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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

SAA-C03
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The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) exam tests your ability to design distributed systems on AWS. It is one of the most sought-after certifications in the cloud domain.

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Questions 251–260 of 483

Q251

A company needs to migrate a database with minimal downtime. Which AWS service should they use?

  • A AWS Database Migration Service
  • B AWS Snowball
  • C AWS Direct Connect
  • D AWS Backups
Explanation AWS Database Migration Service facilitates live migration with minimal downtime; others do not address the same need.
Q252

What happens when an S3 bucket policy denies all access to objects?

  • A Objects are deleted immediately
  • B Objects are inaccessible until policy changes
  • C Objects become publicly accessible
  • D Objects can be accessed by bucket owner only
Explanation Denying access in the policy restricts all access until altered; the others present incorrect behaviors of object access.
Q253

Which service provides serverless compute for code execution?

  • A AWS Lambda
  • B EC2
  • C Elastic Beanstalk
  • D ECS
Explanation AWS Lambda allows code execution without server management; others require server configuration or management.
Q254

A company needs to ensure that its S3 bucket is not publicly accessible. What should they do?

  • A Enable MFA Delete
  • B Use resource-based policies
  • C Set bucket versioning
  • D Turn on CORS configurations
Explanation Resource-based policies can control access; the others do not prevent public access.
Q255

What happens when an EC2 instance’s underlying physical server fails?

  • A The instance automatically restarts
  • B Data is lost permanently
  • C The instance is terminated
  • D The instance remains unaffected
Explanation EC2 provides automatic recovery for failed instances; the others incorrectly describe the instance behavior.
Q256

Which service is best for real-time data streaming?

  • A Amazon Kinesis
  • B Amazon S3
  • C Amazon RDS
  • D Amazon CloudFront
Explanation Amazon Kinesis specializes in real-time data streaming; S3 is for storage, RDS is for databases, and CloudFront is for content delivery.
Q257

A company needs to ensure their web application scales with increased traffic. Which service best addresses this need?

  • A Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
  • B AWS Lambda
  • C Amazon RDS
  • D Amazon CloudWatch
Explanation Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling dynamically adjusts instance counts; Lambda is serverless, RDS focuses on databases, and CloudWatch monitors services.
Q258

What happens when a Security Group's inbound rules are modified to deny all traffic?

  • A Only external traffic is denied
  • B No traffic in or out is allowed
  • C All traffic is blocked completely
  • D Existing connections are unaffected
Explanation Denying all inbound traffic blocks all incoming connections; existing connections must adhere to security group rules, while options A and C incorrectly describe the impact.
Q259

Which service is designed for real-time analytics on streaming data?

  • A Amazon Kinesis
  • B Amazon S3
  • C Amazon RDS
  • D Amazon Glacier
Explanation Amazon Kinesis specializes in handling real-time streaming data, while others serve different data management purposes.
Q260

A company needs to securely share resources among multiple AWS accounts. Which service should they use?

  • A AWS Organizations
  • B AWS Resource Access Manager
  • C AWS IAM Roles
  • D AWS CloudFormation
Explanation AWS Resource Access Manager allows secure resource sharing, whereas the other options focus on different aspects of account management or resource deployment.