In this article, we will go through multiple choice questions to practice for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Foundational) Exam. It is a beginner level certification offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). This certification is for all individuals who would like to test their understanding of the AWS Cloud, including its core concepts, services, and benefits. It is ideal for people new to cloud computing or those in non-technical roles who interact with cloud-based technologies. There are no prerequisites to take this exam.

But before taking this certification exam, it is important to test your preparedness in order to pass the exam in first attempt itself. To help with your preparation, we will go through series of questions that will definitely help you gain the confidence you need to pass this exam successfully.

 

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner(Foundational) Practice Test Part - 1 [Latest]

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1. How does the scale of cloud computing help you to save costs?

a) You do not have to invest in technology resources before using them.

b) The aggregated cloud usage from a large number of customers results in lower pay-as-you-go prices.

c) Accessing services on-demand helps to prevent excess or limited capacity

d) You can quickly deploy applications to customers and provide them with low latency

Ans. b) The aggregated cloud usage from a large number of customers results in lower pay-as-you-go prices.

 

2. What is another name for on-premises deployments?

a) Private cloud deployment

b) Cloud-based application

c) Hybrid deployment

d) AWS Cloud

Ans. a) Private cloud deployment

 

3. What segments are considered Public Sector by AWS Sales?

a) Government, Education, Nonprofit, Healthcare

b) Government, Manufacturing, Media and Entertainment, Real Estate and Construction

c) Financial Services, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Automotive

d) Nonprofit, Financial Services, Education, Advertising and Marketing

Ans. a) Government, Education, Nonprofit, Healthcare

 

4. When is a Partner-originated and led opportunity ready to be submitted to the APN Customer Engagements (ACE) Program? [Select THREE]

a) There is customer consent to share the opportunity details with AWS

b) There is a clear project description with how your company's solution(s) addresses customer requirements

c) It is a prospect, lead, or request for account introductions

d) It is an active opportunity with a target close date in the future

e) It has a launched or closed opportunity status

Ans. a) There is customer consent to share the opportunity details with AWS

b) There is a clear project description with how your company's solution(s) addresses customer requirements

d) It is an active opportunity with a target close date in the future

 

5. What should AWS Partners discuss when a customer has a concern about data security?

a) AWS Solution Space

b) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

c) AWS Security Standard and Compliance Certifications

d) AWS Pricing Strategy

Ans. c) AWS Security Standard and Compliance Certifications

 

6. What are the best practices when engaging AWS Teams? [Select THREE]

a) Articulate unique value, such as proven solutions and industry expertise

b) Position that your company can do "everything"

c) Own the opportunity and communicate opportunity status often

d) Demonstrate solution alignment to customer objectives

e) Request "cold" customer introductions

f) Request AWS customer account lists

Ans. a) Articulate unique value, such as proven solutions and industry expertise

c) Own the opportunity and communicate opportunity status often

d) Demonstrate solution alignment to customer objectives

 

7. Which of the following are common objections to cloud adoption? [Select THREE]

a) Loss of control or visibility

b) Scalability

c) Increasing business agility

d) Enabling digital transformation

e) Increased cost

f) Skills gap

Ans. a) Loss of control or visibility

e) Increased cost

f) Skills gap

 

8. Customers can realize substantial business value by using AWS Services. What are the four pillars of the AWS Cloud Value Framework?

a) Cost reduction, infrastructure replacement, process improvement, and speed to deployment

b) Cost reduction, modernization, business agility and infrastructure replacement

c) Cost savings, cloud optimization, operational resilience and cloud security

d) Cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience and business agility

Ans. d) Cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience and business agility

 

9. When referring to vendor lock-in, what is usually the underlining concern?

a) Breaking contractual obligations

b) Switching costs

c) Managing multi-cloud environments

d) Maintaining service level agreements (SLAs)

Ans. b) Switching costs

 

10. Where can organization see the greatest business benefits when modernizing? [Select THREE]

a) Reducing compute hours

b) Improved return on Investment (ROI) and reduction of total cost of ownership (TCO)

c) Increased efficiency of developers

d) Containerized applications

e) Increased business agility

f) Simplifying machine learning

Ans. b) Improved return on Investment (ROI) and reduction of total cost of ownership (TCO)

c) Increased efficiency of developers

e) Increased business agility

 

