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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA02) – Free Practice Tests

HomeCertificationsAWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA02) - Free Practice Tests

This AWS practice test helps you to pass the following AWS exams and can also helps you to revise the AWS concepts if you are preparing for AWS interviews.

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  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Below AWS practice tests has two different Modes

  • Learning Mode: 25 questions per test with answers and explanation, no time limit, repeat tests
  • Exam Mode: 65 questions per test (similar to real AWS exam), 130 minutes, repeat tests

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA) – Learning Mode

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1 / 25

You are performing some testing of an application in development and wish to delete the parts of a multipart upload after a mistake is made with part numbering. Which command would you run to stop the upload and delete all the parts?

2 / 25

Your company is concerned with EBS volume backup on Amazon EC2 and wants to ensure they have proper backups that are scheduled once a day and that the data is durable. Which of the following options would be best for this? (Choose 2 answers)

3 / 25

You need to set up a high level of security for an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) you have just built in order to protect the confidential information stored in it. What are all the possible security groups that RDS uses?

4 / 25

You are tasked with configuring Route 53 for use with EC2 instances across multiple regions that are used for a customer’s website. The customer would like to route traffic based upon the location of the website’s visitors so visitors from specific regions can be presented with specific content. Which of the following would be best suited to meet the requirement?

5 / 25

You have been checking some Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling events that you previously configured. You notice that an application is scaling up and down multiple times within the hour. Which of the following design changes could optimize cost while preserving elasticity? (Choose 2 answers)

6 / 25

Your account has 3 VPCs deployed in the same region.

The IPv4 address ranges of the VPCs are:

VPC A 172.22.0.0/16

VPC B 10.3.0.0/16

VPC C 10.4.0.0/16

VPC B and VPC C are already connected through VPC peering connection (PCX) named pcx-abcxyz. VPC A has resources that VPC B and VPC C must access. Which of the options below best achieves the objective of allowing VPC B and VPC C to access VPC A?

7 / 25

A user manages a running MySQL RDS instance that will not be used for the next three months. What is the most effective way to avoid costs for the database, and allow it to be used in three months time? (Choose 2 answers)

8 / 25

You receive a bill from AWS but are confused because you see you are incurring different costs for the exact same storage size in different regions on Amazon S3. You ask AWS why this is so. What response would you expect to receive from AWS?

9 / 25

Your database is very frequently receiving more read and write requests than it can handle. To process the higher loads more effectively you’ve decided to vertically scale your RDS database instance. You’ve confirmed that your licensing can handle the increased scale; next, you must determine when the changes will be applied. When can you apply the changes? (Choose 2 answers)

10 / 25

You have just set up a large site for a client which involved a huge database which you set up with Amazon RDS to run as a Multi-AZ deployment. You now start to worry about what will happen if the database instance fails. Which statement best describes how this database will function if there is a database failure?

11 / 25

In which circumstance would a bucket owner pay for the data transfers instead of the Requester Pays bucket?

12 / 25

You are involved in the design of a client’s AWS cloud environment. A requirements meeting regarding storage leads to the need for EBS volumes in the design. Much of the design will require standard storage but there is a critical business application, which requires sustained IOPs performance. Which EBS storage option is best for critical apps that need high performance?

13 / 25

To optimize the cost associated with your application’s compute layer, your development team decided to integrate spot instances to support spikes in your workload. However, your auto scaling group should always contain eight (8) on-demand or reserved instances to process the normal amount of requests, and deploy a combination of spot and on-demand instances to manage spikes of activity requiring more than eight (8) instances.

How can you ensure there are always eight (8) on-demand instances to support your compute layers’ typical workload?

14 / 25

Your client is a major U.S. semi-professional sports league. Their website streams live sporting events in high definition and special feature videos which they distribute to free and premium customers alike. They want to improve the speed of content delivery and you recommend implementing AWS CloudFront. They would like to restrict access to a portion of this content to premium level subscription customers only. What technique can you use to limit access to premium content to approved customers?

