🔍

SAA-C03 — questions

Page 30 of 51 · 1019 total questions.

SAA-C03 Question 581

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 581

A company runs a stateful production application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application requires at least two EC2 instances to always be running. A solutions architect needs to design a highly available and fault-tolerant architecture for the application. The solutions architect creates an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances. Which set of additional steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements?

  • ASet the Auto Scaling group's minimum capacity to two. Deploy one On-Demand Instance in one Availability Zone and one On-Demand Instance in a second Availability Zone.
  • BSet the Auto Scaling group's minimum capacity to four. Deploy two On-Demand Instances in one Availability Zone and two On-Demand Instances in a second Availability Zone. (correct answer)
  • CSet the Auto Scaling group's minimum capacity to two. Deploy four Spot Instances in one Availability Zone.
  • DSet the Auto Scaling group's minimum capacity to four. Deploy two On-Demand Instances in one Availability Zone and two Spot Instances in a second Availability Zone.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: B

The correct answer is B. Option B: Set the Auto Scaling group's minimum capacity to four. Deploy two On-Demand Instances in one Availability Zone and two On-Demand Instances in a second Availability Zone.

Explanation

Auto Scaling adjusts capacity automatically to match demand, improving availability and cost efficiency. By spanning multiple Availability Zones / adding redundancy, this option provides the high availability and resilience required.

SAA-C03 Question 582

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 582

An ecommerce company uses Amazon Route 53 as its DNS provider. The company hosts its website on premises and in the AWS Cloud. The company's on-premises data center is near the us-west-1 Region. The company uses the eu-central-1 Region to host the website. The company wants to minimize load time for the website as much as possible. Which solution will meet these requirements?

  • ASet up a geolocation routing policy. Send the traffic that is near us-west-1 to the on-premises data center. Send the traffic that is near eu-central-1 to eu-central-1. (correct answer)
  • BSet up a simple routing policy that routes all traffic that is near eu-central-1 to eu-central-1 and routes all traffic that is near the on-premises datacenter to the on-premises data center.
  • CSet up a latency routing policy. Associate the policy with us-west-1.
  • DSet up a weighted routing policy. Split the traffic evenly between eu-central-1 and the on-premises data center.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A. Option A: Set up a geolocation routing policy. Send the traffic that is near us-west-1 to the on-premises data center. Send the traffic that is near eu-central-1 to eu-central-1.

SAA-C03 Question 583

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 583

A company has 5 PB of archived data on physical tapes. The company needs to preserve the data on the tapes for another 10 years for compliance purposes. The company wants to migrate to AWS in the next 6 months. The data center that stores the tapes has a 1 Gbps uplink internet connectivity. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

  • ARead the data from the tapes on premises. Stage the data in a local NFS storage. Use AWS DataSync to migrate the data to Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval.
  • BUse an on-premises backup application to read the data from the tapes and to write directly to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive.
  • COrder multiple AWS Snowball devices that have Tape Gateway. Copy the physical tapes to virtual tapes in Snowball. Ship the Snowball devices to AWS. Create a lifecycle policy to move the tapes to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive. (correct answer)
  • DConfigure an on-premises Tape Gateway. Create virtual tapes in the AWS Cloud. Use backup software to copy the physical tape to the virtual tape.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: C

The correct answer is C. Option C: Order multiple AWS Snowball devices that have Tape Gateway. Copy the physical tapes to virtual tapes in Snowball. Ship the Snowball devices to AWS. Create a lifecycle policy to move the tapes to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep...

Explanation

S3 Glacier Deep Archive is the lowest-cost storage for long-term archival with retrieval in hours. Amazon S3 Glacier offers low-cost archival storage for infrequently accessed data. Amazon S3 provides durable, scalable object storage that is fully managed. This option delivers the requirement at the lowest cost.

SAA-C03 Question 584

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 584

A company is deploying an application that processes large quantities of data in parallel. The company plans to use Amazon EC2 instances for the workload. The network architecture must be configurable to prevent groups of nodes from sharing the same underlying hardware. Which networking solution meets these requirements?

