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AWS Cloud Practitioner practice exam: 1119 questions with full explanations

4 domains 1119 questions 90 min exam
Questions on the exam
65
Time allowed
90 minutes format →
Passing score
700 of 1000 — vendor, checked September 4, 2026 detail →
Exam fee
$100 — vendor, checked September 4, 2026 detail →

1119 practice exam questions for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, grouped by exam domain. Every question below shows all four options, which one is correct, and why each of the other three is not — the wrong answers are where most candidates lose marks.

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Sample questions

Amazon Redshift: Which service is most appropriate?

Cloud Technology and Services Medium
An IT procurement team needs a service designed to analyze large datasets using a data warehouse rather than operate an application’s transactional database. Which service is most appropriate?
  1. Amazon Redshift ✓
    Redshift supports data warehousing analytics, making it appropriate for analyzing large datasets.
  2. Amazon RDS
    RDS provides managed relational databases, but its primary purpose is not analytical data warehousing.
  3. Amazon ElastiCache
    ElastiCache accelerates access through in-memory caching and does not provide the requested analytical warehouse.
  4. Amazon DynamoDB
    DynamoDB provides managed NoSQL key-value and document storage, not the requested warehouse analytics capability.
The trap
Confuses transactional relational databases with analytical warehousing. Confuses operational NoSQL storage with warehouse analytics. Confuses cached application data with warehouse analysis.

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AWS: Which option is the best fit?

Security and Compliance Easy
A logistics provider asks who protects AWS data center buildings, physical hardware, and underlying networking. Which option is the best fit?
  1. AWS ✓
    AWS protects physical facilities, hardware, networking, and virtualization supporting AWS cloud infrastructure.
  2. The customer
    Customers protect their data, identities, permissions, and workload configuration, not AWS data center facilities or underlying hardware.
  3. AWS Support
    AWS Support provides assistance, but the shared responsibility model assigns physical facility and hardware protection to AWS itself.
  4. The application vendor
    An application vendor may support its software, but it does not own AWS responsibility for facilities and physical infrastructure.
The trap
Assigns AWS infrastructure protection to the customer. Confuses application support with cloud infrastructure ownership. Confuses a support offering with the underlying security owner.

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Agility: Which cloud characteristic best fits?

Cloud Concepts Medium
An online retailer wants to test new shopping ideas quickly without waiting for lengthy hardware purchases. Which cloud characteristic best fits?
  1. Economies of scale
    Economies of scale can reduce costs, but they do not directly provide faster experimentation.
  2. High availability
    High availability reduces disruption, but it does not primarily describe how quickly teams can experiment.
  3. Agility ✓
    Agility shortens the time needed to experiment and deliver changes, matching the retailer’s need for rapid testing.
  4. Geographic redundancy
    Geographic redundancy can improve resilience across locations, but it does not directly accelerate product experiments.
The trap
The requirement concerns speed of innovation rather than continuity during failures. Cost advantages are different from shortened delivery and experimentation cycles. Multiple locations address resilience or proximity, not experimentation speed.

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Compute Savings Plans: Which option best fits?

Billing, Pricing, and Support Medium
A nonprofit has steady eligible usage and wants a discount by committing to consistent hourly compute spending. Which option best fits?
  1. On-Demand Instances
    On-Demand supports flexibility but does not provide the commitment-based discount described.
  2. Compute Savings Plans ✓
    Compute Savings Plans provide discounts for eligible usage in return for a consistent hourly spending commitment.
  3. Spot Instances
    Spot Instances use spare capacity and interruption risk rather than a consistent hourly spending commitment.
  4. On-Demand Capacity Reservations
    Capacity Reservations reserve matching Availability Zone capacity but do not intrinsically provide usage discounts.
The trap
Chooses flexibility when the requirement emphasizes committed savings. Confuses capacity assurance with discounted purchasing. Matches savings generally but not the stated commitment model.

