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Below are 30 real practice questions for the AWS Solutions Architect (SAA-C03) exam. Each question shows the correct answer and a detailed explanation when you reveal it. Use these to benchmark your readiness — if you score below 70% on these 30 questions, plan for at least 4 more weeks of study before booking. For a full study plan, read our How to Pass the AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) on Your First Attempt.

SAA-C03 Practice Questions

  1. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelStorage

    Which set of Amazon S3 features helps to prevent and recover from accidental data loss?

    A
    Object lifecycle and service access logging.
    B
    Object versioning and Multi-factor authentication.
    C
    Access controls and server-side encryption.
    D
    Website hosting and Amazon S3 policies.
  2. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelMonitoring

    What is the minimum time interval for the data that Amazon CloudWatch receives and aggregates?

    A
    One second.
    B
    Five seconds.
    C
    One minute.
    D
    Three minutes.
    E
    Five minutes.
  3. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelCompute

    A user has launched an EC2 instance. The instance got terminated as soon as it was launched. Which of the below mentioned options is not a possible reason for this?

    A
    The user account has reached the maximum volume limit.
    B
    The AMI is missing. It is the required part.
    C
    The snapshot is corrupt.
    D
    The user account has reached the maximum EC2 instance limit.
  4. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelArchitecture

    Your website is serving on-demand training videos to your workforce. Videos are uploaded monthly in high resolution MP4 format. Your workforce is distributed globally often on the move and using company-provided tablets that require the HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol to watch a video. Your company has no video transcoding expertise and you may need to pay for a consultant. How do you implement the most cost-efficient architecture without compromising high availability and quality of video delivery?

    A
    A video transcoding pipeline running on EC2 using SQS to distribute tasks and Auto Scaling to adjust the number of nodes depending on the length of the queue. EBS volumes to host videos and EBS snapshots to incrementally backup original files after a few days. CloudFront to serve HLS transcoded videos from EC2.
    B
    Elastic Transcoder to transcode original high-resolution MP4 videos to HLS. EBS volumes to host videos and EBS snapshots to incrementally backup original files after a few days. CloudFront to serve HLS transcoded videos from EC2.
    C
    Elastic Transcoder to transcode original high-resolution MP4 videos to HLS. S3 to host videos with Lifecycle Management to archive original files to Glacier after a few days. CloudFront to serve HLS transcoded videos from S3.
    D
    A video transcoding pipeline running on EC2 using SQS to distribute tasks and Auto Scaling to adjust the number of nodes depending on the length of the queue. S3 to host videos with Lifecycle Management to archive all files to Glacier after a few days. CloudFront to serve HLS transcoded videos from Glacier.
  5. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelSecurity

    You are designing an intrusion detection prevention (IDS/IPS) solution for a customer web application in a single VPC. You are considering the options for implementing IDS IPS protection for traffic coming from the Internet. Which of the following options would you consider? (Choose 2 answers)

    A
    Implement IDS/IPS agents on each Instance running in VPC.
    B
    Configure an instance in each subnet to switch its network interface card to promiscuous mode and analyze network traffic.
    C
    Implement Elastic Load Balancing with SSL listeners in front of the web applications.
    D
    Implement a reverse proxy layer in front of web servers and configure IDS/ IPS agents on each reverse proxy server.
  6. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelStorage

    Which of the following are valid statements about Amazon S3? (Choose 2 answers)

    A
    Amazon S3 provides read-after-write consistency for any type of PUT or DELETE.
    B
    Consistency is not guaranteed for any type of PUT or DELETE.
    C
    A successful response to a PUT request only occurs when a complete object is saved.
    D
    Partially saved objects are immediately readable with a GET after an overwrite PUT.
    E
    S3 provides eventual consistency for overwrite PUTS and DELETE.
  7. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelNetworking

    How can the domain's zone apex, for example, 'myzoneapexdomain.com', be pointed towards an Elastic Load Balancer?

    A
    By using an Amazon Route 53 Alias record.
    B
    By using an AAAA record.
    C
    By using an Amazon Route 53 CNAME record.
    D
    By using an A record.
  8. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelDatabases

    When should I choose Provisioned IOPS over Standard RDS storage?

    A
    If you have batch-oriented workloads.
    B
    If you use production online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads.
    C
    If you have workloads that are not sensitive to consistent performance.
  9. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelArchitecture

    Your department creates regular analytics reports from your company's log files. All log data is collected in Amazon S3 and processed by daily Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) jobs that generate daily PDF reports and aggregated tables in CSV format for an Amazon Redshift data warehouse. Which of the following alternatives will lower costs without compromising average performance of the system or data integrity for the raw data?

    A
    Use reduced redundancy storage (RRS) for all data in S3. Use a combination of Spot Instances and Reserved Instances for Amazon EMR jobs. Use Reserved Instances for Amazon Redshift.
    B
    Use reduced redundancy storage (RRS) for PDF and .csv data in S3. Add Spot Instances to EMR jobs. Use Spot Instances for Amazon Redshift.
    C
    Use reduced redundancy storage (RRS) for PDF and .csv data in Amazon S3. Add Spot Instances to Amazon EMR jobs. Use Reserved Instances for Amazon Redshift.
    D
    Use reduced redundancy storage (RRS) for all data in Amazon S3. Add Spot Instances to Amazon EMR jobs. Use Reserved Instances for Amazon Redshift.
  10. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelDatabases

    Because of the extensibility limitations of striped storage attached to Windows Server, Amazon RDS does not currently support increasing storage on a [...] DB Instance.

    A
    SQL Server.
    B
    MySQL.
    C
    Oracle.
  11. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelIAM

    In regards to IAM you can edit user properties later, but you cannot use the console to change the [...].

