CLF-C02 Practice Test 43 — 15 Questions

Question 1

Which AWS service or feature provides a notification when AWS is performing planned maintenance that may affect your resources?

Accepted Answer

AWS Health Dashboard. AWS Health Dashboard (specifically the AWS Personal Health Dashboard) provides proactive notifications and alerts when AWS is performing planned maintenance that may affect your resources. It gives you a personalized view of service health events, including scheduled maintenance, that are relevant to your AWS account and resources.

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Amazon CloudWatch Alarms

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS Config

Question 2

A startup wants to receive alerts when their AWS spending approaches a set threshold. Which AWS service should they use?

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AWS Budgets. AWS Budgets allows you to set custom cost and usage budgets and receive alerts when your actual or forecasted spending exceeds (or is forecasted to exceed) the budgeted amount. For this startup, they can configure a cost budget with a threshold (e.g., 80% of the set amount) and have Amazon SNS send notifications via email or SMS when spending approaches that threshold.

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Billing Dashboard

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AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 3

Which AWS service provides a managed Apache Kafka streaming service without requiring customers to provision, configure, or manage Kafka clusters?

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Amazon MSK Serverless. Amazon MSK Serverless is a fully managed Apache Kafka service that automatically provisions, scales, and manages Kafka clusters, eliminating the need for customers to handle cluster infrastructure. It supports the same Kafka producer and consumer APIs, making it ideal for streaming workloads without operational overhead.

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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

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Amazon SQS FIFO queues

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AWS Glue Streaming ETL

Question 4

Which AWS support plan provides access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM) and proactive guidance for workload optimization?

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Enterprise Support. The Enterprise Support plan is the only AWS support plan that includes a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM) who provides proactive guidance, including architectural reviews and workload optimization recommendations. This plan is designed for large-scale enterprises that require personalized, ongoing support to align AWS services with business outcomes.

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Developer Support

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Business Support

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Basic Support

Question 5

Drag and drop the steps to set up a VPC with a public subnet and an internet gateway in the correct order.

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Create VPC, Create subnet, Create Internet Gateway, Attach Internet Gateway to VPC, Create route table, Add route to Internet Gateway, Associate route table with subnet. VPC creation, subnet, internet gateway, routing, and association are the standard steps for a public subnet.

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Create VPC, Create Internet Gateway, Attach Internet Gateway to VPC, Create subnet, Create route table, Add route to Internet Gateway, Associate route table with subnet

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Create subnet, Create VPC, Create Internet Gateway, Attach Internet Gateway to VPC, Create route table, Add route to Internet Gateway, Associate route table with subnet

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Create VPC, Create subnet, Create route table, Associate route table with subnet, Create Internet Gateway, Attach Internet Gateway to VPC, Add route to Internet Gateway

Question 6

A company currently pays $50,000/month for on-premises infrastructure. They project that running the equivalent workload on AWS will cost $35,000/month including all data transfer. What is the annual AWS cost savings?

Accepted Answer

$180,000. The monthly cost savings are $50,000 - $35,000 = $15,000. Annualizing this gives $15,000 × 12 = $180,000. Option B is correct because it correctly multiplies the monthly savings by 12 to compute the annual savings.

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$15,000

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$420,000

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$600,000

Question 7

Which of the following best describes an AWS Region?

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A geographic area containing multiple Availability Zones. An AWS Region is a distinct geographic area that consists of multiple, isolated, and physically separate Availability Zones (AZs). Each AZ contains one or more data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity. This design ensures high availability and fault tolerance, as resources can be distributed across AZs within a Region to withstand failures in a single data center.

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A single data center used by AWS

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A group of edge locations used for content delivery

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A virtual private network segment within AWS

Question 8

Drag and drop the steps to configure an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in the correct order.

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Step 1: Create target group, Step 2: Register targets, Step 3: Create Application Load Balancer, Step 4: Configure listeners and forward to target group. ALB setup: target group first, then register instances, create ALB, configure listeners, and link target group.

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Step 1: Create Application Load Balancer, Step 2: Create target group, Step 3: Register targets, Step 4: Configure listeners

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Step 1: Register targets, Step 2: Create target group, Step 3: Create Application Load Balancer, Step 4: Configure listeners

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Step 1: Configure listeners, Step 2: Create target group, Step 3: Register targets, Step 4: Create Application Load Balancer

Question 9

Which AWS service helps you manage and deploy infrastructure as code using templates?

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AWS CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation is the correct service because it allows you to model and provision AWS resources using declarative templates (JSON or YAML). This enables Infrastructure as Code (IaC) by treating infrastructure as version-controlled, repeatable code, which can be used to create, update, and delete entire stacks of resources in a predictable manner.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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AWS OpsWorks

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AWS CodeDeploy

Question 10

Drag and drop the steps to migrate an on-premises database to Amazon RDS using AWS DMS in the correct order.

Accepted Answer

Create a replication instance, then create source and target endpoints, then test endpoint connectivity, then create a database migration task, then start the migration task.. DMS requires a replication instance, endpoints, connection testing, task creation, and then migration execution.

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Create source and target endpoints, then create a replication instance, then test endpoint connectivity, then create a database migration task, then start the migration task.

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Create a replication instance, then create source and target endpoints, then create a database migration task, then test endpoint connectivity, then start the migration task.

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Create a replication instance, then test endpoint connectivity, then create source and target endpoints, then create a database migration task, then start the migration task.

Question 11

Drag and drop the steps to launch an EC2 instance in the correct order.

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Choose AMI -> Choose Instance Type -> Configure Instance Details -> Add Storage -> Configure Security Group -> Review and Launch. Launching an EC2 instance involves selecting the OS (AMI), hardware (instance type), networking, storage, and security before launch.

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Choose AMI -> Configure Security Group -> Choose Instance Type -> Add Storage -> Configure Instance Details -> Review and Launch

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Choose Instance Type -> Choose AMI -> Configure Instance Details -> Add Storage -> Configure Security Group -> Review and Launch

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Choose AMI -> Choose Instance Type -> Configure Security Group -> Add Storage -> Configure Instance Details -> Review and Launch

Question 12

Match each AWS database service to its description.

Accepted Answer

Amazon RDS: Managed relational database service supporting multiple engines. Amazon RDS provides managed relational databases, DynamoDB offers NoSQL capabilities, Redshift is for data warehousing, and ElastiCache is for caching. Common confusions involve mixing up Redshift and ElastiCache due to their related but distinct use cases.

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Amazon Redshift: Fully managed in-memory caching service

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Amazon ElastiCache: Fully managed data warehousing service for analytics

Question 13

Match each AWS networking service to its description.

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Amazon VPC: Isolated virtual network in the AWS cloud. Correct matches: Amazon VPC provides an isolated virtual network; AWS Global Accelerator optimizes traffic routing. Common confusions involve mixing up AWS Direct Connect (dedicated connection) with Route 53 (DNS).

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AWS Direct Connect: DNS service that routes users to AWS endpoints

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Amazon Route 53: Dedicated network connection from on-premises to AWS

Question 14

Match each AWS service to its primary category.

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Amazon EC2: Compute. AWS services are categorized by their primary function. Amazon EC2 is compute, S3 is storage, RDS is database, and VPC is networking. Common confusions include mixing storage and compute categories.

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Amazon S3: Compute

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Amazon VPC: Database

Question 15

Match each AWS Well-Architected Framework pillar to its description.

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Security: Protect information, systems, and assets.. The AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars are Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization. Correct matches align each pillar with its core focus area.

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Security: Ability to run and monitor systems.

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Reliability: Ability to optimize costs.