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SAA-C03 – AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03)

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Question 4 (Exam Pool C)

A company recently migrated its entire IT environment to the AWS Cloud. The company discovers that users are provisioning oversized Amazon EC2 instances and modifying security group rules without using the appropriate change control process A solutions architect must devise a strategy to track and audit these inventory and configuration changes.

Which actions should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO )

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    Enable AWS CloudTrail and use it for auditing
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    Use data lifecycie policies for the Amazon EC2 instances
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    Enable AWS Trusted Advisor and reference the security dashboard
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    Enable AWS Config and create rules for auditing and compliance purposes
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    Restore previous resource configurations with an AWS CloudFormation template
Question 5 (Exam Pool C)

A company has deployed a database in Amazon RDS for MySQL. Due to increased transactions, the database support team is reporting slow reads against the DB instance and recommends adding a read replica.

Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take before implementing this change? (Choose two.)

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    Enable binlog replication on the RDS primary node.
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    Choose a failover priority for the source DB instance.
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    Allow long-running transactions to complete on the source DB instance.
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    Create a global table and specify the AWS Regions where the table will be available.
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    Enable automatic backups on the source instance by setting the backup retention period to a value other than 0.
Question 6 (Exam Pool C)

A company collects data from thousands of remote devices by using a RESTful web services application that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 instance receives the raw data, transforms the raw data, and stores all the data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The number of remote devices will increase into the millions soon. The company needs a highly scalable solution that minimizes operational overhead.

Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements9 (Select TWO.)

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    Use AWS Glue to process the raw data in Amazon S3.
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    Use Amazon Route 53 to route traffic to different EC2 instances.
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    Add more EC2 instances to accommodate the increasing amount of incoming data.
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    Send the raw data to Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS). Use EC2 instances to process the data.
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    Use Amazon API Gateway to send the raw data to an Amazon Kinesis data stream. Configure Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to use the data stream as a source to deliver the data to Amazon S3.