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AWS Certified Solution Architect -Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect -Associate Practice Exam

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25 Marks

70 % Pass

25 Question

35 Mins Time

Test your knowledge with 25 AWS practice questions that reflect the difficulty of the real AWS exam

This free AWS practice exam includes a mix of questions on core AWS services covering multiple knowledge areas

You need to get 18 out of the 25 Practice Questions right to pass this free AWS practice test.

Welcome to your AWS (SAA-C02) Free Practice Test

Exam Instructions

The exam comprises of the following types of questions: - Multiple Choice Single Response - Multiple Choice Multiple Response
There is no negative marking.

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A solutions architect needs to design a managed storage solution for a company's application that includes high-performance machine learning. This application runs on AWS Fargate and the connected storage needs to have concurrent access to files and deliver high performance. Which storage option should the solutions architect recommend?

A. Create an Amazon S3 bucket for the application and establish an IAM role for Fargate to communicate with Amazon S3.

B. Create an Amazon FSx for Lustre file share and establish an IAM role that allows Fargate to communicate with FSx for Lustre.

C. Create an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file share and establish an IAM role that allows Fargate to communicate with Amazon EFS.

D. Create an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume for the application and establish an IAM role that allows Fargate to communicate with Amazon EBS.

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A bicycle sharing company is developing a multi-tier architecture to track the location of its bicycles during peak operating hours. The company wants to use these data points in its existing analytics platform A solutions architect must determine the most viable multi-tier option to support this architecture. The data points must be accessible from the REST API. Which action meets these requirements for storing and retrieving location data?

A. Use Amazon Athena with Amazon S3

B. Use Amazon API Gateway with AWS Lambda

C. Use Amazon QuickSight with Amazon Redshift

D. Use Amazon API Gateway with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

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A solutions architect is deploying a distributed database on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The database stores all data on multiple instances so it can withstand the loss of an instance. The database requires block storage with latency and throughput to support several million transactions per second per server. Which storage solution should the solutions architect use?

A. Amazon EBS

B. Amazon EC2 instance store

C. Amazon EFS

D. Amazon S3

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A solutions architect needs the static website within an Amazon S3 bucket. A solutions architect needs to ensure that data can be recovered in case of accidental deletion. Which action will accomplish this?

A. Enable Amazon S3 versioning

B. Enable Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering.

C. Enable an Amazon S3 lifecycle policy

D. Enable Amazon S3 cross-Region replication.

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A client reports that they want see an audit log of any changes made to AWS resources in their account.What can the client do to achieve this?

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A. Set up Amazon CloudWatch monitors on services they own

B. Enable AWS CloudTrail logs to be delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket

C. Use Amazon CloudWatch Events to parse logs

D. Use AWS OpsWorks to manage their resources

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A company creates business-critical 3D images every night. The images are batch-processed every Friday and require an uninterrupted 48 hours to complete. What is the MOST cost-effective Amazon EC2 pricing model for this scenario?

A. On-Demand Instances

B. Scheduled Reserved Instances

C. Reserved Instances

D. Spot Instances

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A company has a legacy application that processes data in two parts. The second part of the process takes longer than the first, so the company has decided to rewrite the application as two microservices running on Amazon ECS that can scale independently. How should a solutions architect integrate the microservices?

A. Implement code in microservice 1 to send data to an Amazon S3 bucket. Use S3 event notifications to invoke microservice 2.

B. Implement code in microservice 1 to publish data to an Amazon SNS topic. Implement code in microservice 2 to subscribe to this topic.

C. Implement code in microservice 1 to send data to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. Implement code in microservice 2 to read from Kinesis Data Firehose.

D. Implement code in microservice 1 to send data to an Amazon SQS queue. Implement code in microservice 2 to process messages from the queue.

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A company allows its developers to attach existing IAM policies to existing IAM roles to enable faster experimentation and agility. However the security operations team is concerned that the developers could attach the existing administrator policy, which would allow the developers to circumvent any other security policies. How should a solutions architect address this issue?

A. Create an Amazon SNS topic to send an alert every time a developer creates a new policy

B. Use service control policies to disable IAM activity across all accounts in the organizational unit

C. Prevent the developers from attaching any policies and assign all IAM duties to the security operations team

D. Set an IAM permissions boundary on the developer IAM role that explicitly denies attaching the administrator policy

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You are migrating an internal server on your DC to an EC2 instance with EBS volume. Your server disk usage is around 500GB so you just copied all your data to a 2TB disk to be used with AWS Import/Export. Where will the data be imported once it arrives at Amazon?

A. to a 2TB EBS volume

B. to an S3 bucket with 2 objects of 1TB

C. to an 500GB EBS volume

D. to an S3 bucket as a 2TB snapshot

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Your manager has just given you access to multiple VPN connections that someone else has recently set up between all your company's offices. She needs you to make sure that the communication between the VPNs is secure. Which of the following services would be best for providing a low-cost hub-and-spoke model for primary or backup connectivity between these remote offices?

A. Amazon CloudFront

B. AWS Direct Connect

C. AWS CloudHSM

D. AWS VPN CloudHub

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You are checking the workload on some of your General Purpose (SSD) and Provisioned IOPS (SSD) volumes and it seems that the I/O latency is higher than you require. You should probably check the _____________ to make sure that your application is not trying to drive more IOPS than you have provisioned.

A. Amount of IOPS that are available

B. Acknowledgement from the storage subsystem

C. Average queue length

D. Time it takes for the I/O operation to complete

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12.

A company must re-evaluate its need for the Amazon EC2 instances it currently has provisioned in an Auto Scaling group. At present, the Auto Scaling group is configured for minimum of two instances and a maximum of four instances across two Availability zones. A Solutions architect reviewed Amazon CloudWatch metrics and found that CPU utilization is consistently low for the EC2 instances. What should the solutions architect recommend to maximize utilization while ensuring the application remains fault tolerant?

A. Remove some EC2 instances to increase the utilization of remaining instances.

B. Increase the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) capacity of instances with less CPU utilization.

C. Modify the Auto Scaling group scaling policy to scale in and out based on a higher CPU utilization metric.

D. Create a new launch configuration that uses smaller instance types. Update the existing Auto Scaling group.

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A company has multiple AWS accounts, for various departments. One of the departments wants to share an Amazon S3 bucket with all other department. Which solution will require the LEAST amount of effort-?

A. Enable cross-account S3 replication for the bucket

B. Create a pre signed URL tor the bucket and share it with other departments

C. Set the S3 bucket policy to allow cross-account access to other departments

D. Create IAM users for each of the departments and configure a read-only IAM policy

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A company has data stored in an on-premises data center that is used by several on-premises applications. The company wants to maintain its existing application environment and be able to use AWS services for data analytics and future visualizations. Which storage service should a solutions architect recommend?

A. Amazon Redshift.

B. AWS Storage Gateway for files.

C. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

D. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

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A company is building a website that relies on reading and writing to an Amazon DynamoDB database. The traffic associated with the website predictably peaks during business hours on weekdays and declines overnight and during weekends A solutions architect needs to design a cost-effective solution that can handle the load. What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A. Enable DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) to cache the data.

B. Enable Multi-AZ replication for the DynamoDB database.

C. Enable DynamoDB auto scaling when creating the tables.

D. Enable DynamoDB On-Demand capacity allocation when creating the tables.

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A company uses Amazon Redshift for its data warehouse. The company wants to ensure high durability for its data in case of any component failure. What should a solutions architect recommend?

A. Enable concurrency scaling.

B. Enable cross-Region snapshots.

C. Increase the data retention period.

D. Deploy Amazon Redshift in Multi-AZ.

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17.

A company has no existing file share services. A new project requires access to file storage that is mountable as a drive for on-premises desktops. The file server must authenticate usrs to an Activ Directory domain before they are able to access the storage. Which service will allow Active Directory users to mount storage as a drive on their desktops?

A. AWS S3 Glacier

B. AWS DataSync

C. AWS Snowball Edge

D. AWS Storage Gateway

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18.

A company is building a document storage application on AWS. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones. The company requires the document store to be highly available. The documents need to be returned immediately when requested. The lead engineer has configured the application to use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) to store the documents, but is willing to consider other options to meet the availability requirement. What should a solutions architect recommend?

A. Snapshot the EBS volumes regularly and build new volumes using those snapshots in additional Availability Zones.

B. Use Amazon EBS for the EC2 instance root volumes. Configure the application to build the document store on Amazon S3.

C. Use Amazon EBS for the EC2 instance root volumes. Configure the application to build the document store on Amazon S3 Glacier.

D. Use at least three Provisioned IOPS EBS volumes for EC2 instances. Mount the volumes to the EC2 instances in a RAID 5 configuration.

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A company is moving its on-premises applications to Amazon EC2 instances. However, as a result of fluctuating compute requirements, the EC2 instances must always be ready to use between 8 AM and 5 PM in specific Availability Zones. Which EC2 instances should the company choose to run the applications?

A. Scheduled Reserved Instances

B. On-Demand Instances

C. Spot Instances as part of a Spot Fleet

D. EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group

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20.

A solutions architect is designing a new API using Amazon API Gateway that will receive requests from users. The volume of requests is highly variable; several hours can pass without receiving a single request. The data processing will take place asynchronously, but should be completed within a few seconds after a request is made. Which compute service should the solutions architect have the API invoke to deliver the requirements at the lowest cost?

A. An AWS Glue job

B. An AWS Lambda function

C. A containerized service hosted in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

D. A containerized service hosted in Amazon ECS with Amazon EC2

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21.

A company hosts its web application on AWS using seven Amazon EC2 instances. The company requires that the IP addresses of all healthy EC2 instances be returned in response to DNS queries. Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?

A. Simple routing policy

B. Latency routing policy

C. Multivalue routing policy

D. Geolocation routing policy

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22.

A company with a single AWS account runs its internet-facing containerized web application on an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster. The EKS cluster is placed in a private subnet of a VPC. System administrators access the EKS cluster through a bastion host on a public subnet. A new corporate security policy requires the company to avoid the use of bastion hosts. The company also must not allow internet connectivity to the EKS cluster.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A. Set up an AWS Direct Connect connection.

B. Create a transit gateway.

C. Establish a VPN connection.

D. Use AWS Storage Gateway.

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A solutions architect is designing an VPC that requires access to a remote API server using IPv6 Resources within the VPC should not be accessed directly from the internet. How should this be achieved?

A. Use a NAT gateway and deny public access us ng security groups.

B. Attach an egress-only internet gateway and update the routing tables

C. Use a NAT gateway and update the routing tables

D. Attach an internet gateway and deny public access using security groups

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A company runs a legacy application with a single-tier architecture on an Amazon EC2 instance Disk I/O is low. With occasional small spikes during business hours. The company requires the instance to be stopped from 8 PM to 8 AM daily. Which storage option is MOST appropriate for this workload?

A. Amazon EC2 instance storage

B. Amazon EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) storage

C. Amazon S3

D. Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) storage

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25.

A solutions architect is investigating AWS file storage solutions that can be used with a company's on-premises Linux servers and applications. The company has an existing VPN connection set up between the company's VPC and its on-premises network. Which AWS services should the solutions architect use? (Select TWO )

A. AWS Backup

B. AWS DataSync

C. AWS Snowball Edge

D. AWS Storage Gateway

E. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

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