Week 2 Quiz :AWS Cloud Technical Essentials(AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate) Answers 2025
1. Question 1
Which information is needed to create a VPC?
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❌ The Availability Zone
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❌ The subnet
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✅ The AWS Region that the VPC will reside in
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❌ The group of subnets
Explanation:
A VPC is created at Region level, not AZ or subnet level.
2. Question 2
A route table can be attached to:
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❌ AWS Accounts
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❌ Availability Zone
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✅ Subnets
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❌ Regions
Explanation:
Route tables are associated only with subnets.
3. Question 3
Resources in a public subnet need internet access:
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❌ Create a route to a private subnet
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❌ Attach an internet gateway to their VPC
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❌ Create a route to the internet gateway
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❌ A and B
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✅ B and C
Explanation:
A public subnet requires:
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Internet Gateway attached to VPC
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Route to IGW in route table
4. Question 4
What is Compute as a Service (CaaS)?
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❌ Requires manual VM provisioning
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✅ Provides virtual machines on demand via cloud
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❌ On-premises discount model
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❌ Delivers cloud apps (SaaS)
Explanation:
CaaS provides VM-based compute on demand.
5. Question 5
Default security group behavior
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❌ Allows all inbound, blocks outbound
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✅ Blocks all inbound, allows all outbound
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❌ Allows all traffic
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❌ Blocks all traffic
Explanation:
SG default = Inbound deny, Outbound allow.
6. Question 6
EC2 instance type indicates:
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✅ Instance family + instance size
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❌ Placement + size
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❌ Tenancy + billing
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❌ AMI + networking
Explanation:
Example: t3.micro → family t3, size micro.
7. Question 7
Difference between Fargate vs EC2 for ECS
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✅ With Fargate, AWS manages infrastructure for containers
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❌ With ECS on EC2, AWS manages EC2
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❌ With Fargate, users manage capacity
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❌ ECS on EC2 only needs source code
Explanation:
Fargate = serverless containers. EC2 = you manage servers.
8. Question 8
Which is true for serverless?
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❌ Must manage servers
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❌ Must manually scale
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✅ Do not pay for idle resources
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❌ Must manage availability
Explanation:
Serverless = auto scaling + pay-per-use.
9. Question 9
AWS Lambda is always best.
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❌ True
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✅ False
Explanation:
Lambda is great but not ideal for long-running, large workloads.
10. Question 10
EC2 provides:
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❌ Container services
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❌ Serverless
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✅ Virtual Machines (VMs)
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❌ Analytics
Explanation:
EC2 = VM-as-a-service.
11. Question 11
When do charges start?
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❌ Pending
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✅ Running
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❌ Stopped
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❌ Terminated
Explanation:
Billing starts when instance enters running state.
12. Question 12
Which part shows family + generation?
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❌ 4x
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❌ Large
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❌ 4xlarge
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✅ c5
Explanation:c = compute family, 5 = generation 5.
13. Question 13
Which runtime hosts containers on EC2?
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✅ Docker
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❌ Container
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❌ S3
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❌ EC2
Explanation:
Docker is the container runtime.
14. Question 14
Event invoking Lambda?
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❌ API call from IAM role
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✅ Upload file to S3 bucket
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❌ HTTP request to EC2 website
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❌ WordPress without APIs
Explanation:
S3 events can trigger Lambda automatically.
15. Question 15
Serverless = no server management
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✅ True
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❌ False
Explanation:
Users don’t manage servers in serverless.
16. Question 16
Do all AWS services need VPC?
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❌ True
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✅ False
Examples not requiring VPC: S3, SNS, DynamoDB, Lambda (optional).
17. Question 17
Configure network size using:
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✅ CIDR notation
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❌ IPv6
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❌ IPv4
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❌ IP addresses
Explanation:
VPC and subnet size = CIDR blocks.
18. Question 18
Difference between NACL and SG
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❌ NACL allow inbound, block outbound; SG block all
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❌ NACL block all; SG allow all
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❌ NACL block inbound, allow outbound; SG block all
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✅ NACL allow all inbound & outbound by default; SG block inbound & allow outbound
Explanation:
Default behavior:
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NACL: Allow all in/out
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SG: Deny inbound, allow outbound
🧾 Summary Table
| Q# | Correct Answer | Key Concept |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS Region | VPC creation |
| 2 | Subnets | Route table |
| 3 | B and C | Public subnet |
| 4 | On-demand VM compute | CaaS |
| 5 | Block inbound / allow outbound | Security group |
| 6 | Family + size | EC2 types |
| 7 | Fargate manages infra | ECS compute |
| 8 | No pay for idle | Serverless |
| 9 | False | Lambda suitability |
| 10 | Virtual Machines | EC2 |
| 11 | Running | Billing start |
| 12 | c5 | Instance family |
| 13 | Docker | Container runtime |
| 14 | S3 upload | Lambda trigger |
| 15 | True | Serverless mgmt |
| 16 | False | Not all need VPC |
| 17 | CIDR | Network sizing |
| 18 | NACL allow all; SG inbound deny | Security layers |