Sample questions covering core AWS certification domains.
Source: AWS Skill Builder — official practice questions available after free registration.
| Exam | Official Practice |
|---|---|
| All AWS certs | AWS Skill Builder — Official Practice Exams (free + paid) |
| Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) | SAA-C03 Practice Set |
| AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) | AIF-C01 Practice Set |
| GenAI Developer (AIP-C01) | AIP-C01 Practice Set |
| Domain | Weight |
|---|---|
| Design Resilient Architectures | 26% |
| Design High-Performing Architectures | 24% |
| Design Secure Architectures | 30% |
| Design Cost-Optimized Architectures | 20% |
Source: AWS SAA-C03 Exam Guide
Q1. A company needs a storage solution for frequently accessed data with the lowest latency. Which AWS service is most appropriate?
- A. Amazon S3 Standard
- B. Amazon EBS (gp3) ✅
- C. Amazon S3 Glacier
- D. Amazon EFS
Why B: EBS gp3 provides block storage with single-digit millisecond latency for EC2 workloads. S3 is object storage with higher latency.
Q2. An application must remain available if a single Availability Zone fails. What is the minimum architecture?
- A. Deploy in one AZ with Auto Scaling
- B. Deploy in two AZs behind an Application Load Balancer ✅
- C. Deploy in one AZ with a standby instance
- D. Use CloudFront to cache content globally
Why B: Multi-AZ deployment with an ALB is the standard pattern for AZ-level fault tolerance.
Q3. A company wants to decouple a producer application from a consumer application to handle traffic spikes. Which service is most appropriate?
- A. Amazon SNS
- B. Amazon SQS ✅
- C. Amazon EventBridge
- D. AWS Step Functions
Why B: SQS is a managed message queue that decouples producers from consumers and absorbs traffic spikes via buffering.
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