Amazon SAA-C01 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Amazon SAA-C01 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 341:

  A customer has established an AWS Direct Connect connection to AWS. The link is up and routes are being advertised from the customer's end, however the customer is unable to connect from EC2 instances inside its VPC to servers

  residing in its datacenter.

  Which of the following options provide a viable solution to remedy this situation? (Choose two.)

  A. Add a route to the route table with an iPsec VPN connection as the target.
  B. Enable route propagation to the virtual pinnate gateway (VGW).
  C. Enable route propagation to the customer gateway (CGW).
  D. Modify the route table of all Instances using the 'route' command.
  E. Modify the Instances VPC subnet route table by adding a route back to the customer's on-premises environment.
  B. Enable route propagation to the virtual pinnate gateway (VGW).
  E. Modify the Instances VPC subnet route table by adding a route back to the customer's on-premises environment.

• Question 342:

  A company needs to quickly ensure that all files created in an Amazon S3 bucket in us-east-1 are also available in another bucket in ap-southeast-2. Which option represents the SIMPLIEST way to implement this design?

  A. Add an S3 lifecycle rule to move any files from the bucket in us-east-1 to the bucket in ap-southeast-2.
  B. Create a Lambda function to be triggered for every new file in us-east-1 that copies the file to the bucket in ap-southeast-2.
  C. Use SNS to notify the bucket in ap-southeast-2 to create a file whenever the file is created in the bucket in us-east-1.
  D. Enable versioning and configure cross-region replication from the bucket in us-east-1 to the bucket in ap-southeast-2.
  D. Enable versioning and configure cross-region replication from the bucket in us-east-1 to the bucket in ap-southeast-2.

• Question 343:

  A Solutions Architect is designing a database solution that must support a high rate of random disk reads and writes. It must provide consistent performance, and requires long-term persistence. Which storage solution BEST meets these requirements?

  A. An Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volume
  B. An Amazon EBS General Purpose volume
  C. An Amazon EBS Magnetic volume
  D. An Amazon EC2 Instance Store
  A. An Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volume

• Question 344:

  A Solutions Architect is designing a new architecture that will use an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. Which of the following factors determine the health check grace period? (Select TWO.)

  A. How frequently the Auto Scaling group scales up or down.
  B. How many Amazon CloudWatch alarms are configured for status checks.
  C. How much of the application code is embedded in the AMI.
  D. How long it takes for the Auto Scaling group to detect a failure.
  E. How long the bootstrap script takes to run.
  A. How frequently the Auto Scaling group scales up or down.
  D. How long it takes for the Auto Scaling group to detect a failure.

• Question 345:

  A photo-sharing website running on AWS allows users to generate thumbnail images of photos stored in Amazon S3. An Amazon DynamoDB table maintains the locations of photos, and thumbnails are easily re-created from the originals if they are accidentally deleted.

  How should the thumbnail images be stored to ensure the LOWEST cost?

  A. Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) with cross-region replication
  B. Amazon S3
  C. Amazon Glacier
  D. Amazon S3 with cross-region replication
  B. Amazon S3

• Question 346:

  A company wants to migrate a three-tier web application to AWS. The company wants to control the placement of the instances and have visibility into underlying sockets and cores for licensing purposes. Which compute model should a Solutions Architect choose to accomplish this task?

  A. EC2 Reserved Instances
  B. EC2 Spot Instances
  C. EC2 Dedicated Hosts
  D. EC2 Placement Groups
  C. EC2 Dedicated Hosts

• Question 347:

  A company has many applications on Amazon EC2 instances running in Auto Scaling groups. Company policies require that data on the attached Amazon EBS volume must be retained. Which actions will meet this requirement without impacting performance?

  A. Enable Termination Protection on the Amazon EC2 instances.
  B. Disable DeleteOnTermination for the Amazon EBS volumes.
  C. Use Amazon EC2 user data to set up a synchronization job for root volume data.
  D. Change the auto scaling Health Check to point to a source on the root volume.
  B. Disable DeleteOnTermination for the Amazon EBS volumes.

• Question 348:

  A company has instances in private subnets that require outbound access to the internet. This requires:

  A. Assigning a public IP address to the instance.
  B. Updating the route table associated with the subnet to point internet traffic through a NAT gateway.
  C. Updating the security group associated with the subnet to allow ingress on 0.0.0.0/0.
  D. Routing traffic from the instance through a VPC endpoint that has internet access.
  B. Updating the route table associated with the subnet to point internet traffic through a NAT gateway.

• Question 349:

  As part of securing an API layer built on Amazon API gateway, a Solutions Architect has to authorize users who are currently authenticated by an existing identity provider. The users must be denied access for a period of one hour after three unsuccessful attempts.

  How can the Solutions Architect meet these requirements?

  A. Use AWS IAM authorization and add least-privileged permissions to each respective IAM role.
  B. Use an API Gateway custom authorizer to invoke an AWS Lambda function to validate each user's identity.
  C. Use Amazon Cognito user pools to provide built-in user management.
  D. Use Amazon Cognito user pools to integrate with external identity providers.
  B. Use an API Gateway custom authorizer to invoke an AWS Lambda function to validate each user's identity.

• Question 350:

  A Solutions Architect is investigating purchasing options for a batch processing application on Amazon EC2. The batch job downloads an image from an Amazon S3 bucket, adds copyright information, and uploads it back to Amazon S3. It normally takes 5 to 10 hours to process all the files uploaded each week. The application has built-in capabilities to process files in parallel, recover from the instance failures, and continue the processing from where it left off.

  What is the MOST cost-effective purchasing option the Solutions Architect can recommed?

  A. Standard Reserved Instances
  B. Scheduled Reserved Instances
  C. Spot Instances
  D. On-Demand Instances
  B. Scheduled Reserved Instances