A company is hosting a web application on AWS using a single Amazon EC2 instance that stores user-uploaded documents in an Amazon EBS volume. For better scalability and availability, the company duplicated the architecture and created a second EC2 instance and EBS volume in another Availability Zone placing both behind an Application Load Balancer After completing this change, users reported that, each time they refreshed the website, they could see one subset of their documents or the other, but never all of the documents at the same time.
What should a solutions architect propose to ensure users see all of their documents at once?
A company uses Amazon S3 to store its confidential audit documents. The S3 bucket uses bucket policies to restrict access to audit team IAM user credentials according to the principle of least privilege. Company managers are worried about accidental deletion of documents in the S3 bucket and want a more secure solution.
What should a solutions architect do to secure the audit documents?
A company wants to move a multi-tiered application from on premises to the AWS Cloud to improve the application's performance. The application consists of application tiers that communicate with each other by way of RESTful services. Transactions are dropped when one tier becomes overloaded. A solutions architect must design a solution that resolves these issues and modernizes the application.
Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally efficient?
A company has several web servers that need to frequently access a common Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance The company wants a secure method for the web servers to connect to the database while meeting a security requirement to rotate user credentials frequently.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company uses NFS to store large video files in on-premises network attached storage. Each video file ranges in size from 1MB to 500 GB. The total storage is 70 TB and is no longergrowing. The company decides to migrate the video files to Amazon S3. The company must migrate the video files as soon as possible while using the least possible network bandwidth.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A bicycle sharing company is developing a multi-tier architecture to track the location of its bicycles during peak operating hours The company wants to use these data points in its existinganalytics platform A solutions architect must determine the most viable multi-tier option to support this architecture The data points must be accessible from the REST API.
Which action meets these requirements for storing and retrieving location data?
A company has applications that run on Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC. One of the applications needs to call the Amazon S3 API to store and read objects. According to the company's security regulations, no traffic from the applications is allowed to travel across the internet.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new application being deployed on AWS. The process should run in parallel while adding and removing application nodes as needed based on the number of jobs to be processed. The processor application is stateless. The solutions architect must ensure that the application is loosely coupled and the job items are durably stored.
Which design should the solutions architect use?
A company is storing backup files by using Amazon S3 Standard storage. The files are accessed frequently for 1 month. However, the files are not accessed after 1 month. The company must keep the files indefinitely.
Which storage solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is storing sensitive user information in an Amazon S3 bucket The company wants to provide secure access to this bucket from the application tier running on Ama2on EC2 instances inside a VPC.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Select TWO.)
A company wants to migrate an on-premises data center to AWS. The data canter hosts an SFTP server that stores its data on an NFS-based file system. The server holds 200 GB of data that needs to be transferred. The server must be hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance that uses an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system
When combination of steps should a solutions architect take to automate this task? (Select TWO )
A company runs its Infrastructure on AWS and has a registered base of 700.000 users for res document management application The company intends to create a product that converts large pdf files to jpg Imago files. The .pdf files average 5 MB in size. The company needs to store the original files and the converted files. A solutions architect must design a scalable solution to accommodate demand that will grow rapidly over lime.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company recently launched a variety of new workloads on Amazon EC2 instances in its AWS account. The company needs to create a strategy to access and administer the instances remotely and securely. The company needs to implement a repeatable process that works with native AWS services and follows the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company recently launched Linux-based application instances on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet and launched a Linux-based bastion host on an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subnet of a VPC A solutions architect needs to connect from the on-premises network, through the company's internet connection to the bastion host and to the application servers The solutions architect must make sure that the security groups of all the EC2 instances will allow that access
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO)
A company hosts its multi-tier applications on AWS. For compliance, governance, auditing, and security, the company must track configuration changes on its AWS resources and record a history of API calls made to these resources.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company runs a highly available image-processing application on Amazon EC2 instances in a single VPC The EC2 instances run inside several subnets across multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances do not communicate with each other However, the EC2 instances download images from Amazon S3 and upload images to Amazon S3 through a single NAT gateway The company is concerned about data transfer charges
What is the MOST cost-effective way for the company to avoid Regional data transfer charges?
