AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which AWS pricing model lets you commit to a consistent amount of compute usage for 1 or 3 years in exchange for lower prices?
- On-Demand Instances
- Savings Plans (Correct answer)
- Spot Instances
- Dedicated Hosts
Correct answer: Savings Plans
Savings Plans offer lower rates in exchange for a 1- or 3-year commitment to a consistent amount of compute usage.
Question 2: Under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which task is the customer's responsibility?
- Maintaining physical data center security
- Patching the guest operating system on EC2 (Correct answer)
- Managing the hypervisor
- Securing the global network infrastructure
Correct answer: Patching the guest operating system on EC2
Customers are responsible for security 'in' the cloud, including patching guest OSes on EC2.
Question 3: Which AWS service provides a virtual network isolated within the AWS Cloud?
- Amazon VPC (Correct answer)
- Amazon Route 53
- AWS Direct Connect
- Amazon CloudFront
Correct answer: Amazon VPC
Amazon VPC lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud as your own virtual network.
Question 4: A company wants to run code without provisioning or managing servers. Which service should they use?
- Amazon EC2
- AWS Lambda (Correct answer)
- Amazon Lightsail
- AWS Batch
Correct answer: AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda runs code in response to events without requiring you to provision or manage servers.
Question 5: Which AWS support plan provides a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM)?
- Basic
- Developer
- Business
- Enterprise (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Enterprise
The Enterprise Support plan includes a designated Technical Account Manager.
Question 6: Which storage service is best suited for storing and retrieving any amount of data as objects?
- Amazon EBS
- Amazon S3 (Correct answer)
- Amazon EFS
- AWS Storage Gateway
Correct answer: Amazon S3
Amazon S3 is object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere.
Question 7: What does the AWS Well-Architected Framework's 'Cost Optimization' pillar primarily focus on?
- Recovering from failures automatically
- Avoiding unnecessary costs and using resources efficiently (Correct answer)
- Encrypting data at rest
- Reducing application latency
Correct answer: Avoiding unnecessary costs and using resources efficiently
The Cost Optimization pillar focuses on avoiding unnecessary costs and getting the best value from resources.
AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification 2
Which AWS pricing model lets you commit to a consistent amount of compute usage for 1 or 3 years in exchange for lower prices?