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AWS Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 practice exam

65
questions
130
minutes
72%
to pass the practice exam
889
questions in the bank

Short answer

The AWS Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 practice exam has 65 questions in 130 minutes, with a 72% passing mark, as configured here. The fastest way to know whether you are ready is to sit a full exam on the clock and read your score by domain, not only the total.

Domains covered

  • Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
  • Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures
  • Domain 2: Design Resilient Architectures
  • Domain 1: Design Secure Architectures

Sample questions, with explanations

Three questions from the bank, open to read.

Question 1 · Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures

A marketing company wants to use AWS to process and analyze large volumes of customer data for targeted advertising campaigns. Which of the following options is the best way to improve the performance of a marketing company's customer data processing system on AWS while taking into account trade-offs with eventual consistency?

  1. Implement caching data to store frequently accessed data in memory, but update or invalidate the cached data regularly to avoid incorrect system behavior ✓ (correct)
  2. Migrate data to shared storage to reduce total storage requirements
  3. Evaluate potential performance-related improvements when a performance issue has reached a critical point
  4. Measure the impacts to the system and the user experience from trade-offs ✓ (correct)
Why this is correct

Caching data can improve the performance of the system while ensuring eventual consistency by regularly updating or invalidating the cached data. Measuring the impacts to the system and the user experience from trade-offs is important to ensure that the trade-offs are consistent with the workload requirements.

Question 2 · Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

A financial services company wants to run a highly available and secure infrastructure to process financial transactions. When considering data migration to storage services, what is the best practice for minimizing the resources provisioned while supporting your workload?

  1. Store data files in efficient file formats such as Parquet to prevent unnecessary processing ✓ (correct)
  2. Use energy-intensive, archival-class storage for infrequently accessed data
  3. Use technologies that do not work natively with compressed data
  4. Analyze your data access and storage patterns ✓ (correct)
Why this is correct

Storing data files in efficient file formats such as Parquet enables the workload to minimize data processing and storage requirements. Analyzing data access and storage patterns is a key best practice for selecting storage that best supports how the data is accessed and stored.

Question 3 · Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

A media company wants to store large amounts of data that will be used for thier applications When implementing a scale-out architecture to distribute traffic across multiple resources or services, which load balancer is best suited for load balancing of HTTP and HTTPS traffic?

  1. Amazon Route 53
  2. AWS Global Accelerator
  3. Application Load Balancer ✓ (correct)
  4. Network Load Balancer
Why this is correct

Application Load Balancer is best suited for load balancing of HTTP and HTTPS traffic and provides advanced request routing targeted at the delivery of modern application architectures, including microservices and containers.

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  • Score by domain and a review of every question
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Frequently asked questions

How many questions does the AWS Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 practice exam have?

It has 65 questions and a 130-minute limit. The passing mark of the practice exam is 72%.

Is this the official AWS Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 exam?

No. It is an independent practice exam built to match the structure of the real one. It does not replace the official exam.

Do I need an account to take it?

You can read the structure and sample questions without an account. Taking the full timed exam, scoring by domain and the AI tutor need one.