SAP-C02 Amazon Web Services AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

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Question # 4

A company wants to migrate to AWS. The company is running thousands of VMs in a VMware ESXi environment. The company has no configuration management database and has little Knowledge about the utilization of the VMware portfolio.

A solutions architect must provide the company with an accurate inventory so that the company can plan for a cost-effective migration.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Use AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to deploy Migration Evaluator to each VM. Review the collected data in Amazon QuickSight. Identify servers that have high utilization. Remove the servers that have high utilization from the migration list. Import the data to AWS Migration Hub.

Export the VMware portfolio to a csv file. Check the disk utilization for each server. Remove servers that have high utilization. Export the data to AWS Application Migration Service. Use AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) to migrate the remaining servers.

Deploy the Migration Evaluator agentless collector to the ESXi hypervisor. Review the collected data in Migration Evaluator. Identify inactive servers. Remove the inactive servers from the migration list. Import the data to AWS Migration Hub.

Deploy the AWS Application Migration Service Agent to each VM. When the data is collected, use Amazon Redshift to import and analyze the data. Use Amazon QuickSight for data visualization.

Question # 5

A company has deployed applications to thousands of Amazon EC2 instances in an AWS account. A security audit discovers that several unencrypted Amazon EBS volumes are attached to the EC2 instances. The company's security policy requires the EBS volumes to be encrypted.

The company needs to implement an automated solution to encrypt the EBS volumes. The solution also must prevent development teams from creating unencrypted EBS volumes.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Configure the AWS Config managed rule that identifies unencrypted EBS volumes. Configure an automatic remediation action. Associate an AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook that includes the steps to create a new encrypted EBS volume. Create an AWS KMS customer managed key. In the key policy, include a statement to deny the creation of unencrypted EBS volumes.

Use AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager to create a list of unencrypted EBS volumes. Create a Systems Manager Automation runbook that includes the steps to create a new encrypted EBS volume. Create an SCP to deny the creation of unencrypted EBS volumes.

Use AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager to create a list of unencrypted EBS volumes. Create a Systems Manager Automation runbook that includes the steps to create a new encrypted EBS volume. Modify the AWS account setting for EBS encryption to always encrypt new EBS volumes.

Configure the AWS Config managed rule that identifies unencrypted EBS volumes. Configure an automatic remediation action. Associate an AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook that includes the steps to create a new encrypted EBS volume. Modify the AWS account setting for EBS encryption to always encrypt new EBS volumes.

Question # 6

A company is migrating its on-premises file transfer solution to AWS Transfer Family. The on-premises host includes an SFTP server to receive files, an application that performs a transformation of the files, and a messaging server. The transformations run every 5 minutes. When a transformation is complete, the application sends a message to a queue on the messaging server. The company needs to simplify the solution and reduce the management of the components. What should the company do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Configure Transfer Family to use Amazon EFS storage. Use a cron job on Amazon EFS to perform the transformations. Configure the cron job to publish a message to an Amazon SNS topic when a file has been transformed.

Configure Transfer Family to use Amazon S3 storage. Use Amazon EMR to perform the transformations. Configure Amazon EMR to send a message to an Amazon SNS topic when a file has been transformed.

Configure Transfer Family to use Amazon S3 storage. Use AWS Glue to perform the transformations after S3 event notifications. Configure AWS Glue to send a message to an Amazon SQS queue when a file has been transformed.

Configure Transfer Family to use Amazon EFS storage. Create an AWS Glue time-based job to run every 5 minutes to initiate an AWS Glue transformation. Configure AWS Glue to send a message to an Amazon SQS queue when a file has been transformed.

Question # 7

A software development company has multiple engineers who ate working remotely. The company is running Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on an Amazon EC2 instance. The company's security policy states that al internal, nonpublic services that are deployed in a VPC must be accessible through a VPN. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) must be used for access to a VPN.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Create an AWS Sire-to-Site VPN connection. Configure Integration between a VPN and AD DS. Use an Amazon Workspaces client with MFA support enabled to establish a VPN connection.

