# AWS SAA - Practice Quizzes 1 - [[AWS SAA - Practice Quizzes 1#**AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam Quiz - Mock Exam 0**|Mock Exam 0]] - [[AWS SAA - Mock Exam Answer Key#Mock Exam 0 - Answer Key|Mock Exam 0 Answer Key]] - [[AWS SAA - Practice Quizzes 1#**AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam Quiz - Mock Exam 1**|Mock Exam 1]] - [[AWS SAA - Mock Exam Answer Key]] --- ### **AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam Quiz - Mock Exam 0** #### **Compute & EC2** 1. A company needs to host a highly available web application on AWS. The application must automatically scale during traffic spikes while maintaining minimal operational overhead. Which service should they use? - A) EC2 instances with Auto Scaling and an Application Load Balancer - B) AWS Lambda with API Gateway - C) EC2 instances in a single AZ with an Elastic IP - D) A single EC2 instance with an EBS volume 2. Your company is running an application on a **t3.medium EC2 instance**, but during peak hours, users report slow response times. How can you **optimize performance while minimizing costs**? - A) Switch to an **m5.large instance** - B) Use **Auto Scaling** to add more **t3.medium instances** - C) Use an **EC2 Spot Instance** for additional capacity - D) Change to an **r5.large instance** 3. A team is running a **stateless microservices application** using EC2 instances. They need to ensure that requests are evenly distributed while keeping costs low. What should they do? - A) Use an **Application Load Balancer (ALB)** in front of the EC2 instances - B) Use an **Elastic IP** for each EC2 instance and distribute traffic manually - C) Use an **Amazon S3 static website** to serve the application - D) Use **Route 53 failover routing** #### **Storage & S3** 4. A healthcare provider needs to store patient records in Amazon S3. Compliance requirements dictate that once written, records **cannot be modified or deleted for 10 years**. How can this be enforced? - A) Enable **S3 Versioning** and keep previous versions - B) Apply an **S3 Lifecycle Policy** to retain objects for 10 years - C) Enable **S3 Object Lock in Compliance Mode** - D) Use **S3 Glacier Deep Archive** 5. Your organization stores large media files in an **S3 bucket**. You need to reduce storage costs but must ensure **immediate access** when required. Which storage class should you use? - A) S3 Standard - B) S3 Intelligent-Tiering - C) S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval - D) S3 Glacier Deep Archive 6. A company runs **an on-premises data center** and needs to **migrate 50TB of data** to Amazon S3 securely. The internet connection is **too slow**. Which AWS service should they use? - A) AWS Snowball - B) AWS Direct Connect - C) AWS DataSync - D) AWS Transfer Family #### **Networking & VPC** 7. A company has an **EC2 instance** in a **private subnet** that needs internet access to download software updates. What should they do? - A) Attach an **Elastic IP** - B) Add an **Internet Gateway** to the VPC - C) Create a **NAT Gateway** - D) Enable **VPC Peering** 8. Your architecture includes **multiple VPCs** that need **to communicate** with each other. The solution should **scale efficiently**. What should you use? - A) VPC Peering - B) AWS Direct Connect - C) VPC Endpoints - D) AWS Transit Gateway 9. You need to **secure incoming traffic** to a **public-facing web application** while blocking known **malicious IPs**. What should you implement? - A) AWS Shield Advanced - B) AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) - C) NACLs (Network ACLs) - D) VPC Flow Logs #### **Databases & RDS** 10. A company is running **a MySQL database** on **Amazon RDS**. They need **automated backups and failover** in case of an AZ failure. What should they do? - A) Enable **Multi-AZ Deployment** - B) Use **Read Replicas** - C) Enable **Automated Snapshots** - D) Deploy **RDS Proxy** 11. A startup needs a **scalable, NoSQL database** for a mobile application that will experience unpredictable traffic spikes. What AWS service should they use? - A) Amazon Aurora - B) Amazon DynamoDB - C) Amazon RDS MySQL - D) Amazon Redshift 12. An analytics team needs to run **complex queries on structured data** stored in **S3** using standard **SQL**. What should they use? - A) Amazon Athena - B) Amazon Redshift - C) AWS Glue - D) Amazon OpenSearch #### **Security & Compliance** 13. A security team needs **detailed logs of API calls made within an AWS account** for compliance audits. What should they enable? - A) AWS CloudTrail - B) AWS Shield - C) AWS IAM Access Analyzer - D) Amazon GuardDuty 14. Your company requires **temporary, least-privilege access** to AWS resources for developers working on short-term projects. What should you use? - A) IAM Policies - B) IAM Roles - C) IAM Users - D) Service Control Policies (SCPs) 15. A company needs **DDoS protection** for a **public-facing web application** hosted on AWS. What AWS service should they use? - A) AWS WAF - B) AWS Shield - C) AWS GuardDuty - D) AWS Trusted Advisor #### **High Availability & Fault Tolerance** 16. A company hosts a **multi-tier web application** on AWS. They want to ensure **zero downtime** if one AWS Region becomes unavailable. What should they implement? - A) Deploy the application across **multiple Availability Zones** - B) Use **Route 53 with failover routing** across **multiple AWS Regions** - C) Enable **Auto Scaling** in one Availability Zone - D) Use an **Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) with multi-AZ support** 17. A company’s **e-commerce platform** needs **automated recovery from EC2 failures** with minimal human intervention. What AWS feature should they use? - A) Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling - B) AWS Shield Advanced - C) AWS Config Rules - D) AWS Trusted Advisor 18. Your organization requires **five-nines (99.999%) availability** for its **global customer-facing application**. What should you do? - A) Use an **Application Load Balancer** with instances in a **single AWS Region** - B) Deploy to **multiple AWS Regions** with **Route 53 failover routing** - C) Use **Amazon CloudFront** to cache static content - D) Enable **Auto Scaling in a single AZ** #### **Cost Optimization** 19. A startup wants to minimize costs for an **EC2-based batch processing job** that runs once per day. What instance type should they use? - A) On-Demand Instances - B) Reserved Instances - C) Spot Instances - D) Dedicated Hosts 20. Your company wants **to lower AWS compute costs** for a **steady-state database workload**. What should they use? - A) Spot Instances - B) Reserved Instances - C) On-Demand Instances - D) Lambda 21. An application runs on **t3.medium EC2 instances** but is experiencing **CPU credit depletion**. How can you reduce costs while maintaining performance? - A) Use an **m5.large instance** - B) Convert to **Reserved Instances** - C) Use an **EC2 Auto Scaling group** with more **t3.medium instances** - D) Switch to a **t3.large burstable instance** #### **Networking & Content Delivery** 22. A global company needs to **deliver static and dynamic web content with low latency**. What AWS service should they use? - A) Amazon Route 53 - B) AWS Global Accelerator - C) Amazon CloudFront - D) AWS Direct Connect 23. A client requires **private connectivity between their on-premises data center and AWS VPC**. What service should they use? - A) AWS Direct Connect - B) AWS VPN - C) VPC Peering - D) AWS PrivateLink 24. Your application is running on **multiple EC2 instances** behind an **Elastic Load Balancer**. Users in different regions report **inconsistent response times**. What should you do? - A) Use **Amazon Route 53 latency-based routing** - B) Move all traffic to a **single AWS Region** - C) Use **AWS Global Accelerator** - D) Increase the **EC2 instance type size** #### **Monitoring & Logging** 25. A security team wants to track **suspicious activity across all AWS accounts** in an AWS Organization. What should they enable? - A) AWS CloudTrail Organization Trail - B) Amazon GuardDuty - C) AWS Config Rules - D) AWS Security Hub 26. Your application logs are stored in **Amazon CloudWatch Logs**. You need to **automatically detect anomalies in log data**. What should you use? - A) AWS X-Ray - B) Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights - C) Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection - D) AWS Trusted Advisor 27. A DevOps team wants **real-time notifications** when an **EC2 instance exceeds 80% CPU utilization**. What should they configure? - A) AWS CloudTrail - B) Amazon CloudWatch Alarms - C) AWS Config - D) AWS Shield #### **Serverless & Containers** 28. A **microservices-based** application requires **event-driven