Free AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner practice questions

Question 01

A company must compare Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS conceptually to choose the right storage. Which statement correctly distinguishes the two?

Question 02

A new AWS customer is on the default AWS Support plan that comes with every account at no cost. Which of the following is included at this Basic Support level?

Question 03

A company needs a globally distributed, multi-region version of DynamoDB that lets applications in several Regions read and write the same table with low latency and automatic replication. Which DynamoDB feature provides this multi-region, active-active capability?

Question 04

A large news website wants enhanced DDoS protection including 24/7 access to the AWS Shield Response Team and cost protection against scaling charges incurred during an attack. Which offering provides this?

Question 05

A team runs a single Amazon EC2 instance that needs a durable, persistent block storage volume for its operating system and database files. The volume must retain its data even when the instance is stopped and restarted. Which AWS storage service should the team use?

Question 06

A company wants a fully managed service to build, deploy, and host web and mobile app backends and front ends quickly, with hosting for static sites and continuous deployment from a Git repository. Which AWS service targets full-stack web and mobile app hosting for developers?

Question 07

An IAM administrator at a media firm needs to assign the same permissions to 50 analysts efficiently, so that adding or removing an analyst does not require editing individual permission assignments. What is the recommended approach?

Question 08

A company wants its EC2 fleet to automatically add instances when demand rises and remove them when demand falls, maintaining availability while controlling cost. Which AWS service provides this capability?

Question 09

A company wants to know how AWS Key Management Service protects the confidentiality of its keys at the hardware level in the standard multi-tenant offering. Which statement is accurate about AWS KMS?

Question 10

A team designs its services so that each one communicates through queues and well-defined APIs rather than calling one another directly, so that if one component slows down or fails, the others are not immediately affected. Which architectural design principle does this reflect?

Question 11

A records-management firm must archive compliance documents that are almost never accessed but must be retained for years at the lowest possible storage cost, and it can tolerate retrieval times of up to 12 hours. Which Amazon S3 storage class is the most cost-effective?

Question 12

An architecture team is comparing a microservices approach with a traditional monolithic application. Which statement best describes a benefit of the microservices approach at a conceptual level?