Free AWS SAA-C03 Practice Questions & Answers 2026 Part1

Question #1

A hospital recently deployed a RESTful API with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The hospital uses API Gateway and Lambda to upload reports that are in PDF format and JPEG format. The hospital needs to modify the Lambda code to identify protected health information (PHI) in the reports.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Use existing Python libraries to extract the text from the reports and to identify the PHI from the extracted text

B. Use Amazon Textract to extract the text from the reports

C. Use Amazon Textract to extract the text from the reports

D. Use Amazon Rekognition to extract the text from the reports

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Correct Answer: C

Question #2

A development team needs to host a website that will be accessed by other teams. The website contents consist of HTML, CSS, client-side JavaScript, and images.Which method is the MOST cost-effective for hosting the website?

A. Containerize the website and host it in AWS Fargate

B. Create an Amazon S3 bucket and host the website there

C. Deploy a web server on an Amazon EC2 instance to host the website

D. Configure an Application Load Balancer with an AWS Lambda target that uses the Express

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Correct Answer: B

Question #3

An application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in a VPC. The application processes logs that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. The EC2 instance needs to access the S3 bucket without connectivity to the internet.Which solution will provide private network connectivity to Amazon S3?

A. reate a gateway VPC endpoint to the S3 bucket

B. tream the logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs

C. reate an instance profile on Amazon EC2 to allow S3 access

D. reate an Amazon API Gateway API with a private link to access the S3 endpoint

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Correct Answer: A

Question #4

A company provides a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service that uses UDP connections. The service consists of Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group. The company has deployments across multiple AWS Regions.The company needs to route users to the Region with the lowest latency. The company also needs automated failover between Regions.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Deploy a Network Load Balancer (NLB) and an associated target group

B. Deploy an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and an associated target group

C. Deploy a Network Load Balancer (NLB) and an associated target group

D. Deploy an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and an associated target group

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Correct Answer: A

Question #5

A company runs a shopping application that uses Amazon DynamoDB to store customer information. In case of data corruption, a solutions architect needs to design a solution that meets a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 hour.What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

A. Configure DynamoDB global tables

B. Configure DynamoDB point-in-time recovery

C. Export the DynamoDB data to Amazon S3 Glacier on a daily basis

D. Schedule Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots for the DynamoDB table every 15 minutes

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Correct Answer: B

Question #6

A company runs an on-premises application on a Kubernetes cluster. The company recently added millions of new customers. The company's existing on-premises infrastructure is unable to handle the large number of new customers.

A. Use a self-managed node to supply compute capacity

B. Use managed node groups to supply compute capacity

C. Use AWS Fargate to supply compute capacity

D. Use managed node groups with Karpenter to supply compute capacity

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Correct Answer: C

Question #7

A company is migrating a distributed application to AWS. The application serves variable workloads. The legacy platform consists of a primary server that coordinates jobs across multiple compute nodes. The company wants to modernize the application with a solution that maximizes resiliency and scalability.How should a solutions architect design the architecture to meet these requirements?

A. Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue as a destination for the jobs

B. Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue as a destination for the jobs

C. Implement the primary server and the compute nodes with Amazon EC2 instances that are managed in an Auto Scaling group

D. Implement the primary server and the compute nodes with Amazon EC2 instances that are managed in an Auto Scaling group

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Correct Answer: B

Question #8

A company wants to reduce the cost of its existing three-tier web architecture. The web, application, and database servers are running on Amazon EC2 instances for the development, test, and production environments. The EC2 instances average 30% CPU utilization during peak hours and 10% CPU utilization during non-peak hours.The production EC2 instances run 24 hours a day. The development and test EC2 instances run for at least 8 hours each day. The company plans to implement automation to stop the development and test EC2 instances when they are not in use.Which EC2 instance purchasing solution will meet the company's requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A. Use Spot Instances for the production EC2 instances

B. Use Reserved Instances for the production EC2 instances

C. Use Spot blocks for the production EC2 instances

D. Use On-Demand Instances for the production EC2 instances

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Correct Answer: B

Question #9

A development team needs to host a website that will be accessed by other teams. The website contents consist of HTML, CSS, client-side JavaScript, and images.Which method is the MOST cost-effective for hosting the website?

A. Containerize the website and host it in AWS Fargate

B. Create an Amazon S3 bucket and host the website there

C. Deploy a web server on an Amazon EC2 instance to host the website

D. Configure an Application Load Balancer with an AWS Lambda target that uses the Express

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Correct Answer: B

Question #10

A company needs guaranteed Amazon EC2 capacity in three specific Availability Zones in a specific AWS Region for an upcoming event that will last 1 week.What should the company do to guarantee the EC2 capacity?

A. Purchase Reserved Instances that specify the Region needed

B. Create an On-Demand Capacity Reservation that specifies the Region needed

C. Purchase Reserved Instances that specify the Region and three Availability Zones needed

D. Create an On-Demand Capacity Reservation that specifies the Region and three Availability Zones needed

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Correct Answer: D

Question #11

A solutions architect is using Amazon S3 to design the storage architecture of a new digital media application. The media files must be resilient to the loss of an Availability Zone. Some files are accessed frequently while other files are rarely accessed in an unpredictable pattern. The solutions architect must minimize the costs of storing and retrieving the media files.Which storage option meets these requirements?

A. S3 Standard

B. S3 Intelligent-Tiering

C. S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)

D. S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)

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Correct Answer: B

Question #12

A company has an Amazon S3 data lake that is governed by AWS Lake Formation. The company wants to create a visualization in Amazon QuickSight by joining the data in the data lake with operational data that is stored in an Amazon Aurora MySQL database. The company wants to enforce column-level authorization so that the company's marketing team can access only a subset of columns in the database.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. se Amazon EMR to ingest the data directly from the database to the QuickSight SPICE engine

B. se a Lake Formation blueprint to ingest the data from the database to the S3 data lake

C. se AWS Glue Studio to ingest the data from the database to the S3 data lake

D. se AWS Glue Elastic Views to create a materialized view for the database in Amazon S3

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Correct Answer: B

Question #13

A company wants to run its critical applications in containers to meet requirements for scalability and availability. The company prefers to focus on maintenance of the critical applications. The company does not want to be responsible for provisioning and managing the underlying infrastructure that runs the containerized workload.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A. Use Amazon EC2 instances, and install Docker on the instances

B. Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on Amazon EC2 worker nodes

C. Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate

D. Use Amazon EC2 instances from an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)-optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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Correct Answer: C

Question #14

A company's application integrates with multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) sources for data collection. The company runs Amazon EC2 instances to receive the data and to upload the data to an Amazon S3 bucket for analysis. The same EC2 instance that receives and uploads the data also sends a notification to the user when an upload is complete. The company has noticed slow application performance and wants to improve the performance as much as possible.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Create an Auto Scaling group so that EC2 instances can scale out

B. Create an Amazon AppFlow flow to transfer data between each SaaS source and the S3 bucket

C. Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule for each SaaS source to send output data

D. Create a Docker container to use instead of an EC2 instance

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Correct Answer: B

Question #15

A company hosts an application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The application processes messages from an Amazon SQS queue, writes to an Amazon RDS table, and deletes the message from the queue. Occasional duplicate records are found in the RDS table. The SQS queue does not contain any duplicate messages.What should a solutions architect do to ensure messages are being processed once only?

