AWS-SAA-C03: AWS CERTIFIED SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT – ASSOCIATE | COMPREHENSIVE
NATIONAL CERTIFICATION | REAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST
VERSION 2026/2027 (PASS GUARANTEE
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03)
1. A company needs to store frequently accessed data with millisecond latency and
high throughput. Which AWS storage service best meets this requirement?
A. Amazon S3 Standard
B. Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2)
C. Amazon S3 Glacier
D. AWS Storage Gateway
ANSWER : B
2. A solutions architect must design a highly available web application with
automatic failover across AWS Regions. Which combination should be used?
A. Amazon Route 53 with latency-based routing and Auto Scaling
B. Amazon Route 53 with failover routing and health checks across two
Regions
C. Elastic Load Balancing with a single Region Auto Scaling group
D. AWS Global Accelerator with a single Region deployment
ANSWER : B
3. A company runs a stateful web application and needs a load balancer that
supports sticky sessions. Which load balancer type should be used?
A. Network Load Balancer
B. Gateway Load Balancer
C. Application Load Balancer
D. Classic Load Balancer only
ANSWER : C
,4. An application needs to process messages in the exact order they were sent, with
exactly-once delivery. Which AWS service meets this requirement?
A. Amazon SQS Standard Queue
B. Amazon SNS
C. Amazon SQS FIFO Queue
D. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
ANSWER : C
5. A company wants to run containers without managing the underlying EC2
instances. Which AWS service should they use?
A. Amazon ECS on EC2
B. AWS Fargate
C. Amazon EKS on EC2
D. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
ANSWER : B
6. A developer needs to store application secrets such as database passwords
securely and rotate them automatically. Which service is most appropriate?
A. AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store Standard
B. AWS KMS
C. AWS Secrets Manager
D. Amazon S3 with server-side encryption
ANSWER : C
7. A company wants to reduce costs by automatically deleting objects in Amazon
S3 after 90 days. How should this be configured?
A. Enable S3 Object Lock
B. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy with an expiration action
C. Enable S3 Versioning and set a delete marker
D. Use AWS Lambda with a scheduled CloudWatch Events rule
ANSWER : B
8. A solutions architect needs to ensure that an Amazon RDS database is fault-
tolerant and can automatically failover in case of an AZ outage. Which feature
should be enabled?
A. Read Replicas
B. Multi-AZ Deployment
, C. RDS Proxy
D. Enhanced Monitoring
ANSWER : B
9. A company needs to allow users to upload files directly to Amazon S3 from a
browser without routing through the application server. What should the architect
implement?
A. Enable S3 Transfer Acceleration
B. Use an S3 Pre-signed URL
C. Configure S3 Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
D. Use AWS DataSync
ANSWER : B
10. An organization needs to enforce that all S3 buckets in its AWS account have
server-side encryption enabled. What is the most scalable solution?
A. Manually configure each bucket
B. Use AWS Config with a managed rule and AWS Systems Manager
Automation
C. Use AWS Organizations Service Control Policies
D. Enable default encryption in each bucket individually
ANSWER : B
11. A company wants to serve static website content globally with low latency.
Which combination is most cost-effective?
A. EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer in multiple Regions
B. Amazon S3 with Amazon CloudFront
C. AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Multi-Region deployment
D. Amazon EFS with Amazon CloudFront
ANSWER : B
12. A solutions architect is designing a system where multiple applications need to
consume the same stream of events independently. Which AWS service is best
suited?
A. Amazon SQS Standard
B. Amazon SNS with SQS fan-out
C. Amazon MQ
D. AWS Step Functions
, ANSWER : B
13. An application running on EC2 needs to access an S3 bucket securely without
using access keys. What should the architect do?
A. Embed AWS access keys in the application code
B. Store credentials in AWS Secrets Manager
C. Assign an IAM role to the EC2 instance
D. Enable public access on the S3 bucket
ANSWER : C
14. A company needs to analyze clickstream data in near real-time. Which service
should be used to ingest and process the streaming data?
A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
C. AWS Glue
D. Amazon RDS
ANSWER : B
15. A solutions architect needs to choose a database for a workload with
unpredictable, highly variable traffic and a need for automatic scaling. Which
AWS database service is best?
A. Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ
B. Amazon DynamoDB with on-demand capacity
C. Amazon Redshift
D. Amazon Neptune
ANSWER : B
16. A company's on-premises data center needs a private, dedicated connection to
AWS with consistent network performance. Which service provides this?
