Amazon SAA-C03 Exam Questions

Exam Name: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Exam Code: SAA-C03

Related Certification(s): Amazon Associate Certifications, Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Certifications

Certification Provider: Amazon

Actual Exam Duration: 130 Minutes

Number of SAA-C03 Practice Questions: 758 (updated: )

Expected SAA-C03 Exam Topics, as suggested by Amazon:
Topic 1: Design Secure Architectures
This section measures the skills of Cloud Security Engineers and Solutions Architects and focuses on designing secure AWS architectures. It includes implementing secure access to AWS resources, protecting workloads and applications, managing access across multiple accounts, designing secure VPC architectures, implementing encryption for data at rest and in transit, and applying AWS security best practices with proper identity and access management controls.
Topic 2: Design Resilient Architectures
This section focuses on designing highly available and fault tolerant architectures that ensure business continuity. It includes scalable architectures, microservices design, event driven systems, load balancing strategies, container orchestration, serverless architectures, distributed system design, and disaster recovery strategies to eliminate single points of failure.
Topic 3: Design High Performing Architectures
This section focuses on building high performing solutions by selecting appropriate compute, storage, database, and networking services. It includes performance optimization strategies, scalable storage solutions, distributed computing concepts, caching strategies, high performance databases, and designing data ingestion and analytics solutions.
Topic 4: Design Cost Optimized Architectures
This section focuses on designing cost efficient AWS architectures. It includes selecting the right storage tiers, optimizing compute utilization, choosing appropriate purchasing options, designing cost efficient database and network architectures, implementing lifecycle policies, and continuously analyzing workloads to reduce operational costs.
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Question #1

A company has a web application that uses several web servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances.
The instances use a shared Amazon RDS for MySQL database.

The company requires a secure method to store database credentials.
The credentials must be automatically rotated every 30 days without affecting application availability.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

AWS Secrets Manager is designed for secure storage and automatic rotation of secrets such as database credentials. It integrates directly with Amazon RDS and supports automatic credential rotation without downtime.

Question #2

A company runs an internet-facing web application on AWS and uses Amazon Route 53 with a public hosted zone.

The company wants to log DNS response codes to support future root cause analysis.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Route 53 query logging records detailed DNS query data including query name, source IP, and response code. Logs are delivered to CloudWatch Logs for analysis and troubleshooting.

Question #3

A company is designing an application on AWS that provides real-time dashboards.
Dashboard data comes from on-premises databases with different schemas and formats.
The company needs minimal latency data transfer and transformation.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Amazon MSK enables real-time streaming ingestion and transformation with minimal latency. Kafka connectors can ingest data from multiple database formats and stream data directly to dashboards.

Question #4

A finance company collects streaming data for a real-time search and visualization system.
They want to migrate to AWS using a native solution for ingest, search, and visualization.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Kinesis Data Streams provides real-time ingestion, OpenSearch provides search and indexing, and QuickSight delivers visualization dashboards.

Question #5

A company has customers located across the world.
The company wants automation to secure systems and infrastructure.
The security team must track and audit all incremental infrastructure changes.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

CloudFormation enables infrastructure as code automation. AWS Config records configuration changes and maintains a history for auditing.