Updated SAA-C03 Dumps (V19.02) to Achieve AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Certification: Start with SAA-C03 Free Dumps (Part 1, Q1-Q40)

1. A company is designing an application on AWS that processes sensitive data. The application stores and processes financial data for multiple customers.

To meet compliance requirements, the data for each customer must be encrypted separately at rest by using a secure, centralized key management solution. The company wants to use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to implement encryption.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead'?

2. A company is planning to migrate a legacy application to AWS. The application currently uses NFS to communicate to an on-premises storage solution to store application data. The application cannot be modified to use any other communication protocols other than NFS for this purpose.

Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend for use after the migration?

3. A company recently migrated a monolithic application to an Amazon EC2 instance and Amazon RDS. The application has tightly coupled modules. The existing design of the application gives the application the ability to run on only a single EC2 instance.

The company has noticed high CPU utilization on the EC2 instance during peak usage times. The high CPU utilization corresponds to degraded performance on Amazon RDS for read requests. The company wants to reduce the high CPU utilization and improve read request performance.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

4. A company uses Amazon RDS (or PostgreSQL to run its applications in the us-east-1 Region. The company also uses machine learning (ML) models to forecast annual revenue based on neat real-time reports. The reports are generated by using the same RDS for PostgreSQL database. The database performance slows during business hours. The company needs to improve database performance.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

5. A company has migrated several applications to AWS in the past 3 months. The company wants to know the breakdown of costs for each of these applications. The company wants to receive a regular report that Includes this Information.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

6. A company is developing a new application that uses a relational database to store user data and application configurations. The company expects the application to have steady user growth. The company expects the database usage to be variable and read-heavy, with occasional writes.

The company wants to cost-optimize the database solution. The company wants to use an AWS managed database solution that will provide the necessary performance.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

7. A company has a web application that has thousands of users. The application uses 8-10 user-uploaded images to generate Al images. Users can download the generated Al Images once every 6 hours. The company also has a premium user option that gives users the ability to download the generated Al images anytime

The company uses the user-uploaded images to run Al model training twice a year. The company needs a storage solution to store the images.

Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

8. A company has an application that serves clients that are deployed in more than 20.000 retail storefront locations around the world. The application consists of backend web services that are exposed over HTTPS on port 443. The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 Instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The retail locations communicate with the web application over the public internet. The company allows each retail location to register the IP address that the retail location has been allocated by its local ISP.

The company's security team recommends to increase the security of the application endpoint by restricting access to only the IP addresses registered by the retail locations.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

9. 1.A company's software development team needs an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ cluster. The RDS cluster will serve as a backend for a desktop client that is deployed on premises. The desktop client requires direct connectivity to the RDS cluster.

The company must give the development team the ability to connect to the cluster by using the client when the team is in the office.

Which solution provides the required connectivity MOST securely?

10. A company plans to run a high performance computing (HPC) workload on Amazon EC2 Instances. The workload requires low-latency network performance and high network throughput with tightly coupled node-to-node communication.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

11. A company runs its production workload on an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster that includes six Aurora Replicas. The company wants near-real-time reporting queries from one of its departments to be automatically distributed across three of the Aurora Replicas. Those three replicas have a different compute and memory specification from the rest of the DB cluster.

Which solution meets these requirements?

12. An ecommerce company is migrating its on-premises workload to the AWS Cloud. The workload currently consists of a web application and a backend Microsoft SQL database for storage.

The company expects a high volume of customers during a promotional event. The new infrastructure in the AWS Cloud must be highly available and scalable.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?

13. A company runs an AWS Lambda function in private subnets in a VPC. The subnets have a default route to the internet through an Amazon EC2 NAT instance. The Lambda function processes input data and saves its output as an object to Amazon S3.

Intermittently, the Lambda function times out while trying to upload the object because of saturated traffic on the NAT instance's network. The company wants to access Amazon S3 without traversing the internet.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

14. A company deploys its applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) behind an Application Load Balancer in an AWS Region. The application needs to store data in a PostgreSQL

database engine. The company wants the data in the database to be highly available. The company also needs increased capacity for read workloads.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?

15. A company has a three-tier web application that processes orders from customers. The web tier consists of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The processing tier consists of

EC2 instances. The company decoupled the web tier and processing tier by using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS). The storage layer uses Amazon DynamoDB.

At peak times some users report order processing delays and halts. The company has noticed that during these delays, the EC2 instances are running at 100% CPU usage, and the SQS queue fills up. The peak times are variable and unpredictable.

The company needs to improve the performance of the application Which solution will meet these requirements?

16. A company wants to improve the availability and performance of its hybrid application. The application consists of a stateful TCP-based workload hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in different AWS Regions and a stateless UDP-based workload hosted on premises.

Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to improve availability and performance? (Select TWO.)

17. A company's application is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances and uses AWS Lambda functions for an event-driven architecture. The company uses nonproduction development environments in a different AWS account to test new features before the company deploys the features to production.

The production instances show constant usage because of customers in different time zones. The company uses nonproduction instances only during business hours on weekdays. The company does not use the nonproduction instances on the weekends. The company wants to optimize the costs to run its application on AWS.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

18. A company runs a Node.js function on a server in its on-premises data center. The data center stores data in a PostgreSQL database. The company stores the credentials in a connection string in an environment variable on the server. The company wants to migrate its application to AWS and to replace the Node.js application server with AWS Lambda. The company also wants to migrate to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and to ensure that the database credentials are securely managed.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

19. A global ecommerce company runs its critical workloads on AWS. The workloads use an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance that is configured for a Multi-AZ deployment.

Customers have reported application timeouts when the company undergoes database failovers. The company needs a resilient solution to reduce failover time

Which solution will meet these requirements?

