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AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate (SOA-C03) Exam Dumps & Questions 2026

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Q251

A company needs to ensure that their EC2 instances are automatically scaled during peak demand. Which service should they use?

  • A AWS Lambda
  • B EC2 Auto Scaling
  • C Amazon RDS
  • D AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Explanation EC2 Auto Scaling adjusts instance capacity based on demand metrics, while the others serve different purposes.
Q252

What happens when you terminate an EC2 instance with instance store volumes?

  • A Data is preserved.
  • B Data is deleted.
  • C Data is backed up automatically.
  • D Data is migrated to S3.
Explanation Terminating EC2 instances with instance store volumes results in data loss, while EBS-backed instances allow data preservation and recovery.
Q253

Which service is used for serverless event-driven applications?

  • A AWS Lambda
  • B Amazon EC2
  • C AWS RDS
  • D AWS IAM
Explanation AWS Lambda runs code in response to events, unlike EC2 which is for VMs.
Q254

A company needs to automate security checks for its AWS resources. Which tool should they use?

  • A AWS CloudTrail
  • B AWS Config
  • C AWS CloudFormation
  • D AWS Trusted Advisor
Explanation AWS Config automates security compliance checks; CloudTrail monitors activity, not configuration.
Q255

What happens when you set a security group rule to allow all traffic?

  • A Blocks all inbound traffic
  • B Allows outbound traffic only
  • C Allows all inbound and outbound traffic
  • D It has no effect
Explanation Allowing all traffic permits connections both ways, affecting the instance directly.
Q256

Which service manages scaling for AWS resources automatically?

  • A AWS Auto Scaling
  • B AWS Lambda
  • C Amazon CloudFront
  • D AWS WAF
Explanation AWS Auto Scaling automatically adjusts resources; others have different functionalities.
Q257

A company needs to ensure their EC2 instances are protected from DDoS attacks. Which service should they implement?

  • A AWS Shield
  • B AWS CloudTrail
  • C AWS Config
  • D AWS CodeDeploy
Explanation AWS Shield provides DDoS protection, while others serve different purposes.
Q258

You are configuring an Amazon RDS instance. What happens when you set the Multi-AZ deployment to true?

  • A Automatic backups only
  • B Disaster recovery enhancement
  • C Increased latency in reads
  • D Data replication disabled
Explanation Multi-AZ enhances disaster recovery; other options are incorrect in context.
Q259

Which service provides serverless event-driven compute?

  • A AWS Lambda
  • B Amazon EC2
  • C Amazon RDS
  • D AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Explanation AWS Lambda executes code in response to events; EC2 is not serverless.
Q260

A company needs to make its S3 buckets available only to specific IAM roles. What should they do?

  • A Use bucket ACLs
  • B Implement resource-based policies
  • C Enable public access
  • D Use VPC endpoints
Explanation Resource-based policies allow specific IAM roles access; ACLs aren't sufficient for this granularity.