AWS Certified Developer Associate
UPDATED SCRIPT 2026 PRACTICE
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● You have a very popular blog site, which has recently had a surge in
traffic. You want to implement an ElastiCache solution to help take the
load off the production database and you want to keep it as simple as
possible. You will need to scale your cache horizontally and object
caching will be your primary goal. Which ElastiCache solution will best
suit your needs? Answer: Memcached - correct
Redis
Couchbase
ArangoDB
● Which of the following services can be used to securely store
confidential information like credentials and license codes so that they
can be accessed by EC2 instances? Answer: DynamoDB
KMS
IAM
Systems Manager Parameter Store - Correct
● Individual EC2 instances are provisioned ____. Answer: Globally
In Availability Zones - correct
, To a user
In Regions
● A new CIO joins your company and implements a new company
policy that all EC2 EBS backed instances must have encryption at rest.
What is the quickest and easiest way to apply this policy to your existing
EC2 EBS backed instances? Answer: Create a snapshot of the EC2
volume. Then create a copy of the snapshot, checking the box to enable
encryption. Create an AMI of the copied snapshot and then redeploy the
EC2 instance using the encrypted AMI. Delete the old EC2 instance. -
correct
Create an encrypted snapshot of the EC2 volume using the encrypt-on-
the-fly option. Create an AMI of the copied snapshot and then redeploy
the EC2 instance using the encrypted AMI. Delete the old EC2 instance.
Create an encrypted AMI of the EC2 volume using Windows BitLocker.
In the AWS console, click on the EC2 instances, click actions and click
encrypt EBS volumes.
● You are designing a high-performance application that needs superfast
database read and write performance. Which of the following services
can be used as an in-memory data store for a 50 TB database, allowing
you to store the entire dataset in memory? Answer: Elasticache for Redis
DynamoDB Accelerator
UPDATED SCRIPT 2026 PRACTICE
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● You have a very popular blog site, which has recently had a surge in
traffic. You want to implement an ElastiCache solution to help take the
load off the production database and you want to keep it as simple as
possible. You will need to scale your cache horizontally and object
caching will be your primary goal. Which ElastiCache solution will best
suit your needs? Answer: Memcached - correct
Redis
Couchbase
ArangoDB
● Which of the following services can be used to securely store
confidential information like credentials and license codes so that they
can be accessed by EC2 instances? Answer: DynamoDB
KMS
IAM
Systems Manager Parameter Store - Correct
● Individual EC2 instances are provisioned ____. Answer: Globally
In Availability Zones - correct
, To a user
In Regions
● A new CIO joins your company and implements a new company
policy that all EC2 EBS backed instances must have encryption at rest.
What is the quickest and easiest way to apply this policy to your existing
EC2 EBS backed instances? Answer: Create a snapshot of the EC2
volume. Then create a copy of the snapshot, checking the box to enable
encryption. Create an AMI of the copied snapshot and then redeploy the
EC2 instance using the encrypted AMI. Delete the old EC2 instance. -
correct
Create an encrypted snapshot of the EC2 volume using the encrypt-on-
the-fly option. Create an AMI of the copied snapshot and then redeploy
the EC2 instance using the encrypted AMI. Delete the old EC2 instance.
Create an encrypted AMI of the EC2 volume using Windows BitLocker.
In the AWS console, click on the EC2 instances, click actions and click
encrypt EBS volumes.
● You are designing a high-performance application that needs superfast
database read and write performance. Which of the following services
can be used as an in-memory data store for a 50 TB database, allowing
you to store the entire dataset in memory? Answer: Elasticache for Redis
DynamoDB Accelerator
