AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 2025 Exam Practice

This cloud design principle supports growth in users, traffic, or data size with no drop-in performance

Scalability

You have an Amazon Linux EC2 instance running for an hour and thirty minutes. How will AWS bill you in terms of usage?

You will only be billed for an hour according to the hourly billing rule

Which AWS service allows machine learning models to be trained using SQL commands and enables the integration of trained models within a data warehouse for forecasting purposes?

Amazon Redshift ML

Which of the following is true on how AWS lessens the time to provision your IT resources?

It provides various ways to programmatically provision IT resources.

Which of the following is true regarding the Developer support plan in AWS? (Select TWO.)

Limited access to the 7 Core Trusted Advisor checks

No access to the AWS Support API

What are the benefits of using Edge locations in AWS? (Select TWO.)

Provides caching which reduces the load on your origin serversImproves application performance by delivering content closer to your users

What is the difference between an Availability Zone and a Local Zone?

An Availability Zone is an isolated location within an AWS region. A Local Zone is an extension of an AWS Region in geographic proximity to your users.

What should you provide to your developers to allow them to access your AWS services through the AWS CLI?

Access keys

Which AWS service is suitable for launching a highly scalable MySQL OLTP database?

Amazon Aurora

Which of the following options allows customers to find, buy, and immediately start using the software and services that run on AWS?

AWS Marketplace

Which of the following perspective includes the foundational capabilities of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)?

Security

A company has a fleet of on-premises servers that require a centralized scalable and durable file storage. It should be able to support massive parallel access. Which of the following is the most appropriate service to use?

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

A startup is in need of a database that is capable of self-healing and has a high throughput. Which of the following services fits these criteria?

Amazon Aurora

Which of the following is the most cost-effective payment option when you purchase either a Standard or Convertible Reserved Instance for a 1-year term?

All Upfront

Which service lets you create rules to filter web traffic based on conditions that include IP addresses, HTTP headers, or custom URIs?

AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Which of the following is best suited for load balancing Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic and has the capability of handling millions of requests per second while maintaining ultra-low latencies?

Network Load Balancer

Which Elastic Load Balancer can support path-based routing, host-based routing, and bi-directional communication channels using WebSockets?

Application Load Balancer

Which AWS service enables the grouping of users with similar functions and the application of function-specific privileges?

AWS IAM

Which of the following characteristics correctly describes the Amazon Simple Storage Service? (Select TWO.)

A highly durable object storage infrastructure

A storage service with virtually unlimited space

Which service allows you to send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available?

Amazon SQS

Which of the following statements about the AWS IAM Credential Report is true?

The IAM Credential Report contains detailed information about IAM Users and Roles usage.

Which of the following pricing options will automatically reduce your cost on any EC2 instance usage regardless of region, instance family, size, OS, or tenancy?

Savings Plans

Which of the following services should you provision if your local data center requires additional storage space without having to migrate data?

AWS Storage Gateway

Which of the following Amazon RDS features should you use to achieve high availability with automatic failover?

Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Deployments

Which of the following do you need to programmatically interact with your AWS environment? (Select TWO.)

AWS SDK

Access keys

Which service does AWS use to notify customers when AWS is experiencing events that may have an impact on AWS resources?

AWS Health

What types of caching solutions are available in Amazon ElastiCache? (Select TWO.)

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis

Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached

What cloud computing model deals with services such as EC2 instances?

IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)

An employee is asking for access to your S3 buckets. What should be the level of access that you should provide to him?

Ask what type of access he requires and only provide him those permissions

Which of the following options accurately describes the characteristics of VPC endpoints? (Choose two).

VPC endpoints eliminate the need for internet and NAT gateways when accessing AWS services privately within a VPC.

VPC endpoints provide a secure and private connection between a VPC and supported AWS services.

A Software Engineer is having trouble migrating and configuring a licensed application on an EC2 instance. Which of the following options would you recommend to quickly get the applications up and running in AWS?

Try to look for an AMI in the AWS Marketplace that provides a similar setup to her application stack.

In the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, whose responsibility is it to patch the host operating system of an Amazon EC2 instance?

AWS

A company which has a basic support plan needs resources to deploy, test, and improve their AWS environment. Which of the following can they use for free?

AWS online documentation, whitepapers, blogs and support forums

Which of the following is true regarding Elastic Load Balancing?

It distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, in multiple Availability Zones.

Which of the following channels shares a collection of offerings to help you achieve specific business outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption through paid engagements in several specialty practice areas?

