1. What are the advantages of cloud computing over computing on-premises?

(select the best

answer)
A. Avoid large capital purchases
B. Use on-demand capacity
C. Go global in minutes
D. Increase speed and agility
E. All of the above
2. What is the pricing model that enables AWS customers to pay for resources on an as-neede
basis? (select the best answer)
A. Pay as you decommission
B. Pay as you go
C. Pay as you buy
D. Pay as you reserve
3. Which of these is NOT a cloud deployment model? (select the best answer)
A. Plaform as a service
B. Infrastructure as a service
C. System administration as a service
D. Software as a service
4. True or false? AWS owns and maintains the network-connected hardware required for
application services, while you provision and use what you need.
A. True
B. False
5. Which of these is NOT a benefit of cloud computing over on-premises computing? (select the
best answer)
A. Increase speed and agility
B. Pay for racking, stacking and powering servers
C. Eliminate guessing on your infrastructure capacity needs
D. Trade capital expense for variable expense
E. Benefit from massive economies of scale
6. Which of the following are NOT benefits of AWS cloud computing ? (choose two)
A. Multiple procurement cycles
B. High availability
C. High latency
D. Temporary and disposable resources
E. Fault-tolerant databases
7. Which of the following is a compute service? (select the best answer)
A. Amazon VPC
B. Amazon S3
C. Amazon EC2
D. Amazon CloudFront
E. Amazon redshift
8. True or false? Cloud computing provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases, and
a broad set of application services over the internet. You own the network-connected hardware
required for these services and Amazon Web Service provisions what you need.
 A. true
B. false
9. Economies of scale result from _____ (select the best answer)
A. Having many different cloud providers
B. Having hundreds of thousands of customers aggregated in the cloud
C. Having hundreds of cloud services available over the internet
D. Having to invest heavily in data centers and servers
10. Which of these are ways to access AWS core services? (choose three)
A. Technical support calls
B. AWS marketplace
C. AWS management console
D. AWS command line interface (AWS CLI)
E. Software Development Kits (SDKs)

1. For certain services like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Relational
Database Service (Amazon RDS), you can invest in reserved capacity. What options are available
for reserved Intances? (Choose three).
A. AURI
B. MURI
C. NURI
D. PURI
E. DURI
2. Where can a customer go to get more details about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon
EC2) billing activity that took place 3 months ago? (select the best answer)
A. Amazon EC2 dashboard
B. AWS cost Explorer
C. AWS trusted Advisor dashboard
D. AWS CloudTrail logs stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
3. True or false? To receive the discounted rate associated with reserved instances, you must make
a full, upfront payment for the term of the agreement (select the best answer)
A. True
B. False
4. There is no charge for which of the following ? (choose two answer)
A. Compute
B. Storage
C. Inbound data transfer (with some exeptions)
D. Outbound data transfer
E. Data transfer between services within the same AWS Region
5. What are the four supprt plans offered by AWS support (select the best answer)
A. Basic, developer, business, Enterprise
B. Basic, Startup, Business, Enterprise
C. Free, Bronze, Silver, Gold
D. All Support is free
6. What AWS tool lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use
cases on AWS? (Select the best answer)
A. AWS pricing calculator
B. AWS budget
C. AWS cost and Usage Report
D. AWS Billing Dashboard
7. As AWS grows, the cost of doing business is reduced and saving are passed back to the customer
with lower pricing. What is this optimization called? (select the best answer)
A. Expenditure awareness
B. Econimies of scale
C. Matching supply and demand
D. EC2 Right Sizing
8. True or false? AWS offers some services at no charge such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, AWS
Identity and Access Management, Consolidated Billing, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, automatic scaling,
AWS OpsWorks and AWS CloudFormation. However, you might be charged for other AWS
services that you use in conjuction with these servicse.
A. True
B. False
9. When are free data transfers applicable across AWS? (Choose two)
A. Free inbound data transfer across all AWS services in all Regions
B. Free Outbound data transfer across AWS services in all Regions
C. Free Inbound data transfer for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances
D. Free Outbound data transfer between AWS services within the same Region
10. True or false? Unlimited services are avalaible with AWS free tier to new AWS customers for 12
month following their AWS sign-up date. (select the best answer)
A. True
B. False

