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Associate Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Flashcards

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  1. A financial services company must retain S3 objects for exactly 7 years and prevent anyone—including root users—from deleting them during that period. Which S3 feature enforces this?

    Answer: S3 Object Lock in COMPLIANCE mode

    S3 Object Lock COMPLIANCE mode prevents any user, including root, from deleting or overwriting objects until the retention period expires.

  2. A company has multiple AWS accounts and needs to centrally manage and enforce security policies across all of them. Which AWS service provides this capability?

    Answer: AWS Organizations with Service Control Policies (SCPs)

    AWS Organizations with SCPs allows central administrators to set maximum permission guardrails applied across all member accounts.

  3. An architect must design a solution where an EC2 instance's EBS root volume persists after the instance is terminated. What is the correct configuration?

    Answer: Set DeleteOnTermination to false for the root EBS volume

    Setting DeleteOnTermination to false on the root volume prevents EBS from deleting the volume when the EC2 instance is terminated.

  4. A read-heavy web application uses an RDS MySQL database. During peak hours, the primary database becomes a bottleneck. What is the recommended AWS solution to reduce read load?

    Answer: Create one or more RDS Read Replicas and direct read traffic to them

    RDS Read Replicas serve read queries, offloading the primary database and improving throughput for read-heavy workloads.

  5. A Solutions Architect is designing an application that must process exactly one million events per day with a peak throughput of 50,000 events per second. Which service is best suited for ingesting this stream?

    Answer: Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

    Kinesis Data Streams is designed for high-throughput real-time data ingestion, handling hundreds of thousands of records per second across multiple shards.

  6. A company wants to analyze its AWS CloudTrail logs stored in S3 using standard SQL without managing any infrastructure. Which service should be used?

    Answer: Amazon Athena

    Amazon Athena allows running SQL queries directly against data stored in S3 without provisioning or managing any compute infrastructure.

  7. A company deploys a stateless web application behind an Application Load Balancer. Users report that their session data is lost when they are routed to different instances. What is the recommended fix without introducing stickiness?

    Answer: Store session data in Amazon ElastiCache instead of in-memory on EC2

    Externalizing session data to ElastiCache makes the application truly stateless, allowing any instance to serve any request without session loss.