AWS Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 Sample Questions - Practice Test ( 2026 )

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AWS Solutions Architect Associate Sample Questions List :

1. In Amazon Route 53, you can create a hosted zone for a top-level domain (TLD).

1. TRUE

2. FALSE

3. False, Amazon Route 53 automatically creates it for you.

4. True, only if you send an XML document with a CreateHostedZoneRequest element for TLD.

2. In EC2, what happens to the data in an instance store if an instance reboots (either intentionally or unintentionally)?

1. Data in the instance store will be lost.

2. Data persists in the instance store.

3. Data is deleted from the instance store for security reasons.

4. Data is partially present in the instance store.

3. You have been storing massive amounts of data on Amazon Glacier for the past 2 years and now start to wonder if there are any limitations on this. What is the correct answer to your QUESTION?

1. The total volume of data and number of archives you can store are unlimited.

2. The total volume of data is unlimited but the number of archives you can store are limited.

3. The total volume of data is limited but the number of archives you can store are unlimited.

4. The total volume of data is limited and the number of archives you can store are limited.

4. Which of the following statements is true of creating a launch configuration using an EC2 instance?

1. A user should manually create a launch configuration before creating an Auto Scaling group.

2. Auto Scaling automatically creates a launch configuration directly from an EC2 instance

3. The launch configuration should be created manually from the AWS CLI.

4. The launch configuration can be created only using the Query APIs.

5. You need to measure the performance of your EBS volumes as they seem to be under performing. You have come up with a measurement of 1,024 KB I/O but your colleague tells you that EBS volume performance is measured in IOPS. How many IOPS is equal to 1,024 KB I/O?

1. 4

2. 16

3. 8

4. 256

6. After you recommend Amazon Redshift to a client as an alternative solution to paying data warehouses to analyze his data, your client asks you to explain why you are recommending Redshift. Which of the following would be a reasonable response to his request?

1. It has high performance at scale as data and query complexity grows.

2. It prevents reporting and analytic processing from interfering with the performance of OLTP workloads.

3. You don't have the administrative burden of running your own data warehouse and dealing with setup, durability, monitoring, scaling, and patching.

4. All answers listed are a reasonable response to his QUESTION

7. Much of your company's data does not need to be accessed often, and can take several hours for retrieval time, so it's stored on Amazon Glacier. However someone within your organization has expressed concerns that his data is more sensitive than the other data, and is wondering whether the high level of encryption that he knows is on S3 is also used on the much cheaper Glacier service. Which of the following statements would be most applicable in regards to this concern?

1. Amazon Glacier automatically encrypts the data using AES-128 a lesser encryption method than Amazon S3.

2. Amazon Glacier automatically encrypts the data using AES-128 a lesser encryption method than Amazon S3 but you can change it to AES-256 if you are willing to pay more.

3. Amazon Glacier automatically encrypts the data using AES-256, the same as Amazon S3.

4. There is no encryption on Amazon Glacier, that's why it is cheaper.

8. A client needs you to import some existing infrastructure from a dedicated hosting provider to AWS to try and save on the cost of running his current website. He also needs an automated process that manages backups, software patching, automatic failure detection, and recovery. You are aware that his existing set up currently uses an Oracle database. Which of the following AWS databases would be best for accomplishing this task?

1. Amazon Redshift

2. Amazon RDS

3. Amazon SimpIeDB

4. Amazon EIastiCache

9. Your manager has just given you access to multiple VPN connections that someone else has recently set up between all your company's offices. She needs you to make sure that the communication between the VPN is secure. Which of the following services would be best for providing a low-cost hub-and-spoke model for primary or backup connect Mty between these remote offices?

1. AWS C|oudHSM

2. AWS VPN CIoudHub

3. Amazon C|oudFront

4. AWS Direct Connect

10. You are setting up your first Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) so you decide to use the VPC wizard in the AWS console to help make it easier for you. Which of the following statements is correct regarding instances that you launch into a default subnet via the VPC wizard?

1. Instances that you launch into a default subnet receive a public IP address and 10 private IP addresses.

2. Instances that you launch into a default subnet receive a public IP address and 5 private IP addresses.

3. Instances that you launch into a default subnet receive both a public IP address and a private IP address.

4. Instances that you launch into a default subnet don't receive any ip addresses and you need to define them manually.

11. A user has created an EBS volume with 1000 IOPS. What is the average IOPS that the user will get for most of the year as per EC2 SLA if the instance is attached to the EBS optimized instance?

