SAP-C02 Amazon Web Services AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)
Prepare effectively for your Amazon Web Services SAP-C02 AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional certification with our extensive collection of free, high-quality practice questions. Each question is designed to mirror the actual exam format and objectives, complete with comprehensive answers and detailed explanations. Our materials are regularly updated for 2025, ensuring you have the most current resources to build confidence and succeed on your first attempt.
A company wants to run a custom network analysis software package to inspect traffic as traffic leaves and enters a VPC. The company has deployed the solution by using AWS Cloud Formation on three Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. All network routing has been established to direct traffic to the EC2 instances.
Whenever the analysis software stops working, the Auto Scaling group replaces an instance. The network routes are not updated when the instance replacement occurs.
Which combination of steps will resolve this issue? {Select THREE.)
A company is rearchitecting its applications to run on AWS. The company's infrastructure includes multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The company's development team needs different levels of access. The company wants to implement a policy that requires all Windows EC2 instances to be joined to an Active Directory domain on AWS. The company also wants to Implement enhanced security processes such as multi-factor authentication (MFA). The company wants to use managed AWS services wherever possible.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has developed a hybrid solution between its data center and AWS. The company uses Amazon VPC and Amazon EC2 instances that send application togs to Amazon CloudWatch. The EC2 instances read data from multiple relational databases that are hosted on premises.
The company wants to monitor which EC2 instances are connected to the databases in near-real time. The company already has a monitoring solution that uses Splunk on premises. A solutions architect needs to determine how to send networking traffic to Splunk.
How should the solutions architect meet these requirements?
A company has multiple AWS accounts. The company recently had a security audit that revealed many unencrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes attached to Amazon EC2 instances.
A solutions architect must encrypt the unencrypted volumes and ensure that unencrypted volumes will be detected automatically in the future. Additionally, the company wants a solution that can centrally manage multiple AWS accounts with a focus on compliance and security.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company hosts an application on AWS. The application reads and writes objects that are stored in a single Amazon S3 bucket. The company must modify the application to deploy the application in two AWS Regions.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company uses Amazon S3 to store files and images in a variety of storage classes. The company's S3 costs have increased substantially during the past year.
A solutions architect needs to review data trends for the past 12 months and identity the appropriate storage class for the objects.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has a web application that uses Amazon API Gateway. AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB A recent marketing campaign has increased demand Monitoring software reports that many requests have significantly longer response times than before the marketing campaign
A solutions architect enabled Amazon CloudWatch Logs for API Gateway and noticed that errors are occurring on 20% of the requests. In CloudWatch. the Lambda function. Throttles metric represents 1% of the requests and the Errors metric represents 10% of the requests Application logs indicate that, when errors occur there is a call to DynamoDB
What change should the solutions architect make to improve the current response times as the web application becomes more popular'?
A research center is migrating to the AWS Cloud and has moved its on-premises 1 PB object storage to an Amazon S3 bucket. One hundred scientists are using this object storage to store their work-related documents. Each scientist has a personal folder on the object store. All the scientists are members of a single IAMuser group.
The research center's compliance officer is worried that scientists will be able to access each other's work. The research center has a strict obligation to report on which scientist accesses which documents.
The team that is responsible for these reports has little AWS experience and wants a ready-to-use solution that minimizes operational overhead.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage a multi-account structure. The company has hundreds of AWS accounts and expects the number of accounts to increase. The company is building a new application that uses Docker images. The company will push the Docker images to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). Only accounts that are within the company's organization should have
access to the images.
The company has a CI/CD process that runs frequently. The company wants to retain all the tagged images. However, the company wants to retain only the five most recent untagged images.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is planning to migrate an on-premises data center to AWS. The company currently hosts the data center on Linux-based VMware VMs. A solutions architect must collect information about network dependencies between the VMs. The information must be in the form of a diagram that details host IP addresses, hostnames, and network connection information.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A flood monitoring agency has deployed more than 10.000 water-level monitoring sensors. Sensors send continuous data updates, and each update is less than 1 MB in size. The agency has a fleet of on-premises application servers. These servers receive upda.es 'on the sensors, convert the raw data into a human readable format, and write the results loan on-premises relational database server. Data analysts then use simple SOL queries to monitor the data.