11. What is cloud computing?

a) Virtual storage space for businesses

b) On-demand delivery of IT resources over the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing

c) Creating custom operating models to solve customer problems

d) Transitioning to fully virtual IT setup 

Ans. b) On-demand delivery of IT resources over the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing

 

12. What are the primary teams involved in co-selling with AWS? [Select THREE]

a) AWS Premium Support team

b) AWS Marketing team

c) AWS Partner team

d) AWS Sales team

e) AWS Program Management team

f) AWS Marketplace team

Ans. c) AWS Partner team

d) AWS Sales team

f) AWS Marketplace team

 

13. Who is responsible for security and compliance of and in the cloud?

a) Shared between AWS and the customer

b) Owned by the customer

c) Owned by the AWS Partner

d) Owned by AWS

Ans. a) Shared between AWS and the customer

 

14. How does business agility contribute to business value on AWS? [Select TWO]

a) Improved user management

b) Improved cost allocation

c) Flexible workforce

d) Increased experimentation

e) Getting products and features to market faster

Ans. d) Increased experimentation

e) Getting products and features to market faster

 

15. What is co-selling with AWS?

a) Sales motion led by AWS teams to other AWS Partners

b) Sales motion where AWS Partners and AWS work together on a customer opportunity

c) Requesting AWS support on an opportunity

d) AWS and AWS Partners selling services on behalf of the other party

Ans. b) Sales motion where AWS Partners and AWS work together on a customer opportunity

 

16. Which pillar of the AWS Cloud Value Framework is often the initial focus for customers considering a cloud migration?

a) Business agility

b) Staff productivity

c) Cost savings

d) Operational resilience

Ans. c) Cost savings

 

17. What topic becomes an opportunity for discussion when a customer is concerned about the cost of cloud?

a) Managing multi-cloud environments

b) AWS cost optimization

c) Improving visibility

d) AWS global infrastructure

Ans. b) AWS cost optimization

 

18. How does operational resilience contribute to business value on AWS? [Select THREE]

a) Improved security

b) Increased availability

c) Improved agility

d) Improved sales productivity

e) Reduced unplanned outages

f) Decreased workload usage

Ans. a) Improved security

b) Increased availability

e) Reduced unplanned outages

 

19. How does AWS Sales refer to a customer that is in the early phases of AWS adoption?

a) Greenfield

b) Project

c) Mature

d) Engaged

Ans. a) Greenfield

 

20. Which AWS Cloud Value Framework pillars tend to drive the most substantial business value for customers over time? [Select THREE]

a) Infrastructure replacement

b) Operational resilience

c) Cloud security

d) Cost savings

e) Business agility

f) Staff productivity

Ans. b) Operational resilience

e) Business agility

f) Staff productivity

 

21. Which of the following examples demonstrate increased staff productivity after migrating to AWS? [Select TWO]

a) Infrastructure staff eliminates time spent on hardware installation and maintenance

b) Ability to scale to global customers

c) There is a decrease in unplanned application downtime

d) Server admins can manage more virtual machines after migration

e) Lower overhead due to less on-premises infrastructure

Ans. a) Infrastructure staff eliminates time spent on hardware installation and maintenance

d) Server admins can manage more virtual machines after migration

e) Lower overhead due to less on-premises infrastructure

 

22. What can customers typically expect when it comes to cost savings over time?

a) Customers cloud efficiency will improve through various optimizations, even with increased cloud usage

b) Customers tend to see the most cost improvements after migrating

c) Customer cloud cost always increases over time

d) Customers see the greatest efficiency gains through lift-and-shift migrations.

Ans. a) Customers cloud efficiency will improve through various optimizations, even with increased cloud usage

 

23. A user is comparing purchase options for an application that runs on Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS. The application cannot sustain any interruption. The application experiences a predictable amount of usage, including some seasonal spikes that last only a few weeks at a time. It is not possible to modify the application. Which purchase option meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

a) Review the AWS Marketplace and buy Partial Upfront Reserved Instances to cover the predicted and seasonal load.
b) Buy Reserved Instances for the predicted amount of usage throughout the year. Allow any seasonal usage to run on Spot Instances.
c) Buy Reserved Instances for the predicted amount of usage throughout the year. Allow any seasonal usage to run at an On-Demand rate.
d) Buy Reserved Instances to cover all potential usage that results from the seasonal usage.