1. Which component of the AWS global Infrastucture does Amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-
latency delivery? (select the best answer)
A. AWS regions
B. AWS edge locations
C. AWS availability Zones
D. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
2. you can run applications and workloads from a region closer to the end users to ____ latency
A. increase
B. decrease
3. true or false? Networking, storage, compute and databases are examples of service categories
that AWS offers
A. true
B. false
4. Which of the following are geographic areas that host two or more Availability Zones ? (select
the best answer)
A. AWS origins
 B. AWS regions
C. Compute Zones
D. Edge Location
5. _______means the infrastucture has built-in component redudancy and _____ means that
resources dynamically adjust to increases or decreases in capacity requirement
A. No human intervention, fault tolerant
B. Elastic and scalable, no human intervention
C. Fault tolerant, elastic and scalable
D. Fault tolerant, no human intervention
E. Elastic and sacalable, fault tolerant
6. True or false? Availibility zones within a Region are connected thorugh low-latency links
A. True
B. false
7. which of these statements about Availibility zones is not true ? (select the best answer)
A. availability zones are designed for fault isolation
B. availability zones are made up of one more data centers
C. a data center can be used for more than one availability zone
D. availability zones are connected to each other using high-speed private links
8. what is true about regions? (choose two) _ masih asalah
A. A region is a physical location that has multiple availability zones
B. All regions are located in one specific geographic area.
C. They are the physical locations of your customers
D. Each region is located in a separate geographic area
9. AWS highly recommends provioning your compute resources across ____ Availability zones
(select the best answer)
A. No
B. Multiple
C. Single
D. All
10. True or false? Edge locations are only located in the same general area as regions
A. True
B. False

1. In the shared responbility model, AWS is reponsible for providing what ? (select the best answer)
A. Security of the cloud
B. Security to the cloud
C. Security for the cloud
D. Security in the cloud
2. In the shared responsibility model, which of the following are examples of “security in the
cloud”? (choose two)
A. Compliance with compute security standards and regulations
B. Physical security of the facilities in which the services operate
C. Security group configurations
D. Encryption of data at rest and data in transit
 E. Protection the global infrastructure
3. Which of the following is the responsibilty of AWS under AWS shared responsibility model?
(select the best answer)
A. Configuring third-party applications
B. Maintaining physical hardware
C. Security application access and data
D. Managing custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
4. When creating an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy, what are the two types of
access of access that can be granted to a user? (choose two)
A. Institutional access
B. Authorized access
C. Programmatic access
D. AWS management Console access
E. Administrative root access
5. True or false? AWS Organizations enables you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts so that you
centrally manage them
A. True
B. false
6. which of the following are best practices to secure your account using AWS Identity and Access
Management (IAM) ? (choose two)
A. provide users with default administrative privileges
B. leave unused and unnecessary users and credentials in place
C. manage access to AWS resources
D. avoid using IAM groups to grant the same access permissions to multiple users
E. define fine-grained access rights
7. which of the following should be done by the AWS account root user? (select the best answer)
A. secure access for applications
B. integrate with other AWS services
C. change granular permissions
D. change the AwS support plan
8. after initial login, what does AWS recommend as the best practice for the AWS account root
user? (select the best answer)
A. delete the AWS account root user
B. revoke all permissions on the AWS account root user
C. restrict permission on the AWS account root user
D. delete the access keys of the AWS account root user
9. how would a system administrator add an additional layer of login security to a users AWS
Management Console? (select the best answer)
A. User Amazon cloud directory
B. Audit AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles
C. Enable multi-factors authentication
D. Enable AWS cloudTrail
10. True or false? AWS key management service(AWS KMS) enables you to assess, audit, and evalute
the configuration of your AWS resources.
 A. True
B. False