A. Use the CreateQueue API call to create a new queue

B. Use the AddPermission API call to add appropriate permissions

C. Use the ReceiveMessage API call to set an appropriate wait time

D. Use the ChangeMessageVisibility API call to increase the visibility timeout

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Correct Answer: D

Question #16

A company hosts its multi-tier applications on AWS. For compliance, governance, auditing, and security, the company must track configuration changes on its AWS resources and record a history of API calls made to these resources.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A. Use AWS CloudTrail to track configuration changes and AWS Config to record API calls

B. Use AWS Config to track configuration changes and AWS CloudTrail to record API calls

C. Use AWS Config to track configuration changes and Amazon CloudWatch to record API calls

D. Use AWS CloudTrail to track configuration changes and Amazon CloudWatch to record API calls

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Correct Answer: B

Question #17

A company has a three-tier web application that is deployed on AWS. The web servers are deployed in a public subnet in a VPC. The application servers and database servers are deployed in private subnets in the same VPC. The company has deployed a third-party virtual firewall appliance from AWS Marketplace in an inspection VPC. The appliance is configured with an IP interface that can accept IP packets.A solutions architect needs to integrate the web application with the appliance to inspect all traffic to the application before the traffic reaches the web server.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Create a Network Load Balancer in the public subnet of the application's VPC to route the traffic to the appliance for packet inspection

B. Create an Application Load Balancer in the public subnet of the application's VPC to route the traffic to the appliance for packet inspection

C. Deploy a transit gateway in the inspection VPConfigure route tables to route the incoming packets through the transit gateway

D. Deploy a Gateway Load Balancer in the inspection VPC

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Correct Answer: D

Question #18

A company is developing a two-tier web application on AWS. The company's developers have deployed the application on an Amazon EC2 instance that connects directly to a backend Amazon RDS database. The company must not hardcode database credentials in the application. The company must also implement a solution to automatically rotate the database credentials on a regular basis.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Store the database credentials in the instance metadata

B. Store the database credentials in a configuration file in an encrypted Amazon S3 bucket

C. Store the database credentials as a secret in AWS Secrets Manager

D. Store the database credentials as encrypted parameters in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store

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Correct Answer: C

Question #19

A company has an application that ingests incoming messages. Dozens of other applications and microservices then quickly consume these messages. The number of messages varies drastically and sometimes increases suddenly to 100,000 each second. The company wants to decouple the solution and increase scalability.Which solution meets these requirements?

A. Persist the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

B. Deploy the ingestion application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group to scale the number of EC2 instances based on CPU metrics

C. Write the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with a single shard

D. Publish the messages to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic with multiple Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) subscriptions

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Correct Answer: D

Question #20

A company recently launched a variety of new workloads on Amazon EC2 instances in its AWS account. The company needs to create a strategy to access and administer the instances remotely and securely. The company needs to implement a repeatable process that works with native AWS services and follows the AWS Well-Architected Framework.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Use the EC2 serial console to directly access the terminal interface of each instance for administration

B. Attach the appropriate IAM role to each existing instance and new instance

C. Create an administrative SSH key pair

D. Establish an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection

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Correct Answer: B

Question #21

A company is migrating applications to AWS. The applications are deployed in different accounts. The company manages the accounts centrally by using AWS Organizations. The company's security team needs a single sign-on (SSO) solution across all the company's accounts. The company must continue managing the users and groups in its on-premises self-managed Microsoft Active Directory.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Enable AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) from the AWS SSO console

B. Enable AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) from the AWS SSO console

C. Use AWS Directory Service

D. Deploy an identity provider (IdP) on premises

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Correct Answer: B

Question #22

A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new application being deployed on AWS. The process should run in parallel while adding and removing application nodes as needed based on the number of jobs to be processed. The processor application is stateless. The solutions architect must ensure that the application is loosely coupled and the job items are durably stored.Which design should the solutions architect use?

A. Create an Amazon SNS topic to send the jobs that need to be processed

B. Create an Amazon SQS queue to hold the jobs that need to be processed

C. Create an Amazon SQS queue to hold the jobs that need to be processed

D. Create an Amazon SNS topic to send the jobs that need to be processed

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Correct Answer: C

Question #23

A company runs multiple Windows workloads on AWS. The company's employees use Windows file shares that are hosted on two Amazon EC2 instances. The file shares synchronize data between themselves and maintain duplicate copies. The company wants a highly available and durable storage solution that preserves how users currently access the files.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A. Migrate all the data to Amazon S3

B. Set up an Amazon S3 File Gateway

C. Extend the file share environment to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server with a Multi-AZ configuration

D. Extend the file share environment to Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) with a Multi-AZ configuration

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Correct Answer: C

Question #24

A company uses Amazon S3 to store its confidential audit documents. The S3 bucket uses bucket policies to restrict access to audit team IAM user credentials according to the principle of least privilege. Company managers are worried about accidental deletion of documents in the S3 bucket and want a more secure solution.What should a solutions architect do to secure the audit documents?

A. Enable the versioning and MFA Delete features on the S3 bucket

B. Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) on the IAM user credentials for each audit team IAM user account

C. Add an S3 Lifecycle policy to the audit team's IAM user accounts to deny the s3:DeleteObject action during audit dates

D. Use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt the S3 bucket and restrict audit team IAM user accounts from accessing the KMS key

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Correct Answer: A

Question #25

A company hosts a data lake on AWS. The data lake consists of data in Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The company needs a reporting solution that provides data visualization and includes all the data sources within the data lake. Only the company's management team should have full access to all the visualizations. The rest of the company should have only limited access.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Create an analysis in Amazon QuickSight

B. Create an analysis in Amazon QuickSight

C. Create an AWS Glue table and crawler for the data in Amazon S3

D. Create an AWS Glue table and crawler for the data in Amazon S3

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Correct Answer: B

Question #26

A company uses an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to host an API. The EC2 instances are in a target group that is associated with an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company stores data in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database.The API has a weekly maintenance window. The company must ensure that the API returns a static maintenance response during the weekly maintenance window.Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. reate a listener rule on the ALB to return a maintenance response when the path on a request matches a wildcard

B. reate an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue

C. reate a table in Aurora PostgreSQL that has fields to contain keys and values

D. reate an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic Subscribe the EC2 instances to the topic Publish a message to the topic when the maintenance window starts

