Amazon SAA-C03 Practice Exam Questions

Amazon SAA-C03 Sample Question Answers

Question # 1

A company is developing a mobile game that streams score updates to a backendprocessor and then posts results on a leaderboard A solutions architect needs to design asolution that can handle large traffic spikes process the mobile game updates in order ofreceipt, and store the processed updates in a highly available database The company alsowants to minimize the management overhead required to maintain the solutionWhat should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A. Push score updates to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Process the updates in KinesisData Streams with AWS Lambda Store the processed updates in Amazon DynamoDB.
B. Push score updates to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Process the updates with a fleetof Amazon EC2 instances set up for Auto Scaling Store the processed updates in AmazonRedshift.
C. Push score updates to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topicSubscribe an AWS Lambda function to the SNS topic to process the updates. Store theprocessed updates in a SQL database running on Amazon EC2.
D. Push score updates to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. Use afleet of Amazon EC2 instances with Auto Scaling to process the updates in the SQSqueue. Store the processed updates in an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance.

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Question # 2

A company runs an SMB file server in its data center. The file server stores large files thatthe company frequently accesses for up to 7 days after the file creation date. After 7 days,the company needs to be able to access the files with a maximum retrieval time of 24hours.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Use AWS DataSync to copy data that is older than 7 days from the SMB file server toAWS.
B. Create an Amazon S3 File Gateway to increase the company's storage space. Createan S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 7 days.
C. Create an Amazon FSx File Gateway to increase the company's storage space. Createan Amazon S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the data after 7 days.
D. Configure access to Amazon S3 for each user. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy totransition the data to S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval after 7 days.

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Question # 3

A company has an organization in AWS Organizations that has all features enabled Thecompany requires that all API calls and logins in any existing or new AWS account must beaudited The company needs a managed solution to prevent additional work and tominimize costs The company also needs to know when any AWS account is not compliantwith the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices (FSBP) standard.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Deploy an AWS Control Tower environment in the Organizations management accountEnable AWS Security Hub and AWS Control Tower Account Factory in the environment.
B. Deploy an AWS Control Tower environment in a dedicated Organizations memberaccount Enable AWS Security Hub and AWS Control Tower Account Factory in theenvironment.
C. Use AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate to build a multi-account landing zone(MALZ) Submit an RFC to self-service provision Amazon GuardDuty in the MALZ.
D. Use AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate to build a multi-account landing zone(MALZ) Submit an RFC to self-service provision AWS Security Hub in the MALZ.

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Question # 4

A solutions architect is designing a user authentication solution for a company The solutionmust invoke two-factor authentication for users that log in from inconsistent geographicallocations. IP addresses, or devices. The solution must also be able to scale up toaccommodate millions of users.Which solution will meet these requirements'?

A. Configure Amazon Cognito user pools for user authentication Enable the nsk-basedadaptive authentication feature with multi-factor authentication (MFA)
B. Configure Amazon Cognito identity pools for user authentication Enable multi-factorauthentication (MFA).
C. Configure AWS Identity and Access Management (1AM) users for user authenticationAttach an 1AM policy that allows the AllowManageOwnUserMFA action
D. Configure AWS 1AM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On) authentication for userauthentication Configure the permission sets to require multi-factor authentication(MFA)

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Question # 5

A solutions architect needs to design the architecture for an application that a vendorprovides as a Docker container image The container needs 50 GB of storage available fortemporary files The infrastructure must be serverless.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Create an AWS Lambda function that uses the Docker container image with an AmazonS3 mounted volume that has more than 50 GB of space
B. Create an AWS Lambda function that uses the Docker container image with an AmazonElastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume that has more than 50 GB of space
C. Create an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster that uses the AWSFargate launch type Create a task definition for the container image with an AmazonElastic File System (Amazon EFS) volume. Create a service with that task definition.
D. Create an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster that uses theAmazon EC2 launch type with an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume thathas more than 50 GB of space Create a task definition for the container image. Create aservice with that task definition.

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Question # 6

A company uses AWS Organizations to run workloads within multiple AWS accounts Atagging policy adds department tags to AWS resources when the company creates tags.An accounting team needs to determine spending on Amazon EC2 consumption Theaccounting team must determine which departments are responsible for the costsregardless of AWS account The accounting team has access to AWS Cost Explorer for allAWS accounts within the organization and needs to access all reports from Cost Explorer.Which solution meets these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way'?

