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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 Information

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate showcases knowledge and skills in AWS technology, across a wide range of AWS services. The focus of this certification is on the design of cost and performance optimized solutions, demonstrating a strong understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This certification can enhance the career profile and earnings of certified individuals and increase your credibility and confidence in stakeholder and customer interactions.

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) exam is intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role. The exam validates a candidate’s ability to design solutions based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

The exam also validates a candidate’s ability to complete the following tasks:

  • Design solutions that incorporate AWS services to meet current business requirements and future projected needs
  • Design architectures that are secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost optimized
  • Review existing solutions and determine improvements

Free AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 Practice Test

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  • Questions: 15
  • Time: Unlimited
  • Included Topics:
    Design Secure Architectures
    Design Resilient Architectures
    Design High-Performing Architectures
    Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
Question 1 of 15

A business needs to serve their predominantly west coast customer base with a newly developed web platform while ensuring content is delivered with the least possible delay. Which solution would be most effective for reducing latency when accessing the platform's content?

  • Elastic Compute Instances scaled across multiple regions

  • A dedicated network connection between on-premises and cloud infrastructure

  • A message queuing service to decouple application components

  • Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Question 2 of 15

What is the impact on cost optimization when applying a throttling strategy to API requests within an AWS-hosted application?

  • It enhances application monitoring capabilities, resulting in preventative cost savings.

  • Throttling discourages use of the application, thereby reducing the number of compute resources required.

  • By slowing down request processing, throttling increases the execution duration and thereby reduces costs.

  • Throttling substantially decreases latency, thereby directly reducing compute resource usage and associated costs.

  • Throttling ensures that the infrastructure is not scaled up due to temporary spikes, avoiding increased costs associated with scaling.

  • Applying throttling converts the pricing model to a flat-rate billing, simplifying cost management.

Question 3 of 15

An application running in Amazon EC2 instances requires low-latency access to storage for high-performance transactional workloads. Which AWS storage service and configuration should you use to meet these requirements?

  • Use Amazon EBS Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) volumes.

  • Use Amazon EFS with General Purpose performance mode.

  • Use Amazon S3 Standard storage.

  • Use Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1 or io2) volumes.

Question 4 of 15

Your company has a legacy application that needs to store and retrieve files using common storage protocols. Which service should be implemented to integrate these capabilities with cloud-based storage?

  • Elastic Block Store

  • Storage Gateway

  • DataSync

  • FSx

Question 5 of 15

A company needs to transfer 50 TB of data from its on-premises data center to cloud storage for archival purposes within one week. They have a high-speed internet connection with 500 Mbps upload bandwidth but want to minimize transfer costs. Which method should they choose to transfer the data to the cloud storage?

  • Use a data transfer service to transfer the data over the Internet.

  • Upload the data over the Internet using command-line tools.

  • Establish a dedicated network connection and transfer the data directly.

  • Ship the data using a physical data transport appliance like Snowball Edge.

Question 6 of 15

What is the most cost-effective storage class for infrequently accessed objects which you intend to store for at least a year in Amazon S3?

  • Amazon EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2)

  • Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering

  • Amazon S3 Standard

  • Amazon S3 Glacier

Question 7 of 15

A company is deploying a web application that will experience unpredictable, spikey traffic, which may see sudden surges during marketing events. The application must automatically adjust its compute capacity to maintain performance. Which of the following solutions will BEST meet these requirements?

  • Deploy the application on a fixed-size group of Amazon EC2 instances sized for peak load

  • Implement an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with a target tracking scaling policy

  • Provision a single, large EC2 instance optimized for high compute power to handle the unexpected traffic

  • Use an Application Load Balancer without Auto Scaling to distribute traffic evenly to EC2 instances

Question 8 of 15

A financial technology company uses a NoSQL database service for storing real-time transactional data. They require a recovery mechanism that would allow them to retrieve their data to any given point within the last five weeks, in case of inadvertent deletions or corruptions. Which feature should be implemented to fulfill this operational demand?

  • Enable versioning on the database to allow for restoring previous versions of the data.

  • Implement the NoSQL database service's automated Point-In-Time Recovery feature.

  • Establish a routine for conducting continuous backups using a cloud-managed backup service.

  • Create a chronological sequence of data snapshots using the database's streaming feature.

Question 9 of 15

An organization is deploying a web application that relies primarily on delivering static content with minimal dynamic data processing. To optimize for cost while still providing the required compute resources, which Amazon EC2 instance type would be BEST suited for this application?

  • r5.2xlarge

  • t3.medium

  • m5.xlarge

  • c5.large

Question 10 of 15

Your company needs to securely receive files via SFTP from external clients. They want to avoid managing any servers and minimize operational overhead. Which managed service should you use to meet these requirements?

  • AWS Storage Gateway.

  • AWS Transfer Family.

  • Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration.

  • AWS DataSync.

Question 11 of 15

An enterprise requires a solution for their on-premises application to cache and efficiently access a frequently updated dataset that is primarily stored in Amazon S3. Which service should be implemented to reduce network latency when accessing these datasets?

  • AWS DataSync with a scheduled synchronization from Amazon S3 to the on-premises environment

  • Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) with an on-premises server caching layer

  • Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration with a dedicated cache infrastructure

  • AWS Storage Gateway with a File Gateway configuration

Question 12 of 15

A company uses multiple cloud accounts for different teams to isolate their resources. The company wants to enable team members from one account to access specific resources in another account while following security best practices and reducing management complexity. What is the MOST secure and efficient method to achieve this?

  • Set up an IAM role in the target account and allow users from the other account to assume the role.

  • Use the token service to generate temporary credentials and distribute them to the team needing access.

  • Establish a VPN connection between the accounts to share resources.

  • Create IAM users in the target account and share their credentials with the other team.

Question 13 of 15

Your enterprise is scaling and plans to create separate environments for various departments. To ensure centralized management, consistent application of compliance requirements, and an automated setup process for these environments, which service should you leverage?

  • AWS Organizations

  • Amazon Inspector

  • AWS Config

  • AWS Control Tower

Question 14 of 15

A healthcare company leverages a leading cloud service provider to host patient health data. Compliance standards require that the organization must have the ability to track who is accessing this data and any modifications made to it in real-time. Which tool would you choose to meet these stringent logging requirements?

  • Config

  • CloudTrail

  • Inspector

  • CloudWatch

Question 15 of 15

A financial analytics company expects their new web application to encounter unpredictable traffic, with occasional surges linked to market events. The engineering department must implement a solution that scales the computational resources up or down in response to changing demand, optimizing for cost-efficiency. Which service should they leverage for this scenario?

  • Lambda

  • Auto Scaling

  • Fargate with manual scaling setup

  • Elastic MapReduce (EMR) with scaling policies