CONSOLIDATED_AWS_CSA_Associate_ExamCollections - AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam Questions 1-16

Sep 20, 2026

Collection of AWS Certified Solutions Architect—Associate exam practice questions focusing on core AWS services and configuration behaviors. Covers Amazon SWF, IAM access control key-name case sensitivity, EBS snapshot lifecycle status, EBS volume attachment limitations to EC2, RDS automated backups defaults, AWS Storage Gateway integration capabilities, and RDS engine support breadth. Includes RDS instance metadata base URI selection, snapshot creation CLI command identification, API error detection guidance, and licensing/domain concepts for SWF and RDS.

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Question Set - AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate

Amazon SWF and IAM Concepts

Amazon RDS, EBS Snapshots, and Storage Gateway

RDS Engines, Metadata URI, CLI Commands

Licensing and Domain Scoping (SWF)

􀂾 Vendor: Amazon 􀂾 Exam Code: AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate 􀂾 Exam Name: AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate 􀂾 Question 1 – Question 50 QUESTION 1 Amazon SWF is designed to help users A. Design graphical user interface interactions. B. Manage user identification and authorization. C. Store Web content. D. Coordinate synchronous and asynchronous tasks which are distributed and fault tolerant. Answer: D QUESTION 2 Can I control if and when MySQL based RDS Instance is upgraded to new supported versions? A. No B. Only in VPC C. Yes Answer: C QUESTION 3 What does Amazon Elastic Beanstalk provide? A. A scalable storage appliance on top of Amazon Web Services. B. An application container on top of Amazon Web Services. C. A service by this name doesn't exist. D. A scalable cluster of EC2 instances. Answer: B QUESTION 4 True or False: When using IAM to control access to your RDS resources, the key names that can be used are case sensitive. For example, aws:CurrentTime is NOT equivalent to AWS:currenttime. A. TRUE B. FALSE Answer: B Explanation: [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/directconnect/latest/UserGuide/using_iam.html](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/directconnect/latest/UserGuide/using_iam.html) Key names are case-insensitive. For example, aws:CurrentTime is equivalent to AWS:currenttime. QUESTION 5 What will be the status of the snapshot until the snapshot is complete. A. running B. working C. progressing D. pending Answer: D Explanation: [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-creating-snapshot.html](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-creating-snapshot.html) QUESTION 6 Can we attach an EBS volume to more than one EC2 instance at the same time? A. No B. Yes. C. Only EC2-optimized EBS volumes. D. Only in read mode. Answer: A QUESTION 7 True or False: Automated backups are enabled by default for a new DB Instance. A. TRUE B. FALSE Answer: A QUESTION 8 What does the AWS Storage Gateway provide? A. It allows to integrate on-premises IT environments with Cloud Storage. B. A direct encrypted connection to Amazon S3 . C. It's a backup solution that provides an on-premises Cloud storage. D. It provides an encrypted SSL endpoint for backups in the Cloud. Answer: A QUESTION 9 Amazon RDS automated backups and DB Snapshots are currently supported for only the storage engine. A. InnoDB B. MyISAM Answer: A QUESTION 10 How many relational database engines does RDS currently support? A. Three: MySQL, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. B. Just two: MySQL and Oracle. C. Six: Amazon Aurora , Oracle , Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL , MySQL and MariaDB. D. Just one: MySQL. Answer: A Explanation: Amazon RDS provides you six familiar database engines to choose from , including Amazon Aurora, Oracle , Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB. [https://aws.amazon.com/rds/?nc1=h_ls](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/?nc1=h_ls) QUESTION 11 Fill in the blanks: The base URI for all requests for instance metadata is A. [http://254.169.169.254/latest/](http://254.169.169.254/latest/) B. [http://169.169.254.254/latest/](http://169.169.254.254/latest/) C. [http://127.0.0.1/latest/](http://127.0.0.1/latest/) D. [http://169.254.169.254/latest/](http://169.254.169.254/latest/) Answer: D Explanation: [http://aws.amazon.com/search?searchQuery=metadata&searchPath=all&x=0&y=0](http://aws.amazon.com/search?searchQuery=metadata&searchPath=all&x=0&y=0) QUESTION 12 While creating the snapshots using the command line tools, which command should I be using? [A. ec2-deploy-snapshot](A. ec2-deploy-snapshot) [B. ec2-fresh-snapshot](B. ec2-fresh-snapshot) [C. ec2-create-snapshot](C. ec2-create-snapshot) [D. ec2-new-snapshot](D. ec2-new-snapshot) Answer: C Explanation: [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/create-snapshot.html

FAQs

Which answer describes how Amazon SWF coordinates tasks in a fault tolerant way?

D. Coordinate synchronous and asynchronous tasks which are distributed and fault tolerant.

Are IAM condition key names case sensitive (e.g., aws:CurrentTime vs AWS:currenttime)?

No. Key names are case-insensitive; aws:CurrentTime is equivalent to AWS:currenttime.

What is the status of an EBS snapshot until the snapshot is complete?

D. pending.

Sep 20, 2026

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