amazon AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam practice questions

Questions for the AWS CERTIFIED CLOUD PRACTITIONER were updated on : Dec 01 ,2025

Page 1 out of 9. Viewing questions 1-15 out of 132

Question 1

Which services are parts of the AWS serverless platform?

  • A. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Athena
  • B. Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SQS, Amazon EMR
  • C. AWS Step Functions, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS
  • D. Amazon Athena, Amazon Cognito, Amazon EC2
Answer:

C

User Votes:
A
50%
B
50%
C
50%
D
50%

Explanation:
AWS provides a set of fully managed services that you can use to build and run serverless
applications. Serverless applications don’t require provisioning, maintaining, and administering
servers for backend components such as compute, databases, storage, stream processing, message
queueing, and more. You also no longer need to worry about ensuring application fault tolerance
and availability. Instead, AWS handles all of these capabilities for you. Serverless platform includes:
AWS lambda, Amazon S3, DynamoDB, API gateway, Amazon SNS, AWS step functions, Amazon
kinesis and developing tools and services.

Discussions
vote your answer:
A
B
C
D
0 / 1000

Question 2

Which of the following services is in the category of AWS serverless platform?

  • A. Amazon EMR
  • B. Elastic Load Balancing
  • C. AWS Lambda
  • D. AWS Mobile Hub
Answer:

C

User Votes:
A
50%
B
50%
C
50%
D
50%

Explanation:
AWS provides a set of fully managed services that you can use to build and run serverless
applications. Serverless applications don’t require provisioning, maintaining, and administering
servers for backend components such as compute, databases, storage, stream processing, message
queueing, and more. You also no longer need to worry about ensuring application fault tolerance
and availability. Instead, AWS handles all of these capabilities for you. Serverless platform includes:
AWS lambda, Amazon S3, DynamoDB, API gateway, Amazon SNS, AWS step functions, Amazon
kinesis and developing tools and services.

Discussions
vote your answer:
A
B
C
D
0 / 1000

Question 3

An administrator needs to rapidly deploy a popular IT solution and start using it immediately.
Where can the administrator find assistance?

  • A. AWS Well-Architected Framework documentation
  • B. Amazon CloudFront
  • C. AWS CodeCommit
  • D. AWS Quick Start reference deployments
Answer:

D

User Votes:
A
50%
B
50%
C
50%
D
50%

Explanation:
Quick Starts are built by AWS solutions architects and partners to help you deploy popular
technologies on AWS, based on AWS best practices for security and high availability. These
accelerators reduce hundreds of manual procedures into just a few steps, so you can build your
production environment quickly and start using it immediately.

Discussions
vote your answer:
A
B
C
D
0 / 1000

Question 4

One benefit of On-Demand Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) pricing is:

  • A. the ability to bid for a lower hourly cost.
  • B. paying a daily rate regardless of time used.
  • C. paying only for time used.
  • D. pre-paying for instances and paying a lower hourly rate.
Answer:

C

User Votes:
A
50%
B
50%
C
50%
D
50%

Explanation:
On-Demand Capacity Reservations are priced exactly the same as their equivalent (On-Demand)
instance usage. If a Capacity Reservation is fully utilized, you only pay for instance usage and nothing
towards the Capacity Reservation. If a Capacity Reservation is partially utilized, you pay for the
instance usage and for the unused portion of the Capacity Reservation.

Discussions
vote your answer:
A
B
C
D
0 / 1000

Question 5

Which of the following tasks is the responsibility of AWS?

  • A. Encrypting client-side data
  • B. Configuring AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles
  • C. Securing the Amazon EC2 hypervisor
  • D. Setting user password policies
Answer:

C

User Votes:
A
50%
B
50%
C
50%
D
50%

Explanation:
In EC2, the AWS IaaS offering, everything from the hypervisor layer down is AWS’s responsibility. A
customer’s poorly coded applications, misconfigured operating systems, or insecure firewall settings
will not affect the hypervisor, it will only affect the customer’s virtual machines running on that
hypervisor.

Discussions
vote your answer:
A
B
C
D
0 / 1000

Question 6

Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that provides technical support through phone calls?

  • A. Enterprise
  • B. Business
  • C. Developer
  • D. Basic
Answer:

B

User Votes:
A
50%
B
50%
C
50%
D
50%
Discussions
vote your answer:
A
B
C
D
0 / 1000

Question 7

How should a customer forecast the future costs for running a new web application?