Create an AWS Client VPN endpoint Create an AD Connector directory tor integration with AD DS. Enable MFA tor AD Connector. Use AWS Client VPN to establish a VPN connection.

Create multiple AWS Site-to-Site VPN connections by using AWS VPN CloudHub. Configure integration between AWS VPN CloudHub and AD DS. Use AWS Copilot to establish a VPN connection.

Create an Amazon WorkLink endpoint. Configure integration between Amazon WorkLink and AD DS. Enable MFA in Amazon WorkLink. Use AWS Client VPN to establish a VPN connection.

Question # 8

A company completed a successful Amazon Workspaces proof of concept. They now want to make Workspaceshighly available across two AWS Regions. Workspaces are deployed in the failover Region. A hosted zone is available in Amazon Route 53.

What should the solutions architect do?

Create a connection alias in the primary Region and in the failover Region. Associate each with a directory in its Region. Create a Route 53 failover routing policy with Evaluate Target Health = Yes.

Create a connection alias in both Regions. Associate both with a directory in the primary Region. Use a Route 53 multivalue answer routing policy.

Create a connection alias in the primary Region. Associate with the directory in the primary Region. Use Route 53 weighted routing.

Create a connection alias in the primary Region. Associate it with the directory in the failover Region. Use Route 53 failover routing with Evaluate Target Health = Yes.

Question # 9

A company plans to deploy a new private intranet service on Amazon EC2 instances inside a VPC. An AWS Site-to-Site VPN connects the VPC to the company's on-premises network. The new service must communicate with existing on-premises services The on-premises services are accessible through the use of hostnames that reside in the company example DNS zone This DNS zone is wholly hosted on premises and is available only on the company's private network.

A solutions architect must ensure that the new service can resolve hostnames on the company example domain to integrate with existing services.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Create an empty private zone in Amazon Route 53 for company example Add an additional NS record to the company's on-premises company example zone that points to the authoritative name servers for the new private zone in Route 53

Turn on DNS hostnames for the VPC Configure a new outbound endpoint with Amazon Route 53 Resolver. Create a Resolver rule to forward requests for company example to the on-premises name servers

Turn on DNS hostnames for the VPC Configure a new inbound resolver endpointwith Amazon Route 53 Resolver. Configure the on-premises DNS server to forward requests for company example to the new resolver.

Use AWS Systems Manager to configure a run document that will install a hosts file that contains any required hostnames. Use an Amazon EventBndge rule to run the document when an instance is entering the running state.

Question # 10

A company hosts a metadata API on Amazon EC2 instances behind an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB). Only internal applications that run on EC2 instances in separate AWS accounts need to access the metadata API. All the internal EC2 instances use NAT gateways.

A new policy requires that traffic between internal applications must not travel across the public internet.

Which solution will meet this requirement?

Create an HTTP API in Amazon API Gateway. Configure a route for the metadata API. Configure a VPC link to the VPC that hosts the metadata API's EC2 instances. Update the API Gateway resource policy to include the account IDs of the internal applications that access the metadata API.

Create a REST API in Amazon API Gateway. Specify the API Gateway endpoint type as private. Associate the REST API with the metadata API's VPC. Create a gateway VPC endpoint for the REST API. Share the endpoint across accounts by using AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM). Configure the internal applications to connect to the gateway VPC endpoint.

Create an internal ALB. Register the metadata API's EC2 instances with the internal ALB. Create an internal Network Load Balancer (NLB) that has a target group type of ALB. Register the internal ALB as the target. Configure an AWS PrivateLink endpoint service for the NLB. Grant the internal applications access to the metadata API through the PrivateLink endpoint.

Create an internal ALB. Register the metadata API's EC2 instances with the internal ALB. Configure an AWS PrivateLink endpoint service for the internal ALB. Grant the internal applications access to the metadata API through the PrivateLink endpoint.

