AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam Question Bank
1500 Questions And Correct Answers 2023/2024
What is the proper definition of IAM Roles?
An IAM entity that defines a set of permissions for making AWS service requests, that
will be used by AWS services
What is a tool used for IAM Security?
IAM Credentials Report
What is not true regarding IAM Users?
They have access with the root account credentials
What is an IAM best practice?
Don't use the root user account
What are IAM policies?
JSON documents to define Users, Groups or Roles' permissions
Under the shared responsibility model, what is the customer responsible for in
IAM?
Assigning users proper IAM Policies
The AWS CLI can interact with AWS using _________ in your command-line shell,
while the AWS SDK can interact with AWS ___________.
CLI interacts using commands, SDK interacts programmatically
Which principle should you apply regarding IAM Permissions?
Granting users least privilege
What should you do to increase your root account security?
Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
What are the EC2 instance types?
On-Demand
Reserved (1 & 3 years)
Savings Plans (1 & 3 years)
Spot Instances
Dedicated Hosts
Dedicated Instances
Capacity Reservations
What is On-Demand instance?
Short workload, predictable pricing, pay by second
What is Savings Plans?
1 & 3 years - commitment to amount of usage / long workload
What are Spot Instances?
short workloads, cheap, can lose instances (less reliable)
What's a Dedicated Hosts purchasing option?
Book an entire physical server, control instance placement
What are Dedicated Instances?
No other customers will share your hardware
Which EC2 Purchasing Option can provide the biggest discount, but is not
suitable for critical jobs or databases?
Spot Instances
,Which network security tool can you use to control traffic in and out of EC2
Instances?
Security Groups
Under the Shared Responsibility Model, who is responsible for operating-system
patches and updates on EC2 Instances?
The customer
How long can you reserve an EC2 Reserved Instance?
1 or 3 years
A company would like to deploy a high-performance computing (HPC) application
on EC2. Which EC2 instance type should it choose?
Compute Optimized
Which of the following is NOT an EC2 Instance Purchasing Option?
1) Spot Instances
2) Reserved Instances
3) On-demand Instances
4) Connect Instances
4) Connect Instances
Which EC2 Purchasing Option should you use for an application you plan on
running on a server continuously for 1 year?
Reserved Instances
What is an EBS Volume?
A network drive attached to one EC2 instance at a time, mapped to AZ's and can use
EBS Snapshots for backups/transfers EBS across AZ's
What is an AMI?
Amazon Machine Image. Ready-to-use EC2 instances with our customizations
What is the purpose of the EC2 Image Builder?
Used to automate the creation, maintain, validate & test EC2 AMIs
What is a high-performance option for instances?
EC2 Instance Store - high performance hardware disk; lost if instance stopped /
terminated
What AWS service provides a fully managed, high-peformance, scalable file
storage for High Performance Computing?
Amazon FSx for Lustre
What is an EFS?
Network file system, can be attached to 100s of instances in a region
What is EFS-IA?
Cost-optimized storage class for infrequence accessed files
What is FSx for Windows?
A Network file system for Windows servers
Which EC2 Storage would you use to create a shared network file system for your
EC2 Instances?
EFS; fully managed service that makes it easy to set up, scale, and cost-optimize file
storage in the Amazon Cloud.
Which service can be used to automate image management processes?
EC2 Image Builder
Which of the following is a fully managed native Microsoft Windows file system?
, FSx
What are AMIs NOT used for?
1) Add your own software license
2) Add your own configuration
3) Add your own operating-system
4) Add you own IP addresses
4) Add you own IP addresses
EBS Volumes CANNOT be attached to multiple EC2 instances at a time.
1) True
2) False
1) True
An EBS Volume is a network drive you can attach to your instances while they
run, so your instances' data persist even after their termination.
1) True
2) False
1) True
Which statement is CORRECT regarding EC2 Instance Store?
1) It is not good to use as a disk to cache content
2) It has a better I/O performance, but the data is lost if the EC2 instance is
terminated
3) Your data is always safe with EC2 Instance Store
2) It has a better I/O performance, but the data is lost if the EC2 instance is terminated
What is an EBS Snapshot?
1) The operating-system on an EC2 Instance
2) A backup of your EBS Volume at a point in time
3) The amount of CPU & RAM of an EC2 Instance
2) A backup of your EBS Volume at a point in time
Where can you find a third party's AMI so you can use it to launch your EC2
Instance?
1) Public AMIs
2) My own AMIs
3) AWS Marketplace AMIs
3) AWS Marketplace AMIs
What is an EBS Volume tied to?
1) A region
2) A data center
3) An edge location
4) An availability zone
4) An availability zone
What type of AWS Load Balancer should be used for HTTP / HTTPS?
Application Load Balancer - Layer 7
What type of AWS Load Balancer should be used for ultra-high performance,
allowing for TCP?
Network Load Balancer - Layer 4
What is the main purpose of High Availability in the Cloud?
