CLF-C02 Practice Test 4 — 10 Questions

Question 1

A company uses a variety of AWS services and wants to automatically detect unexpected cost spikes that might indicate resource misuse, billing errors, or unauthorized activity. The company needs a managed service that uses machine learning to analyze spending patterns and provide alerts when costs deviate from expected trends. The finance team does not want to manually define thresholds for every service. Which AWS service should the finance team use?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

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AWS Cost Anomaly Detection. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is a managed service that uses machine learning to continuously monitor your cost and usage patterns, automatically detecting anomalous spending without requiring manual threshold definitions. It analyzes historical data to establish a baseline and alerts you when costs deviate from expected trends, making it ideal for identifying unexpected spikes from resource misuse, billing errors, or unauthorized activity.

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AWS Budgets

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 2

A company runs a batch processing workload on an on-premises data center. The servers are powerful machines that are used at maximum capacity only for a few days each month during financial reporting periods. For the rest of the month, the servers run at very low utilization. The CFO wants to migrate this workload to AWS to reduce costs. Which characteristic of AWS cloud computing is most directly aligned with the CFO's goal of paying only for the compute capacity actually used?

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Pay-as-you-go pricing model. The pay-as-you-go pricing model (Option C) directly aligns with the CFO's goal because it allows the company to pay only for the compute capacity they actually consume, with no upfront costs or long-term commitments. In this scenario, the batch processing workload runs at maximum capacity only a few days per month, so the company can provision resources during those peaks and stop them during low-utilization periods, avoiding the cost of idle on-premises servers. This model eliminates the need to pay for unused capacity, directly reducing costs as the CFO desires.

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High availability across multiple Availability Zones

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Elasticity to automatically scale resources up and down

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The ability to choose from a wide variety of instance types

Question 3

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. The security team needs to ensure that Amazon CloudTrail is enabled in all AWS Regions for every member account, and that no user (including account administrators) can disable it. The policy must apply automatically to any new accounts that are added to the organization. Which AWS feature should the security team use to enforce this requirement?

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Service Control Policies (SCPs). Service Control Policies (SCPs) are the correct choice because they allow the security team to centrally control the maximum available permissions for all accounts within an AWS Organization. By creating an SCP that denies all CloudTrail disabling actions (e.g., `cloudtrail:StopLogging`, `cloudtrail:DeleteTrail`) and attaching it to the root or specific organizational units, the policy applies automatically to all existing and new member accounts, and even account administrators cannot override it. This ensures CloudTrail remains enabled across all Regions in every account, meeting the enforcement requirement.

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IAM policies with a Deny effect for CloudTrail actions

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AWS Config rules with an auto-remediation action

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AWS CloudTrail trails with multi-region and organization trail enabled

Question 4

A company runs a public-facing e-commerce website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The security team has discovered that attackers are attempting SQL injection attacks through the website's search feature. The company wants to use a managed AWS service to inspect incoming HTTP requests and block these malicious payloads before they reach the application. Which AWS service should the company use?

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AWS WAF. AWS WAF is a managed web application firewall that allows you to create rules to inspect HTTP/HTTPS requests and block common attack patterns, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. By associating a WAF web ACL with the Application Load Balancer, the company can filter incoming traffic and block malicious payloads before they reach the EC2 instances.

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AWS Shield Standard

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Network ACLs

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Amazon GuardDuty

Question 5

A company uses AWS Organizations and manages hundreds of AWS accounts. The security policy requires that all Amazon S3 buckets be encrypted using a specific AWS KMS customer-managed key (CMK). The security team wants to automatically detect any S3 bucket that is not encrypted with the required CMK and automatically apply the correct encryption configuration without manual intervention. Which AWS service should the security team use to implement this automated compliance enforcement?

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AWS Config. AWS Config is the correct service because it provides managed rules (e.g., s3-bucket-server-side-encryption-enabled and s3-bucket-kms-encryption-specific-key) that can evaluate whether S3 buckets are encrypted with the required KMS customer-managed key. When a noncompliant bucket is detected, AWS Config can trigger an AWS Lambda function via an Amazon EventBridge rule to automatically apply the correct encryption configuration, enabling automated remediation without manual intervention.

