ExpertAWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03)
AWS SAA-C03 Practice Exam 6
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Comprehensive practice exam for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) certification. Covers all four domains: Secure Architectures, Resilient Architectures, High-Performing Architectures, and Cost-Optimized Architectures.
65
Questions
Mixed
Difficulty
72%
Pass mark
Difficulty breakdown
Easy(15)
Medium(37)
Hard(13)
Topics covered
Browse all topics →Domain 1.1: Secure AccessDomain 1.2: Secure WorkloadsDomain 1.3: Data SecurityDomain 2.1: Scalable ArchitecturesDomain 2.2: Highly Available ArchitecturesDomain 2.3: Decoupling MechanismsDomain 2.4: Resilient StorageDomain 3.1: Storage PerformanceDomain 3.2: Compute PerformanceDomain 3.3: Database PerformanceDomain 3.4: Network PerformanceDomain 3.5: Data IngestionDomain 4.1: Storage Cost OptimizationDomain 4.2: Compute Cost OptimizationDomain 4.3: Database Cost OptimizationDomain 4.4: Network Cost Optimization
Sample questions
Q01Medium1 mark
A company has multiple AWS accounts in an AWS Organizations organization. The security team wants to ensure that AWS CloudTrail is enabled across all accounts and cannot be disabled by any local account administrators.<br/><br/>What is the MOST secure way to achieve this?
Q02Medium1 mark
A company has two AWS accounts: Account A for development and Account B for production. Developers in Account A need to access an Amazon S3 bucket in Account B to read configuration files.<br/><br/>Which solution meets this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
Q03Easy1 mark
A mobile application needs to authenticate users using their social media accounts (Facebook, Google) and then grant them temporary access to upload photos directly to an Amazon S3 bucket.<br/><br/>Which AWS service combination should a solutions architect use?
Q04Medium1 mark
A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application needs to connect to an Amazon RDS for MySQL database. The company wants to avoid storing database credentials in the application code or configuration files.<br/><br/>Which solution meets these requirements MOST securely?
Q05Easy1 mark
A company has 50 AWS accounts managed by AWS Organizations. The IT team wants to implement a centralized authentication solution for their employees to access the AWS Management Console across all accounts using their existing on-premises Active Directory credentials.<br/><br/>Which AWS service should be used?
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Free to browse · no sign-up requiredQ01A company has multiple AWS accounts in an AWS Organizations organization. The security team wants to ensure that AWS ...MediumQ02A company has two AWS accounts: Account A for development and Account B for production. Developers in Account A need ...MediumQ03A mobile application needs to authenticate users using their social media accounts (Facebook, Google) and then grant ...EasyQ04A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application needs to connect to an Amazon RDS for My...MediumQ05A company has 50 AWS accounts managed by AWS Organizations. The IT team wants to implement a centralized authenticati...EasyQ06A company wants to restrict access to an Amazon S3 bucket so that only requests originating from a specific Amazon Vi...MediumQ07An application requires access to a third-party API using an API key. The security team mandates that the API key mus...MediumQ08A company hosts a web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The security tea...EasyQ09A solutions architect is designing the network security for a three-tier web application in a VPC. The architect need...MediumQ10A company wants to continuously monitor its AWS accounts for malicious activity, such as unusual API calls or unautho...EasyQ11An application running on EC2 instances in a private subnet needs to upload large files to Amazon S3. The security te...MediumQ12A healthcare company stores patient records in Amazon S3. The compliance team requires automated discovery and alerti...MediumQ13A financial institution requires 24/7 support and financial protection against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) a...HardQ14A company wants to inspect all outbound traffic from its VPC to the internet. The security team requires deep packet ...HardQ15An application encrypts data before writing it to a database. The company uses AWS KMS. To improve performance and re...HardQ16A financial company must store regulatory documents in Amazon S3. Compliance rules dictate that the documents must be...MediumQ17A company wants to ensure that all new Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes created in their AWS account are encr...EasyQ18A company has an unencrypted Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database. The security team mandates that the database must be...MediumQ19A government agency is migrating to AWS. They require dedicated hardware for cryptographic key generation and storage...HardQ20A developer is creating a new Amazon DynamoDB table and needs to ensure that all data is encrypted at rest. <br/><br/...EasyQ21A company is designing a real-time multiplayer game. The game servers run on EC2 instances. The architecture requires...MediumQ22An e-commerce application processes orders asynchronously. The order processing system must ensure that every order i...MediumQ23A company uses an Auto Scaling