AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE
EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORECT ANSWERS RATED A+
AWS ____________ is a service that enables customers to
connect their Amazon VPCs to their on=premises networks to a
single gateway. Correct Answer Direct Connect
An analytics company wants to improve the performance of its big
data processing workflows running on Amazon EFS. Which
performance mode should be used for EFS to address this
requirement? Correct Answer Max I/O
What is the standard port for HTTPS traffic? Correct Answer 443
What is the standard port for HTTP traffic? Correct Answer 80
What is the PostgreSQL port? Correct Answer 5432
True or False: There are data transfer charges for replicating data
across AWS regions. Correct Answer True
,What can be used to save the contents from an instance memory
to your EBS root volume? Correct Answer EC2 Instance
Hibernate
You should use an IAM ________ to manage temporary
credentials for applications that run on an EC2 instance. Correct
Answer role
True or False: Keeping the AWS credentials (encrypted or plain
text) on the EC2 instance is a bad security practice. Correct
Answer True
A _________ instance is an unused EC2 instance that is available
for less than the On-Demand price. Correct Answer spot
The __________ endpoint in a Aurora cluster volume is the
endpoint you supply to applications that do reporting or other
read-only operations on the cluster. Correct Answer reader
Can you identify the configuration management tools for which
OpsWorks provides managed instances? Correct Answer Puppet
and Chef
What is an example of a cost effective file storage service that
provides immediate access to data whenever needed by many
EC2 instances concurrently? Correct Answer EFS Standard-IA
storage class
,True or False: You can use a launch configuration to provision
capacity across multiple instance types using both On-Demand
and Spot Instances. Correct Answer False
Which placement group spreads your instances across logical
partitions such that groups of instances in one partition do not
share the underlying hardware with groups of instances in
different partitions? This strategy is typically used by large
distributed and replicated workloads, such as Hadoop,
Cassandra, and Kafka. Correct Answer Partition placement group
Which placement group packs instances close together inside an
Availability Zone to achieve low-latency network performance for
HPC applications? Correct Answer Cluster placement group
Which placement group strictly places a small group of instances
across distinct underlying hardware to reduce correlated failures?
Correct Answer Spread placement group
AWS ___________ is a hybrid cloud storage service that gives
you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.
Correct Answer Storage Gateway
True or False: SNS FIFO topic can only have an SQS FIFO
queue as a subscriber and not a standard SQS queue. Correct
Answer True
, True or False: If the master database is encrypted, the read
replicas are encrypted. Correct Answer True
To provide ample warm-up time for your instances, ensure that
the _____________________ period covers the expected startup
time for your application. Correct Answer health check grace
What service can you use to protect secrets and passwords
needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources?
Correct Answer AWS Secrets Manager
___________________ automatically distributes incoming
application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2
instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. It can
handle the varying load of your application traffic in a single
Availability Zone or across multiple Availability Zones Correct
Answer Elastic Load Balancing (note: this is used for single or
multi AZ, NOT multi region)
True or False: If the IAM role that you create for the Lambda
function is in the same AWS account as the bucket, then you still
need to grant Amazon S3 permissions on both the IAM role and
the bucket policy. Correct Answer False
What is the correct order for the default termination policy for EC2
auto scaling within a given AZ? Correct Answer Allocation strategy
EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORECT ANSWERS RATED A+
AWS ____________ is a service that enables customers to
connect their Amazon VPCs to their on=premises networks to a
single gateway. Correct Answer Direct Connect
An analytics company wants to improve the performance of its big
data processing workflows running on Amazon EFS. Which
performance mode should be used for EFS to address this
requirement? Correct Answer Max I/O
What is the standard port for HTTPS traffic? Correct Answer 443
What is the standard port for HTTP traffic? Correct Answer 80
What is the PostgreSQL port? Correct Answer 5432
True or False: There are data transfer charges for replicating data
across AWS regions. Correct Answer True
,What can be used to save the contents from an instance memory
to your EBS root volume? Correct Answer EC2 Instance
Hibernate
You should use an IAM ________ to manage temporary
credentials for applications that run on an EC2 instance. Correct
Answer role
True or False: Keeping the AWS credentials (encrypted or plain
text) on the EC2 instance is a bad security practice. Correct
Answer True
A _________ instance is an unused EC2 instance that is available
for less than the On-Demand price. Correct Answer spot
The __________ endpoint in a Aurora cluster volume is the
endpoint you supply to applications that do reporting or other
read-only operations on the cluster. Correct Answer reader
Can you identify the configuration management tools for which
OpsWorks provides managed instances? Correct Answer Puppet
and Chef
What is an example of a cost effective file storage service that
provides immediate access to data whenever needed by many
EC2 instances concurrently? Correct Answer EFS Standard-IA
storage class
,True or False: You can use a launch configuration to provision
capacity across multiple instance types using both On-Demand
and Spot Instances. Correct Answer False
Which placement group spreads your instances across logical
partitions such that groups of instances in one partition do not
share the underlying hardware with groups of instances in
different partitions? This strategy is typically used by large
distributed and replicated workloads, such as Hadoop,
Cassandra, and Kafka. Correct Answer Partition placement group
Which placement group packs instances close together inside an
Availability Zone to achieve low-latency network performance for
HPC applications? Correct Answer Cluster placement group
Which placement group strictly places a small group of instances
across distinct underlying hardware to reduce correlated failures?
Correct Answer Spread placement group
AWS ___________ is a hybrid cloud storage service that gives
you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.
Correct Answer Storage Gateway
True or False: SNS FIFO topic can only have an SQS FIFO
queue as a subscriber and not a standard SQS queue. Correct
Answer True
, True or False: If the master database is encrypted, the read
replicas are encrypted. Correct Answer True
To provide ample warm-up time for your instances, ensure that
the _____________________ period covers the expected startup
time for your application. Correct Answer health check grace
What service can you use to protect secrets and passwords
needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources?
Correct Answer AWS Secrets Manager
___________________ automatically distributes incoming
application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2
instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. It can
handle the varying load of your application traffic in a single
Availability Zone or across multiple Availability Zones Correct
Answer Elastic Load Balancing (note: this is used for single or
multi AZ, NOT multi region)
True or False: If the IAM role that you create for the Lambda
function is in the same AWS account as the bucket, then you still
need to grant Amazon S3 permissions on both the IAM role and
the bucket policy. Correct Answer False
What is the correct order for the default termination policy for EC2
auto scaling within a given AZ? Correct Answer Allocation strategy
