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Build selected AWS CLF-C02 cloud foundations. Selected foundations; check coverage for the full scope.

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CARD 01 · Cloud Concepts

What distinguishes elastic capacity from a permanently running peak-sized fleet?

Reveal answer & explanation

Elastic capacity adjusts with demand, including reducing capacity when the additional need ends. A fixed spare fleet does not itself adjust.

Learn: Cloud value and cloud economics
CARD 02 · Security and Compliance

For a customer-managed EC2 instance, who manages security updates inside its guest OS?

Reveal answer & explanation

The customer. AWS infrastructure maintenance does not replace guest-OS or installed-application maintenance.

Learn: Shared responsibility changes with service abstraction
CARD 04 · Billing, Pricing, and Support

Which workload condition supports evaluating Spot rather than demanding uninterrupted capacity?

Reveal answer & explanation

Flexibility about timing and tolerance of interruption. No particular discount or available capacity follows from that fit alone.

Learn: Pricing choices and supplied-data cost reasoning
CARD 05 · Cloud technology and services

A stream must first be captured; stored S3 files later need occasional SQL. What distinct jobs are present?

Reveal answer & explanation

Kinesis Data Streams addresses continuous capture; Athena addresses interactive SQL analysis of the stored S3 data.

Learn: Analytics and AI: trace the input and required output
CARD 06 · Cloud Concepts

Which Well-Architected pillar concerns environmental impact and resource use?

Reveal answer & explanation

Sustainability. Identify the review’s controlling objective; one activity can also relate to other pillars.

Learn: Design principles and a bounded migration decision
CARD 07 · Security and Compliance

Which IAM question is not answered by successful authentication alone?

Reveal answer & explanation

Whether the identity is authorized to perform the requested action on the resource.

Learn: Identity, authentication, and least privilege
CARD 08 · Cloud Technology and Services

What explicit control requirement can support EC2 over the stated Event Function model?

Reveal answer & explanation

Customer guest-OS control or a mandatory persistent custom host component, rather than a universal cost claim.

Learn: Compute choices: control, events, and elasticity
CARD 09 · Billing, Pricing, and Support

Can Cost Explorer forecast, or is it limited to historical cost display?

Reveal answer & explanation

It can forecast as well as analyze recorded cost/usage. Recorded and forecast values still depend on available data and assumptions.

Learn: Estimate, observe, budget, and find technical help
CARD 11 · Security and Compliance

Which evidence-purpose distinction separates CloudWatch from CloudTrail in basic cases?

Reveal answer & explanation

CloudWatch supports operational performance/health/utilization observation; CloudTrail records supported account actions for activity auditing. These are purposes, not exclusive log capabilities.

Learn: Security evidence, monitoring, and compliance boundaries
CARD 12 · Cloud Technology and Services

Which storage interface matches a shared NFS file requirement?

Reveal answer & explanation

EFS shared file storage. S3 object access and EBS attached block volumes are different interface contracts.

Learn: Storage interface and lifecycle decisions

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