Amazon SAA-C01 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Amazon SAA-C01 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 161:

  A Solutions Architect is building a new feature using a Lambda to create metadata when a user uploads a picture to Amazon S3. All metadata must be indexed. Which AWS service should the Architect use to store this metadata?

  A. Amazon S3
  B. Amazon DynamoDB
  C. Amazon Kinesis
  D. Amazon EFC
  B. Amazon DynamoDB

• Question 162:

  A Solutions Architect needs to design a centralized logging solution for a group of web applications running on Amazon EC2 instances. The solution requires minimal development effort due to budget constraints. Which of the following should the Architect recommend?

  A. Create a crontab job script in each instance to push the logs regularly to Amazon S3.
  B. Install and configure Amazon CloudWatch Logs agent in the Amazon EC2 instances.
  C. Enable Amazon CloudWatch Events in the AWS Management Console.
  D. Enable AWS CloudTrail to map all API calls invoked by the applications.
  B. Install and configure Amazon CloudWatch Logs agent in the Amazon EC2 instances.

• Question 163:

  IAM provides several policy templates you can use to automatically assign permissions to the groups you create. The _____ policy template gives the Admins group permission to access all account resources, except your AWS account information

  A. Read Only Access
  B. Power User Access
  C. AWS Cloud Formation Read Only Access
  D. Administrator Access
  B. Power User Access

• Question 164:

  A company hosts a website on premises. The website has a mix of static and dynamic content, but users experience latency when loading static files. Which AWS service can help reduce latency?

  A. Amazon CloudFront with on-premises servers as the origin
  B. ELB Application Load Balancer
  C. Amazon Route 53 latency-based routing
  D. Amazon EFS to store and server static files
  A. Amazon CloudFront with on-premises servers as the origin

• Question 165:

  During performance testing of an application, the Amazon RDS database caused a performance bottleneck. What steps can be taken to improve the database performance? (Choose two.)

  A. Change the RDS database instance to multiple Availability Zones.
  B. Scale up to a larger RDS instance type.
  C. Redirect read queries to RDS read replicas.
  D. Scale out using an Auto Scaling group for RDS.
  E. Use RDS in a separate AWS Region.
  B. Scale up to a larger RDS instance type.
  C. Redirect read queries to RDS read replicas.

• Question 166:

  In AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), you can make use of the ______ APIs to grant users temporary access to your resources.

  A. AWS Security Transport Service (STS)
  B. AWS Security Tree Service (STS)
  C. AWS Security Task Service (STS)
  D. AWS Security Token Service (STS)
  D. AWS Security Token Service (STS)

• Question 167:

  A media company has more than 100TB of data to be stored and retrieved infrequently. However, the company occasionally receives requests for data within an hour. The company needs a low-cost retrieval method to handle the requests. Which service meets this requirement?

  A. Amazon S3 Standard
  B. Amazon Glacier standard retrievals
  C. Amazon Glacier bulk retrievals
  D. Amazon S3 Standard Infrequent Access
  D. Amazon S3 Standard Infrequent Access

• Question 168:

  A workload in an Amazon VPC consists of a single web server launched from a custom AMI. Session state is stored in a database. How should the Solutions Architect modify this workload to be both highly available and scalable?

  A. Create a launch configuration with a desired capacity of two web servers across multiple Availability Zones. Create an Auto Scaling group with the AMI ID of the web server image. Use Amazon Route 53 latency-based routing to balance traffic across the Auto Scaling group.
  B. Create a launch configuration with the AMI ID of the web server image. Create an Auto Scaling group using the newly-created launch configuration, and a desired capacity of two web servers across multiple regions. Use an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to balance traffic across the Auto Scaling group.
  C. Create a launch configuration with the AMI ID of the web server image. Create an Auto Scaling group using the newly-created launch configuration, and a desired capacity of two web servers across multiple Availability Zones. Use an ALB to balance traffic across the Auto Scaling group.
  D. Create a launch configuration with the AMI ID of the web server image. Create an Auto Scaling group using the newly-created launch configuration, and a desired capacity of two web servers across multiple Availability Zones. Use Amazon Route 53 weighted routing to balance traffic across the Auto Scaling group.
  A. Create a launch configuration with a desired capacity of two web servers across multiple Availability Zones. Create an Auto Scaling group with the AMI ID of the web server image. Use Amazon Route 53 latency-based routing to balance traffic across the Auto Scaling group.

• Question 169:

  A client has set up an Auto Scaling group associated with a load balancer. The client has noticed that instances launched by the Auto Scaling group are reported unhealthy as the result of an Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) health check, but these unhealthy instances are not being terminated.

  What can a Solutions Architect do to ensure that the instances marked unhealthy will be terminated and replaced?

  A. Increase the value for the health check interval set on the ELB load balancer.
  B. Change the thresholds set on the Auto Scaling group health check.
  C. Change the health check type to ELB for the Auto Scaling group.
  D. Change the health check set on the ELB load balancer to use TCP rather than HTTP checks.
  C. Change the health check type to ELB for the Auto Scaling group.

• Question 170:

  You are tasked with moving a legacy application from a virtual machine running Inside your datacenter to an Amazon VPC. Unfortunately this app requires access to a number of on-premises services and no one who configured the app still works for your company. Even worse there's no documentation for it. What will allow the application running inside the VPC to reach back and access its internal dependencies without being reconfigured? (Choose three.)

  A. An AWS Direct Connect link between the VPC and the network housing the internal services.
  B. An Internet Gateway to allow a VPN connection.
  C. An Elastic IP address on the VPC instance
  D. An IP address space that does not conflict with the one on-premises
  E. Entries in Amazon Route 53 that allow the Instance to resolve its dependencies' IP addresses
  F. A VM Import of the current virtual machine
  A. An AWS Direct Connect link between the VPC and the network housing the internal services.
  D. An IP address space that does not conflict with the one on-premises
  F. A VM Import of the current virtual machine