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You need to route traffic to Amazon EC2 instances based on URL paths (e.g., '/api' vs '/static'). Which load balancer type should you use?
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A company has a microservices architecture and wants to route requests to different target groups based on the URL path (e.g., /orders vs /users). Which load balancer type is best suited for this?
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Can an Application Load Balancer direct traffic to targets in different VPCs?
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What is 'Sticky Sessions' (Session Affinity) in the context of an ALB?
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Which ALB feature allows for serverless integration by routing requests to AWS Lambda functions?
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A company wants to authenticate users via Google or Facebook before they can access the application behind the ALB. How can this be done at the load balancer level?
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What is the purpose of 'Slow Start' mode in an ALB target group?
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To improve security, an architect wants the web servers in the private subnet to ONLY accept traffic from the ALB. What should be done?
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Does an Application Load Balancer support static IP addresses (Elastic IPs)?
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Which ALB listener rule type allows you to return a custom error page (e.g., 404) directly from the load balancer without forwarding the request to the target?
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Your high-traffic application requires ultra-low latency and needs to handle millions of requests per second at the network level. Which load balancer is best?
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An application requires an extremely high-performance load balancer that can handle millions of requests per second with ultra-low latency for TCP traffic. Which type should be chosen?
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What is a key difference between how NLB and ALB handle IP addresses?
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Can a Network Load Balancer terminate TLS (SSL) traffic?
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Which feature of NLB allows the backend server to see the original client IP address and port without using X-Forwarded-For headers?
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How does an NLB handle a situation where an entire Availability Zone becomes unavailable?
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Which load balancer should you use if you need to provide a single static IP address for your application's entry point?
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Is 'Cross-Zone Load Balancing' enabled by default for a Network Load Balancer?
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Can an NLB distribute traffic to targets outside of the VPC, such as on-premises servers via AWS Direct Connect?
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Which load balancer feature would you use to provide a static IP address to your clients while ensuring high availability across multiple regions?
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A company needs to migrate a high-performance compute (HPC) workload to AWS that requires low-latency, high-throughput communication between nodes. Which networking feature should be used?
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An organization wants to store backups in S3. The backups must be instantly retrievable if needed but should not incur costs for frequent access. Which S3 storage class is best?
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A company is launching a website that will have a high volume of traffic from users globally. They want to ensure high availability and protect against SQL injection. Which combination of services should be used?
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Which AWS service would you use to create a 'Private Cloud' connection between your on-premises data center and AWS that does NOT go over the public internet?
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You are hosting a static website on Amazon S3 and want to use a custom domain name (e.g., www.example.com). Which service should you use to manage your DNS records?
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A startup wants to quickly build a web application and doesn't want to manage any underlying infrastructure including servers, scaling, or load balancing. Which service is most appropriate?
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Which AWS service provides a searchable catalog of your data assets and can automatically discover the schema of your data stored in S3?
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An architect is designing an application that requires highly available MySQL storage that can automatically scale its storage capacity up to 128 TiB. Which service should they choose?
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Your company needs to orchestrate a complex workflow of multiple Lambda functions and manual approval steps. Which service is designed for this?
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An application consists of multiple EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The architect wants to ensure that the application remains available even if an entire AWS Region fails. What is the best strategy?
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Which AWS service is used to create and manage 'Golden Images' of Amazon EC2 instances through an automated pipeline?
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A company wants to identify which of their thousands of S3 buckets are public or have sensitive data like PII. Which service should they use?
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An architect is designing a decoupling strategy for an application where messages must be processed exactly once and in the order they are received. Which SQS queue type should be used?
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Which AWS service provides cost-optimization recommendations by analyzing your historical resource usage and finding idle or underutilized resources?
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An organization needs to migrate an on-premises NFS file share to AWS. The file share is accessed by multiple Linux instances. Which service provides a managed NFS mount in the cloud?
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Which AWS tool can be used to visualize and analyze the dependencies and costs of your AWS resources across multiple accounts and regions?
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Your High Performance Computing (HPC) workload requires low network latency between Amazon EC2 instances. What feature should you use?
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Your company has a regulatory requirement to keep all infrastructure changes recorded in a log for at least 7 years. Which service records every API call made in your AWS account?
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An architect is designing an application that requires a database with flexible schema and the ability to handle millisecond response times at massive scale. Which service is the best fit?
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A team wants to run their Docker-based application on AWS without managing any EC2 instances or clusters. Which 'serverless compute' service for containers should they use?
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solutions architect associate Practice Questions

You need to route traffic to Amazon EC2 instances based on URL paths (e.g., '/api' vs '/static'). Which load balancer type should you use?

