How many questions are on the AWS SAA-C03 exam?

The AWS SAA-C03 exam contains 65 questions (scored) to be completed in 130 minutes. Questions are multiple choice (one correct answer) or multiple response (two or more correct answers).

What is the passing score for the AWS SAA-C03?

The AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam requires a minimum score of 720 out of 1000 to pass.

What domains does the AWS SAA-C03 cover?

The exam covers four domains: Design Secure Architectures (30%), Design Resilient Architectures (26%), Design High-Performing Architectures (24%), and Design Cost-Optimized Architectures (20%).

How long is the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification valid?

AWS certifications are valid for 3 years. Recertification is achieved by passing the same exam or a higher-level AWS exam.

AWS SAA-C03 Practice Exam 5 — Free 65-Question AWS SAA-C03 Practice Test

Q01A company needs to grant an external auditor read-only access to specific AWS resources. The auditor has their own AW...Easy

Q02An application running on EC2 instances needs to access objects in an S3 bucket. The security team mandates that no h...Medium

Q03A company is designing a VPC for a multi-tier web application. They need to block specific malicious IP addresses fro...Medium

Q04A large enterprise uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts. The security team wants to ensure that no user...Hard

Q05A company hosts a web application on an Application Load Balancer (ALB). They are experiencing SQL injection attacks ...Medium

Q06A financial company requires that all data stored in Amazon S3 is encrypted at rest using keys managed by the company...Hard

Q07Which AWS service provides intelligent threat detection by continuously monitoring for malicious activity and unautho...Easy

Q08An application needs to connect to an Amazon RDS database. The database credentials must be encrypted, stored securel...Medium

Q09A company requires that all AWS API calls are logged. They also need to mathematically prove that the log files have ...Medium

Q10A mobile application needs to authenticate users using their social media accounts (Google, Facebook). Once authentic...Medium

Q11A government agency is setting up a hybrid cloud architecture. They require a dedicated network connection from their...Hard

Q12A financial institution must store regulatory documents in Amazon S3 for 7 years. During this time, the documents can...Medium

Q13A company wants to automatically discover and classify sensitive data, such as Personally Identifiable Information (P...Easy

Q14A company is hosting a secure web application. They need to terminate SSL/TLS connections and protect the application...Medium

Q15A company has 50 AWS accounts managed by AWS Organizations. They want to provide their employees with single sign-on ...Medium

Q16An application in a private subnet needs to access an Amazon DynamoDB table. Traffic must not traverse the public int...Medium

Q17A company has an unencrypted Amazon RDS MySQL database. A new compliance mandate requires that the database must be e...Medium

Q18A security team wants a centralized view of security alerts and compliance status across all their AWS accounts. They...Easy

Q19A company needs to inspect all outbound traffic from their VPC to the internet. They want to block traffic to known m...Easy

Q20A company uses AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to provision SSL/TLS certificates for their Application Load Balancers. ...Medium

Q21A company runs a critical database on Amazon RDS for MySQL. They need to ensure the database remains available even i...Easy

Q22An e-commerce application processes orders asynchronously. It is critical that orders are processed exactly once and ...Medium

Q23A web application runs on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Sometimes...Medium

Q24A global application is deployed in the us-east-1 and eu-west-1 regions. Users should be routed to the region that pr...Hard

Q25A company wants to build an event-driven architecture. When a new object is uploaded to an S3 bucket, multiple indepe...Medium

Q26A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for their critical application. They require a Recovery Time...Hard

Q27A company stores critical documents in Amazon S3. They need to protect against accidental deletion or overwriting of ...Easy

Q28A fleet of EC2 instances running Linux needs to access a shared file system concurrently. The file system must scale ...Medium

Q29An application requires a complex workflow involving multiple AWS Lambda functions. The workflow includes branching l...Medium

Q30A company needs to ingest real-time clickstream data from their website. The data needs to be buffered and then loade...Medium

Q31A global financial application requires a relational database. The database must span multiple AWS Regions to provide...Hard

Q32A gaming company needs a NoSQL database to store player profiles. The game is played globally, and players must exper...Medium

Q33A company wants to back up their on-premises file servers to AWS. They want to keep frequently accessed files locally...Easy

Q34An application processes messages from an Amazon SQS queue. Occasionally, a malformed message causes the processing a...Medium

Q35A company exposes a REST API using Amazon API Gateway. During peak hours, backend services are overwhelmed by sudden ...Medium

Q36A company is deploying a containerized application using Amazon ECS. The application must be highly available and res...Hard

Q37An application is hosted on an on-premises server and an EC2 instance. A solutions architect needs to configure DNS f...Medium

Q38A media company serves large video files to users globally. Users in regions far from the origin server are experienc...Easy

Q39A gaming leaderboard application requires an in-memory data store to handle millions of requests per second with sub-...Medium

Q40A database running on an EC2 instance requires block storage. The workload is highly transactional and requires susta...Medium

Q41An application uses Amazon DynamoDB as its backend database. The application is experiencing high read traffic for a ...Hard

Q42A company needs to upload 100 GB files to an Amazon S3 bucket from locations around the world. The uploads are curren...Medium

Q43A high-performance computing (HPC) application requires tightly coupled EC2 instances with the lowest possible networ...Hard

Q44A company has an application hosted in the us-west-2 region. Global users are experiencing high latency due to intern...Easy

Q45A reporting application runs heavy analytical queries against an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database. These queries ar...Medium

Q46A company has petabytes of structured data stored in Amazon S3. They want to run complex SQL queries across this data...Medium

Q47A machine learning application processes thousands of small files concurrently from an Amazon EFS file system. The ap...Medium

Q48A company has 50 VPCs across multiple AWS Regions. They need to establish network connectivity between all VPCs and t...Hard

Q49A company is streaming IoT sensor data into Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. They need to calculate rolling averages of t...Medium

Q50A research facility needs to transfer 50 Terabytes of data to AWS. Their internet connection is 100 Mbps and is heavi...Easy

Q51A serverless application uses AWS Lambda. During sudden traffic spikes, users experience high latency because Lambda ...Medium

Q52A company needs to extract data from various databases, transform it, and load it into a data warehouse. They want a ...Medium

Q53An application downloads large video files from Amazon S3. Users often skip to the middle of a video. To improve perf...Medium

Q54A company stores millions of images in Amazon S3. The access patterns are unpredictable; some images are accessed dai...Easy

Q55A company runs a batch processing job every night. The job takes 3 hours to complete. The workload is fault-tolerant ...Medium

Q56A company has a steady-state workload running on EC2 instances. They want to commit to a 1-year term to reduce costs....Medium

Q57A company has hundreds of EC2 instances in private subnets that frequently access Amazon S3 to download large dataset...Hard

Q58A startup is building a new application with an unpredictable workload. The database will experience periods of high ...Medium

Q59A company generates daily log files that are stored in Amazon S3. The logs are frequently accessed for the first 30 d...Hard

Q60A company has hundreds of EC2 instances. The finance team noticed that EC2 costs are very high. They suspect many ins...Easy

Q61A new mobile game uses Amazon DynamoDB. The game is expected to go viral, but the exact traffic patterns and peak loa...Medium

Q62A company hosts a website on EC2 instances. They are paying high AWS Data Transfer Out charges because users are down...Medium

Q63A company takes daily EBS snapshots of their EC2 instances. Over time, the storage costs for these snapshots have gro...Medium

Q64A company has a multi-tier application. The web servers are in a public subnet in Availability Zone A, and the databa...Hard

Q65A company uses Amazon Macie to scan S3 buckets for sensitive data. They have a bucket containing 50 TB of historical ...Medium

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