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Free AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 Practice Test

Prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 exam with this free practice test. Randomly generated and customizable, this test allows you to choose the number of questions.

  • Questions: 15
  • Time: 15 minutes (60 seconds per question)
  • Included Objectives:
    Design Secure Architectures
    Design Resilient Architectures
    Design High-Performing Architectures
    Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
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Question 1 of 15

Your company has a collection of historical data that is rarely accessed but must be retained for legal and auditing purposes. Which Amazon S3 storage class is the most cost-effective choice for this use case?

  • Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering

  • Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

  • Amazon S3 Standard

  • Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access

Question 2 of 15

Which service is ideal for efficiently migrating large quantities of data from on-site locations to cloud-based storage, utilizing either the public internet or a dedicated network connection?

  • AWS Glue

  • Amazon Kinesis

  • AWS DataSync

  • AWS Transfer Family

Question 3 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

  • AWS Control Tower

  • AWS Config

  • Amazon Inspector

Question 4 of 15

You need to migrate your company's on-premises relational database to AWS to improve scalability and availability while controlling costs. The on-premises database is currently experiencing variable loads and would benefit from an AWS service that adjusts its compute capacity based on the incoming load and does not require heavy database administration overhead. Which database service should you choose to optimize for cost and manageability?

  • Amazon Redshift

  • Amazon RDS with Reserved Instances

  • Amazon Aurora Serverless

  • Amazon DynamoDB with auto-scaling enabled

Question 5 of 15

A company has sensitive customer data that must be encrypted at rest in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company must also comply with regulatory requirements that mandate the periodic rotation of encryption keys. Which solution fulfills these requirements and is considered the BEST practice?

  • Enable Server-Side Encryption with AWS CloudHSM-Managed Keys on the S3 bucket.

  • Enable Server-Side Encryption with AWS KMS-Managed Keys (SSE-KMS) on the S3 bucket and leverage automatic key rotation in AWS KMS.

  • Implement Server-Side Encryption with Amazon S3-Managed Keys (SSE-S3) on the S3 bucket.

  • Enable Server-Side Encryption with Customer-Provided Keys (SSE-C) on the S3 bucket and rotate the keys periodically with a custom solution.

Question 6 of 15

Which service feature should you use to manage a large number of concurrent database connections that often experience unpredictable spikes in connection requests, while ensuring minimal changes to the existing applications?

  • Amazon RDS Proxy

  • AWS Direct Connect

  • Amazon ElastiCache

  • Elastic Load Balancing

Question 7 of 15

Which capability enables users to append labels to cloud resources to facilitate detailed tracking and categorization of spending?

  • Account outlines

  • Resource packs

  • Budget alerts

  • Cost allocation tags

Question 8 of 15

A firm has introduced a suite of containerized services, each exhibiting unique patterns of consumption and incurring different operational costs, which need to be reported and analyzed separately by the accounting department every month. To facilitate precise tracking and enable predictive budgeting, which tool should the organization employ to itemize and scrutinize monthly spending for each service?

  • The cloud provider's legacy monthly cost estimation tool

  • The cloud provider's budget management service

  • The cloud provider's consumption and usage reporting service

  • A third-party business intelligence tool with data visualization capability

  • The cloud provider's detailed billing and cost management service

  • The cloud provider's comprehensive pricing calculator

Question 9 of 15

A company is deploying a web application that consists of a web tier serving static content, an application tier for dynamic processing, and a database tier for data persistence. The application needs to handle unpredictable traffic and maintain high availability. Which of the following architectural designs is MOST suitable for meeting these requirements?

  • Use Amazon S3 to serve static content, Auto Scaling groups for the application tier, and Amazon RDS with Multi-AZ deployment for data persistence.

  • Deploy a single Amazon EC2 instance in each tier including the web, application, and database tiers for simpler manageability and cost savings.

  • Utilize Amazon CloudFront for the web tier, AWS Lambda for the application tier, and Amazon DynamoDB for the database tier to ensure serverless scalability.

  • Use Amazon EC2 with Elastic Load Balancing for all tiers, and handle data persistence by replicating data between multiple EC2 instances in different regions.

Question 10 of 15

A company is using AWS to host their databases. They are required by regulatory standards to maintain backups for seven years. The databases are not modified frequently. How should the company set up their backup and retention policy to optimize costs?

  • Take backups every hour and keep them in Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access for the full seven years.

  • Take daily backups and transition the backups to Amazon Glacier Deep Archive after 30 days for long-term storage.

  • Take weekly backups and store them in Amazon S3 Standard for seven years without transitioning to any other storage class.

  • Take daily backups and store all of them in Amazon S3 Standard for the required seven-year retention period.

Question 11 of 15

Which service provides user authentication and access control for web and mobile applications, enabling the integration of sign-up and sign-in functionalities?

  • Amazon GuardDuty

  • Amazon Key Management Service

  • Amazon Cognito

  • Amazon Identity and Access Management

Question 12 of 15

Amazon S3 stores data in a structured format with a rigid schema that must be defined in advance, making it ideal for relational database operations.

  • False

  • True

Question 13 of 15

Which database service is optimized for read-heavy workloads requiring milliseconds response times and supports both document and key-value data models?

  • Amazon Neptune

  • Amazon Redshift

  • Amazon RDS

  • Amazon DynamoDB

Question 14 of 15

An emerging fintech startup requires a database solution for processing and storing large volumes of financial transaction records. Transactions must be quickly retrievable based on the transaction ID, and new records are ingested at a high velocity throughout the day. Consistency is important immediately after transaction write. The startup is looking to minimize costs while ensuring the database can scale to meet growing demand. Which AWS database service should the startup utilize?

  • Amazon DynamoDB with on-demand capacity

  • Amazon DocumentDB

  • Amazon Neptune

  • Amazon RDS with Provisioned IOPS

Question 15 of 15

Which service should be utilized to manage user sign-up and sign-in functionalities, along with federated authentication, for a mobile application that requires integration with social login providers?

  • AWS Control Tower

  • Amazon Cognito

  • Amazon GuardDuty

  • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)