AWS Online Assessment Prep: Questions, Answers & 2026 Guide

Solution 1

The correct answer is: 2. Moderately Ineffective

This approach works, but it is manual and not dynamic. An automatic approach would respond in real time to the changing requirements and would be more cost effective and better for performance.

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Solution 2

The correct answer is: 5. Highly Effective

This is the best, most optimized solution. A load balancer automatically routes traffic to available resources. With a properly configured autoscaling group with scaling policies, new resources are added and removed due to the real-time traffic requirements.

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Solution 3

The correct answer is: 4. Moderately Effective

A caching solution like AWS Cloudfront or ElastiCache significantly improves the user experience, reducing the load on backend services and optimizing response times. However, it suffers if the requests are highly dynamic and user-specific. Caching is more effective with static and semi-dynamic content.

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Solution 4

The correct answer is: 2. Moderately Ineffective

Upgrading the storage system and options can help optimize the experience if storage I/O is the reason for the bottleneck. However, this may not be sufficient, as high-traffic requests typically necessitate increased compute and network performance rather than I/O operations.

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Solution 5

The correct answer is: 2. Moderately Ineffective

This is a standalone, static resolution, and while it is effective, it is not cost efficient. Vertical scaling is more expensive and less dynamic than horizontally adding and removing resources based on usage demand.

Both of these statements highlight the Leadership Principle: Earn Trust

Disclosing weaknesses, mistakes and failure to colleagues and acknowledging the assistance of others builds teamwork, connection, and mutual respect in the wider organisation and builds foundations of trust. Being self-motivated is required at Amazon rather than a person needing others to prompt them before considering desirable actions such as expressing thanks to others.

MOST or MORE

Interdependence and the building of trust are a strong foundation for building effective and cohesive teams. This is thus a trait worthy of being marked ‘Most like Me’ or ‘More like Me’ depending on whether it is a key personal quality of yours or not. We recommend the answer "more like me"; however, if this is a personal strength, mark it as ‘Most’.

The correct answer is C. IP route.

The ip route command displays details of the IP/kernel routing table in Linux, which is essential for understanding how traffic is directed through the network.

Both these statements highlight the Leadership Principle: Think Big

The ‘Think Big’ principle incorporates attitudes and actions that enable team members to overcoming obstacles with optimism. That doesn't mean that the person is blind or unrealistic rather it means that you keep focused on eliminating your risks and modifying your strategy until it is a strategy about which you can be genuinely optimistic about.

Please note, it is expected that leaders will ask for help when problems and project delays are likely to impact the customer experience. However, it is not acceptable to ask for help as a default first response without digging deep first into your own and your team’s resources.

MOST

Even once you have a strategy that makes sense and holds together from different angles, optimism is essential when trying to do anything difficult because difficult tasks often take a long time. That optimism can carry you through the various stages of strategy development as the long term unfolds and when crises and unexpected events occur.