A company runs a shopping application that uses Amazon DynamoDB to store customer information. In case of data corruption, a solutions architect needs to design a solution that meets a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 hour.
What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company needs to keep user transaction data in an Amazon DynamoDB table.
The company must retain the data for 7 years.
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?
A company has more than 5 TB of file data on Windows file servers that run on premises Users and applications interact with the data each day
The company is moving its Windows workloads to AWS. As the company continues this process, the company requires access to AWS and on-premises file storage with minimum latency The company needs a solution that minimizes operational overhead and requires no significant changes to the existing file access patterns. The company uses an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection for connectivity to AWS
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company hosts more than 300 global websites and applications. The company requires a platform to analyze more than 30 TB of clickstream data each day.
What should a solutions architect do to transmit and process the clickstream data?
A company's HTTP application is behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). The NLB's target group is configured to use an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with multiple EC2 instances that run the web service.
The company notices that the NLB is not detecting HTTP errors for the application. These errors require a manual restart of the EC2 instances that run the web service. The company needs to improve the application's availability without writing custom scripts or code.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A solutions architect is designing a two-tier web application The application consists of a public-facing web tier hosted on Amazon EC2 in public subnets The database tier consists of Microsoft SQL Server running on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet Security is a high priority for the company
How should security groups be configured in this situation? (Select TWO )
A company's dynamic website is hosted using on-premises servers in the United States. The company is launching its product in Europe, and it wants to optimize site loading times for new European users. The site's backend must remain in the United States. The product is being launched in a few days, and an immediate solution is needed.
What should the solutions architect recommend?
A company is implementing a shared storage solution for a media application that is hosted m the AWS Cloud The company needs the ability to use SMB clients to access data The solution must he fully managed.
Which AWS solution meets these requirements?
A global company hosts its web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The web application has static data and dynamic data. The company stores its static data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company wants to improve performance and reduce latency for the static data and dynamic data. The company is using its own domain name registered with Amazon Route 53.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company is migrating applications to AWS. The applications are deployed in different accounts. The company manages the accounts centrally by using AWS Organizations. The company's security team needs a single sign-on (SSO) solution across all the company's accounts. The company must continue managing the users and groups in its on-premises self-managed Microsoft Active Directory.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has a data ingestion workflow that consists the following:
An Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for notifications about new data deliveries
An AWS Lambda function to process the data and record metadata
The company observes that the ingestion workflow fails occasionally because of network connectivity issues. When such a failure occurs, the Lambda function does not ingest the corresponding data unless the company manually reruns the job.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to ensure that the Lambda function ingests all data in the future? (Select TWO.)
A survey company has gathered data for several years from areasm\the United States. The company hosts the data in an Amazon S3 bucket that is 3 TB m size and growing. The company has started to share the data with a European marketing firm that has S3 buckets The company wants to ensure that its data transfer costs remain as low as possible
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in a VPC. The application processes logs that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. The EC2 instance needs to access the S3 bucket without connectivity to the internet.
Which solution will provide private network connectivity to Amazon S3?
A company has an automobile sales website that stores its listings in a database on Amazon RDS When an automobile is sold the listing needs to be removed from the website and the data must be sent to multiple target systems.
Which design should a solutions architect recommend?
A solutions architect is designing a VPC with public and private subnets. The VPC and subnets use IPv4 CIDR blocks. There is one public subnet and one private subnet in each of three Availability Zones (AZs) for high availability. An internet gateway is used to provide internet access for the public subnets. The private subnets require access to the internet to allow Amazon EC2 instances to download software updates.
What should the solutions architect do to enable Internet access for the private subnets?
A company hosts its web applications in the AWS Cloud. The company configures Elastic Load Balancers to use certificate that are imported into AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). The company’s security team must be notified 30 days before the expiration of each certificate.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet the requirement?
A company recently migrated to AWS and wants to implement a solution to protect the traffic that flows in and out of the production VPC. The company had an inspection server in its on-premises data center. The inspection server performed specific operations such as traffic flow inspection and traffic filtering. The company wants to have the same functionalities in the AWS Cloud.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has thousands of edge devices that collectively generate 1 TB of status alerts each day. Each alert is approximately 2 KB in size. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to ingest and store the alerts for future analysis.
