📣 Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) - SOA-C03 Practice Questions

SOA-C03 SNS Question Bank (7 Questions)

Browse all 7 practice questions covering Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) for the SOA-C03 certification exam. Answers are intentionally hidden on this page so you can self-test first before checking results in quiz mode.

1. Question 1Monitoring, Logging & Remediation

   A SysOps administrator has configured an SNS topic to receive all CloudWatch alarms. The team is overwhelmed with notifications and wants to route only `ALARM` state alarms for production resources to a PagerDuty integration, while `OK` and `INSUFFICIENT_DATA` go to a low-priority email. Which configuration achieves this?

   ACreate two separate SNS topics—one for PagerDuty and one for email—and configure each alarm to send to the appropriate topic

   BUse a single SNS topic with SNS subscription filter policies that filter on alarm state and resource tags

   CConfigure CloudWatch alarm actions to send `ALARM` state to the PagerDuty SNS topic and `OK`/`INSUFFICIENT_DATA` states to the email SNS topic

   DCreate an EventBridge rule that matches CloudWatch alarm state change events, filters by state and tags, and routes to the appropriate target

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2. Question 2Deployment, Provisioning & Automation

   A SysOps Administrator is configuring an AWS CodeDeploy deployment for an EC2/On-Premises compute platform. The deployment must run database migration scripts BEFORE the new application version starts receiving traffic, and send a notification to an SNS topic AFTER all traffic has been rerouted to the new version. Which CodeDeploy configuration controls this lifecycle?

   AConfigure the deployment group to use a blue/green deployment type with SNS notifications enabled.

   BDefine the lifecycle event hooks in the AppSpec file: use the `BeforeAllowTraffic` hook for database migration and the `AfterAllowTraffic` hook for the SNS notification.

   CAdd a `pre_install` and `post_install` script in the application's build configuration.

   DCreate an EventBridge rule that matches CodeDeploy deployment state changes and triggers a Lambda for each step.

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3. Question 3Monitoring, Logging & Remediation

   A SysOps Administrator must ensure AWS Config continuously records configuration changes for all supported resources in a single AWS account. The Config delivery channel must deliver configuration snapshots every 6 hours to an S3 bucket and send change notifications to an SNS topic. After setup, the administrator notices that Config is not recording changes. Which is the MOST likely cause?

   AThe S3 bucket policy does not allow `config.amazonaws.com` to write objects.

   BThe configuration recorder has not been started.

   CThe delivery channel is set to deliver snapshots every 6 hours instead of continuously.

   DThe SNS topic does not have a subscription.

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4. Question 4Monitoring, Logging & Remediation

   A SysOps Administrator configures a CloudWatch alarm that publishes to an SNS topic when the RDS `FreeStorageSpace` metric crosses a threshold. The team requires that the same alarm notification is sent simultaneously to an email distribution list, a PagerDuty HTTPS endpoint, and an AWS Lambda function that runs automated remediation. Which SNS configuration achieves this?

   ACreate three separate SNS topics, each with one subscription type (email, HTTPS, Lambda), and configure the CloudWatch alarm to publish to all three topics.

   BUse a single SNS topic with three subscriptions: one email subscription for the distribution list, one HTTPS subscription for PagerDuty, and one Lambda subscription for the remediation function.

   CCreate one SNS topic with an email subscription and use EventBridge to route the alarm state-change event to PagerDuty and Lambda separately.

   DCreate one SQS queue subscribed to the SNS topic and have PagerDuty and Lambda poll the queue.

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5. Question 5Monitoring, Logging & Remediation

   A company uses a third-party SaaS monitoring tool that natively integrates with Amazon EventBridge as a partner event source. The SysOps Administrator wants to receive events from this SaaS tool and route critical alerts to an SNS topic while archiving all events to an S3 bucket. Which steps should the administrator take?

   ACreate a custom event bus, manually configure the SaaS tool to send webhook events to an API Gateway that puts events on the custom bus, and add rules for SNS and S3.

   BAccept the partner event source in the EventBridge console to create the associated partner event bus. Create one rule on the partner event bus that routes critical alerts to SNS and a second rule that sends all events to a Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream for S3 archival.

   CConfigure the SaaS tool to publish directly to an SNS topic, then subscribe a Lambda function to archive events in S3.

   DCreate a partner event bus and add a single rule with two targets — one for SNS and one for S3 — using the same event pattern that matches all events.

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6. Question 6Select All That ApplyMonitoring, Logging & Remediation

   An operations team wants to receive a single daily summary of all SSM OpsCenter OpsItems that remain in an "Open" status for more than 48 hours. The summary should be delivered to an SNS topic. What is the MOST operationally efficient way to achieve this? (Select TWO.)

   ACreate an EventBridge scheduled rule that triggers daily and invokes a Lambda function that queries OpsCenter for open OpsItems older than 48 hours

   BConfigure OpsCenter operational insights to generate reports on aging OpsItems and deliver them via SNS

   CThe Lambda function formats the summary and publishes it to the SNS topic

   DEnable AWS Config to track OpsItem resources and create a custom Config rule that evaluates OpsItem age

   ECreate a CloudWatch metric filter on the SSM OpsCenter log group to count OpsItems older than 48 hours and alarm when the count exceeds zero

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7. Question 7Deployment, Provisioning & Automation

   A developer has a CloudFormation template that provisions an Amazon RDS instance, a Lambda function, and an SNS topic. The developer wants to break this monolithic template into smaller, reusable components. Which CloudFormation feature enables this composition while maintaining a single parent stack for lifecycle management?

   ACloudFormation StackSets

   BCloudFormation nested stacks

   CCloudFormation change sets

   DCloudFormation stack imports

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