Studying for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 becomes much easier when you have access to realistic practice questions. This test is designed to mirror the structure and difficulty level of the actual exam, helping you get comfortable with the format. As you work through the questions, you’ll begin to recognize common patterns and improve your problem-solving approach. The goal is not just to test your knowledge, but to help you develop the confidence needed to perform well under exam conditions.
Updated for 2026: This guide provides a structured approach to help you prepare effectively, understand key concepts, and practice real exam-level questions.
How to Use This Practice Test
- Start by reviewing key concepts before attempting questions
- Take the test in a timed environment
- Analyze your mistakes and revisit weak areas
Why This Practice Test Matters
This practice test is designed to simulate the real exam environment and help you identify knowledge gaps, improve accuracy, and build confidence.
| Exam Name | CLF-C02 Practice Exam – AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2026 Updated) |
|---|---|
| Exam Provider | Amazon Web Services (AWS) |
| Certification Type | Foundational Certification (Cloud Concepts, Security, Billing & AWS Services) |
| Total Practice Questions | 150 Advanced MCQs (Scenario-Based + Fundamentals + Real Exam-Level Traps) |
| Exam Domains Covered | • Cloud Concepts (Elasticity, High Availability, Fault Tolerance, Global Infrastructure) • Security & Compliance (Shared Responsibility Model, IAM, Encryption, GuardDuty, Security Hub) • Cloud Technology & Services (EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, VPC, CloudFront) • Billing, Pricing & Support (Cost Explorer, Budgets, Pricing Models, Savings Plans) • Monitoring & Logging (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config) • AWS Best Practices (Scalability, Cost Optimization, Reliability) |
| Questions in Real Exam | • Total: ~65 Questions • Mix of foundational concepts and real-world scenarios • Strong focus on security, pricing, and service selection |
| Exam Duration | • Total Time: 90 Minutes • Moderate pace with scenario-based questions • Requires quick understanding of AWS services and use cases |
| Passing Score | • Scaled Score: 700 / 1000 • Focus on foundational AWS knowledge and practical understanding • Accuracy in service selection is key |
| Question Format | • Multiple Choice (Single Answer) • Scenario-Based Questions • AWS Service Identification • Security & Compliance Questions • Pricing & Cost Optimization Scenarios |
| Difficulty Level | Beginner to Intermediate (Concept Clarity + Real-World Decision Making) |
| Key Knowledge Areas | • AWS global infrastructure (Regions, AZs, edge locations) • Core services (compute, storage, database, networking) • Security fundamentals (IAM, encryption, shared responsibility) • Pricing models (On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, Savings Plans) • Monitoring tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config) • Cost optimization strategies and best practices |
| Common Exam Traps | • Confusing CloudWatch vs CloudTrail vs Config roles • Misunderstanding shared responsibility (AWS vs customer) • Choosing EC2 instead of serverless options like Lambda • Mixing storage services (S3 vs EBS vs EFS) • Selecting SNS vs SQS incorrectly • Ignoring cost optimization in solution design • Overcomplicating simple use cases |
| Skills Developed | • Understanding AWS cloud fundamentals and services • Selecting the right AWS service for real-world scenarios • Applying security and compliance best practices • Interpreting pricing models and optimizing costs • Designing basic cloud architectures • Understanding monitoring and operational insights |
| Study Strategy | • Focus heavily on security and billing (high weight in CLF-C02) • Practice scenario-based MCQs daily • Learn key differences between similar AWS services • Understand pricing models and cost optimization deeply • Take timed mock exams to improve speed and accuracy • Review explanations carefully to avoid repeated mistakes • Strengthen weak areas with targeted practice |
| Best For | • Beginners entering cloud computing • Business professionals and non-technical roles • Students preparing for AWS certifications • IT professionals starting their AWS journey |
| Career Benefits | • Builds a strong foundation in AWS and cloud computing • Opens entry-level roles in cloud, IT, and tech sales • Enhances understanding of cloud-based solutions • Prepares for advanced AWS certifications (Associate level) • Increases career opportunities and earning potential |
| Updated | 2026 Latest Version – Based on AWS CLF-C02 Exam Guide & Real Exam Patterns |
1.