The agency wants to increase overall application availability and reduce the effort that is required to perform maintenance tasks These maintenance tasks, which include updates and patches to the application servers, cause downtime. While an application server is down, data is lost from sensors because the remaining servers cannot handle the entire workload.
The agency wants a solution that optimizes operational overhead and costs. A solutions architect recommends the use of AWS loT Core to collect the sensor data.
What else should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A finance company is running its business-critical application on current-generation Linux EC2 instances The application includes a self-managed MySQL database performing heavy I/O operations. The application is working fine to handle a moderate amount of traffic during the month. However, it slows down during the final three days of each month due to month-end reporting, even though the company is using Elastic Load Balancers and Auto Scaling within its infrastructure to meet the increased demand.
Which of the following actions would allow the database to handle the month-end load with the LEAST impact on performance?
A company built an application based on AWS Lambda deployed in an AWS CloudFormation stack. The last production release of the web application introduced an issue that resulted in an outage lasting several minutes. A solutions architect must adjust the deployment process to support a canary release.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has its cloud infrastructure on AWS A solutions architect needs to define the infrastructure as code. The infrastructure is currently deployed in one AWS Region. The company's business expansion plan includes deployments in multiple Regions across multiple AWS accounts
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
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A solutions architect is importing a VM from an on-premises environment by using the Amazon EC2 VM Import feature. The imported instance has a public IP and runs in a public subnet in a VPC. However, the instance doesnot appearin the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) console as a managed instance.
Which combination of steps should the architect take to resolve the issue? (Select TWO.)
A company has a website that runs on four Amazon EC2 instances that are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). When the ALB detects that an EC2 instance is no longer available, an Amazon CloudWatch alarm enters the ALARM state. A member of the company's operations team then manually adds a new EC2 instance behind the ALB.
A solutions architect needs to design a highly available solution that automatically handles the replacement of EC2 instances. The company needs to minimize downtime during the switch to the new solution.
Which set of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements?
An international delivery company hosts a delivery management system on AWS. Drivers use the system to upload confirmation of delivery. Confirmation includes the recipient's signature or a photo of the package with the recipient. The driver's handheld device uploads signatures and photos through FTP to a single Amazon EC2 instance. Each handheld device saves a file in a directory based on the signed-in user, and the file name matches the delivery number. The EC2 instance then adds metadata to the file after querying a central database to pull delivery information. The file is then placed in Amazon S3 for archiving.
As the company expands, drivers report that the system is rejecting connections. The FTP server is having problems because of dropped connections and memory issues. In response to these problems, a system engineer schedules a cron task to reboot the EC2 instance every 30 minutes. The billing team reports that files are not always in the archive and that the central system is not always updated.
A solutions architect needs to design a solution that maximizes scalability to ensure that the archive always receives the files and that systems are always updated. The handheld devices cannot be modified, so the company cannot deploy a new application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is migrating internal business applications to Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS in a VPC. The migration requires connecting the cloud-based applications to the on-premises internal network. The company wants to set up an AWS 5ite-to-5ite VPN connection. The company has created two separate customer gateways. The gateways are configured for static routing and have been assigned distinct public IP addresses.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses AWS Organizations with a single OU named Production to manage multiple accounts All accounts are members of the Production OU Administrators use deny list SCPs in the root of the organization to manage access to restricted services.
The company recently acquired a new business unit and invited the new unit's existing AWS account to the organization Once onboarded the administrators of the new business unit discovered that they are not able to update existing AWS Config rules to meet the company's policies.
Which option will allow administrators to make changes and continue to enforce the current policies without introducing additional long-term maintenance?
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An application uses CloudFront, App Runner, and two S3 buckets — one for static assets and one for user-uploaded content. User content is infrequently accessed after 30 days. Users are located only in Europe.
How can the companyoptimize cost?
