Task 4.1: Design Cost-Optimized Storage Solutions SAA-C03 Practice Questions (Page 2)

Questions 6–10

1. 6expert · hard

   A company needs to back up 10 TB of on-premises file server data to AWS. The data changes frequently, and the company needs to be able to restore individual files quickly. The company also wants to keep 30 daily backups, 12 monthly backups, and 7 yearly backups for compliance. The company wants to minimize storage costs. Which backup strategy should the company use?

   • AUse AWS Backup with a backup plan that includes daily, monthly, and yearly rules, and store backups in S3 Standard.
   • BUse AWS Storage Gateway File Gateway to cache data on-premises and asynchronously upload to S3, then use S3 Lifecycle policies to transition older backups to S3 Glacier.
   • CUse EBS snapshots of an EC2 instance that mounts the on-premises data via NFS.
   • DUse AWS DataSync to copy data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive directly.
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2. 7foundation · easy

   A company needs to transfer 50 TB of on-premises data to Amazon S3, but the available network bandwidth is too low to complete the transfer within the required timeframe. Which AWS service is specifically designed for offline data transfer?

   • AAWS DataSync
   • BAWS Snowball Edge
   • CAWS Transfer Family
   • DAWS Storage Gateway
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4. 8foundation · easy

   A company wants to automatically move objects from S3 Standard to S3 Standard-IA after 30 days, then to S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval after 90 days. Which S3 Lifecycle action should be used?

   • AExpiration
   • BIntelligent-Tiering
   • CReplication
   • DTransition
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5. 9foundation · easy

   What is the primary benefit of storage tiering in Amazon S3?

   • AIncreasing data durability by replicating to multiple regions
   • BReducing storage costs by moving data to cheaper tiers as it becomes less frequently accessed
   • CEnhancing security by encrypting data at rest
   • DImproving data transfer speed for large files
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6. 10expert · hard

   A company needs to perform a detailed analysis of its AWS spending, including the ability to break down costs by resource, tag, and usage type. The company also wants to use Amazon Athena to query the data. The finance team wants to see daily updates. Which approach should the company use?

   • AEnable S3 server access logging and query the logs with Athena.
   • BUse AWS Budgets to export cost data to S3 for Athena queries.
   • CUse Cost Explorer's API to export data to S3 and query it with Athena.
   • DEnable the AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) and deliver it to an S3 bucket, then query it with Athena.
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