What is the main benefit of cloud computing?
A. Fixed capacity
B. Elastic scalability
C. Manual scaling
D. High upfront cost
Answer: B
Rationale: Cloud computing allows resources to scale dynamically based on demand. This elasticity ensures cost efficiency and performance optimization without over-provisioning infrastructure.
2.
Which AWS service provides virtual servers?
A. S3
B. EC2
C. RDS
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: Amazon EC2 provides scalable virtual servers that can be launched, configured, and terminated as needed, eliminating the need for physical hardware management.
3.
Which AWS service is fully serverless?
A. EC2
B. Lambda
C. EBS
D. RDS
Answer: B
Rationale: Lambda allows you to run code without provisioning or managing servers. It automatically scales and charges only for execution time, making it ideal for event-driven applications.
4.
Which service provides object storage?
A. EBS
B. S3
C. EFS
D. EC2
Answer: B
Rationale: Amazon S3 offers scalable object storage with high durability, making it suitable for backups, archives, and static content.
5.
Which AWS service provides relational databases?
A. DynamoDB
B. RDS
C. EC2
D. S3
Answer: B
Rationale: Amazon RDS provides managed relational databases with automated backups, patching, and scaling.
6.
Which pricing model is best for short-term unpredictable workloads?
A. Reserved
B. Spot
C. On-Demand
D. Savings Plans
Answer: C
Rationale: On-Demand pricing allows users to pay only for what they use without long-term commitments, making it ideal for unpredictable workloads.
7.
Which AWS service helps monitor resources?
A. CloudTrail
B. CloudWatch
C. Config
D. Inspector
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudWatch collects metrics, logs, and events, enabling monitoring and alerting for AWS resources.
8.
Which service logs API calls?
A. CloudWatch
B. CloudTrail
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudTrail records API activity across AWS services, enabling auditing and compliance tracking.
9.
What is AWS Region?
A. Single data center
B. Geographic area with AZs
C. Storage location
D. Virtual network
Answer: B
Rationale: A Region is a geographic location containing multiple Availability Zones, providing redundancy and fault tolerance.
10.
Which service manages DNS?
A. Route 53
B. CloudFront
C. ELB
D. VPC
Answer: A
Rationale: Route 53 provides DNS routing and domain management.
11.
Which service distributes traffic?
A. CloudFront
B. ELB
C. Route 53
D. S3
Answer: B
Rationale: ELB distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets to improve availability and performance.
12.
Which service provides CDN?
A. Route 53
B. CloudFront
C. ELB
D. EC2
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudFront caches content at edge locations for faster delivery to global users.
13.
Which AWS model defines shared security responsibility?
A. IAM
B. Shared Responsibility Model
C. EC2
D. VPC
Answer: B
Rationale: AWS manages infrastructure security, while customers are responsible for data, applications, and configurations.
14.
Which service controls access?
A. IAM
B. CloudTrail
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: IAM manages users, roles, and permissions, ensuring secure access control.
15.
Which service detects threats?
A. GuardDuty
B. Inspector
C. Config
D. CloudTrail
Answer: A
Rationale: GuardDuty uses ML and threat intelligence to detect suspicious activity.
16.
Which service scans for vulnerabilities?
A. GuardDuty
B. Inspector
C. Config
D. CloudTrail
Answer: B
Rationale: Inspector identifies vulnerabilities in workloads.
17.
Which service helps analyze costs?
A. CloudWatch
B. Cost Explorer
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: Cost Explorer provides detailed insights into AWS spending.
18.
Which service provides file storage?
A. S3
B. EFS
C. EBS
D. Glacier
Answer: B
Rationale: EFS provides scalable shared file storage for multiple instances.
19.
Which service provides block storage?
A. S3
B. EBS
C. EFS
D. Glacier
Answer: B
Rationale: EBS provides block-level storage for EC2 instances.