20. A company serves its website by using an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region. The website does not require a database

The company is expanding, and the company's engineering team deploys the website to a second Region. The company wants to distribute traffic across both Regions to accommodate growth and for disaster recovery purposes. The solution should not serve traffic from a Region in which the website is unhealthy.

Which policy or resource should the company use to meet these requirements?

21. A company uses Amazon EC2 instances and stores data on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. The company must ensure that all data is encrypted at rest by using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). The company must be able to control rotation of the encryption keys.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

22. A company has an employee web portal. Employees log in to the portal to view payroll details. The company is developing a new system to give employees the ability to upload scanned documents for reimbursement. The company runs a program to extract text-based data from the documents and attach the extracted information to each employee's reimbursement IDs for processing.

The employee web portal requires 100% uptime. The document extract program runs infrequently throughout the day on an on-demand basis. The company wants to build a scalable and cost-effective new system that will require minimal changes to the existing web portal. The company does not want to make any code changes.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort?

23. A company runs an application that stores and shares photos. Users upload the photos to an Amazon S3 bucket. Every day, users upload approximately 150 photos. The company wants to design a solution that creates a thumbnail of each new photo and stores the thumbnail in a second S3 bucket.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

24. A company has Amazon EC2 instances in multiple AWS Regions. The instances all store and retrieve confidential data from the same Amazon S3 bucket. The company wants to improve the security of its current architecture.

The company wants to ensure that only the Amazon EC2 instances within its VPC can access the S3 bucket. The company must block all other access to the bucket.

Which solution will meet this requirement?

25. An ecommerce company runs Its application on AWS. The application uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL cluster in Multi-AZ mode for the underlying database. During a recent promotional campaign, the application experienced heavy read load and write load. Users experienced timeout issues when they attempted to access the application.

A solutions architect needs to make the application architecture more scalable and highly available.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST downtime?

26. A company stores data in an on-premises Oracle relational database. The company needs to make the data available in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL for analysis. The company uses an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection to connect its on-premises network to AWS.

The company must capture the changes that occur to the source database during the migration to Aurora PostgreSQL.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

27. A company has an on-premises SFTP file transfer solution. The company is migrating to the AWS Cloud to scale the file transfer solution and to optimize costs by using Amazon S3. The company's

employees will use their credentials for the on-premises Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to access the new solution. The company wants to keep the current authentication and file access mechanisms.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

28. A company hosts its multi-tier, public web application in the AWS Cloud. The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances, and its database runs on Amazon RDS. The company is anticipating a large increase in sales during an upcoming holiday weekend. A solutions architect needs to build asolution to analyze the performance of the web application with a granularity of no more than 2 minutes.

What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

29. A company hosts a video streaming web application in a VPC. The company uses a Network Load Balancer (NLB) to handle TCP traffic for real-time data processing. There have been unauthorized attempts to access the application.

The company wants to improve application security with minimal architectural change to prevent unauthorized attempts to access the application.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

30. A company runs multiple workloads on virtual machines (VMs) in an on-premises data center. The company is expanding rapidly. The on-premises data center is not able to scale fast enough to meet business needs. The company wants to migrate the workloads to AWS.

The migration is time sensitive. The company wants to use a lift-and-shift strategy for non-critical workloads.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)

31. A company maintains its accounting records in a custom application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs to migrate the data to an AWS managed service for development and maintenance of the application data. The solution must require minimal operational support and provide immutable, cryptographically verifiable logs of data changes.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

32. A company wants to restrict access to the content of its web application. The company needs to protect the content by using authorization techniques that are available on AWS. The company also wants to implement a serverless architecture for authorization and authentication that has low login latency.

The solution must integrate with the web application and serve web content globally. The application currently has a small user base, but the company expects the application's user base to increase

Which solution will meet these requirements?

33. A company hosts an application on AWS. The application gives users the ability to upload photos and store the photos in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company wants to use Amazon CloudFront and a custom domain name to upload the photo files to the S3 bucket in the eu-west-1 Region.

Which solution will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

34. A company is using AWS DataSync to migrate millions of files from an on-premises system to AWS.

The files are 10 KB in size on average.

The company wants to use Amazon S3 for file storage. For the first year after the migration the files will be accessed once or twice and must be immediately available. After 1 year the files must be archived for at least 7 years.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

35. A company runs database workloads on AWS that are the backend for the company's customer portals. The company runs a Multi-AZ database cluster on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.

The company needs to implement a 30-day backup retention policy. The company currently has both automated RDS backups and manual RDS backups. The company wants to maintain both types of existing RDS backups that are less than 30 days old.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

36. A company is planning to deploy its application on an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless v2 cluster. The application will receive large amounts of traffic. The company wants to optimize the storage performance of the cluster as the load on the application increases

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

37. An online education platform experiences lag and buffering during peak usage hours, when thousands of students access video lessons concurrently. A solutions architect needs to improve the performance of the education platform.

The platform needs to handle unpredictable traffic surges without losing responsiveness. The platform must provide smooth video playback performance at all times. The platform must create multiple copies of each video lesson and store the copies in various bitrates to serve users who have different internet speeds. The smallest video size is 7 GB.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

38. An ecommerce company runs several internal applications in multiple AWS accounts. The company

uses AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts.

A security appliance in the company's networking account must inspect interactions between applications across AWS accounts.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

39. A company uses an Amazon S3 bucket as its data lake storage platform. The S3 bucket contains a massive amount of data that is accessed randomly by multiple teams and hundreds of applications. The company wants to reduce the S3 storage costs and provide immediate availability for frequently accessed objects

What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

40. A marketing company receives a large amount of new clickstream data in Amazon S3 from a marketing campaign. The company needs to analyze the clickstream data in Amazon S3 quickly. Then the company needs to determine whether to process the data further in the data pipeline.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?