AWS Solutions Architect Associate
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Which AWS service is effectively a NAS in the cloud, allowing you to connect it to multiple
EC2 instances at once?
A. EBS
B. EFS
C. SQS
D. SNS - CORRECT ANSWER - B
What AWS Service would you use primarily for data warehousing?
A. RDS
B. DMS
C. Dynamodb
D. Redshift - CORRECT ANSWER - D
Your digital media agency needs to convert its media files to formats that can be viewed on a
variety of devices. Which AWS devices should you use to meet this need?
A. Elastic Transcoder
B. SQS
C. Appstream
D. SWF - CORRECT ANSWER - A
You need to implement an automated service that will scan your AWS environment with the
goal of both improving security and reducing costs. Which service should you use?
A. Config Rules
B. Service Catalog
C. Trusted Advisor
,D. CloudTrail - CORRECT ANSWER - C
What is the fundamental difference between Elastic Beanstalk & CloudFormation?
A. There is no difference between the two. Elastic Beanstalk was simply the code name used
internally for CloudFormation, prior to the product being released.
B. Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment of your code -- from capacity
provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring -- based on the code
you upload to it, whereas CloudFormation is an automated provisioning engine designed to
deploy entire cloud environments via a JSON script.
C. Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment of your code -- from capacity
provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring -- based on the code
you upload to it, whereas CloudFormation is a security service designed to harden your cloud
against an attack such as a DDoS.
D. Elastic Beanstalk is a monitoring tool used to view - CORRECT ANSWER - B
Which AWS service allows you to run code without having to worry about provisioning any
underlying resources (such as virtual machines, databases etc.)
A. Lambda
B. DynamoDB
C. EC2
D. EC2 Container Service - CORRECT ANSWER - A
Which AWS service offers durable storage for flat files?
A. SQS
B. S3
C. Kinesis
D. CloudFront Edge Locations - CORRECT ANSWER - B
Which AWS service is a Content Delivery Network?
A. CloudPush
B. CloudFront
,C. CloudFormation
D. CloudStream - CORRECT ANSWER - B
An AWS VPC is a component of which group of AWS services?
A. Global Infrastructure
B. Compute Services
C. Database Services
D. Networking Services - CORRECT ANSWER - D
Which statement best describes Availability Zones?
A. A content distribution network used to distribute content to users
B. Distinct locations from within an AWS region that are engineered to be isolated from failures
C. Two zones containing compute resources that are designed to automatically maintain
synchronized copies of each other's data
D. Restricted areas designed specifically for the creation of Virtual Private Clouds - CORRECT
ANSWER - B
Which AWS service is specifically designed to assist you in processing large data sets?
A. ElastiCache
B. Big Data Processing
C. EC2
D. EMR - CORRECT ANSWER - D
You need to supply auditors with logs showing which Users provisioned given resources on your
AWS infrastructure. Which service would best satisfy this need?
A. CloudTrail
B. Opsworks
C. CloudFormation
D. CloudWatch - CORRECT ANSWER - A
, Which of the following is Amazon's No-SQL database service?
A. RDS
B. ElastiCache
C. DynamoDB
D. Redshift - CORRECT ANSWER - C
What is an AWS Region?
A. A region is a collection of Edge Locations available in specific countries.
B. A region is a geographical area divided into Availability Zones. Each region contains at least
two Availability Zones.
C. A region is an independent data center, located in different countries around the globe.
D. A region is a subset of AWS technologies. For example, the Compute region consists of EC2,
ECS, Lambda, etc. - CORRECT ANSWER - B
Which AWS service is specifically designed to automatically provision the resources required to
host the code a developer uploads during the Development process?
A. CloudFormation
B. CloudTrail
C. Elastic Beanstalk
D. CloudFormer - CORRECT ANSWER - C
You need a configuration management service that will allow your system administrators to use
Chef to configure and operate your web applications. Which AWS service would best suit your
needs?
