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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

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The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) exam validates advanced skills in designing distributed systems on AWS. It is ideal for experienced architects looking to demonstrate their expertise.

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Q441

A company needs to deploy a highly available web application across multiple AWS regions. Which service should they use?

  • A AWS Global Accelerator
  • B Amazon CloudFront
  • C AWS Direct Connect
  • D Amazon VPC
Explanation AWS Global Accelerator improves application availability by routing traffic through the optimal region, unlike the other options that do not provide this capability.
Q442

What happens when you increase the instance size of an Amazon EC2 instance type during a scale-up operation?

  • A It retains the same IP address.
  • B It automatically backs up data.
  • C Traffic is automatically load balanced.
  • D It requires a new security group.
Explanation Increasing the instance size in EC2 keeps the same Elastic IP address, while the other options can lead to incorrect assumptions about instance operations.
Q443

You are configuring an Amazon RDS instance with Multi-AZ deployment. What happens during a maintenance event?

  • A It switches to the standby instance.
  • B Both instances go offline.
  • C You lose data access temporarily.
  • D It requires manual intervention.
Explanation In a Multi-AZ deployment, RDS automatically switches to the standby instance during maintenance, ensuring high availability unlike the other options.
Q444

Which service can automate resource scaling based on demand?

  • A AWS Auto Scaling
  • B Amazon Lambda
  • C AWS CloudFormation
  • D Amazon RDS
Explanation AWS Auto Scaling automatically adjusts resources based on demand; others do not focus on scaling.
Q445

A company needs to encrypt data at rest in S3. Which service should they use?

  • A S3 Versioning
  • B S3 Bucket Policies
  • C AWS KMS
  • D AWS WAF
Explanation AWS KMS provides key management and encryption; the others are unrelated to data encryption.
Q446

What happens when a CloudTrail trail is deleted?

  • A New logs continue to be recorded
  • B All existing logs are immediately deleted
  • C Only logs published after deletion stop
  • D CloudTrail reconfigures automatically
Explanation Logs before deletion remain and only new logging stops; the others misinterpret the deletion effect.
Q447

Which AWS service is primarily used for data warehousing?

  • A Amazon Redshift
  • B Amazon S3
  • C Amazon RDS
  • D AWS Glue
Explanation Amazon Redshift is designed specifically for data warehousing, while the others serve different cloud storage and database purposes.
Q448

A company needs to manage IAM roles and permissions accurately. What principle should they implement?

  • A Shared Responsibility Model
  • B Least Privilege Access
  • C Horizontal Scaling
  • D High Availability
Explanation Least Privilege Access ensures users have only necessary permissions, unlike the other principles not specifically related to IAM.
Q449

You are configuring an S3 bucket for static website hosting. What must be enabled for public access?

  • A Bucket Versioning
  • B Static Website Hosting
  • C Cross-Region Replication
  • D Object Locking
Explanation Static Website Hosting enables the functionality needed for public access; the other features do not relate directly to website hosting.
Q450

Which service allows you to run containers without managing servers?

  • A Amazon ECS
  • B AWS Lambda
  • C Amazon EC2
  • D AWS Batch
Explanation Amazon ECS allows serverless container management, while other options manage compute differently.