AWS-Solution-Architect-Associate Free Practice Test

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company's application integrates with multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) sources for data collection. The company runs Amazon EC2 instances to receive the data and to upload the data to an Amazon S3 bucket for analysis. The same EC2 instance that receives and uploads the data also sends a notification to the user when an upload is complete. The company has noticed slow application performance and wants to improve the performance as much as possible.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

1. A. Create an Auto Scaling group so that EC2 instances can scale ou
2. B. Configure an S3 event notification to send events to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic when the upload to the S3 bucket is complete.
3. C. Create an Amazon AppFlow flow to transfer data between each SaaS source and the S3 bucket.Configure an S3 event notification to send events to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic when the upload to the S3 bucket is complete.
4. D. Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule for each SaaS source to send output dat
5. E. Configure the S3 bucket as the rule's targe
6. F. Create a second EventBridge (CloudWatch Events) rule to send events when the upload to the S3 bucket is complet
7. G. Configure an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic as the second rule's target.
8. H. Create a Docker container to use instead of an EC2 instanc
9. I. Host the containerized application on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). Configure Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights to send events to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic when the upload to the S3 bucket is complete.

Correct Answer: B
Amazon AppFlow is a fully managed integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications like Salesforce, SAP, Zendesk, Slack, and ServiceNow, and AWS services like Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift, in just a few clicks. https://aws.amazon.com/appflow/

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains critical data. The company must protect the data from accidental deletion.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

1. A. Enable versioning on the S3 bucket.
2. B. Enable MFA Delete on the S3 bucket.
3. C. Create a bucket policy on the S3 bucket.
4. D. Enable default encryption on the S3 bucket.
5. E. Create a lifecycle policy for the objects in the S3 bucket.

Correct Answer: AB

- (Exam Topic 3)
A solutions architect is designing the architecture for a software demonstration environment The environment will run on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The system will experience significant increases in traffic during working hours but Is not required to operate on weekends.
Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to ensure that the system can scale to meet demand? (Select TWO)

1. A. Use AWS Auto Scaling to adjust the ALB capacity based on request rate
2. B. Use AWS Auto Scaling to scale the capacity of the VPC internet gateway
3. C. Launch the EC2 instances in multiple AWS Regions to distribute the load across Regions
4. D. Use a target tracking scaling policy to scale the Auto Scaling group based on instance CPU utilization
5. E. Use scheduled scaling to change the Auto Scaling group minimum, maximum, and desired capacity to zero for weekends Revert to the default values at the start of the week

Correct Answer: DE

- (Exam Topic 2)
A company needs to retain application logs files for a critical application for 10 years. The application team regularly accesses logs from the past month for troubleshooting, but logs older than 1 month are rarely accessed. The application generates more than 10 TB of logs per month.
Which storage option meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

1. A. Store the Iogs in Amazon S3 Use AWS Backup lo move logs more than 1 month old to S3 Glacier Deep Archive
2. B. Store the logs in Amazon S3 Use S3 Lifecycle policies to move logs more than 1 month old to S3 Glacier Deep Archive
3. C. Store the logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs Use AWS Backup to move logs more then 1 month old toS3 Glacier Deep Archive
4. D. Store the logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs Use Amazon S3 Lifecycle policies to move logs more than 1 month old to S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Correct Answer: B
You need S3 to be able to archive the logs after one month. Cannot do that with CloudWatch Logs.

- (Exam Topic 3)
A company is running a critical business application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group and access an Amazon RDS DB instance
The design did not pass an operational review because the EC2 instances and the DB instance are all located in a single Availability Zone A solutions architect must update the design to use a second Availability Zone
Which solution will make the application highly available?

1. A. Provision a subnet in each Availability Zone Configure the Auto Scaling group to distribute the EC2 instances across bothAvailability Zones Configure the DB instance with connections to each network
2. B. Provision two subnets that extend across both Availability Zones Configure the Auto Scaling group to distribute the EC2 instancesacross both Availability Zones Configure the DB instance with connections to each network
3. C. Provision a subnet in each Availability Zone Configure the Auto Scaling group to distribute the EC2 instances across both Availability Zones Configure the DB instance for Multi-AZ deployment
4. D. Provision a subnet that extends across both Availability Zones Configure the Auto Scaling group to distribute the EC2 instancesacross both Availability Zones Configure the DB instance for Multi-AZ deployment

Correct Answer: C