group (ASG) for its web servers. Traffic is highly unpredictable, but the company want...MediumQ24A startup is building a serverless web application. They need a fully managed service to create, publish, maintain, m...EasyQ25A company is migrating its microservices architecture to AWS. The microservices are packaged as Docker containers. Th...HardQ26A company is running a critical database on Amazon RDS for MySQL. The company requires high availability and automati...EasyQ27A company has a primary web application hosted in the us-east-1 region and a disaster recovery site in the us-west-2 ...MediumQ28A media company stores critical video assets in an Amazon S3 bucket in the eu-west-1 region. To protect against regio...MediumQ29A global enterprise requires a relational database that spans multiple AWS Regions. The database must provide sub-sec...HardQ30A company is building a serverless application using Amazon DynamoDB. The application will be deployed in three AWS R...MediumQ31An application allows users to upload images. When an image is uploaded, three separate backend processes need to run...MediumQ32A company wants to build an event-driven architecture. They need a central event bus that can ingest events from thei...HardQ33A company is automating its employee onboarding process. The process involves multiple steps: creating an IAM user, p...MediumQ34A company is building an IoT application that receives millions of sensor readings per minute. The data must be inges...HardQ35A company is migrating a legacy Linux application to AWS. The application requires a shared file system that can be a...MediumQ36A company has an on-premises data center and wants to use AWS for backup storage. They want to retain their existing ...MediumQ37A company is migrating a Windows-based application to AWS. The application relies on a shared file system using the S...EasyQ38A global media company allows users to upload large video files to an Amazon S3 bucket located in the us-east-1 regio...EasyQ39A database running on an EC2 instance requires an EBS volume. The database workload requires 10,000 IOPS. The company...MediumQ40A big data application runs on hundreds of EC2 instances and reads data from a shared Amazon EFS file system. The app...HardQ41A company is deploying a tightly coupled High Performance Computing (HPC) application on Amazon EC2. The application ...MediumQ42A developer has written an AWS Lambda function that processes images. The function currently takes 8 seconds to execu...MediumQ43A company has hundreds of EC2 instances. The operations team wants to ensure they are using the most optimal instance...EasyQ44A data science team is running machine learning training jobs on Amazon EC2. The jobs take days to complete. The team...HardQ45A popular news website uses an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database. During major news events, the database CPU utiliza...MediumQ46A gaming company uses Amazon DynamoDB to store player profiles. The game requires microsecond latency for read operat...MediumQ47A company is building a real-time leaderboard for a mobile game. The leaderboard requires sorting complex datasets, h...MediumQ48A data analytics team uses Amazon Redshift for complex queries. They have a large fact table and several small dimens...HardQ49A company hosts a static website on Amazon S3. Users in Australia are complaining that the website loads very slowly,...EasyQ50A company has a multiplayer gaming application that uses UDP traffic. The application is hosted in the eu-central-1 r...MediumQ51A large enterprise has 50 VPCs spread across multiple AWS Regions. They need to establish network connectivity betwee...HardQ52A company wants to collect application logs from hundreds of EC2 instances and deliver them to an Amazon S3 bucket fo...MediumQ53A data engineering team needs to extract data from an Amazon RDS database, transform the data by joining it with refe...MediumQ54A company stores millions of images in Amazon S3. The access patterns for these images are highly unpredictable; some...EasyQ55A hospital generates large amounts of patient data daily. The data is frequently accessed for the first 30 days. Afte...MediumQ56A company takes daily snapshots of its Amazon EBS volumes. The company has noticed that its EBS snapshot costs are gr...MediumQ57A company runs a batch processing workload on Amazon EC2. The workload can be interrupted and resumed without any dat...EasyQ58A company has a steady-state workload running on EC2 instances. They want to commit to a 3-year term to reduce costs....HardQ59A startup is deploying a containerized application using Amazon ECS. The application experiences unpredictable traffi...MediumQ60A company has a script that runs for 5 minutes every night at midnight to clean up database records. Currently, the s...EasyQ61A development team uses a relational database for a testing environment. The database is used heavily during business...MediumQ62A company is launching a new mobile app backed by Amazon DynamoDB. The marketing team expects a massive spike in traf...MediumQ63A company has been running a production Amazon RDS for MySQL database for two years. The database runs 24/7 and the c...MediumQ64An application running on EC2 instances in a private subnet frequently downloads large datasets from Amazon S3. The i...MediumQ65A company hosts a media-heavy website on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company is expe...Medium