AWS SAA-C03 2026-2027 Exam Prep Set
A company collects data for temperature, humidity, and A. Turn on S3 Transfer Acceleration on the destination S3 bucket. Use multipart
atmospheric pressure in cities across multiple continents. uploads to directly upload site data to the destination S3 bucket.
The average volume of data that the company collects
from each site daily is 500 GB. Each site has a high-speed S3 Transfer Acceleration is the best solution cz it's faster , good for high speed,
Internet connection.The company wants to aggregate the Transfer Acceleration is designed to optimize transfer speeds from across the world
data from all these global sites as quickly as possible in a into S3 buckets.
single Amazon S3 bucket. The solution must minimize
operational complexity.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A. Turn on S3 Transfer Acceleration on the destination S3
bucket. Use multipart uploads to directly upload site data
to the destination S3 bucket.
B. Upload the data from each site to an S3 bucket in the
closest Region. Use S3 Cross-Region Replication to copy
objects to the destination S3 bucket. Then remove the data
from the origin S3 bucket.
C. Schedule AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized
device jobs daily to transfer data from each site to the
closest Region. Use S3 Cross-Region Replication to copy
objects to the destination S3 bucket.
D. Upload the data from each site to an Amazon EC2
instance in the closest Region. Store the data in an
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. At
regular intervals, take an EBS snapshot
A company needs the ability to analyze the log files of its C. Use Amazon Athena directly with Amazon S3 to run the queries as needed.
proprietary application. The logs are stored in JSON format
in an Amazon S3 bucket. Queries will be simple and will Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data
run on-demand. directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. With
A solutions architect needs to perform the analysis with a few actions in the AWS Management Console, you can point Athena at your data
minimal changes to the existing architecture.What should stored in Amazon S3 and begin using standard SQL to run ad-hoc queries and get
the solutions architect do to meet these requirements with results in seconds.
the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
A. Use Amazon Redshift to load all the content into one
place and run the SQL queries as needed.
B. Use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to store the logs. Run
SQL queries as needed from the Amazon CloudWatch
console.
C. Use Amazon Athena directly with Amazon S3 to run the
queries as needed.
D. Use AWS Glue to catalog the logs. Use a transient
Apache Spark cluster on Amazon EMR to run the SQL
queries as needed.
, AWS SAA-C03 2026-2027 Exam Prep Set
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple A. Add the aws PrincipalOrgID global condition key with a reference to the
AWS accounts for different departments. The management organization ID to the S3 bucket policy
account has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains project
reports. Condition keys: AWS provides condition keys that you can query to provide more
The company wants to limit access to this S3 bucket to granular control over certain actions. The following condition keys are especially
only users of accounts within the organization in AWS useful with AWS Organizations:
Organizations.Which solution meets these requirements
with the LEAST amount of operational overhead? aws:PrincipalOrgID - Simplifies specifying the Principal element in a resource-based
policy. This global key provides an alternative to listing all the account IDs for all
A. Add the aws PrincipalOrgID global condition key with a AWS accounts in an organization. Instead of listing all of the accounts that are
reference to the organization ID to the S3 bucket policy. members of an organization, you can specify the organization ID in the Condition
element.
B. Create an organizational unit (OU) for each department.
Add the aws:PrincipalOrgPaths global condition key to the aws:PrincipalOrgPaths - Use this condition key to match members of a specific
S3 bucket policy. organization root, an OU, or its children. The aws:PrincipalOrgPaths condition key
returns true when the principal (root user, IAM user, or role) making the request is in
C. Use AWS CloudTrail to monitor the CreateAccount, the specified organization path. A path is a text representation of the structure of an
InviteAccountToOrganization, LeaveOrganization, and AWS Organizations entity.
RemoveAccountFromOrganization events. Update the S3
bucket policy accordingly.
D. Tag each user that needs access to the S3 bucket. Add
the aws:PrincipalTag global condition key to the S3 bucket
policy.
An application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in a VPC. A. Create a gateway VPC endpoint to the S3 bucket
The application processes logs that are stored in an
Amazon S3 bucket. The EC2 instance needs to access the Keywords: - EC2 in VPC - EC2 instance needs to access the S3 bucket without
S3 bucket without connectivity to the internet.Which connectivity to the internet
solution will provide private network connectivity to
Amazon S3?
