AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam Questions (Answered summer 2022)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Exam Questions (Answered summer 2022)

What is an AWS region?
A region is a geographical area that consists of different availability zones. Each region
consists of 2 (or more) Availability Zones.
What is an AWS region?
A region is a geographical area that consists of different availability zones. Each region
consists of 2 (or more) Availability Zones.
What does an AWS Region consist of?
An independent collection of AWS computing resources in a defined geography.
What does an AWS Region consist of?
An independent collection of AWS computing resources in a defined geography.
Which statement best describes Availability Zones?
Distinct locations from within an AWS region that are engineered to be isolated from
failures.
Which statement best describes Availability Zones?
Distinct locations from within an AWS region that are engineered to be isolated from
failures.
An AWS VPC is a component of which AWS service?
Networking Service.
An AWS VPC is a component of which AWS service?
Networking Service.
What is a VPC?
Virtual Private Cloud
What is a VPC?
Virtual Private Cloud
Which AWS service is specifically designed for developers to upload their code to and
then it will automatically handle the provisioning of those resources that are required to
host that code?
Elastic Beanstalk
Which AWS service is specifically designed for developers to upload their code to and
then it will automatically handle the provisioning of those resources that are required to
host that code?
Elastic Beanstalk
Which AWS service allows you to run code without having to worry about provisioning
any underlying resources (such as virtual machines, databases etc)
Lambda
Which AWS service allows you to run code without having to worry about provisioning
any underlying resources (such as virtual machines, databases etc)
Lambda

, Amazon's highly scaleable DNS service is known as...
Route 53
Amazon's highly scaleable DNS service is known as...
Route 53
Which AWS compute service is specifically designed to assist you in processing large
data sets?
Elastic Map Reduce
Which AWS compute service is specifically designed to assist you in processing large
data sets?
Elastic Map Reduce
What is the difference between Elastic Beanstalk & CloudFormation?
Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning,
load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring based on the code you
upload to it, where as CloudFormation is an automated provisioning engine designed to
deploy entire cloud environments via a JSON script.
What is the difference between Elastic Beanstalk & CloudFormation?
Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning,
load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring based on the code you
upload to it, where as CloudFormation is an automated provisioning engine designed to
deploy entire cloud environments via a JSON script.
Which AWS service is used a CDN to distribute content around the world?
CloudFront
Which AWS service is used a CDN to distribute content around the world?
CloudFront
Where would be a durable place to store flat files on the AWS platform?
S3
Where would be a durable place to store flat files on the AWS platform?
S3
Which AWS service would be the best choice for long term data archival?
Glacier
Which AWS service would be the best choice for long term data archival?
Glacier
What AWS service consists of the following database services; SQL, MySQL, MariaDB,
PostgreSQL, Aurora, Oracle?
Relational Database Services (RDS)
What AWS service consists of the following database services; SQL, MySQL, MariaDB,
PostgreSQL, Aurora, Oracle?
Relational Database Services (RDS)
What AWS service would you use primarily for data warehousing?
Redshift
What AWS service would you use primarily for data warehousing?
Redshift
What AWS service is used for collating large amounts of data streamed from multiple
sources?
Kinesis