AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate Questions and Answers
200 questions organized by topic with detailed explanations
AWS
SOA-C03
200 questions
5 topics
Updated May 2026Monitoring, Logging, Analysis, Remediation, and Performance Optimization
45 questions14 easy21 medium10 hard~22% of exam
A Multi-AZ Amazon RDS database must fail over with minimal client disruption and without waiting for DNS propagation to ...Users around the world upload large files to a single S3 bucket, and upload performance is poor over long distances. Whi...An operations team needs to interactively search and analyze application log data across log groups to investigate an in...
Reliability and Business Continuity
44 questions12 easy20 medium12 hard~22% of exam
A company wants a backup plan to apply automatically to all production resources that share the same AWS tag. Which AWS ...A company wants DNS to route traffic to a primary endpoint while it is healthy and automatically switch to a secondary e...Versioning is enabled on an S3 bucket. A user deletes an object without specifying a version ID. What happens?
Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation
43 questions12 easy21 medium10 hard~22% of exam
A company wants to deploy the same baseline infrastructure to many AWS accounts and Regions from a single template while...An administrator account defines a CloudFormation template that will be provisioned into selected target accounts in sev...An engineer says a CloudFormation change set proves that an update will succeed in production because it already preview...
Security and Compliance
32 questions8 easy15 medium9 hard~16% of exam
An application creates IAM roles and immediately depends on those changes in a critical high-availability request path. ...Amazon Inspector reports a vulnerability on an EC2 instance. Under which condition can Inspector lower its environment-s...A security team wants to identify S3 buckets and IAM roles that are shared with principals outside the account or organi...
Networking and Content Delivery
36 questions8 easy20 medium8 hard~18% of exam
All Questions
| # | Question | Topic | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A company wants private connectivity from instances in private subnets to a supported AWS service wi... | Networking and Content Delivery | medium |
| 2 | Which statement about VPC network ACLs is correct? | Networking and Content Delivery | easy |
| 3 | A Multi-AZ Amazon RDS database must fail over with minimal client disruption and without waiting for... | Monitoring, Logging, Analysis, Remediation, and Performance Optimization | hard |
| 4 | Users around the world upload large files to a single S3 bucket, and upload performance is poor over... | Monitoring, Logging, Analysis, Remediation, and Performance Optimization | medium |
| 5 | A company wants a backup plan to apply automatically to all production resources that share the same... | Reliability and Business Continuity | medium |
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