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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 financial services company runs periodic risk modeling simulations that are highly parallelizable and require a significant amount of compute power for a brief duration at the end of each month. Which of the following compute options would align BEST with the company's performance and cost-optimization needs?

  • Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

  • Amazon EC2 T3 instances

  • Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

  • Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts

Question 2 of 15

Using a database proxy can enable a more efficient connection pool management and reduce the database load caused by idle connections.

  • False

  • True

Question 3 of 15

Your application requires a managed storage solution to serve large media files to users globally with low latency. The files are accessed frequently and need to be updated in a write-once-read-many model. Which storage service is BEST suited to meet these requirements?

  • Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), due to its block storage capabilities suitable for high-performance workloads

  • Amazon S3, due to its global reach, durability, and integration with content delivery networks

  • Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), because of its file-based storage that can scale automatically to petabytes of data

  • Amazon Glacier, for long-term archival of data accessed infrequently

Question 4 of 15

A company has deployed a critical database-backed web application in the Northern Virginia region. The operational requirements dictate that the application must be able to recover from a region-wide service disruption and be operational within 4 hours, with data loss not exceeding 15 minutes. What disaster recovery approach would effectively meet these operational objectives?

  • Create a scaled-down version of the environment in a secondary region, backed up by snapshots on a daily schedule.

  • Regularly schedule snapshots of the database to a durable storage service with cross-region copying enabled.

  • Maintain a synchronous standby replica within the same geographical area to ensure instant failover without data loss.

  • Configure multi-regional deployment with data replication to a secondary region and establish a system for automated failover.

Question 5 of 15

Who is responsible for managing the encryption of sensitive data and configuring identity access policies when utilizing cloud computing services?

  • The cloud service provider

  • The Internet service provider of the customer

  • The cloud service customer

  • A third-party security services firm

Question 6 of 15

Which service should a Solutions Architect recommend for a developer who needs to troubleshoot bottlenecks in a distributed application with a series of microservices?

  • AWS Step Functions

  • AWS X-Ray

  • Amazon Inspector

  • Amazon CloudWatch

Question 7 of 15

A company requires a durable storage solution that can automatically scale storage capacity with increasing numbers of objects without manual intervention. Which AWS service should they use to meet these requirements?

  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

  • Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

  • Amazon DynamoDB

Question 8 of 15

A company is storing large volumes of financial records that are frequently accessed for the first month after creation and are then rarely accessed. Compliance requirements mandate that these records must be preserved for seven years before they can be deleted. Which storage solution would be the most cost-effective for these requirements?

  • Store all financial records in Amazon S3 Standard to ensure availability and quick access at all times.

  • Use Amazon S3 Standard for immediate storage, and transition to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive for long-term archival after one month.

  • Utilize Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access for both immediate and long-term storage.

  • Maintain the financial records on Amazon EFS for quick access and traditional file system interfaces.

Question 9 of 15

By default, all inbound traffic is allowed on a newly created security group in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

  • This statement is true.

  • This statement is false.

Question 10 of 15

It is required to manually move data between storage classes in Amazon S3 to implement storage tiering and reduce costs.

  • False.

  • True.

Question 11 of 15

An Application Load Balancer has the capability to route incoming traffic to multiple Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones within the same region based on the domain name specified in the Host header of the HTTP request.

  • False

  • True

Question 12 of 15

Your company is designing a new mobile gaming application that requires a database to maintain user profiles, game state data, and high score rankings with millisecond latency for read and write access. Data size is expected to be in the range of a few terabytes. The database must be capable of handling burstable read and write workloads that can scale automatically with the number of game users. Which database service should you use to optimize for performance and automatic scalability?

  • Amazon Redshift

  • Amazon DynamoDB

  • Amazon Aurora

  • Amazon RDS with MySQL

Question 13 of 15

Which service is designed to optimize resource allocation for applications, by adjusting the compute fleet size based on the demand?

  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

  • Amazon CloudWatch

  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

  • Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Question 14 of 15

A Solutions Architect has been tasked with dissecting cloud expenditure to allocate charges to the correct departments within an organization, each having its resources. The account used is shared among various teams. Which service would BEST facilitate this requirement for detailed financial governance?

  • NAT Gateway configured with detailed billing reports

  • Transfer for SFTP to track and charge back file transfer costs

  • Budgets with alerts for forecasted spend anomalies

  • Cost Explorer with implementation of categorization tags

Question 15 of 15

A multimedia company needs to host a popular online game that generates sporadic traffic spikes. The game’s data is accessed frequently with a requirement for low latency and fast read and write performance. Which storage solution should they use to optimize for high-performance demands?

  • Amazon EBS Throughput Optimized HDD (st1)

  • Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1/io2)

  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

  • Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)