AWS Professional Services

Which of the following should be used to provide temporary AWS credentials for users who have been authenticated via social media logins, as well as for guest users who do not require any authentication?

Amazon Cognito Identity Pool

What AWS service can monitor the compliance status of your AWS resources against a set of compliance guidelines?

AWS Config

A developer needs to access a Linux EC2 Instance to modify a WordPress configuration file. Which of the following methods let them connect to their instance's Linux terminal? (Select TWO.)

Session Manager

EC2 Instance Connect

A customer needs to store objects that are frequently accessed. To help the customer save costs, you must select a storage service free from retrieval charges. Which of the following S3 storage classes would meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)

S3 Standard

S3 Intelligent Tiering

Which of the following allows you to create and deploy infrastructure-as-code templates in AWS?

AWS CloudFormation

A company has a large amount of data stored in multiple sources such as S3, Redshift, and RDS, and they need to extract, transform and load this data into a data warehouse. Which AWS service can help automate this process?

AWS Glue

A company is using multiple AWS services to host its application. It wants to ensure the environment is optimized by adhering to AWS best practices.

Which of the following services is capable of inspecting an AWS environment and making recommendations to ower expenditures, improve system performance and reliability, and close security gaps?

AWS Trusted Advisor

A company wants to launch a Microsoft SQL Server database in AWS. The database instance should only be managed by the company's DBA and must be accessible via RDP. A standard license for SQL Server is required but the company is not yet sure how much CPU and memory to allocate to the database.

Which option gives the most convenience and flexibility to determine the best database size while still being cost-effective?

Use a Windows Server with SQL Server Standard bundled AMI so you won't need to buy and manage your own license.

Which of the following capabilities of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) are under the Governance perspective? (Select TWO)

Data Governance

Data Curation

Which service would you use to speed up content delivery to your customers?

Amazon CloudFront

You have a large number of log files that will be archived in AWS for a long time and should have a retrieval time of 12 hours or less. Which service is the most cost-effective storage class for this purpose?

Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Which of the following is an example of IaaS in AWS?

Amazon EC2

Which security services in AWS use intelligent systems and machine learning to quickly identify potential security threats and issues in your AWS account? (Select TWO.)

Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon Detective

A customer plans to use Amazon S3 to store their less frequently accessed data and reduce their costs. The data is re-creatable and will be used as a secondary backup. They also require S3's low latency and high throughput performance. Which of the following storage classes is the cheapest and most suitable option?

S3 One Zone-IA

What service will allow you to sell your catalog of custom AMIs in AWS?

AWS Marketplace

Which of the following is not a standard design principle when designing systems in AWS?

Servers, not services

A customer needs to organize and consolidate information based on criteria specified in tags or resources in AWS. Which of the following services would you recommend to satisfy this requirement?

AWS Resource Groups

Users from different parts of the globe are complaining about the slow performance of the newly launched photo-sharing website in loading their high-resolution images. Which combination of AWS services should you use to serve the files with lowest possible latency? (Select TWO.)

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon S3

Which of the following infrastructure correlates to a VPC's subnet?

Availability zone

Which of the following services can establish a connection from your on-premises environment and resources hosted on AWS? (Select TWO.)

AWS Direct Connect

AWS Site-to-Site VPN

A leading mobile game company has a mission-critical server that is currently down in AWS. The Systems Administrator needs to bring it back up within 15 minutes for service continuity. Which of the following support plans will allow the Administrator to contact technical support to immediately resolve the issue?

Enterprise

Which of the following are general design principles described in the AWS Well-Architected Framework? (Select TWO.)

Test systems at production scale.

Drive architectures using data.

Which of the following is a benefit of using AWS Config?

Facilitates adherence to regulatory requirements and best practices.

A company plans to deploy an enterprise web application that will be accessed globally. The architecture must provide the highest redundancy and fault tolerance to avoid user disruptions.

How should the Amazon EC2 instances be deployed to meet the above requirements?

Deploy to multiple Availability Zones across three AWS Regions.

A customer in North Virginia, USA, is doing some drone work and collecting environmental data.

Which of the following options allows easy access to terabytes of data storage for use in a space-constrained environment and allows data transfer to AWS?

AWS Snowcone

An insurance company plans to use AWS to visually create, run, and monitor ETL workflows. Which AWS service would be recommended to meet this requirement?

AWS Glue Studio

Which of the following services allow the purchase of Reserved Instances? (Select TWO.)

