AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03)
Exam Notes & Practice Tests

A global video streaming service is using Amazon CloudFront to deliver content to users around the world. They need to ensure that content is served quickly and efficiently, even during peak usage times. What should they configure?

A logistics company is running a fleet of EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. They want to ensure that their instances are evenly distributed across multiple Availability Zones and automatically replaced if they become unhealthy. What should they do?

A global retailer is setting up a new AWS account and needs to securely manage access to their AWS resources. They want to follow the principle of least privilege. What should they do?

A video game company is using AWS to host its multiplayer game servers. They need a high-throughput, low-latency network connection between servers to ensure a smooth gaming experience. What configuration should they use?

A biotech company is storing research data that needs to be accessed frequently for the first 90 days and then rarely after that. They want to optimize storage costs while ensuring data availability. What is the most cost-effective storage class?

A financial institution is moving its critical workloads to AWS and wants to ensure the highest level of security for its data at rest. They also want to automate key rotation to meet compliance requirements. What should they do?

A news website is using a MySQL database on Amazon RDS with Multi-AZ deployment. They have recently added a read replica in a different region to improve read performance. What kind of replication does Amazon RDS use for Multi-AZ and Read Replica configurations?

A healthcare company needs to ensure that all data in transit between its on-premises systems and AWS is encrypted. What is the best approach to achieve this?

A social networking company is using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic to multiple EC2 instances across two availability zones. They are experiencing uneven traffic distribution and slow response times. What configuration change should they make to improve performance?

A large retailer is storing vast amounts of product images on Amazon S3. The company wants to minimize storage costs while ensuring that any accidental deletion of objects can be easily recovered. What is the most cost-effective solution to achieve this?

A media company wants to ensure that its S3 bucket is accessible only by its web application and not directly by users. What is the best way to secure access to the S3 bucket?

A tech startup is using AWS Lambda and API Gateway to build a serverless application. They want to ensure that their application can handle a sudden increase in traffic without any performance degradation. What should they do to make their serverless architecture more resilient?

A machine learning startup needs to process large volumes of data quickly and efficiently. They require a high-throughput, low-latency storage solution that can scale with their data processing needs. Which AWS service should they use?

A startup is building a big data processing pipeline on AWS and needs to transfer large datasets into Amazon S3. They want to minimize the cost of data transfer while maximizing speed. Which service should they use?

A retail company needs to handle a sudden increase in user traffic during a flash sale. Their web application runs on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). What should they configure to handle the increased load?

A tech company needs to secure access to its S3 bucket, which contains sensitive user data. They want to ensure that only their web application can access the bucket. What is the best approach?

A financial services company is using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application that must remain available during software updates. What is the best deployment strategy to achieve this?

An e-commerce company is planning to migrate its on-premises data warehouse to AWS. They need a scalable, fully managed solution that can run complex analytical queries on large datasets. Which AWS service should they choose?

A streaming media company needs to process and deliver content in real-time to millions of users globally. They require a low-latency, high-bandwidth connection between their EC2 instances. Which EC2 configuration should they choose?

A media streaming service is deploying its application on AWS and wants to ensure that each user request is served by the nearest available server to reduce latency. Which AWS service and feature combination should they use?

A global e-commerce company is exploring AWS Direct Connect for establishing a dedicated network connection from their on-premises data center to AWS. They require a highly secure and low-latency connection to migrate critical workloads to AWS. Which option would provide the most resilient setup?

A government agency archives large volumes of historical data that need to be kept for regulatory compliance but are rarely accessed. The data must be stored securely and at the lowest possible cost. What is the most cost-effective storage option?

A financial institution is implementing an access control policy to ensure that only authorized personnel can access sensitive financial data stored in Amazon S3. What is the best approach to achieve this?

A healthcare startup is using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. They want to ensure that the application remains available during a sudden surge in user traffic. What should they configure?

A media company is using Amazon S3 to store user-generated content. They need to ensure that all uploaded files are encrypted and access is restricted based on the user's role. Which combination of services should they use?

A scientific research team at a university is running computationally intensive simulations on AWS using a fleet of EC2 instances. They need low-latency, high-bandwidth networking between instances to achieve optimal performance. Which EC2 configuration should they use?

A retail company is using an Auto Scaling group to manage its fleet of web servers. They want to ensure that the servers are replaced automatically if they become unhealthy. What should they configure to achieve this?

A biotech startup is storing large datasets on Amazon S3 for analysis. The datasets are infrequently accessed but need to be available when required. What is the most cost-effective storage solution?

An e-commerce company wants to restrict access to its S3 bucket based on user identity and specific actions. They need to enforce granular access control at the bucket and object level. Which AWS service should they use?

A financial analytics firm is running a high-frequency trading application on AWS. They need to ensure the lowest possible latency between their trading servers. What configuration should they use?

A global insurance company is using Amazon RDS for its transactional database. They want to ensure high availability and disaster recovery across multiple regions. What should they do?

A health tech company needs to encrypt sensitive patient data before storing it in Amazon S3. They also need to manage the encryption keys themselves. What solution should they use?