A. From the Organizations management account billing console, activate a user-definedcost allocation tag named department Create one cost report in Cost Explorer grouping by tag name, and filter by EC2.
B. From the Organizations management account billing console, activate an AWS-definedcost allocation tag named department. Create one cost report in Cost Explorer grouping bytag name, and filter by EC2.
C. From the Organizations member account billing console, activate a user-defined costallocation tag named department. Create one cost report in Cost Explorer grouping by thetag name, and filter by EC2.
D. From the Organizations member account billing console, activate an AWS-defined costallocation tag named department. Create one cost report in Cost Explorer grouping by tagname and filter by EC2.

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Question # 7

A company is building an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster for itsworkloads. All secrets that are stored in Amazon EKS must be encrypted in the Kubernetesetcd key-value store.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Create a new AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key Use AWS SecretsManager to manage rotate, and store all secrets in Amazon EKS.
B. Create a new AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key Enable Amazon EKSKMS secrets encryption on the Amazon EKS cluster.
C. Create the Amazon EKS cluster with default options Use the Amazon Elastic BlockStore (Amazon EBS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver as an add-on.
D. Create a new AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key with the ahas/aws/ebsalias Enable default Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume encryption for theaccount.

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Question # 8

A retail company has several businesses. The IT team for each business manages its ownAWS account. Each team account is part of an organization in AWS Organizations. Eachteam monitors its product inventory levels in an Amazon DynamoDB table in the team'sown AWS account.The company is deploying a central inventory reporting application into a shared AWSaccount. The application must be able to read items from all the teams' DynamoDB tables.Which authentication option will meet these requirements MOST securely?

A. Integrate DynamoDB with AWS Secrets Manager in the inventory application account.Configure the application to use the correct secret from Secrets Manager to authenticateand read the DynamoDB table. Schedule secret rotation for every 30 days.
B. In every business account, create an 1AM user that has programmatic access.Configure the application to use the correct 1AM user access key ID and secret access keyto authenticate and read the DynamoDB table. Manually rotate 1AM access keys every 30days.
C. In every business account, create an 1AM role named BU_ROLE with a policy that givesthe role access to the DynamoDB table and a trust policy to trust a specific role in theinventory application account. In the inventory account, create a role named APP_ROLEthat allows access to the STS AssumeRole API operation. Configure the application to useAPP_ROLE and assume the cross-account role BU_ROLE to read the DynamoDB table.
D. Integrate DynamoDB with AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). Generate identitycertificates to authenticate DynamoDB. Configure the application to use the correctcertificate to authenticate and read the DynamoDB table.

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Question # 9

A company built an application with Docker containers and needs to run the application inthe AWS Cloud The company wants to use a managed sen/ice to host the applicationThe solution must scale in and out appropriately according to demand on the individualcontainer services The solution also must not result in additional operational overhead orinfrastructure to manageWhich solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO)

A. Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with AWS Fargate.
B. Use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with AWS Fargate.
C. Provision an Amazon API Gateway API Connect the API to AWS Lambda to run the containers.
D. Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with Amazon EC2 worker nodes.
E. Use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with Amazon EC2 workernodes.

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Question # 10

A company uses Amazon S3 as its data lake. The company has a new partner that mustuse SFTP to upload data files A solutions architect needs to implement a highly availableSFTP solution that minimizes operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Use AWS Transfer Family to configure an SFTP-enabled server with a publiclyaccessible endpoint Choose the S3 data lake as the destination
B. Use Amazon S3 File Gateway as an SFTP server Expose the S3 File Gateway endpointURL to the new partner Share the S3 File Gateway endpoint with the newpartner
C. Launch an Amazon EC2 instance in a private subnet in a VPC. Instruct the new partnerto upload files to the EC2 instance by using a VPN. Run a cron job script on the EC2instance to upload files to the S3 data lake
D. Launch Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet in a VPC. Place a Network LoadBalancer (NLB) in front of the EC2 instances. Create an SFTP listener port for the NLB Share the NLB hostname with the new partner Run a cron job script on the EC2 instancesto upload files to the S3 data lake.

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