Question 1

Which of the following is an AWS Cloud architecture design principle?

Accepted Answer

A)  Implement single points of failure. 
B)  Implement loose coupling. 
C)  Implement monolithic design. 
D)  Implement vertical scaling.

Question 2

A company is running and managing its own Docker environment on Amazon EC2 instances. The company wants to alternate to help manage cluster size, scheduling, and environment maintenance. Which AWS service meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

A)  AWS Lambda 
B)  Amazon RDS 
C)  AWS Fargate 
D)  Amazon Athena

Question 3

Which of the following inspects AWS environments to find opportunities that can save money for users and also improve system performance?

Accepted Answer

A)  AWS Cost Explorer 
B)  AWS Trusted Advisor 
C)  Consolidated billing 
D)  Detailed billing

Question 4

An application designed to span multiple Availability Zones is described as:

Accepted Answer

A)  being highly available 
B)  having global reach 
C)  using an economy of scale 
D)  having elasticity

Question 5

Which AWS services offer compute capabilities? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

A)  Amazon EC2 
B)  Amazon S3 
C)  Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) 
D)  Amazon Cognito 
E)  AWS Lambda

Question 6

Which AWS service is a highly available and scalable DNS web service?

Accepted Answer

A)  Amazon VPC 
B)  Amazon CloudFront 
C)  Amazon Route 53 
D)  Amazon Connect

Question 7

A company is building an application that requires the ability to send, store, and receive messages between application components. The company has another requirement to process messages in first-in, first-out (FIFO) order. Which AWS service should the company use?

Accepted Answer

A)  AWS Step Functions 
B)  Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) 
C)  Amazon Kinesis Data Streams 
D)  Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

Question 8

A user can optimize Amazon EC2 costs by performing which of the following tasks? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

A)  Implementing Auto Scaling groups to add and remove instances based on demand. 
B)  Creating a policy to restrict IAM users from creating new instances. 
C)  Setting a budget to limit spending on EC2 instances using AWS Budgets. 
D)  Purchasing Reserved Instances. 
E)  Adding EC2 instances to a second AWS Region that is geographically close to the end users.

Question 9

When architecting cloud applications, which of the following are a key design principle?

Accepted Answer

A)  Use the largest instance possible 
B)  Provision capacity for peak load 
C)  Use the Scrum development process 
D)  Implement elasticity

Question 10

Which of the following services provides on-demand access to AWS compliance reports?

Accepted Answer

A)  AWS IAM 
B)  AWS Artifact 
C)  Amazon GuardDuty 
D)  AWS KMS

Question 11

A company would like to host its MySQL databases on AWS and maintain full control over the operating system, database installation, and configuration. Which AWS service should the company use to host the databases?

Accepted Answer

A)  Amazon RDS 
B)  Amazon EC2 
C)  Amazon DynamoDB 
D)  Amazon Aurora

Question 12

A company needs to perform a one-time migration of 40TB of data from its on-premises storage servers to Amazon S3. The transfer must happen as quickly as possible while keeping costs to a minimum. The company has 100 Mbps internet connectivity. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

Accepted Answer

A)  AWS Snowball 
B)  AWS Direct Connect 
C)  AWS Storage Gateway 
D)  Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

Question 13

A company needs to improve the response rate of high-volume queries to its relational database. Which AWS service should the company use to offload requests to the database and improve overall response times?

Accepted Answer

A)  Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) 
B)  Amazon ElastiCache 
C)  Elastic Load Balancing 
D)  AWS Global Accelerator

Question 14

Which Amazon RDS feature can be used to achieve high availability?

Accepted Answer

A)  Multiple Availability Zones 
B)  Amazon Reserved Instances 
C)  Provisioned IOPS storage 
D)  Enhanced monitoring

Question 15

A company needs 24/7 phone, email, and chat access, with a response time of less than 1 hour if a production system has a service interruption. Which AWS Support plan meets these requirements at the LOWEST cost?

Accepted Answer

A)  Basic 
B)  Developer 
C)  Business 
D)  Enterprise

Question 16

A company has multiple AWS accounts within AWS Organizations and wants to apply the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances benefit to a single account only. Which action should be taken?

Accepted Answer

A)  Purchase the Reserved Instances from master payer account and turn off Reserved Instance sharing. 
B)  Enable billing alerts in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. 
C)  Purchase the Reserved Instances in individual linked accounts and turn off Reserved Instance sharing from the payer level. 
D)  Enable Reserved Instance sharing in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console.

Question 17

Which Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) feature enables users to connect two VPCs together?

Accepted Answer

A)  Amazon VPC endpoints 
B)  Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) ClassicLink 
C)  Amazon VPC peering 
D)  AWS Direct Connect

Question 18

Which are benefits of using Amazon RDS over Amazon EC2 when running relational databases on AWS? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

A)  Automated backups 
B)  Schema management 
C)  Indexing of tables 
D)  Software patching 
E)  Extract, transform, and load (ETL) management

Question 19

An application is receiving SQL injection attacks from multiple external resources. Which AWS service or feature can help automate mitigation against these attacks?

Accepted Answer

A)  AWS WAF 
B)  Security groups 
C)  Elastic Load Balancer 
D)  Network ACL

Question 20

A company with AWS Enterprise Support needs help understanding its monthly AWS bill and wants to implement billing best practices. Which AWS tool or resource is available to accomplish these goals?

Accepted Answer

A)  Resource tagging 
B)  AWS Concierge Support team 
C)  AWS Abuse team 
D)  AWS Support

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