1. With amazon virtual private cloud (amazon vpc) what is the smallest size subnet you can have in
a VPC (Select the best answer)
A. /30
B. /26
C. /28
D. /24
2. with amazon virtual private cloud (Amazon VPC) what is the maximum size IP address range you
can have in a VPC? (Select the best answer)
A. /28
B. /16
C. /30
D. /24
3. you need to allow resources in a private subnet to access internet. Which of the following must
be present to enable this access? (select the best answer)
A. route tables
B. security groups
C. network access control lists
D. NAT gateway
4. Which AWS networking services enables a company to create a virtual network within AWS?
(select the best answer)
A. AWS config
B. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
C. Amazon Route S3
D. AWS direct connect
5. true or false? Private subnets have direct access to the internet
A. true
B. false
6. which component of AWS global Infrastructure does amazon CloudFront use to ensure low-
latency delivery? (select the best answer)
A. Amazon virtual private cloud (amazon VPC)
B. AWS availability zones
C. AWS regions
D. AWS edge locations
7. Which of the following is an optional security control that can be applied at the subnet layer of a
VPC (select the best answer)
A. Network ACL
B. Web application firewall
C. Firewall
D. Security Group
8. what happens when you use Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to create a new VPC?
(select the best answer)
A. three subnets are created by default : one for each Availability zone
B. three subnetes are creted by default in one Availbility zone
C. a main route table is created by default
D. an intertet gateway is created by default
9. which of the following can be used to protect Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
instnces hosted in AWS? (select the best answer)
A. Internet gateway
B. Security group
C. AMI
D. All of the above
10. you are solutions architect who works at a large retail company that is migrating its existing
infrastructure to AWS. You recommend that they use a custom VPC. When you create a VPC, you
assign it to an IPV4 Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) block of 10.0.1.0/24 (which has 256
total IP addresess) How many IP addressses are available? (select the best answer)
A. 246
B. 250
C. 256
D. 251

1. why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute
workloads? (select the best answer)
A. amazon EC2 cost are billed on a monthly basis
B. customers retain full administrative access to their Amazon EC2 instances
C. customers can permanently run enough instances to handle peak workloads
D. Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed
2. if your project requires monthly reports that iterate through very large amount of data, which
amazon elastic compute cloud (amazon ec2) purchasing option should you consider? (select the
best answer)
A. spot instances
B. scheduled reserved instances
C. dedicated hosts
D. on-Demand instances
3. what is included in an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)? (select the best answer)
A. a template for the root volume for the instance
B. launch permissions that control which AWS accounts can use the AMI to launch instances
C. A block device mapping that specifies the volumes to attach to the instance when its
launched
D. All of the above
4. Which amazon elastic compute cloud (amazon ec2) feature ensures your instances will not share
a physical host with instances from any other AWS customer?(select the best answer)
A. Amazon VPC
B. Placement groups
 C. Dedicated instances
D. Reserved instances
5. Which of the following services is a serverless compute service in AWS? (select the best answer)
A. AWS config
B. AWS lambda
C. AWS OpsWorks
D. Amazon EC2
6. What is the service provided by AWS that enables developers to easily deploy and manage
applications in the cloud? (select the best answer)
A. Amazon elastic container service
B. AWS elastic beanstalk
C. AWS Opswork
D. AWS cloudformation
7. your web application needs four instances to support steady traffic all of the time, On the last
day of the month, the traffic triples. What is the most cost-effective way to handle this pattern?
(select the best answer)
A. run 12 reserved instances all of the time
B. run four on-demand instances constantly, then add eight more on-Demand instances on the
last day of each month
C. run four reserved instances constantly, then add eight on-Demand instances on the last
day of each month
D. run four on-demand instances constanly, then add eight reserved instances on the last day
of each month.
8. True or false? Containers contain an entire operating system.
A. True
B. false
9. which amazon EC2 option is best for long-term workloads with predictable usage patterns?
(select the best answer)
A. spot instances
B. on-demand instances
C. reserved instances
10. which of the following must be specified when launching a new Amazon elastic compute cloud
(amazon ec2) windows instance? (choose two)
A. password for the administrator account
B. amazon ec2 instance type
C. amazon machine image (AMI)
D. the amazon ec2 instance ID