messaging** between loosely coupled services. What should you use? - A) Amazon SQS - B) AWS Step Functions - C) Amazon SNS - D) Amazon EventBridge 29. Your company is **modernizing applications** by using **containerized workloads**. They want a **fully managed Kubernetes solution**. What should they use? - A) Amazon ECS - B) AWS Fargate - C) Amazon EKS - D) AWS Lambda 30. A startup wants to use a **serverless compute service** for running backend APIs. What AWS service should they use? - A) Amazon EC2 - B) AWS Lambda - C) Amazon Lightsail - D) AWS Batch #### **Disaster Recovery & Backups** 31. Your organization wants **automatic backups of an RDS database** with the ability to restore **to any point in time within 7 days**. What should you use? - A) RDS Snapshots - B) RDS Automated Backups - C) AWS Backup - D) Amazon S3 Versioning 32. A company requires **cross-region replication of S3 objects** for **disaster recovery**. What should they enable? - A) Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration - B) Amazon S3 Replication - C) Amazon CloudFront - D) AWS DataSync 33. Your company needs **multi-region failover** for a **mission-critical application**. What AWS service should they use? - A) AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) - B) Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering - C) AWS Backup - D) AWS Trusted Advisor #### **Compute & EC2** 34. A company is migrating **an application running on-premises** to AWS. The application requires **consistent, predictable performance** and **dedicated physical servers**. What instance type should they use? - A) On-Demand Instances - B) Spot Instances - C) Dedicated Hosts - D) EC2 Auto Scaling 35. Your organization is running **an AI/ML workload** that requires **high-performance GPUs** for model training. What AWS service should they use? - A) AWS Lambda - B) Amazon EC2 G4 Instances - C) AWS Batch - D) Amazon SageMaker 36. An application requires **low-latency access** to compute resources and needs to be deployed **closer to users** in a **geographically distributed manner**. What service should you use? - A) AWS Wavelength - B) AWS Outposts - C) Amazon Lightsail - D) Amazon CloudFront #### **Databases & RDS** 37. A company is running **a PostgreSQL database on-premises** and wants to migrate to AWS with minimal downtime. What service should they use? - A) AWS Snowball - B) AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) - C) Amazon RDS Multi-AZ - D) AWS Backup 38. Your application requires **millisecond read latency** and needs **a NoSQL database** that supports **automatic scaling**. What AWS service should you choose? - A) Amazon RDS - B) Amazon DynamoDB - C) Amazon Aurora - D) Amazon Redshift 39. A company wants **a fully managed data warehouse** for **big data analytics** with **columnar storage and massively parallel processing (MPP)**. What AWS service should they use? - A) Amazon Athena - B) Amazon RDS - C) Amazon Redshift - D) AWS Glue #### **Networking & Security** 40. Your company has **a hybrid cloud architecture** and wants to establish a **dedicated private connection between AWS and their on-premises data center**. What AWS service should they use? - A) AWS Direct Connect - B) AWS VPN - C) VPC Peering - D) AWS PrivateLink 41. A business application running on **EC2 instances in a VPC** needs to securely access **AWS services (e.g., S3, DynamoDB) without using the public internet**. What should you implement? - A) VPC Peering - B) AWS Transit Gateway - C) VPC Endpoints - D) NAT Gateway 42. A financial company must **log and analyze API activity** across all AWS accounts in their organization. What AWS service should they enable? - A) AWS Shield - B) AWS Config - C) AWS CloudTrail - D) Amazon GuardDuty #### **Storage & Backup** 43. A company has **100TB of archived compliance data** that **rarely needs to be accessed** but must be **retrievable within hours** when needed. What S3 storage class should they use? - A) S3 Standard - B) S3 Intelligent-Tiering - C) S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval - D) S3 Glacier Deep Archive 44. A company's **EBS volume is running out of space**, but they cannot afford downtime. How can they expand storage capacity? - A) Create a snapshot, create a new volume, and attach it to EC2 - B) Enable EBS Volume Auto-Scaling - C) Modify the EBS volume size and resize