Amazon Web Services · SAA-C03
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Original, objective-mapped practice questions for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam.
Practice mode is free for the first 3 questions of this exam.
Exam blueprint
- 2.1 Design resilient architectures30%2 questions
- 3.1 Design high-performing architectures24%2 questions
- 4.1 Design cost-optimized architectures20%2 questions
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Objective 2.1 · Design resilient architectures
A company runs a web application on a single EC2 instance behind no load balancer. The application must tolerate the failure of an entire Availability Zone with minimal downtime. Which change best meets this requirement?
- AMove the instance to a larger instance type in the same Availability Zone.
- BDeploy an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones behind an Application Load Balancer.
- CTake a daily AMI snapshot and restore manually if the zone fails.
- DEnable EC2 instance recovery within the same Availability Zone.
Why this is correct
An Auto Scaling group spanning multiple Availability Zones, fronted by an Application Load Balancer, automatically routes traffic away from a failed zone and replaces lost capacity — this is the standard resilience pattern for AZ-level failure.
Why the others aren't
A) A bigger instance in the same AZ doesn't survive an AZ failure. C) Manual restore from a daily AMI causes significant downtime and data loss risk, and doesn't meet 'minimal downtime'. D) Instance recovery only handles hardware failure of the same host, not a full zone outage.
Source: AWS Well-Architected Framework — Reliability Pillar