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Objective 3.1

CLF-C02

Define methods of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud.

Objective 3.1 sits in Cloud Technology and Services, which carries 34% of the Cloud Practitioner exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Amazon Web Services (AWS) page it rests on.

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A worked example

Shown solved, with the whole explanation open: this is what every question here carries.

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A team hand-builds the same Auto Scaling group, load balancer, and RDS instance in three Regions. Which service provisions all three from one template?

AWS ConfigConfig records how your resources are configured and evaluates them against rules. It reports drift after the fact rather than creating anything.
AWS CodeDeployCodeDeploy pushes application revisions onto instances that already exist. It answers how code reaches a fleet, not how the fleet gets built.
AWS Systems ManagerSystems Manager operates nodes you already have: patching, running commands, session access. That is day two work, after the stack is standing.
AWS CloudFormationCorrect · your answerCorrect. A CloudFormation template describes the AWS resources you want, and CloudFormation provisions and configures those resources for you.

Correct.

Checked against docs.aws.amazon.com, August 2026

Concept

Infrastructure as code moves the definition of an environment into a file you version, review and reapply. The provisioning engine reads that file and creates whatever it describes.

Why D

You describe the group, the balancer and the database once, then create a stack from that file in each Region. The order the resources have to come up in is worked out for you.

Source

When you use that template to create a CloudFormation stack, CloudFormation provisions the Auto Scaling group, load balancer, and database for you. After the stack has been successfully created, your AWS resources are up and running…

AWS Docs: What is AWS CloudFormation, checked August 2026
#cloudformation#infrastructure-as-code#deployment

Now you: objective 3.1 questions

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Sample question 1 of 3

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An operations team needs to run patch commands across hundreds of EC2 instances without bastion hosts or open SSH ports. Which service handles that?

Sample question 2 of 3

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You need to script routine AWS tasks from a bash shell, without writing application code. Which interface fits?

Sample question 3 of 3

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Several EC2 instances do not appear in the Systems Manager node list. What has to be true before an instance counts as a managed node?

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