A. Create a gateway VPC endpoint to the S3 bucket.
B. Stream the logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Export
the logs to the S3 bucket.
C. Create an instance profile on Amazon EC2 to allow S3
access.
D. Create an Amazon API Gateway API with a private link
to access the S3 endpoint.
A company is hosting a web application on AWS using a C. Copy the data from both EBS volumes to Amazon EFS. Modify the application to
single Amazon EC2 instance that stores user-uploaded save new documents to Amazon EFS
documents in an Amazon EBS volume. For better
scalability and availability, the company duplicated the
architecture and created a second EC2 instance and EBS
volume in another Availability Zone, placing both behind an
Application Load Balancer.
After completing this change, users reported that, each
time they refreshed the website, they could see one subset
of their documents or the other, but never all of the
documents at the same time.What should a solutions
architect propose to ensure users see all of their
documents at once?
A. Copy the data so both EBS volumes contain all the
documents
B. Configure the Application Load Balancer to direct a user
to the server with the documents
C. Copy the data from both EBS volumes to Amazon EFS.
Modify the application to save new documents to Amazon
EFS
D. Configure the Application Load Balancer to send the
request to both servers. Return each document from the
correct server
, AWS SAA-C03 2026-2027 Exam Prep Set
A company uses NFS to store large video files in on- B. Create an AWS Snowball Edge job. Receive a Snowball Edge device on
premises network attached storage. Each video file ranges premises. Use the Snowball Edge client to transfer data to the device. Return the
in size from 1 MB to 500 GB. The total storage is 70 TB device so that AWS can import the data into Amazon S3. Most Voted
and is no longer growing.
The company decides to migrate the video files to Amazon
S3. The company must migrate the video files as soon as
possible while using the least possible network
bandwidth.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Create an S3 bucket. Create an IAM role that has
permissions to write to the S3 bucket. Use the AWS CLI to
copy all files locally to the S3 bucket.
B. Create an AWS Snowball Edge job. Receive a Snowball
Edge device on premises. Use the Snowball Edge client to
transfer data to the device. Return the device so that AWS
can import the data into Amazon S3.
C. Deploy an S3 File Gateway on premises. Create a
public service endpoint to connect to the S3 File Gateway.
Create an S3 bucket. Create a new NFS file share on the
S3 File Gateway. Point the new file share to the S3 bucket.
Transfer the data from the existing NFS file share to the S3
File Gateway.
D. Set up an AWS Direct Connect connection between the
on-premises network and AWS. Deploy an S3 File
Gateway on premises. Create a pu
A company has an application that ingests incoming D. Publish the messages to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
messages. Dozens of other applications and microservices topic with multiple Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) subscriptions.
then quickly consume these messages. The number of Configure the consumer applications to process the messages from the queues.
messages varies drastically and sometimes increases
suddenly to 100,000 each second. The company wants to This solution uses Amazon SNS and SQS to publish and subscribe to messages
decouple the solution and increase scalability.Which respectively, which decouples the system and enables scalability by allowing
solution meets these requirements? multiple consumer applications to process the messages in parallel. Additionally,
using Amazon SQS with multiple subscriptions can provide increased resiliency by
A. Persist the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data allowing multiple copies of the same message to be processed in parallel.
Analytics. Configure the consumer applications to read and
process the messages.
B. Deploy the ingestion application on Amazon EC2
instances in an Auto Scaling group to scale the number of
EC2 instances based on CPU metrics.
C. Write the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
with a single shard. Use an AWS Lambda function to
preprocess messages and store them in Amazon
DynamoDB. Configure the consumer applications to read
from DynamoDB to process the messages.
D. Publish the messages to an Amazon Simple Notification
Service (Amazon SNS) topic with multiple Amazon Simple
Queue Service (Amazon SOS) subscriptions. Configure
the consumer applications to process the messages from
the queues.
