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SAA-C03AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Practice Exam 1

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  1. Question 1 of 5

    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?

  2. Question 2 of 5

    1-2Design Secure Architectures

    A team enables Session Manager logging to S3. Console sessions appear there, but engineers who connect with ssh through the Session Manager plugin leave no transcript. Why?

  3. Question 3 of 5

    2-2Design Resilient Architectures

    After converting an RDS instance to a Multi-AZ deployment, a team measures higher write and commit latency than before. What accounts for it?

  4. Question 4 of 5

    3-3Design High-Performing Architectures

    A company runs Aurora PostgreSQL in us-east-1. European and Asian offices report slow reads, and leadership requires fast recovery from a Regional outage. Which design has the LEAST operational overhead?

  5. Question 5 of 5

    1-3Design Secure Architectures

    An engineer deletes a retired RDS instance. Later the team needs a point-in-time restore, but the automated backups are gone. Which deletion-time choice would have kept them?

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The other 60 questions are the rest of this form: same 130 minute clock, same 720 cut score, and the same explanation on every question, which is never behind the wall. Practice Exam 1 of 6 on Solutions Architect Associate.

What this exam covers

  • Design Secure Architectures19 questions / 30% of the exam
  • Design Resilient Architectures17 questions / 26% of the exam
  • Design High-Performing Architectures16 questions / 24% of the exam
  • Design Cost-Optimized Architectures13 questions / 20% of the exam

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