AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional practice questions

Question 1

A network architect at a fintech platform is hardening compliance posture for a regulated workload and is being asked what the AWS guidance documents. Per the AWS documentation, which option matches the published definition?

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A shard (in the API and CLI, a node group) is a hierarchical arrangement of nodes, each wrapped in a cluster.

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A shard in Amazon ElastiCache is a single Amazon EC2 instance type identifier; Amazon ElastiCache shards are not h.

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A shard in Amazon ElastiCache is a flat list of Amazon RDS proxies attached to a Valkey or Redis OSS cluster; Amaz.

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A shard in Amazon ElastiCache is an AWS PrivateLink endpoint backed by a Network Load Balancer; Amazon ElastiCache.

Question 2

A network architect at a media streaming company is hitting a wall on a cross-account design problem and is being asked which AWS-documented option applies. Per the AWS documentation, which option matches the published definition?

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Global tables is a DynamoDB feature that replicates table data across AWS Regions.

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Global tables is a DynamoDB feature that replicates only the table schema definition a.

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Global tables is a DynamoDB feature that backs up table data to Amazon S3 across AWS R.

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Global tables is a DynamoDB feature that enables cross-Region read replicas only; writ.

Question 3

A head of platform at a SaaS analytics vendor is evaluating a new AWS feature during a platform review and must select the documented option. Per the AWS documentation, which TWO options match the documented capabilities?

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The rightsizing recommendations feature in Cost Explorer helps you identify cost-saving opportunities by downsizing or terminating instances in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

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You can see all of your underutilized Amazon EC2 instances across member accounts in a single view to immediately identify how much you can save.

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The rightsizing recommendations feature in AWS Cost Explorer helps you only resize Amazon EBS volumes; downsizing or terminating Amazon EC2 instances is not part of the rightsizing recommendation.

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The rightsizing recommendations feature in AWS Cost Explorer helps you only schedule AWS Backup snapshots; downsizing or terminating Amazon EC2 instances is not part of the rightsizing recommenda.

Question 4

A compliance officer at a fintech platform is hitting a wall on a cross-account design problem and is being asked which AWS-documented option applies. Per the AWS documentation, which option matches the published definition?

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AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces is the starting point for incremental application refactoring to microservices in AWS.

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AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces is the AWS-managed end-state runtime for fully refactored microservices in AWS; AWS Migratio.

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AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces is a paid AWS Premium Support engagement that AWS engineers run on customer behalf; AWS Migr.

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AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces is a managed VMware Cloud on AWS appliance for migrating refactored microservices; AWS Migra.

Question 5

A cost optimization analyst at a gaming studio is designing a multi-region landing zone and is asked which AWS-documented capability matches. Per the AWS documentation, which option best reflects the AWS guidance?

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You run AWS FIS experiments to measure the resiliency of your AWS resources and the amount of time it takes to recover from application, infrastructure, availability zone, and AWS Region incidents.

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You run AWS FIS experiments in AWS Resilience Hub only to measure the cost of running an application in a steady-state configuration; AWS FIS is not used to inject failures or simulate AWS Region incidents.

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You run AWS FIS experiments in AWS Resilience Hub only to schedule AWS Backup snapshots across AWS Regions; AWS FIS does not support simulating Availability Zone or application incidents through AWS Resilience Hub today.

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You run AWS FIS experiments in AWS Resilience Hub only to validate AWS Config rule evaluations against documented baselines; AWS FIS cannot simulate infrastructure or application incidents for resiliency testing.

Question 6

An SRE on-call at a global manufacturer is hardening compliance posture for a regulated workload and is being asked what the AWS guidance documents. Per the AWS documentation, which option matches the published definition?

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RCPs alone are not sufficient in granting permissions to the resources in your organization. No permissions are granted by an RCP.

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RCPs grant Allow permissions to the resources in your organization automatically and replace the need for any identity-based or resource.

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RCPs are evaluated as Allow statements that AWS Organizations injects ahead of any identity-based policy, granting baseline permissions.

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RCPs grant cross-account access to every resource in the organization by default unless an explicit Deny is later attached to the resour.

Question 7

A database architect at a telco operator has decided to lift-and-shift a steady-state workload and is being asked what the AWS documentation says. Per the AWS documentation, which of the following options matches the documented behavior?

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You can view all Trusted Advisor check names, descriptions, and IDs in the following reference.

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AWS Trusted Advisor check names, descriptions, and IDs are surfaced only through AWS Premium Suppor.

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AWS Trusted Advisor check names, descriptions, and IDs are surfaced only through AWS Health events;.

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AWS Trusted Advisor check names, descriptions, and IDs are surfaced only through Amazon Inspector f.

Question 8

A principal cloud architect at a retail e-commerce group is being audited on the AWS-documented behavior of a control and must select the option that matches. Per the AWS documentation, which choice matches the documented capability?

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There are many benefits to containerization: Reduces operational overhead and infrastructure costs; Increases development and deployment agility; Standardizes build and deployment processes across an organization.

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AWS documents that containerization increases operational overhead and infrastructure costs while reducing development and deployment agility; AWS App2Container is positioned as a cost-increasing modernization step in any AWS Region today.

