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AWS Cloud Practitioner Practice Test

Questions for the foundational exam CLF-C02, in plain words, each with the AWS page that settles it.

Which Well-Architected pillar is about running systems that deliver business value at the lowest price?

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Cloud Concepts 16

  • A bank keeps its mainframe in its own data center and connects it to applications that run in AWS. Which deployment model is this? Overview of Amazon Web Services: Types of cloud computing
  • A company moves its servers to AWS without changing the applications on them. Which migration strategy, also called lift and shift, is this? AWS Prescriptive Guidance: About the migration strategies
  • A company replaces its on-premises customer management software with a subscription product run by the vendor. Which migration strategy is this? AWS Prescriptive Guidance: About the migration strategies
  • A design replaces one large server with several small ones so a single failure hurts less. Which reliability design principle is this? AWS Well-Architected Framework: Design principles
  • A retailer used to buy servers for a holiday peak and leave them idle the rest of the year. Now it adds and removes capacity within minutes. Which advantage is this? Overview of Amazon Web Services: Six advantages of cloud computing
  • A startup buys no servers up front and pays only for the computing it consumes. Which of the six advantages of cloud computing is this? Overview of Amazon Web Services: Six advantages of cloud computing
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Cloud Concepts, continued

  • A team keeps its workload fast as demand changes by choosing resource types and sizes that fit. Which Well-Architected pillar covers this? AWS Well-Architected Framework: Performance efficiency
  • New IT resources are a click away, so developers wait minutes for them, not weeks. What does the AWS overview call this advantage? Overview of Amazon Web Services: Six advantages of cloud computing
  • Test servers are stopped outside working hours so the company pays only for the hours it uses. Which cost optimization design principle is this? AWS Well-Architected Framework: Design principles
  • Which advantage of cloud computing describes deploying an application in several Regions with a few clicks to give customers lower latency? Overview of Amazon Web Services: Six advantages of cloud computing
  • Which AWS Cloud Adoption Framework perspective helps build a scalable, enterprise-grade hybrid cloud platform and modernize existing workloads? An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework: Foundational capabilities
  • Which perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework focuses on culture, organizational structure, leadership and workforce? An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework: Foundational capabilities
  • Which Well-Architected pillar covers a workload's ability to do what it is meant to do, correctly and consistently, when it is expected to? AWS Well-Architected Framework: Reliability
  • Which Well-Architected pillar deals with environmental impact, chiefly energy use and efficiency? AWS Well-Architected Framework: Sustainability
  • Which Well-Architected pillar is about running systems that deliver business value at the lowest price? AWS Well-Architected Framework: Cost optimization
  • Why can a provider such as AWS reach lower pay-as-you-go prices than one company running its own servers? Overview of Amazon Web Services: Six advantages of cloud computing

Security and Compliance 19

  • A company fears that customer records with personal data sit in its Amazon S3 buckets. Which service discovers sensitive data there? Amazon Macie: What is Amazon Macie?
  • A company runs its own Amazon EC2 instances. Under the shared responsibility model, which task is the company's? AWS, Shared Responsibility Model
  • A company wants its employees to sign in once, with identities from its existing identity provider, and reach several AWS accounts. Which service is built for this? AWS IAM Identity Center: What is IAM Identity Center?
  • An auditor asks for the SOC reports and ISO certifications that cover AWS. Where does a customer download them on demand? AWS Artifact: What is AWS Artifact?
  • Awareness and training is a shared control. How is it divided? AWS, Shared Responsibility Model
  • By the shared responsibility model, AWS runs every component, host operating system and virtualization layer included, down to what? AWS, Shared Responsibility Model
  • For an audit, a company needs a record of the actions taken in its account through the console, the AWS CLI and the SDKs. Which service records these as events? AWS CloudTrail: What Is AWS CloudTrail?
  • How does an IAM role differ from an IAM user? IAM User Guide: IAM roles
  • How does IAM recommend that human users get access to AWS? IAM User Guide: Security best practices in IAM
  • What is an IAM user group? IAM User Guide: IAM user groups
  • Which identity has complete access to every service and resource from the moment an AWS account is created? IAM User Guide: AWS account root user
  • Which kind of control does a customer fully inherit from AWS? AWS, Shared Responsibility Model
  • Which of these is on IAM's list of security best practices? IAM User Guide: Security best practices in IAM
  • Which service can a company subscribe to for a higher level of protection against DDoS attacks? AWS WAF, Firewall Manager and Shield Developer Guide: AWS Shield Advanced overview
  • Which service creates and controls the keys used to encrypt data, and protects them in hardware security modules? AWS KMS Developer Guide: AWS Key Management Service
  • Which service detects threats by continuously monitoring AWS data sources and logs for suspicious activity? Amazon GuardDuty: What is Amazon GuardDuty?
  • Which service is a web application firewall that monitors the HTTP(S) requests sent to a CloudFront distribution or an Application Load Balancer? AWS WAF, Firewall Manager and Shield Developer Guide: AWS WAF
  • Which service scans EC2 instances, container images and Lambda functions for software vulnerabilities? Amazon Inspector: What is Amazon Inspector?
  • Which service shows how a resource was configured in the past and how its configuration and relationships changed over time? AWS Config: What Is AWS Config?

