AWSCertified Solutions Architect - Associate
Domain 3Objective 2
Task 3.2: Design High-Performing and Elastic Compute Solutions SAA-C03 Practice Questions (Page 6)
Part of the Design High-Performing Architectures domain, which makes up ~30% of our current practice bank. AWS does not publish an official question count, but from its 130-minute exam (~50–85 total, ~15–26 in this domain), expect 3–5 from this objective — we provide 30 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 26–30
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A company has a microservices architecture where one service needs to notify other services about events without waiting for them to process. The company wants to decouple the services so they can scale independently. Which AWS service is best suited for this event-driven decoupling?
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A company wants to send a notification to multiple subscribers (e.g., email, SMS, and an HTTP endpoint) whenever a new file is uploaded to an S3 bucket. Which AWS service is designed for this publish/subscribe pattern?
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A company wants to run a containerized application without managing the underlying servers or clusters. The application has unpredictable traffic and needs to scale automatically. Which AWS service is a serverless compute option for running containers?
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A company runs a web application on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The application has a baseline load that requires 4 instances, but during flash sales it can require up to 20 instances for a few minutes. The company currently uses a target tracking policy based on average CPU utilization with a target of 50%. During flash sales, the scaling policy takes several minutes to add enough instances, causing performance degradation. The company wants to improve the scaling response time without over-provisioning. What should the company do?
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A company wants to deploy a web application in multiple AWS Regions to reduce latency for users around the world. Which AWS global infrastructure component is primarily used to route user traffic to the nearest application endpoint?
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