  • ARun the EC2 instances in a spread placement group. (correct answer)
  • BGroup the EC2 instances in separate accounts.
  • CConfigure the EC2 instances with dedicated tenancy.
  • DConfigure the EC2 instances with shared tenancy.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A. Option A: Run the EC2 instances in a spread placement group.

Explanation

Amazon EC2 provides resizable virtual servers when you need full control of the operating system.

SAA-C03 Question 585

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 585

A solutions architect is designing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy to provide Amazon EC2 capacity in a failover AWS Region. Business requirements state that the DR strategy must meet capacity in the failover Region. Which solution will meet these requirements?

  • APurchase On-Demand Instances in the failover Region.
  • BPurchase an EC2 Savings Plan in the failover Region.
  • CPurchase regional Reserved Instances in the failover Region.
  • DPurchase a Capacity Reservation in the failover Region. (correct answer)
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: D

The correct answer is D. Option D: Purchase a Capacity Reservation in the failover Region. By spanning multiple Availability Zones / adding redundancy, this option provides the high availability and resilience required.

SAA-C03 Question 586

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 586

A company has five organizational units (OUs) as part of its organization in AWS Organizations. Each OU correlates to the five businesses that the company owns. The company's research and development (R&D) business is separating from the company and will need its own organization. A solutions architect creates a separate new management account for this purpose. What should the solutions architect do next in the new management account?

  • AHave the R&D AWS account be part of both organizations during the transition.
  • BInvite the R&D AWS account to be part of the new organization after the R&D AWS account has left the prior organization. (correct answer)
  • CCreate a new R&D AWS account in the new organization. Migrate resources from the prior R&D AWS account to the new R&D AWS account.
  • DHave the R&D AWS account join the new organization. Make the new management account a member of the prior organization.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: B

The correct answer is B. Option B: Invite the R&D AWS account to be part of the new organization after the R&D AWS account has left the prior organization.

SAA-C03 Question 587

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 587

A company is designing a solution to capture customer activity in different web applications to process analytics and make predictions. Customer activity in the web applications is unpredictable and can increase suddenly. The company requires a solution that integrates with other web applications. The solution must include an authorization step for security purposes. Which solution will meet these requirements?

  • AConfigure a Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) in front of an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) container instance that stores the information that the company receives in an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system. Authorization is resolved at the GWLB.
  • BConfigure an Amazon API Gateway endpoint in front of an Amazon Kinesis data stream that stores the information that the company receives in an Amazon S3 bucket. Use an AWS Lambda function to resolve authorization.
  • CConfigure an Amazon API Gateway endpoint in front of an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose that stores the information that the company receives in an Amazon S3 bucket. Use an API Gateway Lambda authorizer to resolve authorization. (correct answer)
  • DConfigure a Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) in front of an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) container instance that stores the information that the company receives on an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system. Use an AWS Lambda function to resolve authorization.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: C

The correct answer is C. Option C: Configure an Amazon API Gateway endpoint in front of an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose that stores the information that the company receives in an Amazon S3 bucket. Use an API Gateway Lambda authorizer to resolve author...

Explanation

AWS Lambda runs code without provisioning servers and scales automatically, which minimizes operational overhead. Amazon S3 provides durable, scalable object storage that is fully managed. Kinesis Data Firehose delivers streaming data to destinations like S3/Redshift with no servers to manage.

SAA-C03 Question 588

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 588

An ecommerce company wants a disaster recovery solution for its Amazon RDS DB instances that run Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition. The company's current recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) are 24 hours. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

  • ACreate a cross-Region read replica and promote the read replica to the primary instance.
  • BUse AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to create RDS cross-Region replication.
  • CUse cross-Region replication every 24 hours to copy native backups to an Amazon S3 bucket.
  • DCopy automatic snapshots to another Region every 24 hours. (correct answer)
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: D

The correct answer is D. Option D: Copy automatic snapshots to another Region every 24 hours. This option delivers the requirement at the lowest cost.

SAA-C03 Question 589

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 589

A company runs a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer that has sticky sessions enabled. The web server currently hosts the user session state. The company wants to ensure high availability and avoid user session state loss in the event of a web server outage. Which solution will meet these requirements?

