SAA-C03 Free Practice Test

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company needs to store its accounting records in Amazon S3. The records must be immediately accessible for 1 year and then must be archived for an additional 9 years. No one at the company, including administrative users and root users, can be able to delete the records during the entire 10-year period. The records must be stored with maximum resiliency.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

1. A. Store the records in S3 Glacier for the entire 10-year perio
2. B. Use an access control policy to deny deletion of the records for a period of 10 years.
3. C. Store the records by using S3 Intelligent-Tierin
4. D. Use an IAM policy to deny deletion of the records.After 10 years, change the IAM policy to allow deletion.
5. E. Use an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the records from S3 Standard to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 yea
6. F. Use S3 Object Lock in compliance mode for a period of 10 years.
7. G. Use an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the records from S3 Standard to S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) after 1 yea
8. H. Use S3 Object Lock in governance mode for a period of 10 years.

Correct Answer: C

- (Exam Topic 3)
A company hosts multiple production applications. One of the applications consists of resources from Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon RDS, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) across multiple AWS Regions. All company resources are tagged with a tag name of “application” and a value that corresponds to each application. A solutions architect must provide the quickest solution for identifying all of the tagged components.
Which solution meets these requirements?

1. A. Use AWS CloudTrail to generate a list of resources with the application tag.
2. B. Use the AWS CLI to query each service across all Regions to report the tagged components.
3. C. Run a query in Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights to report on the components with the application tag.
4. D. Run a query with the AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor to report on the resources globally with the application tag.

Correct Answer: D
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/tag-editor/latest/userguide/tagging.html

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company is building an ecommerce web application on AWS. The application sends information about new orders to an Amazon API Gateway REST API to process. The company wants to ensure that orders are processed in the order that they are received.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

1. A. Use an API Gateway integration to publish a message to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic when the application receives an orde
2. B. Subscribe an AWS Lambda function to the topic to perform processing.
3. C. Use an API Gateway integration to send a message to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queue when the application receives an orde
4. D. Configure the SQS FIFO queue to invoke an AWS Lambda function for processing.
5. E. Use an API Gateway authorizer to block any requests while the application processes an order.
6. F. Use an API Gateway integration to send a message to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) standard queue when the application receives an orde
7. G. Configure the SQS standard queue to invoke an AWS Lambda function for processing.

Correct Answer: B

- (Exam Topic 2)
A company stores its application logs in an Amazon CloudWatch Logs log group. A new policy requires the company to store all application logs in Amazon OpenSearch Service (Amazon Elasticsearch Service) in near-real time.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?

1. A. Configure a CloudWatch Logs subscription to stream the logs to Amazon OpenSearch Service (Amazon Elasticsearch Service).
2. B. Create an AWS Lambda functio
3. C. Use the log group to invoke the function to write the logs to Amazon OpenSearch Service (Amazon Elasticsearch Service).
4. D. Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery strea
5. E. Configure the log group as the delivery stream's sourc
6. F. Configure Amazon OpenSearch Service (Amazon Elasticsearch Service) as the delivery stream's destination.
7. G. Install and configure Amazon Kinesis Agent on each application server to deliver the logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Stream
8. H. Configure Kinesis Data Streams to deliver the logs to Amazon OpenSearch Service (Amazon Elasticsearch Service)

Correct Answer: B
https://computingforgeeks.com/stream-logs-in-aws-from-cloudwatch-to-elasticsearch/

- (Exam Topic 3)
A company has a large dataset for its online advertising business stored in an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in a single Availability Zone. The company wants business reporting queries to run without impacting the write operations to the production DB instance.
Which solution meets these requirements?

1. A. Deploy RDS read replicas to process the business reporting queries.
2. B. Scale out the DB instance horizontally by placing it behind an Elastic Load Balancer
3. C. Scale up the DB instance to a larger instance type to handle write operations and queries
4. D. Deploy the OB distance in multiple Availability Zones to process the business reporting queries

Correct Answer: C