Amazon Web Services SAP-C02 Free Certification Exam Questions Answer Jul 2026 update

Question # 136

A solutions architect needs to copy data from an Amazon S3 bucket m an AWS account to a new S3 bucket in a new AWS account. The solutions architect must implement a solution that uses the AWS CLI.

Which combination of steps will successfully copy the data? (Choose three.)

Create a bucket policy to allow the source bucket to list its contents and to put objects and set object ACLs in the destination bucket. Attach the bucket policy to the destination bucket.

Create a bucket policy to allow a user In the destination account to list the source bucket ' s contents and read the source bucket ' s objects. Attach the bucket policy to the source bucket.

Create an IAM policy in the source account. Configure the policy to allow a user In the source account to list contents and get objects In the source bucket, and to list contents, put objects, and set object ACLs in the destination bucket. Attach the policy to the user _

Create an IAM policy in the destination account. Configure the policy to allow a user In the destination account to list contents and get objects In the source bucket, and to list contents, put objects, and set objectACLs in the destination bucket. Attach the policy to the user.

Run the aws s3 sync command as a user in the source account. Specify ' the source and destination buckets to copy the data.

Run the aws s3 sync command as a user in the destination account. Specify ' the source and destination buckets to copy the data.

Question # 137

A company has a legacy monolithic application that is critical to the company ' s business. The company hosts the application on an Amazon EC2 instance that runs Amazon Linux 2. The company ' s application team receives a directive from the legal department to back up the data from the instance ' s encrypted Amazon

Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume to an Amazon S3 bucket. The application team does not have the administrative SSH key pair for the instance. The application must continue to serve the users.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Attach a role to the instance with permission to write to Amazon S3. Use the AWS Systems Manager Session Manager option to gain access to the instance and run commands to copy data into Amazon S3.

Create an image of the instance with the reboot option turned on. Launch a new EC2 instance from the image. Attach a role to the new instance with permission to write to Amazon S3. Run a command to copy data into Amazon S3.

Take a snapshot of the EBS volume by using Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (Amazon DLM). Copy the data to Amazon S3.

Create an image of the instance. Launch a new EC2 instance from the image. Attach a role to the new instance with permission to write to Amazon S3. Run a command to copy data into Amazon S3.

Question # 138

A company has a Windows-based desktop application that is packaged and deployed to the users ' Windows machines. The company recently acquired another company that has employees who primarily use machines with a Linux operating system. The acquiring company has decided to migrate and rehost the Windows-based desktop application lo AWS.

All employees must be authenticated before they use the application. The acquiring company uses Active Directory on premises but wants a simplified way to manage access to the application on AWS (or all the employees.

Which solution will rehost the application on AWS with the LEAST development effort?

Set up and provision an Amazon Workspaces virtual desktop for every employee. Implement authentication by using Amazon Cognito identity pools. Instruct employees to run the application from their provisioned Workspaces virtual desktops.

Create an Auto Scarlet group of Windows-based Ama7on EC2 instances. Join each EC2 instance to the company ' s Active Directory domain. Implement authentication by using the Active Directory That is running on premises. Instruct employees to run the application by using a Windows remote desktop.

Use an Amazon AppStream 2.0 image builder to create an image that includes the application and the required configurations. Provision an AppStream 2.0 On-Demand fleet with dynamic Fleet Auto Scaling process for running the image. Implement authentication by using AppStream 2.0 user pools. Instruct the employees to access the application by starling browse ' -based AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions.

Refactor and containerize the application to run as a web-based application. Run the application in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate with step scaling policies Implement authentication by using Amazon Cognito user pools. Instruct the employees to run the application from their browsers.

Question # 139

A company has created an OU in AWS Organizations for each of its engineering teams Each OU owns multiple AWS accounts. The organization has hundreds of AWS accounts A solutions architect must design a solution so that each OU can view a breakdown of usage costs across its AWS accounts. Which solution meets these requirements?

Create an AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) for each OU by using AWS Resource Access Manager Allow each team to visualize the CUR through an Amazon QuickSight dashboard.

Create an AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) from the AWS Organizations management account- Allow each team to visualize the CUR through an Amazon QuickSight dashboard

Create an AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) in each AWS Organizations member account Allow each team to visualize the CUR through an Amazon QuickSight dashboard.

