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A company's website serves static content—such as images, videos, and CSS files—to a global audience. The company wants to reduce load times for users located far from the primary AWS Region where the application is hosted. Which component of the AWS global infrastructure is specifically designed to cache and deliver this content with low latency from locations close to end users?

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A company's website serves static content—such as images, videos, and CSS files—to a global audience. The company wants to reduce load times for users located far from the primary AWS Region where the application is hosted. Which component of the AWS global infrastructure is specifically designed to cache and deliver this content with low latency from locations close to end users?

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Why each option matters

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A

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Regional Edge Caches

Regional Edge Caches are an intermediate cache layer used with CloudFront, but they are not the primary component for delivering content with the lowest latency to global users; edge locations are closer to users.

B

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Availability Zones

Availability Zones are isolated data centers within an AWS Region, designed for high availability and fault tolerance of compute and storage resources, not for caching content at the edge.

C

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Edge Locations

Edge locations are a key part of the AWS global infrastructure, used by services like Amazon CloudFront to cache content geographically close to end users, minimizing latency and improving performance.

D

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AWS Outposts

AWS Outposts brings native AWS services to on-premises data centers; it is not used for globally distributed content caching or delivery.

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Common exam trap: answer the scenario, not the keyword

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How to think about this question

This question should be treated as a scenario, not a definition check. Identify the problem, the constraint and the best action. Then compare each option against those facts.

KKey Concepts to Remember

  • Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
  • Find the constraint that changes the correct option.
  • Eliminate answers that are true in general but not in this case.
  • Use explanations to understand the rule behind the answer.

TExam Day Tips

  • Underline the problem statement mentally.
  • Watch for words such as best, first, most likely and least administrative effort.
  • Review why wrong options are wrong, not only why the correct option is correct.

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Question 1

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Question 2

A solutions architect is planning a new web application on AWS. The workload will include 3 Amazon EC2 instances (t3.medium) running 24/7, an Application Load Balancer, and an Amazon RDS for MySQL db.t3.small database. The architect needs to estimate the monthly cost for the first year, considering different purchasing options (On-Demand, 1-year All Upfront Reserved Instance, and Compute Savings Plan). Which AWS tool should the architect use to create this estimate?

Question 3

A company's development team frequently needs temporary test environments. A developer can log into the AWS Management Console, select an Amazon EC2 instance type, configure storage, and launch the instance within minutes without any interaction with the IT infrastructure team. This capability is an example of which essential characteristic of cloud computing?

Question 4

A company's finance team needs to analyze AWS spending in detail. They require a report that includes hourly cost data for each AWS service, each individual resource (e.g., a specific EC2 instance), and any cost allocation tags applied. The team plans to export this data to an Amazon S3 bucket and then import it into a custom business intelligence (BI) analytics dashboard. Which AWS tool should the finance team use to generate this level of detailed cost data?

Question 5

A company uses AWS for its development environment. The finance team wants to set a monthly budget of $10,000. They want to receive an email notification when the actual costs reach 80% of the budget ($8,000) and again when costs exceed the budget. The team needs a managed AWS service that can automatically send these alerts without requiring custom code or third-party tools. Which AWS service should the team use?

Question 6

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts. The security team needs to enforce a policy that restricts SSH access (port 22) from the internet (0.0.0.0/0) in all VPCs across all accounts. The team wants to centrally define the allowed rules and automatically apply them to newly created VPCs and security groups, while also automatically remediating any existing non-compliant security groups. Which AWS service should the team use?

FAQ

Questions learners often ask

What does this CLF-C02 question test?

Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.

What is the correct answer to this question?

The correct answer is: Edge Locations — Edge locations are part of the AWS global infrastructure and are used by Amazon CloudFront to cache copies of content closer to users, reducing latency. Availability Zones provide redundancy within a Region for compute and storage, not for content caching. Regional Edge Caches are a larger cache layer used between edge locations and the origin, but the primary service for low-latency content delivery is through edge locations. AWS Outposts bring AWS infrastructure to customer premises and are not designed for global content caching.

What should I do if I get this CLF-C02 question wrong?

Then try more questions from the same exam bank and focus on understanding why the wrong options are tempting.

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