Amazon SOA-C03 Exam Questions

Exam Name: AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

Exam Code: SOA-C03

Related Certification(s): Amazon Associate Certifications, Amazon AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate SysOps Associate Certifications

Certification Provider: Amazon

Actual Exam Duration: 130 Minutes

Number of SOA-C03 Practice Questions: 165 (updated: )

Expected SOA-C03 Exam Topics, as suggested by Amazon:
Topic 1: Monitoring, Logging, Analysis, Remediation, and Performance Optimization
This section of the exam measures skills of CloudOps Engineers and covers implementing AWS monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and Prometheus. It evaluates configuring alarms, dashboards, and notifications, analyzing performance metrics, troubleshooting issues using EventBridge and Systems Manager, and applying strategies to optimize compute, storage, and database performance.
Topic 2: Reliability and Business Continuity
This section measures the skills of System Administrators and focuses on maintaining scalability, elasticity, and fault tolerance. It includes configuring load balancing, auto scaling, Multi-AZ deployments, implementing backup and restore strategies with AWS Backup and versioning, and ensuring disaster recovery to meet RTO and RPO goals.
Topic 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation
This section measures the skills of Cloud Engineers and covers provisioning and maintaining cloud resources using AWS CloudFormation, CDK, and third-party tools. It evaluates automation of deployments, remediation of resource issues, and managing infrastructure using Systems Manager and event-driven processes like Lambda or S3 notifications.
Topic 4: Security and Compliance
This section measures skills of Security Engineers and includes implementing IAM policies, roles, MFA, and access controls. It focuses on troubleshooting access issues, enforcing compliance, securing data at rest and in transit using AWS KMS and ACM, protecting secrets, and applying findings from Security Hub, GuardDuty, and Inspector.
Topic 5: Networking and Content Delivery
This section measures skills of Cloud Network Engineers and focuses on VPC configuration, subnets, routing, network ACLs, and gateways. It includes optimizing network cost and performance, configuring DNS with Route 53, using CloudFront and Global Accelerator for content delivery, and troubleshooting network and hybrid connectivity using logs and monitoring tools.
Free AWS SOA-C03 Exam Actual Questions
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Question #1 A company runs applications on Amazon EC2 instances. The company wants to ensure that SSH ports on the EC2 instances are never open. The company has enabled AWS Config and has set up the restricted-ssh AWS managed rule. A CloudOps engineer must implement a solution to remediate SSH port access for noncompliant security groups. What should the engineer do to meet this requirement with the MOST operational efficiency?

Question #2 A company is running an ecommerce application on AWS. The application maintains many open but idle connections to an Amazon Aurora DB cluster. During peak usage the database produces the error “Too many connections”. Which solution will resolve these errors?

Question #3 A company’s ecommerce application runs on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group. Customers sometimes receive HTTP 500 errors even though EC2 health checks pass. Which solution will resolve the problem?

Question #4 A CloudOps engineer needs to track data transfer costs between AWS Regions and send alerts when costs reach 75% of a threshold. What should the engineer do?

Question #5 A company runs an application on EC2 instances behind an ELB in an Auto Scaling group. Performance slows during a predictable 2-hour daily traffic peak. What should the CloudOps engineer do with minimal operational effort?