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 is an AWS Region? → A geographic area with multiple, isolated Availability Zones
4. Which AWS service provides a managed message queuing service that decouples microservices and distributed systems? → Amazon SQS
5. What kind of cloud model is AWS GovCloud? → Community
6. Which AWS feature allows you to define fine-grained permissions for AWS users and roles using JSON policy documents? → AWS IAM Policies
7. What does 'Availability Zone' mean in AWS? → An isolated data center location within an AWS Region
8. Which AWS service provides a dedicated private connection from your on-premises network to AWS, bypassing the public internet? → AWS Direct Connect
9. Which Route 53 routing policy would you use to route traffic based on the lowest network latency for end users? → Latency-based routing
10. Which AWS support plan is the minimum level that provides access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM)? → Enterprise
11. A company needs to run a Windows-based application on AWS with complete control over the underlying server. Which option is best? → Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts
12. What AWS tool lets you estimate the cost of a new AWS architecture before you deploy it? → AWS Pricing Calculator
13. Which AWS Cost Management tool provides visualizations of your historical and forecasted spending by service, region, or tag? → AWS Cost Explorer
14. Which service continuously monitors AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity using machine learning and threat intelligence? → Amazon GuardDuty
15. What is AWS OpsWorks used for? → Configuration management using Chef and Puppet for automating server configuration
16. Which AWS service enables you to run code without provisioning or managing servers? → AWS Lambda
17. 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
18. Which design principle recommends replacing failed components automatically rather than fixing them in place? → Treat servers as cattle, not pets
19. Which service provides on-demand access to AWS compliance reports such as SOC and PCI DSS documentation? → AWS Artifact
20. Which AWS service provides a managed relational database that can automatically scale storage? → Amazon RDS
21. What is an IAM role primarily used for? → Granting temporary permissions to AWS services or external identities
22. Which AWS service continuously monitors resource configurations and evaluates them against desired compliance rules? → AWS Config
23. Which AWS service enables users to centrally manage and audit AWS resource configurations over time? → AWS Config
24. Which AWS service would make the transfer of a database to AWS the easiest? → AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
25. What is the key difference between a Security Group and a Network ACL in AWS? → Security Groups are stateful; NACLs are stateless
26. Which service centralizes security findings from multiple AWS security services into a single dashboard? → AWS Security Hub
27. Which S3 storage class is designed for data that is accessed less than once a month but requires rapid access when needed? → S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
28. Which AWS service lets you set fine-grained permissions for AWS services and resources using JSON-based policies? → AWS IAM
29. What does 'elasticity' mean in the context of AWS cloud computing? → Automatically scaling resources up or down to match current demand
30. Which AWS service provides a graphical interface to help you build and manage CI/CD pipelines for software delivery? → AWS CodePipeline