CLF-C02 Cloud Technology and Services Practice Test 12 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A company runs a MySQL database and wants to migrate to a cloud-native relational database that is fully managed, provides up to 5x the performance of standard MySQL, offers automated backups with point-in-time recovery, and is compatible with MySQL drivers and tools without application changes. Which AWS service meets these requirements?

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

Accepted Answer

Amazon Aurora. Amazon Aurora is a fully managed, MySQL-compatible relational database that delivers up to 5x the performance of standard MySQL, provides automated backups with point-in-time recovery, and is designed to work with existing MySQL drivers and tools without requiring application changes. This makes it the ideal choice for migrating a MySQL database to a cloud-native, high-performance relational database service.

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Amazon RDS for MySQL

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Amazon DynamoDB

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Amazon Redshift

Question 2

A data science team wants to build, train, and deploy machine learning models without managing the underlying server infrastructure for training and inference. Which AWS service provides a fully managed environment for the machine learning workflow?

Accepted Answer

Amazon SageMaker. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides every component needed for the machine learning workflow, including data labeling, model building, training, tuning, and deployment. It eliminates the need to manage underlying server infrastructure for both training and inference by automatically provisioning, scaling, and managing compute resources.

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AWS Lambda

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Amazon EC2 with NVIDIA GPUs

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Amazon Rekognition

Question 3

A company wants to automatically detect and label objects in photos uploaded by users — such as identifying if a photo contains a person, a car, or an outdoor scene — without building their own machine learning model. Which AWS service provides this pre-built computer vision capability?

Accepted Answer

Amazon Rekognition. Amazon Rekognition is the correct choice because it is a fully managed, pre-trained computer vision service that can automatically detect and label objects, scenes, and faces in images without requiring any custom machine learning model development. It provides APIs for image analysis, including object and scene detection, which directly matches the requirement to identify if a photo contains a person, car, or outdoor scene.

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Amazon SageMaker

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Amazon Comprehend

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Amazon Polly

Question 4

A data analyst needs to run SQL queries directly against log files stored in Amazon S3 without loading the data into a database and without provisioning any servers. Which AWS service enables this?

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Amazon Athena. Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service that allows you to analyze data directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. It requires no infrastructure to manage and charges only for the data scanned per query, making it ideal for ad-hoc analysis of log files without loading data into a database.

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Amazon RDS

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Amazon Redshift

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Amazon DynamoDB

Question 5

A company wants to create RESTful APIs that serve as the front door to their backend Lambda functions and EC2 services. They need features including API key management, throttling to protect backends from overload, and usage plan enforcement. Which AWS service provides this?

Accepted Answer

Amazon API Gateway. Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure RESTful APIs at any scale. It directly provides built-in API key management, throttling (rate limiting and burst limits), and usage plan enforcement to protect backend services like Lambda functions and EC2 instances from overload. These features are core to API Gateway's functionality, making it the correct choice for acting as the front door to the described backend resources.

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Amazon CloudFront

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AWS Direct Connect

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Amazon Route 53

Question 6

A development team uses AWS developer tools for their entire software delivery process: a Git-based code repository, automated compilation and testing, and automated deployment to EC2 instances. Which combination of AWS services provides these three capabilities?

Accepted Answer

AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodeDeploy. AWS CodeCommit provides a Git-based code repository for source control. AWS CodeBuild performs automated compilation and testing. AWS CodeDeploy automates deployment to EC2 instances. Together, these three services directly map to the three capabilities described in the question.

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AWS CloudFormation, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Amazon EC2

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Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, and Amazon CloudWatch

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AWS CodePipeline, Amazon ECR, and Amazon ECS

Question 7

A company manages a fleet of hundreds of EC2 instances and needs to automate patching across all instances, run commands remotely without SSH, and store configuration parameters centrally. Which AWS service provides these operational management capabilities?

Accepted Answer

AWS Systems Manager. AWS Systems Manager is the correct choice because it provides a unified interface for operational management tasks, including automated patching via Patch Manager, remote command execution without SSH using Run Command, and centralized parameter storage with Parameter Store. These capabilities directly address the need to manage fleets of EC2 instances at scale without requiring direct network access to each instance.

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Amazon CloudWatch

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AWS Config

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AWS CloudFormation

Question 8

A company collects clickstream data from millions of users in real time and needs to process and analyse this data as it arrives — not after storing it — to detect patterns within seconds. Which AWS service is designed for real-time data streaming and processing?

Accepted Answer

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is purpose-built for real-time data streaming and processing, enabling you to ingest and analyze clickstream data as it arrives with sub-second latency. It supports custom processing using AWS Lambda, Kinesis Data Analytics, or Kinesis Data Firehose, making it ideal for detecting patterns in real-time without waiting for data to be stored.

