AWS SSA Sample exam questions

1) A customer relationship management (CRM) application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple
Availability Zones behind an Application Load Balancer.
If one of these instances fails, what occurs?
A) The load balancer will stop sending requests to the failed instance.
B) The load balancer will terminate the failed instance.
C) The load balancer will automatically replace the failed instance.
D) The load balancer will return 504 Gateway Timeout errors until the instance is replaced.
2) A company needs to perform asynchronous processing, and has Amazon SQS as part of a decoupled
architecture. The company wants to ensure that the number of empty responses from polling requests
are kept to a minimum.
What should a solutions architect do to ensure that empty responses are reduced?
A) Increase the maximum message retention period for the queue.
B) Increase the maximum receives for the redrive policy for the queue.
C) Increase the default visibility timeout for the queue.
D) Increase the receive message wait time for the queue.
3) A company currently stores data for on-premises applications on local drives. The chief technology
officer wants to reduce hardware costs by storing the data in Amazon S3 but does not want to make
modifications to the applications. To minimize latency, frequently accessed data should be available
locally.
What is a reliable and durable solution for a solutions architect to implement that will reduce the cost of
local storage?
A) Deploy an SFTP client on a local server and transfer data to Amazon S3 using AWS Transfer for SFTP.
B) Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway configured in cached volume mode.
C) Deploy an AWS DataSync agent on a local server and configure an S3 bucket as the destination.
D) Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway configured in stored volume mode.