A solutions architect needs to store backup files that must be retrievable within 5 minutes. The files are accessed rarely, but the organization wants to minimize storage costs. Which Amazon S3 storage class is the MOST appropriate?

S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)

A company runs workloads for three internal departments (Finance, Marketing, Engineering) in a single AWS account. The finance team wants to see a monthly breakdown of S3 storage costs per department and receive an alert if any department's spending exceeds its budget. The company already uses Cost Explorer. What should the company do to meet these requirements?

Use the AWS Cost and Usage Report to generate a report and manually filter by bucket name each month.

Create a separate AWS account for each department and use consolidated billing.

Enable S3 server access logging and analyze the logs with Amazon Athena.

Activate cost allocation tags on the S3 buckets, apply department tags to each bucket, and create AWS Budgets with tag-based filters.

What is the primary goal of data lifecycle management?

To ensure data is encrypted at all times

To replicate data to multiple regions for high availability

To reduce storage costs by moving data to appropriate tiers and deleting unneeded data

To provide real-time analytics on data

A company runs a high-performance computing (HPC) workload that requires a high-speed, POSIX-compliant file system with sub-millisecond latencies. The workload is compute-intensive and uses Linux-based EC2 instances. The company wants to minimize storage costs while meeting the performance requirements. Which storage solution should the company use?

Use Amazon S3 with S3 Transfer Acceleration.

Use EBS io2 Block Express volumes attached to each instance.

A company needs a fully managed Windows file server in the cloud for their Windows-based applications. Which AWS service should they use?

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

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Domain 4Objective 1

Task 4.1: Design Cost-Optimized Storage Solutions SAA-C03 Practice Questions (Page 3)

Part of the Design Cost-Optimized Architectures domain, which makes up ~31% of our current practice bank. AWS does not publish an official question count, but from its 130-minute exam (~50–85 total, ~16–26 in this domain), expect 4–7 from this objective — we provide 72 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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29concepts

29 Concepts in This Objective

S3 Requester Pays
Cost Allocation Tags
Multi-Account Billing
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Budgets
AWS Cost and Usage Report
Amazon S3 Use Cases
Amazon EBS Use Cases
Amazon EFS Use Cases
Amazon FSx Use Cases
Backup Strategies
EBS Volume Types
S3 Lifecycle Policies
Data Lifecycle Management
AWS DataSync
AWS Transfer Family
AWS Storage Gateway
Storage Access Patterns
Storage Tiering
Storage Types Characteristics
Batch vs Individual Uploads
Storage Sizing
Lowest Cost Data Transfer
Storage Auto Scaling
S3 Object Lifecycle Management
Backup and Archival Selection
Data Migration Service Selection
Storage Tier Selection
Cost-Effective Storage Service

Questions 11–15

11foundation · easy
A solutions architect needs to store backup files that must be retrievable within 5 minutes. The files are accessed rarely, but the organization wants to minimize storage costs. Which Amazon S3 storage class is the MOST appropriate?
Select an answer first
12application · medium
A company runs workloads for three internal departments (Finance, Marketing, Engineering) in a single AWS account. The finance team wants to see a monthly breakdown of S3 storage costs per department and receive an alert if any department's spending exceeds its budget. The company already uses Cost Explorer. What should the company do to meet these requirements?
Select an answer first
13foundation · easy
What is the primary goal of data lifecycle management?
Select an answer first
14application · medium
A company runs a high-performance computing (HPC) workload that requires a high-speed, POSIX-compliant file system with sub-millisecond latencies. The workload is compute-intensive and uses Linux-based EC2 instances. The company wants to minimize storage costs while meeting the performance requirements. Which storage solution should the company use?
Select an answer first
15foundation · easy
A company needs a fully managed Windows file server in the cloud for their Windows-based applications. Which AWS service should they use?
Select an answer first

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A solutions architect needs to store backup files that must be retrievable within 5 minutes. The files are accessed rarely, but the organization wants to minimize storage costs. Which Amazon S3 storage class is the MOST appropriate?

What is the primary goal of data lifecycle management?

A company needs a fully managed Windows file server in the cloud for their Windows-based applications. Which AWS service should they use?

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