A company has a microservices architecture and wants to route requests to different target groups based on the URL path (e.g., /orders vs /users). Which load balancer type is best suited for this?

Can an Application Load Balancer direct traffic to targets in different VPCs?

What is 'Sticky Sessions' (Session Affinity) in the context of an ALB?

Which ALB feature allows for serverless integration by routing requests to AWS Lambda functions?

A company wants to authenticate users via Google or Facebook before they can access the application behind the ALB. How can this be done at the load balancer level?

What is the purpose of 'Slow Start' mode in an ALB target group?

To improve security, an architect wants the web servers in the private subnet to ONLY accept traffic from the ALB. What should be done?

Does an Application Load Balancer support static IP addresses (Elastic IPs)?

Which ALB listener rule type allows you to return a custom error page (e.g., 404) directly from the load balancer without forwarding the request to the target?

Your high-traffic application requires ultra-low latency and needs to handle millions of requests per second at the network level. Which load balancer is best?

An application requires an extremely high-performance load balancer that can handle millions of requests per second with ultra-low latency for TCP traffic. Which type should be chosen?

What is a key difference between how NLB and ALB handle IP addresses?

Can a Network Load Balancer terminate TLS (SSL) traffic?

Which feature of NLB allows the backend server to see the original client IP address and port without using X-Forwarded-For headers?

How does an NLB handle a situation where an entire Availability Zone becomes unavailable?

Which load balancer should you use if you need to provide a single static IP address for your application's entry point?

Is 'Cross-Zone Load Balancing' enabled by default for a Network Load Balancer?

Can an NLB distribute traffic to targets outside of the VPC, such as on-premises servers via AWS Direct Connect?

Which load balancer feature would you use to provide a static IP address to your clients while ensuring high availability across multiple regions?

A company needs to migrate a high-performance compute (HPC) workload to AWS that requires low-latency, high-throughput communication between nodes. Which networking feature should be used?

An organization wants to store backups in S3. The backups must be instantly retrievable if needed but should not incur costs for frequent access. Which S3 storage class is best?

A company is launching a website that will have a high volume of traffic from users globally. They want to ensure high availability and protect against SQL injection. Which combination of services should be used?

Which AWS service would you use to create a 'Private Cloud' connection between your on-premises data center and AWS that does NOT go over the public internet?

You are hosting a static website on Amazon S3 and want to use a custom domain name (e.g., www.example.com). Which service should you use to manage your DNS records?

A startup wants to quickly build a web application and doesn't want to manage any underlying infrastructure including servers, scaling, or load balancing. Which service is most appropriate?

Which AWS service provides a searchable catalog of your data assets and can automatically discover the schema of your data stored in S3?

An architect is designing an application that requires highly available MySQL storage that can automatically scale its storage capacity up to 128 TiB. Which service should they choose?

Your company needs to orchestrate a complex workflow of multiple Lambda functions and manual approval steps. Which service is designed for this?

An application consists of multiple EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The architect wants to ensure that the application remains available even if an entire AWS Region fails. What is the best strategy?

Which AWS service is used to create and manage 'Golden Images' of Amazon EC2 instances through an automated pipeline?

A company wants to identify which of their thousands of S3 buckets are public or have sensitive data like PII. Which service should they use?

An architect is designing a decoupling strategy for an application where messages must be processed exactly once and in the order they are received. Which SQS queue type should be used?

Which AWS service provides cost-optimization recommendations by analyzing your historical resource usage and finding idle or underutilized resources?

An organization needs to migrate an on-premises NFS file share to AWS. The file share is accessed by multiple Linux instances. Which service provides a managed NFS mount in the cloud?

Which AWS tool can be used to visualize and analyze the dependencies and costs of your AWS resources across multiple accounts and regions?

Your High Performance Computing (HPC) workload requires low network latency between Amazon EC2 instances. What feature should you use?

Your company has a regulatory requirement to keep all infrastructure changes recorded in a log for at least 7 years. Which service records every API call made in your AWS account?

An architect is designing an application that requires a database with flexible schema and the ability to handle millisecond response times at massive scale. Which service is the best fit?

A team wants to run their Docker-based application on AWS without managing any EC2 instances or clusters. Which 'serverless compute' service for containers should they use?