AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam Questions & Answers

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  1. Q1 Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The application stores temporary training data on attached Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)…
  2. Q2 A genomics research firm is processing sporadic bursts of data-intensive workloads using Amazon EC2 instances. The shared storage must support unpredictable spikes…
  3. Q3 A company is deploying a publicly accessible web application. To accomplish this, the engineering team has designed the VPC with a public…
  4. Q4 A company wants to create a mobile app that allows users to stream slow-motion video clips on their mobile devices. Currently, the…
  5. Q5 An application that runs a computational fluid dynamics workload uses a tightly-coupled HPC architecture that uses the MPI protocol and runs across…
  6. Q6 A company has 700 TB of backup data stored in network attached storage (NAS) in its data center. This backup data need…
  7. Q7 The DevOps team at a multi-national company is helping its subsidiaries standardize Amazon EC2 instances by using the same Amazon Machine Image…
  8. Q8 A financial services company is looking to move its on-premises IT infrastructure to AWS Cloud. The company has multiple long-term server bound…
  9. Q9 A solutions architect is optimizing a website for an upcoming musical event. Videos of the performances will be streamed in real time…
  10. Q10 You are a solutions architect working for a construction company. Your company is migrating its production estate to AWS, and you are…
  11. Q11 A company is building a new web-based customer relationship management application. The application will use several Amazon EC2 instances that are backed…
  12. Q12 A company runs its ecommerce application on AWS. Every new order is published as a massage in a RabbitMQ queue that runs…
  13. Q13 A company runs analytics software on Amazon EC2 instances. The software accepts job requests from users to process data that has been…
  14. Q14 An organization want to share regular updates about their charitable work using static webpages. The pages are expected to generate a large…
  15. Q15 A manufacturing company receives unreliable service from its data center provider because the company is located in an area prone to natural…
  16. Q16 What can be implemented to prevent traffic from the network to your EC2 instance from impacting the performance of traffic between your…
  17. Q17 A company runs an internal browser-based application. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run…
  18. Q18 The engineering team at a multi-national company uses AWS Firewall Manager to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across its accounts and…
  19. Q19 A company’s application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto…
  20. Q20 A social media company wants the capability to dynamically alter the size of a geographic area from which traffic is routed to…
  21. Q21 A company wants to migrate its MySQL database from on premises to AWS. The company recently experienced a database outage that significantly…
  22. Q22 A Pharmaceuticals company is looking for a simple solution to connect its VPCs and on-premises networks through a central hub. As a…
  23. Q23 The customers of a finance company request appointments with financial advisors by sending text messages. A web application that runs on Amazon…
  24. Q24 A Solutions Architect is migrating a distributed application from their on-premises environment into AWS. This application consists of an Apache Cassandra NoSQL…
  25. Q25 An enterprise SaaS provider is currently operating a legacy web application hosted on a single Amazon EC2 instance within a public subnet.…
  26. Q26 You are required to run Docker containers within AWS. What AWS solution provides this service?
  27. Q27 A company hosts its web application on AWS using seven Amazon EC2 instances. The company requires that the IP addresses of all…
  28. Q28 A media company is evaluating the possibility of moving its IT infrastructure to the AWS Cloud. The company needs at least 10…
  29. Q29 A company is using Amazon CloudFront with its website. The company has enabled logging on the CloudFront distribution, and logs are saved…
  30. Q30 A company wants to migrate an on-premises data center to AWS. The data center hosts an SFTP server that stores its data…
  31. Q31 While troubleshooting, a cloud architect realized that the Amazon EC2 instance is unable to connect to the internet using the Internet Gateway.…
  32. Q32 A company needs an Active Directory service to run directory-aware workloads in the AWS Cloud and it should also support configuring a…
  33. Q33 A company has two accounts for perform testing and each account has a single VPC: VPC-TEST1 and VPC-TEST2. The operations team require…
  34. Q34 The data engineering team at a company wants to analyze Amazon S3 storage access patterns to decide when to transition the right…
  35. Q35 A company has developed a non-production application that is composed of multiple microservices for each of the company's business units. A single…
  36. Q36 A systems administration team has a requirement to run certain custom scripts only once during the launch of the Amazon Elastic Compute…
  37. Q37 An organization has rolled out a multi-account architecture using AWS Control Tower to isolate development environments. Each developer has their own dedicated…
  38. Q38 A news network uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to aggregate the raw video footage from its reporting teams across the…
  39. Q39 An application upgrade caused some issues with stability. The application owner enabled logging and has generated a 5 GB log file in…
  40. Q40 A company hosts a three-tier web application that includes a PostgreSQL database. The database stores the metadata from documents. The company searches…
  41. Q41 An e-commerce company runs its web application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group and it's configured to handle consumer…
  42. Q42 A company has an ecommerce checkout workflow that writes an order to a database and calls a service to process the payment.…
  43. Q43 A company produces batch data that comes from different databases. The company also produces live stream data from network sensors and application…
  44. Q44 Which one of the following is not something for which AWS Trusted Advisor makes recommendations?
  45. Q45 A company is designing a shared storage solution for a gaming application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud. The company needs…
  46. Q46 An e-commerce application uses a relational database that runs several queries that perform joins on multiple tables. The development team has found…
  47. Q47 A software company manages a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances that support internal analytics applications. These instances use an IAM role with…
  48. Q48 A Solutions Architect is designing an application that consists of AWS Lambda and Amazon RDS Aurora MySQL. The Lambda function must use…
  49. Q49 A healthcare company uses its on-premises infrastructure to run legacy applications that require specialized customizations to the underlying Oracle database as well…
  50. Q50 A company's application is running on Amazon EC2 instances in a single Region. In the event of a disaster, a solutions architect…
  51. Q51 A solutions architect needs to optimize storage costs. The solutions architect must identify any Amazon S3 buckets that are no longer being…
  52. Q52 You want to implement a multi-account AWS cloud deployment that more easily complies with business policies during implementation. You wish to implement…
  53. Q53 A solutions architect must create a disaster recovery (DR) plan for a high-volume software as a service (SaaS) platform. All data for…
  54. Q54 A company’s infrastructure consists of Amazon EC2 instances and an Amazon RDS DB instance in a single AWS Region. The company wants…
  55. Q55 A financial data processing company runs a workload on Amazon EC2 instances that fetch and process real-time transaction batches from an Amazon…
  56. Q56 A company has moved its business critical data to Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) which will be accessed by multiple Amazon…
  57. Q57 A retail company runs a customer management system backed by a Microsoft SQL Server database. The system is tightly integrated with applications…
  58. Q58 A company has an AWS Lambda function that needs read access to an Amazon S3 bucket that is located in the same…
  59. Q59 A company is building a solution that will report Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling events across all the applications in an AWS account.…
  60. Q60 The engineering team at an e-commerce company wants to migrate from Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) Standard queues to FIFO (First-In-First-Out)…
  61. Q61 A company wants to build a scalable key management infrastructure to support developers who need to encrypt data in their applications. What…
  62. Q62 A company recently started using Amazon Aurora as the data store for its global ecommerce application. When large reports are run, developers…
  63. Q63 The engineering team at a social media company has noticed that while some of the images stored in Amazon S3 are frequently…
  64. Q64 A web application is deployed in multiple regions behind an ELB Application Load Balancer. You need deterministic routing to the closest region…
  65. Q65 You are defining appropriate security options for S3 buckets in AWS. As part of the process, you must identify the default access…

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