1. 1000

2. 900

3. 950

4. 990

12. You are building a system to distribute confidential documents to employees. Using CloudFront, what method could be used to serve content that is stored in S3, but not publicly accessible from S3 directly?

1. Create an Identity and Access Management (IAM) User for CloudFront and grant access to the objects in your S3 bucket to that IAM User.

2. Add the CloudFront account security group "amazon-cf/amazon-cf-sg" to the appropriate S3 bucket policy.

3. Create a S3 bucket policy that lists the C|oudFront distribution ID as the Principal and the target bucket as the Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

4. Create an Origin Access Identity (OAI) for CloudFront and grant access to the objects in your S3 bucket to that OAI.

13. You are building infrastructure for a data warehousing solution and an extra request has come through that there will be a lot of business reporting queries running all the time and you are not sure if your current DB instance will be able to handle it. What would be the best solution for this?

1. DB Parameter Groups

2. Multi-AZ DB Instance deployment

3. Database Snapshots

4. Read Replicas

14. Name the disk storage supported by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

1. Amazon SNS store

2. Amazon Instance Store

3. Amazon AppStream store

4. None of these

15. Does Amazon DynamoDB support both increment and decrement atomic operations?

1. No, neither increment nor decrement operations.

2. Yes, both increment and decrement operations.

3. Only decrement, since increment are inherently impossible with DynamoDB's data mode

4. Only increment, since decrement are inherently impossible with DynamoDB's data model.

16. A customer enquiry about whether all his data is secure on AWS and is especially concerned about Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) so you need to inform him of some of the security features in place for AWS. Which of the below statements would be an incorrect response to your customers enquiry?

1. Amazon ENIR customers can choose to send data to Amazon S3 using the HTTPS protocol for secure transmission.

2. Every packet sent in the AWS network uses Internet Protocol Security (IPsec).

3. Customers may encrypt the input data before they upload it to Amazon S3.

4. Amazon S3 provides authentication mechanisms to ensure that stored data is secured against unauthorized access.

17. What would be the best way to retrieve the public IP address of your EC2 instance using the CLI?

1. Using ipconfig

2. Using instance metadata

3. Using tags

4. Using traceroutes

18. One of the criteria for a new deployment is that the customer wants to use AWS Storage Gateway. However, you are not sure whether you should use gateway- cached volumes or gateway-stored volumes or even what the differences are. Which statement below best describes those differences?

1. Gateway-stored enables you to configure youron-premises gateway to store all your data locally and then asynchronously back up point-in-time snapshots of this data to Amazon S3.

2. Gateway-cached lets you store your data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and retain a copy of frequently accessed data subsets local

3. Gateway-stored lets you store your data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and retain a copy of frequently accessed data subsets local

4. Gateway-cached enables you to configure youron-premises gateway to store all your data locally and then asynchronously back up point-in-time snapshots of this data to Amazon S3.

5. Gateway-cached is free whilst gateway-stored is not.

6. Gateway-cached is up to 10 times faster than gateway-stored.

19. Amazon RDS provides high availability and failover support for DB instances using _____

1. Appstream customizations

2. customized deployments

3. MuIti-AZ deployments

4. log events

20. You need to set up a complex network infrastructure for your organization that will be reasonably easy to deploy, replicate, control, and track changes on. Which AWS service would be best to use to help you accomplish this?

1. AWS CloudFormation

2. Amazon Route 53

3. AWS Import/Export

4. Amazon CloudWatch

21. Do Amazon EBS volumes persist independently from the running life of an Amazon EC2 instance?

1. No, you cannot attach EBS volumes to an instance.

2. Yes, they do but only if they are detached from the instance.

3. Yes, they do.

4. No, they are dependent.

22. While using the EC2 GET requests as URLs, the is the URL that serves as the entry point for the web service.

1. token

2. endpoint

3. None of these

4. Action

23. An existing client comes to you and says that he has heard that launching instances into a VPC (virtual private cloud) is a better strategy than launching instances into a EC2-classic which he knows is what you currently do. You suspect that he is correct and he has asked you to do some research about this and get back to him. Which of the following statements is true in regards to what ability launching your instances into a VPC instead of EC2-Classic gives you?