20.
Which service archives data cheaply?
A. S3
B. Glacier
C. EBS
D. EC2
Answer: B
Rationale: Glacier provides low-cost storage for long-term archival data.
21.
Which service provides NoSQL database?
A. RDS
B. DynamoDB
C. S3
D. EC2
Answer: B
Rationale: DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database with automatic scaling.
22.
Which service provides compliance reports?
A. Artifact
B. CloudTrail
C. Config
D. GuardDuty
Answer: A
Rationale: AWS Artifact provides access to compliance documentation.
23.
Which service provides recommendations?
A. Trusted Advisor
B. Config
C. Lambda
D. EC2
Answer: A
Rationale: Trusted Advisor provides best practice recommendations.
24.
Which service automates workflows?
A. Step Functions
B. EC2
C. S3
D. VPC
Answer: A
Rationale: Step Functions orchestrates workflows across services.
25.
Which service provides networking isolation?
A. VPC
B. EC2
C. S3
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: VPC provides isolated networking environments.
26.
Which service provides containers?
A. ECS
B. EC2
C. S3
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: ECS runs containerized applications.
27.
Which service provides serverless containers?
A. ECS
B. Fargate
C. EC2
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: Fargate runs containers without managing servers.
28.
Which service provides message queuing?
A. SNS
B. SQS
C. Lambda
D. EC2
Answer: B
Rationale: SQS enables decoupled messaging.
29.
Which service provides notifications?
A. SNS
B. SQS
C. Lambda
D. EC2
Answer: A
Rationale: SNS sends notifications to subscribers.
30.
Which service enables infrastructure as code?
A. CloudFormation
B. EC2
C. S3
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: CloudFormation allows infrastructure provisioning using templates.
31.
A company wants to run a web application without managing servers and automatically scale with traffic. What is BEST?
A. EC2
B. Lambda + API Gateway
C. RDS
D. EBS
Answer: B
Rationale: Lambda combined with API Gateway enables a fully serverless architecture where AWS manages infrastructure and scaling automatically. This eliminates server management and ensures cost efficiency by charging only for actual usage.
32.
A company needs to store sensitive credentials such as database passwords securely. What should they use?
A. S3
B. Secrets Manager
C. CloudWatch
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: AWS Secrets Manager securely stores and rotates sensitive credentials such as passwords and API keys. It integrates with other AWS services and provides encryption and automated rotation.
33.
A company wants to reduce costs for workloads that run continuously for one year. What should they use?
A. On-Demand
B. Spot Instances
C. Reserved Instances
D. Lambda
Answer: C
Rationale: Reserved Instances provide significant cost savings for predictable, long-term workloads compared to On-Demand pricing, making them ideal for steady usage patterns.
34.
A company wants to ensure high availability for its application. What is BEST?
A. Single EC2 instance
B. Multi-AZ deployment
C. Single AZ
D. EBS
Answer: B
Rationale: Multi-AZ deployment ensures redundancy across multiple data centers, improving fault tolerance and availability during failures.
35.
A company wants to distribute traffic across multiple instances. What is BEST?
A. Route 53
B. ELB
C. CloudFront
D. S3
Answer: B
Rationale: Elastic Load Balancing distributes traffic across multiple instances, improving performance and availability.
36.
A company wants to deliver content globally with low latency. What is BEST?
A. EC2
B. CloudFront
C. S3
D. EBS
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudFront caches content at edge locations worldwide, reducing latency and improving performance for global users.
37.
A company needs to monitor logs and create alerts when errors occur. What is BEST?
A. CloudTrail
B. CloudWatch Logs + alarms
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudWatch Logs enables real-time log monitoring, and alarms trigger alerts when thresholds are exceeded, enabling proactive issue detection.
38.
A company wants to audit user activity across AWS accounts. What is BEST?
A. CloudWatch
B. CloudTrail
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudTrail logs API activity across AWS accounts, providing auditing and compliance tracking.
39.
A company needs to control access to AWS resources. What is BEST?
