AWS-Solution-Architect-Associate Free Practice Test

- (Exam Topic 3)
A gaming company is moving its public scoreboard from a data center to the AWS Cloud. The company uses Amazon EC2 Windows Server instances behind an Application Load Balancer to host its dynamic application. The company needs a highly available storage solution for the application. The application consists of static files and dynamic server-side code.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.) ' A. Store the static files on Amazon S3. Use Amazon A. CloudFront to cache objects at the edge.

1. A. Store the static files on Amazon S3. Use Amazon ElastiCache to cache objects at the edge.
2. B. Store the server-side code on Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). Mount the EFS volume on each EC2 instance to share the files.
3. C. Store the server-side code on Amazon FSx for Windows File Serve
4. D. Mount the FSx for Windows File Server volume on each EC2 instance to share the files.
5. E. Store the server-side code on a General Purpose SSD (gp2) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volum
6. F. Mount the EBS volume on each EC2 instance to share the files.

Correct Answer: AE

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company has a production web application in which users upload documents through a web interlace or a mobile app. According to a new regulatory requirement, new documents cannot be modified or deleted after they are stored.
What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

1. A. Store the uploaded documents in an Amazon S3 bucket with S3 Versioning and S3 Object Lock enabled
2. B. Store the uploaded documents in an Amazon S3 bucke
3. C. Configure an S3 Lifecycle policy to archive the documents periodically.
4. D. Store the uploaded documents in an Amazon S3 bucket with S3 Versioning enabled Configure an ACL to restrict all access to read-only.
5. E. Store the uploaded documents on an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) volum
6. F. Access the data by mounting the volume in read-only mode.

Correct Answer: A
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-lock-overview.html

- (Exam Topic 2)
A global company is using Amazon API Gateway to design REST APIs for its loyalty club users in the
us-east-1 Region and the ap-southeast-2 Region. A solutions architect must design a solution to protect these API Gateway managed REST APIs across multiple accounts from SQL injection and cross-site scripting attacks.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of administrative effort?

1. A. Set up AWS WAF in both Region
2. B. Associate Regional web ACLs with an API stage.
3. C. Set up AWS Firewall Manager in both Region
4. D. Centrally configure AWS WAF rules.
5. E. Set up AWS Shield in bath Region
6. F. Associate Regional web ACLs with an API stage.
7. G. Set up AWS Shield in one of the Region
8. H. Associate Regional web ACLs with an API stage.

Correct Answer: A
Using AWS WAF has several benefits. Additional protection against web attacks using criteria that you specify. You can define criteria using characteristics of web requests such as the following: Presence of SQL code that is likely to be malicious (known as SQL injection). Presence of a script that is likely to be malicious (known as cross-site scripting). AWS Firewall Manager simplifies your administration and maintenance tasks across multiple accounts and resources for a variety of protections. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/what-is-aws-waf.html

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company wants to migrate an on-premises data center to AWS. The data canter hosts an SFTP server that stores its data on an NFS-based file system. The server holds 200 GB of data that needs to be transferred. The server must be hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance that uses an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system
When combination of steps should a solutions architect take to automate this task? (Select TWO )

1. A. Launch the EC2 instance into the same Avalability Zone as the EFS fie system
2. B. install an AWS DataSync agent m the on-premises data center
3. C. Create a secondary Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume on the EC2 instance tor the data
4. D. Manually use an operating system copy command to push the data to the EC2 instance
5. E. Use AWS DataSync to create a suitable location configuration for the onprermises SFTP server

Correct Answer: AB

- (Exam Topic 3)
A telemarketing company is designing its customer call center functionality on AWS. The company needs a solution that provides multiples speaker recognition and generates transcript files The company wants to query the transcript files to analyze the business patterns The transcript files must be stored for 7 years for auditing piloses.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

1. A. Use Amazon Recognition for multiple speaker recognitio
2. B. Store the transcript files in Amazon S3 Use machine teaming models for transcript file analysis
3. C. Use Amazon Transcribe for multiple speaker recognitio
4. D. Use Amazon Athena tot transcript file analysts
5. E. Use Amazon Translate lor multiple speaker recognitio
6. F. Store the transcript files in Amazon Redshift Use SQL queues lor transcript file analysis
7. G. Use Amazon Recognition for multiple speaker recognitio
8. H. Store the transcript files in Amazon S3 Use Amazon Textract for transcript file analysis

Correct Answer: C