Free Amazon SAA-C01 Practice Test & Real Exam Questions

  • Exam Code/Number: SAA-C01
  • Exam Name/Title: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • Certification Provider: Amazon
  • Corresponding Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect
  • Exam Questions: 272
  • Updated On: May 30, 2026
A Solutions Architect must design a solution that encrypts data in Amazon S3.
Corporate policy mandates encryption keys be generated and managed on premises.
Which solution should the Architect use to meet the security requirements?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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A company plans to use an Amazon VPC to deploy a web application consisting of an elastic load balancer, a fleet of web and application servers, and an Amazon RDS MySQL database that should not be accessible from the Internet. The proposed design must be highly available and distributed over two Availability Zones.
What would be the MOST appropriate VPC design for this specific use case?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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An application is running on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. Four instances are required to handle a predictable traffic load. The Solutions Architect wants to ensure that the operation is fault-tolerant up to the loss of one Availability Zone.
Which is the MOST cost-efficient way to meet these requirements?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
A Solutions Architect is designing an application that is expected to have millions of users. The Architect needs options to store session data.
Which option is the MOST performant?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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A solutions architect designed a system based on amazon kinesis data streams. After the workflow was put into production, the company noticed it performed slowly and identified kinesis data streams as the problem.
One of the streams has a total of 10 Mb's throughput?
What should the solutions architect recommend to improve performance?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
A company has a web application with an apache front end, a Memcached cache, and a postgreSQL database.
The company also has a data warehouse that is accessed with standard SQL tools. The company would like to migrate the architecture to AWS with as little work as possible.
Which of the following AWS services should a solution Architect recommend?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
A Solutions Architect is designing a shared files system for a company. Multiple users will be accessing it at any given time. Different teams will have their own directories, and the company wants to secure files so that users can access only files owned by their team.
How should the solutions Architect design this?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
An application is running on an Amazon EC2 instance in a private subnet. The application needs to read and write data onto Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, and corporate policy requires that this traffic should not go to the internet.
How can these requirements be met?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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A team must redesign the application layer of their SaaS Solution so that no matter request volume required at any given time the solution will scale automatically to support the exact needs of that application. The team has decided to give serverless.
Which of the following service would best fit these requirements?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
A company hosts its website on Amazon S3. When a new version of the websites is released, a new set of files is used, and the previous version is archived. For regulatory and audit reasons, all the files used for the website must be kept for seven years. If auditor needs to retrieve a file. It must be available within four days.
Which is the MOST cost-effective storage option to store backup files?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
Which of the following techniques should an Amazon DynamoDB customer follow the maximize throughput?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
A Solution Architect is building an application that will run for eight hours, Monday through Friday. This application will also run a weekly batch process every Saturday night that consistently takes four hours to complete.
Which is the MOST cost- effective computer solution?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
A Solutions Architect is designing a highly available web application on AWS. The data served on the website is dynamic and is pulled from Amazon DynamoDB. All users are geographically close to one another.
How can the Solutions Architect make the application highly available?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer