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What is an AWS Region? .....ANSWER..... A geographic area
hosting an AWS Data Center. This would be like a city or state
like Oregon for example
What is an AZ? .....ANSWER..... Availability Zone which are
different locations within an AWS Region that are all physically
separate from other locations in case of disaster
What are AWS Edge Centers? .....ANSWER..... AWS Data
Centers that allow you to deploy applications close to your
customers for the lowest latency possible
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What is the difference between AWS AZ Name and ID?
.....ANSWER..... The ID is the one that actually traces back to a
specific AZ. The name can link to a different account depending
on account
What is the shared responsibility model? .....ANSWER..... It means
that security and compliance are shared between the customer
and AWS
What is the customer responsible for security wise?
.....ANSWER..... Security in the cloud like encrypting and backing
up customer data, authentication/authorization and managing
OS, firewall and network configurations
What is AWS responsible security wise? .....ANSWER..... Security
of the cloud like software of the services, physical security &
infra redundancy, hardware maintenance and global infra
What is the well architected framework? .....ANSWER..... Set of
principles to apply to all AWS infra
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Operational Excellence
Security
Cost Optimization
Reliability
Performance Efficiency
Sustainability
What does Operational Excellence mean? .....ANSWER..... It's
looking at whether your architecture works and will continue to
work
So you need to support development, gain insights into
development, continuously improve to deliver value and run
workloads efficiently
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What is included in reliability? .....ANSWER..... The ability for
your workload to perform correctly and consistently at all times
and be easily tested
What is included in performance efficiency? .....ANSWER..... The
ability to remove bottlenecks and reduce waste which includes
using the correct computing resources and maintain efficiency
with scaling demands
What is High Availability? .....ANSWER..... Design systems to
remain operational for a long time and failures result in minimal
downtime or brief interruptions. 99.99% uptime is the goal
What is Fault Tolerance? .....ANSWER..... Design systems to
continue to operate normally even if one or more components
fail. 100% uptime is the goal
What is RTO? .....ANSWER..... Recovery Time Objective which is
the max acceptable system recovery time after failure or outage
AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam and Practice
Exam Newest 2025 Test Bank| Complete 500 Real
Exam Questions and Correct Verified Answers/ Graded
A+| AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam Review
2025 (Brand New!!)
What is an AWS Region? .....ANSWER..... A geographic area
hosting an AWS Data Center. This would be like a city or state
like Oregon for example
What is an AZ? .....ANSWER..... Availability Zone which are
different locations within an AWS Region that are all physically
separate from other locations in case of disaster
What are AWS Edge Centers? .....ANSWER..... AWS Data
Centers that allow you to deploy applications close to your
customers for the lowest latency possible
,Page 2 of 281
What is the difference between AWS AZ Name and ID?
.....ANSWER..... The ID is the one that actually traces back to a
specific AZ. The name can link to a different account depending
on account
What is the shared responsibility model? .....ANSWER..... It means
that security and compliance are shared between the customer
and AWS
What is the customer responsible for security wise?
.....ANSWER..... Security in the cloud like encrypting and backing
up customer data, authentication/authorization and managing
OS, firewall and network configurations
What is AWS responsible security wise? .....ANSWER..... Security
of the cloud like software of the services, physical security &
infra redundancy, hardware maintenance and global infra
What is the well architected framework? .....ANSWER..... Set of
principles to apply to all AWS infra
,Page 3 of 281
Operational Excellence
Security
Cost Optimization
Reliability
Performance Efficiency
Sustainability
What does Operational Excellence mean? .....ANSWER..... It's
looking at whether your architecture works and will continue to
work
So you need to support development, gain insights into
development, continuously improve to deliver value and run
workloads efficiently
, Page 4 of 281
What is included in reliability? .....ANSWER..... The ability for
your workload to perform correctly and consistently at all times
and be easily tested
What is included in performance efficiency? .....ANSWER..... The
ability to remove bottlenecks and reduce waste which includes
using the correct computing resources and maintain efficiency
with scaling demands
What is High Availability? .....ANSWER..... Design systems to
remain operational for a long time and failures result in minimal
downtime or brief interruptions. 99.99% uptime is the goal
What is Fault Tolerance? .....ANSWER..... Design systems to
continue to operate normally even if one or more components
fail. 100% uptime is the goal
What is RTO? .....ANSWER..... Recovery Time Objective which is
the max acceptable system recovery time after failure or outage