Ans. c) Buy Reserved Instances for the predicted amount of usage throughout the year. Allow any seasonal usage to run at an On-Demand rate.

 

24. Which AWS service or feature allows users to connect with and deploy AWS services programmatically?

a) AWS Management Console
b) AWS Cloud9
c) AWS CodePipeline
d) AWS software development kits (SDKs)

Ans. d) AWS software development kits (SDKs)

 

25. A company is launching an ecommerce application that must always be available. The application will run on Amazon EC2 instances continuously for the next 12 months. What is the MOST cost-effective instance purchasing option that meets these requirements?

a) Spot Instances
b) Savings Plans 
c) Dedicated Hosts
d) On-Demand Instances

Ans. b) Savings Plans 

 

26. Which AWS service or feature can a company use to determine which business unit is using specific AWS resources?

a) Cost allocation tags 
b) Key pairs
c) Amazon Inspector
d) AWS Trusted Advisor

Ans. a) Cost allocation tags 

 

27. A company wants to migrate its workloads to AWS, but it lacks expertise in AWS Cloud computing. Which AWS service or feature will help the company with its migration?

a) AWS Trusted Advisor
b) AWS Consulting Partners 
c) AWS Artifacts
d) AWS Managed Services

Ans. b) AWS Consulting Partners 

 

28. Which AWS service or tool should a company use to centrally request and track service limit increases?

a) AWS Config
b) Service Quotas
c) AWS Service Catalog
d) AWS Budgets

Ans. b) Service Quotas

 

29. Which documentation does AWS Artifact provide?

a) Amazon EC2 terms and conditions
b) AWS ISO certifications 
c) A history of a company's AWS spending
d) A list of previous-generation Amazon EC2 instance types

Ans. b) AWS ISO certifications

 

30. Which task requires using AWS account root user credentials?

a) Viewing billing information
b) Changing the AWS Support plan 
c) Starting and stopping Amazon EC2 instances
d) Opening an AWS Support case

Ans. b) Changing the AWS Support plan 

 

31. A company needs to simultaneously process hundreds of requests from different users. Which combination of AWS services should the company use to build an operationally efficient solution?

a) Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) and AWS Lambda Most Voted
b) AWS Data Pipeline and Amazon EC2
c) Amazon Kinesis and Amazon Athena
d) AWS Amplify and AWS AppSync

Ans. a) Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) and AWS Lambda 

 

32. What is the scope of a VPC within the AWS network?

a) A VPC can span all Availability Zones globally.
b) A VPC must span at least two subnets in each AWS Region.
c) A VPC must span at least two edge locations in each AWS Region.
d) A VPC can span all Availability Zones within an AWS Region.

Ans. d) A VPC can span all Availability Zones within an AWS Region.

 

33. Which of the following are components of an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection? (Choose two.)

a) AWS Storage Gateway
b) Virtual private gateway
c) NAT gateway
d) Customer gateway
e) Internet gateway

Ans. b) Virtual private gateway

d) Customer gateway

 

34. According to the AWS shared responsibility model, what responsibility does a customer have when using Amazon RDS to host a database?

a) Manage connections to the database 
b) Install Microsoft SQL Server
c) Design encryption-at-rest strategies
d) Apply minor database patches

Ans. a) Manage connections to the database 

 

35. What are some advantages of using Amazon EC2 instances to host applications in the AWS Cloud instead of on premises? (Choose two.)

a) EC2 includes operating system patch management.
b) EC2 integrates with Amazon VPC, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). 
c) EC2 has a 100% service level agreement (SLA).
d) EC2 has a flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing model.
e) EC2 has automatic storage cost optimization.

Ans. b) EC2 integrates with Amazon VPC, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). 

d) EC2 has a flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing model.