  • AUse an Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached instance to store the session data. Update the application to use ElastiCache for Memcached to store the session state.
  • BUse Amazon ElastiCache for Redis to store the session state. Update the application to use ElastiCache for Redis to store the session state. (correct answer)
  • CUse an AWS Storage Gateway cached volume to store session data. Update the application to use AWS Storage Gateway cached volume to store the session state.
  • DUse Amazon RDS to store the session state. Update the application to use Amazon RDS to store the session state.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: B

The correct answer is B. Option B: Use Amazon ElastiCache for Redis to store the session state. Update the application to use ElastiCache for Redis to store the session state.

Explanation

Amazon ElastiCache provides in-memory caching (Redis/Memcached) to reduce latency and offload the database.

SAA-C03 Question 590

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 590

A company migrated a MySQL database from the company's on-premises data center to an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The company sized the RDS DB instance to meet the company's average daily workload. Once a month, the database performs slowly when the company runs queries for a report. The company wants to have the ability to run reports and maintain the performance of the daily workloads. Which solution will meet these requirements?

  • ACreate a read replica of the database. Direct the queries to the read replica. (correct answer)
  • BCreate a backup of the database. Restore the backup to another DB instance. Direct the queries to the new database.
  • CExport the data to Amazon S3. Use Amazon Athena to query the S3 bucket.
  • DResize the DB instance to accommodate the additional workload.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A. Option A: Create a read replica of the database. Direct the queries to the read replica.

SAA-C03 Question 591

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 591

A company runs a container application by using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). The application includes microservices that manage customers and place orders. The company needs to route incoming requests to the appropriate microservices. Which solution will meet this requirement MOST cost-effectively?

  • AUse the AWS Load Balancer Controller to provision a Network Load Balancer.
  • BUse the AWS Load Balancer Controller to provision an Application Load Balancer. (correct answer)
  • CUse an AWS Lambda function to connect the requests to Amazon EKS.
  • DUse Amazon API Gateway to connect the requests to Amazon EKS.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: B

The correct answer is B. Option B: Use the AWS Load Balancer Controller to provision an Application Load Balancer.

Explanation

An Application Load Balancer distributes HTTP/HTTPS traffic and supports path/host routing. A load balancer distributes traffic across targets in multiple AZs for availability and scale. This option delivers the requirement at the lowest cost.

SAA-C03 Question 592

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 592

A company uses AWS and sells access to copyrighted images. The company’s global customer base needs to be able to access these images quickly. The company must deny access to users from specific countries. The company wants to minimize costs as much as possible. Which solution will meet these requirements?

  • AUse Amazon S3 to store the images. Turn on multi-factor authentication (MFA) and public bucket access. Provide customers with a link to the S3 bucket.
  • BUse Amazon S3 to store the images. Create an IAM user for each customer. Add the users to a group that has permission to access the S3 bucket.
  • CUse Amazon EC2 instances that are behind Application Load Balancers (ALBs) to store the images. Deploy the instances only in the countries the company services. Provide customers with links to the ALBs for their specific country's instances.
  • DUse Amazon S3 to store the images. Use Amazon CloudFront to distribute the images with geographic restrictions. Provide a signed URL for each customer to access the data in CloudFront. (correct answer)
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: D

The correct answer is D. Option D: Use Amazon S3 to store the images. Use Amazon CloudFront to distribute the images with geographic restrictions. Provide a signed URL for each customer to access the data in CloudFront.

Explanation

Amazon S3 provides durable, scalable object storage that is fully managed. Amazon CloudFront caches content at edge locations to reduce latency and offload origins. This option delivers the requirement at the lowest cost.

SAA-C03 Question 593

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 593

A solutions architect is designing a highly available Amazon ElastiCache for Redis based solution. The solutions architect needs to ensure that failures do not result in performance degradation or loss of data locally and within an AWS Region. The solution needs to provide high availability at the node level and at the Region level. Which solution will meet these requirements?

  • AUse Multi-AZ Redis replication groups with shards that contain multiple nodes. (correct answer)
  • BUse Redis shards that contain multiple nodes with Redis append only files (AOF) turned on.
  • CUse a Multi-AZ Redis cluster with more than one read replica in the replication group.
  • DUse Redis shards that contain multiple nodes with Auto Scaling turned on.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A. Option A: Use Multi-AZ Redis replication groups with shards that contain multiple nodes.