1. true or false? Amazon simple storage service(Amazon S3) is an object storage suitable for the
suitable for the storage of flat files like Microsoft word documents, photos, etc.
A. true
B. false
2. amazon s3 replicates all objects ____ (select the best answer)
 A. on multiple volumes within an availability zone
B. in multiple availability zones within the same region
C. across multiple regions for higher durability
D. on multiple s3 buckets
3. which of the following can be used as a storage class for an s2 object lifecycle policy? (choose
three)
A. S3 – standard access
B. AWS storage gateway
C. S3 – infrequent acess
D. Simple storage service glacier
E. S3 – reduced redudandy storage
F. Amazon dynamo DB
4. The name of an S3 bucket must be unique _____ (select the best answer)
A. Worldwide across all AWS account
B. Within a region
C. Across all your AWS accounts
D. Within your AWS account
5. You can use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to (select the best answer)
A. Provide simple, scalable, elastic file storage for use only within AWS
B. Implement storage for amazon EC2 instances that multiple virtual machines can access at
he same time.
C. Host a robust CDN to deliver entire web sites with dynamic, static, and streaming content
D. Generate user-specific content
6. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is recommended when data _____ and _____ (choose
two)
A. Requires object-level storage
B. Must be quickly accessible, requiring long-term persistence
C. Requires an encryption solution
D. Needs to be stored I na different Availaibility Zone than the one the EC2 instance is in
7. True or false? By default, all data stored in Amazon S3 is viewable by the public
A. True
B. false
8. regarding Amazon S3 glacier, what is a vault (select the best answer)
A. the rules that determine who may (or may not) access archives
B. an object (photos, videos, files, or documents)
C. a container for storing archives
D. a policy that identifies who can acess content stored in gracier
9. true or false? When you create a bucket in Amazon S3, it is associated with a specific AWS region
A. true
B. false
10. which of the following are features of Amazon Elastic Block store (Amazon EBS) (choose two)
A. amazon EBS data is automatically backed up to tape
B. data stored on Amazon EBS is automatically replicated within an Availability zone
C. amazon ebs volumes can be enrypted transparently to workloads on the attached instance
 D. data on an amazon EBS volume is lost when the attached instance is stopped

1. you are designing an ecommerce web application that will scale to hundreds of thousands of
concurrent users. Which database techonology is best suited to hold the session state in this
example?
A. Amazon relational database service (amazon RDS)
B. Amazon dynamoDB
C. Amazon redshift
D. Amazon simple storage service (amazon s3)
2. You need to find an item in an amazon dynamoDB table using an attribute other than the itemss
primary key. Which of the following operations should you use? (select the best answer)
A. Putltem
B. Scan
C. Query
D. Getiltem
3. In amazon dynamoDB, what does the query operation enable you to do? (select the best
answer)
A. Query a table using the partition key and an optional sort key filter
B. Query any secondary indexes that exist for a table
C. Efficiently retrieve items from a table or secondary index
D. All of the above
4. Which AWS cloud service is best suited for analyzing your data by using standard structured
query languange (SQL) and your existing business intelligence(BI) tools? (select the best answer)
A. Amazon relational database service (amazon RDS)
B. Amazon simple storage service glacier
C. Amazon dynamoDB
D. Amazon redshift
5. In amazon DynamoDB, an attibute is _____ (select the best answer)
A. A fundamental data element
B. A collection of items
C. A collection of attibutes
6. If you are developing an application that requres a database with extremely fast perfomance,
fast scalability, and flexibility in the database schema, which service should you consider? (select
the best answer)
A. Amazon relational database service(Amazon RDS)
B. Amazon elasticache
C. Amazon dynamoDB
D. Amazon Redshift
7. Which of the following use cases is appropriate for using Amazon relational database service
(amazon RDS) (select the best answer)
A. Massive read/ write rates
B. Simple GET or PUT requests
 C. Complex transcactions
D. All of the above
8. A company has an application, which consists of a NET layer that connect to a MYSQL database,
they want to move this application on to AWS and use AWS features such as high availability and
automated backups. Which of the following would be an ideal database for this use case (select
the best answer)
A. Amazon RDS
B. Amazon redshift
C. Amazon aurora
D. Amazon dynamoDB
9. True or false? Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and back up your
database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period and enabling point-in-time
recovery.
A. True
B. false
10. what should you consider when choosing a database type? (select the best answer)
A. data size
B. data access period
C. query frequency
D. highly available
E. all of the above