, AWS SAA-C03 2026-2027 Exam Prep Set
A company is migrating a distributed application to AWS. B. Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue as a
The application serves variable workloads. The legacy destination for the jobs. Implement the compute nodes with Amazon EC2 instances
platform consists of a primary server that coordinates jobs that are managed in an Auto Scaling group. Configure EC2 Auto Scaling based on
across multiple compute nodes. The company wants to the size of the queue.
modernize the application with a solution that maximizes
resiliency and scalability.How should a solutions architect why not c or d as they make sense... Primary server should not be in same Auto
design the architecture to meet these requirements? Scaling group with compute nodes.
A. Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon
SQS) queue as a destination for the jobs. Implement the
compute nodes with Amazon EC2 instances that are
managed in an Auto Scaling group. Configure EC2 Auto
Scaling to use scheduled scaling.
B. Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon
SQS) queue as a destination for the jobs. Implement the
compute nodes with Amazon EC2 instances that are
managed in an Auto Scaling group. Configure EC2 Auto
Scaling based on the size of the queue.
C. Implement the primary server and the compute nodes
with Amazon EC2 instances that are managed in an Auto
Scaling group. Configure AWS CloudTrail as a destination
for the jobs. Configure EC2 Auto Scaling based on the
load on the primary server.
D. Implement the primary server and the compute nodes
with Amazon EC2
A company is running an SMB file server in its data center. B. Create an Amazon S3 File Gateway to extend the company's storage space.
The file server stores large files that are accessed Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after
frequently for the first few days after the files are created. 7 days.
After 7 days the files are rarely accessed.The total data
size is increasing and is close to the company's total low latency is only needed for newer files. Additionally, File GW provides low latency
storage capacity. access by caching frequently accessed files locally
A solutions architect must increase the company's
available storage space without losing low-latency access
to the most recently accessed files. The solutions architect
must also provide file lifecycle management to avoid future
storage issues.Which solution will meet these
requirements?
A. Use AWS DataSync to copy data that is older than 7
days from the SMB file server to AWS.
B. Create an Amazon S3 File Gateway to extend the
company's storage space. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to
transition the data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 7 days.
C. Create an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file
system to extend the company's storage space.
D. Install a utility on each user's computer to access
Amazon S3. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the
data to S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval after 7 days.
A company collects data for temperature, humidity, and A. Turn on S3 Transfer Acceleration on the destination S3 bucket. Use multipart
atmospheric pressure in cities across multiple continents. uploads to directly upload site data to the destination S3 bucket.
The average volume of data that the company collects
from each site daily is 500 GB. Each site has a high-speed S3 Transfer Acceleration is the best solution cz it's faster , good for high speed,
Internet connection.The company wants to aggregate the Transfer Acceleration is designed to optimize transfer speeds from across the world
data from all these global sites as quickly as possible in a into S3 buckets.
single Amazon S3 bucket. The solution must minimize
operational complexity.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A. Turn on S3 Transfer Acceleration on the destination S3
bucket. Use multipart uploads to directly upload site data
to the destination S3 bucket.
B. Upload the data from each site to an S3 bucket in the
closest Region. Use S3 Cross-Region Replication to copy
objects to the destination S3 bucket. Then remove the data
from the origin S3 bucket.
C. Schedule AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized
device jobs daily to transfer data from each site to the
closest Region. Use S3 Cross-Region Replication to copy
objects to the destination S3 bucket.
D. Upload the data from each site to an Amazon EC2
instance in the closest Region. Store the data in an
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. At
regular intervals, take an EBS snapshot
A company needs the ability to analyze the log files of its C. Use Amazon Athena directly with Amazon S3 to run the queries as needed.
proprietary application. The logs are stored in JSON format
in an Amazon S3 bucket. Queries will be simple and will Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data
run on-demand. directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. With
A solutions architect needs to perform the analysis with a few actions in the AWS Management Console, you can point Athena at your data
minimal changes to the existing architecture.What should stored in Amazon S3 and begin using standard SQL to run ad-hoc queries and get
the solutions architect do to meet these requirements with results in seconds.
the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
A. Use Amazon Redshift to load all the content into one
place and run the SQL queries as needed.
B. Use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to store the logs. Run
SQL queries as needed from the Amazon CloudWatch
console.
C. Use Amazon Athena directly with Amazon S3 to run the
queries as needed.
