Ultimate AWS Certified
Solutions Architect
Associate SAA-C03
Comprehensive Questions
with Verified Answers
Graded A+
1. Leaders of the cloud: 1. AWS
2. Microsoft
3. Google
4. Alibaba Cloud
5. Oracle
6. IBM
Over 1 million users on AWS
2. AWS Cloud Use Cases: -Enables you to build sophisticated, scalable applications
-Applicable to a diverse set of industries
-Use Cases include:
Enterprise IT, Backup & Storage, Big Data Analytics, host a website, create a backend for mobile & social
apps, entire gaming service, endless options.
McDonalds, Netflix, Activision, 21st century fox
3. AWS regions: -Regions all around the world
-Names can be us-east- I, eu-west-3...
-A region is a cluster of data centers
-Most AWS services are region
,4. How to choose an AWS region?: -Compliance with data governance and legal
requirements: data never leaves a region without your explicit permission
-Proximity to customers: reduced latency
-Available services within a region
-Pricing
5. AWS availability zone: -Each region has many availability zones. Usually 3, min is
3, max is 6. Ex:
ap-southeast-
2a ap-
southeast-2b
ap-southeast-
2c
,There are more than in case of destruction. Each availability zone is their own discrete data center and
connected with high bandwidth, ultra-low latency networking.
6. AWS Points of Presence (Edge Locations): Amazon has 400+ points of presence,
10+ regional
caches, in 90+ cities across 40+ countries.
Content is delivered to end users with lower latency
7. AWS Global Services: -Identity and Access Management (IAM)
-Route 53 (DNS service)
-CloudFront (Content Delivery Network)
-WAF (Web Application Firewall)
8. Most AWS services are region-scoped:: -Amazon EC2 (infrastructure as a service
-Elastic beanstalk (Platform as a service)
-Lambda (Function as a service)
-Rekognition (Software as a service)
9. IAM: Users and Groups: IAM = Identity and Access Management,
Global service Root account created by default, shouldn't be used or shared.
Users instead - people within your organization and can be.
Groups only contain users and can belong to multiple groups. EX: Grouped as "Group: Developers" or
"Group: Operations"
10. IAM: Permissions: Users or groups can be assigned JSON documents called policies.
These policies define
the permissions of the users.
In AWS you apply the least privilege principle.
11. IAM Policies structure: Consists of:
-Version: Policy language version, always include "2012-I0-I7"
-ID (optional)
-Statement: one or more individual statements
---Consists of: Sid: an identifier for the statement (optional)
---Ettect: whether the statement allows or denies access (Allow, Deny)
, ---Principle: account/user to which policy applied to
Solutions Architect
Associate SAA-C03
Comprehensive Questions
with Verified Answers
Graded A+
1. Leaders of the cloud: 1. AWS
2. Microsoft
3. Google
4. Alibaba Cloud
5. Oracle
6. IBM
Over 1 million users on AWS
2. AWS Cloud Use Cases: -Enables you to build sophisticated, scalable applications
-Applicable to a diverse set of industries
-Use Cases include:
Enterprise IT, Backup & Storage, Big Data Analytics, host a website, create a backend for mobile & social
apps, entire gaming service, endless options.
McDonalds, Netflix, Activision, 21st century fox
3. AWS regions: -Regions all around the world
-Names can be us-east- I, eu-west-3...
-A region is a cluster of data centers
-Most AWS services are region
,4. How to choose an AWS region?: -Compliance with data governance and legal
requirements: data never leaves a region without your explicit permission
-Proximity to customers: reduced latency
-Available services within a region
-Pricing
5. AWS availability zone: -Each region has many availability zones. Usually 3, min is
3, max is 6. Ex:
ap-southeast-
2a ap-
southeast-2b
ap-southeast-
2c
,There are more than in case of destruction. Each availability zone is their own discrete data center and
connected with high bandwidth, ultra-low latency networking.
6. AWS Points of Presence (Edge Locations): Amazon has 400+ points of presence,
10+ regional
caches, in 90+ cities across 40+ countries.
Content is delivered to end users with lower latency
7. AWS Global Services: -Identity and Access Management (IAM)
-Route 53 (DNS service)
-CloudFront (Content Delivery Network)
-WAF (Web Application Firewall)
8. Most AWS services are region-scoped:: -Amazon EC2 (infrastructure as a service
-Elastic beanstalk (Platform as a service)
-Lambda (Function as a service)
-Rekognition (Software as a service)
9. IAM: Users and Groups: IAM = Identity and Access Management,
Global service Root account created by default, shouldn't be used or shared.
Users instead - people within your organization and can be.
Groups only contain users and can belong to multiple groups. EX: Grouped as "Group: Developers" or
"Group: Operations"
10. IAM: Permissions: Users or groups can be assigned JSON documents called policies.
These policies define
the permissions of the users.
In AWS you apply the least privilege principle.
11. IAM Policies structure: Consists of:
-Version: Policy language version, always include "2012-I0-I7"
-ID (optional)
-Statement: one or more individual statements
---Consists of: Sid: an identifier for the statement (optional)
---Ettect: whether the statement allows or denies access (Allow, Deny)
, ---Principle: account/user to which policy applied to