15 / 25

Your supervisor asks you to set up a NAT gateway so that your private subnets can communicate with the Internet. Which of the following are the things that you will need to do to ensure this works successfully? (Choose 3 answers)

16 / 25

Your company allows technical personnel to manage their own S3 buckets. But there have been too many instances of users deleting important project related data. What additional steps can you take to prevent accidental deletion or overwriting of data? (Choose 3 answers)

17 / 25

A company stores its archival data backups on large storage volumes located at an on-premises data center, and now management wants to identify cloud solutions to minimize data archival costs. The company needs to back up roughly 200 TB of data to the cloud per month, and the speed of the backup is not a critical factor. The backups are rarely accessed, but when requested, they should be available in less than 6 hours. What are the most cost-effective steps to archiving the data and meeting additional requirements? (Choose 2 answers)

18 / 25

You have successfully created your first WordPress blog that is hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance. You’ve noticed that when the public DNS address for your instance changes, it breaks your installation. What could you do to prevent this? (Choose 3 answers)

19 / 25

Your business is slowly migrating to the AWS cloud, but must continue to support its on-premises servers and networks while extending to the cloud. As a result, you are looking for every possible way to optimize costs while ensuring resources remain secure. In order to provide an extra layer of security, you would like for your servers hosted within your VPCs to communicate with other AWS services without leaving your VPC network. You would also like your on-premises servers to be able to connect to these same AWS services through your VPC instead of sending and receiving requests over the public internet. Which AWS networking service or component would satisfy these requirements?

20 / 25

You are working as a Solutions Architect for a civil engineering company. You’ve been tasked with creating a Virtual Private Cloud to support a hybrid cloud solution. The cloud environment will need to connect to an on-premises application that cannot be migrated to the VPC. Your requirements are to get the connection setup as quickly as possible. Which option can you use to connect the VPC to the on-premise environment as quickly as possible?

21 / 25

You are the Lead Architect within an IT department of a company that has recently acquired several small start-up application development companies within the last year. In an effort to consolidate your resources, you are gradually migrating all digital files to your parent company AWS accounts, and storing a large number of files within an S3 bucket.

You are uploading millions of files, to save costs, but have not had the opportunity to review many of the files and documents to understand which files will be accessed frequently or infrequently.

What would be the best way to quickly upload the objects to S3 and ensure the best storage class from a cost perspective, without prior knowledge of the object or its access patterns throughout the financial year?

22 / 25

You have multiple VPN connections and want to provide secure communication between sites using the AWS VPN CloudHub. Which statement is the most accurate in describing what you must do to set this up correctly?

23 / 25

Your engineers are concerned about application availability during in-place updates to a live Elastic Beanstalk stack. You advise them to consider a blue/green deployment and then list the necessary steps to carry out this deployment. Which steps are valid to include? (Choose 3 answers)

24 / 25

You are configuring a new nondefault VPC for a client’s cloud migration project with the following components:

  • one public subnet
  • a default network access control list with no custom rules
  • an internet gateway
  • a main route table with a local route for your VPC

You then launch an instance to support the client’s migration which includes the following:

  • an AWS assigned DNS hostname
  • an AWS assigned private IP address
  • an AWS assigned public IP address
  • associated with a default security group with no custom rules.

You want to connect to the public internet through your instance, but cannot. What could you do to resolve this?

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Due to compliance rules and regulations, your company’s workload has to run on dedicated instances. How can you make sure that all EC2 instances created for your workload now and in the future are dedicated instances? (Choose 2 answers)

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1 / 65

A client has contracted you to review their existing AWS cloud environment and recommend and implement best practice changes. You begin by reviewing existing users and Identity Access Management. You immediately notice improvements that can be made with the use of the root account and Identity Access Management. What are the best practice guidelines for use of the root account?