the file system - D) Add an instance store volume 45. Your company needs **cross-region disaster recovery** for Amazon EBS-backed **EC2 instances**. What is the recommended solution? - A) Use EBS Snapshots and **copy them to another region** - B) Enable **EBS Auto Scaling** - C) Use **Amazon S3 Cross-Region Replication** - D) Deploy a **Multi-AZ EC2 instance** #### **Serverless & AI/ML** 46. A startup is building **a recommendation engine** and needs a **fully managed ML service** that simplifies training and deployment. What should they use? - A) Amazon Rekognition - B) AWS SageMaker - C) AWS Lambda - D) Amazon Forecast 47. Your application **requires real-time text translation** for **customer support chats**. What AWS service should you use? - A) AWS Comprehend - B) AWS Translate - C) Amazon Polly - D) AWS Lex 48. A retail business wants to **analyze customer emotions in product reviews**. What AWS service should they use? - A) Amazon Rekognition - B) AWS Comprehend - C) AWS Kendra - D) Amazon Forecast #### **Cost Optimization & Hybrid Cloud** 49. A company wants to **reduce AWS costs** by automatically stopping **idle EC2 instances**. What AWS service should they use? - A) AWS Auto Scaling - B) AWS Compute Optimizer - C) AWS Cost Explorer - D) AWS Budgets 50. Your organization wants **to extend on-premises storage** to AWS while ensuring **low-latency access** to frequently used data. What should they use? - A) AWS Storage Gateway - B) Amazon S3 Glacier - C) AWS Snowball Edge - D) Amazon FSx 51. A business is moving **mainframe workloads** to AWS and needs a service to **replatform or refactor COBOL-based applications**. What AWS service should they use? - A) AWS Migration Hub - B) AWS Mainframe Modernization - C) AWS Snowball - D) AWS DMS #### **Disaster Recovery & Compliance** 52. A company requires **business continuity** in the event of a regional failure. They need an **automated solution** that replicates **entire applications to another AWS Region**. What service should they use? - A) AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery - B) Amazon S3 Replication - C) AWS Backup - D) AWS Resilience Hub --- ### **AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam Quiz - Mock Exam 1** --- ### **Compute & EC2** 1. A company is designing a **fault-tolerant web application** that requires automatic scaling and load balancing. Which AWS services should they use? - A) Amazon EC2, Auto Scaling, and an Elastic Load Balancer - B) AWS Lambda and an API Gateway - C) EC2 instances with manually configured scaling policies - D) Amazon S3 and CloudFront 2. An application running on an **m5.large EC2 instance** is experiencing performance issues due to high CPU usage. What is the most cost-effective way to improve performance? - A) Switch to an **m5.xlarge instance** - B) Enable **Auto Scaling** and add additional **m5.large instances** - C) Use an **EC2 Spot Instance** - D) Migrate the workload to AWS Lambda 3. A company needs to **host a microservices-based architecture** in AWS with minimal operational overhead. Which service should they use? - A) AWS Fargate - B) Amazon EC2 with Auto Scaling - C) Amazon Lightsail - D) AWS Outposts ### **Storage & S3** 4. A business requires **cost-effective long-term storage** for compliance documents that must be **retrieved within minutes when needed**. What S3 storage class should they use? - A) S3 Standard - B) S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval - C) S3 Intelligent-Tiering - D) S3 Glacier Deep Archive 5. A company is **migrating on-premises storage to AWS** and wants to **move 100TB of data securely** in the **fastest way possible**. What should they use? - A) AWS Direct Connect - B) AWS DataSync - C) AWS Snowball Edge - D) S3 Transfer Acceleration 6. Your organization needs to provide **access logs for compliance audits** for objects stored in an **Amazon S3 bucket**. What should you enable? - A) AWS CloudTrail - B) S3 Access Logs - C) Amazon GuardDuty - D) S3 Object Lock ### **Networking & VPC** 7. An EC2 instance in a **private subnet** must connect to **AWS services like S3 and DynamoDB**. What is the most secure method to achieve this? - A) Attach an **Elastic IP** to the instance - B) Use a **NAT Gateway** - C) Configure a **VPC Endpoint** - D) Allow outbound traffic via an **Internet Gateway** 8. A company has **two VPCs in different AWS