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Correct Answer: A

Question #27

A company has thousands of edge devices that collectively generate 1 TB of status alerts each day. Each alert is approximately 2 KB in size. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to ingest and store the alerts for future analysis.The company wants a highly available solution. However, the company needs to minimize costs and does not want to manage additional infrastructure. Additionally, the company wants to keep 14 days of data available for immediate analysis and archive any data older than 14 days.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

A. Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to ingest the alerts

B. Launch Amazon EC2 instances across two Availability Zones and place them behind an Elastic Load Balancer to ingest the alerts

C. Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to ingest the alerts

D. Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) standard queue to ingest the alerts, and set the message retention period to 14 days

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Correct Answer: A

Question #28

A company runs an online marketplace web application on AWS. The application serves hundreds of thousands of users during peak hours. The company needs a scalable, near-real-time solution to share the details of millions of financial transactions with several other internal applications. Transactions also need to be processed to remove sensitive data before being stored in a document database for low-latency retrieval.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

A. Store the transactions data into Amazon DynamoDB

B. Stream the transactions data into Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to store data in Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3

C. Stream the transactions data into Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

D. Store the batched transactions data in Amazon S3 as files

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Correct Answer: C

Question #29

A company hosts its multi-tier applications on AWS. For compliance, governance, auditing, and security, the company must track configuration changes on its AWS resources and record a history of API calls made to these resources.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A. se AWS CloudTrail to track configuration changes and AWS Config to record API calls

B. se AWS Config to track configuration changes and AWS CloudTrail to record API calls

C. se AWS Config to track configuration changes and Amazon CloudWatch to record API calls

D. se AWS CloudTrail to track configuration changes and Amazon CloudWatch to record API calls

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Correct Answer: B

Question #30

A company is running a business-critical web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group. The application uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database that is deployed in a single Availability Zone. The company wants the application to be highly available with minimum downtime and minimum loss of data.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?

A. Place the EC2 instances in different AWS Regions

B. Configure the Auto Scaling group to use multiple Availability Zones

C. Configure the Auto Scaling group to use one Availability Zone

D. Configure the Auto Scaling group to use multiple AWS Regions

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Correct Answer: B

Question #31

A company's dynamic website is hosted using on-premises servers in the United States. The company is launching its product in Europe, and it wants to optimize site loading times for new European users. The site's backend must remain in the United States. The product is being launched in a few days, and an immediate solution is needed.What should the solutions architect recommend?

A. Launch an Amazon EC2 instance in us-east-1 and migrate the site to it

B. Move the website to Amazon S3

C. Use Amazon CloudFront with a custom origin pointing to the on-premises servers

D. Use an Amazon Route 53 geoproximity routing policy pointing to on-premises servers

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Correct Answer: C

Question #32

A solutions architect is developing a VPC architecture that includes multiple subnets. The architecture will host applications that use Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon RDS DB instances. The architecture consists of six subnets in two Availability Zones. Each Availability Zone includes a public subnet, a private subnet, and a dedicated subnet for databases. Only EC2 instances that run in the private subnets can have access to the RDS databases.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Create a new route table that excludes the route to the public subnets' CIDR blocks

B. Create a security group that denies inbound traffic from the security group that is assigned to instances in the public subnets

C. Create a security group that allows inbound traffic from the security group that is assigned to instances in the private subnets

D. Create a new peering connection between the public subnets and the private subnets

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Correct Answer: C

Question #33

A company hosts an application on AWS Lambda functions that are invoked by an Amazon API Gateway API. The Lambda functions save customer data to an Amazon Aurora MySQL database. Whenever the company upgrades the database, the Lambda functions fail to establish database connections until the upgrade is complete. The result is that customer data is not recorded for some of the event.A solutions architect needs to design a solution that stores customer data that is created during database upgrades.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Provision an Amazon RDS proxy to sit between the Lambda functions and the database

B. Increase the run time of the Lambda functions to the maximum

C. Persist the customer data to Lambda local storage

D. Store the customer data in an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queue

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Correct Answer: D

Question #34

A company runs a shopping application that uses Amazon DynamoDB to store customer information. In case of data corruption, a solutions architect needs to design a solution that meets a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 hour.What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

A. Configure DynamoDB global tables

B. Configure DynamoDB point-in-time recovery

C. Export the DynamoDB data to Amazon S3 Glacier on a daily basis

D. Schedule Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots for the DynamoDB table every 15 minutes

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Correct Answer: B

Question #35

A company hosts an application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The application processes messages from an Amazon SQS queue, writes to an Amazon RDS table, and deletes the message from the queue. Occasional duplicate records are found in the RDS table. The SQS queue does not contain any duplicate messages.What should a solutions architect do to ensure messages are being processed once only?

A. Use the CreateQueue API call to create a new queue

B. Use the AddPermission API call to add appropriate permissions

C. Use the ReceiveMessage API call to set an appropriate wait time

D. Use the ChangeMessageVisibility API call to increase the visibility timeout

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Correct Answer: D

Question #36

A company wants to reduce the cost of its existing three-tier web architecture. The web, application, and database servers are running on Amazon EC2 instances for the development, test, and production environments. The EC2 instances average 30% CPU utilization during peak hours and 10% CPU utilization during non-peak hours.The production EC2 instances run 24 hours a day. The development and test EC2 instances run for at least 8 hours each day. The company plans to implement automation to stop the development and test EC2 instances when they are not in use.Which EC2 instance purchasing solution will meet the company's requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A. Use Spot Instances for the production EC2 instances

B. Use Reserved Instances for the production EC2 instances

C. Use Spot blocks for the production EC2 instances

D. Use On-Demand Instances for the production EC2 instances

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Correct Answer: B

Question #37

A company stores call transcript files on a monthly basis. Users access the files randomly within 1 year of the call, but users access the files infrequently after 1 year. The company wants to optimize its solution by giving users the ability to query and retrieve files that are less than 1-year-old as quickly as possible. A delay in retrieving older files is acceptable.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A. Store individual files with tags in Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval

B. Store individual files in Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering

C. Store individual files with tags in Amazon S3 Standard storage

D. Store individual files in Amazon S3 Standard storage

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Correct Answer: B

Question #38

A company stores sensitive financial reports in an Amazon S3 bucket. To comply with auditing requirements, the company must encrypt the data at rest. Users must not have the ability to change the encryption method or remove encryption when the users upload data. The company must be able to audit all encryption and storage actions. Which solution will meet these requirements and provide the MOST granular control?

A. nable default server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3)

B. se client-side encryption before uploading the reports

C. nable default server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3) for the S3 bucket

D. onfigure server-side encryption with AWS KMS (SSE-KMS) keys

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Correct Answer: D

Question #39

A company has thousands of edge devices that collectively generate 1 TB of status alerts each day. Each alert is approximately 2 KB in size. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to ingest and store the alerts for future analysis.The company wants a highly available solution. However, the company needs to minimize costs and does not want to manage additional infrastructure. Additionally, the company wants to keep 14 days of data available for immediate analysis and archive any data older than 14 days.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

A. Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to ingest the alerts

B. Launch Amazon EC2 instances across two Availability Zones and place them behind an Elastic Load Balancer to ingest the alerts

C. Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to ingest the alerts

D. Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) standard queue to ingest the alerts, and set the message retention period to 14 days

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Correct Answer: A

Question #40

A company wants to move a multi-tiered application from on premises to the AWS Cloud to improve the application's performance. The application consists of application tiers that communicate with each other by way of RESTful services. Transactions are dropped when one tier becomes overloaded. A solutions architect must design a solution that resolves these issues and modernizes the application.Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally efficient?

A. Use Amazon API Gateway and direct transactions to the AWS Lambda functions as the application layer

B. Use Amazon CloudWatch metrics to analyze the application performance history to determine the servers' peak utilization during the performance failures

C. Use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to handle the messaging between application servers running on Amazon EC2 in an Auto Scaling group

D. Use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to handle the messaging between application servers running on Amazon EC2 in an Auto Scaling group

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Correct Answer: A

Question #41

An application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in a VPC. The application processes logs that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. The EC2 instance needs to access the S3 bucket without connectivity to the internet.Which solution will provide private network connectivity to Amazon S3?

A. Create a gateway VPC endpoint to the S3 bucket

B. Stream the logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs

C. Create an instance profile on Amazon EC2 to allow S3 access

D. Create an Amazon API Gateway API with a private link to access the S3 endpoint

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Correct Answer: A

Question #42

A company is migrating a distributed application to AWS. The application serves variable workloads. The legacy platform consists of a primary server that coordinates jobs across multiple compute nodes. The company wants to modernize the application with a solution that maximizes resiliency and scalability.How should a solutions architect design the architecture to meet these requirements?

A. Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue as a destination for the jobs

B. Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue as a destination for the jobs

C. Implement the primary server and the compute nodes with Amazon EC2 instances that are managed in an Auto Scaling group

D. Implement the primary server and the compute nodes with Amazon EC2 instances that are managed in an Auto Scaling group

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Correct Answer: B

Question #43

A company is developing an application that provides order shipping statistics for retrieval by a REST API. The company wants to extract the shipping statistics, organize the data into an easy-to-read HTML format, and send the report to several email addresses at the same time every morning.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A. Configure the application to send the data to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

B. Use Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to format the data and to send the report by email

C. Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) scheduled event that invokes an AWS Glue job to query the application's API for the data

D. Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) scheduled event that invokes an AWS Lambda function to query the application's API for the data

E. Store the application data in Amazon S3

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Correct Answer: BD

Question #44

A company has a production workload that runs on 1,000 Amazon EC2 Linux instances. The workload is powered by third-party software. The company needs to patch the third-party software on all EC2 instances as quickly as possible to remediate a critical security vulnerability.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A. Create an AWS Lambda function to apply the patch to all EC2 instances

B. Configure AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to apply the patch to all EC2 instances

C. Schedule an AWS Systems Manager maintenance window to apply the patch to all EC2 instances

D. Use AWS Systems Manager Run Command to run a custom command that applies the patch to all EC2 instances

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Correct Answer: D

Question #45

A company hosts its web applications in the AWS Cloud. The company configures Elastic Load Balancers to use certificates that are imported into AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). The company's security team must be notified 30 days before the expiration of each certificate.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?

A. Add a rule in ACM to publish a custom message to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic every day, beginning 30 days before any certificate will expire

B. Create an AWS Config rule that checks for certificates that will expire within 30 days

C. Use AWS Trusted Advisor to check for certificates that will expire within 30 days

D. Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule to detect any certificates that will expire within 30 days

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Correct Answer: B

Question #46

A hospital recently deployed a RESTful API with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The hospital uses API Gateway and Lambda to upload reports that are in PDF format and JPEG format. The hospital needs to modify the Lambda code to identify protected health information (PHI) in the reports.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Use existing Python libraries to extract the text from the reports and to identify the PHI from the extracted text

B. Use Amazon Textract to extract the text from the reports

C. Use Amazon Textract to extract the text from the reports

D. Use Amazon Rekognition to extract the text from the reports

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Correct Answer: C

Question #47

A company is running a popular social media website. The website gives users the ability to upload images to share with other users. The company wants to make sure that the images do not contain inappropriate content. The company needs a solution that minimizes development effort.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A. Use Amazon Comprehend to detect inappropriate content

B. Use Amazon Rekognition to detect inappropriate content

C. Use Amazon SageMaker to detect inappropriate content

D. Use AWS Fargate to deploy a custom machine learning model to detect inappropriate content

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Correct Answer: B

Question #48

A website uses EC2 instances with Auto Scaling and EFS. How can the company optimize costs?

A. Reconfigure the Auto Scaling group to set a desired number of instances

B. Create a new launch template version that uses larger EC2 instances

C. Reconfigure the Auto Scaling group to use a target tracking scaling policy

D. Replace the EFS volume with instance store volumes

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Correct Answer: C

Question #49

A company has a data ingestion workflow that consists of the following:• An Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for notifications about new data deliveries• An AWS Lambda function to process the data and record metadataThe company observes that the ingestion workflow fails occasionally because of network connectivity issues. When such a failure occurs, the Lambda function does not ingest the corresponding data unless the company manually reruns the job.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to ensure that the Lambda function ingests all data in the future? (Choose two.)

A. Deploy the Lambda function in multiple Availability Zones

B. Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue, and subscribe it to the SNS topic

C. Increase the CPU and memory that are allocated to the Lambda function

D. Increase provisioned throughput for the Lambda function

E. Modify the Lambda function to read from an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue

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Correct Answer: BE

Question #50

A company performs monthly maintenance on its AWS infrastructure. During these maintenance activities, the company needs to rotate the credentials for its Amazon RDS for MySQL databases across multiple AWS Regions.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Store the credentials as secrets in AWS Secrets Manager

B. Store the credentials as secrets in AWS Systems Manager by creating a secure string parameter

C. Store the credentials in an Amazon S3 bucket that has server-side encryption (SSE) enabled

D. Encrypt the credentials as secrets by using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) multi-Region customer managed keys

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Correct Answer: A

Question #51

A company recently launched a variety of new workloads on Amazon EC2 instances in its AWS account. The company needs to create a strategy to access and administer the instances remotely and securely. The company needs to implement a repeatable process that works with native AWS services and follows the AWS Well-Architected Framework.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Use the EC2 serial console to directly access the terminal interface of each instance for administration