Explanation

Amazon RDS is a managed relational database that handles patching, backups and failover. By spanning multiple Availability Zones / adding redundancy, this option provides the high availability and resilience required.

SAA-C03 Question 594

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 594

A company plans to migrate to AWS and use Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances for its application. During the migration testing phase, a technical team observes that the application takes a long time to launch and load memory to become fully productive. Which solution will reduce the launch time of the application during the next testing phase?

  • ALaunch two or more EC2 On-Demand Instances. Turn on auto scaling features and make the EC2 On-Demand Instances available during the next testing phase.
  • BLaunch EC2 Spot Instances to support the application and to scale the application so it is available during the next testing phase.
  • CLaunch the EC2 On-Demand Instances with hibernation turned on. Configure EC2 Auto Scaling warm pools during the next testing phase. (correct answer)
  • DLaunch EC2 On-Demand Instances with Capacity Reservations. Start additional EC2 instances during the next testing phase.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: C

The correct answer is C. Option C: Launch the EC2 On-Demand Instances with hibernation turned on. Configure EC2 Auto Scaling warm pools during the next testing phase.

Explanation

Auto Scaling adjusts capacity automatically to match demand, improving availability and cost efficiency. Amazon EC2 provides resizable virtual servers when you need full control of the operating system. AWS Config tracks resource configuration changes and evaluates compliance.

SAA-C03 Question 595

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 595

A company's applications run on Amazon EC2 instances in Auto Scaling groups. The company notices that its applications experience sudden traffic increases on random days of the week. The company wants to maintain application performance during sudden traffic increases. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

  • AUse manual scaling to change the size of the Auto Scaling group.
  • BUse predictive scaling to change the size of the Auto Scaling group.
  • CUse dynamic scaling to change the size of the Auto Scaling group. (correct answer)
  • DUse schedule scaling to change the size of the Auto Scaling group.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: C

The correct answer is C. Option C: Use dynamic scaling to change the size of the Auto Scaling group.

Explanation

Auto Scaling adjusts capacity automatically to match demand, improving availability and cost efficiency. This option delivers the requirement at the lowest cost.

SAA-C03 Question 596

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 596

An ecommerce application uses a PostgreSQL database that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. During a monthly sales event, database usage increases and causes database connection issues for the application. The traffic is unpredictable for subsequent monthly sales events, which impacts the sales forecast. The company needs to maintain performance when there is an unpredictable increase in traffic. Which solution resolves this issue in the MOST cost-effective way?

  • AMigrate the PostgreSQL database to Amazon Aurora Serverless v2. (correct answer)
  • BEnable auto scaling for the PostgreSQL database on the EC2 instance to accommodate increased usage.
  • CMigrate the PostgreSQL database to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with a larger instance type.
  • DMigrate the PostgreSQL database to Amazon Redshift to accommodate increased usage.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A. Option A: Migrate the PostgreSQL database to Amazon Aurora Serverless v2.

Explanation

Aurora Serverless auto-scales database capacity and is cost-effective for variable workloads. Amazon Aurora is a high-performance managed relational database with built-in replication and failover. This option delivers the requirement at the lowest cost.

SAA-C03 Question 597

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 597

A company hosts an internal serverless application on AWS by using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The company’s employees report issues with high latency when they begin using the application each day. The company wants to reduce latency. Which solution will meet these requirements?

  • AIncrease the API Gateway throttling limit.
  • BSet up a scheduled scaling to increase Lambda provisioned concurrency before employees begin to use the application each day. (correct answer)
  • CCreate an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to initiate a Lambda function as a target for the alarm at the beginning of each day.
  • DIncrease the Lambda function memory.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: B

The correct answer is B. Option B: Set up a scheduled scaling to increase Lambda provisioned concurrency before employees begin to use the application each day.

Explanation

AWS Lambda runs code without provisioning servers and scales automatically, which minimizes operational overhead.

