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

A product catalog is stored on EC2 instance store volumes. The company needs the catalog to remain durable and available if an instance fails, while allowing multiple application instances to access the files. Which service is the best fit?

• A. Amazon EFS
• B. EC2 instance store with a larger volume
• C. S3 Glacier Deep Archive mounted as a local disk
• D. ElastiCache for Redis as the only persistent copy

A company must retain records in Amazon S3 for 10 years. They must be immediately available for the first year, archived for the remaining nine years, and protected from deletion even by administrators. What should the architect configure?

• A. S3 Object Lock in compliance mode with a 10-year retention period and lifecycle transitions
• B. S3 Standard storage with a bucket policy that expires after one year
• C. S3 Versioning alone with no retention controls
• D. A daily backup to an EC2 instance

A company has Windows file shares on two EC2 instances that synchronize duplicate data. It needs a highly available, durable managed service while keeping Windows SMB access for employees. Which service should it use?

• A. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server with Multi-AZ deployment
• B. Amazon S3 static website hosting
• C. Amazon EBS snapshots mounted by each user
• D. AWS Backup as a live file server

A web application on EC2 connects to an Amazon RDS database. The credentials must not be hard-coded and must rotate automatically. What is the lowest-maintenance approach?

• A. Store the credentials in AWS Secrets Manager and enable managed rotation
• B. Store the password in the application source repository
• C. Put credentials in a public S3 object and rotate manually
• D. Store credentials in an EC2 user-data script without rotation

A hospital receives scanned PDF and JPEG reports through an API. A Lambda function must identify protected health information in the documents with minimal custom machine-learning code. Which solution is appropriate?

• A. Use Amazon Textract to extract text, then Amazon Comprehend Medical to detect PHI
• B. Store the images in S3 and assume filenames reveal PHI
• C. Use Route 53 Resolver to inspect document contents
• D. Use CloudTrail event history as an OCR service