AWS Cloud Practitioner General 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which AWS pricing model lets you pay a reduced rate by committing to a consistent amount of compute usage for a 1- or 3-year term?
- On-Demand Instances
- Savings Plans (Correct answer)
- Spot Instances
- Dedicated Hosts
Correct answer: Savings Plans
Savings Plans offer lower prices in exchange for a 1- or 3-year commitment to a specific compute usage amount.
Question 2: Which AWS service provides a virtual network isolated within the AWS cloud where you can launch resources?
- Amazon VPC (Correct answer)
- AWS Direct Connect
- Amazon Route 53
- AWS Transit Gateway
Correct answer: Amazon VPC
Amazon VPC lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud to launch resources in a defined virtual network.
Question 3: Under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which task is the customer's responsibility?
- Maintaining the physical data center
- Patching the hypervisor
- Configuring security groups and IAM permissions (Correct answer)
- Securing the global network infrastructure
Correct answer: Configuring security groups and IAM permissions
Customers are responsible for security 'in' the cloud, including IAM, security groups, and their data.
Question 4: Which AWS storage service is designed for archival data with the lowest cost and retrieval times of minutes to hours?
- Amazon S3 Standard
- Amazon EBS
- Amazon S3 Glacier (Correct answer)
- Amazon EFS
Correct answer: Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon S3 Glacier is built for low-cost, long-term archival storage with slower retrieval options.
Question 5: What is the primary benefit of deploying an application across multiple Availability Zones?
- Lower data transfer costs
- High availability and fault tolerance (Correct answer)
- Faster CPU performance
- Reduced IAM complexity
Correct answer: High availability and fault tolerance
Spreading resources across multiple AZs protects an application from the failure of a single data center.
Question 6: Which AWS service provides on-demand access to compute capacity as virtual servers?
- Amazon EC2 (Correct answer)
- Amazon RDS
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon SQS
Correct answer: Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 provides resizable virtual server (instance) compute capacity in the cloud.
Question 7: Which AWS support plan is the minimum required to get a Technical Account Manager (TAM)?
- Basic
- Developer
- Business
- Enterprise (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Enterprise
A dedicated Technical Account Manager is included only with the Enterprise Support plan.
AWS Cloud Practitioner General 2
Which AWS pricing model lets you pay a reduced rate by committing to a consistent amount of compute usage for a 1- or 3-year term?