January 2026
Intermediate to advanced
254 pages
6h 48m
English
Content preview from AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Study Guide
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Appendix A. Practice Exam
To check your answers, please refer to the “Practice Exam Answer Key”.
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Where do you go in the AWS console to see your spending forecast?
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Billing Console
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Identity and Access Management (IAM) Role Manager
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Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Dashboard
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AWS Health widget
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What is the purpose of setting an AWS budget?
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To receive promotional credits
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To enable new AWS services
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To enforce usage quotas
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To get alerts when spending approaches or exceeds a defined amount
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Which AWS service is best suited for storing media files and backup archives?
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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
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Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
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Amazon EC2
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AWS CloudTrail
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What does Amazon CloudWatch primarily help with?
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Setting budgets for cost tracking
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Monitoring logs and performance metrics
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Creating user access policies
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Running relational databases
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What is a key characteristic of the public cloud deployment model?
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Everything, including compute, storage, and networking, lives in the cloud provider’s infrastructure.
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It gives maximum control over hardware, which is owned by the user.
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It is only suitable for applications that cannot be migrated.
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It requires users to manage physical data centers.
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Which cloud service model provides users with access to the fundamental building blocks of computing, such as virtual machines, storage, and networking, without managing physical servers?
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IaaS (infrastructure as a service)
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SaaS (software ...
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