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Amazon SQS

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Amazon S3

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Amazon DynamoDB Streams

Question 9

A company runs a multi-step order fulfilment process that includes payment verification, inventory check, warehouse notification, and shipping label generation. Each step is implemented as a Lambda function. They need a service to coordinate these steps, handle retries on failure, and visualise workflow state. Which AWS service should they use?

Accepted Answer

AWS Step Functions. AWS Step Functions is a serverless orchestration service that lets you coordinate multiple AWS services, including Lambda functions, into a visual workflow. It natively supports sequential execution, parallel branches, retries on failure, and state visualization, making it the ideal choice for a multi-step order fulfillment process.

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Amazon SQS

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Amazon EventBridge

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Amazon SNS

Question 10

A company wants an automated tool that analyses their AWS account and provides recommendations across five categories: cost optimisation, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits. Which AWS service provides this analysis?

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AWS Trusted Advisor. AWS Trusted Advisor is the correct service because it is specifically designed to analyze an AWS account and provide recommendations across the five categories listed: cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits. It evaluates resources against AWS best practices and offers actionable guidance, making it the only service that covers all these domains in a single, automated tool.

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Amazon Inspector

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AWS Config

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Amazon CloudWatch

Question 11

A company's application experiences traffic spikes every weekday morning when employees arrive at work. During off-hours, very few users are active. Which AWS feature automatically adjusts the number of EC2 instances based on demand, adding instances during peak hours and removing them during quiet periods?

Accepted Answer

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is the correct service because it automatically adjusts the number of EC2 instances in response to demand, using scaling policies (e.g., scheduled scaling or dynamic scaling) to add instances during peak hours and terminate them during quiet periods. This directly matches the described traffic pattern of weekday morning spikes and off-hour lulls, without manual intervention.

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Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

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AWS Elastic Load Balancing

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AWS CloudFormation

Question 12

A company launches EC2 instances in a public subnet of their VPC. For these instances to communicate directly with the internet — both to receive inbound requests and to make outbound requests — which VPC component must be attached to the VPC and referenced in the subnet's route table?

Accepted Answer

Internet Gateway. An Internet Gateway (IGW) is a horizontally scaled, redundant VPC component that enables communication between a VPC and the internet. For EC2 instances in a public subnet to both receive inbound requests and make outbound requests, the IGW must be attached to the VPC and a route in the subnet's route table must point 0.0.0.0/0 (or a specific public IP range) to the IGW. Without the IGW, the instances have no path to the internet, even if they have public IP addresses.

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NAT Gateway

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VPC Peering connection

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Virtual Private Gateway

Question 13

A company runs database servers in private subnets with no direct internet access for security. However, these servers need to download OS updates from the internet. Which VPC component allows the private instances to make outbound internet connections while remaining unreachable from the internet?

Accepted Answer

NAT Gateway. A NAT Gateway enables instances in a private subnet to initiate outbound IPv4 traffic to the internet (e.g., for OS updates) while preventing the internet from initiating inbound connections to those instances. It resides in a public subnet with an Elastic IP and uses Source Network Address Translation (SNAT) to replace the private source IP with the gateway's public IP, making the response traffic routable back without exposing the private instances.

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Internet Gateway

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VPN Gateway

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VPC Endpoint

Question 14

A company has two separate VPCs — one for development workloads and one for a shared services environment — and wants EC2 instances in both VPCs to communicate with each other using private IP addresses without traffic traversing the public internet. Which AWS feature enables this?

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VPC Peering. VPC Peering enables direct network connectivity between two VPCs using private IP addresses, with traffic routed entirely within the AWS network backbone. This allows EC2 instances in the development VPC and the shared services VPC to communicate without traversing the public internet, as traffic stays within the AWS global infrastructure.

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Internet Gateway

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NAT Gateway

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AWS Direct Connect

Question 15

A financial institution needs a private, dedicated, high-bandwidth network connection from their on-premises data centre to AWS that does not traverse the public internet, provides consistent low latency, and supports up to 100 Gbps bandwidth. Which AWS service provides this?

Accepted Answer

AWS Direct Connect. AWS Direct Connect is the correct choice because it provides a private, dedicated network connection from an on-premises data center to AWS that bypasses the public internet, ensuring consistent low latency and supporting bandwidths up to 100 Gbps (via 100 Gbps dedicated connections or link aggregation). This meets all the specified requirements for a high-bandwidth, private, and low-latency link.

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AWS Site-to-Site VPN

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Amazon CloudFront

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AWS Transit Gateway