Notes: Hi all, We’re sharing AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) Practice Exam Part 7 will familiarize you with types of questions you may encounter on the certification exam and help you determine your readiness or if you need more preparation and/or experience. Successful completion of the practice exam does not guarantee you will pass the certification exam as the actual exam is longer and covers a wider range of topics. We highly recommend you should take the AWS Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C02 Actual Exam Version because it include actual exam questions and highlighted answers are collected in our exam. It will help you pass exam in easier way. For PDF Version: For Audio Version: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRfkgcv2GPKOilM6C2VuWYosdNjfD_S2R 1. A solutions architect is designing a solution where users will be directed to a backup static error page if the primary website is unavailable. The primary website’s A. Point a Route 53 alias record to an Amazon CloudFront distribution with the ALB as one of its origins. Then, create custom error pages for the distribution. 2. A solutions architect is designing a high performance computing
(HPC) workload on Amazon EC2. The EC2 instances need to communicate to each other frequently and require network performance with low latency and high throughput. A. Launch the EC2 instances in a cluster placement group in one Availability Zone. 3. A company wants to host a scalable web application on AWS. The application will be accessed by users from different geographic regions of the world. A. Use Amazon S3 with Transfer Acceleration to host the application. 4. A company is migrating from an on-premises infrastructure to the AWS Cloud. One of the company’s applications stores files on a Windows file server farm
that uses Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) to keep data in sync. A solutions architect needs to replace the file server farm. A. Amazon EFS 5. A company has a legacy application that process data in two parts. The second part of the process takes longer than the first, so the company has decided to rewrite the application as two microservices running on Amazon
ECS that can scale independently. A. Implement code in microservice 1 to send data to an Amazon S3 bucket. Use S3 event notifications to invoke microservice 2. 6. A company captures clickstream data from multiple websites and analyzes it using batch processing. The data is loaded nightly into Amazon Redshift and is consumed by business analysts. The company wants to move towards near-real-time data processing for timely insights. The solution should process the streaming data
with minimal effort and operational overhead. A. Amazon EC2 7. A company’s application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. On the first day
of every month at midnight, the application becomes much slower when the month-end financial calculation batch executes. This causes the CPU utilization of the EC2 instances to immediately peak to 100%, which disrupts the application. A. Configure an Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of the ALB. 8. A company runs a multi-tier web application that hosts news content. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones and use an Amazon Aurora database. A solutions
architect needs to make the application more resilient to periodic increases in request rates. A. Add AWS Shield. 9. An application running on AWS uses an Amazon Aurora Multi-AZ deployment for its database. When evaluating
performance metrics, a solutions architect discovered that the database reads are causing high I/O and adding latency to the write requests against the database. A. Enable read-through caching on the Amazon Aurora database. 10. A recently acquired company is required to build its own infrastructure on AWS and migrate multiple applications to the cloud within a month. Each application has approximately 50 TB of data to be transferred. After the migration is complete, this company and its parent company will both require secure network connectivity with consistent throughput from their data centers to the applications.
A solution architect must ensure one-time data migration and ongoing network connectivity. A. AWS Direct Connect for both the initial transfer and ongoing connectivity. 11. A company serves content to its subscribers across the world using an application running on AWS. The application has several Amazon C2 instances in a private subnet behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Due to a recent change in copyright restrictions, the chief information officer (CIO) wants to block access for certain countries. A. Modify the ALB security group to deny incoming traffic from blocked countries. 12. A product team is creating a new application that will store a large amount of data. The data will be analyzed hourly and modified by multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances. The application team believes the
amount of space needed will continue to grow for the next 6 months. A. Store the data in an Amazon EBS volume. Mount the EBS volume on the application instances. 13. A company is migrating a three-tier application to AWS. The application requires a MySQL database. In the past, the application users reported poor application performance when creating new entries. These performance issues were caused by users generating different real-time reports from the application during working hours. A. Import the data into an Amazon DynamoDB table with provisioned capacity. Refactor the application to use DynamoDB for reports. 14. A solutions architect is deploying a distributed database on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The database stores all data on multiple instances so it can withstand the loss of an instance. The database requires block storage with latency and throughput to support several million transactions per second per server. A. Amazon EBS 15. Organizers for a global event want to put daily reports online as static HTML pages. The pages are expected to generate millions of views from users around the world. The files are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. A solutions architect has been asked to design an efficient and effective solution. A. Generate
presigned URLs for the files. 16. A solutions architect is designing a new service behind Amazon API Gateway. The request patterns for the service will be unpredictable and can change suddenly from 0 requests to over 500 per second. The total size of the data that needs to be persisted in a database is currently less than
1 GB with unpredictable future growth. Data can be queried using simple key-value requests. A. AWS Fargate 17. A start-up company has a web application based in the us-east-1 Region with multiple Amazon EC2 instances running behind an Application Load Balancer across multiple Availability
Zones. As the company’s user base grows in the us-west-1 Region, it needs a solution with low latency and high availability. A. Provision EC2 instances in us-west-1. Switch the Application Load Balancer to a Network Load Balancer to achieve cross-Region load balancing. 18. A solutions architect is designing
a solution to access a catalog of images and provide users with the ability to submit requests to customize images. Image customization parameters will be in any request sent to an AWS API Gateway API. The customized image will be generated on demand, and users will receive a link they can click to view or download their customized image. The solution must be highly available for viewing and customizing images. A. Use
Amazon EC2 instances to manipulate the original image into the requested customization Store the original and manipulated images in Amazon S3. Configure an Elastic Load Balancer in front of the EC2 instances. 19. A company is planning to migrate a