Cloud Technology and Services 22

  • A company wants a dedicated fiber link from its data center to AWS that bypasses internet service providers. Which service provides it? AWS Direct Connect: What is Direct Connect?
  • A developer uploads a web application and wants load balancing, health monitoring and scaling set up for it. Which service does that? AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide: What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
  • A factory needs AWS compute and storage inside its own building, managed with the same APIs as in a Region. Which offering fits? AWS Outposts: What is AWS Outposts?
  • A team describes its servers and databases in a template and wants AWS to create and configure them. Which service does this? AWS CloudFormation User Guide: What is CloudFormation?
  • A viewer requests a file that Amazon CloudFront serves. To which edge location is the request routed? Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide: What is Amazon CloudFront?
  • An analyst wants to run standard SQL queries on files that already sit in Amazon S3, with no servers to set up. Which service fits? Amazon Athena: What is Amazon Athena?
  • How many Availability Zones does each AWS Region have at least? AWS Regions and Availability Zones: AWS Availability Zones
  • What is an Availability Zone? Overview of Amazon Web Services: Global infrastructure
  • Which compute service runs code with no servers to provision or manage? AWS Lambda Developer Guide: What is AWS Lambda?
  • Which database service is a key-value and document database with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale? Overview of Amazon Web Services: Databases
  • Which fully managed data warehouse service works at petabyte scale? Amazon Redshift: What is Amazon Redshift?
  • Which fully managed service do data scientists use to build, train and deploy machine learning models? Amazon SageMaker AI: What is Amazon SageMaker AI?
  • Which kinds of data stores can AWS Database Migration Service migrate, by its user guide? AWS Database Migration Service: What is AWS Database Migration Service?
  • Which service is object storage, used to store any amount of data and protect it? Amazon S3 User Guide: What is Amazon S3?
  • Which service keeps the number of EC2 instances between a minimum and a maximum that you set? Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide: What is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?
  • Which service makes a relational database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL easier to set up, operate and scale? Amazon RDS User Guide: What is Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?
  • Which service monitors AWS resources and the applications on them in real time? Amazon CloudWatch User Guide: What is Amazon CloudWatch?
  • Which service provides serverless, fully elastic file storage that grows and shrinks as files are added and removed? Amazon Elastic File System: What is Amazon Elastic File System?
  • Which service registers domain names, routes DNS queries and checks the health of resources? Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide: What is Amazon Route 53?
  • Which storage service provides block storage volumes that attach to EC2 instances like a local hard drive? Amazon EBS User Guide: What is Amazon Elastic Block Store?
  • Which technology runs containers on Amazon ECS without managing servers or clusters of EC2 instances? Amazon Elastic Container Service: Architect for AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS
  • Which tool lets an administrator run commands against AWS services from a terminal? AWS Command Line Interface: What is the AWS Command Line Interface?

Billing, Pricing, and Support 8

  • A finance lead wants to view the last 13 months of AWS costs and a forecast of likely spending. Which tool shows both? AWS Cost Management: Analyzing your costs and usage with AWS Cost Explorer
  • A nightly batch job can stop and restart without harm. Which EC2 purchasing option uses unused EC2 capacity to cut its cost? Amazon EC2 User Guide: Amazon EC2 billing and purchasing options
  • Before building anything, a team wants an estimate of what a planned set of AWS services will cost. Which free tool creates it? AWS Pricing Calculator: What is AWS Pricing Calculator?
  • Every AWS account has Basic Support. What does it offer? AWS Support: AWS Support Plans
  • What does a customer commit to when buying a Savings Plan? Amazon EC2 User Guide: Amazon EC2 billing and purchasing options
  • What is one benefit of consolidated billing in AWS Organizations? AWS Billing: Consolidating billing for AWS Organizations
  • Which tool can alert a team when actual or forecasted spending passes an amount it has set? AWS Cost Management: Managing your costs with AWS Budgets
  • Which tool inspects an AWS environment and recommends ways to save money, improve availability and performance, or close security gaps? AWS Support: AWS Trusted Advisor

How this list was compiled: Own questions, written to the four content domains and weightings of the exam guide Amazon Web Services publishes for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-certification/latest/cloud-practitioner-02/cloud-practitioner-02.html (read 2026-10-09, with its four domain pages), with the exam length from https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-cloud-practitioner/ (read 2026-10-09). Facts were read on 2026-10-09 in AWS's public documentation at docs.aws.amazon.com and, where named, on aws.amazon.com. Each question names the page it was written from and links to it. Licence: Own work. Every question, wrong choice and explanation was written for this site from the task statements of the exam guide and the public AWS pages named in each question. Nothing is copied or reworded from an AWS exam, an AWS sample question or official practice question set, a practice product or a question dump.

How it works

This unofficial AWS Cloud Practitioner practice test has 65 of our own questions, spread over the four CLF-C02 domains by the exam guide's weights. It is not affiliated with Amazon Web Services, Inc., and nothing comes from the real exam.

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What the CLF-C02 exam asks

The exam guide, read on October 9, 2026, weights cloud concepts 24%, security and compliance 30%, cloud technology and services 34%, and billing, pricing and support 12%. AWS's certification page allows 90 minutes.

What is not asked here

AWS discontinues its Developer and Business support plans on January 1, 2027, so the support questions ask only about Basic Support. Prices are left out, and so are multiple-response questions.

  • AWS secures the cloud itself. The customer secures what it puts there, such as the guest operating system on an EC2 instance.
  • Every Region has three or more Availability Zones.
  • Cost Explorer shows up to 13 months of past costs. AWS Budgets alerts on actual or forecasted spend.

Questions and answers

How many questions are on the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam?

The certification page lists 65, multiple choice or multiple response. By the CLF-C02 exam guide, 50 are scored and 15 unscored ones are mixed in unmarked.

What score do you need to pass the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam?

700 on a scale of 100 to 1,000, according to the CLF-C02 exam guide. Because that is a scaled score, this page reports percent right and no pass or fail.

Who is the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam for?

The exam guide describes a candidate with at most 6 months' exposure to AWS Cloud design, implementation or operations, who may be early in a cloud career or work with people in cloud roles.

Is this AWS Cloud Practitioner practice test free?

Yes. Every question and explanation on this page is free, and no account or email address is asked for.

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