AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate SAA-C03 Exam Questions and Answers – Page 4 Part 1

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Exam Question 321

A company is building its web application using containers on AWS. The company requires three instances of the web application to run at all times. The application must be able to scale to meet increases in demand. Management is extremely sensitive to cost but agrees that the application should be highly available.

What should a solutions architect recommend?

A. Create an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster using the Fargate launch type. Create a task definition for the web application. Create an ECS service with a desired count of three tasks.
B. Create an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster using the Amazon EC2 launch type with three container instances in one Availability Zone. Create a task definition for the web application. Place one task for each container instance.
C. Create an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster using the Fargate launch type with one container instance in three different Availability Zones. Create a task definition for the web application. Create an ECS service with a desired count of three tasks.
D. Create an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster using the Amazon EC2 launch type with one container instance in two different Availability Zones. Create a task definition for the web application. Place two tasks on one container instance and one task on the remaining container instance.

Correct Answer

D. Create an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster using the Amazon EC2 launch type with one container instance in two different Availability Zones. Create a task definition for the web application. Place two tasks on one container instance and one task on the remaining container instance.

Exam Question 322

A company is launching an eCommerce website on AWS. This website is built with a three-tier architecture that includes a MySQL database in a Multi-AZ deployment of Amazon Aurora MySQL. The website application must be highly available and will initially be launched in an AWS Region with three Availability Zones The application produces a metric that describes the load the application experiences.

Which solution meets these requirements?

A. Configure an Application Load Balancer (ALB) with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling behind the ALB with scheduled scaling
B. Configure an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling behind the ALB with a simple scaling policy.
C. Configure a Network Load Balancer (NLB) and launch a Spot Fleet with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling behind the NLB.
D. Configure an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling behind the ALB with a target tracking scaling policy.

Correct Answer

B. Configure an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling behind the ALB with a simple scaling policy.

Exam Question 323

A solutions architect is creating a new Amazon CloudFront distribution for an application. Some of the information submitted by users is sensitive. The application uses HTTPS but needs another layer of security. The sensitive information should be protected throughout the entire application stack, and access to the information should be restricted to certain applications.

Which action should the solutions architect take?

A. Configure a CloudFront signed URL
B. Configure a CloudFront signed cookie.
C. Configure a CloudFront field-level encryption profile.
D. Configure a CloudFront and set the Origin Protocol Policy setting to HTTPS. Only for the Viewer Protocol Pokey.

Correct Answer

A. Configure a CloudFront signed URL

Exam Question 324

A solutions architect is redesigning a monolithic application to be a loosely coupled application composed of two microservices: Microservice A and Microservice B.

Microservice A places messages in a main Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue for Microservice B to consume. When Microservice B fails to process a message after four retries, the message needs to be removed from the queue and stored for further investigation.

What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A. Create an SQS dead-letter queue. Microservice B adds failed messages to that queue after it receives and fails to process the message four times.
B. Create an SQS dead-letter queue. Configure the main SQS queue to deliver messages to the dead letter queue after the message has been received four times.
C. Create an SQS queue for failed messages. Microservice A adds failed messages to that queue after Microservice B receives and fails to process the message four times.
D. Create an SQS queue for failed messages. Configure the SQS queue for failed messages to pull messages from the main SQS queue after the original message has been received four times.

Correct Answer

B. Create an SQS dead-letter queue. Configure the main SQS queue to deliver messages to the dead letter queue after the message has been received four times.

Exam Question 325

A company has multiple applications that use Amazon RDS for MySQL as is database. The company recently discovered that a new custom reporting application has increased the number of Queries on the database. This is slowing down performance.

How should a solutions architect resolve this issue with the LEAST amount of application changes?

A. Add a secondary DB instance using Multi-AZ.
B. Set up a road replica and Multi-AZ on Amazon RDS.
C. Set up a standby replica and Multi-AZ on Amazon RDS.
D. Use caching on Amazon RDS to improve the overall performance.

Correct Answer

D. Use caching on Amazon RDS to improve the overall performance.

Exam Question 326

A company wants to automate the security assessment of its Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs to validate and demonstrate that security and compliance standards are being followed throughout the development process.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A. Use Amazon Macie to automatically discover, classify and protect the EC2 instances.
B. Use Amazon GuardDuty to publish Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notifications.
C. Use Amazon Inspector with Amazon CloudWatch to publish Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notifications
D. Use Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) to detect and react to changes in the status of AWS Trusted Advisor checks.

Correct Answer

C. Use Amazon Inspector with Amazon CloudWatch to publish Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notifications

Exam Question 327

A company stores 200 GB of data each month in Amazon S3. The company needs to perform analytics on this data at the end of each month to determine the number of items sold in each sales region for the previous month.

Which analytics strategy is MOST cost-effective for the company to use?

A. Create an Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) cluster. Query the data in Amazon ES. Visualize the data by using Kibana.
B. Create a table in the AWS Glue Data Catalog. Query the data in Amazon S3 by using Amazon Athena. Visualize the data in Amazon QuickSight.
C. Create an Amazon EMR cluster. Query the data by using Amazon EMR, and store the results in Amazon S3. Visualize the data in Amazon QuickSight.
D. Create an Amazon Redshift cluster. Query the data in Amazon Redshift, and upload the results to Amazon S3. Visualize the data in Amazon QuickSight.

Correct Answer

A. Create an Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) cluster. Query the data in Amazon ES. Visualize the data by using Kibana.

Exam Question 328

A company plans to host a survey website on AWS. The company anticipates an unpredictable amount of traffic. This traffic results in asynchronous updates to the database. The company wants to ensure that writes to the database hosted on AWS do not get dropped.

How should the company write its application to handle these database requests?

A. Configure the application to publish to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. Subscribe the database to the SNS topic.
B. Configure the application to subscribe to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. Publish the database updates to the SNS topic.
C. Use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queues to queue the database connection until the database has resources to write the data.
D. Use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queues for capturing the writes and draining the queue as each write is made to the database.

Correct Answer

A. Configure the application to publish to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. Subscribe the database to the SNS topic.

Exam Question 329

A solutions architect must analyze and update a company’s existing IAM policies prior to deploying a new workload. The solutions architect created the following policy:

What is the net effect of this policy?

A. Users will be allowed all actions except s3:PutObject if multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enabled.
B. Users will be allowed all actions except s3:PutObject if multi-factor authentication (MFA) is not enabled.
C. Users will be denied all actions except s3:PutObject if multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enabled.
D. Users will be denied all actions except s3:PutObject if multi-factor authentication (MFA) is not enabled.

Correct Answer

C. Users will be denied all actions except s3:PutObject if multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enabled.

Exam Question 330

A company is using Amazon DynamoDB with provisioned throughput for the database tier of its eCommerce website. During flash sales, customers experience periods of time when the database cannot handle the high number of transactions taking place. This causes the company to lose transactions. During normal periods, the database performs appropriately.

Which solution solves the performance problem the company faces?

A. Switch DynamoDB to on-demand mode during flash sales.
B. Implement DynamoDB Accelerator for fast in memory performance.
C. Use Amazon Kinesis to queue transactions for processing to DynamoDB.
D. Use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to queue transactions to DynamoDB.

Correct Answer

A. Switch DynamoDB to on-demand mode during flash sales.