aws solutions architect associate practice exam Practice Exam: Test Your Knowledge 2025

A company is deploying a web application that requires encryption of data at rest for compliance purposes. The application uses Amazon S3 to store user documents. Which approach provides server-side encryption with the LEAST operational overhead?

A solutions architect is designing a highly available application that will be deployed across multiple Availability Zones. The application requires a MySQL database. Which database solution provides automatic failover with minimal downtime?

A company needs to deliver static content (images, CSS, JavaScript) for their web application to users globally with low latency. Which AWS service should they use?

A startup company is launching a new application and expects variable traffic patterns. They want to minimize costs while maintaining good performance. Which EC2 purchasing option should they primarily use?

A company needs to grant temporary access to external auditors to view specific S3 bucket contents without creating permanent IAM users. What is the MOST secure approach?

A solutions architect is designing an application that processes orders from an e-commerce website. The order processing can take several minutes and should continue even if the web servers fail. Which architecture decouples the web tier from the processing tier?

A company runs a data analytics application that processes large datasets stored in Amazon S3. The application runs on EC2 instances and needs to access S3 buckets. What is the MOST secure way to grant the EC2 instances access to S3?

A company's application experiences predictable traffic spikes every day between 9 AM and 5 PM, with 3x normal load. The application runs on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. What is the MOST cost-effective solution to handle the traffic pattern?

A media company stores video files in Amazon S3 that are frequently accessed for the first 30 days, occasionally accessed for the next 60 days, and rarely accessed afterward but must be retained for 7 years for compliance. What S3 storage strategy minimizes costs?

An application uses Amazon RDS MySQL and experiences slow query performance during business hours. The database has high CPU utilization due to complex read queries. The application can tolerate slightly stale data. What solution improves performance with minimal changes?

A company needs to ensure that all data stored in Amazon EBS volumes is encrypted and that they maintain control over the encryption keys, including the ability to rotate them. Which solution meets these requirements?

A solutions architect needs to design a disaster recovery solution for a critical application running in the us-east-1 region. The company requires an RTO of 4 hours and RPO of 1 hour. Which DR strategy is MOST appropriate?

A company is building a serverless API that needs to perform complex data transformations. The transformations take between 2 to 15 minutes to complete. Which AWS service combination is MOST appropriate?

A financial services company must ensure that their S3 buckets are never publicly accessible and wants to prevent accidental public exposure. Which combination of controls provides defense in depth? (Choose the MOST complete answer)

A company runs a batch processing application that analyzes log files stored in S3. The application runs nightly and can tolerate interruptions. The workload is compute-intensive and can be parallelized. What is the MOST cost-effective compute solution?

A global application requires a database that can handle millions of requests per second with single-digit millisecond latency. The application needs to read and write data across multiple AWS regions with automatic multi-region replication. Which database solution meets these requirements?

A company has a VPC with private subnets containing EC2 instances that need to access AWS services like S3 and DynamoDB without traversing the internet. The company wants to minimize data transfer costs and maximize security. What solution should they implement?

A solutions architect is designing a highly available architecture for a stateful application that maintains user session data. The application runs on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer across multiple Availability Zones. How should session data be managed to ensure high availability?

A company's application generates time-series IoT sensor data that must be analyzed in real-time and stored for historical analysis. The system receives 50,000 messages per second. The company needs to perform real-time analytics and trigger alerts based on thresholds. What architecture should they implement?

A company is migrating their on-premises Active Directory to AWS. They need to enable their existing on-premises users to access AWS resources using their existing Active Directory credentials and want to implement federated access to the AWS Management Console and CLI. What solution provides this capability?