CCP (CLF-C01) 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A company wants to run workloads without managing servers. Which AWS service is the best fit?
- Amazon EC2
- AWS Lambda (Correct answer)
- Amazon ECS on EC2
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Correct answer: AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs code without provisioning or managing servers.
Question 2: Which AWS pricing model allows you to commit to a consistent usage amount in exchange for a lower hourly rate?
- On-Demand
- Spot Instances
- Reserved Instances (Correct answer)
- Dedicated Hosts
Correct answer: Reserved Instances
Reserved Instances offer significant discounts over On-Demand pricing in exchange for a 1- or 3-year usage commitment.
Question 3: Which AWS service provides a managed relational database that can automatically scale storage?
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon RDS (Correct answer)
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon ElastiCache
Correct answer: Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service that supports automatic storage scaling with features like Aurora storage auto-scaling.
Question 4: A user wants to receive alerts when AWS costs exceed a defined threshold. Which service should they use?
- AWS Cost Explorer
- AWS Budgets (Correct answer)
- AWS Pricing Calculator
- AWS Trusted Advisor
Correct answer: AWS Budgets
AWS Budgets lets you set custom cost and usage thresholds and sends alerts when those thresholds are exceeded.
Question 5: Which feature of AWS allows a single AWS account to be billed on behalf of multiple accounts?
- AWS Identity Federation
- AWS Organizations Consolidated Billing (Correct answer)
- AWS Control Tower
- AWS IAM Groups
Correct answer: AWS Organizations Consolidated Billing
AWS Organizations Consolidated Billing combines usage from multiple accounts into a single bill and can unlock volume pricing discounts.
Question 6: What does the AWS Shared Responsibility Model state is the customer's responsibility?
- Physical security of data centers
- Patching the hypervisor
- Managing guest OS and application software (Correct answer)
- Maintaining networking hardware
Correct answer: Managing guest OS and application software
Customers are responsible for security 'in' the cloud, including managing their guest operating systems, applications, and data.
Question 7: Which AWS service enables users to centrally manage and audit AWS resource configurations over time?
- AWS CloudTrail
- AWS Config (Correct answer)
- Amazon Inspector
- AWS Systems Manager
Correct answer: AWS Config
AWS Config continuously records AWS resource configurations and evaluates them against desired configuration rules.
CCP (CLF-C01) 2
A company wants to run workloads without managing servers.
Which AWS service is the best fit?