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Managing the database software: Which responsibility remains with the customer because EC2 provides more opera

Cloud Technology and Services Medium
An enterprise operations team hosts a database on Amazon EC2. Which responsibility remains with the customer because EC2 provides more operating-system control?
  1. Managing the database software ✓
    With a database on EC2, the customer manages the database software and more of its operating environment.
  2. Using ElastiCache as a database engine
    ElastiCache is an in-memory caching service, so it does not replace customer database software management on EC2.
  3. Running Redshift warehouse analytics
    Redshift is a separate managed warehouse service and is unrelated to the customer’s EC2 database responsibility.
  4. Choosing a DynamoDB partition key
    DynamoDB partition-key design applies to DynamoDB workloads, not database software hosted on an EC2 instance.
The trap
Applies a DynamoDB design task to an EC2-hosted database. Confuses caching with database engine administration. Confuses an independent analytics service with EC2 operating responsibilities.

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The customer: Which option is the best fit?

Security and Compliance Hard
A travel service runs applications on Amazon EC2 and asks who must patch the guest operating system. Which option is the best fit?
  1. AWS data center operations
    AWS manages facilities and underlying infrastructure, but EC2 customers manage the guest operating system running inside their instances.
  2. The customer ✓
    For EC2, customers manage the guest operating system, including applying appropriate operating system patches.
  3. The managed service team
    EC2 is not a fully managed application platform; the customer retains responsibility for the guest operating system and applications.
  4. AWS compliance auditors
    Compliance auditors may assess controls, but they do not operate or patch the customer's EC2 guest operating system.
The trap
Confuses infrastructure maintenance with guest operating system maintenance. Applies managed-service responsibilities to customer-managed EC2 instances. Confuses assessment activities with operational responsibility.

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Use multiple AWS Regions: Which approach best fits?

Cloud Concepts Medium
An enterprise operations team needs to deploy an application for users in several countries without constructing its own data centers. Which approach best fits?
  1. Build a private data center
    Building a private data center requires physical facilities and contradicts the requirement to avoid constructing them.
  2. Use multiple AWS Regions ✓
    Multiple AWS Regions provide geographically distributed deployment locations without requiring the enterprise to build physical facilities.
  3. Use an edge location alone
    Edge locations support selected services close to users, but they do not replace Regions for complete application deployment.
  4. Use one Availability Zone
    One Availability Zone provides a location, but it does not support deployment across several countries.
The trap
An Availability Zone is smaller in scope than a Region. Edge locations are not general-purpose substitutes for Regions. This recreates the infrastructure burden cloud deployment is intended to reduce.

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On-Demand Capacity Reservations: Which option best fits?

Billing, Pricing, and Support Medium
A travel service must ensure matching EC2 capacity is available in a particular Availability Zone, but does not require a usage discount. Which option best fits?
  1. Compute Savings Plans
    Compute Savings Plans provide eligible usage discounts but do not reserve EC2 capacity.
  2. Spot Instances
    Spot Instances use spare capacity and may be interrupted, so they do not ensure matching capacity.
  3. On-Demand Capacity Reservations ✓
    On-Demand Capacity Reservations reserve matching EC2 capacity in a specified Availability Zone without intrinsically discounting usage.
  4. Reserved Instances
    Reserved Instances primarily provide billing benefits and do not by themselves express this capacity requirement.
The trap
Confuses pricing reservation with capacity reservation. Recognizes commitment pricing but misses capacity assurance. Chooses flexible discounted capacity when guaranteed availability is required.

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AWS Cloud Practitioner exam: the facts

How many questions are on the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam?

65, as published by the exam vendor.

How long is the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam?

90 minutes. Across 65 questions that is about 83 seconds per question.

What topics does the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam cover?

4 domains: Cloud Technology and Services, Security and Compliance, Cloud Concepts, Billing, Pricing, and Support. Weights: Cloud Technology and Services 0.34%, Security and Compliance 0.3%, Cloud Concepts 0.24%, Billing, Pricing, and Support 0.12%.

How many AWS Cloud Practitioner practice exam questions does Certsqill have?

1119, spread across 4 exam domains. Every one shows all options, which is correct, and why each of the others is not.

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