Create an AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) by using AWS Systems Manager Allow each team to visualize the CUR through Systems Manager OpsCenter dashboards

Explanation:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cur/latest/userguide/billing-cur-limits.html

The requirement is to allow each OU (which contains multiple accounts) to view a cost breakdown across its accounts. In an AWS Organizations setup with consolidated billing, the management account is the central place where organization-level cost and usage reporting is configured and aggregated. The Cost and Usage Report is designed to produce the most detailed cost and usage dataset, and it can include charges for linked (member) accounts. A single CUR created from the management account can include all accounts in the organization, and then filtering can be applied to show cost breakdowns per OU or per team.

Once the CUR is delivered to Amazon S3, analytics tools such as Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight can be used to create dashboards. Teams can be provided access to the dataset or curated views and can filter by linked account, tags, and other dimensions. With appropriate cost allocation tags and organizational mapping (for example, account-to-OU mapping maintained in reporting logic), each OU can see its consolidated view.

Option B meets the requirements because it creates one CUR centrally from the management account and uses QuickSight for visualization. This approach is scalable for hundreds of accounts and avoids duplicating CUR configuration in each member account.

Option A is incorrect because AWS Resource Access Manager is not used to create CURs per OU. CUR is not an OU-scoped resource created via RAM.

Option C is not operationally efficient because it requires creating and managing CURs in each member account, producing fragmented datasets and significantly increasing overhead at hundreds of accounts. It also makes it harder to generate a single view per OU across accounts.

Option D is incorrect because Systems Manager does not create CURs, and OpsCenter dashboards are not the standard tool for cost and usage reporting.

Therefore, a centrally created CUR in the management account with QuickSight visualization is the correct solution.

[References:AWS documentation on AWS Cost and Usage Report creation from the AWS Organizations management account and inclusion of linked accounts.AWS documentation on using Amazon QuickSight (often with CUR data stored in S3 and queried via Athena) to build cost dashboards and filter by account and other dimensions., , , , , ]

Question # 140

A company needs to monitor a growing number of Amazon S3 buckets across two AWS Regions. The company also needs to track the percentage of objects that are

encrypted in Amazon S3. The company needs a dashboard to display this information for internal compliance teams.

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

Create a new S3 Storage Lens dashboard in each Region to track bucket and encryption metrics. Aggregate data from both Region dashboards into a singledashboard in Amazon QuickSight for the compliance teams.

Deploy an AWS Lambda function in each Region to list the number of buckets and the encryption status of objects. Store this data in Amazon S3. Use AmazonAthena queries to display the data on a custom dashboard in Amazon QuickSight for the compliance teams.

Use the S3 Storage Lens default dashboard to track bucket and encryption metrics. Give the compliance teams access to the dashboard directly in the S3console.

Create an Amazon EventBridge rule to detect AWS Cloud Trail events for S3 object creation. Configure the rule to invoke an AWS Lambda function to recordencryption metrics in Amazon DynamoDB. Use Amazon QuickSight to display the metrics in a dashboard for the compliance teams.

Question # 141

A company plans to migrate a three-tiered web application from an on-premises data center to AWS The company developed the Ui by using server-side JavaScript libraries The business logic and API tier uses a Python-based web framework The data tier runs on a MySQL database

The company custom built the application to meet business requirements The company does not want to re-architect the application The company needs a solution to replatform the application to AWS with the least possible amount of development The solution needs to be highly available and must reduce operational overhead

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Deploy the UI to a static website on Amazon S3 Use Amazon CloudFront to deliver the website Build the business logic in a Docker image Store the image in AmazonElastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with the Fargate launch type to host the website with an Application Load Balancer in front Deploy the data layer to an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster

Build the UI and business logic in Docker images Store the images in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with the Fargate launch type to host the UI and business logic applications with an Application LoadBalancer in front Migrate the database to an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance

Deploy the UI to a static website on Amazon S3 Use Amazon CloudFront to deliver the website Convert the business logic to AWS Lambda functions Integrate the functions with Amazon API Gateway Deploy the data layer to an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster

Build the UI and business logic in Docker images Store the images in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service(Amazon EKS) with Fargate profiles to host the UI and business logic Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate the data layer to Amazon DynamoDB

Question # 142

A solutions architect is designing the data storage and retrieval architecture for a new application that a company will be launching soon. The application is designed to ingest millions of small records per minute from devices all around the world. Each record is less than 4 KB in size and needs to be stored in a durable location where it can be retrieved with low latency. The data is ephemeral and the company is required to store the data for 120 days only, after which the data can be deleted.