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You are placed in charge of a client’s existing AWS cloud environment. They have several web servers in a public subnet and three database servers in a private subnet. The database is an RDS solution using SQL Server. AWS limits the types of changes the customer can make to the underlying infrastructure. What change will you be responsible for when administering this RDS database?

3 / 65

After reviewing the reports from AWS Trusted Advisor, your company has decided to enable multi-factor authentication for IAM users and the root account. Which of the following MFA options can be used for both account types? (Choose 2 answers)

4 / 65

You have been contracted to start building the latest and greatest mobile chat app. The schedule for this development and delivery is time critical. What correct mix of AWS services and components should you consider to ensure that your mobile chat app can be produced on time, ensuring that the mobile chat app can authenticate and authorize users?

5 / 65

Which one of the below is not an AWS Storage Service?

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You’ve been assigned to assist a client in the creation of their AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). You are shadowing their IT admin to allow the admin to create the VPC, learn, and benefit from your guidance. Which VPC components come automatically upon creation of a default VPC? (Choose 3 answers)

7 / 65

You want to configure DNS failover in Route 53 so that all of your resources are available for the majority of the time. Which of the following failover configurations would be most suited for this?

8 / 65

A user is aware that a huge download is occurring on his instance. He has already set the Auto Scaling policy to increase the instance count when the network I/O increases beyond a certain limit. How can the user ensure that this temporary event does not result in scaling?

9 / 65

You have an application that is generating a log file every 5 minutes and you need to store these log files appropriately. The requirements for storing the log files are:

  • They should be quickly retrievable when needed, as they may be required only for verification in case of some major issue.
  • The logs will need to be accessed frequently, as all log data is retrieved and compiled from the files into a bi-monthly report.
  • The logs are essential to quarterly audits, so the storage solution must offer a high level of durability.
  • Cost should also be minimized for the storage service as much as possible.

Which of the storage options below is the best choice to meet these requirements?

10 / 65

You are configuring a new nondefault VPC for a client’s cloud migration project with the following components:

  • one public subnet
  • a default network access control list with no custom rules
  • an internet gateway
  • a main route table with a local route for your VPC

You then launch an instance to support the client’s migration which includes the following:

  • an AWS assigned DNS hostname
  • an AWS assigned private IP address
  • an AWS assigned public IP address
  • associated with a default security group with no custom rules.

You want to connect to the public internet through your instance, but cannot. What could you do to resolve this?

11 / 65

A user wants to use an EBS-backed Amazon EC2 instance for a temporary job. Based on the input data, the job is most likely to finish within a week. Which one of the following is the best way to terminate the instance automatically once the job is finished?

12 / 65

A user wants to achieve High Availability with PostgreSQL DB. Which of the below mentioned functionalities helps achieve HA?

13 / 65

A client has contracted you to design and implement their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The design called for several web servers in an auto scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in a public subnet. The database tier is in a private subnet. The client has sensitive data and would like to have it encrypted. You’ve decided to configure a public key on the ALB to handle SSL encryption but the public key authentication is failing. What is a possible cause?

14 / 65

A user has enabled a CloudWatch alarm. The alarm has a $50 threshold for total AWS charges in the US East (N. Virginia) region. When does CloudWatch trigger the alarm for this threshold?

15 / 65

The average traffic to your online business has quadrupled since you expanded your targeted marketing campaigns. Your web servers are handling the traffic, but you are closely monitoring your database layer, which consists of multiple Amazon RDS MySQL Databases.

You are monitoring key custom metrics related to read and write throughput and latency using Amazon CloudWatch. You have configured CloudWatch alarms to monitor these custom metrics against optimal performance thresholds, but want to ensure these alarms based on these specific metrics are as responsive as possible.

How can you increase the responsiveness of CloudWatch alarms for the specific custom metrics you have already implemented for your RDS MySQL databases? (Choose 2 answers)

16 / 65

If you determine that the resources on a launched Amazon EC2 instance are insufficient to handle the workload of an application, you can resize the instance without performing any migration as long as your root device is a(n) ____________.

17 / 65

Regarding Amazon Route 53, if your application is running on Amazon EC2 instances in two or more Amazon EC2 regions and if you have more than one Amazon EC2 instance in one or more regions, you can use _______ to route traffic to the correct region for fastest response and then use ________to route traffic to instances within the region, based on weights that you specify.

18 / 65

An organization is planning to implement a scalable web application with Amazon EC2. The organization is planning to achieve high availability with Multi-AZ features. A single deployment of your application requires 8 vCPUs and 16 GiB total memory. The application workload is very stable, and does not experience spikes in activity. It is possible to divide the workload across separate instances.

Which configuration is the best choice for high availability, disaster recovery, and cost-effectiveness in this scenario?

19 / 65

You configured a VPC with web servers hosted on EC2 instances in an EC2 Auto Scaling group in a public subnet. You then create a private subnet and deploy your Amazon RDS database servers in it.

You grant a database administrator access to the RDS database instance, but she is unable to connect to it.

What steps can you take to resolve the issue?

20 / 65

One of your developers is creating an application that must upload large files to an S3 bucket. You suggest that they use the multipart upload feature. Which actions are required from the developer to complete a multipart upload? (Choose 2 answers)

21 / 65

An EC2 instance has one additional EBS volume attached to it. How can a user attach the same volume to another running instance in the same availability zone?

22 / 65

Within Elastic Load Balancing, the time-to-live ensures that the IP addresses can be remapped quickly in response to changing traffic. What is the default time-to-live (TTL) limit specified by a DNS entry?

23 / 65

You are the lead architect for an online educational content streaming service. You currently have hundreds of Apple HLS video files formated and packaged using AWS Elemental MediaConvert, and hosted in Amazon S3 buckets. You are streaming content via HTTPS. After an extended loss of availability due to a regional Amazon S3 outage, you need to optimize your CloudFront distributions using origin groups. Which types of origin servers could you configure as your secondary origins, in case another Amazon S3 outage occurs? (Choose 3 answers)

24 / 65

Your organization is migrating applications to AWS. Your new security policy mandates that all user accounts be created and managed through IAM. Currently, your corporation is using Active Directory as their on-premise LDAP service. Once applications go live at AWS, all users must access applications using temporary access credentials, and all IAM users must have passwords that are rotated on a set schedule. Which of the following actions will allow you to enforce this security policy? (Choose 3 answers)

25 / 65

You want to use AWS Import/Export to send data from your S3 bucket to several of your branch offices. What should you do if you want to send 10 storage units to AWS?

26 / 65

Your business is slowly migrating to the AWS cloud, but must continue to support its on-premises servers and networks while extending to the cloud. As a result, you are looking for every possible way to optimize costs while ensuring resources remain secure. In order to provide an extra layer of security, you would like for your servers hosted within your VPCs to communicate with other AWS services without leaving your VPC network. You would also like your on-premises servers to be able to connect to these same AWS services through your VPC instead of sending and receiving requests over the public internet. Which AWS networking service or component would satisfy these requirements?

27 / 65

_____ is a useful and powerful tool within Billing and Cost Management. It allows you to view historical billing information in a graphical format giving you greater insight to your AWS spend.

28 / 65

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

29 / 65

An organization has launched five instances: two for production and three for testing. The organization wants a particular group of IAM users to access only the test instances and not the production ones. They want to deploy the instances in various locations based on the factors that will change from time to time, especially in the test group. They expect instances will often be deleted and replaced, especially in the testing group.  This means the five instances they have created now will soon be replaced by a different set of five instances. The members of each group, production, and testing will not change in the foreseeable future.

