# AWS SAA - Practice Quizzes 0 AWS MIGRATION & DATA TRANSFER SERVICES 1. A company wants to migrate its on-premises database to Amazon RDS with minimal downtime. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Snowcone B) AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) C) AWS DataSync D) AWS Glue Answer: B) AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) 2. A logistics company has a warehouse with limited internet connectivity and needs to transfer 500TB of data to AWS. What is the most cost-effective solution? A) AWS Direct Connect B) AWS Snowball Edge C) AWS Transfer Family D) AWS Glue DataBrew Answer: B) AWS Snowball Edge 3. A financial institution needs secure, managed file transfers between business partners using AS2. Which AWS service is best suited for this requirement? A) AWS Transfer Family B) AWS Snowcone C) AWS DataSync D) AWS Migration Hub Answer: A) AWS Transfer Family 4. A gaming company needs to sync large volumes of data between its on-premises NFS server and Amazon S3. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS DataSync B) AWS Glue C) AWS Lake Formation D) AWS Direct Connect Answer: A) AWS DataSync AWS COMPUTE & MACHINE LEARNING SERVICES 5. A retail company wants to train and deploy machine learning models for sales forecasting with built-in model tuning. Which AWS service is best suited? A) AWS Glue B) AWS Forecast C) AWS Comprehend D) AWS Kinesis Answer: B) AWS Forecast 6. A video production company needs to extract metadata from large video files, including facial recognition, object detection, and scene classification. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Textract B) AWS Rekognition C) AWS Lambda D) AWS Augmented AI Answer: B) AWS Rekognition 7. A media streaming platform wants to generate automatic subtitles for videos in real-time. Which AWS service is best suited? A) AWS Transcribe B) AWS Polly C) AWS Lex D) AWS Kendra Answer: A) AWS Transcribe 8. A customer support chatbot must understand natural language queries and provide responses via voice and text. Which AWS service should be used? A) AWS Lex B) AWS SageMaker C) AWS Polly D) AWS Glue Answer: A) AWS Lex AWS STORAGE & DATA LAKES 9. A company needs a secure, managed data lake with fine-grained access controls. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Glue B) AWS Lake Formation C) AWS Redshift Spectrum D) AWS EMR Answer: B) AWS Lake Formation 10. A law firm needs to digitize and extract structured data from handwritten contracts and forms. Which AWS service is best suited? A) AWS Comprehend B) AWS Textract C) AWS Translate D) AWS Athena Answer: B) AWS Textract 11. A healthcare provider wants to store encrypted electronic health records (EHRs) in Amazon S3 while enforcing row-level security policies for different user roles. Which service provides this? A) AWS Lake Formation B) AWS Glue DataBrew C) AWS Transfer Family D) AWS Snowball Answer: A) AWS Lake Formation AWS SECURITY & COMPLIANCE 12. A bank needs real-time fraud detection for customer transactions. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Fraud Detector B) AWS Shield C) AWS Config D) AWS WAF Answer: A) AWS Fraud Detector 13. A global retail company wants to prevent fake account registrations while allowing legitimate users to sign up. Which AWS service should be used? A) AWS Cognito B) AWS Fraud Detector C) AWS IAM D) AWS GuardDuty Answer: B) AWS Fraud Detector AWS ANALYTICS & BI 14. A retail company needs a serverless, pay-per-query analytics service to query structured and semi-structured data in Amazon S3. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Redshift Spectrum B) AWS Athena C) AWS Glue D) AWS QuickSight Answer: B) AWS Athena 15. A business intelligence team wants to create interactive dashboards from data stored in Amazon Redshift and S3. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS QuickSight B) AWS SageMaker C) AWS Kinesis D) AWS Glue DataBrew Answer: A) AWS QuickSight AWS EVENT-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURES 16. A logistics company needs to route real-time events from multiple AWS services to different processing pipelines. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS EventBridge B) AWS SNS C) AWS SQS D) AWS Step Functions Answer: A) AWS EventBridge 17. A financial company needs a durable, FIFO queue for processing transaction requests. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS SNS B) AWS SQS C) AWS Step Functions D) AWS Kinesis Answer: B) AWS SQS AWS APPFLOW 18. A SaaS company needs to securely transfer customer data from Salesforce to Amazon S3 for analytics. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Glue B) AWS AppFlow C) AWS DataSync D) AWS Transfer Family Answer: B) AWS AppFlow 19. A financial company wants to move data from Zendesk to Amazon Redshift without building custom integrations. Which service should they use? A) AWS AppFlow B) AWS Glue DataBrew C) AWS Transfer Family D) AWS Lake Formation Answer: A) AWS AppFlow 20. A marketing team needs a no-code tool to integrate customer engagement data from third-party SaaS applications into Amazon S3 for reporting. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS QuickSight B) AWS Glue DataBrew C) AWS AppFlow D) AWS Comprehend Answer: C) AWS AppFlow AWS GLUE DATABREW 21. A retail business needs to cleanse and transform sales data before sending it to an analytics dashboard. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Glue DataBrew B) AWS Glue C) AWS Athena D) AWS QuickSight Answer: A) AWS Glue DataBrew 22. A machine learning team wants to automate data cleansing and detect missing values in raw datasets before training their models. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS SageMaker B) AWS Glue DataBrew C) AWS Glue D) AWS Lake Formation Answer: B) AWS Glue DataBrew 23. A company wants to normalize and format raw CSV and JSON data before loading it into Amazon Redshift. Which AWS service provides a no-code solution for this? A) AWS Glue DataBrew B) AWS Lambda C) AWS Athena D) AWS SageMaker Answer: A) AWS Glue DataBrew AWS TRANSFER FAMILY 24. A logistics company needs to migrate their legacy FTP file transfer system to AWS without changing existing workflows. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS DataSync B) AWS Transfer Family C) AWS Snowball D) AWS Glue Answer: B) AWS Transfer Family 25. A healthcare organization needs to securely exchange EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) files with external partners using AS2 protocol. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Transfer Family B) AWS Snowcone C) AWS DataSync D) AWS AppFlow Answer: A) AWS Transfer Family AWS SNOW FAMILY (STORAGE FOCUSED) 26. A research lab located in a remote area with no internet access needs to transfer 50TB of genomic data to AWS. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Direct Connect B) AWS Snowball Edge C) AWS S3 Transfer Acceleration D) AWS DataSync Answer: B) AWS Snowball Edge 27. A video production company needs long-term archival storage for 1PB of raw footage. Which AWS service provides an offline migration option? A) AWS Snowmobile B) AWS Transfer Family C) AWS Snowcone D) AWS Glue Answer: A) AWS Snowmobile AWS ELASTIC DISASTER RECOVERY (DRS) 28. A financial institution needs a disaster recovery solution that replicates entire workloads from on-premises to AWS with minimal downtime. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) B) AWS Backup C) AWS Storage Gateway D) AWS Snowball Answer: A) AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) 29. A company is preparing for disaster recovery testing and needs to failover its workloads to AWS temporarily. Which AWS service allows for failover and rollback? A) AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) B) AWS MGN C) AWS CloudEndure Migration D) AWS DataSync Answer: A) AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) AWS MAINFRAME MODERNIZATION 30. A government agency wants to migrate COBOL-based mainframe applications to AWS without rewriting code. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Mainframe Modernization B) AWS AppFlow C) AWS Glue D) AWS Redshift Answer: A) AWS Mainframe Modernization 31. A company wants to convert COBOL workloads to cloud-native applications running on AWS. Which AWS service helps with automated refactoring? A) AWS Mainframe Modernization B) AWS MGN C) AWS Elastic Beanstalk D) AWS Lambda Answer: A) AWS Mainframe Modernization AWS POLLY 32. A media company wants to generate high-quality speech narration for audiobooks. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Polly B) AWS Lex C) AWS Rekognition D) AWS Translate Answer: A) AWS Polly 33. A customer service chatbot needs realistic text-to-speech responses. Which AWS service enables voice output? A) AWS Polly B) AWS Lex C) AWS Transcribe D) AWS Kendra Answer: A) AWS Polly AWS TRANSLATE 34. An e-commerce business needs real-time translation of customer reviews from multiple languages to English. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Translate B) AWS Comprehend C) AWS Transcribe D) AWS Textract Answer: A) AWS Translate AWS FORECAST 35. A retail company needs to predict sales trends for the next quarter. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Forecast B) AWS SageMaker C) AWS Athena D) AWS Glue Answer: A) AWS Forecast AWS SAGEMAKER 36. A manufacturing company wants to train machine learning models for predictive maintenance. Which AWS service provides a managed ML environment? A) AWS SageMaker B) AWS Forecast C) AWS Lambda D) AWS Glue Answer: A) AWS SageMaker AWS COMPREHEND 37. A company needs to analyze customer feedback to determine sentiment trends. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Comprehend B) AWS Translate C) AWS Polly D) AWS Transcribe Answer: A) AWS Comprehend AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE EXAM PRACTICE - SCENARIO-BASED QUESTIONS COMPUTE & SCALABILITY (EC2, AUTO SCALING, LAMBDA, BEANSTALK) 38. A company hosts a high-traffic e-commerce website on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). They want to scale dynamically based on demand while ensuring a cost-effective solution. What should they implement? A) Manually adjust EC2 instance count during peak hours B) Use EC2 Auto Scaling with scheduled scaling policies C) Configure EC2 Auto Scaling with a target tracking policy based on CPU utilization D) Deploy instances in a single Availability Zone to reduce costs Answer: C) Configure EC2 Auto Scaling with a target tracking policy based on CPU utilization 39. A development team wants to run an application without managing infrastructure. The application handles sporadic workloads and must scale automatically without provisioning servers. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Lambda B) Amazon EC2 Spot Instances C) AWS Elastic Beanstalk D) AWS Fargate Answer: A) AWS Lambda 40. A company is deploying a monolithic web application that requires minimal configuration changes but must scale during traffic spikes. Which AWS service should they use to simplify deployment and management? A) AWS Elastic Beanstalk B) Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling C) AWS Lambda D) Amazon ECS Answer: A) AWS Elastic Beanstalk 41. A company is running a CPU-intensive workload that requires high-performance compute power. The workload runs for extended periods and needs to minimize costs. Which EC2 instance type should they use? A) T3 Instances B) M6g Instances C) C6i Instances D) X1e Instances Answer: C) C6i Instances 42. A company wants to host an AI model that processes real-time video feeds. They require low latency and high availability while minimizing infrastructure management. Which AWS service is most appropriate? A) AWS Lambda B) Amazon EC2 C) Amazon SageMaker D) AWS Fargate Answer: C) Amazon SageMaker NETWORKING & SECURITY (VPC, ALB, NACL, IAM, WAF) 43. A company runs a web application using EC2 instances in a private subnet. They need to allow outbound internet access for software updates while keeping the instances secure. What should they do? A) Assign public IPs to the instances B) Use a NAT Gateway in a public subnet C) Deploy an internet gateway in the private subnet D) Enable VPC peering with another AWS account Answer: B) Use a NAT Gateway in a public subnet 44. An organization needs to securely store sensitive customer data in Amazon S3. The security team mandates that data must be encrypted at rest. Which method should they use? A) Enable Server-Side Encryption with S3 Managed Keys (SSE-S3) B) Store data in an encrypted Amazon RDS instance C) Use AWS Shield Advanced D) Configure S3 Transfer Acceleration Answer: A) Enable Server-Side Encryption with S3 Managed Keys (SSE-S3) 45. A company is designing a multi-tier application with public-facing web servers and private backend servers. How should they ensure secure communication between tiers? A) Use an internet gateway to route traffic B) Deploy an ALB and use security groups to restrict access C) Allow unrestricted inbound access to backend servers D) Use a VPN to route traffic between application layers Answer: B) Deploy an ALB and use security groups to restrict access STORAGE & DATABASE (S3, RDS, AURORA, DYNAMODB, REDSHIFT) 46. A startup wants a cost-effective NoSQL database for a new application that handles unpredictable traffic and requires millisecond response times. Which AWS database should they use? A) Amazon RDS MySQL B) Amazon DynamoDB C) Amazon Aurora D) Amazon Redshift Answer: B) Amazon DynamoDB 47. A company is using Amazon RDS for a transactional database and needs automated backups with point-in-time recovery. What should they enable? A) Enable Multi-AZ replication B) Enable Amazon RDS Automated Backups C) Use Amazon DynamoDB Streams D) Deploy Amazon Redshift for backup storage Answer: B) Enable Amazon RDS Automated Backups 48. A financial services firm requires a database solution that provides multi-region disaster recovery with automatic failover. Which AWS database should they use? A) Amazon Aurora Global Database B) Amazon RDS Multi-AZ C) Amazon DynamoDB D) Amazon ElastiCache Answer: A) Amazon Aurora Global Database MONITORING & AUTOMATION (CLOUDWATCH, AUTO SCALING, CLOUDTRAIL) 49. A company wants to monitor CPU utilization of EC2 instances and automatically terminate underutilized instances to optimize costs. Which service should they use? A) Amazon CloudWatch with Auto Scaling B) AWS Trusted Advisor C) AWS Config D) AWS CloudFormation Answer: A) Amazon CloudWatch with Auto Scaling 50. A security team needs to track API calls and detect unauthorized access to AWS resources. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS CloudTrail B) AWS CloudWatch Logs C) Amazon Inspector D) AWS GuardDuty Answer: A) AWS CloudTrail MIGRATION & DISASTER RECOVERY 51. A company needs to migrate 10 TB of on-premises data to Amazon S3 but has limited bandwidth. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Snowball B) AWS Direct Connect C) AWS DataSync D) AWS Storage Gateway Answer: A) AWS Snowball 52. A retail company is looking for a disaster recovery solution that continuously replicates its on-premises workloads to AWS. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) B) AWS Backup C) AWS Storage Gateway D) AWS CloudEndure Answer: A) AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) COMPUTE & SCALABILITY (EC2, LAMBDA, AUTO SCALING, CONTAINERS) 53. A company is deploying an event-driven microservices application that requires minimal operational overhead and automatic scaling. Which AWS service should they use? A) Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling B) AWS Lambda C) AWS Elastic Beanstalk D) AWS Fargate Answer: B) AWS Lambda 54. A web application running on an EC2 instance is experiencing intermittent performance issues due to unpredictable spikes in CPU utilization. Which solution provides automatic scaling to handle varying traffic loads? A) Launch larger EC2 instances manually B) Enable EC2 Auto Scaling with a target tracking scaling policy C) Use Amazon CloudFront to cache static content D) Move the application to Amazon RDS Answer: B) Enable EC2 Auto Scaling with a target tracking scaling policy 55. A DevOps team is deploying a containerized application that requires scaling across multiple availability zones with minimal management. Which service should they choose? A) Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate B) Amazon EC2 with Docker installed C) AWS Lambda D) AWS Elastic Beanstalk Answer: A) Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate NETWORKING & SECURITY (VPC, ALB, NACL, IAM, WAF) 56. A company needs to expose an internal microservice to external partners while securing it with authentication and rate-limiting. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS API Gateway B) AWS Direct Connect C) Amazon VPC Peering D) AWS WAF Answer: A) AWS API Gateway 57. A security team needs to restrict public internet access for EC2 instances while still allowing them to download software updates. What should they do? A) Assign public IPs to all EC2 instances B) Use a NAT Gateway in a public subnet C) Deploy an Internet Gateway in the private subnet D) Enable VPC Peering with another AWS account Answer: B) Use a NAT Gateway in a public subnet 58. A company wants to improve the security of its web application by protecting it from SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Which AWS service should they implement? A) AWS WAF B) Amazon Inspector C) AWS Shield D) AWS GuardDuty Answer: A) AWS WAF STORAGE & DATABASE (S3, RDS, DYNAMODB, REDSHIFT, FSx) 59. A company needs to store large volumes of semi-structured data and requires fast, SQL-based querying with support for concurrent read workloads. Which AWS service should they use? A) Amazon Redshift B) Amazon DynamoDB C) Amazon RDS D) AWS Glue Answer: A) Amazon Redshift 60. A gaming company needs a low-latency NoSQL database capable of handling millions of requests per second globally. Which AWS service best meets this requirement? A) Amazon RDS B) Amazon Aurora C) Amazon DynamoDB D) Amazon Redshift Spectrum Answer: C) Amazon DynamoDB 61. A financial institution needs an ACID-compliant database that automatically replicates across multiple AWS Regions for high availability and disaster recovery. Which AWS service should they use? A) Amazon Aurora Global Database B) Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables C) Amazon RDS with Multi-AZ D) Amazon S3 with cross-region replication Answer: A) Amazon Aurora Global Database MONITORING & AUTOMATION (CLOUDWATCH, AUTO SCALING, CLOUDTRAIL) 62. A company wants to automate infrastructure deployment across multiple AWS accounts and regions. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS CloudFormation B) AWS Systems Manager C) AWS OpsWorks D) AWS CloudTrail Answer: A) AWS CloudFormation 63. A security team needs to track API calls and detect unauthorized access to AWS resources. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS CloudTrail B) AWS CloudWatch Logs C) Amazon Inspector D) AWS GuardDuty Answer: A) AWS CloudTrail DISASTER RECOVERY & MIGRATION (AWS DMS, ELASTIC DISASTER RECOVERY, SNOW FAMILY) 64. A healthcare company needs to replicate its critical applications from an on-premises data center to AWS for disaster recovery purposes. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) B) AWS Backup C) AWS Snowball D) AWS DataSync Answer: A) AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) 65. A company has a large dataset (500 TB) that needs to be migrated from an on-premises data center to Amazon S3. The company has a slow internet connection. Which service should they use? A) AWS Snowball B) AWS DataSync C) AWS Direct Connect D) AWS Storage Gateway Answer: A) AWS Snowball 66. A company needs to migrate an Oracle database from its on-premises data center to Amazon RDS with minimal downtime. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) B) AWS Glue C) Amazon Redshift D) AWS Storage Gateway Answer: A) AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) ANALYTICS & MACHINE LEARNING (ATHENA, KINESIS, SAGEMAKER, REKOGNITION, FORECAST) 67. A company wants to query large datasets stored in Amazon S3 using standard SQL without setting up a database. Which AWS service should they use? A) Amazon Athena B) Amazon Redshift C) AWS Glue D) Amazon RDS Answer: A) Amazon Athena 68. A video security company needs to analyze live security camera feeds for motion detection and facial recognition. Which AWS service is best suited? A) AWS Rekognition B) AWS SageMaker C) AWS Textract D) AWS Kinesis Video Streams Answer: A) AWS Rekognition 69. A retail company needs to predict future sales trends based on past transaction history. Which AWS service should they use? A) AWS Forecast B) Amazon Comprehend C) AWS SageMaker D) AWS Glue Answer: A) AWS Forecast