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Scenario guide

How to approach drag and drop matching questions

Matching questions give you two columns — concepts, commands, or protocols on the left, and their definitions or use-cases on the right. You drag each left item to its correct match. These appear on most certification exams and punish superficial memorisation.

Quick answer

Drag and Drop Matching Questions questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.

How the topic appears in realistic exam-style scenarios.

Which detail in the question changes the correct answer.

How to eliminate plausible but wrong options.

How to connect the question back to the wider exam objective.

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Practice set

Practice scenarios

Question 1mediummatching
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Match each AWS security service to its purpose.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Identity and access management

Key management and encryption

Rotate and manage secrets

Web application firewall

DDoS protection

Question 2mediummatching
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Match each AWS service to its primary function.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Monitoring and observability

API activity logging

Resource compliance and configuration tracking

Best practice recommendations

Operational management and automation

Question 3mediummatching
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Match each AWS networking concept to its description.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Isolated virtual network

IP address range within a VPC

Set of rules for traffic routing

Stateful instance-level firewall

Stateless subnet-level firewall

Question 4mediummatching
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Match each AWS monitoring tool to its function.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Centralized log storage and analysis

Time-series data points

Trigger actions based on metrics

Event-driven automation (now EventBridge)

Customizable monitoring views

Question 5mediummatching
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Match each AWS backup and disaster recovery service to its feature.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Centralized backup management

Automatic object replication across regions

High availability with standby replica

Read scaling and cross-region disaster recovery

Continuous replication for DR

Question 6mediummatching
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Match each AWS support plan to its key feature.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Account and billing support only

Business hours email access

24/7 phone, chat, and email; <1 hour response

Concierge support team; <30 min response

Technical Account Manager; <15 min response

Question 7mediummatching
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Match each AWS compute service to its use case.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Virtual machines in the cloud

Serverless function execution

Container orchestration with Docker

Managed Kubernetes clusters

Serverless compute for containers

Question 8mediummatching
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Match each AWS database service to its type.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Relational database

NoSQL key-value and document

In-memory caching

Data warehousing

Graph database

Question 9mediummatching
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Match each AWS cost management tool to its purpose.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Visualize and analyze costs

Set custom cost and usage alerts

Detailed billing data

Discount in exchange for commitment

Flexible pricing model

Question 10mediummatching
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Match each AWS storage service to its description.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Object storage for any data

Block storage for EC2 instances

File storage for Linux instances

Managed file system for Windows or Lustre

Low-cost archival storage

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