A. IAM
B. CloudTrail
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: IAM manages authentication and authorization, ensuring secure access control.
40.
A company wants to analyze AWS spending trends. What is BEST?
A. CloudWatch
B. Cost Explorer
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: Cost Explorer provides detailed insights into usage and spending patterns, enabling cost optimization.
41.
A company needs a relational database with automated backups. What is BEST?
A. EC2
B. RDS
C. DynamoDB
D. S3
Answer: B
Rationale: RDS provides managed relational databases with automated backups, patching, and scaling.
42.
A company needs a scalable NoSQL database. What is BEST?
A. RDS
B. DynamoDB
C. EC2
D. S3
Answer: B
Rationale: DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database with automatic scaling.
43.
A company wants shared storage across multiple EC2 instances. What is BEST?
A. EBS
B. EFS
C. S3
D. Glacier
Answer: B
Rationale: EFS provides shared file storage accessible by multiple instances simultaneously.
44.
A company needs low-cost archival storage. What is BEST?
A. S3 Standard
B. Glacier
C. EBS
D. EC2
Answer: B
Rationale: Glacier offers low-cost storage for infrequently accessed data.
45.
A company wants to automate infrastructure deployment. What is BEST?
A. Lambda
B. CloudFormation
C. EC2
D. S3
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudFormation enables infrastructure as code, ensuring consistent deployments.
46.
A company wants to send notifications to multiple systems. What is BEST?
A. SQS
B. SNS
C. Lambda
D. EC2
Answer: B
Rationale: SNS provides pub/sub messaging for broadcasting notifications.
47.
A company wants to decouple applications. What is BEST?
A. SNS
B. SQS
C. Lambda
D. EC2
Answer: B
Rationale: SQS enables decoupling of applications by using message queues.
48.
A company needs DNS routing. What is BEST?
A. Route 53
B. ELB
C. CloudFront
D. EC2
Answer: A
Rationale: Route 53 provides DNS services and routing policies.
49.
A company wants to detect suspicious activity. What is BEST?
A. GuardDuty
B. Inspector
C. Config
D. CloudTrail
Answer: A
Rationale: GuardDuty uses ML to detect threats.
50.
A company wants to scan workloads for vulnerabilities. What is BEST?
A. GuardDuty
B. Inspector
C. Config
D. CloudTrail
Answer: B
Rationale: Inspector scans workloads for vulnerabilities.
51.
A company needs compliance reports. What is BEST?
A. Artifact
B. Config
C. CloudTrail
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: Artifact provides compliance documentation.
52.
A company wants to enforce compliance rules. What is BEST?
A. Config
B. CloudTrail
C. CloudWatch
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: Config evaluates compliance.
53.
A company wants to orchestrate workflows. What is BEST?
A. Step Functions
B. EC2
C. S3
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: Step Functions orchestrates workflows.
54.
A company wants serverless containers. What is BEST?
A. ECS
B. Fargate
C. EC2
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: Fargate runs containers without servers.
55.
A company wants monitoring and alerting. What is BEST?
A. CloudTrail
B. CloudWatch
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudWatch provides monitoring and alerts.
56.
A company wants to run code without servers. What is BEST?
A. EC2
B. Lambda
C. EBS
D. RDS
Answer: B
Rationale: Lambda provides serverless compute.
57.
A company wants to track configuration changes. What is BEST?
A. Config
B. CloudTrail
C. CloudWatch
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: Config tracks configuration history.
58.
A company wants to detect unusual API activity. What is BEST?
A. CloudTrail + GuardDuty
B. Config
C. Lambda
D. EC2
Answer: A
Rationale: CloudTrail logs API calls, and GuardDuty detects anomalies.
59.
A company wants cost optimization recommendations. What is BEST?
A. Trusted Advisor
B. Config
C. Lambda
D. EC2
Answer: A
Rationale: Trusted Advisor provides cost and performance recommendations.
60.
A company wants global database performance. What is BEST?
