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SAA-C03 SAA-C03 practice test

Use this page to practise SAA-C03 SAA-C03 practice test. The goal is not to memorise dumps, but to understand the concept, review the explanation and improve your exam readiness. AWS certification exams usually test architecture trade-offs: service selection, resilience, cost, security, networking and operations. Courseiva helps you practise those decisions through original scenario-based questions.

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How to use this SAA-C03 practice test

Start with a short practice session, review each missed answer, then return to the topics that caused mistakes.

Quick answer

Cloud concepts questions usually test the service model (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS) and deployment model (public/private/hybrid/community) appropriate for a given scenario.

IaaS, PaaS and SaaS responsibilities and examples.

Public, private, hybrid and community cloud deployment models.

On-premises vs cloud trade-offs: cost, control, scalability.

How cloud connectivity options (VPN, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute) work.

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Sample questions from this exam

Question 1easymultiple choice
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A company runs Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets. Those instances only need to access Amazon S3 (read/write) and Amazon DynamoDB. The VPC currently routes all outbound traffic through a NAT Gateway, increasing monthly cost. What change most directly reduces NAT Gateway usage for these AWS services?

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Question 2mediummulti select
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A payment worker consumes messages from an Amazon SQS queue. Sometimes the worker finishes the payment creation, but a timeout prevents message deletion and the same payment request is delivered again. Which two design changes best reduce the risk of duplicate charges and keep bad messages from looping forever? Select two.

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Question 3easymultiple choice
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A website serves versioned JavaScript and CSS files through CloudFront, but origin fetches are still high and the CloudFront bill increased. Developers confirm that URLs include a version in the filename (for example, app.1.4.2.js). What CloudFront behavior/configuration is most likely to reduce origin fetches and associated costs?

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Question 4mediummulti select
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An internal API is deployed in two AWS Regions behind separate Application Load Balancers. The company wants clients to use the primary Region when it is healthy and automatically switch to the secondary Region if the primary health check fails. Which two Route 53 record configurations are required? Select two.

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Question 5mediummultiple choice
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A static marketing site is served through CloudFront from an S3 origin. After a product update, customers report a drop in CloudFront cache hit ratio and the CloudFront bill increases because the origin is receiving many more requests for the same JS/CSS assets. Asset URLs are versioned, but requests now include an Authorization header even though these assets are public. Which CloudFront change most directly improves the cache hit ratio for these assets?

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Question 6mediummulti select
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An application uses an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance. During a failover test, connections fail until the application is restarted, even though the database comes back online. Which two changes should the team make to improve resilience during failover? Select two.

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