A company has many services running in its on-premises data center. The data center is connected to AWS using AWS Direct Connect (DX)and an IPsec VPN. The service data is sensitive and connectivity cannot traverse the interne. The company wants to expand to a new market segment and begin offering Is services to other companies that are using AWS.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is building a hybrid environment that includes servers in an on-premises data center and in the AWS Cloud. The company has deployed Amazon EC2 instances in three VPCs. Each VPC is in a different AWS Region. The company has established an AWS Direct Connect connection to the data center from the Region that is closest to the data center.
The company needs the servers in the on-premises data center to have access to the EC2 instances in all three VPCs. The servers in the on-premises data center also must have access to AWS public services.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST cost? (Select TWO.)
A company is implementing a serverless architecture by using AWS Lambda functions that need to access a Microsoft SQL Server DB instance on Amazon RDS. The company has separate environments for development and production, including a clone of the database system.
The company's developers are allowed to access the credentials for the development database. However, the credentials for the production database must be encrypted with a key that only members of the IT security team's IAM user group can access. This key must be rotated on a regular basis.
What should a solutions architect do in the production environment to meet these requirements?
A company has five development teams that have each created five AWS accounts to develop and host applications. To track spending, the development teams log in to each account every month, record the current cost from the AWS Billing and Cost Management console, and provide the information to the company's finance team.
The company has strict compliance requirements and needs to ensure that resources are created only in AWS Regions in the United States. However, some resources have been created in other Regions.
A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that gives the finance team the ability to track and consolidate expenditures for all the accounts. The solution also must ensure that the company can create resources only in Regions in the United States.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way? (Select THREE.)
A software as a service (SaaS) company uses AWS to host a service that is powered by AWS PrivateLink. The service consists of proprietary software that runs on three Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NL B). The instances are in private subnets in multiple Availability Zones in the eu-west-2 Region. All the company's customers are in eu-west-2.
However, the company now acquires a new customer in the us-east-I Region. The company creates a new VPC and new subnets in us-east-I. The company establishes
inter-Region VPC peering between the VPCs in the two Regions.
The company wants to give the new customer access to the SaaS service, but the company does not want to immediately deploy new EC2 resources in us-east-I
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs a content management application on a single Windows Amazon EC2 instance in a development environment. The application reads and writes static content to a 2 TB Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume that is attached to the instance as the root device. The company plans to deploy this application in production as a highly available and fault-tolerant solution that runs on at least three EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones.
A solutions architect must design a solution that joins all the instances that run the application to an Active Directory domain. The solution also must implement Windows ACLs to control access to file contents. The application always must maintain exactly the same content on all running instances at any given point in time.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST management overhead?
A company is deploying a new cluster for big data analytics on AWS. The cluster will run across many Linux Amazon EC2 instances that are spread across multiple Availability Zones.
All of the nodes in the cluster must have read and write access to common underlying file storage. The file storage must be highly available, must be resilient, must be compatible with the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX). and must accommodate high levels of throughput.
Which storage solution will meet these requirements?
A company has built a high performance computing (HPC) cluster in AWS tor a tightly coupled workload that generates a large number of shared files stored in Amazon EFS. The cluster was performing well when the number of Amazon EC2 instances in the cluster was 100. However, when the company increased the cluster size to 1,000 EC2 instances, overall performance was well below expectations.
Which collection of design choices should a solutions architect make to achieve the maximum performance from the HPC cluster? (Select THREE.)
A company hosts a blog post application on AWS using Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda. The application currently does not use
API keys to authorize requests. The API model is as follows:
GET/posts/[postid] to get post details
GET/users[userid] to get user details
GET/comments/[commentid] to get comments details
The company has noticed users are actively discussing topics in the comments section, and the company wants to increase user engagement by marking the comments appears in real time.
Which design should be used to reduce comment latency and improve user experience?
A company has multiple business units that each have separate accounts on AWS. Each business unit manages its own network with several VPCs that have CIDR ranges that overlap. The company’s marketing team has created a new internal application and wants to make the application accessible to all the other business units. The solution must use private IP addresses only.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?