AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner practice questions, page 2 of 40, with answer review and explanations.

Question 6

Which component of the AWS global infrastructure is made up of one or more discrete data centers that have redundant power, networking, and connectivity?

  1. AWS Region
  2. Availability Zone
  3. Edge location
  4. AWS Outposts

Question 7

Which duties are the responsibility of a company that is using AWS Lambda? (Choose two.)

  1. Security inside of code
  2. Selection of CPU resources
  3. Patching of operating system
  4. Writing and updating of code
  5. Security of underlying infrastructure

Question 8

Which AWS services or features provide disaster recovery solutions for Amazon EC2 instances? (Choose two.)

  1. ׀•׀¡2 Reserved Instances
  2. EC2 Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
  3. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots
  4. AWS Shield
  5. Amazon GuardDuty

Question 9

A company is migrating to the AWS Cloud instead of running its infrastructure on premises. Which of the following are advantages of this migration? (Choose two.)

  1. Elimination of the need to perform security auditing
  2. Increased global reach and agility
  3. Ability to deploy globally in minutes
  4. Elimination of the cost of IT staff members
  5. Redundancy by default for all compute services

Question 10

A user is comparing purchase options for an application that runs on Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS. The application cannot sustain any interruption. The application experiences a predictable amount of usage, including some seasonal spikes that last only a few weeks at a time. It is not possible to modify the application. Which purchase option meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

  1. Review the AWS Marketplace and buy Partial Upfront Reserved Instances to cover the predicted and seasonal load.
  2. Buy Reserved Instances for the predicted amount of usage throughout the year. Allow any seasonal usage to run on Spot Instances.
  3. Buy Reserved Instances for the predicted amount of usage throughout the year. Allow any seasonal usage to run at an On-Demand rate.
  4. Buy Reserved Instances to cover all potential usage that results from the seasonal usage.