Exam Details

  • Exam Code
    :SAA-C03
  • Exam Name
    :AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03)
  • Certification
    :Amazon Certifications
  • Vendor
    :Amazon
  • Total Questions
    :1304 Q&As
  • Last Updated
    :May 30, 2025

Amazon Amazon Certifications SAA-C03 Questions & Answers

  • Question 321:

    A recent analysis of a company's IT expenses highlights the need to reduce backup costs. The company's chief information officer wants to simplify the on-premises backup infrastructure and reduce costs by eliminating the use of physical backup tapes. The company must preserve the existing investment in the on-premises backup applications and workflows.

    What should a solutions architect recommend?

    A. Set up AWS Storage Gateway to connect with the backup applications using the NFS interface.

    B. Set up an Amazon EFS file system that connects with the backup applications using the NFS interface.

    C. Set up an Amazon EFS file system that connects with the backup applications using the iSCSI interface.

    D. Set up AWS Storage Gateway to connect with the backup applications using the iSCSI-virtual tape library (VTL) interface.

  • Question 322:

    A company's ecommerce website has unpredictable traffic and uses AWS Lambda functions to directly access a private Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance. The company wants to maintain predictable database performance and ensure that the Lambda invocations do not overload the database with too many connections.

    What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

    A. Point the client driver at an RDS custom endpoint. Deploy the Lambda functions inside a VPC.

    B. Point the client driver at an RDS proxy endpoint. Deploy the Lambda functions inside a VPC.

    C. Point the client driver at an RDS custom endpoint. Deploy the Lambda functions outside a VPC.

    D. Point the client driver at an RDS proxy endpoint. Deploy the Lambda functions outside a VPC.

  • Question 323:

    A company is using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys to encrypt AWS Lambda environment variables. A solutions architect needs to ensure that the required permissions are in place to decrypt and use the environment variables.

    Which steps must the solutions architect take to implement the correct permissions? (Choose two.)

    A. Add AWS KMS permissions in the Lambda resource policy.

    B. Add AWS KMS permissions in the Lambda execution role.

    C. Add AWS KMS permissions in the Lambda function policy.

    D. Allow the Lambda execution role in the AWS KMS key policy.

    E. Allow the Lambda resource policy in the AWS KMS key policy.

  • Question 324:

    A company has created a multi-tier application for its ecommerce website. The website uses an Application Load Balancer that resides in the public subnets, a web tier in the public subnets, and a MySQL cluster hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in the private subnets. The MySQL database needs to retrieve product catalog and pricing information that is hosted on the internet by a third-party provider. A solutions architect must devise a strategy that maximizes security without increasing operational overhead.

    What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

    A. Deploy a NAT instance in the VPC. Route all the internet-based traffic through the NAT instance.

    B. Deploy a NAT gateway in the public subnets. Modify the private subnet route table to direct all internet- bound traffic to the NAT gateway.

    C. Configure an internet gateway and attach it to the VPModify the private subnet route table to direct internet-bound traffic to the internet gateway.

    D. Configure a virtual private gateway and attach it to the VPC. Modify the private subnet route table to direct internet-bound traffic to the virtual private gateway.

  • Question 325:

    A company has separate AWS accounts for its finance, data analytics, and development departments. Because of costs and security concerns, the company wants to control which services each AWS account can use. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

    A. Use AWS Systems Manager templates to control which AWS services each department can use.

    B. Create organization units (OUs) for each department in AWS Organizations. Attach service control policies (SCPs) to the OUs.

    C. Use AWS CloudFormation to automatically provision only the AWS services that each department can use.

    D. Set up a list of products in AWS Service Catalog in the AWS accounts to manage and control the usage of specific AWS services.

  • Question 326:

    A company has data collection sensors at different locations. The data collection sensors stream a high volume of data to the company. The company wants to design a platform on AWS to ingest and process high-volume streaming data. The solution must be scalable and support data collection in near real time. The company must store the data in Amazon S3 for future reporting.

    Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

    A. Use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to deliver streaming data to Amazon S3.

    B. Use AWS Glue to deliver streaming data to Amazon S3.

    C. Use AWS Lambda to deliver streaming data and store the data to Amazon S3.

    D. Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to deliver streaming data to Amazon S3.

  • Question 327:

    A company's SAP application has a backend SQL Server database in an on-premises environment. The company wants to migrate its on-premises application and database server to AWS. The company needs an instance type that meets the high demands of its SAP database. On-premises performance data shows that both the SAP application and the database have high memory utilization.

    Which solution will meet these requirements?

    A. Use the compute optimized instance family for the application. Use the memory optimized instance family for the database.

    B. Use the storage optimized instance family for both the application and the database.

    C. Use the memory optimized instance family for both the application and the database.

    D. Use the high performance computing (HPC) optimized instance family for the application. Use the memory optimized instance family for the database.

  • Question 328:

    A solutions architect needs to review a company's Amazon S3 buckets to discover personally identifiable information (PII). The company stores the PII data in the us-east-1 Region and us-west-2 Region. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

    A. Configure Amazon Macie in each Region. Create a job to analyze the data that is in Amazon S3.

    B. Configure AWS Security Hub for all Regions. Create an AWS Config rule to analyze the data that is in Amazon S3.

    C. Configure Amazon Inspector to analyze the data that is in Amazon S3.

    D. Configure Amazon GuardDuty to analyze the data that is in Amazon S3.

  • Question 329:

    A company needs to optimize the cost of its Amazon EC2 instances. The company also needs to change the type and family of its EC2 instances every 2-3 months. What should the company do to meet these requirements?

    A. Purchase Partial Upfront Reserved Instances for a 3-year term.

    B. Purchase a No Upfront Compute Savings Plan for a 1-year term.

    C. Purchase All Upfront Reserved Instances for a 1-year term.

    D. Purchase an All Upfront EC2 Instance Savings Plan for a 1-year term.

  • Question 330:

    A company has a financial application that produces reports. The reports average 50 KB in size and are stored in Amazon S3. The reports are frequently accessed during the first week after production and must be stored for several years. The reports must be retrievable within 6 hours.

    Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

    A. Use S3 Standard. Use an S3 Lifecycle rule to transition the reports to S3 Glacier after 7 days.

    B. Use S3 Standard. Use an S3 Lifecycle rule to transition the reports to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) after 7 days.

    C. Use S3 Intelligent-Tiering. Configure S3 Intelligent-Tiering to transition the reports to S3 Standard- Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) and S3 Glacier.

    D. Use S3 Standard. Use an S3 Lifecycle rule to transition the reports to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 7 days.

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