Given the situation, what choice below is the most efficient and time-saving strategy to define the IAM policy? (Choose 2 answers)

30 / 65

You are working for a rapidly growing company that is using EC2 instances to process customer requests. There have been many instances of latency related to the high demand for specific EC2 instances. You are designing changes to the environment, including an Application Load Balancer to manage traffic demands. What ELB characteristics and best practices should you keep in mind? (Choose 2 answers)

31 / 65

A user has attached 1 EBS volume to a VPC instance. The user wants to achieve the best fault tolerance of data possible. Which of the below mentioned options can help achieve fault tolerance?

32 / 65

You are involved in the design of a client’s AWS cloud environment. A requirements meeting regarding storage leads to the need for EBS volumes in the design. Much of the design will require standard storage but there is a critical business application, which requires sustained IOPs performance. Which EBS storage option is best for critical apps that need high performance?

33 / 65

A major customer has asked you to set up his AWS infrastructure so that it will be easy to recover in the case of a disaster of some sort. Which of the following is important when thinking about being able to quickly launch resources in AWS to ensure business continuity in case of a disaster?

34 / 65

A user needs to run a batch process which runs for 10 minutes. This will only be run once, or at maximum twice, in the next month, so the processes will be temporary only. The process needs 15 X-Large instances. The process downloads the code fromS3 on each instance when it is launched, and then generates a temporary log file. Once the instance is terminated, all the data will be lost. Which of the below mentioned pricing models should the user choose in this case?

35 / 65

A user has enabled static website hosting on an S3 bucket, and configured and uploaded an index document.

An S3 bucket configured for static website hosting provides what additional capabilities?

36 / 65

An accountant asks you to design a small VPC network for him and, due to the nature of his business, just needs something where the workload on the network will be low, and dynamic data will be accessed infrequently. Being an accountant, low cost is also a major factor. Which EBS volume type would best suit his requirements?

37 / 65

You have been contracted by a company to design and implement their AWS cloud environment. The company has a very tight budget and would like to maximize savings wherever possible. They’ve gotten a 5-year government contract and the workload is expected to remain steady throughout the length of the contract. What type of instance will best meet their computing needs while providing maximum savings?

38 / 65

Which of the four storage options on Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier charges per GB retrieval fees? (Choose 2 answers)

39 / 65

You create a two-tiered web application for a client with Elastic Load Balancer, two Web Servers, and a MySQL database. You begin getting complaints of poor response times and notice that the requests to the database are increasing weekly. The result is queries that are taking longer and longer. What steps can you take to speed up database performance? (Choose 2 answers)

40 / 65

You have been put in charge of your company’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The environment lacks sufficient documentation. You are investigating the VPC in an effort to document the environment. Your review includes the route tables. What relationships between route tables and subnets can you count on being present in the environment? (Choose 2 answers)

41 / 65

Your client has submitted a change request to improve security on their S3 buckets. You have decided to allow two administrators to manage the buckets, and are setting up an IAM role for the admins. Your client approves of the two admins having some access, but does not want them to be able to review potentially valuable business information stored within the files. Which operations would you allow this admin role to perform? (Choose 3 answers)

42 / 65

A client of yours has a huge amount of data stored on Amazon S3, but is concerned about someone stealing it while it is in transit. You know that all data is encrypted in transit on AWS, but which of the following is wrong when describing server-side encryption on AWS?

43 / 65

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

44 / 65

Having set up a website to automatically be redirected to a backup website if it fails, you realize that there are different types of failovers that are possible. You need all your resources to be available the majority of the time. Using Amazon Route 53 which configuration would best suit this requirement?

45 / 65

You are assisting an IT administrator for a client company over the phone. The administrator has created a public subnet and had added two EC2 instances to this subnet. But he is unable to access the Internet from these new EC2 instances and is asking for your assistance. What general checks can he make to ensure proper configuration and Internet access? (Choose 3 answers)

46 / 65

You have been put in charge of your company’s AWS RDS environment. You have begun designing a highly available RDS database using MySQL. You’ve designed the failover solution using multi-AZ.  Additionally, you would like to design a proactive environment that self corrects before a failover occurs. You are reviewing ways to increase the I/O capacity of a DB instance. Which method is not an appropriate way to increase I/O for a database?