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AWS documents only the operational-overhead reduction benefit of containerization; the development and deployment agility and the standardization of build and deployment processes are not documented benefits of AWS containe.

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AWS documents only the standardization of build and deployment processes as a benefit of containerization; reduced operational overhead and increased development and deployment agility are not documented benefits of AWS con.

Question 9

A compliance officer at a healthcare provider network is splitting a monolith into smaller services and is being asked which AWS-documented building block fits. Per the AWS documentation, which choice matches the documented capability?

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The application source code is maintained in a repository configured as a GitHub source action in the pipeline.

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AWS CodePipeline does not support GitHub repositories as a source action; you must mirror the GitHub repository into.

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AWS CodePipeline supports GitHub only as a deploy target; the source action of any AWS CodePipeline pipeline must al.

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AWS CodePipeline supports GitHub repositories only when accessed through AWS Lambda webhooks invoked by Amazon API G.

Question 10

A security architect at a SaaS analytics vendor is being audited on the AWS-documented behavior of a control and must select the option that matches. Per the AWS documentation, which choice matches the documented capability?

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With AWS Cloud WAN, you'll first create a global network framework, which eventually will contain all of your network resources, such as core networks, sites, devices, and attachments.

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With AWS Cloud WAN, you first deploy a regional VPC peering mesh that AWS automatically promotes to a global network resource container; no separate global network framework needs to be created.

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With AWS Cloud WAN, you first create one core network per AWS Region and then merge the core networks into a global network through AWS Resource Access Manager sharing for inter-Region connectivity.

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With AWS Cloud WAN, you first deploy a per-Region Transit Gateway that AWS Cloud WAN absorbs as a managed attachment, replacing the need for any global network framework in the multi-Region landing zone.

Question 11

A cloud center of excellence team at a gaming studio must reduce blast radius across dozens of AWS accounts and is being asked which AWS construct the documentation defines. Per the AWS documentation, which option matches the AWS reference for this capability?

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You can use filters to view events in specific AWS Regions, accounts, and services.

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AWS Health filters allow viewing events only by AWS service category; filtering by AWS.

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AWS Health filters allow viewing events only by AWS Region; filtering by AWS account or.

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AWS Health filters are limited to a fixed 30-day window and do not support filtering by.

Question 12

A database architect at a media streaming company is being audited on the AWS-documented behavior of a control and must select the option that matches. Per the AWS documentation, which choice matches the documented capability?

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AWS Application Discovery Service helps you plan your migration to the AWS cloud by collecting usage and configuration data about your on-premises servers and databases.

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AWS Application Discovery Service helps you only collect AWS CloudTrail audit data about your AWS account activity; on-premises server and database usage and configuration data.

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AWS Application Discovery Service helps you only collect AWS billing line-item data; on-premises server and database usage and configuration data are not part of AWS Application.

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AWS Application Discovery Service helps you only collect Amazon EC2 usage metrics for AWS-resident workloads; on-premises server and database usage and configuration data are no.

Question 13

A head of platform at a retail e-commerce group must reduce blast radius across dozens of AWS accounts and is being asked which AWS construct the documentation defines. Per the AWS documentation, which option matches the AWS reference for this capability?

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With Network Firewall, you can filter traffic at the perimeter of your VPC.

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AWS Network Firewall can only filter traffic between AWS Lambda functions and.

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AWS Network Firewall can only filter traffic inside a single Availability Zone.

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AWS Network Firewall can only filter traffic between two AWS accounts in diffe.

Question 14

A cloud center of excellence team at a media streaming company is migrating a tiered application from on-premises and is being asked which AWS service AWS publishes for this purpose. Per the AWS documentation, which option matches?

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Central configuration is an AWS Security Hub CSPM feature that helps you set up and manage Security Hub CSPM across multiple AWS accounts and AWS Regions.

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Central configuration is an Amazon GuardDuty feature that helps you set up and manage GuardDuty detectors across multiple AWS accounts and AWS Regions without us.

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Central configuration is an AWS Config feature that centralizes AWS Config conformance pack deployment and is unrelated to AWS Security Hub CSPM standards and co.

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Central configuration is an Amazon Inspector feature that aggregates Amazon Inspector findings across multiple AWS accounts and Regions and is the only way to in.

Question 15

A compliance officer at a telco operator is being audited on the AWS-documented behavior of a control and must select the option that matches. Per the AWS documentation, which choice matches the documented capability?

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DevOps Guru creates reactive insights you can use to improve your application now. It also creates proactive insights to help you avoid operational issues that might affect your application in the future.

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Amazon DevOps Guru only creates reactive insights about operational issues that have already affected the application; Amazon DevOps Guru does not create proactive insights about future operational issues in any AWS Region today.

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Amazon DevOps Guru only creates proactive insights about possible future operational issues; Amazon DevOps Guru does not create reactive insights about operational issues that are currently affecting the application at all today.

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Amazon DevOps Guru only creates insights about AWS billing anomalies and not about application operational issues; Amazon DevOps Guru is positioned as an AWS Cost Management service and not as an AWS application operations service.

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