Question # 11

Question:

A company has an application that stores user-uploaded videos in an Amazon S3 bucket using S3 Standard storage. Users access videos frequently for the first 180 days, and rarely after that. Most videos are over 100 MB. Users often have poor internet connectivity, and the company uses multipart uploads.

A solutions architect needs tooptimize S3 storage costs.

Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Configure the S3 bucket to be a Requester Pays bucket.

Use S3 Transfer Acceleration to upload the videos.

Create a lifecycle rule to expireincomplete multipart uploadsafter 7 days.

Create a lifecycle rule to transition objects toS3 Glacier Instant Retrieval after 1 day.

Create a lifecycle rule to transition objects toS3 Standard-IA after 180 days.

Question # 12

A company uses AWS Organizations with a single OU named Production to manage multiple accounts All accounts are members of the Production OU Administrators use deny list SCPs in the root of the organization to manage access to restricted services.

The company recently acquired a new business unit and invited the new unit's existing AWS account to the organization Once onboarded the administrators of the new business unit discovered that they are not able to update existing AWS Config rules to meet the company's policies.

Which option will allow administrators to make changes and continue to enforce the current policies without introducing additional long-term maintenance?

Remove the organization's root SCPs that limit access to AWS Config Create AWS Service Catalog products for the company's standard AWS Config rules and deploy them throughout the organization, including the new account.

Create a temporary OU named Onboarding for the new account Apply an SCP to the Onboarding OU to allow AWS Config actions Move the new account to the Production OU when adjustments to AWS Config are complete

Convert the organization's root SCPs from deny list SCPs to allow list SCPs to allow the required services only Temporarily apply an SCP to the organization's root that allows AWS Config actions for principals only in the new account.

Create a temporary OU named Onboarding for the new account Apply an SCP to the Onboarding OU to allow AWS Config actions. Move the organization's root SCP to the Production OU. Move the new account to the Production OU when adjustments to AWS Config are complete.

Question # 13

A telecommunications company is running an application on AWS. The company has set up an AWS Direct Connect connection between the company's on-premises data center and AWS. The company deployed the application on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones behind an internal Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company's clients connect from the on-premises network by using HTTPS. The TLS terminates in the ALB. The company has multiple target groups and uses path-based routing to forward requests based on the URL path.

The company is planning to deploy an on-premises firewall appliance with an allow list that is based on IP address. A solutions architect must develop a solution to allow traffic flow to AWS from the on-premises network so that the clients can continue to access the application.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Configure the existing ALB to use static IP addresses. Assign IP addresses in multiple Availability Zones to the ALB. Add the ALB IP addresses to the firewall appliance.

Create a Network Load Balancer (NLB). Associate the NLB with one static IP addresses in multiple Availability Zones. Create an ALB-type target group for the NLB and add the existing ALAdd the NLB IP addresses to the firewall appliance. Update the clients to connect to the NLB.

Create a Network Load Balancer (NLB). Associate the LNB with one static IP addresses in multiple Availability Zones. Add the existing target groups to the NLB. Update the clients to connect to the NLB. Delete the ALB Add the NLB IP addresses to the firewall appliance.

Create a Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB). Assign static IP addresses to the GWLB in multiple Availability Zones. Create an ALB-type target group for the GWLB and add the existing ALB. Add the GWLB IP addresses to the firewall appliance. Update the clients to connect to the GWLB.

Question # 14

A company is using GitHub Actions to run a CI/CD pipeline that accesses resources on AWS. The company has an IAM user that uses a secret key in the pipeline to authenticate to AWS. An existing IAM role with an attached policy grants the required permissions to deploy resources.

The company's security team implements a new requirement that pipelines can no longer use long-lived secret keys. A solutions architect must replace the secret key with a short-lived solution.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Create an IAM SAML 2.0 identity provider (IdP) in IAM. Create a new IAM role with the appropriate trust policy that allows the sts:AssumeRole API call. Attach the existing IAM policy to the new IAM role. Update GitHub to use SAML authentication for the pipeline.