47 / 65

A client has contacted you about designing their AWS cloud environment. They want to fully migrate their compute environment to the cloud. Their biggest requirement is that they need high availability at both the web and database tiers. Their current database is MySQL. How might you best design high availability for their environment with cost being a consideration as well?

48 / 65

A user is observing the EC2 CPU utilization metric on CloudWatch. The user has observed some interesting patterns while filtering over the 1-week period for a particular hour. The user wants to zoom that data point to a more granular period. How can the user do that easily with CloudWatch?

49 / 65

Your company uses an on-premise identity system such as Active Directory to authenticate users locally. You would like to grant the same users access into the AWS console without requiring them to authenticate again. What possible solution below can be used to provide this type of access:

50 / 65

What is the default maximum number of Access Keys per user?

51 / 65

An organization has set up an application on AWS. The organization wants to achieve scalability and high availability for the application, which should scale up and down to address workload changes on the application.

Which configuration step is not required in this scenario?

52 / 65

Which of the following accurately describes Elastic Load Balancing? (Choose 3 answers)

53 / 65

Select a true statement about Amazon EC2 Security Groups (EC2-Classic).

54 / 65

You are configuring a new VPC for one of your clients for a cloud migration project, and only a public VPN will be in place. After you created your VPC, you created a new subnet, a new Internet gateway, and attached your internet gateway to your VPC. When you launched your first instance into your VPC, you realized that you aren’t able to connect to the instance, even if it is configured with an elastic IP. What should be done to access the instance?

55 / 65

When CloudWatch detailed monitoring is enabled, what is the minimum duration of a CloudWatch alarm?

56 / 65

In S3, how is storage class analysis intended to improve data lifecycle management?

57 / 65

A user wants to use an EBS-backed Amazon EC2 instance for a temporary job. Based on the input data, the job is most likely to finish within a week. Which one of the following is the best way to terminate the instance automatically once the job is finished?

58 / 65

What is one security benefit of utilizing the Elastic Load Balancer?

59 / 65

You have implemented multipart uploading in your company’s AWS cloud storage environment. The overall performance has been good but there is some concern about network utilization. Your CFO has also raised concerns about greater than expected storage costs. What steps can you take to address each of these issues with cost as a primary concern? (Choose 2 answers)

60 / 65

A national auto parts chain contracted your firm to design and implement their AWS environment. It is a very large-scale system that handles order processing, accounting, stocking, and logistics. This system spans multiple availability zones and requires a multi-AZ environment for high availability. The system has been implemented and you need to test the database failover mechanism. It is imperative that the failover occurs within the specified RTO. How can you consistently test database failover?

61 / 65

Having set up a website to automatically be redirected to a backup website if it fails, you realize that there are different types of failovers that are possible. You need all your resources to be available the majority of the time. Using Amazon Route 53 which configuration would best suit this requirement?

62 / 65

You are working as a Solutions Architect for a healthcare company. You’ve been tasked with creating a Virtual Private Cloud to create a hybrid cloud solution. The cloud environment will need to connect to on-premises applications which can not be migrated to the VPC. Your requirements are to use the most reliable connection with the highest throughput possible. Which option can you use to get the hybrid environment operational to meet these requirements?

63 / 65

Your company is migrating its infrastructure to AWS. When considering the migration level effort required, you determine there are a select number of VMs that fall under the “very low effort” category. After considering third-party migration options, you decide to utilize available AWS tools. What tools are available for migrating VMs to the AWS cloud? (Choose 2 answers)

64 / 65

Do you need to shutdown your EC2 instance when you create a snapshot of EBS volumes that serve as root devices?

65 / 65

Your company is planning to deploy a hybrid environment linking their on-premise database to an application hosted at AWS. When considering performance rather than security, what are key concerns when designing a network between AWS and the on-site database? (Choose 2 answers)

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional – Free Practice Tests

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