A. AWS Site-to-Site VPN
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. AWS Transit Gateway
D. Amazon VPC Peering
ANSWER : B
NATIONAL CERTIFICATION | REAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST
VERSION 2026/2027 (PASS GUARANTEE
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03)
1. A company needs to store frequently accessed data with millisecond latency and
high throughput. Which AWS storage service best meets this requirement?
A. Amazon S3 Standard
B. Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2)
C. Amazon S3 Glacier
D. AWS Storage Gateway
ANSWER : B
2. A solutions architect must design a highly available web application with
automatic failover across AWS Regions. Which combination should be used?
A. Amazon Route 53 with latency-based routing and Auto Scaling
B. Amazon Route 53 with failover routing and health checks across two
Regions
C. Elastic Load Balancing with a single Region Auto Scaling group
D. AWS Global Accelerator with a single Region deployment
ANSWER : B
3. A company runs a stateful web application and needs a load balancer that
supports sticky sessions. Which load balancer type should be used?
A. Network Load Balancer
B. Gateway Load Balancer
C. Application Load Balancer
D. Classic Load Balancer only
ANSWER : C
,4. An application needs to process messages in the exact order they were sent, with
exactly-once delivery. Which AWS service meets this requirement?
A. Amazon SQS Standard Queue
B. Amazon SNS
C. Amazon SQS FIFO Queue
D. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
ANSWER : C
5. A company wants to run containers without managing the underlying EC2
instances. Which AWS service should they use?
A. Amazon ECS on EC2
B. AWS Fargate
C. Amazon EKS on EC2
D. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
ANSWER : B
6. A developer needs to store application secrets such as database passwords
securely and rotate them automatically. Which service is most appropriate?
A. AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store Standard
B. AWS KMS
C. AWS Secrets Manager
D. Amazon S3 with server-side encryption
ANSWER : C
7. A company wants to reduce costs by automatically deleting objects in Amazon
S3 after 90 days. How should this be configured?
A. Enable S3 Object Lock
B. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy with an expiration action
C. Enable S3 Versioning and set a delete marker
D. Use AWS Lambda with a scheduled CloudWatch Events rule
ANSWER : B
8. A solutions architect needs to ensure that an Amazon RDS database is fault-
tolerant and can automatically failover in case of an AZ outage. Which feature
should be enabled?
A. Read Replicas
B. Multi-AZ Deployment
, C. RDS Proxy
D. Enhanced Monitoring
ANSWER : B
9. A company needs to allow users to upload files directly to Amazon S3 from a
browser without routing through the application server. What should the architect
implement?
A. Enable S3 Transfer Acceleration
B. Use an S3 Pre-signed URL
C. Configure S3 Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
D. Use AWS DataSync
ANSWER : B
10. An organization needs to enforce that all S3 buckets in its AWS account have
server-side encryption enabled. What is the most scalable solution?
A. Manually configure each bucket
B. Use AWS Config with a managed rule and AWS Systems Manager
Automation
C. Use AWS Organizations Service Control Policies
D. Enable default encryption in each bucket individually
ANSWER : B
11. A company wants to serve static website content globally with low latency.
Which combination is most cost-effective?
A. EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer in multiple Regions
B. Amazon S3 with Amazon CloudFront
C. AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Multi-Region deployment
D. Amazon EFS with Amazon CloudFront
ANSWER : B
12. A solutions architect is designing a system where multiple applications need to
consume the same stream of events independently. Which AWS service is best
suited?
A. Amazon SQS Standard
B. Amazon SNS with SQS fan-out
C. Amazon MQ
D. AWS Step Functions
, ANSWER : B
13. An application running on EC2 needs to access an S3 bucket securely without
using access keys. What should the architect do?
A. Embed AWS access keys in the application code
B. Store credentials in AWS Secrets Manager
C. Assign an IAM role to the EC2 instance
D. Enable public access on the S3 bucket
ANSWER : C
14. A company needs to analyze clickstream data in near real-time. Which service
should be used to ingest and process the streaming data?
A. Amazon Redshift
B. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
C. AWS Glue
D. Amazon RDS
ANSWER : B
15. A solutions architect needs to choose a database for a workload with
unpredictable, highly variable traffic and a need for automatic scaling. Which
AWS database service is best?
A. Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ
B. Amazon DynamoDB with on-demand capacity
C. Amazon Redshift
D. Amazon Neptune
ANSWER : B
16. A company's on-premises data center needs a private, dedicated connection to
AWS with consistent network performance. Which service provides this?
A. AWS Site-to-Site VPN
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. AWS Transit Gateway
D. Amazon VPC Peering
ANSWER : B