Regions** that need **to communicate securely with each other**. What is the most scalable solution? - A) Use **VPC Peering** - B) Use an **AWS Transit Gateway** - C) Set up an **IPsec VPN Connection** - D) Deploy **AWS Direct Connect** 9. A company’s **on-premises data center** must communicate **privately** with AWS over a **dedicated connection**. Which AWS service provides this capability? - A) AWS Direct Connect - B) AWS VPN - C) VPC Peering - D) AWS PrivateLink ### **Databases & RDS** 10. A company is **migrating an Oracle database** to AWS and requires **minimal downtime**. What is the best migration strategy? - A) Use AWS Snowball - B) Use AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) - C) Manually export and import the database - D) Use RDS Snapshots 11. A developer needs a **NoSQL database** that provides **single-digit millisecond latency** and can **auto-scale based on demand**. What should they use? - A) Amazon RDS - B) Amazon Redshift - C) Amazon DynamoDB - D) Amazon Aurora 12. A business wants to **run analytical queries on structured data stored in Amazon S3** using **SQL**. Which AWS service should they use? - A) Amazon Athena - B) Amazon Redshift Spectrum - C) AWS Glue - D) Amazon OpenSearch ### **Security & Compliance** 13. A security team needs **detailed logs of all API calls made within an AWS account**. What should they enable? - A) AWS Shield Advanced - B) AWS CloudTrail - C) Amazon GuardDuty - D) AWS Security Hub 14. A company wants **to enforce least-privilege access policies** for AWS resources. What is the recommended practice? - A) Use **AWS Managed Policies** for all IAM users - B) Assign **IAM Policies to IAM Groups** instead of individual users - C) Use **root account** for administrative tasks - D) Enable **Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) on all IAM roles** 15. Your organization must comply with **GDPR data protection regulations**. How can AWS help meet compliance requirements? - A) Enable **AWS Shield** - B) Use **AWS Artifact** for compliance reports - C) Enable **Amazon Macie** for sensitive data detection - D) Store logs in **Amazon S3 Standard** ### **Disaster Recovery & Backups** 16. A financial institution needs **multi-region disaster recovery** for its **EC2-based application**. What is the best solution? - A) Enable **EBS Multi-AZ Replication** - B) Use **AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)** - C) Enable **EC2 Auto Scaling** - D) Use **Amazon Route 53 latency-based routing** 17. A business requires **point-in-time recovery** for **Amazon RDS databases**. Which feature should they enable? - A) RDS Snapshots - B) RDS Automated Backups - C) AWS Backup - D) Amazon S3 Versioning 18. Your company requires **long-term, cost-effective backups** for **compliance data** that **must be retained for 10 years**. What should they use? - A) Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive - B) Amazon S3 Standard - C) AWS Backup - D) Amazon RDS Snapshots ### **High Availability & Fault Tolerance** 19. A business-critical application must remain available even if **one AWS Region fails**. What is the best strategy? - A) Deploy the application across **multiple Availability Zones** - B) Use **Route 53 with failover routing across multiple AWS Regions** - C) Use **Amazon CloudFront** to cache content globally - D) Deploy a **Multi-AZ RDS instance** 20. A company needs to **scale its EC2 instances based on incoming web traffic**. What AWS service should they use? - A) AWS Auto Scaling - B) AWS Fargate - C) AWS Elastic Beanstalk - D) AWS Outposts 21. A team wants to run **batch jobs that automatically scale based on demand** without managing infrastructure. What AWS service should they use? - A) AWS Batch - B) AWS Lambda - C) Amazon ECS - D) AWS Glue ### **Networking & Connectivity** 22. A company's EC2 instances in a **private subnet** need to securely connect to the internet for updates. What should they use? - A) NAT Gateway - B) Internet Gateway - C) VPC Peering - D) AWS Global Accelerator 23. Your application requires **a highly available DNS solution** that can route traffic to the **nearest AWS Region** based on latency. What should you use? - A) Amazon CloudFront - B) AWS Transit Gateway - C) AWS Global Accelerator - D) Amazon Route 53 Latency Routing 24. A company needs **secure private communication between multiple VPCs**. What