1) Increase scalability
1500 Questions And Correct Answers 2023/2024
What is the proper definition of IAM Roles?
An IAM entity that defines a set of permissions for making AWS service requests, that
will be used by AWS services
What is a tool used for IAM Security?
IAM Credentials Report
What is not true regarding IAM Users?
They have access with the root account credentials
What is an IAM best practice?
Don't use the root user account
What are IAM policies?
JSON documents to define Users, Groups or Roles' permissions
Under the shared responsibility model, what is the customer responsible for in
IAM?
Assigning users proper IAM Policies
The AWS CLI can interact with AWS using _________ in your command-line shell,
while the AWS SDK can interact with AWS ___________.
CLI interacts using commands, SDK interacts programmatically
Which principle should you apply regarding IAM Permissions?
Granting users least privilege
What should you do to increase your root account security?
Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
What are the EC2 instance types?
On-Demand
Reserved (1 & 3 years)
Savings Plans (1 & 3 years)
Spot Instances
Dedicated Hosts
Dedicated Instances
Capacity Reservations
What is On-Demand instance?
Short workload, predictable pricing, pay by second
What is Savings Plans?
1 & 3 years - commitment to amount of usage / long workload
What are Spot Instances?
short workloads, cheap, can lose instances (less reliable)
What's a Dedicated Hosts purchasing option?
Book an entire physical server, control instance placement
What are Dedicated Instances?
No other customers will share your hardware
Which EC2 Purchasing Option can provide the biggest discount, but is not
suitable for critical jobs or databases?
Spot Instances
,Which network security tool can you use to control traffic in and out of EC2
Instances?
Security Groups
Under the Shared Responsibility Model, who is responsible for operating-system
patches and updates on EC2 Instances?
The customer
How long can you reserve an EC2 Reserved Instance?
1 or 3 years
A company would like to deploy a high-performance computing (HPC) application
on EC2. Which EC2 instance type should it choose?
Compute Optimized
Which of the following is NOT an EC2 Instance Purchasing Option?
1) Spot Instances
2) Reserved Instances
3) On-demand Instances
4) Connect Instances
4) Connect Instances
Which EC2 Purchasing Option should you use for an application you plan on
running on a server continuously for 1 year?
Reserved Instances
What is an EBS Volume?
A network drive attached to one EC2 instance at a time, mapped to AZ's and can use
EBS Snapshots for backups/transfers EBS across AZ's
What is an AMI?
Amazon Machine Image. Ready-to-use EC2 instances with our customizations
What is the purpose of the EC2 Image Builder?
Used to automate the creation, maintain, validate & test EC2 AMIs
What is a high-performance option for instances?
EC2 Instance Store - high performance hardware disk; lost if instance stopped /
terminated
What AWS service provides a fully managed, high-peformance, scalable file
storage for High Performance Computing?
Amazon FSx for Lustre
What is an EFS?
Network file system, can be attached to 100s of instances in a region
What is EFS-IA?
Cost-optimized storage class for infrequence accessed files
What is FSx for Windows?
A Network file system for Windows servers
Which EC2 Storage would you use to create a shared network file system for your
EC2 Instances?
EFS; fully managed service that makes it easy to set up, scale, and cost-optimize file
storage in the Amazon Cloud.
Which service can be used to automate image management processes?
EC2 Image Builder
Which of the following is a fully managed native Microsoft Windows file system?
, FSx
What are AMIs NOT used for?
1) Add your own software license
2) Add your own configuration
3) Add your own operating-system
4) Add you own IP addresses
4) Add you own IP addresses
EBS Volumes CANNOT be attached to multiple EC2 instances at a time.
1) True
2) False
1) True
An EBS Volume is a network drive you can attach to your instances while they
run, so your instances' data persist even after their termination.
1) True
2) False
1) True
Which statement is CORRECT regarding EC2 Instance Store?
1) It is not good to use as a disk to cache content
2) It has a better I/O performance, but the data is lost if the EC2 instance is
terminated
3) Your data is always safe with EC2 Instance Store
2) It has a better I/O performance, but the data is lost if the EC2 instance is terminated
What is an EBS Snapshot?
1) The operating-system on an EC2 Instance
2) A backup of your EBS Volume at a point in time
3) The amount of CPU & RAM of an EC2 Instance
2) A backup of your EBS Volume at a point in time
Where can you find a third party's AMI so you can use it to launch your EC2
Instance?
1) Public AMIs
2) My own AMIs
3) AWS Marketplace AMIs
3) AWS Marketplace AMIs
What is an EBS Volume tied to?
1) A region
2) A data center
3) An edge location
4) An availability zone
4) An availability zone
What type of AWS Load Balancer should be used for HTTP / HTTPS?
Application Load Balancer - Layer 7
What type of AWS Load Balancer should be used for ultra-high performance,
allowing for TCP?
Network Load Balancer - Layer 4
What is the main purpose of High Availability in the Cloud?
1) Increase scalability