B. Attach the appropriate IAM role to each existing instance and new instance

C. Create an administrative SSH key pair

D. Establish an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection

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Correct Answer: B

Question #52

A company plans to run a high performance computing (HPC) workload on Amazon EC2 Instances The workload requires low-latency network performance and high network throughput with tightly coupled node- to-node communication.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. aunch the EC2 instances as Spot Instances

B. onfigure an On-Demand Capacity Reservation when the EC2 instances are launched

C. onfigure the EC2 instances to be part of a cluster placement group

D. aunch the EC2 instances with Dedicated Instance tenancy

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Correct Answer: C

Question #53

A company is implementing a new business application. The application runs on two Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon S3 bucket for document storage. A solutions architect needs to ensure that the EC2 instances can access the S3 bucket.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

A. Create an IAM role that grants access to the S3 bucket

B. Create an IAM policy that grants access to the S3 bucket

C. Create an IAM group that grants access to the S3 bucket

D. Create an IAM user that grants access to the S3 bucket

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Correct Answer: A

Question #54

A company is preparing to launch a public-facing web application in the AWS Cloud. The architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances within a VPC behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). A third-party service is used for the DNS. The company's solutions architect must recommend a solution to detect and protect against large-scale DDoS attacks.Which solution meets these requirements?

A. nable Amazon GuardDuty on the account

B. nable Amazon Inspector on the EC2 instances

C. nable AWS Shield and assign Amazon Route 53 to it

D. nable AWS Shield Advanced and assign the ELB to it

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Correct Answer: D

Question #55

A company has an application that ingests incoming messages. Dozens of other applications and microservices then quickly consume these messages. The number of messages varies drastically and sometimes increases suddenly to 100,000 each second. The company wants to decouple the solution and increase scalability.Which solution meets these requirements?

A. ersist the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

B. eploy the ingestion application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group to scale the number of EC2 instances based on CPU metrics

C. rite the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with a single shard

D. ublish the messages to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic with multiple Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) subscriptions

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Correct Answer: D

Question #56

A company is launching a new application and will display application metrics on an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard. The company's product manager needs to access this dashboard periodically. The product manager does not have an AWS account. A solutions architect must provide access to the product manager by following the principle of least privilege.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Share the dashboard from the CloudWatch console

B. Create an IAM user specifically for the product manager

C. Create an IAM user for the company's employees

D. Deploy a bastion server in a public subnet

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Correct Answer: A

Question #57

A company recently launched Linux-based application instances on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet and launched a Linux-based bastion host on an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subnet of a VPC. A solutions architect needs to connect from the on-premises network, through the company's internet connection, to the bastion host, and to the application servers. The solutions architect must make sure that the security groups of all the EC2 instances will allow that access.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A. Replace the current security group of the bastion host with one that only allows inbound access from the application instances

B. Replace the current security group of the bastion host with one that only allows inbound access from the internal IP range for the company

C. Replace the current security group of the bastion host with one that only allows inbound access from the external IP range for the company

D. Replace the current security group of the application instances with one that allows inbound SSH access from only the private IP address of the bastion host

E. Replace the current security group of the application instances with one that allows inbound SSH access from only the public IP address of the bastion host

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Correct Answer: CD

Question #58

Question:A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. Each department in the company has its own AWS account. A security team needs to implement centralized governance and control to enforce security best practices across all accounts. The team wants to have control over which AWS services each account can use. The team needs to restrict access to sensitive resources based on IP addresses or geographic regions. The root user must be protected with multi-factor authentication (MFA) across all accounts.Options:

A. se AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage IAM users and IAM roles in each account

B. se AWS IAM Identity Center to manage user access and to enforce service restrictions by using permissions boundaries in each account

C. se AWS Control Tower to establish a multi-account environment

D. se AWS Systems Manager to enforce service restrictions across multiple accounts

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Correct Answer: C

Question #59

A company is hosting a web application on AWS using a single Amazon EC2 instance that stores user-uploaded documents in an Amazon EBS volume. For better scalability and availability, the company duplicated the architecture and created a second EC2 instance and EBS volume in another Availability Zone, placing both behind an Application Load Balancer. After completing this change, users reported that, each time they refreshed the website, they could see one subset of their documents or the other, but never all of the documents at the same time.What should a solutions architect propose to ensure users see all of their documents at once?

A. opy the data so both EBS volumes contain all the documents

B. onfigure the Application Load Balancer to direct a user to the server with the documents

C. opy the data from both EBS volumes to Amazon EFS

D. onfigure the Application Load Balancer to send the request to both servers

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Correct Answer: C

Question #60

A development team needs to host a website that will be accessed by other teams. The website contents consist of HTML, CSS, client-side JavaScript, and images.Which method is the MOST cost-effective for hosting the website?

A. ontainerize the website and host it in AWS Fargate

B. reate an Amazon S3 bucket and host the website there

C. eploy a web server on an Amazon EC2 instance to host the website

D. onfigure an Application Load Balancer with an AWS Lambda target that uses the Express

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Correct Answer: B

Question #61

A company wants to run its critical applications in containers to meet requirements for scalability and availability. The company prefers to focus on maintenance of the critical applications. The company does not want to be responsible for provisioning and managing the underlying infrastructure that runs the containerized workload.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A. Use Amazon EC2 instances, and install Docker on the instances

B. Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on Amazon EC2 worker nodes

C. Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate

D. Use Amazon EC2 instances from an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)-optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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Correct Answer: C

Question #62

A company needs the ability to analyze the log files of its proprietary application. The logs are stored in JSON format in an Amazon S3 bucket Queries will be simple and will run on - demand A solutions architect needs to perform the analysis with minimal changes to the existing architecture What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

A. Use Amazon Redshift to load all the content into one place and run the SQL queries as needed

B. Use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to store the logs Run SQL queries as needed from the Amazon CloudWatch console

C. Use Amazon Athena directly with Amazon S3 to run the queries as needed

D. Use AWS Glue to catalog the logs Use a transient Apache Spark cluster on Amazon EMR to run the SQL queries as needed

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Correct Answer: C

Question #63

A company runs an ecommerce application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The Auto Scaling group scales based on CPU utilization metrics. The ecommerce application stores the transaction data in a MySQL 8.0 database that is hosted on a large EC2 instance.The database's performance degrades quickly as application load increases. The application handles more read requests than write transactions. The company wants a solution that will automatically scale the database to meet the demand of unpredictable read workloads while maintaining high availability.

A. se Amazon Aurora with a Multi-AZ deployment

B. se Amazon ElastiCache (Memcached) with EC2 Spot Instances

C. se Amazon RDS with a Single-AZ deployment

D. se Amazon Redshift with a single node for leader and compute functionality

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Correct Answer: A

Question #64

A company has a VPC with multiple private subnets that host multiple applications. The applications must not be accessible to the internet. However, the applications need to access multiple AWS services. The applications must not use public IP addresses to access the AWS services.