A. RDS
B. DynamoDB
C. EC2
D. EBS
Answer: B
Rationale: DynamoDB provides low-latency global performance.
61.
A company wants to automatically scale its application without managing servers and pay only for usage. What is BEST?
A. EC2
B. Lambda
C. RDS
D. EBS
Answer: B
Rationale: AWS Lambda provides serverless compute, automatically scaling based on demand and charging only for execution time. This eliminates the need to manage infrastructure and is ideal for event-driven applications.
62.
A company needs to store large amounts of unstructured data with high durability. What is BEST?
A. EBS
B. S3
C. EC2
D. RDS
Answer: B
Rationale: Amazon S3 offers highly durable object storage (11 9’s durability), making it ideal for storing large volumes of unstructured data such as backups, media, and logs.
63.
A company wants to reduce costs for workloads that can tolerate interruptions. What is BEST?
A. On-Demand
B. Reserved Instances
C. Spot Instances
D. Dedicated Hosts
Answer: C
Rationale: Spot Instances provide significant cost savings compared to On-Demand pricing but can be interrupted by AWS, making them suitable for fault-tolerant workloads like batch jobs.
64.
A company wants to ensure application availability during failures. What is BEST?
A. Single AZ
B. Multi-AZ
C. EC2 only
D. EBS
Answer: B
Rationale: Multi-AZ deployments provide redundancy across multiple data centers, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
65.
A company wants to distribute incoming traffic across multiple instances. What is BEST?
A. Route 53
B. ELB
C. CloudFront
D. S3
Answer: B
Rationale: Elastic Load Balancing distributes traffic across instances, improving performance and availability.
66.
A company wants to deliver content globally with minimal latency. What is BEST?
A. EC2
B. CloudFront
C. S3
D. EBS
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudFront caches content at edge locations worldwide, reducing latency for users globally.
67.
A company needs real-time monitoring and alerting for application errors. What is BEST?
A. CloudTrail
B. CloudWatch
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudWatch provides monitoring, metrics, and alarms, enabling real-time alerting for issues.
68.
A company wants to audit API activity across AWS. What is BEST?
A. CloudWatch
B. CloudTrail
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudTrail records API activity, enabling auditing and compliance tracking.
69.
A company wants to manage permissions securely. What is BEST?
A. IAM
B. CloudTrail
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: IAM controls access and permissions, ensuring security.
70.
A company wants to analyze spending trends and forecast costs. What is BEST?
A. CloudWatch
B. Cost Explorer
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: Cost Explorer provides insights into usage and spending trends.
71.
A company needs a managed relational database. What is BEST?
A. EC2
B. RDS
C. DynamoDB
D. S3
Answer: B
Rationale: RDS provides managed relational databases with automation.
72.
A company needs a scalable NoSQL database. What is BEST?
A. RDS
B. DynamoDB
C. EC2
D. S3
Answer: B
Rationale: DynamoDB provides a fully managed NoSQL solution with automatic scaling.
73.
A company wants shared storage across instances. What is BEST?
A. EBS
B. EFS
C. S3
D. Glacier
Answer: B
Rationale: EFS provides shared file storage accessible by multiple instances.
74.
A company needs low-cost archival storage. What is BEST?
A. S3 Standard
B. Glacier
C. EBS
D. EC2
Answer: B
Rationale: Glacier provides low-cost storage for infrequently accessed data.
75.
A company wants to automate infrastructure deployment. What is BEST?
A. Lambda
B. CloudFormation
C. EC2
D. S3
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudFormation enables infrastructure as code.
76.
A company wants to send notifications to multiple systems. What is BEST?
A. SQS
B. SNS
C. Lambda
D. EC2
Answer: B
Rationale: SNS provides pub/sub messaging.
77.
A company wants to decouple applications. What is BEST?
A. SNS
B. SQS
C. Lambda
D. EC2
Answer: B
Rationale: SQS decouples applications using queues.
78.
A company needs DNS routing. What is BEST?
A. Route 53
B. ELB
C. CloudFront
D. EC2
Answer: A
Rationale: Route 53 provides DNS services.
