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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification - Part 53

Mary Smith

Wed, 21 Jan 2026

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification - Part 53

1. Which AWS service can be used to query stored datasets directly from Amazon S3 using standard SQL?

A) A. AWS Glue
B) B. AWS Data Pipeline
C) C. Amazon CloudSearch
D) D. Amazon Athena



2. AWS CloudFormation is designed to help the user:

A) A. model and provision resources.
B) B. update application code.
C) C. set up data lakes.
D) D. create reports for billing



3. Which of the following is an AWS database service?

A) A. Amazon Redshift
B) B. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
C) C. Amazon S3 Glacier
D) D. AWS Snowball



4. A Cloud Practitioner must determine if any security groups in an AWS account have been provisioned to allowunrestricted access for specific ports.What is the SIMPLEST way to do this?

A) A. Review the inbound rules for each security group in the Amazon EC2 management console to check forport 0.0.0.0/0.
B) B. Run AWS Trusted Advisor and review the findings.
C) C. Open the AWS IAM console and check the inbound rule filters for open access.
D) D. In AWS Config, create a custom rule that invokes an AWS Lambda function to review rules for inboundaccess.



5. What are the benefits of developing and running a new application in the AWS Cloud compared to on-premises? (Choose two.)(Select 2answers)

A) A. AWS automatically distributes the data globally for higher durability.
B) B. AWS will take care of operating the application.
C) C. AWS makes it easy to architect for high availability.
D) D. AWS can easily accommodate application demand changes.
E) E. AWS takes care application security patching.


1. Right Answer: D
Explanation: Amazon Athena is defined as 'an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyse data directly inAmazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. So, it's another SQL query engine forlarge data sets stored in S3. This is very similar to other SQL query engines, such as Apache Drill. But unlikeApache Drill, Athena is limited to data only from Amazon's own S3 storage service. However, Athena is able toquery a variety of file formats, including, but not limited to CSV, Parquet, JSON, etc

2. Right Answer: A
Explanation: AWS CloudFormation provides a common language for you to model and provision AWS and third partyapplication resources in your cloud environment. AWS CloudFormation allows you to use programminglanguages or a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resourcesneeded for your applications across all regions and accounts. This gives you a single source of truth for yourAWS and third party resources.https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/

3. Right Answer: A
Explanation: https://www.sisense.com/glossary/redshift-database/

4. Right Answer: B
Explanation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/ec2-security-groups.html

5. Right Answer: C,D
Explanation:

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