AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Questions and Answers
200 questions organized by topic with detailed explanations
AWS
SAA-C03
200 questions
4 topics
Updated May 2026Design Secure Architectures
60 questions16 easy31 medium13 hard~30% of exam
A platform team wants developers to create IAM roles for applications but prevent those roles from ever receiving permis...EC2 instances must access an S3 bucket securely without hardcoding credentials into application code. What is the best a...A Lambda function needs to read from DynamoDB and write to S3. What is the correct way to grant these permissions?
Design Resilient Architectures
52 questions12 easy28 medium12 hard~26% of exam
A company needs a disaster recovery strategy that maintains a scaled-down but fully functional environment in another Re...A company stores critical data in S3 and requires automatic replication to another AWS Region for disaster recovery. Wha...An application requires a shared, POSIX-compliant file system that can be mounted concurrently from multiple EC2 instanc...
Design High-Performing Architectures
48 questions12 easy25 medium11 hard~24% of exam
An application on EC2 must automatically scale to maintain approximately 60% average CPU utilization. How should the arc...A read-heavy application repeatedly fetches the same database records, causing latency and database load. Which AWS serv...A company needs a private dedicated 1 Gbps connection from its data center to AWS for consistent, high-throughput perfor...
Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
40 questions11 easy18 medium11 hard~20% of exam
A fleet of EC2 application servers uses gp2 volumes today. The company wants to reduce storage cost while keeping strong...A global website serves mostly static assets from an Application Load Balancer and EC2 instances. Which change is most l...Application logs are stored in Amazon S3. After 90 days they are rarely accessed, but they must be retained for 7 years....
All Questions
| # | Question | Topic | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A fleet of EC2 application servers uses gp2 volumes today. The company wants to reduce storage cost ... | Design Cost-Optimized Architectures | medium |
| 2 | A platform team wants developers to create IAM roles for applications but prevent those roles from e... | Design Secure Architectures | medium |
| 3 | A company needs a disaster recovery strategy that maintains a scaled-down but fully functional envir... | Design Resilient Architectures | medium |
| 4 | An application on EC2 must automatically scale to maintain approximately 60% average CPU utilization... | Design High-Performing Architectures | medium |
| 5 | A read-heavy application repeatedly fetches the same database records, causing latency and database ... | Design High-Performing Architectures | medium |
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