 

36. Which AWS service or feature acts as a firewall for Amazon EC2 instances?

a) Network ACL
b) Elastic network interface
c) Amazon VPC
d) Security group

Ans. d) Security group

 

37. How does the AWS Cloud pricing model differ from the traditional on-premises storage pricing model?

a) AWS resources do not incur costs
b) There are no infrastructure operating costs
c) There are no upfront cost commitments
d) There are no software licensing costs

Ans. c) There are no upfront cost commitments 

 

38. A company has a single Amazon EC2 instance. The company wants to adopt a highly available architecture. What can the company do to meet this requirement?

a) Scale vertically to a larger EC2 instance size.
b) Scale horizontally across multiple Availability Zones. Most Voted
c) Purchase an EC2 Dedicated Instance.
d) Change the EC2 instance family to a compute optimized instance.

Ans. b) Scale horizontally across multiple Availability Zones.

 

39. Which of the following are included in AWS Enterprise Support? (Choose two.)

a) AWS technical account manager (TAM) 
b) AWS partner-led support
c) AWS Professional Services
d) Support of third-party software integration to AWS 
e) 5-minute response time for critical issues

Ans. a) AWS technical account manager (TAM) 

d) Support of third-party software integration to AWS 

 

40. A global media company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. Which AWS service or feature can the company use to limit the access to AWS services for member accounts?

a) AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
b) Service control policies (SCPs)
c) Organizational units (OUs)
d) Access control lists (ACLs)

Ans. b) Service control policies (SCPs) 

 

41. An online company was running a workload on premises and was struggling to launch new products and features. After migrating the workload to AWS, the company can quickly launch products and features and can scale its infrastructure as required. Which AWS Cloud value proposition does this scenario describe?

a) Business agility 
b) High availability
c) Security
d) Centralized auditing

Ans. a) Business agility 

 

42. Which of the following are advantages of the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

a) AWS management of user-owned infrastructure
b) Ability to quickly change required capacity 
c) High economies of scale 
d) Increased deployment time to market
e) Increased fixed expenses

Ans. b) Ability to quickly change required capacity 

c) High economies of scale 

 

43. AWS has the ability to achieve lower pay-as-you-go pricing by aggregating usage across hundreds of thousands of users. This describes which advantage of the AWS Cloud?

a) Launch globally in minutes
b) Increase speed and agility
c) High economies of scale 
d) No guessing about compute capacity

Ans. c) High economies of scale 

 

44. A company has a database server that is always running. The company hosts the server on Amazon EC2 instances. The instance sizes are suitable for the workload. The workload will run for 1 year. Which EC2 instance purchasing option will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

a) Standard Reserved Instances 
b) On-Demand Instances
c) Spot Instances
d) Convertible Reserved Instances

Ans. a) Standard Reserved Instances 

 

45. Which of the following are features of network ACLs as they are used in the AWS Cloud? (Choose two.)

A. They are stateless. 
B. They are stateful.
C. They evaluate all rules before allowing traffic.
D. They process rules in order, starting with the lowest numbered rule, when deciding whether to allow traffic. 
E. They operate at the instance level.

Ans. a) They are stateless. 

d) They process rules in order, starting with the lowest numbered rule, when deciding whether to allow traffic.

 

46. A company has designed its AWS Cloud infrastructure to run its workloads effectively. The company also has protocols in place to continuously improve supporting processes. Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework does this scenario represent?

a) Security
b) Performance efficiency
c) Cost optimization
d) Operational excellence

Ans. d) Operational excellence

 

47. Which architecture design principle describes the need to isolate failures between dependent components in the AWS Cloud?

a) Use a monolithic design.
b) Design for automation.
c) Design for single points of failure.
d) Loosely couple components

Ans. d) Loosely couple components

 

48. Which AWS service uses machine learning to help discover, monitor, and protect sensitive data that is stored in Amazon S3 buckets?

a) AWS Shield
b) Amazon Macie 
c) AWS Network Firewall
d) Amazon Cognito

Ans. b) Amazon Macie 

 

49. Which AWS service or feature identifies whether an Amazon S3 bucket or an IAM role has been shared with an external entity?

a) AWS Service Catalog
b) AWS Systems Manager
c) AWS IAM Access Analyzer 
d) AWS Organizations

Ans. c) AWS IAM Access Analyzer

 

50. A company does not want to rely on elaborate forecasting to determine its usage of compute resources. Instead, the company wants to pay only for the resources that it uses. The company also needs the ability to increase or decrease its resource usage to meet business requirements. Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework aligns with these requirements?

a) Operational excellence
b) Security
c) Reliability
d) Cost optimization 

Ans. d) Cost optimization