CheckPoint 156-560 practice test

Check Point Certified Cloud Specialist (CCCS)

Last exam update: Feb 17 ,2026
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Question 1

Which of the following is the Customer's Responsibility in the shared responsibility model used in the
cloud?

  • A. Customer Employee Training
  • B. Infrastructure Patching
  • C. Physical and Environment Controls
  • D. Infrastructure Configuration
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Answer:

A


Explanation:
Customer Responsibilities: Customers are responsible for the data in their cloud (OS, updates,
security patches, data integrity of their apps, encryption, assent classficiation, IAM
> Guest OS and Application Patching and Configuration
> Customer Emploeyee Training
> Service, Communication and Data Security

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Question 2

Which of the following is a common limitation of cloud platforms?

  • A. Network address translations
  • B. Custom Route Tables
  • C. Identity and Access Management
  • D. Packet Forwarding
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A

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Question 3

Which Pillar includes the following principals
• Experiment more often
• Go Global in minutes-
• Use serverless architectures

  • A. Reliability
  • B. Cost Optimization
  • C. Performance Efficiency
  • D. Operational Excellence
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Answer:

C

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Question 4

The ability to support development and run workloads effectively is commonly called:

  • A. Performance Efficiency
  • B. Cost Optimization
  • C. Operational Excellence
  • D. Reliability
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C


Explanation:
The Operational Excellence pillar includes the ability to support development and run workloads
effectively, gain insight into their operations, and to continuously improve supporting processes and
procedures to deliver business value.

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Question 5

The framework for cloud security consists of five basic components, or pillars Making small,
reversible changes is a design principle of which of these five pillars

  • A. Reliability
  • B. Performance Efficiency
  • C. Cost Optimization
  • D. Operational Excellence
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Answer:

D


Explanation:
There are five design principles for operational excellence in the cloud:
Perform operations as code
Make frequent, small, reversible changes
Refine operations procedures frequently
Anticipate failure
Learn from all operational failures

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Question 6

The Administrators ability to protect data, systems, and assets While taking advantage of cloud
technologies is commonly called

  • A. Cost Optimization
  • B. Security
  • C. Operational Excellence
  • D. Performance Efficiency
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B


Explanation:
The security pillar encompasses the ability to protect data, systems, and assets to take advantage of
cloud technologies to improve your security.

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Question 7

What is Operational Excellence?

  • A. The ability of a Workload to function correctly and consistently in all expected
  • B. In terms of the cloud, security is about architecting every workload to prevent
  • C. The ability to use cloud resources efficiently for meeting system requirements, and maintaining that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve
  • D. The ability to support development and run workloads effectively
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Answer:

D


Explanation:
The Operational Excellence pillar includes the ability to support development and run workloads
effectively, gain insight into their operation, and continuously improve supporting processes and
procedures to delivery business value.

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Question 8

What is Reliability according to the Five Pillars?

  • A. The ability to use cloud resources efficiently for meeting system requirements, and maintaining that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve
  • B. The ability of a Workload to function correctly and consistently in all expected.
  • C. The ability to support development and run workload effectively
  • D. In terms of the cloud, security is about architecting every workload to prevent.
Mark Question:
Answer:

B


Explanation:
The Reliability pillar encompasses the ability of a workload to perform its intended function correctly
and consistently when it’s expected to. This includes the ability to operate and test the workload
through its total lifecycle. You can find prescriptive guidance on implementation in the
Reliability
Pillar whitepaper
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Question 9

Which is not a Pillar of the Framework for the Cloud?

  • A. Performance Efficiency
  • B. Cost Optimization
  • C. Scalability
  • D. Reliability
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C


Explanation:
https://emergencetek.com/aws-five-pillars-of-a-well-architected-
framework/#:~:text=AWS%20and%20their%20partners%20use,performance%20efficiency%2C%20a
nd%20cost%20optimization
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Question 10

What is Performance Efficiency?
A. The ability to use cloud resources efficiently for meeting system requirements, and maintaining
that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve
B. The ability to support development and run workloads effectively
C. In terms of the cloud, security is about architecting every workload to prevent
D. The ability of a Workload to function correctly and consistently in all expected

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Answer:

A
The Performance Efficiency pillar includes the ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet
system requirements, and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve.
You can find prescriptive guidance on implementation in the
Performance Efficiency Pillar
whitepaper
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Question 11

What is Cloud Security according to the Five Pillars?

  • A. The ability to support development and run workloads effectively
  • B. The ability of a Workload to function correctly and consistently in all expected
  • C. The ability to use cloud resources efficiently for meeting system requirements, and maintaining that efficiency as demands changes and technologies evolve
  • D. In terms of tie cloud, security is about architecting every workload to prevent
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Answer:

D

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Question 12

In a CloudGuard deployment, what does the acronym IAM stand for?

  • A. Information and Adaptability Measures
  • B. IP Address Management
  • C. Identity and Access Management
  • D. Instant Access Management
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C

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Question 13

Which cloud components specify the Workloads associated with traffic and tell load balancers which
Workloads are members of the same group?

  • A. Target Groups
  • B. Listening Rules
  • C. Dynamic assignment
  • D. Health Checks
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A

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Question 14

Which pricing model gives administrators the ability to deploy devices as needed without the need
to purchase blocks of vCore licenses?

  • A. Pay As You Go
  • B. Bring Your Own License
  • C. Central licensing
  • D. Local licensing
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A

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Question 15

The integration of cloud resources into the Security Policy requires establishing a secure connection
between_________________

  • A. The SDDC, CloudGuard Security Gateways, and the Security Management Server
  • B. The SDDC and CloudGuard Security Gateways.
  • C. The SDDC and the Security Management Server
  • D. CloudGuard Security Gateways and the Security Management Server
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A

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