Question 1

If each department within a company has its own AWS account, what is one way to enable consolidated billing?

Accepted Answer

A)  Use AWS Budgets on each account to pay only to budget. 
B)  Contact AWS Support for a monthly bill. 
C)  Create an AWS Organization from the payer account and invite the other accounts to join. 
D)  Put all invoices into one Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket, load data into Amazon Redshift, and then run a billing report.

Question 2

Under the shared responsibility model, which of the following tasks are the responsibility of the customer? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

A)  Maintaining the underlying Amazon EC2 hardware. 
B)  Managing the VPC network access control lists. 
C)  Encrypting data in transit and at rest. 
D)  Replacing failed hard disk drives. 
E)  Deploying hardware in different Availability Zones.

Question 3

How can a company reduce its Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) using AWS?

Accepted Answer

A)  By minimizing large capital expenditures 
B)  By having no responsibility for third-party license costs 
C)  By having no operational expenditures 
D)  By having AWS manage applications

Question 4

Which characteristic of the AWS Cloud helps users eliminate underutilized CPU capacity?

Accepted Answer

A)  Agility 
B)  Elasticity 
C)  Reliability 
D)  Durability

Question 5

A company is expecting a short-term spike in internet traffic for its application. During the traffic increase, the application cannot be interrupted. The company also needs to minimize cost and maximize flexibility. Which Amazon EC2 instance type should the company use to meet these requirements?

Accepted Answer

A)  On-Demand Instances 
B)  Spot Instances 
C)  Reserved Instances 
D)  Dedicated Hosts

Question 6

A company needs to migrate its on-premises data to the AWS Cloud. The company requires elastic, highly optimized connectivity. Which AWS service meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

A)  Amazon S3 Glacier 
B)  AWS Storage Gateway 
C)  AWS Backup 
D)  Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

Question 7

The continual reduction of AWS Cloud pricing is due to:

Accepted Answer

A)  pay-as-you go pricing 
B)  the AWS global infrastructure 
C)  economies of scale 
D)  reserved storage pricing

Question 8

How do AWS users trade infrastructure expenses for operational expenses?

Accepted Answer

A)  Secure their physical infrastructure to prevent malicious attacks. 
B)  Use AWS Budgets to ensure that spending on AWS resources does not exceed preset thresholds. 
C)  Eliminate the electricity costs that are associated with the hosting of physical servers. 
D)  Use AWS Auto Scaling to dynamically increase and decrease compute resources as needed.

Question 9

A user needs to regularly audit and evaluate the setup of all AWS resources, identify non-compliant accounts, and be notified when a resource changes. Which AWS service can be used to meet these requirements?

Accepted Answer

A)  AWS Trusted Advisor 
B)  AWS Config 
C)  AWS Resource Access Manager 
D)  AWS Systems Manager

Question 10

What is the recommended method to request penetration testing on AWS resources?

Accepted Answer

A)  Open a support case 
B)  Fill out the Penetration Testing Request Form 
C)  Request a penetration test from your technical account manager 
D)  Contact your AWS sales representative

Question 11

Which AWS services or features help decrease network latency for a globally dispersed user base? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

A)  Amazon VPC 
B)  Elastic Load Balancer 
C)  Amazon CloudFront 
D)  AWS Direct Connect 
E)  AWS Global Accelerator

Question 12

A bank needs to store recordings of calls made to its contact center for 6 years. The recordings must be accessible within 48 hours from the time they are requested. Which AWS service will provide a secure and cost-effective solution for retaining these files?

Accepted Answer

A)  Amazon DynamoDB 
B)  Amazon S3 Glacier 
C)  Amazon Connect 
D)  Amazon ElastiCache

Question 13

A company is migrating an application that is running non-interruptible workloads for a three-year time frame. Which pricing construct would provide the MOST cost-effective solution?

Accepted Answer

A)  Amazon EC2 Spot Instances 
B)  Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances 
C)  Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances 
D)  Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

Question 14

One of the advantages to moving infrastructure from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud is:

Accepted Answer

A)  it allows the business to eliminate IT bills. 
B)  it allows the business to put a server in each customer's data center. 
C)  it allows the business to focus on business activities. 
D)  it allows the business to leave servers unpatched.

Question 15

Which of the following allows AWS users to manage cost allocations for billing?

Accepted Answer

A)  Tagging resources 
B)  Limiting who can create resources 
C)  Adding a secondary payment method 
D)  Running all operations on a single AWS account

Question 16

Which of the following describes AWS Local Zones?

Accepted Answer

A)  A cluster of data centers in one geographic location 
B)  A site used by Amazon CloudFront to cache frequently accessed content 
C)  An extension of an AWS Region to more granular locations 
D)  One or more data centers with redundant power and networking

Question 17

Which of the following tasks is required to deploy a PCI-compliant workload on AWS?

Accepted Answer

A)  Use any AWS service and implement PCI controls at the application layer 
B)  Use an AWS service that is in-scope for PCI compliance and raise an AWS support ticket to enable PCI compliance at the application layer 
C)  Use any AWS service and raise an AWS support ticket to enable PCI compliance on that service 
D)  Use an AWS service that is in scope for PCI compliance and apply PCI controls at the application layer

Question 18

A company wants to use an AWS service to monitor the health of application endpoints, with the ability to route traffic to healthy regional endpoints to improve application availability. Which service will support these requirements?

Accepted Answer

A)  Amazon Inspector 
B)  Amazon CloudWatch 
C)  AWS Global Accelerator 
D)  Amazon CloudFront

Question 19

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, what is the customer's responsibility when using an AWS managed service?

Accepted Answer

A)  Physical security of the data centers 
B)  Server-side encryption 
C)  Customer data 
D)  Operating system patching

Question 20

Which AWS service provides a secure, fast, and cost-effective way to migrate or transport exabyte-scale datasets into AWS?

Accepted Answer

A)  AWS Batch 
B)  AWS Snowball 
C)  AWS Migration Hub 
D)  AWS Snowmobile

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