The solutions architect calculates that, during the course of a year, the storage requirements would be about 10-15 TB.

Which storage strategy is the MOST cost-effective and meets the design requirements?

Design the application to store each incoming record as a single .csv file in an Amazon S3 bucket to allow for indexed retrieval. Configure a lifecycle policy to delete data older than 120 days.

Design the application to store each incoming record in an Amazon DynamoDB table properly configured for the scale. Configure the DynamoOB Time to Live (TTL) feature to delete records older than 120 days.

Design the application to store each incoming record in a single table in an Amazon RDS MySQL database. Run a nightly cron job that executes a query to delete any records older than 120 days.

Design the application to batch incoming records before writing them to an Amazon S3 bucket. Update the metadata for the object to contain the list of records in the batch and use the Amazon S3 metadata search feature to retrieve the data. Configure a lifecycle policy to delete the data after 120 days.

Question # 143

A company needs to optimize the cost of its application on AWS. The application uses AWS Lambda functions and Amazon ECS containers that run on AWS Fargate. The application is write-heavy and stores data in an Amazon Aurora MySQL database.

The load on the application is not consistent. The application experiences long periods of no usage, followed by sudden and significant increases and decreases in traffic. The database runs on a memory optimized DB instance and has high utilization during peak times. A solutions architect must design a solution that can scale to handle the changes in traffic.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Add additional read replicas to the database. Purchase Instance Savings Plans and reserved DB instances for Aurora.

Migrate the database to an Aurora DB cluster that has multiple writer instances. Purchase Instance Savings Plans.

Migrate the database to an Aurora global database. Purchase Compute Savings Plans and reserved DB instances for Aurora.

Migrate the database to Aurora Serverless v2. Purchase Compute Savings Plans.

Question # 144

A solutions architect is reviewing an application ' s resilience before launch. The application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance that is deployed in a private subnet of a VPC.

The EC2 instance is provisioned by an Auto Scaling group that has a minimum capacity of I and a maximum capacity of I. The application stores data on an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The VPC has subnets configured in three Availability Zones and is configured with a single NAT gateway.

The solutions architect needs to recommend a solution to ensure that the application will operate across multiple Availability Zones.

Which solution will meet this requirement?

Deploy an additional NAT gateway in the other Availability Zones. Update the route tables with appropriate routes. Modify the RDS for MySQL DB instance to a Multi-AZ configuration. Configure the Auto Scaling group to launch instances across Availability Zones. Set the minimum capacity and maximum capacity of the Auto Scaling group to 3.

Replace the NAT gateway with a virtual private gateway. Replace the RDS for MySQL DB instance with an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster. Configure the Auto Scaling group to launch instances across all subnets in the VPC. Set the minimum capacity and maximum capacity of the Auto Scaling group to 3.

Replace the NAT gateway with a NAT instance. Migrate the RDS for MySQL DB instance to an RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance. Launch a new EC2 instance in the other Availability Zones.

Deploy an additional NAT gateway in the other Availability Zones. Update the route tables with appropriate routes. Modify the RDS for MySQL DB instance to turn on automatic backups and retain the backups for 7 days. Configure the Auto Scaling group to launch instances across all subnets in the VPC. Keep the minimum capacity and the maximum capacity of the Auto Scaling group at 1.

Explanation:

The goal is to ensure the application operates across multiple Availability Zones. That means removing single points of failure in compute, database, and network egress for private subnets.