Create an IAM OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity provider (IdP) in IAM. Create a new IAM role with the appropriate trust policy that allows the sts:AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity API call from the GitHub OIDC IdP. Update GitHub to assume the role for the pipeline.

Create an Amazon Cognito identity pool. Configure the authentication provider to use GitHub. Create a new IAM role with the appropriate trust policy that allows the sts:AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity API call from the GitHub authentication provider. Configure the pipeline to use Cognito as its authentication provider.

Create a trust anchor to AWS Private CA. Generate a client certificate to use with AWS IAM Roles Anywhere. Create a new IAM role with the appropriate trust policy that allows the sts:AssumeRole API call. Attach the existing IAM policy to the new IAM role. Configure the pipeline to use the credential helper tool and to reference the client certificate public key to assume the new IAM role.

Answer:

Explanation:

This explanation is based on AWS documentation and best practices but is paraphrased, not a literal extract.

The current CI/CD pipeline uses an IAM user with long-lived access keys stored in GitHub Actions. The new requirement is that pipelines must not use long-lived secret keys. Instead, the solution should provide short-lived credentials with minimal operational overhead.

GitHub Actions natively supports integration with cloud providers using OpenID Connect (OIDC). With OIDC, GitHub acts as an identity provider that can issue OIDC tokens to workflows. On the AWS side, IAM supports configuring an OIDC identity provider and roles that can be assumed by principals presenting valid OIDC tokens through the sts:AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity API. This pattern enables short-lived, automatically rotated credentials for CI/CD jobs without storing long-lived secrets.

In the correct solution (option B), you configure an IAM OIDC identity provider for GitHub in the AWS account. You then create a new IAM role with a trust policy that allows the Github OIDC provider to call sts:AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity, with conditions that restrict which repositories or workflows can assume the role. The existing IAM policy that grants deployment permissions is attached to that role. In GitHub Actions, you update the pipeline configuration to request an OIDC token and assume the IAM role at runtime. Each workflow run receives short-lived credentials without storing static keys, and AWS automatically handles the token verification and temporary credential issuance. This approach is the AWS-recommended pattern for integrating GitHub Actions with AWS without long-lived secrets and has low operational overhead once configured.

Option A uses SAML 2.0, which is typically used for enterprise single sign-on for users, not for GitHub Actions workflows. GitHub does not natively use SAML to obtain AWS credentials for CI/CD pipelines in the same streamlined way as OIDC, and implementing a SAML-based integration would add unnecessary complexity.

Option C introduces Amazon Cognito as an indirection layer. Although Cognito can federate with external identity providers, including social providers, using it as an intermediary to obtain temporary AWS credentials for a machine-to-machine CI/CD pipeline is not necessary when IAM OIDC federation with GitHub is directly supported. This adds additional configuration and operational overhead.

Option D uses IAM Roles Anywhere with client certificates from AWS Private CA. Roles Anywhere is designed for workloads running outside AWS that need to assume IAM roles using X.509 certificates instead of access keys. While technically possible, it requires managing private certificates, trust anchors, and a credential helper tool, which is more complex and operationally heavier than the direct OIDC integration specifically designed for GitHub Actions.

Therefore, configuring an IAM OIDC identity provider for GitHub and creating an IAM role to be assumed via sts:AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity (option B) meets the requirement to replace long-lived secret keys with short-lived credentials with the least operational overhead.

[References:AWS documentation on configuring IAM OpenID Connect identity providers and roles for GitHub Actions integration.AWS security best practices recommending federation and temporary credentials over long-lived IAM user access keys for CI/CD pipelines., , ]

Question # 15

IoT sensors are manufactured with certificates from a private CA. They must only connect to AWS after physical installation.

Use Lambda as apre-provisioning hookto validate serial number before registration.

Use Step Functions to validate before provisioning.

Use Lambda hook but register CA and enable auto-registration.

Use provisioning template and claim certificates without validation.