A. eploy internet gateways in each private subnet

B. onfigure interface VPC endpoints for the required AWS services

C. eploy a NAT gateway in each private subnet

D. et up an AWS Direct Connect connection between the private subnets

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Correct Answer: B

Question #65

A company wants to migrate its on-premises application to AWS. The application produces output files that vary in size from tens of gigabytes to hundreds of terabytes. The application data must be stored in a standard file system structure. The company wants a solution that scales automatically. is highly available, and requires minimum operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Migrate the application to run as containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

B. Migrate the application to run as containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

C. Migrate the application to Amazon EC2 instances in a Multi-AZ Auto Scaling group

D. Migrate the application to Amazon EC2 instances in a Multi-AZ Auto Scaling group

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Correct Answer: C

Question #66

A company recently launched Linux-based application instances on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet and launched a Linux-based bastion host on an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subnet of a VPC. A solutions architect needs to connect from the on-premises network, through the company's internet connection, to the bastion host, and to the application servers. The solutions architect must make sure that the security groups of all the EC2 instances will allow that access.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A. Replace the current security group of the bastion host with one that only allows inbound access from the application instances

B. Replace the current security group of the bastion host with one that only allows inbound access from the internal IP range for the company

C. Replace the current security group of the bastion host with one that only allows inbound access from the external IP range for the company

D. Replace the current security group of the application instances with one that allows inbound SSH access from only the private IP address of the bastion host

E. Replace the current security group of the application instances with one that allows inbound SSH access from only the public IP address of the bastion host

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Correct Answer: CD

Question #67

A company is hosting a static website on Amazon S3 and is using Amazon Route 53 for DNS. The website is experiencing increased demand from around the world. The company must decrease latency for users who access the website.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A. eplicate the S3 bucket that contains the website to all AWS Regions

B. rovision accelerators in AWS Global Accelerator

C. dd an Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of the S3 bucket

D. nable S3 Transfer Acceleration on the bucket

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Correct Answer: C

Question #68

A solutions architect is using Amazon S3 to design the storage architecture of a new digital media application. The media files must be resilient to the loss of an Availability Zone. Some files are accessed frequently while other files are rarely accessed in an unpredictable pattern. The solutions architect must minimize the costs of storing and retrieving the media files.Which storage option meets these requirements?

A. S3 Standard

B. S3 Intelligent-Tiering

C. S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)

D. S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)

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Correct Answer: B

Question #69

A company is designing an application. The application uses an AWS Lambda function to receive information through Amazon API Gateway and to store the information in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database.During the proof-of-concept stage, the company has to increase the Lambda quotas significantly to handle the high volumes of data that the company needs to load into the database. A solutions architect must recommend a new design to improve scalability and minimize the configuration effort.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Refactor the Lambda function code to Apache Tomcat code that runs on Amazon EC2 instances

B. Change the platform from Aurora to Amazon DynamoDProvision a DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) cluster

C. Set up two Lambda functions

D. Set up two Lambda functions

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Correct Answer: D

Question #70

A company hosts its multi-tier applications on AWS. For compliance, governance, auditing, and security, the company must track configuration changes on its AWS resources and record a history of API calls made to these resources.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A. Use AWS CloudTrail to track configuration changes and AWS Config to record API calls

B. Use AWS Config to track configuration changes and AWS CloudTrail to record API calls

C. Use AWS Config to track configuration changes and Amazon CloudWatch to record API calls

D. Use AWS CloudTrail to track configuration changes and Amazon CloudWatch to record API calls

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Correct Answer: B

Question #71

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts for different departments. The management account has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains project reports. The company wants to limit access to this S3 bucket to only users of accounts within the organization in AWS Organizations.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

A. Add the aws PrincipalOrgID global condition key with a reference to the organization ID to the S3 bucket policy

B. Create an organizational unit (OU) for each department

C. Use AWS CloudTrail to monitor the CreateAccount, InviteAccountToOrganization, LeaveOrganization, and RemoveAccountFromOrganization events

D. Tag each user that needs access to the S3 bucket

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Correct Answer: A

Question #72

A company runs its infrastructure on AWS and has a registered base of 700,000 users for its document management application. The company intends to create a product that converts large .pdf files to .jpg image files. The .pdf files average 5 MB in size. The company needs to store the original files and the converted files. A solutions architect must design a scalable solution to accommodate demand that will grow rapidly over time.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A. Save the

B. Save the

C. Upload the

D. Upload the

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Correct Answer: A

Question #73

A company wants to migrate an on-premises video processing application to AWS. Processing times range from 5--30 minutes. The application must run multiple jobs in parallel. The application processes videos that users upload to an Amazon S3 bucket.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Configure the S3 bucket to send S3 event notifications to an Amazon SQS standard queue

B. Configure the S3 bucket to send S3 event notifications to an Amazon SQS FIFO queue

C. Configure the S3 bucket to send S3 event notifications to an Amazon SQS standard queue

D. Configure the S3 bucket to send S3 event notifications to an Amazon SNS topic

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Correct Answer: A

Question #74

A company runs an application in a VPC on AWS. The company's on-premises data center has a DNS server.The data center is connected to AWS through an AWS Direct Connect connection with a private virtual interface (VIF). The on-premises DNS server needs to resolve the DNS name of the application in the VPC.

A. reate an Amazon Route 53 Resolver inbound endpoint in the VPC

B. et up AWS Verified Access endpoints in the VPC

C. reate an Amazon Route 53 Resolver outbound endpoint and a Resolver rule in the VPC

D. onfigure the Direct Connect connection to enable DNS resolution between the on-premises DNS server and the application in the VPC

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Correct Answer: A

Question #75

A company is storing backup files by using Amazon S3 Standard storage. The files are accessed frequently for 1 month. However, the files are not accessed after 1 month. The company must keep the files indefinitely.Which storage solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A. Configure S3 Intelligent-Tiering to automatically migrate objects

B. Create an S3 Lifecycle configuration to transition objects from S3 Standard to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 month

C. Create an S3 Lifecycle configuration to transition objects from S3 Standard to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) after 1 month

D. Create an S3 Lifecycle configuration to transition objects from S3 Standard to S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) after 1 month

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Correct Answer: B

Question #76

A financial company is migrating banking applications to AWS accounts managed through AWS Organizations. The applications store sensitive customer data on Amazon EBS volumes, and the company takes regular snapshots for backups.The company must implement controls across all accounts to prevent sharing EBS snapshots publicly, with the least operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. nable block public access for EBS snapshots at the organization level

B. nable AWS Config rules for each OU to monitor EBS snapshot permissions

C. se AWS CloudTrail to track snapshot permission changes

D. reate an IAM policy in the root account that prevents users from modifying snapshot permissions

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Correct Answer: A

Question #77

A company has an application that ingests incoming messages. Dozens of other applications and microservices then quickly consume these messages. The number of messages varies drastically and sometimes increases suddenly to 100,000 each second. The company wants to decouple the solution and increase scalability.Which solution meets these requirements?

