CCP Certified Cloud Practitioner 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which AWS service is used to send automated notifications via email, SMS, or HTTP endpoints?
- Amazon SQS
- Amazon SNS (Correct answer)
- Amazon SES
- AWS EventBridge
Correct answer: Amazon SNS
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a fully managed pub/sub messaging service that sends notifications to subscribers via multiple protocols.
Question 2: A company wants to analyze large datasets using standard SQL queries. Which AWS service should they use?
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon Athena (Correct answer)
- Amazon ElastiCache
Correct answer: Amazon Athena
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that analyzes data stored in S3 using standard SQL with no infrastructure to manage.
Question 3: Which AWS cost management tool provides forecasts and recommendations to help reduce cloud spend?
- AWS Pricing Calculator
- AWS Cost Explorer (Correct answer)
- AWS Budgets
- AWS Cost and Usage Report
Correct answer: AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Cost Explorer visualizes, understands, and manages costs over time with historical analysis and forecasting capabilities.
Question 4: What is the primary function of AWS CloudTrail?
- Monitor application performance metrics
- Record API calls and account activity for auditing (Correct answer)
- Distribute traffic across multiple servers
- Automate infrastructure provisioning
Correct answer: Record API calls and account activity for auditing
AWS CloudTrail records API calls made in your AWS account, providing an audit trail of account activity for compliance and governance.
Question 5: Which AWS service provides managed Kubernetes container orchestration?
- Amazon ECS
- AWS Fargate
- Amazon EKS (Correct answer)
- AWS App Runner
Correct answer: Amazon EKS
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy to run Kubernetes on AWS.
Question 6: A business requires that all its AWS resources be tagged for cost allocation. Which AWS service helps enforce this requirement?
- AWS IAM
- AWS Config (Correct answer)
- AWS Systems Manager
- Amazon Inspector
Correct answer: AWS Config
AWS Config continuously monitors and records AWS resource configurations and can evaluate them against desired rules, including tagging policies.
Question 7: Which of the following is NOT a benefit of moving to the AWS cloud?
- Eliminating the need to guess capacity
- Increasing speed and agility
- Eliminating all operational responsibilities (Correct answer)
- Trading capital expense for variable expense
Correct answer: Eliminating all operational responsibilities
Moving to AWS reduces but does not eliminate all operational responsibilities; customers still manage their applications, data, and some infrastructure.
CCP Certified Cloud Practitioner 4
Which AWS service is used to send automated notifications via email, SMS, or HTTP endpoints?