For compute, the Auto Scaling group currently has min=1 and max=1, which guarantees only one instance is running at a time. Even if the Auto Scaling group spans multiple subnets, a single-instance configuration cannot provide multi-AZ active capacity because a failure of the Availability Zone hosting the single instance would cause downtime until a new instance is launched in a different zone. To operate across multiple Availability Zones, the solution should run multiple instances across different AZs, which implies increasing the minimum capacity above 1 and allowing the group to launch across multiple subnets/AZs.

For the database, a single-AZ RDS for MySQL instance is a single point of failure. Converting to an RDS Multi-AZ configuration provides synchronous replication to a standby in a different Availability Zone and managed failover to maintain availability when the primary AZ or instance fails.

For NAT, a single NAT gateway is an AZ-scoped managed resource. If private subnets in other AZs route to a NAT gateway in one AZ, an AZ outage can break outbound connectivity for workloads that depend on NAT. The resilient pattern is to deploy a NAT gateway in each Availability Zone and configure each private subnet’s route table to use the NAT gateway in the same AZ.

Option A addresses all three: it deploys additional NAT gateways per AZ and updates route tables accordingly, converts RDS to Multi-AZ, and adjusts Auto Scaling to launch across AZs with min and max set to 3 so there are instances running in multiple AZs simultaneously. This ensures the application remains available across AZ failures, meeting the requirement.

Option B replaces NAT with a virtual private gateway, which is used for VPN/Direct Connect connectivity, not for internet egress from private subnets. It does not satisfy the NAT functionality requirement. Although Aurora can provide high availability, the NAT replacement is not correct for the described architecture.

Option C increases operational overhead by replacing NAT gateway with NAT instances, which are self-managed and less resilient without additional design. It also changes the database engine to PostgreSQL unnecessarily and does not directly address the requirement with minimal change.

Option D improves NAT resiliency but only enables RDS automatic backups, which is a durability feature, not a high availability feature. Backups do not provide automatic failover and do not ensure the application will operate across multiple AZs. Also, keeping Auto Scaling min/max at 1 still leaves the application compute layer single-AZ at any given moment.

Therefore, option A is the correct solution.

[References:AWS documentation on NAT gateway being an Availability Zone–scoped resource and the best practice of deploying one NAT gateway per AZ for multi-AZ resilience.AWS documentation on Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments providing managed synchronous standby and automatic failover for high availability.AWS documentation on EC2 Auto Scaling across multiple subnets/AZs and using desired/min capacity greater than 1 to achieve multi-AZ active capacity., , , , , , , ]

Question # 145

A company recently completed the migration from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud by using a replatforming strategy. One of the migrated servers is running a legacy Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service that a critical application relies upon. The application sends outbound email messages to the company’s customers. The legacy SMTP server does not support TLS encryption and uses TCP port 25. The application can use SMTP only.

The company decides to use Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) and to decommission the legacy SMTP server. The company has created and validated the SES domain. The company has lifted the SES limits.

What should the company do to modify the application to send email messages from Amazon SES?

Configure the application to connect to Amazon SES by using TLS Wrapper. Create an IAM role that has ses:SendEmail and ses:SendRawEmail permissions. Attach the IAM role to an Amazon EC2 instance.

Configure the application to connect to Amazon SES by using STARTTLS. Obtain Amazon SES SMTP credentials. Use the credentials to authenticate with Amazon SES.

Configure the application to use the SES API to send email messages. Create an IAM role that has ses:SendEmail and ses:SendRawEmail permissions. Use the IAM role as a service role for Amazon SES.

Configure the application to use AWS SDKs to send email messages. Create an IAM user for Amazon SES. Generate API access keys. Use the access keys to authenticate with Amazon SES.

Question # 146

A company is in the process of implementing AWS Organizations to constrain its developers to use only Amazon EC2. Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB. The developers account resides In a dedicated organizational unit (OU). The solutions architect has implemented the following SCP on the developers account:

When this policy is deployed, IAM users in the developers account are still able to use AWS services that are not listed in the policy. What should the solutions architect do to eliminate the developers ' ability to use services outside the scope of this policy?