A. Persist the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

B. Deploy the ingestion application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group to scale the number of EC2 instances based on CPU metrics

C. Write the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with a single shard

D. Publish the messages to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic with multiple Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) subscriptions

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Correct Answer: D

Question #78

A survey company has gathered data for several years from areas in the United States. The company hosts the data in an Amazon S3 bucket that is 3 TB in size and growing. The company has started to share the data with a European marketing firm that has S3 buckets. The company wants to ensure that its data transfer costs remain as low as possible.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Configure the Requester Pays feature on the company's S3 bucket

B. Configure S3 Cross-Region Replication from the company's S3 bucket to one of the marketing firm's S3 buckets

C. Configure cross-account access for the marketing firm so that the marketing firm has access to the company's S3 bucket

D. Configure the company's S3 bucket to use S3 Intelligent-Tiering

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Correct Answer: B

Question #79

A global company hosts its web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The web application has static data and dynamic data. The company stores its static data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company wants to improve performance and reduce latency for the static data and dynamic data. The company is using its own domain name registered with Amazon Route 53.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the S3 bucket and the ALB as origins

B. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the ALB as an origin

C. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the S3 bucket as an origin

D. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the ALB as an origin

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Correct Answer: A

Question #80

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts for different departments. The management account has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains project reports. The company wants to limit access to this S3 bucket to only users of accounts within the organization in AWS Organizations.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

A. Add the aws PrincipalOrgID global condition key with a reference to the organization ID to the S3 bucket policy

B. Create an organizational unit (OU) for each department

C. Use AWS CloudTrail to monitor the CreateAccount, InviteAccountToOrganization, LeaveOrganization, and RemoveAccountFromOrganization events

D. Tag each user that needs access to the S3 bucket

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Correct Answer: A

Question #81

A company has more than 5 TB of file data on Windows file servers that run on premises. Users and applications interact with the data each day.The company is moving its Windows workloads to AWS. As the company continues this process, the company requires access to AWS and on-premises file storage with minimum latency. The company needs a solution that minimizes operational overhead and requires no significant changes to the existing file access patterns. The company uses an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection for connectivity to AWS.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A. Deploy and configure Amazon FSx for Windows File Server on AWS

B. Deploy and configure an Amazon S3 File Gateway on premises

C. Deploy and configure an Amazon S3 File Gateway on premises

D. Deploy and configure Amazon FSx for Windows File Server on AWS

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Correct Answer: D

Question #82

A company collects data for temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure in cities across multiple continents. The average volume of data that the company collects from each site daily is 500 GB. Each site has a high-speed Internet connection.The company wants to aggregate the data from all these global sites as quickly as possible in a single Amazon S3 bucket. The solution must minimize operational complexity.Which solution meets these requirements?

A. Turn on S3 Transfer Acceleration on the destination S3 bucket

B. Upload the data from each site to an S3 bucket in the closest Region

C. Schedule AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized device jobs daily to transfer data from each site to the closest Region

D. Upload the data from each site to an Amazon EC2 instance in the closest Region

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Correct Answer: A

Question #83

A company is preparing to launch a public-facing web application in the AWS Cloud. The architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances within a VPC behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). A third-party service is used for the DNS. The company's solutions architect must recommend a solution to detect and protect against large-scale DDoS attacks.Which solution meets these requirements?

A. Enable Amazon GuardDuty on the account

B. Enable Amazon Inspector on the EC2 instances

C. Enable AWS Shield and assign Amazon Route 53 to it

D. Enable AWS Shield Advanced and assign the ELB to it

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Correct Answer: D

Question #84

A company performs monthly maintenance on its AWS infrastructure. During these maintenance activities, the company needs to rotate the credentials for its Amazon RDS for MySQL databases across multiple AWS Regions.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Store the credentials as secrets in AWS Secrets Manager

B. Store the credentials as secrets in AWS Systems Manager by creating a secure string parameter

C. Store the credentials in an Amazon S3 bucket that has server-side encryption (SSE) enabled

D. Encrypt the credentials as secrets by using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) multi-Region customer managed keys

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Correct Answer: A

Question #85

A company is hosting a web application on AWS using a single Amazon EC2 instance that stores user-uploaded documents in an Amazon EBS volume. For better scalability and availability, the company duplicated the architecture and created a second EC2 instance and EBS volume in another Availability Zone, placing both behind an Application Load Balancer. After completing this change, users reported that, each time they refreshed the website, they could see one subset of their documents or the other, but never all of the documents at the same time.What should a solutions architect propose to ensure users see all of their documents at once?

A. Copy the data so both EBS volumes contain all the documents

B. Configure the Application Load Balancer to direct a user to the server with the documents

C. Copy the data from both EBS volumes to Amazon EFS

D. Configure the Application Load Balancer to send the request to both servers

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Correct Answer: C

Question #86

A company has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains critical data. The company must protect the data from accidental deletion.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A. nable versioning on the S3 bucket

B. nable MFA Delete on the S3 bucket

C. reate a bucket policy on the S3 bucket

D. nable default encryption on the S3 bucket

E. reate a lifecycle policy for the objects in the S3 bucket

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Correct Answer: AB

Question #87

A company wants to move a multi-tiered application from on premises to the AWS Cloud to improve the application's performance. The application consists of application tiers that communicate with each other by way of RESTful services. Transactions are dropped when one tier becomes overloaded. A solutions architect must design a solution that resolves these issues and modernizes the application.Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally efficient?

