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SAA-C03

Free AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate practice test

10 original Solutions Architect Associate questions, playable right now. No account, no card, no email gate. Every answer opens the full explanation: the concept, why the right option is right, and why each wrong option is wrong, cited to the authoritative documentation behind it.

Sample question 1 of 10

1-3Design Secure Architectures

A company must hold the original copy of a KMS key's material outside AWS and set an expiration time on the copy held in KMS. Which key setup fits?

Sample question 2 of 10

2-2Design Resilient ArchitecturesChoose 2

A team wants its EC2 fleet to survive both individual instance failures and the loss of one Availability Zone using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. Which two behaviors deliver this? (Choose two.)

Sample question 3 of 10

3-3Design High-Performing Architectures

A team caches serialized page fragments on large multi-core nodes, adds and removes nodes as traffic changes, and wants the simplest possible model. Which ElastiCache engine fits?

Sample question 4 of 10

4-2Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

An internal application behind an Auto Scaling group is used only on weekdays 08:00 to 18:00. The team wants fewer instances outside those hours automatically. What should it create?

Sample question 5 of 10

1-2Design Secure Architectures

A company connects its datacenter to a VPC with one Site-to-Site VPN connection and configures a single tunnel on its router. An audit flags the design. What should change?

Sample question 6 of 10

2-1Design Resilient Architectures

A company runs five consumers on one Kinesis data stream. Each consumer now sees rising propagation delay and throttled reads. Which change gives every consumer dedicated read throughput?

Sample question 7 of 10

3-5Design High-Performing Architectures

A company moves a self-hosted Apache Kafka platform to AWS. Dozens of producer and consumer applications must run unchanged, and the team wants managed brokers. Which service fits?

Sample question 8 of 10

4-4Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

An organization must move 3 PB of footage from a site into S3 within one month. The site's internet link is 200 Mbps. What is the most cost-effective transfer?

Sample question 9 of 10

1-1Design Secure Architectures

Your organization attaches an SCP at the root denying a region. Weeks later, auditors find users in the management account still working in that region. Why?

Sample question 10 of 10

3-1Design High-Performing Architectures

A reporting team scans terabytes of log files sequentially every night. Throughput is the binding constraint, not random IOPS. Which EBS volume type fits?

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What this test covers

These 10 questions are drawn across the published exam blueprint rather than from one chapter: this set touches Design Secure Architectures, Design Resilient Architectures, Design High-Performing Architectures, Design Cost-Optimized Architectures. Every question is original, written from the official objectives, and verified against a cited vendor page before it serves. None are recalled exam content, which is why the explanations can cite their sources.

A 10-question sample tells you where you stand, not whether you are ready. The full experience is numbered practice exams: 65 questions apportioned to the official domain weightings, sat under the real 130-minute clock and scored against the published cut score.

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