A social media company is using Amazon S3 to store user-uploaded images. They want to optimize storage costs for images that are infrequently accessed but still need to be available on demand. Which storage class should they choose?

A gaming company is running a latency-sensitive multiplayer game on AWS. They need to ensure the lowest possible network latency between their game servers and players. What should they configure?

A financial services firm is using Amazon RDS with Multi-AZ for its database. They need to minimize downtime during maintenance windows. What should they configure?

A startup is using Amazon S3 to store logs from its web application. The logs are rarely accessed after 30 days but must be retained for compliance. What is the most cost-effective storage class for these logs?

A finance startup is migrating its on-premises financial records to AWS S3 and wants to ensure that all data is encrypted with the flexibility to control the encryption keys without managing their own key infrastructure. Which solution should they use?

A healthcare analytics company is using an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to manage its EC2 instances. They want to ensure that each new instance is pre-configured with their proprietary analytics software before it starts processing requests. What is the BEST way to achieve this?

A data analytics company is using an Auto Scaling group for its fleet of EC2 instances. They have noticed that new instances take a few minutes to become available during scale-out events, leading to performance issues. What should they do to reduce the time it takes for new instances to become operational?

A large financial institution is using Amazon RDS with Multi-AZ deployment for their transactional databases. They need to apply an urgent security patch during off-hours and want to ensure that there is no downtime during this process. What is the correct approach to apply this patch?

An ad-tech company is using Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to handle large-scale analytical queries. The performance of their queries has been declining as the dataset grows. What should they do to improve query performance?

A global logistics company needs to ensure continuous availability of its web application, which is hosted across multiple AWS regions. They want to route user traffic to the nearest available region with automatic failover in case of a regional outage. Which routing policy should they use?

A financial services company needs to ensure that its web application can only be accessed by authenticated users and that all data in transit is encrypted. Which AWS service should they use to achieve this?

A startup is using AWS Fargate to run its containerized applications. They want to understand the cost implications of using Fargate compared to running containers on EC2 instances. What should they consider?

A real-time gaming company needs to store and retrieve player session data with low latency. They are currently using Amazon DynamoDB but need to further reduce read latency for frequently accessed data. What should they implement to achieve this?

A transportation company is using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy and manage its web application. They want to ensure that their application can automatically scale during peak hours and recover from failures with minimal downtime. What feature should they enable?

A healthcare platform needs to ensure secure communication between its front-end application and its backend services using RESTful APIs. They plan to use AWS API Gateway for this purpose. Which feature should they enable to meet this requirement?

A media streaming company is using Amazon CloudFront to deliver video content globally. They need to minimize latency for their viewers. What should they configure to optimize performance?

A tech startup is using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to manage a web application that needs to scale quickly in response to user demand. What configuration should they use to ensure quick scaling?

A fintech startup is running a data lake on Amazon S3 and wants to optimize costs for storing large amounts of data that are infrequently accessed. What is the most cost-effective storage solution?

An e-commerce company wants to ensure that its web application can only be accessed by users from specific geographic regions. How can they enforce this restriction using AWS?

A global video streaming service is expanding its infrastructure to deliver content to millions of users across the world. They need a load balancer that can handle millions of requests per second while ensuring low latency. Which AWS service should they use?

A global e-commerce company needs to ensure that its web application remains highly available during a regional outage. What strategy should they implement?

A biotech startup is archiving research data on Amazon S3. The data is accessed infrequently but must be retained for long-term analysis. They want to minimize storage costs while ensuring data durability. Which storage class should they use?

A company is setting up an AWS account for their root user and wants to ensure it is secured against unauthorized access. What best practices should they implement? (Select two)

A financial services firm is using Amazon RDS for MySQL with Multi-AZ for high availability. They need to ensure their database can scale read-heavy workloads while maintaining availability. What should they do?

A weather forecasting service is processing real-time weather data from thousands of sensors. They need a highly available, low-latency database solution to handle frequent read and write operations. What should they use?

A startup is using Amazon S3 to store large amounts of data generated by its IoT devices. The data is accessed infrequently but must be retained for analysis. What is the most cost-effective storage solution?

A financial institution is implementing an access control policy to ensure that only authorized personnel can access sensitive financial data stored in Amazon S3. What is the best approach to achieve this?

A biotech startup is storing large datasets on Amazon S3 for analysis. The datasets are infrequently accessed but need to be available when required. What is the most cost-effective storage solution?

A streaming media company needs to process and deliver content in real-time to millions of users globally. They require a low-latency, high-bandwidth connection between their EC2 instances. Which EC2 configuration should they choose?

A financial services company is using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application that must remain available during software updates. What is the best deployment strategy to achieve this?

A machine learning startup needs to process large volumes of data quickly and efficiently. They require a high-throughput, low-latency storage solution that can scale with their data processing needs. Which AWS service should they use?

A healthcare platform needs to ensure secure communication between its front-end application and its backend services using RESTful APIs. They plan to use AWS API Gateway for this purpose. Which feature should they enable to meet this requirement?

A startup is using AWS Fargate to run its containerized applications. They want to understand the cost implications of using Fargate compared to running containers on EC2 instances. What should they consider?