1. which of the following is not one of the four areas of the perfomance efficiency pillar of the
AWS well-architected framework? (select the best answer)
A. tradeoffs
B. selection
C. traceability
D. monitoring
2. which of the following is a priciple when designing cloud-based systems (select the best
answer)
A. build tightly-coupled components
B. make infrequent, large batch changes
C. assume evertything will fail
D. use a many services as possible
3. which of the following are pillars of the AWS Well-Architected framwork ?(Choose three)
A. security
B. persistence
C. operational excellence
D. cost optimization
4. which design principles are recommended when considering perfomance efficiency ?
(choose two)
A. match supply with demand
B. use serverless architectures
 C. democratize advanced technologies
D. analyze and attribute expenditure
E. enable tracebility
5. AWS trusted advisor provides insight regarding which five categories of an AWS account?
(select the best answer)
A. Security, fault tolerance, high availibility, conncetivity, service limits
B. Security, access control, high availibility, conncetivity, service limits
C. Perfomance, cost optimization, access control, connectivity, security
D. Perfomance, cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, service limits
6. The AWS well-architected framework is organized into how many pillars? (select the best
answer)
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. None the above
7. After you move to the aws cloud, you want to ensure that the right security settings are put
in place, which online tool can assist in security compliance? (select the best answer)
A. Amazon kinesis
B. AWS support
C. AWS trusted advisor
D. Amazon cloudwatch
8. Which of the following is a measure of your system’s ability to provide functionality when
desired by the user? (select the best answer)
A. Availability
B. Fault tolerance
C. Reliability
D. Perfomance efficiency
9. What is defined as the ability for a system to remain operational even if some of the
component of that system fail? (select the best answer)
A. High durability
B. Fault tolerance
C. High availability
D. High durability
10. Which of the following best desctibes a system that can withstand some measures of
degradation, experiences minimal downtime, and requires minimal human intervention?
(select the best answer)
A. Scalable
B. Fault-tolerant
C. Elastic
D. Highly available
1. Which of the following AWS tools help application scale up or down based on demand? (choose
two)
A. Availbility zones
B. Amazon EC2 auto scaling
 C. AWS CloudFormation
D. Elastic Load Balancing
E. AWS Config
2. Which service would you use to send alerts based on Amazon CloudWatch alarms (Select the
best answer)
A. Amazon simple notification service (Amazon SNS)
B. AWS Cloudtrail
C. AWS trusted Advisor
D. Amazon Route S3
3. Which of the following are charecteristics of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling? (Choose Three)
A. Only support dynamic scaling
B. Responds to changing conditions by adding or terminating instances
C. Delivers push notifications
D. Launches instances from a specified Amazon Machine Imange (AMI)
E. Enforces a minimum number of running Amazon EC2 instances
4. Which of the following must be configured on an Elastic LoadBalancing load balancer to expect
incoming traffic? (select to best answer)
A. A port
B. A network interface
C. A listener
D. An instance
5. Which of the following elements are used to create an Amazon EC2 Auto scaling launch
configuration ? (Choose three)
A. Amazon machine Image (AMI)
B. Load balancer
C. Instance type
D. Virtual private cloud (VPC) and subnets
E. Amazon elastic block store (amazon EBS) volumes
6. Which of the following services can help you collect important metrics from Amazon Relational
Database Service (Amazon RDS) and amazon elastic compute cloud (Amazon EC2) instances?
(select the best answer)
A. Amazon cloudfront
B. Amazon cloudsearch
C. Amazon cloudwatch
D. Aws cloudtrail
E. Amaon ec2 auto scaling
7. Which of the following are elements of an auto scaling group (choose three)
A. Minimum size
B. Health checks
C. Desired capacity
D. Maximum size
8. There is an audit at your company and they need to have a log of all acess to AWS resources in
the account. Which of the following services can assist in providing these details? (select the
best answer)
 A. Amazon cloudwatch
B. Aws cloudtrail
C. Amazon elastic compute cloud (amazon ec2)
D. Amazon simple notification service (amazon sns)
9. In elastic load balancing, when the load balancer detects an unhealthy target, which of the
following are true? (choose three)
A. Stops routing traffin to that target
B. Triggers an alarm
C. Resumes routing traffic when it detects that the target is healthy again
D. Resumes routing traffic when manually restarted
E. Routes traffic to a healthy target
10. What are the three types of load balancers that elastic load balancing offers?
A. Internet load balancer
B. Application load balancer
C. Network load balancer
D. Compute load balancer
E. Classic load balancer
F. Auto scaling load balancer

