AWS CLOUD CERTIFICATION EXAM 2026
FINAL ASSESSMENT PAPER CLOUD
INFRASTRUCTURE COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS VERIFIED A+
◉ What is the role of AWS IAM? Answer: To manage access to AWS
services and resources securely.
◉ What is Amazon EC2? Answer: A web service that provides
resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
◉ What does AWS Cost Explorer do? Answer: Helps visualize,
understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time.
◉ What is the purpose of AWS CloudFormation? Answer: To create
and manage AWS resources using templates.
◉ What does AWS CloudTrail do? Answer: Tracks user activity and
API usage across AWS infrastructure.
◉ What is the function of AWS Direct Connect? Answer: To establish
a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS.
,◉ What is Amazon S3 used for? Answer: To store and retrieve any
amount of data at any time from anywhere on the web.
◉ What is the purpose of AWS Budgets? Answer: To set custom cost
and usage budgets that alert you when you exceed your thresholds.
◉ What is AWS Systems Manager? Answer: A service that provides
visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS.
◉ What does AWS Snowball do? Answer: Transfers large amounts of
data into and out of AWS using secure physical devices.
◉ What is the purpose of AWS Secrets Manager? Answer: To protect
access to your applications, services, and IT resources without the
upfront investment and on-going maintenance costs.
◉ What is AWS Lambda's pricing model? Answer: You pay only for
the compute time you consume; there is no charge when your code
is not running.
◉ What is the function of AWS AppSync? Answer: To build data-
driven applications with real-time and offline capabilities.
,◉ What is the input capacity of each shard in Amazon Kinesis Data
Streams? Answer: 1MB per second.
◉ What is the output capacity of each shard in Amazon Kinesis Data
Streams? Answer: 2MB per second.
◉ What is the default data retention period for Amazon Kinesis Data
Streams? Answer: 1 day, extendable to 7 days.
◉ What is Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose? Answer: A serverless
service used to capture, transform, and load streaming data into
data stores and analytics services.
◉ Which services can Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose deliver
streaming data to? Answer: Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon
Elasticsearch Service, and Splunk.
◉ What is the minimum latency for AWS Kinesis Data Firehose?
Answer: 60 seconds or a minimum of 32 MB of data transfer at a
time.
◉ What is Amazon MSK? Answer: Amazon Managed Streaming for
Apache Kafka, a managed cluster service for building and executing
Apache Kafka applications.
, ◉ What types of security does Amazon MSK provide? Answer: AWS
IAM for API Authorization, Encryption at Rest, and Apache Kafka
Access Control Lists (ACLs).
◉ What is Amazon Redshift? Answer: A fast, petabyte-scale, SQL-
based data warehouse service used to analyze data easily.
◉ What type of workloads does Amazon Redshift support? Answer:
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) type of DB workloads.
◉ What is AWS Glue? Answer: A serverless ETL (extract, transform,
load) service for data integration and moving data between various
data stores.
◉ What is the AWS Glue Data Catalog? Answer: A central repository
that automatically generates Python or Scala code for data
integration tasks.
◉ What is AWS Lake Formation? Answer: A cloud service used to
create, manage, and secure data lakes.
◉ What does AWS Step Functions do? Answer: It is a serverless
orchestration service that converts an application's workflow into a
series of steps.
FINAL ASSESSMENT PAPER CLOUD
INFRASTRUCTURE COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS VERIFIED A+
◉ What is the role of AWS IAM? Answer: To manage access to AWS
services and resources securely.
◉ What is Amazon EC2? Answer: A web service that provides
resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
◉ What does AWS Cost Explorer do? Answer: Helps visualize,
understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time.
◉ What is the purpose of AWS CloudFormation? Answer: To create
and manage AWS resources using templates.
◉ What does AWS CloudTrail do? Answer: Tracks user activity and
API usage across AWS infrastructure.
◉ What is the function of AWS Direct Connect? Answer: To establish
a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS.
,◉ What is Amazon S3 used for? Answer: To store and retrieve any
amount of data at any time from anywhere on the web.
◉ What is the purpose of AWS Budgets? Answer: To set custom cost
and usage budgets that alert you when you exceed your thresholds.
◉ What is AWS Systems Manager? Answer: A service that provides
visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS.
◉ What does AWS Snowball do? Answer: Transfers large amounts of
data into and out of AWS using secure physical devices.
◉ What is the purpose of AWS Secrets Manager? Answer: To protect
access to your applications, services, and IT resources without the
upfront investment and on-going maintenance costs.
◉ What is AWS Lambda's pricing model? Answer: You pay only for
the compute time you consume; there is no charge when your code
is not running.
◉ What is the function of AWS AppSync? Answer: To build data-
driven applications with real-time and offline capabilities.
,◉ What is the input capacity of each shard in Amazon Kinesis Data
Streams? Answer: 1MB per second.
◉ What is the output capacity of each shard in Amazon Kinesis Data
Streams? Answer: 2MB per second.
◉ What is the default data retention period for Amazon Kinesis Data
Streams? Answer: 1 day, extendable to 7 days.
◉ What is Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose? Answer: A serverless
service used to capture, transform, and load streaming data into
data stores and analytics services.
◉ Which services can Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose deliver
streaming data to? Answer: Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon
Elasticsearch Service, and Splunk.
◉ What is the minimum latency for AWS Kinesis Data Firehose?
Answer: 60 seconds or a minimum of 32 MB of data transfer at a
time.
◉ What is Amazon MSK? Answer: Amazon Managed Streaming for
Apache Kafka, a managed cluster service for building and executing
Apache Kafka applications.
, ◉ What types of security does Amazon MSK provide? Answer: AWS
IAM for API Authorization, Encryption at Rest, and Apache Kafka
Access Control Lists (ACLs).
◉ What is Amazon Redshift? Answer: A fast, petabyte-scale, SQL-
based data warehouse service used to analyze data easily.
◉ What type of workloads does Amazon Redshift support? Answer:
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) type of DB workloads.
◉ What is AWS Glue? Answer: A serverless ETL (extract, transform,
load) service for data integration and moving data between various
data stores.
◉ What is the AWS Glue Data Catalog? Answer: A central repository
that automatically generates Python or Scala code for data
integration tasks.
◉ What is AWS Lake Formation? Answer: A cloud service used to
create, manage, and secure data lakes.
◉ What does AWS Step Functions do? Answer: It is a serverless
orchestration service that converts an application's workflow into a
series of steps.