1. Define network interfaces, and attach one or more network interfaces to your instances

2. Change security group membership for your instances while they're running

3. All of the things listed here.

4. Assign static private IP addresses to your instances that persist across starts and stops

24. A client of yours has a huge amount of data stored on Amazon S3, but is concerned about someone stealing it while it is in transit. You know that all data is encrypted in transit on AWS, but which of the following is wrong when describing server-side encryption on AWS?

1. Amazon S3 server-side encryption uses one of the strongest block ciphers available, 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256), to encrypt your data.

2. Server-side encryption is about data encryption at rest—that is, Amazon S3 encrypts your data as it writes it to disks.

3. In server-side encryption, you manage encryption/decryption of your data, the encryption keys, and related tools.

4. Amazon S3 server-side encryption employs strong multi-factor encryption.

25. Does AWS CIoudFormation support Amazon EC2 tagging?

1. No, CIoudFormation doesn’t support any tagging

2. It depends if the Amazon EC2 tagging has been defined in the template

3. No, it doesn’t support Amazon EC2 tagging

4. Yes, AWS CIoudFormation supports Amazon EC2 tagging

26. Your EBS volumes do not seem to be performing as expected and your team leader has requested you look into improving their performance. Which of the following is not a true statement relating to the performance of your EBS volumes?

1. Frequent snapshots provide a higher level of data durability and they will not degrade the performance of your application while the snapshot is in progress.

2. There is a relationship between the maximum performance of your EBS volumes, the amount of I/O you are drMng to them, and the amount of time it takes for each transaction to complete.

3. General Purpose (SSD) and Provisioned IOPS (SSD) volumes have a throughput limit of 128 MB/s per volume.

4. There is a 5 to 50 percent reduction in IOPS when you first access each block of data on a newly created or restored EBS volume

27. Which IAM role do you use to grant AWS Lambda permission to access a DynamoDB Stream?

1. Invocation role

2. Dynamic role

3. Event Source role

4. Execution role

28.  An edge location refers to which Amazon Web Service?

1. An edge location is referred to the network configured within a Zone or Region

2. An edge location is the location of the data center used for Amazon CIoudFront.

3. An edge location is an AWS Region

4. An edge location is a Zone within an AWS Region

29. You are setting up a VPC and you need to set up a public subnet within that VPC. Which following requirement must be met for this subnet to be considered a public subnet?

1. Subnet's traffic is not routed to an internet gateway.

2. Subnet's traffic is routed to an internet gateway.

3. None of these answers can be considered a public subnet.

4. Subnet's traffic is not routed to an internet gateway but has its traffic routed to a virtual private gateway.

30. You want to use AWS Import/Export to send data from your S3 bucket to several of your branch offices. What should you do if you want to send 10 storage units to AWS?

1. Make sure you submit a separate job request for each device.

2. Make sure your disks are encrypted prior to shipping.

3. Make sure your disks are 1TB or more.

4. Make sure you format your disks prior to shipping.

31. Which one of the following answers is not a possible state of Amazon CloudWatch Alarm?

1. INSUFFICIENT_DATA

2. ALARM

3. STATUS_CHECK_FAILED

4. OK

32. In Amazon EC2 Container Service components, what is the name of a logical grouping of container instances on which you can place tasks?

1. A container instance

2. A task definition

3. A container

4. A cluster

33. You have just set up a large site for a client which involved a huge database which you set up with Amazon RDS to run as a Mu|ti-AZ deployment. You now start to worry about what will happen if the database instance fails. Which statement best describes how this database will function if there is a database failure?

1. Updates to your DB Instance are asynchronously replicated across Availability Zones to the standby in order to keep both in sync and protect your latest database updates against DB Instance failure.

2. Updates to your DB Instance are synchronously replicated across S3 to the standby in order to keep both in sync and protect your latest database updates against DB Instance failure.

3. Your database will not resume operation without manual administrative intervention.

4. Updates to your DB Instance are synchronously replicated across Availability Zones to the standby in order to keep both in sync and protect your latest database updates against DB Instance failure.

34. In the context of AWS support, why must an EC2 instance be unreachable for 20 minutes rather than allowing customers to open tickets immediately?

1. Because all EC2 instances are unreachable for 20 minutes when first launched

2. Because all EC2 instances are unreachable for 20 minutes every day when AWS does routine maintenance

3. Because of all the reasons listed here

4. Because most reachability issues are resolved by automated processes in less than 20 minutes

35. You are looking at ways to improve some existing infrastructure as it seems a lot of engineering resources are being taken up with basic management and monitoring tasks and the costs seem to be excessive. You are thinking of deploying Amazon E|asticCache to help. Which of the following statements is true in regards to EIasticCache?