Amazon RDS

Amazon EC2

Which of the following is a data transport solution that accelerates moving terabytes to petabytes of data into and out of AWS using appliances with on-board storage and compute capabilities?

AWS Snowball Edge

The security team needs to automate security vulnerability assessments throughout their development and production environments. Which service should they use to comply with this requirement?

Amazon Inspector

Which service enables you to set up directories in the AWS cloud, or connect your AWS resources with an existing on-premises Microsoft Active Directory?

AWS Directory Service

A company is using Amazon S3 to store various types of documents in a single bucket, and different teams frequently access the stored objects. If the document is accidentally overwritten or deleted, the data must be recoverable. Which of the following S3 features should they use?

S3 Versioning

Which of the following instances is it better to use IAM roles rather than IAM users? (Select TWO.)

When you want to provide AWS services permissions to do certain actions

When you have outside entities that need to perform specific actions in your AWS account

In which of the following occasions should you use the Amazon SQS in your application system? (Select TWO.)

If you require a durable storage for your application events or messages

If you need to decouple certain parts of your system for better fault tolerance

In AWS, _______ is a managed service that enables you to easily create and control the encryption keys used for cryptographic operations without having to manage your own hardware module.

AWS KMS

Which AWS service provides tracing and monitoring capabilities for your Lambda function?

AWS X-Ray

A customer is choosing the best AWS support plan which includes a designated Technical Account Manager. Which of the following should they choose?

Enterprise

Which of the following AWS services automates the creation, management, testing, and deployment of customized Amazon EC2 server images?

EC2 Image Builder

A customer is using Amazon S3 to store sprites of game characters. When players retrieve these sprites, they are temporarily stored on the player's computer. The sprites are currently stored in the S3 Standard storage class. Which of the following options would you recommend to optimize storage costs?

Have the customer directly upload the sprites to S3 Standard - Infrequent Access.

What is the best type of instance purchasing option to choose if you will run an EC2 instance for 3 months to perform a job that is uninterruptible?

On-Demand Instance

Which type of Elastic Load Balancer allows you to forward the incoming request to a target group with a Lambda function as a target?

Application Load Balancer

A company has a large amount of data stored in multiple sources such as S3, Redshift, and RDS, and they need to extract, transform and load this data into a data warehouse.

Which AWS service can help automate this process?

AWS Glue

Which of the following AWS Global Infrastructure components is made up of one or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity and housed in separate facilities?

Availability Zone

A startup plans to host an application to an Amazon EC2 instance. The VPC subnets have custom network ACLs to ensure that only authorized traffic is allowed to access the application.

NACLs allow both inbound and outbound rules.

NACLs are stateless.

Which of the following is the most cost-effective AWS Support Plan to use if you need access to AWS Support API for programmatic case management?

Business

What is an advantage of cloud computing when it comes to equipment expenditures?

AWS introduces cost reductions each year in their services.

A company is in the process of choosing the most suitable AWS Region to migrate its applications. Which of the following factors should they consider? (Select TWO.)

Support country-specific data sovereignty compliance requirements.

Enhance customer experiences by reducing latency to users.

Which of the following AWS services does Amazon EBS use natively for encryption?

AWS KMS

An organization would like to boost productivity by improving business communication channels and customer service experience.

Which of the following AWS applications would be suggested? (Select TWO.)

Amazon Chime

Amazon Connect

Which of the following benefits do AWS Organizations provide? (Select TWO.)

Automate AWS account creation and management

Centrally manage policies across multiple AWS accounts

Which two services are used for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) security and can be found in the VPC dashboard in the AWS Console? (Select TWO.)

Security Groups

Network ACLs

Which of the following is true regarding the AWS Cost and Usage report? (Select TWO.)

Provides you with granular data about your AWS costs and usage

Allows you to load your cost and usage information into Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, and AWS QuickSight

Which of the following AWS services are considered to be global services? (Select TWO.)

AWS WAF

Amazon Route 53

Which among the options below can you use to launch a new Amazon RDS database cluster to your VPC? (Select TWO.)

AWS Management Console

AWS CloudFormation

A company used to experience delays in developing new services due to the time it took to procure and set up on-premises servers. They recently migrated their infrastructure to the AWS Cloud. This change has allowed them to spin up testing environments in just days, accelerating the time to market for their services.

Which of the following AWS Cloud benefits is showcased in this particular scenario?

Agility

Which of the following AWS service can help you automate and simplify the process of transferring data between on-premises storage systems and AWS storage services?

AWS DataSync