AWS - Solutions Architect Associate Practice Questions & Free Practice Exam
5 free AWS - Solutions Architect Associate practice questions below, with instant explanations. The full simulator contains hundreds of exam-style questions across every topic.
A solutions architect is configuring Amazon Cognito for a mobile application. Authenticated users must upload files to S3, and unauthenticated guests must have read-only access to a public content bucket. Which Cognito component provides temporary AWS credentials for both user types?
Question 2
A company runs a read-heavy application on Amazon RDS for MySQL configured with a Multi-AZ deployment. Read latency is climbing as traffic grows. The architect needs to scale read capacity without changing the database engine. Which approach should the architect recommend?
Question 3
An analytics team runs Amazon Athena queries against a large dataset stored as CSV files in Amazon S3. Queries filter by date but scan the entire dataset each time, resulting in high costs and slow performance. Which single change would have the greatest impact on reducing both query cost and execution time?
Question 4
A company uses Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to ingest real-time transaction data. A compliance requirement mandates that the raw stream data must remain available for replay for up to one year. The current stream uses the default retention setting. Which configuration change meets the compliance requirement?
Question 5
A company runs a fleet of m5.xlarge EC2 instances for a Java-based web application. The application uses standard open-source frameworks and has no dependencies on x86-specific binary libraries. A solutions architect wants to reduce compute costs while maintaining or improving performance. Which instance change should the architect recommend?
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