SAA-C02 Amazon-Web-Services Exam Questions and Free Practice Test

Question 7

A product team is creating a new application that will store a large amount of data The data will be analyzed hourly and modified by multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances The application team believes the amount of space needed will continue to grow for the next 6 months
Which set of actions should a solutions architect take to support these needs'?

A. Store the data in an Amazon EBS volume Mount the EBS volume on the application instances

B. Store the data in an Amazon EFS file system Mount the file system on the application instances

C. Store the data in Amazon S3 Glacier Update the vault policy to allow access to the application instances

D. Store the data in Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) Update the bucket policy to allow access to the application instances

Correct Answer:B

Question 8

A company has a legacy application that processes data in two parts The second part of the process takes longer than the first, so the company has decided to rewrite the application as two microservices running on Amazon ECS that can scale independently.
How should a solutions architect integrate the microservices?

A. Implement code in microservice 1 to send data to an Amazon S3 bucke

B. Use S3 event notifications to invoke microservice 2.

C. Implement code in microservice 1 to publish data to an Amazon SNS topic Implement code in microservice 2 to subscribe to this topic

D. Implement code in microservice 1 to send data to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehos

E. Implement code in microservice 2 to read from Kinesis Data Firehose.

F. Implement code in microservice 1 to send data to an Amazon SQS queue Implement code in microservice 2 to process messages from the queue

Correct Answer:C

Question 9

A company runs an internal browser-based application The application runs 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 up to 20 instances during work hours, but scales down to 2 instances overnight Staff are complaining that the application is very slow when the day begins, although it runs well by mid-morning.
How should the scaling be changed to address the staff complaints and keep costs to a minimum?

A. Implement a scheduled action that sets the desired capacity to 20 shortly before the office opens

B. Implement a step scaling action triggered at a lower CPU threshold, and decrease the cooldown period.

C. Implement a target tracking action triggered at a lower CPU threshold and decrease the cooldown period

D. Implement a scheduled action that sets the minimum and maximum capacity to 20 shortly before the office opens

Correct Answer:B

Question 10

A company runs an application on a group of Amazon Linux EC2 instances The application writes log files using standard API calls For compliance reasons, all log files must be retained indefinitely and will be analyzed by a reporting tool that must access all files concurrently
Which storage service should a solutions architect use to provide the MOST cost-effective solution?

A. Amazon EBS

B. Amazon EFS

C. Amazon EC2 instance store

D. Amazon S3

Correct Answer:D

Question 11

A solutions architect is designing storage for a high performance computing (HPC) environment based on Amazon Linux. The workload stores and processes a large amount of engineering drawings that require shared storage and heavy computing.
Which storage option would be the optimal solution?

A. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

B. Amazon FSx for Lustre

C. Amazon EC2 instance store

D. Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1)

Correct Answer:B

Question 12

A company hosts a static website on-premises and wants to migrate the website to AWS The website should load as quickly as possible for users around the world The company also wants the most cost-effective solution
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

A. Copy the website content to an Amazon S3 bucket Configure the bucket to serve static webpage content Replicate the S3 bucket to multiple AWS Regions

B. Copy the website content to an Amazon S3 bucket Configure the bucket to serve static webpage content Configure Amazon CloudFront with the S3 bucket as the origin

C. Copy the website content to an Amazon EBS-backed Amazon EC2 instance running Apache HTTP Server Configure Amazon Route 53 geolocation routing policies to select the closest origin

D. Copy the website content to multiple Amazon EBS-backed Amazon EC2 instances running Apache HTTP Server in multiple AWS Regions Configure Amazon CloudFront geolocation routing policies to select the closest origin

Correct Answer:B

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