1. You can't improve load and response times to user actions and queries but you can reduce the cost associated with scaling web applications.

2. You can improve load and response times to user actions and queries however the cost associated with scaling web applications will remain the same.

3. You can improve load and response times to user actions and queries and also reduce the cost associated with scaling web applications.

4. You can improve load and response times to user actions and queries however the cost associated with scaling web applications will be more.

36. Do you need to shutdown your EC2 instance when you create a snapshot of EBS volumes that serve as root devices?

1. No, the snapshot would turn off your instance automatically.

2. No

3. Yes

4. No, you only need to shutdown an instance before deleting it.

37. After setting up several database instances in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) you decide that you need to track the performance and health of your databases. How can you do this?

1. View, download, or watch database log files using the Amazon RDS console or Amazon RDS API

2. Use the free Amazon CloudWatch service to monitor the performance and health of a DB instance.

3. All of the items listed will track the performance and health of a database.

4. You can also query some database log files that are loaded into database tables.

5. Subscribe to Amazon RDS events to be notified when changes occur with a DB instance, DB snapshot, DB parameter group, or DB security group.

38.. Which of the following strategies can be used to control access to your Amazon EC2 instances?

1. IAM policies

2. DB security groups

3. EC2 security groups

4. None of these

39. A user has launched one EC2 instance in the US East region and one in the US West region. The user has launched an RDS instance in the US East region. How can the user configure access from both the EC2 instances to RDS?

1. Configure the security group of both instances in the ingress rule of the RDS security group

2. Configure the security group of the US East region to allow traffic from the US West region’s instance and configure the RDS security group’s ingress rule for the US East EC2 group

3. It is not possible to access RDS of the US East region from the US West region

4. Configure the US West region’s security group to allow a request from the US East region’s instance and configure the RDS security group’s ingress rule for the US East EC2 group

40. An organization has a statutory requirement to protect the data at rest for data stored in EBS volumes. Which of the below mentioned options can the organization use to achieve data protection?

1. All the options listed her.

2. Data snapshot.

3. Data replication.

4. Data encryption.

41. What does Amazon DynamoDB provide?

1. A predictable and scalable MySQL database

2. A fast and reliable PL/SQL database cluster

3. A fast, highly scalable managed NoSQL database service

4. A standalone Cassandra database, managed by Amazon Web Services

   
   

42. You need to migrate a large amount of data into the cloud that you have stored on a hard disk and you decide that the best way to accomplish this is with AWS Import/Export and you mail the hard disk to AWS. Which of the following statements is incorrect in regards to AWS Import/Export?

1. It can export from Amazon S3

2. It can Import to Amazon EBS

3. It can export from Amazon Glacier.

4. It can Import to Amazon Glacier

43. Having set up a website to automatically be redirected to a backup website if it fails, you realize that there are different types of failovers that are possible. You need all your resources to be available the majority of the time. Using Amazon Route 53 which configuration would best suit this requirement?

1. Active-active-passive and other mixed configuration

2. Active-passive failover.

3. None. Route 53 can’t failover.

4. Active-active failover.

44. You need to change some settings on Amazon Relational Database Service but you do not want the database to reboot immediately which you know might happen depending on the setting that you change. Which of the following will cause an immediate DB instance reboot to occur?

1. You change a static parameter in a DB parameter group.

2. You change the DB instance class, and Apply Immediately is set to false.

3. You change storage type from standard to PIOPS, and Apply Immediately is set to true.

4. You change the backup retention period for a DB instance from 0 to a nonzero value or from a nonzero value to 0, and Apply Immediately is set to false.

45. In Amazon EC2, while sharing an Amazon EBS snapshot, can the snapshots with AWS Marketplace product codes be public?

1. Yes, they are automatically made public by the system.

2. Yes, but only for US-based providers.

3. No, they cannot be made public.

4. Yes, they can be public.

46. You log in to IAM on your AWS console and notice the following message. "Delete your root access keys." Why do you think IAM is requesting this?

1. Because they provide unrestricted access to your AWS resource.

2. Because the root access keys will expire as soon as you log out.

3. Because the root access keys are the same for all users.

4. Because the root access keys expire after 1 week.

47. Once again, your customers are concerned about the security of their sensitive data and with their latest enquiry ask about what happens to old storage devices on AWS. What would be the best answer to this QUESTION?

