CCP Cheat Sheet 2026

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1. What AWS technology offers quick, simple, and secure file transfers between your client and your Amazon S3 bucket across long distances? → Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
2. Which AWS service is best suited for running a containerized microservices application without managing Kubernetes or EC2? → AWS Fargate with Amazon ECS
3. What kind of cloud model is AWS GovCloud? → Community
4. Which AWS feature allows you to define fine-grained permissions for AWS users and roles using JSON policy documents? → AWS IAM Policies
5. What does 'Availability Zone' mean in AWS? → An isolated data center location within an AWS Region
6. Which AWS service provides a dedicated private connection from your on-premises network to AWS, bypassing the public internet? → AWS Direct Connect
7. Which Route 53 routing policy would you use to route traffic based on the lowest network latency for end users? → Latency-based routing
8. Which AWS support plan is the minimum level that provides access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM)? → Enterprise
9. What AWS tool lets you estimate the cost of a new AWS architecture before you deploy it? → AWS Pricing Calculator
10. Which AWS Cost Management tool provides visualizations of your historical and forecasted spending by service, region, or tag? → AWS Cost Explorer
11. Which service continuously monitors AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity using machine learning and threat intelligence? → Amazon GuardDuty
12. What is AWS OpsWorks used for? → Configuration management using Chef and Puppet for automating server configuration
13. Your business wishes to transfer an existing Oracle database to the AWS Cloud. Which of the following services can make this transfer easier? → AWS Database Migration Service
14. Which design principle recommends replacing failed components automatically rather than fixing them in place? → Treat servers as cattle, not pets
15. Which service provides on-demand access to AWS compliance reports such as SOC and PCI DSS documentation? → AWS Artifact
16. What is an IAM role primarily used for? → Granting temporary permissions to AWS services or external identities
17. Which AWS service continuously monitors resource configurations and evaluates them against desired compliance rules? → AWS Config
18. Which AWS service would make the transfer of a database to AWS the easiest? → AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
19. What is the key difference between a Security Group and a Network ACL in AWS? → Security Groups are stateful; NACLs are stateless
20. Which service centralizes security findings from multiple AWS security services into a single dashboard? → AWS Security Hub
21. Which AWS service lets you set fine-grained permissions for AWS services and resources using JSON-based policies? → AWS IAM
22. What does 'elasticity' mean in the context of AWS cloud computing? → Automatically scaling resources up or down to match current demand
23. Which AWS service provides a graphical interface to help you build and manage CI/CD pipelines for software delivery? → AWS CodePipeline
24. Which Amazon VPC component allows instances in a private subnet to access the internet without exposing them to inbound internet traffic? → NAT Gateway
25. Which AWS service provides a fully managed, scalable, shared file system that can be mounted by multiple EC2 instances simultaneously? → Amazon EFS
26. Which AWS service provides a managed relational database with automated backups, patching, and failover? → Amazon RDS
27. What is the maximum size of a single object that can be stored in Amazon S3? → 5 TB
28. Which AWS service is a free tool that provides real-time guidance on provisioning resources following AWS best practices? → AWS Trusted Advisor
29. Which of the following, according to the AWS shared responsibility model, is an AWS responsibility? → Maintaining physical hardware
30. What is the AWS Free Tier, and how long does it last for new accounts? → Free usage limits on selected services for 12 months after account creation