Test Exam

1. A start-up organization is using the cost explorer tool to view and analyze its costs and
usage .Which of the below statements are correct with regards to the cost explorer tool?
(Select TWO)
A. identifies areas that need further inquiry
B. Spot Instances to purchase are recommended
C. Provides trends that you can use to understand your costs
D. Provides forecast of the likely spend for the next six months
E. Data is available for up to the last 24 months.

2. Which of the following support plans offer 24*7 technical support via phone, email, and
chat access to Cloud Support Engineers? (Select TWO.)
A. Developer
B. Basic
C. Business
D. Enterprise
E. Premium
3. Security and Compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer.
Which amongst the below-listed options are AWS responsibilities?
(Select TWO.)
A. Perform all the necessary security configuration and management tasks for Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
B. Patch management within the infrastructure
C. Patch management of the guest OS and applications
D. Security of the data in the cloud
 E. Security of the cloud
4. Applications are installed on Amazon EC2 instances in which an IAM role is configured.
Which of the following services provides temporary security credentials for the
applications to access to other AWS resources?
A. Amazon Cognito
B. AWS IAM user
C. AWS STS
D. AWS IAM groups
5. Which AWS product provides a unified user interface, enabling easy management of
software development activities in one place, along with, quick development, build, and
deployment of applications on AWS?
A. AWS CodeArtifact
B. AWS CodeStar
C. AWS CodeBuild
D. Amazon CodeGuru.
6. Which of the below statements is incorrect with regards to the advantages of moving to
cloud?
A. Benefit from massive economies of scale
B. Trade variable expense for capital expense
C. Go global in minutes
D. Stop spending money running and maintaining data centres
7. __________________ automates the discovery of sensitive data at scale and lowers the
cost of protecting your data using machine learning and pattern matching techniques.
A. AWS Security Hub
B. AWS Shield
C. Amazon GuardDuty
D. Amazon Macie
8. The project team requires an AWS service that provides a filesystem simultaneously
mounted from different instances of EC2. Which AWS service will satisfy this
requirement?
A. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
B. Amazon EFS
C. Amazon S3
D. Amazon EBS
9. Most up-to-the-minute information on AWS service availability could be determined
from?
A. AWS Personal Health Dashboard
B. AWS Control Tower
C. AWS Service health dashboard
D. Amazon Cloudwatch
10. Project team enhancing the security features of a banking application, requires
implementing a threat detection service that continuously monitors malicious activities
and unauthorized behaviors to protect AWS accounts, workloads, and data stored in
Amazon S3. Which AWS services should the project team select?
A. AWS Firewall Manager
B. Amazon Inspector
C. Amazon GuardDuty
D. AWS Shield