# AWS SAA - Mock Exam Answer Key ## Mock Exam 0 - Answer Key Here is the **answer key** for the **63 AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam questions**: --- ### **Answer Key** #### **Compute & EC2** 1. A) EC2 instances with Auto Scaling and an Application Load Balancer 2. B) Use **Auto Scaling** to add more **t3.medium instances** 3. A) Use an **Application Load Balancer (ALB)** in front of the EC2 instances #### **Storage & S3** 4. C) Enable **S3 Object Lock in Compliance Mode** 5. B) S3 Intelligent-Tiering 6. A) AWS Snowball #### **Networking & VPC** 1. C) Create a **NAT Gateway** 2. D) AWS Transit Gateway 3. B) AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) #### **Databases & RDS** 4. A) Enable **Multi-AZ Deployment** 5. B) Amazon DynamoDB 6. A) Amazon Athena #### **Security & Compliance** 7. A) AWS CloudTrail 8. B) IAM Roles 9. B) AWS Shield #### **High Availability & Fault Tolerance** 10. B) Use **Route 53 with failover routing** across **multiple AWS Regions** 11. A) Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling 12. B) Deploy to **multiple AWS Regions** with **Route 53 failover routing** #### **Cost Optimization** 13. C) Spot Instances 14. B) Reserved Instances 15. D) Switch to a **t3.large burstable instance** #### **Networking & Content Delivery** 16. C) Amazon CloudFront 17. A) AWS Direct Connect 18. A) Use **Amazon Route 53 latency-based routing** #### **Monitoring & Logging** 19. A) AWS CloudTrail Organization Trail 20. C) Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection 21. B) Amazon CloudWatch Alarms #### **Serverless & Containers** 22. C) Amazon SNS 23. C) Amazon EKS 24. B) AWS Lambda #### **Disaster Recovery & Backups** 25. B) RDS Automated Backups 26. B) Amazon S3 Replication 27. A) AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) #### **Remaining Questions** 28. C) Dedicated Hosts 29. B) Amazon EC2 G4 Instances 30. A) AWS Wavelength 31. B) AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) 32. B) Amazon DynamoDB 33. C) Amazon Redshift 34. A) AWS Direct Connect 35. C) VPC Endpoints 36. C) AWS CloudTrail 37. C) S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval 38. C) Modify the EBS volume size and resize the file system 39. A) Use EBS Snapshots and **copy them to another region** 40. B) AWS SageMaker 41. B) AWS Translate 42. B) AWS Comprehend 43. B) AWS Compute Optimizer 44. A) AWS Storage Gateway 45. B) AWS Mainframe Modernization 46. A) AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery --- ## Mock Exam 1 - Answer Key ### **Compute & EC2** 1. A) Amazon EC2, Auto Scaling, and an Elastic Load Balancer 2. B) Enable **Auto Scaling** and add additional **m5.large instances** 3. A) AWS Fargate ### **Storage & S3** 4. B) S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval 5. C) AWS Snowball Edge 6. B) S3 Access Logs ### **Networking & VPC** 7. C) Configure a **VPC Endpoint** 8. B) Use an **AWS Transit Gateway** 9. A) AWS Direct Connect ### **Databases & Data Analytics** 10. B) Use AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) 11. C) Amazon DynamoDB 12. A) Amazon Athena ### **Security & Identity Management** 13. B) AWS CloudTrail 14. B) Use IAM Roles with **temporary security credentials** 15. B) Use **AWS Artifact** for compliance reports ### **High Availability & Fault Tolerance** 16. B) Use **AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)** 17. B) RDS Automated Backups 18. A) Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive ### **Networking & Connectivity** 19. B) Use **Route 53 with failover routing across multiple AWS Regions** 20. A) AWS Auto Scaling 21. A) AWS Batch ### **Databases & Data Analytics** 22. A) NAT Gateway 23. D) Amazon Route 53 Latency Routing 24. B) AWS Transit Gateway 25. B) Amazon Redshift 26. B) Amazon Aurora Serverless 27. A) Amazon Kinesis Data Streams ### **Security & Compliance** 28. A) Amazon GuardDuty 29. B) Use IAM Roles with **temporary security credentials** 30. A) AWS Organizations Service Control Policies (SCPs) ### **Serverless Computing** 31. A) AWS Lambda 32. A) AWS Lambda 33. A) Amazon API Gateway with AWS Lambda ### **Storage & Backup** 34. A) Amazon EBS Snapshots 35. A) AWS DataSync 36. A) Amazon FSx for Lustre ### **Cost Optimization** 37. B) AWS Budgets 38. B) Reserved Instances 39. A) Spot Instances with a fallback to On-Demand ### **Disaster Recovery & Resilience** 40. B) Amazon Aurora Global Database 41. A) AWS Backup 42. A) Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive