Amazon SAA-C01 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Amazon SAA-C01 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 311:

  A Solutions Architect is designing an application on AWS that will connect to the on-premise data center through a VPN connection. The solution must be able to log network traffic over the VPN. Which service logs this network traffic?

  A. AWS CloudTrail logs
  B. Amazon VPC flow logs
  C. Amazon S3 bucket logs
  D. Amazon CloudWatch Logs
  B. Amazon VPC flow logs

• Question 312:

  Could you use IAM to grant access to Amazon DynamoDB resources and API actions?

  A. In DynamoDB there is no need to grant access
  B. Depended to the type of access
  C. No
  D. Yes
  D. Yes

• Question 313:

  A web application is running on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancing Application Load Balancer (ALB). The EC2 instances should receive no traffic, except for web requests to the application. Based on these requirements, what security group rules should be put on the Amazon EC2 instances?

  A. An inbound rule allowing traffic from the security group attached to the ALB
  B. An inbound rule allowing traffic from the network ACLs attached to the ALB
  C. An outbound rule allowing traffic to the security group attached to the ALB
  D. An outbound rule blocking all traffic to the Internet
  A. An inbound rule allowing traffic from the security group attached to the ALB

• Question 314:

  A company is launching a marketing campaign on their website tomorrow and expects a significant increase in traffic. The website is designed as a multi-tiered web architecture, and the increase in traffic could potentially overwhelm the

  current design.

  What should a Solutions Architect do to minimize the effects from a potential failure in one or more of the tiers?

  A. Migrate the database to Amazon RDS.
  B. Set up DNS failover to a statistic website.
  C. Use Auto Scaling to keep up with the demand.
  D. Use both a SQL and a NoSQL database in the design.
  C. Use Auto Scaling to keep up with the demand.

• Question 315:

  An organization runs an online media site, hosted on-premises. An employee posted a product review that contained videos and pictures. The review went viral and the organization needs to handle the resulting spike in website traffic. What action would provide an immediate solution?

  A. Redesign the website to use Amazon API Gateway, and use AWS Lambda to deliver content.
  B. Add server instances using Amazon EC2 and use Amazon Route 53 with a failover routing policy.
  C. Serve the images and videos via an Amazon CloudFront distribution created using the news site as the origin.
  D. Use Amazon ElasticCache for Redis for caching and reducing the load requests from the origin.
  C. Serve the images and videos via an Amazon CloudFront distribution created using the news site as the origin.

• Question 316:

  A restaurant reservation application needs the ability to maintain a waiting list. When a customer tries to reserve a table, and none are available, the customer must be put on the waiting list, and the application must notify the customer when a table becomes free.

  What service should the Solutions Architect recommend to ensure that the system respects the order in which the customer requests are put onto the waiting list?

  A. Amazon SNS
  B. AWS Lambda with sequential dispatch
  C. A FIFO queue in Amazon SQS
  D. A standard queue in Amazon SQS
  D. A standard queue in Amazon SQS

• Question 317:

  Application servers currently deployed in a private subnet require the ability to integrate with a third-party service accessible through the Internet. Which changes are required to provide outbound Internet connectivity in the VPC without providing inbound Internet connectivity to the application servers?

  A. Create a NAT Gateway without attaching an Internet Gateway to the VPC.
  B. Create a NAT Gateway and attach an Internet Gateway to the VPC.
  C. Attach an Internet Gateway to the VPC without creating a NAT Gateway.
  D. Attach an Internet Gateway to the VPC and create a NAT Gateway.
  A. Create a NAT Gateway without attaching an Internet Gateway to the VPC.

• Question 318:

  A Solution Architect is creating a serverless web application that must access mapping data in hundreds of data files, each containing approximately 30 KB of data. The storage required is expected to grow to hundreds of terabytes. Which storage solution is most cost-effective, yet still meets the requirements for this use case?

  A. Amazon EFS
  B. Amazon EBS Cold HDD (sc1)
  C. Amazon S3 Standard
  D. Amazon DynamoDB
  D. Amazon DynamoDB

• Question 319:

  A company uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application running on c4.large instances. Users are reporting high latency and failed requests. Further investigation reveals that the EC2 instances are running at or near 100% CPU utilization.

  What should a Solutions Architect do to address the performance issues?

  A. Use time-based scaling to scale the number of instances based on periods of high load.
  B. Modify the scaling triggers in Elastic Beanstalk to use the CPUUtilization metric.
  C. Swap the c4.large instances with the m4.large instance type.
  D. Create an additional Auto Scaling group, and configure Amazon EBS to use both Auto Scaling groups to increase the scaling capacity.
  D. Create an additional Auto Scaling group, and configure Amazon EBS to use both Auto Scaling groups to increase the scaling capacity.

• Question 320:

  A Solutions Architect is helping a customer migrate an application to AWS. The application is composed of a fleet of Linux servers that currently use a shared file system to read and write data. One of the goals of moving this application to AWS is to increase the reliability of the storage tier.

  What solution would increase reliability while minimizing the operational overhead of managing this infrastructure?

  A. Create an EBS volume and mount it to all the servers.
  B. Create an EFS file system and mount it to all the servers.
  C. Create an S3 bucket that can be accessed through an S3 VPC Endpoint.
  D. Create two EC2 instances in separate Availability Zones that act as file servers.
  B. Create an EFS file system and mount it to all the servers.