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SOA-C02 · Question #247

A SysOps administrator wants to protect objects in an Amazon S3 bucket from accidental overwrite and deletion. Noncurrent objects must be kept for 90 days and then must be permanently deleted…

The correct answer is D. Enable S3 Versioning on the S3 bucket. Enabling Versioning on the S3 bucket will protect accidental overwritten and deletion of data. https://cloudacademy.com/blog/s3-lifecycle-policies-versioning-encryption-aws-security/

Submitted by deeparc· Mar 30, 2026Reliability and Business Continuity

Question

A SysOps administrator wants to protect objects in an Amazon S3 bucket from accidental overwrite and deletion. Noncurrent objects must be kept for 90 days and then must be permanently deleted. Objects must reside within the same AWS Region as the original S3 bucket. Which solution meets these requirements?

Options

  • ACreate an Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (Amazon DLM) lifecycle policy for the S3 bucket.
  • BCreate an AWS Backup policy for the S3 bucket.
  • CEnable S3 Cross-Region Replication on the S3 bucket.
  • DEnable S3 Versioning on the S3 bucket.

How the community answered

(33 responses)
  • A
    9% (3)
  • B
    12% (4)
  • C
    6% (2)
  • D
    73% (24)

Explanation

Enabling Versioning on the S3 bucket will protect accidental overwritten and deletion of data. https://cloudacademy.com/blog/s3-lifecycle-policies-versioning-encryption-aws-security/

Topics

#S3 versioning#lifecycle policy#noncurrent object retention#accidental deletion protection

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