    A
    user name.
    B
    password.
    C
    default group.
  12. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelCompute

    In Amazon EC2 Container Service, are other container types supported?

    A
    Yes, EC2 Container Service supports any container service you need.
    B
    Yes, EC2 Container Service also supports Microsoft container service.
    C
    No, Docker is the only container platform supported by EC2 Container Service presently.
    D
    Yes, EC2 Container Service supports Microsoft container service and Openstack.
  13. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelArchitecture

    Content and Media Server is the latest requirement that you need to meet for a client. The client has been very specific about his requirements such as low latency, high availability, durability, and access control. Potentially there will be millions of views on this server and because of 'spiky' usage patterns, operations teams will need to provision static hardware, network, and management resources to support the maximum expected need. The Customer base will be initially low but is expected to grow and become more geographically distributed. Which of the following would be a good solution for content distribution?

    A
    Amazon S3 as both the origin server and for caching.
    B
    AWS Storage Gateway as the origin server and Amazon EC2 for caching.
    C
    AWS CloudFront as both the origin server and for caching.
    D
    Amazon S3 as the origin server and Amazon CloudFront for caching.
  14. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelStorage

    Name the disk storage supported by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

    A
    None of these.
    B
    Amazon AppStream store.
    C
    Amazon SNS store.
    D
    Amazon Instance Store.
  15. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelNetworking

    After an Amazon VPC instance is launched, can I change the VPC security groups it belongs to?

    A
    Only if the tag 'VPC_Change_Group' is true.
    B
    Yes. You can.
    C
    No. You cannot.
    D
    Only if the tag 'VPC Change Group' is true.
  16. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelNetworking

    If I want an instance to have a public IP address, which IP address should I use?

    A
    Elastic IP Address.
    B
    Class B IP Address.
    C
    Class A IP Address.
    D
    Dynamic IP Address.
  17. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelDatabases

    Amazon RDS supports SOAP only through [...].

    A
    HTTP or HTTPS.
    B
    TCP/IP.
    C
    HTTP.
    D
    HTTPS.
  18. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelSecurity

    Which of the following services natively encrypts data at rest within an AWS region? (Choose 2 answers)

    A
    AWS Storage Gateway.
    B
    Amazon DynamoDB.
    C
    Amazon CloudFront.
    D
    Amazon Glacier.
    E
    Amazon Simple Queue Service.
  19. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelNetworking

    Which one of the following can't be used as an origin server with Amazon CloudFront?

    A
    A web server running in your infrastructure.
    B
    Amazon S3.
    C
    Amazon Glacier.
    D
    A web server running on Amazon EC2 instances.
  20. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelCompute

    Select the most correct The device name /dev/sdal (within Amazon EC2) is [...].

    A
    possible for EBS volumes.
    B
    reserved for the root device.
    C
    recommended for EBS volumes.
    D
    recommended for instance store volumes.
  21. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelNetworking

    How can I change the security group membership for interfaces owned by other AWS, such as Elastic Load Balancing?

    A
    By using the service specific console or API/CLI commands.
    B
    None of these.
    C
    Using Amazon EC2 API/CLI.
    D
    Using all these methods.
  22. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelNetworking

    You have created a Route 53 latency record set from your domain to a machine in Northern Virginia and a similar record to a machine in Sydney. When a user located in US visits your domain he will be routed to

    A
    Northern Virginia.
    B
    Sydney.
    C
    Both, Northern Virginia and Sydney.
    D
    Depends on the Weighted Resource Record Sets.
  23. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelDatabases

    In the context of MySQL, version numbers are organized as MySQL version = X.Y.Z. What does X denote here?

    A
    Release level.
    B
    Minor version.
    C
    Version number.
    D
    Major version.
  24. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelBilling & Pricing

    Which one of the below doesn't affect Amazon CloudFront billing?

    A
    Distribution Type.
    B
    Data Transfer Out.
    C
    Dedicated IP SSL Certificates.
    D
    Requests.
  25. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelStorage

    Just when you thought you knew every possible storage option on AWS you hear someone mention Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) within Amazon S3. What is the ideal scenario to use Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS)?

    A
    Huge volumes of data.
    B
    Sensitive data.
    C
    Non-critical or reproducible data.
    D
    Critical data.
  26. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelTechnology

    Which of the following AWS CLI commands is syntactically incorrect?

    A
    $ aws ec2 describe-instances.
    B
    $ aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids i-1348636c.
    C
    $ aws sns publish --topic-arn arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:546419318123:OperationsError -message "Script Failure".
    D
    $ aws sqs receive-message --queue-url https://queue.amazonaws.com/546419318123/Test.
  27. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelDatabases

    When running my DB Instance as a Multi-AZ deployment, can I use the standby for read or write operations?

    A
    Yes.
    B
    Only with MSSQL based RDS.
    C
    Only for Oracle RDS instances.
    D
    No.
  28. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelDatabases

    In the Launch Db Instance Wizard, where can I select the backup and maintenance options?

    A
    Under DB INSTANCE DETAILS.
    B
    Under REVIEW.
    C
    Under MANAGEMENT OPTIONS.
    D
    Under ENGINE SELECTION.
  29. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelCompute

    What is the network performance offered by the c4.8xlarge instance in Amazon EC2?

    A
    20 Gigabit.
    B
    10 Gigabit.
    C
    Very High but variable.
    D
    5 Gigabit.
  30. FreePracticeQuiz.questionLabelStorage

    In Amazon EC2, if your EBS volume stays in the detaching state, you can force the detachment by clicking [...].

    A
    Force Detach.
    B
    Detach Instance.
    C
    AttachVolume.
    D
    AttachInstance.
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