon
CloudFront use to ensure low-latency delivery? Answer: AWS edge
locations
◉ You can run applications and workloads from a Region closer to
the end users to______latency. Answer: decrease
◉ True of False? Networking, storage, compute, and databases are
examples of service categories that AWS offers. Answer: True
◉ Which of the following are geographic areas that host two or more
Availability Zones? Answer: AWS Regions
◉ ______ means the infrastructure has built-in component
redundancy and ______ means that dynamically adjust to increases or
decreases in capacity requirements. Answer: Fault tolerant, elastic
and scalable
◉ True or False? Availability Zones within a Region are connected
through low-latency links. Answer: True
◉ Which of these statements about Availability Zones is not true?
Answer: A data center can be used for more than one Availability
Zone
, ◉ What is true about Regions? Answer: Each Region is located in a
separate geographic area
A Region is a physical location that has multiple Availability Zones
◉ AWS highly recommends provisioning your compute resources___
Availability Zones. Answer: multiple
◉ True or False? Edge locations are only located in the same general
area as Regions. Answer: False
◉ In the shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for
providing what? Answer: Security of the cloud
◉ In the shared responsibility model, which of the following are
examples of "security in the cloud?" Answer: Security group
configurations
Encryption of data at rest and data in transit
◉ Which of the following is the responsibility of AWS under the AWS
shared responsibility model? Answer: Maintaining physical
hardware