79.
A company wants to detect threats. What is BEST?
A. GuardDuty
B. Inspector
C. Config
D. CloudTrail
Answer: A
Rationale: GuardDuty detects threats using ML.
80.
A company wants vulnerability scanning. What is BEST?
A. GuardDuty
B. Inspector
C. Config
D. CloudTrail
Answer: B
Rationale: Inspector scans workloads for vulnerabilities.
81.
A company wants compliance reports. What is BEST?
A. Artifact
B. Config
C. CloudTrail
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: Artifact provides compliance documentation.
82.
A company wants to enforce compliance rules. What is BEST?
A. Config
B. CloudTrail
C. CloudWatch
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: Config evaluates compliance.
83.
A company wants workflow orchestration. What is BEST?
A. Step Functions
B. EC2
C. S3
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: Step Functions orchestrates workflows.
84.
A company wants serverless containers. What is BEST?
A. ECS
B. Fargate
C. EC2
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: Fargate runs containers without servers.
85.
A company wants monitoring and alerting. What is BEST?
A. CloudTrail
B. CloudWatch
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudWatch provides monitoring and alerting.
86.
A company wants to run code without servers. What is BEST?
A. EC2
B. Lambda
C. EBS
D. RDS
Answer: B
Rationale: Lambda provides serverless compute.
87.
A company wants to track configuration changes. What is BEST?
A. Config
B. CloudTrail
C. CloudWatch
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: Config tracks configuration history.
88.
A company wants to detect unusual API activity. What is BEST?
A. CloudTrail + GuardDuty
B. Config
C. Lambda
D. EC2
Answer: A
Rationale: CloudTrail logs API calls, and GuardDuty detects anomalies.
89.
A company wants cost optimization recommendations. What is BEST?
A. Trusted Advisor
B. Config
C. Lambda
D. EC2
Answer: A
Rationale: Trusted Advisor provides cost recommendations.
90.
A company wants global database performance. What is BEST?
A. RDS
B. DynamoDB
C. EC2
D. EBS
Answer: B
Rationale: DynamoDB provides low-latency global performance.
91.
A company wants to automatically scale compute resources based on demand without managing servers. What is BEST?
A. EC2 Auto Scaling
B. Lambda
C. RDS
D. EBS
Answer: B
Rationale: Lambda is fully serverless and automatically scales without requiring infrastructure management. While Auto Scaling still requires EC2 management, Lambda removes that burden entirely and aligns with the requirement.
92.
A company needs to store static website content with high durability and global access. What is BEST?
A. EC2
B. S3
C. EBS
D. RDS
Answer: B
Rationale: S3 is designed for static content hosting with high durability and global accessibility. It integrates with CloudFront for enhanced performance.
93.
A company wants to reduce costs for workloads running continuously for 3 years. What is BEST?
A. On-Demand
B. Reserved Instances
C. Spot Instances
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: Reserved Instances provide the greatest cost savings for long-term, predictable workloads, especially over multi-year commitments.
94.
A company wants to ensure high availability for a critical application. What is BEST?
A. Single AZ
B. Multi-AZ deployment
C. EC2 only
D. EBS
Answer: B
Rationale: Multi-AZ ensures redundancy across data centers, improving fault tolerance and availability.
95.
A company wants to distribute traffic across multiple servers. What is BEST?
A. Route 53
B. ELB
C. CloudFront
D. S3
Answer: B
Rationale: ELB distributes traffic across instances, improving availability and performance.
96.
A company wants to reduce latency for global users accessing content. What is BEST?
A. EC2
B. CloudFront
C. S3
D. EBS
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudFront caches content at edge locations, reducing latency globally.
97.
A company wants real-time monitoring and alerting for application performance. What is BEST?
A. CloudTrail
B. CloudWatch
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudWatch provides real-time metrics and alarms for monitoring application performance.
98.
A company needs to audit user actions across AWS. What is BEST?
A. CloudWatch
B. CloudTrail
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudTrail logs API activity, enabling auditing and compliance tracking.