SAA-C03 Question 598

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 598 · Select all that apply

A research company uses on-premises devices to generate data for analysis. The company wants to use the AWS Cloud to analyze the data. The devices generate .csv files and support writing the data to an SMB file share. Company analysts must be able to use SQL commands to query the data. The analysts will run queries periodically throughout the day. Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose three.)

  • ADeploy an AWS Storage Gateway on premises in Amazon S3 File Gateway mode. (correct answer)
  • BDeploy an AWS Storage Gateway on premises in Amazon FSx File Gateway made.
  • CSet up an AWS Glue crawler to create a table based on the data that is in Amazon S3. (correct answer)
  • DSet up an Amazon EMR cluster with EMR File System (EMRFS) to query the data that is in Amazon S3. Provide access to analysts.
  • ESet up an Amazon Redshift cluster to query the data that is in Amazon S3. Provide access to analysts.
  • FSetup Amazon Athena to query the data that is in Amazon S3. Provide access to analysts. (correct answer)
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: A, C, F

The correct answer is A, C, F. Option A: Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway on premises in Amazon S3 File Gateway mode. Option C: Set up an AWS Glue crawler to create a table based on the data that is in Amazon S3. Option F: Setup Amazon Athena to query the data that is in Amazon S3. Provide access to analysts.

Explanation

Amazon S3 provides durable, scalable object storage that is fully managed. AWS Storage Gateway bridges on-premises apps to AWS storage with local caching. S3 File Gateway presents S3 as an NFS/SMB file share to on-premises applications. This option delivers the requirement at the lowest cost.

SAA-C03 Question 599

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 599 · Select all that apply

A company wants to use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) clusters and Amazon RDS DB instances to build and run a payment processing application. The company will run the application in its on-premises data center for compliance purposes. A solutions architect wants to use AWS Outposts as part of the solution. The solutions architect is working with the company's operational team to build the application. Which activities are the responsibility of the company's operational team? (Choose three.)

  • AProviding resilient power and network connectivity to the Outposts racks (correct answer)
  • BManaging the virtualization hypervisor, storage systems, and the AWS services that run on Outposts
  • CPhysical security and access controls of the data center environment (correct answer)
  • DAvailability of the Outposts infrastructure including the power supplies, servers, and networking equipment within the Outposts racks
  • EPhysical maintenance of Outposts components
  • FProviding extra capacity for Amazon ECS clusters to mitigate server failures and maintenance events (correct answer)
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: A, C, F

The correct answer is A, C, F. Option A: Providing resilient power and network connectivity to the Outposts racks Option C: Physical security and access controls of the data center environment Option F: Providing extra capacity for Amazon ECS clusters to mitigate server failures and maintenance events

Explanation

Amazon ECS orchestrates containers and integrates natively with AWS networking and IAM. AWS Outposts extends AWS infrastructure on premises for low-latency or data-residency needs.

SAA-C03 Question 600

Single page →
Topic 1 · Question 600

A company is planning to migrate a TCP-based application into the company's VPC. The application is publicly accessible on a nonstandard TCP port through a hardware appliance in the company's data center. This public endpoint can process up to 3 million requests per second with low latency. The company requires the same level of performance for the new public endpoint in AWS. What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?

  • ADeploy a Network Load Balancer (NLB). Configure the NLB to be publicly accessible over the TCP port that the application requires. (correct answer)
  • BDeploy an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Configure the ALB to be publicly accessible over the TCP port that the application requires.
  • CDeploy an Amazon CloudFront distribution that listens on the TCP port that the application requires. Use an Application Load Balancer as the origin.
  • DDeploy an Amazon API Gateway API that is configured with the TCP port that the application requires. Configure AWS Lambda functions with provisioned concurrency to process the requests.
Reveal answer & explanation
Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A. Option A: Deploy a Network Load Balancer (NLB). Configure the NLB to be publicly accessible over the TCP port that the application requires.

Explanation

A Network Load Balancer handles very high throughput TCP/UDP traffic with ultra-low latency and static IPs. A load balancer distributes traffic across targets in multiple AZs for availability and scale. AWS Config tracks resource configuration changes and evaluates compliance. This option meets the real-time / low-latency performance requirement.

Showing questions 581–600 of 1019 · Page 30 of 51