business-critical dataset to Amazon S3. The current solution design uses a single S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region with versioning enabled to store the dataset. The company’s disaster recovery policy states that all data multiple AWS Regions. A. Create an additional S3 bucket in another Region and configure cross-Region replication. 20. A company has application running on Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC. One of the applications needs to call an Amazon S3 API to store and read objects. The company’s security policies restrict any internet-bound traffic from the applications. A. Configure an S3 interface endpoint. 21. A company’s web application uses an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL DB instance to store its application data. During the financial closing period at the start of every month. Accountants run large queries that impact the
database’s performance due to high usage. The company wants to minimize the impact that the reporting activity has on the web application. A. Create a read replica and direct reporting traffic to the replica. 22. A company wants to migrate a high performance computing (HPC) application and data from on-premises to the AWS Cloud. The company uses tiered storage on premises with hot high-performance parallel storage to support the application during periodic runs of the application, and more economical cold storage to hold the data when the application is not actively running. A. Amazon S3 for cold data storage 23. A company’s application is running on Amazon EC2 instances in a single Region. In the event of a disaster,
a solutions architect needs to ensure that the resources can also be deployed to a second Region. A. Detach a volume on an EC2 instance and copy it to Amazon S3. 24. A solutions architect needs to ensure that API calls to Amazon DynamoDB from Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC do not traverse the internet. A. Create a route table entry for the
endpoint. 25. A company’s legacy application is currently relying on a single-instance Amazon RDS MySQL database without encryption. Due to new compliance requirements, all existing and new data in this database must be
encrypted. A. Create an Amazon S3 bucket with server-side encryption enabled. Move all the data to Amazon S3. Delete the RDS instance. 26. A manufacturing company wants to implement predictive maintenance on its machinery equipment. The company will install thousands of IoT sensors that will send data to AWS in real time. A solutions architect is tasked with implementing a solution that will receive events in an ordered manner for each machinery asset and ensure that data is saved for further processing at a later
time. A. Use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for real-time events with a partition for each equipment asset. Use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to save data to Amazon S3. 27. A company’s website runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The website has a mix of dynamic and static content. Users around the globe are reporting that the website is slow. A. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution and configure the ALB as an origin. Then update the Amazon Route 53 record to point to the CloudFront distribution. 28. A company has been storing analytics data in an Amazon RDS instance for the past few years. The company asked a solutions architect to find a solution that allows users to access this data using an API. The expectation is that the application will
experience periods of inactivity but could receive bursts of traffic within seconds. A. Set up an Amazon API Gateway and use Amazon ECS. 29. A company must generate sales reports at the beginning of every month. The
reporting process launches 20 Amazon EC2 instances on the first of the month. The process runs for 7 days and cannot be interrupted. The company wants to minimize costs. A. Reserved Instances 30. A gaming company has multiple Amazon EC2 instances in a single Availability Zone for its multiplayer game that communicates with users on Layer 4. The
chief technology officer (CTO) wants to make the architecture highly available and cost-effective. A. Increase the number of EC2 instances. 31. A company currently operates a web application backed by an Amazon RDS MySQL database. It has automated backups that are run daily and are not encrypted. A security audit requires future backups to be encrypted and the unencrypted backups to be destroyed. The company will make at least one encrypted backup before destroying the old backups. A. Enable default encryption for
the Amazon S3 bucket where backups are stored. 32. A company is hosting a website behind multiple Application Load
Balancers. The company has different distribution rights for its content around the world. A solutions architect needs to ensure that users are served the correct content without violating distribution rights. A. Configure Amazon CloudFront with AWS WAF. 33. A solution architect has created a new AWS account and must secure AWS account root user access. A. Ensure the root user uses a strong password. 34. A solutions architect at an ecommerce company wants to back up application log data to Amazon S3. The solutions architect is unsure how frequently the logs will be accessed or which logs will be accessed the most. The company wants to keep costs as low as possible by using the appropriate S3 storage class. A. S3 Glacier 35. A company’s website is used to sell products to the public. The site runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). There is also an Amazon CloudFront distribution, and AWS WAF is being used to protect against SQL injection attacks. The ALB is the origin for the CloudFront distribution. A recent review of security logs revealed an external malicious IP that needs to be blocked from accessing the website.What should a solutions architect do to protect the application? A. Modify the network ACL on the CloudFront distribution to add a deny rule for the malicious IP address. 36. A solutions architect is designing an application for a two-step order process. The first step is synchronous and must return to the user with little latency. The second step takes longer, so it will be implemented in a separate component. Orders must be processed exactly once and in the order in which they are received. A. Use Amazon SQS FIFO queues. 37. A web application is deployed in the AWS Cloud. It consists of a two-tier architecture that includes a web layer and a database layer. The web server is vulnerable to
cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. A. Create a Classic Load Balancer. Put the web layer behind the load balancer and enable AWS WAF. 38. A company’s website is using an Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance for its transactional data storage. There are other internal systems that query this DB instance to fetch data for internal batch processing. The RDS DB instance slows down significantly the internal systems fetch data. This impacts the website’s read and write performance, and the users experience slow response times. A. Use an RDS PostgreSQL DB instance instead of a MySQL database. 39. An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer. The application performs best when the CPU utilization of the EC2 instances is at or near 40%. What should a solutions architect do to maintain the desired performance across all instances in the group? A. Use a simple scaling policy to dynamically scale the Auto Scaling group. 40. A company runs an internal browser-based application. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The Auto Scaling group scales up to 20 instances during work hours, but scales down to A. Implement a scheduled action that sets the desired capacity to 20 shortly before the office opens. |