Amazon SAA-C03 AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Exam Practice Test Questions

• Question 1

  A company is developing a file-sharing application that will use an Amazon S3 bucket for storage. The company wants to serve all the files through an Amazon CloudFront distribution. The company does not want the files to be accessible through direct navigation to the S3 URL.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

  • Write individual policies for each S3 bucket to grant read permission for only CloudFront access.
  • Create an IAM user. Grant the user read permission to objects in the S3 bucket. Assign the user to CloudFront.
  • Write an S3 bucket policy that assigns the CloudFront distribution ID as the Principal and assigns the target S3 bucket as the Amazon Resource Name (ARN).
  • Create an origin access identity (OAI). Assign the OAI to the CloudFront distribution. Configure the S3 bucket permissions so that only the OAI has read permission.

  Show Answer Answer: D Next

• Question 2

  A company has a mulli-tier application that runs six front-end web servers in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group in a single Availability Zone behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). A solutions architect needs lo modify the infrastructure to be highly available without modifying the application.Which architecture should the solutions architect choose that provides high availability?

  • Create an Auto Scaling group that uses three Instances across each of tv/o Regions.
  • Modify the Auto Scaling group to use three instances across each of two Availability Zones.
  • Create an Auto Scaling template that can be used to quickly create more instances in another Region.
  • Change the ALB in front of the Amazon EC2 instances in a round-robin configuration to balance traffic to the web tier.

  Show Answer Answer: B Next

• Question 3

  A medical research lab produces data that is related to a new study. The lab wants to make the data available with minimum latency to clinics across the country for their on-premises, file-based applications. The data files are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket that has read-only permissions for each clinic.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

  • Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway as a virtual machine (VM) on premises at each clinic
  • Migrate the files to each clinic's on-premises applications by using AWS DataSync for processing.
  • Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway as a virtual machine (VM) on premises at each clinic.
  • Attach an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system to each clinic's on-premises servers.

  Show Answer Answer: A Next

• Question 4

  A company wants to experiment with individual AWS accounts for its engineer team. The company wants to be notified as soon as the Amazon EC2 instance usage for a given month exceeds a specific threshold for each account.What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement MOST cost-effectively?

  • Use Cost Explorer to create a daily report of costs by service. Filter the report by EC2 instances. Configure Cost Explorer to send an Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) notification when a threshold is exceeded.
  • Use Cost Explorer to create a monthly report of costs by service. Filter the report by EC2 instances. Configure Cost Explorer to send an Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) notification when a threshold is exceeded.
  • Use AWS Budgets to create a cost budget for each account. Set the period to monthly. Set the scope to EC2 instances. Set an alert threshold for the budget. Configure an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to receive a notification when a threshold is exceeded.
  • Use AWS Cost and Usage Reports to create a report with hourly granularity. Integrate the report data with Amazon Athena. Use Amazon EventBridge to schedule an Athena query. Configure an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to receive a notification when a threshold is exceeded.

  Show Answer Answer: C Next

• Question 5

  At part of budget planning. management wants a report of AWS billed dams listed by user. The data will be used to create department budgets. A solution architect needs to determine the most efficient way to obtain this report InformationWhich solution meets these requirement?

  • Run a query with Amazon Athena to generate the report.
  • Create a report in Cost Explorer and download the report
  • Access the bill details from the running dashboard and download Via bill.
  • Modify a cost budget in AWS Budgets to alert with Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES).

  Show Answer Answer: B Next