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Question 1easymultiple choice
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A team needs to distribute TCP traffic (not HTTP) across multiple services. The services must see the original client source IP for auditing. Which AWS load balancer is the best fit?

Question 2easymultiple choice
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A team wants to run containerized services with AWS-managed orchestration and autoscaling. They do NOT require Kubernetes compatibility. Which AWS service choice is most appropriate to meet these goals?

Question 3mediummultiple choice
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A solutions architect is designing an S3 bucket for a IoT ingestion API. The objects must never be publicly accessible, even if a developer later adds an overly broad bucket policy. What should the architect configure? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

Question 4mediummultiple choice
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A solutions architect is designing an S3 bucket for a claims portal. The objects must never be publicly accessible, even if a developer later adds an overly broad bucket policy. What should the architect configure?

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A team wants to delegate IAM management to developers, but must ensure developers can never grant themselves permissions beyond a specific limit. Which AWS mechanism best matches this requirement?

Question 6mediummultiple choice
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A solutions architect is designing an S3 bucket for a healthcare document service. The objects must never be publicly accessible, even if a developer later adds an overly broad bucket policy. What should the architect configure?

Question 7mediummultiple choice
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A team wants to remove a bastion host used for administrative access to EC2 instances in private subnets. The instances should be reachable only for occasional troubleshooting by engineers who authenticate with AWS SSO. What is the best secure alternative within AWS, assuming the instances already have an instance profile attached?

Question 8mediummultiple choice
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A team wants to remove a bastion host used for administrative access to EC2 instances in private subnets. The instances should be reachable only for occasional troubleshooting by engineers who authenticate with AWS SSO. What is the best secure alternative within AWS, assuming the instances already have an instance profile attached?

Question 9mediummultiple choice
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A solutions architect is designing an S3 bucket for a claims portal. The objects must never be publicly accessible, even if a developer later adds an overly broad bucket policy. What should the architect configure? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

Question 10mediummultiple choice
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A solutions architect is designing an S3 bucket for a IoT ingestion API. The objects must never be publicly accessible, even if a developer later adds an overly broad bucket policy. What should the architect configure?

Question 11easymultiple choice
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You want to protect an Application Load Balancer (ALB) from common web exploits using AWS WAF. The application is not using CloudFront. Which AWS WAF deployment scope should you choose so the WAF rules apply to the ALB?

Question 12mediummultiple choice
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A solutions architect is designing an S3 bucket for a healthcare document service. The objects must never be publicly accessible, even if a developer later adds an overly broad bucket policy. What should the architect configure? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

Question 13mediummulti select
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A team is splitting a new workload into two fronts. The first front serves HTTPS microservices that need host- and path-based routing plus health checks. The second front must handle TCP and UDP traffic for a real-time service and preserve static IP addresses for firewall allowlisting. Which two AWS load balancer choices best match these requirements? Select two.

Question 14easymultiple choice
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You need to run batch jobs on EC2. The jobs can tolerate interruptions: if an instance is terminated, the job can restart from checkpoints. To reduce compute cost as much as possible, what is the best choice?

Question 15easymultiple 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?

Question 16mediummultiple choice
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A batch analytics job has unpredictable DynamoDB traffic with long idle periods and occasional spikes. Which capacity mode should minimize operational overhead and avoid paying for idle provisioned capacity? The architecture review board prefers a managed AWS-native control.

Question 17hardmultiple choice
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A claims workflow uses Amazon SQS. Poison messages are repeatedly failing and blocking useful retries. What should the architect configure?

Question 18hardmultiple choice
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A claims workflow uses Amazon SQS. Poison messages are repeatedly failing and blocking useful retries. What should the architect configure? The architecture review board prefers a managed AWS-native control.

Question 19hardmultiple choice
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A claims workflow uses Amazon SQS. Poison messages are repeatedly failing and blocking useful retries. What should the architect configure? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

Question 20mediummultiple choice
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A claims workflow uses an RDS MySQL database and must remain available during an Availability Zone failure with minimal application changes. What should the architect enable?

Question 21hardmultiple choice
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A claims workflow uses Amazon SQS. Poison messages are repeatedly failing and blocking useful retries. What should the architect configure? The team wants the control to be enforceable during normal operations.

Question 22mediummultiple choice
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A claims workflow uses an RDS MySQL database and must remain available during an Availability Zone failure with minimal application changes. What should the architect enable? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

Question 23mediummultiple choice
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A company hosts a image sharing application on EC2. Administrators must connect without opening SSH or RDP ports to the internet. What should the architect use?

Question 24mediummultiple choice
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A company hosts a image sharing application on EC2. Administrators must connect without opening SSH or RDP ports to the internet. What should the architect use? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

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Quick answer

Routing questions usually test route selection (administrative distance, metric), how static routes are configured and when they are preferred over dynamic routing.

Administrative distance comparing routing sources.

Static route configuration: next-hop vs exit interface.

Default route propagation and the gateway of last resort.

Recursive routing table lookups.

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