1. AWS reformats the disks and uses them again.

2. AWS uses the techniques detailed in DoD 5220.22-M to destroy data as part of the decommissioning process.

3. AWS uses a 3rd party security organization to destroy data as part of the decommissioning process.

4. AWS uses their own proprietary software to destroy data as part of the decommissioning process.

48. You are running PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS and it seems to be all running smoothly deployed in one availability zone. A database administrator asks you if DB instances running PostgreSQL support MuIti-AZ deployments. What would be a correct response to this QUESTION?

1. Yes.

2. Yes, but only for small db instances.

3. Yes, but you need to request the service from AW

4. No.

49. An online gaming site asked you if you can deploy a database that is a fast, highly scalable NoSQL database service in AWS for a new site that he wants to build. Which database should you recommend?

1. Amazon RDS

2. Amazon SimpIeDB

3. Amazon DynamoDB

4. Amazon Redshift

50. Amazon S3 allows you to set per-file permissions to grant read and/or write access. However, you have decided that you want an entire bucket with 100 files already in it to be accessible to the public. You don't want to go through 100 files individually and set permissions. What would be the best way to do this?

1. Add a bucket policy to the bucket.

2. Move the files to a new bucket.

3. Move the bucket to a new region

4. Use Amazon EBS instead of S3

51. You have set up an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) with the usual default settings, which route each request independently to the application instance with the smallest load. However, someone has asked you to bind a user's session to a specific application instance so as to ensure that all requests coming from the user during the session will be sent to the same application instance. AWS has a feature to do this. What is it called?

1. Proxy protocol

2. Connection draining

3. Tagging

4. Sticky session

52. A major finance organization has engaged your company to set up a large data mining application. Using AWS you decide the best service for this is Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) which you know uses Hadoop. Which of the following statements best describes Hadoop?

1. Hadoop is an open-source python web framework

2. Hadoop is 3rd Party software which can be installed using AMI

3. Hadoop is an open-source Java software framework

4. Hadoop is an open-source JavaScript framework

53. An accountant asks you to design a small VPC network for him and, due to the nature of his business, just needs something where the workload on the network will be low, and dynamic data will be accessed infrequently. Being an accountant, low cost is also a major factor. Which EBS volume type would best suit his requirements?

1. Magnetic or Provisioned IOPS (SSD)

2. Magnetic

3. Any, as they all perform the same and cost the same.

4. General Purpose (SSD)

54. What is a placement group in Amazon EC2?

1. It is a group of EC2 instances within a single Availability Zone.

2. It is the AWS region where you run the EC2 instance of your web content.

3. It is a group used to span multiple Availability Zone

4. It the edge location of your web content.

55. A user is running a batch process which runs for 1 hour every day. Which of the below mentioned options is the right instance type and costing model in this case if the user performs the same task for the whole year?

1. EBS backed instance with low utilized reserved instance pricing.

2. EBS backed instance with on-demand instance pricing.

3. Instance store backed instance with spot instance pricing.

4. EBS backed instance with heavy utilized reserved instance pricing.

56. You've created your first load balancer and have registered your EC2 instances with the load balancer. Elastic Load Balancing routinely performs health checks on all the registered EC2 instances and automatically distributes all incoming requests to the DNS name of your load balancer across your registered, healthy EC2 instances. By default, the load balancer uses the ______ protocol for checking the health of your instances.

1. HTTP

2. ICMP

3. HTTPS

4. IPv6

57. Your supervisor has asked you to build a simple file synchronization service for your department. He doesn't want to spend too much money and he wants to be notified of any changes to files by email. What do you think would be the best Amazon service to use for the email solution?

1. Amazon SWF

2. Amazon SES

3. Amazon CIoudSearch

4. Amazon AppStream

58. In the most recent company meeting, your CEO focused on the fact that everyone in the organization needs to make sure that all of the infrastructure that is built is truly scalable. Which of the following statements is incorrect in reference to scalable architecture?

1. A scalable service is capable of handling heterogeneity.

2. A scalable architecture won't be cost effective as it grows.

3. Increasing resources results in a proportional increase in performance.

4. A scalable service is resilient.

59. After setting up a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network, a more experienced cloud engineer suggests that to achieve low network latency and high network throughput you should look into setting up a placement group. You know nothing about this, but begin to do some research about it and are especially curious about its limitations. Which of the below statements is wrong in describing the limitations of a placement group?

