AWS-Solution-Architect-Associate Free Practice Test

- (Exam Topic 3)
A company is deploying a new application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application writes data to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. The company needs to ensure that all data that is written to the EBS volumes is encrypted at rest.
Which solution wil meet this requirement?

1. A. Create an IAM role that specifies EBS encryptio
2. B. Attach the role to the EC2 instances.
3. C. Create the EBS volumes as encrypted volumes Attach the EBS volumes to the EC2 instances.
4. D. Create an EC2 instance tag that has a key of Encrypt and a value of Tru
5. E. Tag all instances that require encryption at the ESS level.
6. F. Create an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key policy that enforces EBS encryption in the account Ensure that the key policy is active.

Correct Answer: B

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company has applications that run on Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC. One of the applications needs to call the Amazon S3 API to store and read objects. According to the company's security regulations, no traffic from the applications is allowed to travel across the internet.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

1. A. Configure an S3 interface endpoint.
2. B. Configure an S3 gateway endpoint.
3. C. Create an S3 bucket in a private subnet.
4. D. Create an S3 bucket in the same Region as the EC2 instance.

Correct Answer: B
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/privatelink-interface-endpoints.html#types-of-vpc-end https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-endpoints-s3.html

- (Exam Topic 2)
A company runs an Oracle database on premises. As part of the company’s migration to AWS, the company wants to upgrade the database to the most recent available version. The company also wants to set up disaster recovery (DR) for the database. The company needs to minimize the operational overhead for normal operations and DR setup. The company also needs to maintain access to the database's underlying operating system.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

1. A. Migrate the Oracle database to an Amazon EC2 instanc
2. B. Set up database replication to a different AWS Region.
3. C. Migrate the Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracl
4. D. Activate Cross-Region automated backups to replicate the snapshots to another AWS Region.
5. E. Migrate the Oracle database to Amazon RDS Custom for Oracl
6. F. Create a read replica for the database in another AWS Region.
7. G. Migrate the Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracl
8. H. Create a standby database in another Availability Zone.

Correct Answer: C
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/rds-custom.html and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/working-with-custom-oracle.html

- (Exam Topic 3)
A company hosts multiple production applications. One of the applications consists of resources from Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon RDS, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) across multiple AWS Regions. All company resources are tagged with a tag name of “application” and a value that corresponds to each application. A solutions architect must provide the quickest solution for identifying all of the tagged components.
Which solution meets these requirements?

1. A. Use AWS CloudTrail to generate a list of resources with the application tag.
2. B. Use the AWS CLI to query each service across all Regions to report the tagged components.
3. C. Run a query in Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights to report on the components with the application tag.
4. D. Run a query with the AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor to report on the resources globally with the application tag.

Correct Answer: D
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/tag-editor/latest/userguide/tagging.html

- (Exam Topic 3)
A rapidly growing ecommerce company is running its workloads in a single AWS Region. A solutions architect must create a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that includes a different AWS Region The company wants its database to be up to date in the DR Region with the least possible latency The remaining infrastructure in the DR Region needs to run at reduced capacity and must be able to scale up it necessary
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LOWEST recovery time objective (RTO)?

1. A. Use an Amazon Aurora global database with a pilot light deployment
2. B. Use an Amazon Aurora global database with a warm standby deployment
3. C. Use an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance with a pilot light deployment
4. D. Use an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance with a warm standby deployment

Correct Answer: B
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/disaster-recovery-workloads-on-aws/disaster-recovery-options