99.
A company wants to control access to AWS resources securely. What is BEST?
A. IAM
B. CloudTrail
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: IAM manages access and permissions.
100.
A company wants to analyze AWS spending trends. What is BEST?
A. CloudWatch
B. Cost Explorer
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: Cost Explorer provides cost insights and forecasting.
101.
A company needs a managed relational database with automatic backups. What is BEST?
A. EC2
B. RDS
C. DynamoDB
D. S3
Answer: B
Rationale: RDS provides managed relational databases with automated backups.
102.
A company needs a scalable NoSQL database. What is BEST?
A. RDS
B. DynamoDB
C. EC2
D. S3
Answer: B
Rationale: DynamoDB provides automatic scaling and high performance.
103.
A company wants shared storage across multiple instances. What is BEST?
A. EBS
B. EFS
C. S3
D. Glacier
Answer: B
Rationale: EFS provides shared file storage.
104.
A company wants low-cost archival storage. What is BEST?
A. S3 Standard
B. Glacier
C. EBS
D. EC2
Answer: B
Rationale: Glacier is optimized for archival storage.
105.
A company wants to automate infrastructure deployment. What is BEST?
A. Lambda
B. CloudFormation
C. EC2
D. S3
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudFormation enables infrastructure as code.
106.
A company wants to send notifications to multiple endpoints. What is BEST?
A. SQS
B. SNS
C. Lambda
D. EC2
Answer: B
Rationale: SNS provides pub/sub messaging.
107.
A company wants to decouple applications. What is BEST?
A. SNS
B. SQS
C. Lambda
D. EC2
Answer: B
Rationale: SQS decouples applications.
108.
A company needs DNS routing. What is BEST?
A. Route 53
B. ELB
C. CloudFront
D. EC2
Answer: A
Rationale: Route 53 provides DNS services.
109.
A company wants to detect threats. What is BEST?
A. GuardDuty
B. Inspector
C. Config
D. CloudTrail
Answer: A
Rationale: GuardDuty detects threats using ML.
110.
A company wants vulnerability scanning. What is BEST?
A. GuardDuty
B. Inspector
C. Config
D. CloudTrail
Answer: B
Rationale: Inspector scans workloads.
111.
A company needs compliance reports. What is BEST?
A. Artifact
B. Config
C. CloudTrail
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: Artifact provides compliance documentation.
112.
A company wants to enforce compliance rules. What is BEST?
A. Config
B. CloudTrail
C. CloudWatch
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: Config evaluates compliance.
113.
A company wants workflow orchestration. What is BEST?
A. Step Functions
B. EC2
C. S3
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: Step Functions orchestrates workflows.
114.
A company wants serverless containers. What is BEST?
A. ECS
B. Fargate
C. EC2
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: Fargate runs containers without servers.
115.
A company wants monitoring and alerting. What is BEST?
A. CloudTrail
B. CloudWatch
C. Config
D. Lambda
Answer: B
Rationale: CloudWatch provides monitoring.
116.
A company wants to run code without managing servers. What is BEST?
A. EC2
B. Lambda
C. EBS
D. RDS
Answer: B
Rationale: Lambda provides serverless compute.
117.
A company wants to track configuration changes. What is BEST?
A. Config
B. CloudTrail
C. CloudWatch
D. Lambda
Answer: A
Rationale: Config tracks configuration history.
118.
A company wants to detect unusual API activity. What is BEST?
A. CloudTrail + GuardDuty
B. Config
C. Lambda
D. EC2
Answer: A
Rationale: CloudTrail logs API activity, and GuardDuty detects anomalies.
119.
A company wants cost optimization recommendations. What is BEST?
A. Trusted Advisor
B. Config
C. Lambda
D. EC2
Answer: A
Rationale: Trusted Advisor provides cost insights.
120.
A company wants global database performance. What is BEST?
A. RDS
B. DynamoDB
C. EC2
D. EBS
Answer: B
Rationale: DynamoDB provides global performance.
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