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SAA-C03 · Question #691

A company needs to store data in Amazon S3 and must prevent the data from being changed. The company wants new objects that are uploaded to Amazon S3 to remain unchangeable for a nonspecific amount…

The correct answer is D. Create an S3 bucket with S3 Object Lock enabled. "The Object Lock legal hold operation enables you to place a legal hold on an object version. Like setting a retention period, a legal hold prevents an object version from being overwritten or deleted. However, a legal hold doesn't have an associated retention period and…

Submitted by lars.no· Mar 4, 2026Design Secure Architectures

Question

A company needs to store data in Amazon S3 and must prevent the data from being changed. The company wants new objects that are uploaded to Amazon S3 to remain unchangeable for a nonspecific amount of time until the company decides to modify the objects. Only specific users in the company's AWS account can have the ability 10 delete the objects. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options

  • ACreate an S3 Glacier vault.
  • BCreate an S3 bucket with S3 Object Lock enabled.
  • CCreate an S3 bucket.
  • DCreate an S3 bucket with S3 Object Lock enabled.

How the community answered

(52 responses)
  • A
    4% (2)
  • B
    8% (4)
  • C
    19% (10)
  • D
    69% (36)

Explanation

"The Object Lock legal hold operation enables you to place a legal hold on an object version. Like setting a retention period, a legal hold prevents an object version from being overwritten or deleted. However, a legal hold doesn't have an associated retention period and remains in effect https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/batch-ops-legal-hold.html

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