  • A. Amazon Aurora Backtrack
  • B. Amazon CloudWatch Billing Alarms
  • C. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
  • D. AWS Cost and Usage report
Answer:

D

User Votes:
A
50%
B
50%
C
50%
D
50%

Explanation:
You can use Cost explorer which is part of Cost and Usage report to forecast future costs of running
an application.

Discussions
vote your answer:
A
B
C
D
0 / 1000

Question 8

A company will be moving from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud.
What would be one financial difference after the move?

  • A. Moving from variable operational expense (opex) to upfront capital expense (capex).
  • B. Moving from upfront capital expense (capex) to variable capital expense (capex).
  • C. Moving from upfront capital expense (capex) to variable operational expense (opex).
  • D. Elimination of upfront capital expense (capex) and elimination of variable operational expense (opex)
Answer:

C

User Votes:
A
50%
B
50%
C
50%
D
50%
Discussions
vote your answer:
A
B
C
D
0 / 1000

Question 9

A solution that is able to support growth in users, traffic, or data size with no drop in performance
aligns with which cloud architecture principle?

  • A. Think parallel
  • B. Implement elasticity
  • C. Decouple your components
  • D. Design for failure
Answer:

B

User Votes:
A
50%
B
50%
C
50%
D
50%
Discussions
vote your answer:
A
B
C
D
0 / 1000

Question 10

Which of the following can limit Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket access to
specific users?

  • A. A public and private key-pair
  • B. Amazon Inspector
  • C. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies
  • D. Security Groups
Answer:

C

User Votes:
A
50%
B
50%
C
50%
D
50%

Explanation:
To allow users to perform S3 actions on the bucket from the VPC endpoints or IP addresses, you must
explicitly grant those user-level permissions. You can grant user-level permissions on either an AWS
Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy or another statement in the bucket policy.

Discussions
vote your answer:
A
B
C
D
0 / 1000

Question 11

What can AWS edge locations be used for? (Select TWO.)

  • A. Hosting applications
  • B. Delivering content closer to users
  • C. Running NoSQL database caching services
  • D. Reducing traffic on the server by caching responses
  • E. Sending notification messages to end users
Answer:

B,D

User Votes:
A
50%
B
50%
C
50%
D
50%
E
50%

Explanation:
CloudFront delivers your content through a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations.
When a user requests content that you're serving with CloudFront, the user is routed to the edge
location that provides the lowest latency (time delay), so that content is delivered with the best
possible performance.

Discussions
vote your answer:
A
B
C
D
E
0 / 1000

Question 12

How does AWS shorten the time to provision IT resources?

  • A. It supplies an online IT ticketing platform for resource requests.
  • B. It supports automatic code validation services.
  • C. It provides the ability to programmatically provision existing resources.
  • D. It automates the resource request process from a company’s IT vendor list.
Answer:

C

User Votes:
A
50%
B
50%
C
50%
D
50%
Discussions
vote your answer:
A
B
C
D
0 / 1000

Question 13

Which AWS service can serve a static website?

  • A. Amazon S3
  • B. Amazon Route 53
  • C. Amazon QuickSight
  • D. AWS X-Ray
Answer:

A

User Votes:
A
50%
B
50%
C
50%
D
50%

Explanation:
You can host a static website on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). On a static website,
individual webpages include static content. They might also contain client-side scripts. By contrast, a
dynamic website relies on server-side processing, including server-side scripts such as PHP, JSP, or
ASP.NET. Amazon S3 does not support server-side scripting.

Discussions
vote your answer:
A
B
C
D
0 / 1000

Question 14

Which is the minimum AWS Support plan that includes Infrastructure Event Management without
additional costs?

  • A. Enterprise
  • B. Business
  • C. Developer
  • D. Basic
Answer:

B

User Votes:
A
50%
B
50%
C
50%
D
50%
Discussions
vote your answer:
A
B
C
D
0 / 1000

Question 15

Which AWS feature should a customer leverage to achieve high availability of an application?

  • A. AWS Direct Connect
  • B. Availability Zones
  • C. Data centers
  • D. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
Answer:

B

User Votes:
A
50%
B
50%
C
50%
D
50%

Explanation:
This is to achieve High Availability for any web application (in this case SwiftCode) deployed in AWS.
The following features will be present:

Discussions
vote your answer:
A
B
C
D
0 / 1000
To page 2