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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - Part 49

Mary Smith

Sun, 19 Apr 2026

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - Part 49

1. A company has several business systems that require access to data stored in a file share. The business systems will access the file share using the SMB protocol. The file share solution should be accessible from both of the company's legacy on-premises environment and with AWS.Which services meet the business requirements? Select two(Select 2answers)

A) Amazon EFS
B) Amazon S3
C) Amazon FSx for Windows
D) AWS Storage Gateway file gateway
E) Amazon EBS


2. A company is processing data on a daily basis. The results of the operations are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket, analyzed daily for one week, and then must remain immediately accessible for occasional analysis.What is the MOST cost-effective storage solution alternative to the current configuration?

A) Configure a lifecycle policy to transition the objects to Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) after 30 days.
B) Configure a lifecycle policy to transition the objects to Amazon S3 Glacier after 30 days.
C) Configure a lifecycle policy to delete the objects after 30 days.
D) Configure a lifecycle policy to transition the objects to Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) after 30 days.



3. A company wants to run a hybrid workload for data processing. The data needs to be accessed by on-premises applications for local data processing using an NFS protocol, and must also be accessible from the AWS Cloud for further analytics and batch processing.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A) Use an AWS storage Gateway tape gateway to copy the backup of the local data to AWS, then perform analytics on this data in the AWS cloud.
B) Use an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway to provide file storage to AWS, then perform analytics on this data in the AWS Cloud.
C) Use an AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway in a stored volume configuration to regularly take snapshots of the local data, then copy the data to AWS.
D) Use an AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway in a cached volume configuration to back up all the local storage in the AWS cloud, then perform analytics on this data in the cloud.



4. A company delivers files in Amazon S3 to certain users who do not have AWS credentials. These users must be given access for a limited lime. What should a solutions architect do to securely meet these requirements?

A) Encrypt files using AWS KMS and provide keys to the users.
B) Generate a presigned URL to share with the users.
C) Enable public access on an Amazon S3 bucket.
D) Create and assign IAM roles that will grant GetObject permissions to the users.



5. A solutions architect is designing a mission-critical web application. It will consist of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer and a relational database. The database should be highly available and fault tolerant.Which database implementations will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)(Select 2answers)

A) Amazon Redshift
B) MySQL-compatible Amazon Aurora Multi-AZ
C) Amazon RDS for MySQL
D) Amazon DynamoDB
E) Amazon RDS for SQL Server Standard Edition Multi-AZ


1. Right Answer: C,D
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2. Right Answer: D
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3. Right Answer: B
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4. Right Answer: B
Explanation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/ShareObjectPreSignedURL.html

5. Right Answer: B,E
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