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 Security team reviewed their company's VPC Flow Logs and found that traffic is being directed to the internet. The application in the VPC uses Amazon EC2 instances for compute and Amazon S3 for storage. The company's goal is to eliminate internet access and allow the application to continue to function.
What change should be made in the VPC before updating the route table?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
A company had decided to store its critical data on the AWS Cloud. Newly uploaded data is frequently accessed for a period of one month, after which the data is no longer frequently accessed. However, there is a requirement for older objects with a specific prefix to be accessed within milliseconds.
What services and features should the company use to meet this requirement is a durable, available, and cost-effective manner?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
A Solutions Architect is planning a new web application in an Amazon VPC. The customer has specified that the architecture for the new web application must include the capability of sharing session state among a highly available group of web servers.
To fulfill this requirement, the Solutions Architect should:
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
A Solutions Architect is designing an application that will run on Amazon ECS behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). For security reasons, the Amazon EC2 host instances for the ECS cluster are in a private subnet.
What should be done to ensure that the incoming traffic to the host instances is from the ALB only?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
An organization runs an online voting system for a television program. During broadcasts, hundreds of thousands of votes are submitted within minutes and sent to a front-end fleet of auto-scaled Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances push the votes to an RDBMS database. The database is unable to keep up with the front-end connection requests.
What is the MOST efficient and cost-effective way of ensuring that votes are processed in a timely manner?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
Two Auto Scaling applications, Application A and Application B, currently run within a shared set of subnets.
A Solutions Architect wants to make sure that Application A can make requests to Application B, but Application B should be denied from making requests to Application A.
Which is the SIMPLEST solution to achieve this policy?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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A Solutions Architect needs to design an Amazon RDS for MySQL solution whereby users must be authenticated using only SSL connections.
How should the Solutions Architect design the solution?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
An application is used by thousands of concurrent users. Eighty percent of users access the same content inside the Amazon RDS multi-AZ database.
How can the overall performance of the database queries be improved?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
A company must collect temperature data from thousands of remote weather devices. The company must also store this data in a data warehouse to run aggregations and visualizations.
Which services will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
Correct Answer: A,E Vote an answer
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A Solution Architect is developing as AWS Lambda-based service for a social networking game to retrieve information on tourist landmarks stored in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The solutions Architect wants to minimize costs as the service scales to many millions of users through a mobile app. How can the Solution Architect optimize performance while minimizing costs? (Select TWO)
Correct Answer: A,D Vote an answer
A Solutions Architect is designing an application on AWS that will connect to the onpremise data center through a VPN connection. The solution must be able to log network traffic over the VPN.
Which service logs this network traffic?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
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A customer is looking for a storage archival solution for 1,000 TB of data. The customer requires that the solution be durable and data be available within a few hours of requesting it, but not exceeding a day. The solution should be as cost-effective as possible.
To meet security compliance policies, data must be encrypted at rest. The customer expects they will need to fetch the data two times in a year.
Which storage solution should a Solutions Architect recommend to meet these requirements?
Correct Answer: D Vote an answer
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An organization must process a stream of large-volume hashtag data in real time and needs to run custom SQL queries on the data to get insights on certain tags. The organization needs this solution to be elastic and does not want to manage clusters. Which of the following AWS service meets these requirements?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer