Free CLF-C01 Sample Questions — AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01)

A company needs a quick estimate of the cost to run 100 Amazon EC2 instances with AWS Business Support. Which tool should the company use to generate the estimate?

• A. AWS Budgets
• B. AWS Cost and Usage Report
• C. AWS Pricing Calculator
• D. Cost Explorer

A retail company needs to build a highly available architecture for a new ecommerce platform. The company is using only AWS services that replicate data across multiple Availability Zones. Which AWS services should the company use to meet this requirement? (Choose two.)

• A. Amazon EC2
• B. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
• C. Amazon Aurora
• D. Amazon DynamoDB
• E. Amazon Redshift

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

A company is running a critical workload on an Amazon RDS DB instance. The company needs the DB instance to be highly available with a recovery time of less than 5 minutes. Which solution will meet these requirements?

• A. Create a read replica of the DB instance
• B. Create a template of the DB instance by using AWS CloudFormation
• C. Take frequent snapshots of the DB instance. Store the snapshots in Amazon S3
• D. Modify the DB instance to be a Multi-AZ deployment

Which task can a company complete by using AWS Organizations?

• A. Track application deployment statuses globally
• B. Remove unused and underutilized AWS resources across all accounts
• C. Activate DDoS protection across all accounts
• D. Share pre-purchased Amazon EC2 resources across accounts

Which AWS Cloud design principle does a company follow by using AWS CloudTrail?

• A. Recover automatically
• B. Perform operations as code
• C. Measure efficiency
• D. Ensure traceability

A company wants to use a template to reliably provision, manage, and update its infrastructure in the AWS Cloud. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

• A. AWS Lambda
• B. AWS CloudFormation
• C. AWS Fargate
• D. AWS CodeDeploy

A company wants to eliminate the need to guess infrastructure capacity before deployments. The company also wants to spend its budget on cloud resources only as the company uses the resources. Which advantage of the AWS Cloud matches the company's requirements?

• A. Reliability
• B. Global reach
• C. Economies of scale
• D. Pay-as-you-go pricing

Which guidelines are best practices for using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)? (Choose two.)

• A. Share access keys
• B. Create individual IAM users
• C. Use inline policies instead of customer managed policies
• D. Grant maximum privileges to IAM users
• E. Use groups to assign permissions to IAM users

A company needs to generate reports for business intelligence and operational analytics on petabytes of semistructured and structured data. These reports are produced from standard SQL queries on data that is in an Amazon S3 data lake. Which AWS service provides the ability to analyze this data?

• A. Amazon RDS
• B. Amazon Neptune
• C. Amazon DynamoDB
• D. Amazon Redshift

Which tasks are the responsibility of the customer, according to the AWS shared responsibility model? (Choose two.)

• A. Patch the Amazon RDS operating system
• B. Upgrade the firmware of the network infrastructure
• C. Manage data encryption
• D. Maintain physical access control in an AWS Region
• E. Grant least privilege access to IAM users

Which of the following is a characteristic of the AWS account root user?

• A. The root user is the only user that can be configured with multi-factor authentication (MFA)
• B. The root user is the only user that can access the AWS Management Console
• C. The root user is the first sign-in identity that is available when an AWS account is created
• D. The root user has a password that cannot be changed

A large retail company wants to use an AWS service to process clickstream data from the company's ecommerce website. The company wants to collect and analyze the streaming data in real time. Which AWS service meets these requirements?

• A. Amazon Kinesis
• B. Amazon Athena
• C. Amazon CloudFront
• D. AWS Data Exchange

Which of the following is an AWS Well-Architected Framework design principle for operational excellence in the AWS Cloud?

• A. Go global in minutes
• B. Make frequent, small, reversible changes
• C. Implement a strong foundation of identity and access management
• D. Stop spending money on hardware infrastructure for data center operations

A company needs to organize its resources and track AWS costs on a detailed level. The company needs to categorize costs by business department, environment, and application. Which solution will meet these requirements?

• A. Access the AWS Cost Management console to organize resources, set an AWS budget, and receive notifications of unintentional usage
• B. Use tags to organize the resources. Activate cost allocation tags to track AWS costs on a detailed level
• C. Create Amazon CloudWatch dashboards to visually organize and track costs individually
• D. Access the AWS Billing and Cost Management dashboard to organize and track resource consumption on a detailed level

A company is using a third-party service to back up 10 TB of data to a tape library. The on-premises backup server is running out of space. The company wants to use AWS services for the backups without changing its existing backup workflows. Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?

• A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
• B. AWS Storage Gateway
• C. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
• D. AWS Lambda

A company has created an AWS Cost and Usage Report and wants to visualize the report. Which AWS service should the company use to ingest and display this information?

• A. Amazon QuickSight
• B. Amazon Pinpoint
• C. Amazon Neptune
• D. Amazon Kinesis

A company is running a standard PostgreSQL database on premises. The company is migrating the database to the AWS Cloud and does not want to change the queries that access the database. The company must maximize the query performance. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

• A. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
• B. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
• C. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
• D. Amazon DynamoDB

Which AWS service helps developers use loose coupling and reliable messaging between microservices?

• A. Elastic Load Balancing
• B. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
• C. Amazon CloudFront
• D. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

A company is using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Who can manage the access keys of the AWS account root user?

• A. IAM users in the same account that have been granted permission
• B. IAM roles in any account that have been granted permission
• C. IAM users and roles that have been granted permission
• D. The AWS account owner