A. Trusted Advisor
B. OpsWorks
C. CloudWatch
D. CloudTrail - CORRECT ANSWER - B
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Which AWS service is effectively a NAS in the cloud, allowing you to connect it to multiple
EC2 instances at once?
A. EBS
B. EFS
C. SQS
D. SNS - CORRECT ANSWER - B
What AWS Service would you use primarily for data warehousing?
A. RDS
B. DMS
C. Dynamodb
D. Redshift - CORRECT ANSWER - D
Your digital media agency needs to convert its media files to formats that can be viewed on a
variety of devices. Which AWS devices should you use to meet this need?
A. Elastic Transcoder
B. SQS
C. Appstream
D. SWF - CORRECT ANSWER - A
You need to implement an automated service that will scan your AWS environment with the
goal of both improving security and reducing costs. Which service should you use?
A. Config Rules
B. Service Catalog
C. Trusted Advisor
,D. CloudTrail - CORRECT ANSWER - C
What is the fundamental difference between Elastic Beanstalk & CloudFormation?
A. There is no difference between the two. Elastic Beanstalk was simply the code name used
internally for CloudFormation, prior to the product being released.
B. Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment of your code -- from capacity
provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring -- based on the code
you upload to it, whereas CloudFormation is an automated provisioning engine designed to
deploy entire cloud environments via a JSON script.
C. Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment of your code -- from capacity
provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring -- based on the code
you upload to it, whereas CloudFormation is a security service designed to harden your cloud
against an attack such as a DDoS.
D. Elastic Beanstalk is a monitoring tool used to view - CORRECT ANSWER - B
Which AWS service allows you to run code without having to worry about provisioning any
underlying resources (such as virtual machines, databases etc.)
A. Lambda
B. DynamoDB
C. EC2
D. EC2 Container Service - CORRECT ANSWER - A
Which AWS service offers durable storage for flat files?
A. SQS
B. S3
C. Kinesis
D. CloudFront Edge Locations - CORRECT ANSWER - B
Which AWS service is a Content Delivery Network?
A. CloudPush
B. CloudFront
,C. CloudFormation
D. CloudStream - CORRECT ANSWER - B
An AWS VPC is a component of which group of AWS services?
A. Global Infrastructure
B. Compute Services
C. Database Services
D. Networking Services - CORRECT ANSWER - D
Which statement best describes Availability Zones?
A. A content distribution network used to distribute content to users
B. Distinct locations from within an AWS region that are engineered to be isolated from failures
C. Two zones containing compute resources that are designed to automatically maintain
synchronized copies of each other's data
D. Restricted areas designed specifically for the creation of Virtual Private Clouds - CORRECT
ANSWER - B
Which AWS service is specifically designed to assist you in processing large data sets?
A. ElastiCache
B. Big Data Processing
C. EC2
D. EMR - CORRECT ANSWER - D
You need to supply auditors with logs showing which Users provisioned given resources on your
AWS infrastructure. Which service would best satisfy this need?
A. CloudTrail
B. Opsworks
C. CloudFormation
D. CloudWatch - CORRECT ANSWER - A
, Which of the following is Amazon's No-SQL database service?
A. RDS
B. ElastiCache
C. DynamoDB
D. Redshift - CORRECT ANSWER - C
What is an AWS Region?
A. A region is a collection of Edge Locations available in specific countries.
B. A region is a geographical area divided into Availability Zones. Each region contains at least
two Availability Zones.
C. A region is an independent data center, located in different countries around the globe.
D. A region is a subset of AWS technologies. For example, the Compute region consists of EC2,
ECS, Lambda, etc. - CORRECT ANSWER - B
Which AWS service is specifically designed to automatically provision the resources required to
host the code a developer uploads during the Development process?
A. CloudFormation
B. CloudTrail
C. Elastic Beanstalk
D. CloudFormer - CORRECT ANSWER - C
You need a configuration management service that will allow your system administrators to use
Chef to configure and operate your web applications. Which AWS service would best suit your
needs?
A. Trusted Advisor
B. OpsWorks
C. CloudWatch
D. CloudTrail - CORRECT ANSWER - B