1. A placement group can span peered VPCs

2. A placement group can span multiple Availability Zones.

3. Although launching multiple instance types into a placement group is possible, this reduces the likelihood that the required capacity will be available for your launch to succeed.

4. You can't move an existing instance into a placement group.

60. Select all true statements:

1. In VPC, once instance is launched with Security Group, it cannot be changed.

2. In EC2 Classic, once instance is launched with Security Group, it cannot be changed.

3. User can add custom allow or deny rules in Security Group.

4. Every instance must be associated with Security Group.

61. Amazon EBS provides the ability to create backups of any Amazon EC2 volume into what is known as

1. snapshots

2. mirrors

3. instance backups

4. images 

62. How long does an AWS free usage tier EC2 last for?

1. 6 Months upon signup

2. Forever

3. 12 Months upon signup

4. 1 Month upon signup

63. You need to set up a high level of security for an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) you have just built in order to protect the confidential information stored in it. What are all the possible security groups that RDS uses?

1. VPC security groups, and EC2 security groups.

2. EC2 security groups only.

3. DB security groups only.

4. DB security groups, VPC security groups, and EC2 security groups

64.  Which of the following features are provided by Amazon EC2?

1. Exadata Database Machine, Real Application Clusters (RAC), Data Guard, Table and Index Partitioning, and Data Pump Compression

2. Instances, Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), Key Pairs, Amazon EBS Volumes, Firewall, Elastic IP address, Tags, and Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)

3. Exadata Database Machine, Optimized Storage Management, Flashback Technology, and Data Warehousing

4. Real Application Clusters (RAC), Elasticache Machine Images (EMIs), Data Warehousing, Flashback Technology, Dynamic IP address

65. A user has attached 1 EBS volume to a VPC instance. The user wants to achieve the best fault tolerance of data possible. Which of the below mentioned options can help achieve fault tolerance?

1. Connect multiple volumes and stripe them with RAID 6 configuration.

2. Attach one more volume with RAID 1 configuration.

3. Attach one more volume with RAID 0 configuration.

4. Use the EBS volume as a root device.

66. Which one of the below is not an AWS Storage Service?

1. Amazon CIoudFront

2. Amazon Glacier

3. Amazon EBS

4. Amazon S3

67. A user has created photo editing software and hosted it on EC2. The software accepts requests from the user about the photo format and resolution and sends a message to S3 to enhance the picture accordingly. Which of the below mentioned AWS services will help make a scalable software with the AWS infrastructure in this scenario?

1. AWS Simple Notification Service

2. AWS Elastic Transcoder

3. AWS Glacier

4. AWS Simple Queue Service

68.  A scope has been handed to you to set up a super-fast gaming server and you decide that you will use Amazon DynamoDB as your database. For efficient access to data in a table, Amazon DynamoDB creates and maintains indexes for the primary key attributes. A secondary index is a data structure that contains a subset of attributes from a table, along with an alternate key to support Query operations. How many types of secondary indexes does DynamoDB support?

1. As many as you nee

2. 4

3. 16

4. 2

69. In Amazon EC2 Container Service, are other container types supported?

1. Yes, EC2 Container Service supports any container service you need.

2. No, Docker is the only container platform supported by EC2 Container Service presently.

3. Yes, EC2 Container Service also supports Microsoft container service.

4. Yes, EC2 Container Service supports Microsoft container service and OpenStack.

70. Doug has created a VPC with CIDR 10.201.0.0/16 in his AWS account. In this VPC he has created a public subnet with CIDR block 10.201.31.0/24. While launching a new EC2 from the console, he is not able to assign the private IP address 10.201.31.6 to this instance. Which is the most likely reason for this issue?

1. Private IP address 10.201.31.6 is reserved by Amazon for IP networking purpose.

2. Private IP address 10.201.31.6 is not part of the associated subnet's IP address range.

3. Private IP address 10.201.31.6 is blocked via ACLs in Amazon infrastructure as a part of platform security.

4. Private address IP 10.201.31.6 is currently assigned to another interface.

71. In Amazon EC2, partial instance-hours are billed.

1. as full hours

2. per minute used

3. by combining partial segments into full hours

4. per second used in the hour

72. You are setting up some IAM user policies and have also become aware that some services support resource-based permissions, which let you attach policies to the service's resources instead of to IAM users or groups. Which of the below statements is true in regards to resource-level permissions?

