AWS CLOUD PRACTITIONER PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE ANSWERS
2024
Which AWS service would you choose for a data processing project to store
unstructured data?
DynamoDB
A startup runs its proprietary application on docker containers. As a Cloud
Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend so that the startup can
run containers and still have access to the underlying servers?
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) - Amazon Elastic Container Service
(Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, fast, container management service that makes it
easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster. This is not a fully
managed service and you can manage the underlying servers yourself.
Which of the following options are the benefits of using AWS Elastic Load
Balancing (ELB)? (Select TWO)
High Availability and Fault Tolerance
A cyber-security agency uses AWS Cloud and wants to carry out security
assessments on their own AWS infrastructure without any prior approval from
AWS. Which of the following describes/facilitates this practice?
Penetration testing
The DevOps team at an e-commerce company is trying to debug performance
issues for its serverless application built using a microservices architecture. As a
Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend addressing this
use-case?
AWS X-Ray - You can use AWS X-Ray to analyze and debug serverless and distributed
applications such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can
understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify
and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors.
What is the primary benefit of deploying an RDS database in a Read Replica
configuration?
, Read Replica improves database scalability
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate,
and scale a relational database in the cloud. Read Replicas allow you to create read-
only copies that are synchronized with your master database. Read Replicas are used
for improved read performance. You can also place your read replica in a different AWS
Region closer to your users for better performance. Read Replicas are an example of
horizontal scaling of resources.
A Cloud Practitioner would like to get operational insights of its resources to
quickly identify any issues that might impact applications using those resources.
Which AWS service can help with this task?
AWS Systems Manager
AWS Systems Manager allows you to centralize operational data from multiple AWS
services and automate tasks across your AWS resources. You can create logical
groups of resources such as applications, different layers of an application stack, or
production versus development environments.
Which of the following is a hybrid storage service that allows on-premises
applications to access data on AWS Cloud?
AWS Storage Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that connects your existing on-
premises environments with the AWS Cloud. Customers use Storage Gateway to
simplify storage management and reduce costs for key hybrid cloud storage use cases.
These include moving tape backups to the cloud, reducing on-premises storage with
cloud-backed file shares, providing low latency access to data in AWS for on-premises
applications, as well as various migration, archiving, processing, and disaster recovery
use cases.
Data encryption is automatically enabled for which of the following AWS
services? (Select two)?
Amazon S3 Glacier & AWS storage gateway
Which of the following AWS authentication mechanisms supports a Multi-Factor
Authentication (MFA) device that you can plug into a USB port on your
computer?
2024
Which AWS service would you choose for a data processing project to store
unstructured data?
DynamoDB
A startup runs its proprietary application on docker containers. As a Cloud
Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend so that the startup can
run containers and still have access to the underlying servers?
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) - Amazon Elastic Container Service
(Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, fast, container management service that makes it
easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster. This is not a fully
managed service and you can manage the underlying servers yourself.
Which of the following options are the benefits of using AWS Elastic Load
Balancing (ELB)? (Select TWO)
High Availability and Fault Tolerance
A cyber-security agency uses AWS Cloud and wants to carry out security
assessments on their own AWS infrastructure without any prior approval from
AWS. Which of the following describes/facilitates this practice?
Penetration testing
The DevOps team at an e-commerce company is trying to debug performance
issues for its serverless application built using a microservices architecture. As a
Cloud Practitioner, which AWS service would you recommend addressing this
use-case?
AWS X-Ray - You can use AWS X-Ray to analyze and debug serverless and distributed
applications such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can
understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify
and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors.
What is the primary benefit of deploying an RDS database in a Read Replica
configuration?
, Read Replica improves database scalability
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate,
and scale a relational database in the cloud. Read Replicas allow you to create read-
only copies that are synchronized with your master database. Read Replicas are used
for improved read performance. You can also place your read replica in a different AWS
Region closer to your users for better performance. Read Replicas are an example of
horizontal scaling of resources.
A Cloud Practitioner would like to get operational insights of its resources to
quickly identify any issues that might impact applications using those resources.
Which AWS service can help with this task?
AWS Systems Manager
AWS Systems Manager allows you to centralize operational data from multiple AWS
services and automate tasks across your AWS resources. You can create logical
groups of resources such as applications, different layers of an application stack, or
production versus development environments.
Which of the following is a hybrid storage service that allows on-premises
applications to access data on AWS Cloud?
AWS Storage Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that connects your existing on-
premises environments with the AWS Cloud. Customers use Storage Gateway to
simplify storage management and reduce costs for key hybrid cloud storage use cases.
These include moving tape backups to the cloud, reducing on-premises storage with
cloud-backed file shares, providing low latency access to data in AWS for on-premises
applications, as well as various migration, archiving, processing, and disaster recovery
use cases.
Data encryption is automatically enabled for which of the following AWS
services? (Select two)?
Amazon S3 Glacier & AWS storage gateway
Which of the following AWS authentication mechanisms supports a Multi-Factor
Authentication (MFA) device that you can plug into a USB port on your
computer?
