Amazon SAA-C01 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Amazon SAA-C01 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 291:

  You're running an application on-premises due to its dependency on non-x86 hardware and want to use AWS for data backup. Your backup application is only able to write to POSIX-compatible block- based storage. You have 140TB of data and would like to mount it as a single folder on your file server Users must be able to access portions of this data while the backups are taking place. What backup solution would be most appropriate for this use case?

  A. Use Storage Gateway and configure it to use Gateway Cached volumes.
  B. Configure your backup software to use S3 as the target for your data backups.
  C. Configure your backup software to use Glacier as the target for your data backups.
  D. Use Storage Gateway and configure it to use Gateway Stored volumes.
  D. Use Storage Gateway and configure it to use Gateway Stored volumes.

• Question 292:

  After reviewing their logs, a startup company noticed large, random spikes in traffic to their web application. The company wants to configure a cost-efficient Auto Scaling solution to support high availability of the web application. Which scaling plan should a Solutions Architect recommend to meet the company's needs?

  A. Dynamic
  B. Scheduled
  C. Manual
  D. Lifecycle
  A. Dynamic

• Question 293:

  What conditions could cause a Multi-AZ Amazon RDS failover to occur? (Choose two.)

  A. The RDS instance is stopped manually
  B. A replica of the RDS instance is created in a different region
  C. An Availability Zone becomes unavailable
  D. Another master user is created
  E. A failure of the primary database instance
  C. An Availability Zone becomes unavailable
  E. A failure of the primary database instance

• Question 294:

  An Internet-facing multi-tier web application must be highly available. An ELB Classic Load Balancer is deployed in front of the web tier. Amazon EC2 instances at the web application tier are deployed evenly across two Availability Zones. The

  database is deployed using RDS Multi-AZ. A NAT instance is launched for Amazon EC2 instances and database resources to access the Internet. These instances are not assigned with public IP addresses.

  Which component poses a potential single point of failure in this architecture?

  A. Amazon EC2
  B. NAT instance
  C. ELB Classic Load Balancer
  D. Amazon RDS
  B. NAT instance

• Question 295:

  Your company has recently extended its datacenter into a VPC on AVVS to add burst computing capacity as needed Members of your Network Operations Center need to be able to go to the AWS Management Console and administer Amazon EC2 instances as necessary You don't want to create new IAM users for each NOC member and make those users sign in again to the AWS Management Console Which option below will meet the needs for your NOC members?

  A. Use OAuth 2 0 to retrieve temporary AWS security credentials to enable your NOC members to sign in to the AVVS Management Console.
  B. Use web Identity Federation to retrieve AWS temporary security credentials to enable your NOC members to sign in to the AWS Management Console.
  C. Use your on-premises SAML 2.0-compliant identity provider (IDP) to grant the NOC members federated access to the AWS Management Console via the AWS single sign-on (SSO) endpoint.
  D. Use your on-premises SAML2.0-compliant identity provider (IDP) to retrieve temporary security credentials to enable NOC members to sign in to the AWS Management Console.
  C. Use your on-premises SAML 2.0-compliant identity provider (IDP) to grant the NOC members federated access to the AWS Management Console via the AWS single sign-on (SSO) endpoint.

• Question 296:

  A Solutions Architect needs to configure scaling policies based on Amazon CloudWatch metrics for an Auto Scaling group. The application running on the instances is memory intensive. How can the Architect meet this requirement?

  A. Enable detailed monitoring on the Amazon EC2 instances.
  B. Publish custom metrics to CloudWatch from the application.
  C. Configuration lifecycle policies for the Amazon EC2 instances.
  D. Set up high-resolution alarms for the Auto Scaling group
  B. Publish custom metrics to CloudWatch from the application.

• Question 297:

  A company has thousands of files stored in an Amazon S3 bucket that has a well-defined access pattern. The files are accessed by an application multiple times a day for the first 30 days. Files are rarely accessed within the next 90 days. After that, the files are never accessed again. During the first 120 days, accessing these files should never take more than a few seconds.

  Which lifecycle policy should be used for the S3 objects to minimize costs based on the access pattern?

  A. Use Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) storage for the first 30 days. Then move the files to the GLACIER storage class for the next 90 days. Allow the data to expire after that.
  B. Use Amazon S3 Standard storage for the first 30 days. Then move the files to Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) for the next 90 days. Allow the data to expire after that.
  C. Use Amazon S3 Standard storage for first 30 days. Then move the files to the GLACIER storage class for the next 90 days. Allow the data to expire after that.
  D. Use Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) for the first 30 days. After that, move the data to the GLACIER storage class, where is will be deleted automatically.
  B. Use Amazon S3 Standard storage for the first 30 days. Then move the files to Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) for the next 90 days. Allow the data to expire after that.

• Question 298:

  A Solutions Architect is designing a shared file system for a company. Multiple users will be accessing it at any given time. Different teams will have their own directories, and the company wants to secure files so that users can access only files owned by their team.

  How should the Solutions Architect design this?

  A. Use Amazon EFS and control permissions by using file-level permissions.
  B. Use Amazon S3 and control permissions by using ACLs.
  C. Use Amazon EFS and control permissions by using security groups.
  D. Use AWS Storage Gateway and control permissions by using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  D. Use AWS Storage Gateway and control permissions by using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• Question 299:

  A company must collect temperature data from thousands of remote weather devices. The company must also store this data in a data warehouse to run aggregations and visualizations. Which services will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

  A. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehouse
  B. Amazon SQS
  C. Amazon Redshift
  D. Amazon SNS
  E. Amazon DynamoDB
  A. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehouse
  B. Amazon SQS

• Question 300:

  A company's website receives 50,000 requests each second, and the company wants to use multiple applications to analyze the navigation patterns of the users on their website so that the experience can be personalized. What can a Solutions Architect use to collect page clicks for the website and process them sequentially for each user?

  A. Amazon Kinesis Stream
  B. Amazon SQS standard queue
  C. Amazon SQS FIFO queue
  D. AWS CloudTrail trail
  A. Amazon Kinesis Stream