AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Practice Test sample questions

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1. What is the AWS Shared Responsibility Model?
A) AWS is responsible for all security  B) The customer is responsible for all security  C) AWS manages security OF the cloud; customers manage security IN the cloud  D) Security responsibilities are split 50/50
2. Which AWS service provides object storage?
A) Amazon EBS  B) Amazon S3  C) Amazon EFS  D) Amazon RDS
3. What is the benefit of AWS Regions?
A) Lower cost  B) Deploying closer to users to reduce latency  C) Free data transfer  D) Automatic scaling
4. Which pricing model is best for unpredictable workloads?
A) Reserved Instances  B) Savings Plans  C) On-Demand  D) Spot Instances
5. What does the AWS Free Tier offer?
A) Free access to all AWS services  B) Limited free usage of certain services for 12 months  C) Free EC2 forever  D) Free support
6. Which service is used to run virtual servers in AWS?
A) AWS Lambda  B) Amazon EC2  C) Amazon S3  D) Amazon VPC
7. What is Amazon CloudFront?
A) A DNS service  B) A CDN that delivers content to users with low latency  C) A firewall  D) A database service
8. What does IAM stand for?
A) Internet Access Management  B) Identity and Access Management  C) Infrastructure Administration Module  D) Instance Application Manager
9. Which support plan provides 24/7 access to Cloud Support Engineers?
A) Basic  B) Developer  C) Business  D) Free
10. What is a key benefit of cloud computing over traditional on-premises infrastructure?
A) Higher upfront costs  B) Fixed capacity  C) Trade capital expense for operational expense  D) No internet required
11. Which AWS service provides a managed relational database?
A) Amazon DynamoDB  B) Amazon RDS  C) Amazon S3  D) Amazon Redshift
12. What is the purpose of AWS Availability Zones?
A) Reduce costs  B) Provide high availability and fault tolerance within a Region  C) Improve DNS resolution  D) Store archived data
13. Which service helps you estimate AWS costs before deploying?
A) AWS Cost Explorer  B) AWS Pricing Calculator  C) AWS Budgets  D) AWS Trusted Advisor
14. What is Amazon VPC?
A) A virtual private cloud — an isolated network within AWS  B) A content delivery network  C) A managed database  D) A monitoring service
15. Which AWS service allows you to run code without managing servers?
A) Amazon EC2  B) Amazon ECS  C) AWS Lambda  D) Amazon Lightsail
16. What does "elasticity" mean in cloud computing?
A) The ability to encrypt data  B) The ability to scale resources up or down automatically based on demand  C) The ability to replicate data globally  D) The ability to monitor costs
17. Which AWS service provides DNS (Domain Name System)?
A) Amazon VPC  B) AWS Direct Connect  C) Amazon Route 53  D) AWS CloudFront
18. What is the difference between horizontal and vertical scaling?
A) Horizontal = adding more instances; vertical = adding more power to existing instances  B) Horizontal = adding more power; vertical = adding more instances  C) They are the same  D) Only vertical scaling is available in AWS
19. Which security service helps protect against DDoS attacks?
A) AWS WAF  B) AWS Shield  C) Amazon GuardDuty  D) AWS IAM
20. What is an AWS S3 bucket?
A) A virtual machine  B) A container for storing objects (files) in Amazon S3  C) A database table  D) A network subnet
21. Which AWS service provides monitoring and observability?
A) AWS CloudTrail  B) Amazon CloudWatch  C) AWS Config  D) AWS Trusted Advisor
22. What is the purpose of AWS CloudTrail?
A) To monitor application performance  B) To log API calls and user activity for auditing  C) To deliver content globally  D) To manage SSL certificates
23. Which instance purchasing option provides the biggest discount for steady-state workloads?
A) On-Demand  B) Spot  C) Reserved Instances (1 or 3 year)  D) Dedicated Hosts
24. What does "high availability" mean in AWS architecture?
A) The system is always the fastest  B) The system is designed to remain operational even during failures  C) The system costs less  D) The system is located in one data center
25. Which AWS service is used for sending emails?
A) Amazon SNS  B) Amazon SES  C) Amazon SQS  D) Amazon Pinpoint
26. What is the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
A) A pricing tool  B) A set of best practices for building secure, efficient, resilient cloud systems  C) A managed service catalogue  D) A deployment pipeline
27. Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework focuses on preventing financial overruns?
A) Security  B) Reliability  C) Cost Optimisation  D) Operational Excellence
28. What is Amazon EBS?
A) Elastic Block Store — persistent block storage for EC2 instances  B) Elastic Backup Service  C) An object storage service  D) An email service
29. Which service provides automatic distribution of incoming traffic across multiple targets?
A) Amazon Route 53  B) Elastic Load Balancing  C) Amazon CloudFront  D) AWS Auto Scaling
30. What is the purpose of AWS Trusted Advisor?
A) To provide 24/7 phone support  B) To offer real-time guidance to help provision resources following AWS best practices  C) To manage IAM users  D) To monitor network traffic