The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (exam code CLF-C02) is AWS's entry-level certification. It checks that you understand basic cloud ideas, core AWS services, security, and billing, so it works for both technical and non-technical roles. Try these 8 free practice questions.
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8 free AWS Cloud Practitioner practice questions
1. Under the AWS shared responsibility model, who is responsible for patching the guest operating system on an Amazon EC2 instance?
- A. AWS
- B. The customer
- C. The internet provider
- D. No one
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Answer: B. AWS secures the cloud infrastructure, and customers secure what they run in it, including EC2 guest OS patches.
2. Which service stores objects such as images and backups with very high durability?
- A. Amazon S3
- B. Amazon EC2
- C. Amazon RDS
- D. AWS Lambda
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Answer: A. Amazon S3 is object storage designed for 99.999999999% (11 nines) durability.
3. Which service lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers?
- A. Amazon EC2
- B. AWS Lambda
- C. Amazon EBS
- D. AWS Snowball
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Answer: B. Lambda is serverless compute. You upload code and pay only for compute time used.
4. What is an AWS Availability Zone?
- A. A single rack in a data center
- B. One or more discrete data centers with redundant power and networking within a Region
- C. A billing account
- D. A country
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Answer: B. Each Region has multiple isolated Availability Zones, and using several of them improves availability.
5. Which service helps you control who can access AWS resources?
- A. AWS IAM
- B. Amazon CloudFront
- C. Amazon Route 53
- D. AWS Budgets
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Answer: A. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) manages users, groups, roles and permissions.
6. Which tool can alert you when your spending goes over a set amount?
- A. AWS Budgets
- B. Amazon Inspector
- C. AWS CloudTrail
- D. Amazon SQS
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Answer: A. AWS Budgets lets you set cost or usage thresholds and receive alerts.
7. A key benefit of cloud computing is trading capital expense for:
- A. Variable expense
- B. Fixed hardware leases
- C. Higher upfront costs
- D. Longer procurement
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Answer: A. You pay for what you use instead of buying data centers and servers in advance.
8. Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework focuses on recovering from failures and meeting demand?
- A. Reliability
- B. Cost optimization
- C. Sustainability
- D. Operational excellence
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Answer: A. The Reliability pillar covers a workload's ability to perform correctly and recover from failures.
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