D. Use AWS Glue to catalog the logs. Use a transient
Apache Spark cluster on Amazon EMR to run the SQL
queries as needed.
, AWS SAA-C03 2026-2027 Exam Prep Set
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple A. Add the aws PrincipalOrgID global condition key with a reference to the
AWS accounts for different departments. The management organization ID to the S3 bucket policy
account has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains project
reports. Condition keys: AWS provides condition keys that you can query to provide more
The company wants to limit access to this S3 bucket to granular control over certain actions. The following condition keys are especially
only users of accounts within the organization in AWS useful with AWS Organizations:
Organizations.Which solution meets these requirements
with the LEAST amount of operational overhead? aws:PrincipalOrgID - Simplifies specifying the Principal element in a resource-based
policy. This global key provides an alternative to listing all the account IDs for all
A. Add the aws PrincipalOrgID global condition key with a AWS accounts in an organization. Instead of listing all of the accounts that are
reference to the organization ID to the S3 bucket policy. members of an organization, you can specify the organization ID in the Condition
element.
B. Create an organizational unit (OU) for each department.
Add the aws:PrincipalOrgPaths global condition key to the aws:PrincipalOrgPaths - Use this condition key to match members of a specific
S3 bucket policy. organization root, an OU, or its children. The aws:PrincipalOrgPaths condition key
returns true when the principal (root user, IAM user, or role) making the request is in
C. Use AWS CloudTrail to monitor the CreateAccount, the specified organization path. A path is a text representation of the structure of an
InviteAccountToOrganization, LeaveOrganization, and AWS Organizations entity.
RemoveAccountFromOrganization events. Update the S3
bucket policy accordingly.
D. Tag each user that needs access to the S3 bucket. Add
the aws:PrincipalTag global condition key to the S3 bucket
policy.
An application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in a VPC. A. Create a gateway VPC endpoint to the S3 bucket
The application processes logs that are stored in an
Amazon S3 bucket. The EC2 instance needs to access the Keywords: - EC2 in VPC - EC2 instance needs to access the S3 bucket without
S3 bucket without connectivity to the internet.Which connectivity to the internet
solution will provide private network connectivity to
Amazon S3?
A. Create a gateway VPC endpoint to the S3 bucket.
B. Stream the logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Export
the logs to the S3 bucket.
C. Create an instance profile on Amazon EC2 to allow S3
access.
D. Create an Amazon API Gateway API with a private link
to access the S3 endpoint.
A company is hosting a web application on AWS using a C. Copy the data from both EBS volumes to Amazon EFS. Modify the application to
single Amazon EC2 instance that stores user-uploaded save new documents to Amazon EFS
documents in an Amazon EBS volume. For better
scalability and availability, the company duplicated the
architecture and created a second EC2 instance and EBS
volume in another Availability Zone, placing both behind an
Application Load Balancer.
After completing this change, users reported that, each
time they refreshed the website, they could see one subset
of their documents or the other, but never all of the
documents at the same time.What should a solutions
architect propose to ensure users see all of their
documents at once?
A. Copy the data so both EBS volumes contain all the
documents
B. Configure the Application Load Balancer to direct a user
to the server with the documents
C. Copy the data from both EBS volumes to Amazon EFS.
Modify the application to save new documents to Amazon
EFS
D. Configure the Application Load Balancer to send the
request to both servers. Return each document from the
correct server
, AWS SAA-C03 2026-2027 Exam Prep Set
A company uses NFS to store large video files in on- B. Create an AWS Snowball Edge job. Receive a Snowball Edge device on
premises network attached storage. Each video file ranges premises. Use the Snowball Edge client to transfer data to the device. Return the
in size from 1 MB to 500 GB. The total storage is 70 TB device so that AWS can import the data into Amazon S3. Most Voted
and is no longer growing.
The company decides to migrate the video files to Amazon
S3. The company must migrate the video files as soon as
possible while using the least possible network
bandwidth.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Create an S3 bucket. Create an IAM role that has
permissions to write to the S3 bucket. Use the AWS CLI to
copy all files locally to the S3 bucket.