1. All services support resource-level permissions for all actions

2. Resource-level permissions are supported by Amazon CIoudFront

3. Some services support resource-level permissions only for some action

4. All services support resource-level permissions only for some actions

73. You have been setting up an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) for your company, including setting up subnets. Security is a concern, and you are not sure which is the best security practice for securing subnets in your VPC. Which statement below is correct in describing the protection of AWS resources in each subnet?

1. You can use multiple layers of security, including security groups and network access control lists (ACL).

2. You can use multiple layers of security, including security groups, network access control lists (ACL) and CIoudHSM.

3. You can only use access control lists (ACL).

4. You don't need any security in subnets.

74. You have just finished setting up an advertisement server in which one of the obvious choices for a service was Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) and are now troubleshooting some weird cluster states that you are seeing. Which of the below is not an Amazon EMR cluster state?

1. STARTING

2. RUNNING

3. STOPPED

4. WAITING

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FAQs

1. What is AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification?

It’s an entry-level cloud certification from AWS that validates your ability to design distributed systems on the AWS platform.

2. Is AWS Solutions Architect Associate worth it in 2025?

Yes, it remains one of the most valuable cloud certifications for building foundational knowledge and boosting career prospects.

3. Who should take the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam?

Aspiring cloud architects, developers, IT admins, and professionals wanting to validate their AWS design skills should consider it.

4. What is the current version of the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam?

As of 2025, the current exam version is SAA-C03.

5. How difficult is the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam?

It’s moderately challenging and requires a solid understanding of AWS services, architecture principles, and real-world scenarios.

6. What is the exam code for AWS Solutions Architect Associate?

The official exam code is SAA-C03.

7. How many questions are in the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam?

The exam has 65 questions in total.

8. What type of questions appear in AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam?

Expect multiple choice and multiple response questions that test real-world cloud scenarios.

9. What is the passing score for AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam?

The passing score is 720 out of 1000.

10. How long is the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam?

The exam duration is 130 minutes.

11. How to prepare for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam?

Use CertiMaan’s practice tests and follow AWS’s official training paths and whitepapers.

12. What are the best resources to study for AWS Solutions Architect Associate?

CertiMaan’s dumps and mock exams, and AWS official study guides and online training materials are most effective.

13. Are there free practice tests for AWS Solutions Architect Associate?

Yes. AWS offers sample questions and CertiMaan provides free and premium practice sets.

14. Can I pass the AWS Solutions Architect Associate with self-study?

Yes, self-study using CertiMaan resources and AWS whitepapers can be enough with dedication.

15. How long does it take to prepare for AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam?

Most learners take 4 to 8 weeks, depending on prior experience.

16. Does CertiMaan provide dumps or practice exams for AWS Solutions Architect Associate?

Yes, CertiMaan offers high-quality dumps and mock exams aligned with the latest syllabus.

17. What topics are most important in AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam?

Focus on networking, storage, compute services, cost optimization, security, and best practice architecture design.

18. What is the cost of AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification?

The exam fee is $150 USD.

19. How do I register for AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam?

Register through the AWS Certification portal using your AWS account.

20. Can I take the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam online?

Yes, the exam is available online via Pearson VUE or PSI proctoring services.

21. What happens if I fail AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam?

You can retake the exam after 14 days by paying the full fee again.

22. How many times can I retake the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam?

There is no limit to retakes, but each attempt requires full payment.

23. How long is AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification valid?

It is valid for three years.

24. How do I renew AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification?

You must retake the latest version of the exam before expiration.

25. Does AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification expire?

Yes, it expires after three years if not renewed.

26. What jobs can I get after AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification?

You can work as a Cloud Architect, Solutions Architect, Cloud Engineer, or AWS Consultant.

27. What is the average salary for AWS Solutions Architect Associate?

Certified professionals earn between $110,000 and $140,000 annually on average.

28. Is AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification good for beginners?

Yes, it’s ideal for those starting in cloud computing and AWS.

29. Do employers value AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification?

Absolutely. It demonstrates validated skills in designing reliable AWS-based solutions.

30. Which companies hire AWS Solutions Architect Associate certified professionals?

Top companies like Amazon, Deloitte, Accenture, Capgemini, Infosys, and startups actively hire certified professionals.