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Question 1 Design highly available architectures

Question 1: Design highly available architectures

A company runs a stateless web application on EC2. Which design provides the highest availability?

Question 2 Design cost-optimized storage

Question 2: Design cost-optimized storage

A company stores backups that must be kept for seven years and are almost never retrieved. Which S3 storage class minimizes cost?

Question 3 Design decoupled architectures

Question 3: Design decoupled architectures

To decouple a web tier from a slow processing tier so that traffic spikes do not overwhelm the backend, which service should be used?

Question 4 Design secure architectures

Question 4: Design secure architectures

What is the recommended way to grant an application running on EC2 access to DynamoDB?

Question 5 Design for performance with caching

Question 5: Design for performance with caching

A read-heavy application repeatedly queries the same data from an RDS database. Which service improves read performance most directly?

Question 6 Design resilient databases

Question 6: Design resilient databases

Which Amazon RDS feature provides a synchronously replicated standby in another Availability Zone for automatic failover?

Question 7 Design global content delivery

Question 7: Design global content delivery

To reduce latency for users worldwide accessing static website content, which service should an architect add?

Question 8 Design hybrid connectivity

Question 8: Design hybrid connectivity

A company needs a consistent, low-latency dedicated network connection between its data center and AWS. Which service should be used?

Question 9 Design serverless architectures

Question 9: Design serverless architectures

An architect needs to run a short data-processing task in response to file uploads without managing servers. Which service is most appropriate?

Question 10 Design for data durability

Question 10: Design for data durability

How many copies of an object does Amazon S3 maintain to achieve its high durability?

Question 11 Design scalable compute

Question 11: Design scalable compute

Which approach allows a fleet of EC2 instances to automatically add capacity during peak demand and remove it when demand falls?

Question 12 Design secure network architecture

Question 12: Design secure network architecture

An architect wants database instances to be unreachable from the internet. Where should they be placed?

Question 13 Design for disaster recovery

Question 13: Design for disaster recovery

Which disaster recovery strategy keeps a scaled-down but fully functional copy of the environment always running in a second region?

Question 14 Design cost-efficient compute

Question 14: Design cost-efficient compute

For a fault-tolerant batch processing job that can tolerate interruptions, which EC2 purchasing option offers the lowest cost?

Question 15 Design IAM access management

Question 15: Design IAM access management

A company has many AWS accounts and wants to centrally manage access and apply guardrails. Which service should be used?

Question 16 Design event-driven architecture

Question 16: Design event-driven architecture

Which service is best suited to fan out a single published message to multiple subscribing endpoints such as queues and functions?

Question 17 Design for elasticity

Question 17: Design for elasticity

Which characteristic best defines elasticity in a well-architected AWS solution?

Question 18 Design data migration

Question 18: Design data migration

A company must transfer 80 terabytes of data to AWS but has limited internet bandwidth. Which service is most appropriate?

Question 19 Design secure data encryption

Question 19: Design secure data encryption

Which AWS service manages the creation and control of encryption keys used to protect data across many AWS services?

Question 20 Design loosely coupled tiers

Question 20: Design loosely coupled tiers

Why should a load balancer be placed between a web tier and an Auto Scaling group of application servers?

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  • Review 3 real-world analogies, topic article cards, and source checks after each question so networking and security controls feel easier to recognize under pressure.
  • Build timing, confidence, and recall with scenario-based practice that feels closer to the real AWS Solutions Architect Associate than a generic flashcard quiz.

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