SAP-C02 Timed Practice Test 2 — 10 Questions

Question 1

A company runs a containerized application on Amazon ECS with Fargate. The application needs to securely access an Amazon S3 bucket. The company wants to follow the principle of least privilege. What should a solutions architect recommend?

10 minute time limit — choose an answer to begin.

Accepted Answer

Define an IAM task role with S3 access policies and reference it in the ECS task definition.. An IAM task role is the recommended mechanism for granting least-privilege permissions to ECS tasks using the Fargate launch type. The task role is defined in the ECS task definition and assumed by the container runtime, allowing the application to securely access the S3 bucket without embedding credentials. This approach follows AWS best practices by scoping permissions to the specific task rather than the underlying infrastructure.

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Attach an IAM role to the underlying EC2 instance.

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Assign an IAM role to the ECS service using the ECS service-linked role.

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Store AWS credentials in the container environment variables.

Question 2

A company is designing a new hybrid cloud architecture that extends on-premises storage to AWS. The solution must provide low-latency access to frequently accessed data and use AWS storage for backup. Which TWO services should be used together?

Accepted Answer

AWS Storage Gateway (File Gateway). AWS Storage Gateway (File Gateway) provides a low-latency, on-premises cache for frequently accessed data while asynchronously uploading the underlying data to Amazon S3 for durable backup. This hybrid architecture allows applications to access data with local file-system performance while leveraging S3 as the backup target, meeting both the low-latency and backup requirements.

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Amazon EFS

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AWS Snowball Edge

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AWS Direct Connect

Question 3

A company uses AWS Config to evaluate resource compliance across multiple accounts. The security team wants to automatically remediate non-compliant resources using AWS Systems Manager Automation documents. Which solution is MOST scalable and secure?

Accepted Answer

Enable AWS Config rules with automatic remediation using SSM Automation documents in each account, and use an AWS Config aggregator to monitor compliance across all accounts. It leverages AWS Config's native automatic remediation feature, which directly associates SSM Automation documents with Config rules to remediate non-compliant resources as soon as they are detected. This approach is scalable as it operates within each account without requiring custom Lambda functions or external triggers, and it is secure because remediation actions are defined and controlled by the SSM Automation documents, which can be centrally managed. The use of an AWS Config aggregator provides a single-pane-of-glass view across all accounts for monitoring compliance, meeting the security team's requirements efficiently.

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Create a Lambda function in each account that periodically checks Config rules and triggers remediation

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Set up Amazon CloudWatch Events rules in each account to detect Config compliance changes and invoke remediation Lambda functions

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Use AWS Organizations service control policies to automatically remediate non-compliant resources

Question 4

A company is designing a new CI/CD pipeline for a containerized application. They want to automatically build, test, and deploy the application to Amazon EKS. Which THREE AWS services should they use to implement this pipeline?

Accepted Answer

AWS CodePipeline. AWS CodePipeline is correct because it orchestrates the CI/CD workflow by integrating with other AWS services to automate the build, test, and deployment stages. For a containerized application on Amazon EKS, CodePipeline can pull source code from CodeCommit, trigger CodeBuild to build and test the Docker image, and then deploy the image to an EKS cluster using a deployment action or a custom action. This provides a fully managed, continuous delivery pipeline that automates the entire release process.

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AWS CloudFormation

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AWS CodeDeploy

Question 5

A company is designing a new application that will process streaming data from thousands of IoT devices. The data must be ingested in real time and then processed using Apache Flink. Which services should be used? (Choose TWO.)

Accepted Answer

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is the correct ingestion service because it provides a durable, scalable, real-time data streaming platform that can handle the high throughput from thousands of IoT devices. It stores data in shards for up to 365 days, enabling Apache Flink to consume and process the data with exactly-once semantics and low latency.

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AWS Lambda

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Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

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Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Question 6

A financial services company needs to store sensitive customer data in Amazon S3 with encryption at rest. They require that the encryption keys be stored in AWS CloudHSM and that the S3 bucket must not be able to access the keys without explicit permission. Which S3 encryption option should they use?

Accepted Answer

SSE-C. SSE-C (Server-Side Encryption with Customer-Provided Keys) is correct because it allows the customer to supply their own encryption keys, which can be stored in AWS CloudHSM, and S3 will use those keys to encrypt data at rest. With SSE-C, the customer manages the keys outside of AWS, and S3 cannot access the keys without explicit permission because the keys are provided per request and not stored by AWS. This meets the requirement of storing keys in CloudHSM and ensuring S3 has no independent access to them.

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SSE-S3

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Client-side encryption

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SSE-KMS

Question 7

A company is deploying a web application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The application must be accessible over HTTPS only and must automatically redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS. The SSL/TLS certificate is provided by AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). How should this be configured?

Accepted Answer

Configure the environment’s load balancer to listen on port 443 with the ACM certificate and port 80 with a redirect rule.. Elastic Beanstalk environments using a load balancer (ALB or CLB) can be configured to listen on port 443 with the ACM certificate for HTTPS termination, and simultaneously define a listener on port 80 with a redirect action that sends HTTP traffic to HTTPS. This is the simplest and most scalable approach, as it offloads SSL termination and redirection to the load balancer, eliminating the need to manage certificates or redirection logic on individual instances.

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Use a NAT instance to perform SSL termination and redirect.

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Install the certificate on each EC2 instance and configure the web server to redirect HTTP to HTTPS.

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Deploy a CloudFront distribution with the ACM certificate and redirect HTTP to HTTPS at the distribution level.

Question 8

A company is modernizing a monolithic application into microservices on AWS. The application currently uses a single SQL database. Which THREE AWS services can help decouple the data layer and enable event-driven communication between microservices?

Accepted Answer

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). Amazon SQS provides message queuing for async communication. Amazon SNS enables pub/sub messaging. Amazon EventBridge provides event bus for decoupled communication. Amazon RDS is a relational database, not for decoupling. Amazon ElastiCache is caching.

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Amazon RDS

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Amazon ElastiCache

Question 9

A company is migrating a critical application to AWS and needs to ensure business continuity during the migration. The application must remain available with minimal downtime. Which AWS service should be used to replicate data continuously?

Accepted Answer

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) with ongoing replication. AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) with ongoing replication can keep source and target databases in sync, allowing for minimal downtime during migration. Option A is wrong because AWS Direct Connect provides a dedicated network connection, not a replication service. Option C is wrong because Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration is for faster uploads to S3, not for database replication. Option D is wrong because AWS Snowball Edge is an offline data transfer device, not a continuous replication tool.

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AWS Direct Connect

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Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

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AWS Snowball Edge

Question 10

A company is using AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts. The security team requires that all newly created member accounts automatically have an AWS Config rule enabled that checks whether S3 buckets have default encryption enabled. Which solution should be used?

Accepted Answer

Use AWS CloudFormation StackSets with automatic deployment to deploy the AWS Config rule across all accounts in the organization.. AWS CloudFormation StackSets with automatic deployment can deploy the AWS Config rule across all accounts in an AWS Organization, including newly created member accounts, by targeting the root organizational unit (OU). This ensures that the Config rule is automatically enabled in new accounts as they are created, meeting the security team's requirement without manual intervention.

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Use an SCP in the root to require encryption on S3 buckets.

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Create an AWS Config rule in the management account and delegate an admin account to apply it to all member accounts.

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Configure AWS CloudTrail to automatically enable the AWS Config rule in new accounts.