Create an explicit deny statement for each AWS service that should be constrained

Remove the Full AWS Access SCP from the developer account ' s OU

Modify the Full AWS Access SCP to explicitly deny all services

Add an explicit deny statement using a wildcard to the end of the SCP

Question # 147

A car rental company has built a serverless REST API to provide data to its mobile app. The app consists of an Amazon API Gateway API with a Regional endpoint, AWS Lambda functions, and an Amazon Aurora MySQL Serverless DB cluster. The company recently opened the API to mobile apps of partners. A significant increase in the number of requests resulted, causing sporadic database memory errors. Analysis of the API traffic indicates that clients are making multiple HTTP GET requests for the same queries in a short period of time. Traffic is concentrated during business hours, with spikes around holidays and other events.

The company needs to improve its ability to support the additional usage while minimizing the increase in costs associated with the solution.

Which strategy meets these requirements?

Convert the API Gateway Regional endpoint to an edge-optimized endpoint. Enable caching in the production stage.

Implement an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis cache to store the results of the database calls. Modify the Lambda functions to use the cache.

Modify the Aurora Serverless DB cluster configuration to increase the maximum amount of available memory.

Enable throttling in the API Gateway production stage. Set the rate and burst values to limit the incoming calls.

Question # 148

A security engineer determined that an existing application retrieves credentials to an Amazon RDS for MySQL database from an encrypted file in Amazon S3. For the next version of the application, the security engineer wants to implement the following application design changes to improve security:

The database must use strong, randomly generated passwords stored in a secure AWS managed service.

The application resources must be deployed through AWS CloudFormation.

The application must rotate credentials for the database every 90 days.

A solutions architect will generate a CloudFormation template to deploy the application.

Which resources specified in the CloudFormation template will meet the security engineer ' s requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Generate the database password as a secret resource using AWS Secrets Manager. Create an AWS Lambda function resource to rotate the database password. Specify a Secrets Manager RotationSchedule resource to rotate the database password every 90 days.

Generate the database password as a SecureString parameter type using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. Create an AWS Lambda function resource to rotate the database password. Specifya Parameter Store RotationSchedule resource to rotate the database password every 90 days.

Generate the database password as a secret resource using AWS Secrets Manager. Create an AWS Lambda function resource to rotate the database password. Create an Amazon EventBridge scheduled rule resource to trigger the Lambda function password rotation every 90 days.

Generate the database password as a SecureString parameter type using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. Specify an AWS AppSync DataSource resource to automatically rotate the database password every 90 days.

Question # 149

A solutions architect is creating an AWS CloudFormation template from an existing manually created non-production AWS environment The CloudFormation template can be destroyed and recreated as needed The environment contains an Amazon EC2 instance The EC2 instance has an instance profile that the EC2 instance uses to assume a role in a parent account

The solutions architect recreates the role in a CloudFormation template and uses the same role name When the CloudFormation template is launched in the child account, the EC2 instance can no longer assume the role in the parent account because of insufficient permissions

What should the solutions architect do to resolve this issue?

In the parent account edit the trust policy for the role that the EC2 instance needs to assume Ensure that the target role ARN in the existing statement that allows the sts AssumeRole action is correct Save the trust policy

In the parent account edit the trust policy for the role that the EC2 instance needs to assume Add a statement that allows the sts AssumeRole action for the root principal of the child account Save the trust policy

Update the CloudFormation stack again Specify only the CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM capability

Update the CloudFormation stack again Specify the CAPABIUTYJAM capability and the CAPABILITY_NAMEDJAM capability

Question # 150

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda. The application stores temporary data in Amazon 53. The 53 objects are deleted after 24 hours.

The company deploys new versions of the application by launching AWS CloudFormation stacks. The stacks create the required resources. After validating a new version, the company deletes the old stack. The deletion of an old development stack recently failed. A solutions architect needs to resolve this Issue without major architecture changes.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Create a Lambda function to delete objects from an 53 bucket. Add the Lambda function as acustom resource in the CloudFormation stack with a DependsOn attribute that points to the S3 bucket resource.

Modify the CkxidFormatton stack to attach a DeletionPolicy attribute with a value of Delete to the S3 bucket.

Update the CloudFormation stack to add a DeletionPolicy attribute with a value of Snapshot for the S3 bucket resource.

Update the CloudFormation template to create an Amazon EFS file system to store temporary files Instead of Amazon S3. Configure the Lambda functions to run in the same VPC as the EFS file system.

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