AWS CLOUD PRACTITIONER EXAM QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS UPDATED
The following are AWS Storage Sevices
A. AWS Relational Database Service and Dynamo DB
B. AWS Glacier, Snowball, Import and Export
C. Glacier ElastiCache
D. Relational Database Service, DyanamoDB, Glacier, ElastiCache
B
The others have Database services included
You have an application running on-premises that processes incoming
messages. The application server is
continually crashing whenever a spike in demand occurs. You would like to
decouple your application from
demand by using a queue to allow messages to build up and also have server
capacity increased when the queue
size increases. You would also like an alert by email if a problem occurs. What
AWS services would you use?
A. EC2, AutoScaling, S3, CloudWatch, SNS and SES
B. EC2, Autoscaling, SQS and SES
C. EC2, Autoscaling, SQS and CloudWatch
D. EC2, Autoscaling, SQS, SNS and CloudWatch
E. EC2, Autoscaling, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch and SES
D
SNS can send emails when a CloudWatch alarm is triggered, SES is not required.
You have a Microsoft SQL Server database that you would to migrate over to
AWS EC2 Linux. You still want
,control over the underlying Linux operating system. What is the best solution?
A. Launch an AWS SQL Server RDS instance.
B. Launch an AWS EC Linux instance. Install Microsoft SQL Server on instance.
C. Launch an AWS EC Windows instance. Install Ubuntu for Windows. Install
Microsoft SQL Server on
instance.
D. This is not possible as Microsoft SQL Server cannot run on Linux.
B
SQL Server can run on Linux. Use an EC2 instance to run the database if you want
control over the underlying
operating system.
Which of the following is NOT an AWS serverless technology
Answers
A. DynamoDB
B. RDS
C. S3
D. Lambda
B
Although AWS takes care of the underlying operating system, RDS is not a serverless
environment. You still need
to launch RDS server instances.
What is the command to get help on S3?
Answers
A. aws-s3-help
B. aws s3 help or aws s3api help
C. s3 help
D. cli s3 help
E. aws-s3-help or aws-s3api-help
,B
To get a list of all commands available in each tier, use the help argument with the aws
s3 or aws s3api commands
See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-s3.html
CLI is installed by default on AWS Ubuntu Linux EC2 instances.
Answers
True
False
B
Installed on AWS Linux AMIs not Ubuntu
See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/awscli-install-linux-al2017.html
AWS IAM is:
Answers
A. A web service that enables Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers to manage
users and user permissions
in AWS.
B. A secure database service that enables Amazon Web Services (AWS)
customers to manage users and user
permissions in AWS.
C. A security service that enables Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers to
secure AWS resources.
D. A network security service that enables Amazon Web Services (AWS)
customers to secure AWS
infrastructure.
A
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/introduction.html
IAM credentials are used to:
, Answers
A. manage your AWS account credentials, such as your password, access keys
(access key ID and secret
access key).
B. manage multi-factor authentication devices.
C. create security credentials for your users as needed.
D. allow users to access account billing pages.
E. allow applications that run on Amazon EC2 to access to AWS resources
E
Secure access to AWS resources for applications that run on Amazon EC2.
You can use IAM features to securely give applications that run on EC2 instances the
credentials that they need in
order to access other AWS resources, like S3 buckets and RDS or DynamoDB
databases.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/introduction.html#intro-features
A _____ is an entity that has a set of permissions, and that another entity
assumes to make calls to access your
AWS resources
Answers
A. Role
B. Credential
C. Resource
D. Policy
A
An IAM role is similar to a user, in that it is an AWS identity with permission policies that
determine what the
identity can and cannot do in AWS. However, instead of being uniquely associated with
one person, a role is
intended to be assumable by anyone who needs it. Also, a role does not have standard
long-term credentials
ANSWERS UPDATED
The following are AWS Storage Sevices
A. AWS Relational Database Service and Dynamo DB
B. AWS Glacier, Snowball, Import and Export
C. Glacier ElastiCache
D. Relational Database Service, DyanamoDB, Glacier, ElastiCache
B
The others have Database services included
You have an application running on-premises that processes incoming
messages. The application server is
continually crashing whenever a spike in demand occurs. You would like to
decouple your application from
demand by using a queue to allow messages to build up and also have server
capacity increased when the queue
size increases. You would also like an alert by email if a problem occurs. What
AWS services would you use?
A. EC2, AutoScaling, S3, CloudWatch, SNS and SES
B. EC2, Autoscaling, SQS and SES
C. EC2, Autoscaling, SQS and CloudWatch
D. EC2, Autoscaling, SQS, SNS and CloudWatch
E. EC2, Autoscaling, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch and SES
D
SNS can send emails when a CloudWatch alarm is triggered, SES is not required.
You have a Microsoft SQL Server database that you would to migrate over to
AWS EC2 Linux. You still want
,control over the underlying Linux operating system. What is the best solution?
A. Launch an AWS SQL Server RDS instance.
B. Launch an AWS EC Linux instance. Install Microsoft SQL Server on instance.
C. Launch an AWS EC Windows instance. Install Ubuntu for Windows. Install
Microsoft SQL Server on
instance.
D. This is not possible as Microsoft SQL Server cannot run on Linux.
B
SQL Server can run on Linux. Use an EC2 instance to run the database if you want
control over the underlying
operating system.
Which of the following is NOT an AWS serverless technology
Answers
A. DynamoDB
B. RDS
C. S3
D. Lambda
B
Although AWS takes care of the underlying operating system, RDS is not a serverless
environment. You still need
to launch RDS server instances.
What is the command to get help on S3?
Answers
A. aws-s3-help
B. aws s3 help or aws s3api help
C. s3 help
D. cli s3 help
E. aws-s3-help or aws-s3api-help
,B
To get a list of all commands available in each tier, use the help argument with the aws
s3 or aws s3api commands
See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-s3.html
CLI is installed by default on AWS Ubuntu Linux EC2 instances.
Answers
True
False
B
Installed on AWS Linux AMIs not Ubuntu
See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/awscli-install-linux-al2017.html
AWS IAM is:
Answers
A. A web service that enables Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers to manage
users and user permissions
in AWS.
B. A secure database service that enables Amazon Web Services (AWS)
customers to manage users and user
permissions in AWS.
C. A security service that enables Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers to
secure AWS resources.
D. A network security service that enables Amazon Web Services (AWS)
customers to secure AWS
infrastructure.
A
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/introduction.html
IAM credentials are used to:
, Answers
A. manage your AWS account credentials, such as your password, access keys
(access key ID and secret
access key).
B. manage multi-factor authentication devices.
C. create security credentials for your users as needed.
D. allow users to access account billing pages.
E. allow applications that run on Amazon EC2 to access to AWS resources
E
Secure access to AWS resources for applications that run on Amazon EC2.
You can use IAM features to securely give applications that run on EC2 instances the
credentials that they need in
order to access other AWS resources, like S3 buckets and RDS or DynamoDB
databases.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/introduction.html#intro-features
A _____ is an entity that has a set of permissions, and that another entity
assumes to make calls to access your
AWS resources
Answers
A. Role
B. Credential
C. Resource
D. Policy
A
An IAM role is similar to a user, in that it is an AWS identity with permission policies that
determine what the
identity can and cannot do in AWS. However, instead of being uniquely associated with
one person, a role is
intended to be assumable by anyone who needs it. Also, a role does not have standard
long-term credentials