is the best option? - A) VPC Peering - B) AWS Transit Gateway - C) AWS Direct Connect - D) AWS Site-to-Site VPN ### **Databases & Data Analytics** 25. A company wants **an AWS-native service** to run **OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) queries** on large datasets. What should they use? - A) Amazon RDS - B) Amazon Redshift - C) Amazon DynamoDB - D) Amazon Aurora 26. A startup needs a **fully managed relational database** that can automatically scale based on demand. What should they use? - A) Amazon RDS - B) Amazon Aurora Serverless - C) Amazon DynamoDB - D) Amazon ElastiCache 27. Your application must process **real-time streaming data from IoT devices**. What AWS service should be used? - A) Amazon Kinesis Data Streams - B) AWS Glue - C) Amazon S3 - D) Amazon EMR ### **Security & Identity Management** 28. A security team wants to monitor **unauthorized access attempts** across all AWS accounts. What AWS service should they enable? - A) Amazon GuardDuty - B) AWS Security Hub - C) AWS Shield Advanced - D) Amazon Macie 29. Your organization needs **temporary AWS access for third-party contractors**. What is the best practice? - A) Create an IAM user for each contractor - B) Use IAM Roles with **temporary security credentials** - C) Share AWS root credentials - D) Enable AWS Shield 30. A company wants **to control which AWS services can be used across multiple accounts**. What AWS feature should they implement? - A) AWS Organizations Service Control Policies (SCPs) - B) IAM Roles - C) AWS Trusted Advisor - D) AWS Config ### **Serverless Computing** 31. A company is building **a real-time data processing pipeline** that must **scale automatically**. What AWS service should they use? - A) AWS Lambda - B) Amazon EC2 - C) Amazon RDS - D) AWS Batch 32. Your team is developing **an event-driven architecture** that triggers functions **based on uploaded files in S3**. What AWS service should they use? - A) AWS Lambda - B) Amazon EC2 - C) AWS Glue - D) AWS Fargate 33. A web application needs to **process millions of API requests per second** using a **fully managed, scalable backend**. What AWS service should they use? - A) Amazon API Gateway with AWS Lambda - B) EC2 with an Application Load Balancer - C) Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment - D) AWS Fargate with ECS ### **Storage & Backup** 34. A company wants **automatic backups for their Amazon EBS volumes**. What AWS service should they use? - A) Amazon EBS Snapshots - B) AWS Backup - C) Amazon S3 Glacier - D) Amazon FSx 35. Your company needs **to move large files between on-premises storage and AWS quickly**. What is the best option? - A) AWS DataSync - B) AWS Snowball Edge - C) AWS Transfer Family - D) AWS Storage Gateway 36. A company needs **a distributed file system that is highly scalable** and supports **HPC (High-Performance Computing) workloads**. What AWS service should they use? - A) Amazon FSx for Lustre - B) Amazon S3 - C) Amazon RDS - D) AWS Snowcone ### **Cost Optimization** 37. A company wants **to forecast AWS spending and set cost limits**. What AWS service should they use? - A) AWS Cost Explorer - B) AWS Budgets - C) AWS Trusted Advisor - D) AWS Compute Optimizer 38. A business with **a steady-state workload** wants to reduce compute costs. What pricing model should they use? - A) On-Demand Instances - B) Reserved Instances - C) Spot Instances - D) Dedicated Hosts 39. Your team is running **batch processing jobs on EC2** and wants to **minimize costs** while ensuring jobs complete successfully. What should they use? - A) Spot Instances with a fallback to On-Demand - B) Reserved Instances - C) AWS Lambda - D) EC2 Auto Scaling ### **Disaster Recovery & Resilience** 40. A company requires **multi-Region replication of RDS databases** for disaster recovery. What should they use? - A) Amazon RDS Read Replicas - B) Amazon Aurora Global Database - C) Amazon DynamoDB Streams - D) AWS Backup 41. Your company wants **a cost-effective solution** for **backing up EC2 instances automatically**. What should they use? - A) AWS Backup - B) Amazon S3 Replication - C) AWS CloudFormation - D) AWS Snowball 42. A government agency needs **to store compliance data for 20 years** in AWS. What service should they use? - A) Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive - B) AWS Backup - C) Amazon EFS - D) AWS Glue Data Catalog