Question 1

A user who wants to get help with billing and reactivate a suspended account should submit an account and billing request to:

Accepted Answer

AWS Support is the appropriate channel for handling billing issues and reactivating suspended accounts.

Question 2

Which AWS services may be scaled using AWS Auto Scaling? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Amazon EC2 and Amazon DynamoDB can be scaled using AWS Auto Scaling to automatically adjust capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost.

Question 3

What does the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator do?

Accepted Answer

The AWS Simple Monthly Calculator is a tool that helps users estimate their monthly AWS bill based on their projected usage of AWS services.

Question 4

A batch workload takes 5 hours to finish on an Amazon EC2 instance. The amount of data to be processed doubles monthly and the processing time is proportional. What is the best cloud architecture to address this consistently growing demand?

Accepted Answer

Distributing the application across multiple EC2 instances and running the workload in parallel allows for scaling out, which is more efficient for handling consistently growing data processing demands.

Question 5

A Cloud Practitioner identifies a billing issue after examining the AWS Cost and Usage report in the AWS Management Console. Which action can be taken to resolve this?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A Cloud Practitioner identifies a billing issue...

Question 6

Which tool is used to forecast AWS spending?

Accepted Answer

Cost Explorer is the tool used to forecast AWS spending by analyzing past usage and costs.

Question 7

Which AWS service or feature can enhance network security by blocking requests from a particular network for a web application on AWS? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) can block requests based on specified conditions, such as IP addresses. Network ACLs (Access Control Lists) can block traffic from specific IP addresses at the subnet level.

Question 8

A company is running an ecommerce application hosted in Europe. To decrease latency for users who access the website from other parts of the world, the company would like to cache frequently accessed static content closer to the users. Which AWS service will support these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that caches content at edge locations around the world, reducing latency for users accessing the content from different geographical locations.

Question 9

Each department within a company has its own independent AWS account and its own payment method. New company leadership wants to centralize departmental governance and consolidate payments. How can this be achieved using AWS services or features?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Each department within a company has its...

Question 10

IT systems should be designed to reduce interdependencies, so that a change or failure in one component does not cascade to other components. This is an example of which principle of cloud architecture design?

Accepted Answer

Loose coupling is a design principle that reduces interdependencies between components, ensuring that changes or failures in one component do not affect others.

Question 11

An ecommerce company anticipates a huge increase in web traffic for two very popular upcoming shopping holidays. Which AWS service or feature can be configured to dynamically adjust resources to meet this change in demand?

Accepted Answer

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling can be configured to dynamically adjust resources to meet changes in demand.

Question 12

A web application is hosted on AWS using an Elastic Load Balancer, multiple Amazon EC2 instances, and Amazon RDS. Which security measures fall under the responsibility of AWS? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

The answer of A web application is hosted on AWS...

Question 13

The continual reduction of AWS Cloud pricing is due to:

Accepted Answer

AWS can reduce prices continually due to economies of scale, as they operate on a large scale which allows them to lower costs and pass those savings onto customers.

Question 14

Which AWS service makes it easy to create and manage AWS users and groups, and provide them with secure access to AWS resources at no charge?

Accepted Answer

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the service that allows you to create and manage AWS users and groups and provides secure access to AWS resources at no charge.

Question 15

Which of the following are benefits of AWS Global Accelerator? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

AWS Global Accelerator improves the availability of applications by routing traffic to healthy endpoints and decreases latency by directing traffic to the nearest AWS edge location.

Question 16

Which AWS Cloud best practice uses the elasticity and agility of cloud computing?

Accepted Answer

Dynamically and predictively scaling to meet usage demands leverages the elasticity and agility of cloud computing, allowing resources to be adjusted in real-time based on current needs.

Question 17

What is the benefit of elasticity in the AWS Cloud?

Accepted Answer

Elasticity in the AWS Cloud allows for the automatic adjustment of compute resources to match the current demand, ensuring consistent performance without over-provisioning or under-provisioning resources.

Question 18

Who is responsible for patching the guest operating system for Amazon RDS?

Accepted Answer

The customer Database Administrator is responsible for patching the guest operating system for Amazon RDS, as AWS manages the underlying infrastructure but not the guest OS.

Question 19

Which method helps to optimize costs of users moving to the AWS Cloud?

Accepted Answer

Paying only for what is used helps optimize costs by allowing users to only pay for the resources they actually consume, avoiding unnecessary expenses.

Question 20

The ability to horizontally scale Amazon EC2 instances based on demand is an example of which concept in the AWS Cloud value proposition?

Accepted Answer

Elasticity refers to the ability of a system to scale up or down based on demand. In this case, the ability to horizontally scale Amazon EC2 instances based on demand is an example of elasticity.

Exam 3: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01)