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Amazon GuardDuty

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AWS CloudTrail

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AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 6

A company runs a web application across multiple Amazon EC2 instances that are distributed across several Availability Zones. The application needs to share a common set of configuration files and static assets that must be accessible concurrently and consistently from all instances. The company wants a fully managed, scalable file storage solution that does not require provisioning or managing underlying storage hardware. Which AWS service should the company use?

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Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). Amazon EFS provides a fully managed, scalable, and shared file system that can be mounted concurrently by multiple EC2 instances across different Availability Zones. It uses the NFSv4.1 protocol, ensuring consistent access to configuration files and static assets without any provisioning or management of underlying storage hardware.

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Question 7

A company stores sensitive financial reports in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company's security policy mandates that all objects be encrypted at rest using an AWS KMS customer-managed key. The security team wants to ensure that only the 'Auditors' IAM role can decrypt the objects, even though the S3 bucket policy allows read access to a broader set of users. Which of the following steps must the security team take to enforce this access control?

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Configure the S3 bucket to use SSE-KMS encryption with the customer-managed key, and modify the KMS key policy to grant the kms:Decrypt permission only to the 'Auditors' role.. SSE-KMS with a customer-managed key separates encryption key management from S3 bucket policies. The KMS key policy is the authoritative access control for decryption operations. By granting kms:Decrypt only to the 'Auditors' role, even if the S3 bucket policy allows s3:GetObject to other users, they cannot decrypt the objects without the key permission. This enforces the security requirement that only the Auditors role can decrypt the sensitive financial reports.

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Configure an S3 bucket policy that denies s3:GetObject requests unless the request is encrypted in transit using HTTPS.

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Enable S3 Block Public Access on the bucket and attach an IAM policy to the 'Auditors' role that allows s3:GetObject.

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Use S3 object-level logging to monitor access and revoke permissions for any role that attempts to decrypt objects without authorization.

Question 8

A company hosts a web application on AWS that uses Amazon CloudFront for content delivery and an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in front of Amazon EC2 instances. The security team wants to protect the application against common web exploits such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS). They need a managed service that can inspect incoming HTTP/HTTPS requests and block malicious traffic before it reaches the application servers. Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?

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AWS WAF. AWS WAF is a managed web application firewall that helps protect web applications from common web exploits like SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS). It integrates directly with Amazon CloudFront and Application Load Balancers (ALB) to inspect incoming HTTP/HTTPS requests and block malicious traffic before it reaches the application servers. This makes it the correct choice for the security team's requirement to filter and block specific attack patterns at the application layer.

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AWS Shield Advanced

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AWS Firewall Manager

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Amazon Inspector

Question 9

A company runs a diverse workload on AWS that includes Amazon EC2 instances of various families and sizes across multiple regions, Amazon RDS databases, and a serverless application using AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate. The finance team wants to reduce compute costs by making a 1-year hourly spend commitment, but they need the flexibility to change instance families, sizes, regions, or switch between EC2, Fargate, and Lambda without losing the discount. Which AWS pricing model should the finance team choose to meet these requirements?

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Compute Savings Plan. A Compute Savings Plan is the correct choice because it offers a 1-year hourly spend commitment with the flexibility to change instance families, sizes, regions, and even switch between EC2, Fargate, and Lambda while still receiving the discount. This plan applies to any compute usage across these services, automatically adjusting the discount to the most cost-effective instance type or compute option, meeting the finance team's need for both cost reduction and operational flexibility.

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Reserved Instances (Standard)

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Reserved Instances (Convertible)

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On-Demand

Question 10

A retail company runs a web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. During a promotional event, traffic spikes to 10 times the normal level. The company configured an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with a scaling policy that adds instances when CPU utilization exceeds 70% and removes instances when it drops below 30%. The application handles the spike without any manual intervention, and after the event ends, the number of instances automatically decreases to the original count, saving costs. This scenario best demonstrates which cloud computing concept?

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Elasticity. The scenario describes the system automatically scaling out to 10 times the normal capacity during a traffic spike and then scaling back down when the spike ends, which is the definition of elasticity—the ability to dynamically provision and de-provision resources to match demand. The use of an EC2 Auto Scaling group with a CPU-based scaling policy (70% threshold to add, 30% to remove) directly demonstrates this cloud computing concept, as it handles variable workloads without manual intervention and optimizes cost by reducing resources when they are no longer needed.

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Scalability

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High availability

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Fault tolerance