SAA-C03 AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Free Practice Questions and Answers

A company processes unpredictable batches of jobs. A coordinator currently assigns work directly to compute nodes. The design must tolerate bursts and scale workers as demand changes. Which design is most suitable?

• A. Send jobs to an Amazon SQS queue and scale an EC2 Auto Scaling group using queue depth
• B. Run a fixed number of EC2 instances and increase capacity on a schedule
• C. Store jobs in AWS CloudTrail and scale based on API activity
• D. Send jobs to an EventBridge archive and manually start workers

An ecommerce application stores transactions in a MySQL database on one large EC2 instance. Read traffic grows quickly while writes remain manageable. Which change provides managed read scaling with low operational effort?

• A. Move the database to an Amazon Aurora MySQL cluster and add Aurora Replicas
• B. Add a second standalone MySQL instance and manually copy data nightly
• C. Store all database queries in Amazon SQS
• D. Increase the web server instance size without changing the database tier

A company keeps backup objects in Amazon S3 Standard for the first month. After that, the objects are rarely accessed but must be retained indefinitely at the lowest practical storage cost. What should the architect configure?

• A. A lifecycle rule to transition the objects to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after one month
• B. A CloudWatch alarm that deletes objects after 30 days
• C. Replication to another S3 Standard bucket and no lifecycle rule
• D. A daily Lambda function that downloads the objects to an EC2 instance

A company requires all EC2 instances, Amazon RDS databases, and Amazon Redshift clusters to include specific tags. The team wants AWS to continuously identify noncompliant resources with minimal custom code. What should they use?

• A. AWS Config rules that check required tags
• B. Cost Explorer reports reviewed manually once per year
• C. A Route 53 health check for each resource
• D. An S3 Lifecycle rule that adds tags to all resources

A company must protect objects in an Amazon S3 bucket from accidental deletion. Administrators need a strong additional safeguard for permanent deletion. Which combination best meets the requirement?

• A. Enable versioning and MFA Delete
• B. Enable default encryption and a public-read bucket policy
• C. Enable static website hosting and cross-origin resource sharing
• D. Add a lifecycle rule that immediately expires object versions