B. Create an AWS Snowball Edge job. Receive a Snowball
Edge device on premises. Use the Snowball Edge client to
transfer data to the device. Return the device so that AWS
can import the data into Amazon S3.
C. Deploy an S3 File Gateway on premises. Create a
public service endpoint to connect to the S3 File Gateway.
Create an S3 bucket. Create a new NFS file share on the
S3 File Gateway. Point the new file share to the S3 bucket.
Transfer the data from the existing NFS file share to the S3
File Gateway.
D. Set up an AWS Direct Connect connection between the
on-premises network and AWS. Deploy an S3 File
Gateway on premises. Create a pu
A company has an application that ingests incoming D. Publish the messages to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
messages. Dozens of other applications and microservices topic with multiple Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) subscriptions.
then quickly consume these messages. The number of Configure the consumer applications to process the messages from the queues.
messages varies drastically and sometimes increases
suddenly to 100,000 each second. The company wants to This solution uses Amazon SNS and SQS to publish and subscribe to messages
decouple the solution and increase scalability.Which respectively, which decouples the system and enables scalability by allowing
solution meets these requirements? multiple consumer applications to process the messages in parallel. Additionally,
using Amazon SQS with multiple subscriptions can provide increased resiliency by
A. Persist the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data allowing multiple copies of the same message to be processed in parallel.
Analytics. Configure the consumer applications to read and
process the messages.
B. Deploy the ingestion application on Amazon EC2
instances in an Auto Scaling group to scale the number of
EC2 instances based on CPU metrics.
C. Write the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
with a single shard. Use an AWS Lambda function to
preprocess messages and store them in Amazon
DynamoDB. Configure the consumer applications to read
from DynamoDB to process the messages.
D. Publish the messages to an Amazon Simple Notification
Service (Amazon SNS) topic with multiple Amazon Simple
Queue Service (Amazon SOS) subscriptions. Configure
the consumer applications to process the messages from
the queues.
, AWS SAA-C03 2026-2027 Exam Prep Set
A company is migrating a distributed application to AWS. B. Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue as a
The application serves variable workloads. The legacy destination for the jobs. Implement the compute nodes with Amazon EC2 instances
platform consists of a primary server that coordinates jobs that are managed in an Auto Scaling group. Configure EC2 Auto Scaling based on
across multiple compute nodes. The company wants to the size of the queue.
modernize the application with a solution that maximizes
resiliency and scalability.How should a solutions architect why not c or d as they make sense... Primary server should not be in same Auto
design the architecture to meet these requirements? Scaling group with compute nodes.
A. Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon
SQS) queue as a destination for the jobs. Implement the
compute nodes with Amazon EC2 instances that are
managed in an Auto Scaling group. Configure EC2 Auto
Scaling to use scheduled scaling.
B. Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon
SQS) queue as a destination for the jobs. Implement the
compute nodes with Amazon EC2 instances that are
managed in an Auto Scaling group. Configure EC2 Auto
Scaling based on the size of the queue.
C. Implement the primary server and the compute nodes
with Amazon EC2 instances that are managed in an Auto
Scaling group. Configure AWS CloudTrail as a destination
for the jobs. Configure EC2 Auto Scaling based on the
load on the primary server.
D. Implement the primary server and the compute nodes
with Amazon EC2
A company is running an SMB file server in its data center. B. Create an Amazon S3 File Gateway to extend the company's storage space.
The file server stores large files that are accessed Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after
frequently for the first few days after the files are created. 7 days.
After 7 days the files are rarely accessed.The total data
size is increasing and is close to the company's total low latency is only needed for newer files. Additionally, File GW provides low latency
storage capacity. access by caching frequently accessed files locally
A solutions architect must increase the company's
available storage space without losing low-latency access
to the most recently accessed files. The solutions architect
must also provide file lifecycle management to avoid future
storage issues.Which solution will meet these
requirements?
A. Use AWS DataSync to copy data that is older than 7
days from the SMB file server to AWS.
B. Create an Amazon S3 File Gateway to extend the
company's storage space. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to
transition the data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 7 days.
C. Create an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file
system to extend the company's storage space.
D. Install a utility on each user's computer to access
Amazon S3. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the
data to S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval after 7 days.
