AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) Practice Test

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Build your confidence for AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03). Practice the concepts, understand the answers, and strengthen your knowledge one question at a time.

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Certification exam
65 Exam questions
2 hours 10 minutes Time Limit
Associate Level
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299 Practice questions
4 hours 59 minutes Practice Time
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Exam overview and details

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) assesses the design of secure, resilient, high-performing and cost-optimized AWS architectures. The official guide assigns those areas 30%, 26%, 24% and 20% of scored content respectively. Use this independent practice bank to examine architectural tradeoffs; a correct answer should satisfy the scenario's constraints, not merely name a familiar AWS service.

Sample Questions

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Design Resilient Architectures

The main advantage of decoupling an application is _________.

Database Selection

A research company is developing a data lake solution to analyze huge datasets in Amazon S3. The solution makes only infrequent SQL queries. Which AWS service should be used to minimize infrastructure costs?

Networking

Choose two NAT devices that are offered by AWS.

EC2 and Compute

You have an EC2 instance running a web application. You’ve lately seen large increases in traffic and the application is responding slowly several times a day. Choose two BEST steps to take to ensure consistent performance.

Database Selection

Choose two things you can select when creating an RDS instance.

Exam insights and study advice

Before choosing an architecture, record its availability target, data-access pattern, security boundary and operational constraints. Then explain why the closest alternative fails one of those requirements. For a missed question, draw the request and data flow and identify a failure point. Revisit the relevant AWS documentation before attempting the question again.

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What this exam covers

Use the published domain weights to plan your study. Practice results do not predict your certification exam score.

01Design Secure Architectures

30%

02Design Resilient Architectures

26%

03Design High-Performing Architectures

24%

04Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

20%

Exam Details SAA-C03 | $150 USD | 2 hours 10 minutes

Exam Code SAA-C03
Vendor AWS
Exam Cost $150 USD
Passing Score 720/1000
Time Limit 2 hours 10 minutes
Exam questions 65
Question TypesMultiple Choice, Multiple Response
Retake Policy After first failed attempt: 14-day waiting period. After each subsequent failed attempt: additional 14-day waiting period. No limit on total attempts.
Exam Format Linear
Online Proctoring Available
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