A. Use Amazon API Gateway and direct transactions to the AWS Lambda functions as the application layer

B. Use Amazon CloudWatch metrics to analyze the application performance history to determine the servers' peak utilization during the performance failures

C. Use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to handle the messaging between application servers running on Amazon EC2 in an Auto Scaling group

D. Use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to handle the messaging between application servers running on Amazon EC2 in an Auto Scaling group

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Correct Answer: A

Question #88

A company hosts a data lake on AWS. The data lake consists of data in Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The company needs a reporting solution that provides data visualization and includes all the data sources within the data lake. Only the company's management team should have full access to all the visualizations. The rest of the company should have only limited access.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Create an analysis in Amazon QuickSight

B. Create an analysis in Amazon QuickSight

C. Create an AWS Glue table and crawler for the data in Amazon S3

D. Create an AWS Glue table and crawler for the data in Amazon S3

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Correct Answer: B

Question #89

A company is using a SQL database to store movie data that is publicly accessible. The database runs on an Amazon RDS Single-AZ DB instance. A script runs queries at random intervals each day to record the number of new movies that have been added to the database. The script must report a final total during business hours.The company's development team notices that the database performance is inadequate for development tasks when the script is running. A solutions architect must recommend a solution to resolve this issue.Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Modify the DB instance to be a Multi-AZ deployment

B. Create a read replica of the database

C. Instruct the development team to manually export the entries in the database at the end of each day

D. Use Amazon ElastiCache to cache the common queries that the script runs against the database

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Correct Answer: B

Question #90

A company observes an increase in Amazon EC2 costs in its most recent bill. The billing team notices unwanted vertical scaling of instance types for a couple of EC2 instances. A solutions architect needs to create a graph comparing the last 2 months of EC2 costs and perform an in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of the vertical scaling.How should the solutions architect generate the information with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Use AWS Budgets to create a budget report and compare EC2 costs based on instance types

B. Use Cost Explorer's granular filtering feature to perform an in-depth analysis of EC2 costs based on instance types

C. Use graphs from the AWS Billing and Cost Management dashboard to compare EC2 costs based on instance types for the last 2 months

D. Use AWS Cost and Usage Reports to create a report and send it to an Amazon S3 bucket

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Correct Answer: B

Question #91

A company must follow strict regulations for the management of data encryption keys. The company manages its own key externally and imports the key into AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). The company must control the imported key material and must rotate the key material on a regular schedule.A solutions architect needs to import the key material into AWS KMS and rotate the key without interrupting applications that use the key.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. chedule the existing AWS KMS key for deletion

B. mport new key material into the existing AWS KMS key

C. reate a new AWS KMS key that has the same key ID as the existing key

D. nable automatic key rotation for the existing AWS KMS key

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Correct Answer: B

Question #92

A company has a website hosted on AWS. The website is behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that is configured to handle HTTP and HTTPS separately. The company wants to forward all requests to the website so that the requests will use HTTPS.What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

A. Update the ALB's network ACL to accept only HTTPS traffic

B. Create a rule that replaces the HTTP in the URL with HTTPS

C. Create a listener rule on the ALB to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS

D. Replace the ALB with a Network Load Balancer configured to use Server Name Indication (SNI)

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Correct Answer: C

Question #93

A company hosts an application on AWS Lambda functions that are invoked by an Amazon API Gateway API. The Lambda functions save customer data to an Amazon Aurora MySQL database. Whenever the company upgrades the database, the Lambda functions fail to establish database connections until the upgrade is complete. The result is that customer data is not recorded for some of the event.A solutions architect needs to design a solution that stores customer data that is created during database upgrades.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Provision an Amazon RDS proxy to sit between the Lambda functions and the database

B. Increase the run time of the Lambda functions to the maximum

C. Persist the customer data to Lambda local storage

D. Store the customer data in an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queue

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Correct Answer: D

Question #94

A website runs on Amazon EC2 behind an ALB with Amazon CloudFront in front. The site is receiving a high rate of unwanted requests from specific IP addresses.

A. Use AWS Shield to configure IP deny rules

B. Increase Auto Scaling capacity

C. Configure VPC network ACL deny rules

D. Use AWS WAF with a rate-based rule on the CloudFront distribution

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Correct Answer: D

Question #95

A solutions architect wants to design a solution to save costs for Amazon EC2 instances that do not need to run during a 2-week company shutdown.The applications running on the EC2 instances store data in instance memory that must be present when the instances resume operation.Which approach should the solutions architect recommend to shut down and resume the EC2 instances?

A. Modify the application to store the data on instance store volumes

B. Run the applications on EC2 instances enabled for hibernation

C. Snapshot the EC2 instances before stopping them

D. Note the Availability Zone for each EC2 instance before stopping it

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Correct Answer: b

Question #96

A company is using a SQL database to store movie data that is publicly accessible. The database runs on an Amazon RDS Single-AZ DB instance. A script runs queries at random intervals each day to record the number of new movies that have been added to the database. The script must report a final total during business hours.The company's development team notices that the database performance is inadequate for development tasks when the script is running. A solutions architect must recommend a solution to resolve this issue.Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Modify the DB instance to be a Multi-AZ deployment

B. Create a read replica of the database

C. Instruct the development team to manually export the entries in the database at the end of each day

D. Use Amazon ElastiCache to cache the common queries that the script runs against the database

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Correct Answer: B

Question #97

A company runs an ecommerce application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The Auto Scaling group scales based on CPU utilization metrics. The ecommerce application stores the transaction data in a MySQL 8.0 database that is hosted on a large EC2 instance.The database's performance degrades quickly as application load increases. The application handles more read requests than write transactions. The company wants a solution that will automatically scale the database to meet the demand of unpredictable read workloads while maintaining high availability.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Use Amazon Redshift with a single node for leader and compute functionality

B. Use Amazon RDS with a Single-AZ deployment Configure Amazon RDS to add reader instances in a different Availability Zone

C. Use Amazon Aurora with a Multi-AZ deployment

D. Use Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached with EC2 Spot Instances

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Correct Answer: C

Question #98

A company runs an application on EC2 instances that need access to RDS credentials stored in AWS Secrets Manager.Which solution meets this requirement?

A. Create an IAM role, and attach the role to each EC2 instance profile

B. Create an IAM user, and attach the user to each EC2 instance profile

C. Create a resource-based policy for the secret

D. Create an identity-based policy for the secret

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Correct Answer: A

Question #99

A company has thousands of edge devices that collectively generate 1 TB of status alerts each day. Each alert is approximately 2 KB in size. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to ingest and store the alerts for future analysis.The company wants a highly available solution. However, the company needs to minimize costs and does not want to manage additional infrastructure. Additionally, the company wants to keep 14 days of data available for immediate analysis and archive any data older than 14 days.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

A. reate an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to ingest the alerts

B. aunch Amazon EC2 instances across two Availability Zones and place them behind an Elastic Load Balancer to ingest the alerts

C. reate an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to ingest the alerts

D. reate an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) standard queue to ingest the alerts, and set the message retention period to 14 days

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Correct Answer: A

Question #100

A company has an application that provides marketing services to stores. The services are based on previous purchases by store customers. The stores upload transaction data to the company through SFTP, and the data is processed and analyzed to generate new marketing offers. Some of the files can exceed 200 GB in size.Recently, the company discovered that some of the stores have uploaded files that contain personally identifiable information (PII) that should not have been included. The company wants administrators to be alerted if PII is shared again. The company also wants to automate remediation.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?

A. Use an Amazon S3 bucket as a secure transfer point

B. Use an Amazon S3 bucket as a secure transfer point

C. Implement custom scanning algorithms in an AWS Lambda function

D. Implement custom scanning algorithms in an AWS Lambda function

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Correct Answer: B

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