AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Practice Questions
Hands-on questions, exam strategy, FAQs, and resources.
7-Day Study Plan
- Core services: IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, CloudFront
- Databases: RDS/Aurora/DynamoDB, backups, DR basics
- Compute patterns: Lambda, ECS/EKS, Auto Scaling
- Networking: endpoints, VPN/Direct Connect, routing
- Security: KMS, policies, logging, least privilege
- Resilience: Multi-AZ vs Multi-Region, RTO/RPO
- Mixed practice set + review weak domains
Practice Questions (sample)
Q1. Best way to serve a static website globally with lowest latency and minimal ops?
A. S3 + CloudFront + Route 53. Use origin access control and cache-control headers.
Q2. Need automatic scaling for spiky background jobs and minimal management?
A. SQS + Lambda event source mapping. Set concurrency and batch size.
Q3. Shared filesystem across multiple EC2 instances across AZs?
A. EFS with mount targets in multiple AZs.
FAQs
How should I review wrong answers? Write why each wrong option violates requirements (latency, availability, cost, security).
How many questions per day? Start with 15–25 mixed questions/day, then increase once accuracy stabilizes.