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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

SAA-C03 English PDF practice questions: 1019 questions in source order, with options supported by the source format, answers and available explanations. Access covers this exam only. One-time payment; no automatic renewal.

Exam overview

For solution architects designing secure, resilient AWS systems with appropriate performance and costs.

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Exam code
SAA-C03
Official exam / credential
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Exam format
Single-answer and multiple-response questions
Exam duration
130 minutes
Official exam questions
65 questions
Official exam languages
English, French (France), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Spain), Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

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Information checked: 2026-10-20

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First 20 practice questions

1,019 total questions

Questions follow the source order. Expand each answer to see its explanation.

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Question 11

Question#11Topic1

A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon Aurora database. The EC2 instances connect to the database by using user names and passwords that are stored locally in a file. The company wants to minimize the operational overhead of credential management.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?

  1. A. Use AWS Secrets Manager. Turn on automatic rotation.
  2. B. Use AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. Turn on automatic rotation.
  3. C. Create an Amazon S3 bucket to store objects that are encrypted with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) encryption key. Migrate the credential file to the S3 bucket. Point the application to the S3 bucket.
  4. D. Create an encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume for each EC2 instance. Attach the new EBS volume to each EC2 instance. Migrate the credential file to the new EBS volume. Point the application to the new EBS volume.
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Answer

A

Explanation

B is wrong because parameter store does not support auto rotation, unless the customer writes it themselves, A is the answer.

Question 12

Question#12Topic1

A global company hosts its web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The web application has static data and dynamic data. The company stores its static data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company wants to improve performance and reduce latency for the static data and dynamic data. The company is using its own domain name registered with Amazon Route 53.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

  1. A. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the S3 bucket and the ALB as origins. Configure Route 53 to route traffic to the CloudFront distribution.
  2. B. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the ALB as an origin. Create an AWS Global Accelerator standard accelerator that has the S3 bucket as an endpoint Configure Route 53 to route traffic to the CloudFront distribution.
  3. C. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the S3 bucket as an origin. Create an AWS Global Accelerator standard accelerator that has the ALB and the CloudFront distribution as endpoints. Create a custom domain name that points to the accelerator DNS name. Use the custom domain name as an endpoint for the web application.
  4. D. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the ALB as an origin. Create an AWS Global Accelerator standard accelerator that has the S3 bucket as an endpoint. Create two domain names. Point one domain name to the CloudFront DNS name for dynamic content. Point the other domain name to the accelerator DNS name for static content. Use the domain names as endpoints for the web application.
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Answer

A

Explanation

Answer is A Explanation - AWS Global Accelerator vs CloudFront • They both use the AWS global network and its edge locations around the world • Both services integrate with AWS Shield for DDoS protection. • CloudFront • Improves performance for both cacheable content (such as images and videos) • Dynamic content (such as API acceleration and dynamic site delivery) • Content is served at the edge • Global Accelerator • Improves performance for a wide range of applications over TCP or UDP • Proxying packets at the edge to applications running in one or more AWS Regions. • Good fit for non-HTTP use cases, such as gaming (UDP), IoT (MQTT), or Voice over IP • Good for HTTP use cases that require static IP addresses • Good for HTTP use cases that required deterministic, fast regional failover

Question 13

Question#13Topic1

A company performs monthly maintenance on its AWS infrastructure. During these maintenance activities, the company needs to rotate the credentials for its Amazon RDS for MySQL databases across multiple AWS Regions.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

  1. A. Store the credentials as secrets in AWS Secrets Manager. Use multi-Region secret replication for the required Regions. Configure Secrets Manager to rotate the secrets on a schedule.
  2. B. Store the credentials as secrets in AWS Systems Manager by creating a secure string parameter. Use multi-Region secret replication for the required Regions. Configure Systems Manager to rotate the secrets on a schedule.
  3. C. Store the credentials in an Amazon S3 bucket that has server-side encryption (SSE) enabled. Use Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) to invoke an AWS Lambda function to rotate the credentials.
  4. D. Encrypt the credentials as secrets by using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) multi-Region customer managed keys. Store the secrets in an Amazon DynamoDB global table. Use an AWS Lambda function to retrieve the secrets from DynamoDB. Use the RDS API to rotate the secrets.
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Answer

A

Question 14

Question#14Topic1

A company runs an ecommerce application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The Auto Scaling group scales based on CPU utilization metrics. The ecommerce application stores the transaction data in a MySQL 8.0 database that is hosted on a large EC2 instance.
The database's performance degrades quickly as application load increases. The application handles more read requests than write transactions. The company wants a solution that will automatically scale the database to meet the demand of unpredictable read workloads while maintaining high availability.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

  1. A. Use Amazon Redshift with a single node for leader and compute functionality.
  2. B. Use Amazon RDS with a Single-AZ deployment Configure Amazon RDS to add reader instances in a different Availability Zone.
  3. C. Use Amazon Aurora with a Multi-AZ deployment. Configure Aurora Auto Scaling with Aurora Replicas.
  4. D. Use Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached with EC2 Spot Instances.
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Answer

C

Question 15

Question#15Topic1

A company recently migrated to AWS and wants to implement a solution to protect the traffic that flows in and out of the production VPC. The company had an inspection server in its on-premises data center. The inspection server performed specific operations such as traffic flow inspection and traffic filtering. The company wants to have the same functionalities in the AWS Cloud.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

  1. A. Use Amazon GuardDuty for traffic inspection and traffic filtering in the production VPC.
  2. B. Use Traffic Mirroring to mirror traffic from the production VPC for traffic inspection and filtering.
  3. C. Use AWS Network Firewall to create the required rules for traffic inspection and traffic filtering for the production VPC.
  4. D. Use AWS Firewall Manager to create the required rules for traffic inspection and traffic filtering for the production VPC.
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Answer

C

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