The company wants a highly available solution. However, the company needs to minimize costs and does not want to manage additional infrastructure. Ad ditionally, the company wants to keep 14 days of data available for immediate analysis and archive any data older than 14 days.
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?
A company hosts an application on AWS Lambda functions mat are invoked by an Amazon API Gateway API The Lambda functions save customer data to an Amazon Aurora MySQL databaseWhenever the company upgrades the database, the Lambda functions fail to establish database connections until the upgrade is complete The result is that customer data Is not recorded for some of the event
A solutions architect needs to design a solution that stores customer data that is created during database upgrades
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts for different departments. The management account has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains project reports. The company wants to limit access to this S3 bucket to only users of accounts within the organization in AWS Organizations.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
A company is building an ecommerce web application on AWS. The application sends information about new orders to an Amazon API Gateway REST API to process. The company wants to ensure that orders are processed in the order that they are received.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is developing an application that provides order shipping statistics for retrieval by a REST API. The company wants to extract the shipping statistics, organize the data into an easy-to-read HTML format, and send the report to several email addresses at the same time every morning.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company's website uses an Amazon EC2 instance store for its catalog of items. The company wants to make sure that the catalog is highly available and that the catalog is stored in a durable location.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company is migrating a distributed application to AWS The application serves variable workloads The legacy platform consists of a primary server trial coordinates jobs across multiple compute nodes The company wants to modernize the application with a solution that maximizes resiliency and scalability.
How should a solutions architect design the architecture to meet these requirements?
An application development team is designing a microservice that will convert large images to smaller, compressed images. When a user uploads an image through the web interface, the microservice should store the image in an Amazon S3 bucket, process and compress the image with an AWS Lambda function, and store the image in its compressed form in a different S3 bucket.
A solutions architect needs to design a solution that uses durable, stateless components to process the images automatically.
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company wants to improve its ability to clone large amounts of production data into a test environment in the same AWS Region. The data is stored in Amazon EC2 instances on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. Modifications to the cloned data must not affect the production environment. The software that accesses this data requires consistently high I/O performance.
A solutions architect needs to minimize the time that is required to clone the production data into the test environment.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company that hosts its web application on AWS wants to ensure all Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon RDS DB instances. and Amazon Redshift clusters are configured with tags. The company wants to minimize the effort of configuring and operating this check.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?
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 to delete the objects. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company hosts a frontend application that uses an Amazon API Gateway API backend that is integrated with AWS Lambda When the API receives requests, the Lambda function loads many libranes Then the Lambda function connects to an Amazon RDS database processes the data and returns the data to the frontend application. The company wants to ensure that response latency is as low as possible for all its users with the fewest number of changes to the company's operations
Which solution will meet these requirements'?
A company has deployed a server less application that invokes an AWS Lambda function when new documents are uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket The application uses the Lambda function to process the documents After a recent marketing campaign the company noticed that the application did not process many of The documents
What should a solutions architect do to improve the architecture of this application?
A company provides an online service for posting video content and transcoding it for use by any mobile platform. The application architecture uses Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Standard to collect and store the videos so that multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances can access the video content for processing As the popularity of the service has grown over time, the storage costs have become too expensive.
Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?
A data analytics company wants to migrate its batch processing system to AWS. The company receives thousands of small data files periodically during the day through FTP. A on-premises batch job processes the data files overnight. However, the batch job takes hours to finish running.
The company wants the AWS solution to process incoming data files are possible with minimal changes to the FTP clients that send the files. The solution must delete the incoming data files the files have been processed successfully. Processing for each file needs to take 3-8 minutes.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A solutions architect needs to design a system to store client case files. The files are core company assets and are important. The number of files will grow over time.
The files must be simultaneously accessible from multiple application servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The solution must have built-in redundancy.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company provides an API to its users that automates inquiries for tax computations based on item prices. The company experiences a larger number of inquiries during the holiday season only that cause slower response times. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that is scalable and elastic.
What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?
A company uses a payment processing system that requires messages for a particular payment ID to be received in the same order that they were sent Otherwise, the payments might be processed incorrectly.
Which actions should a solutions architect take to meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)
A company needs to provide its employee with secure access to confidential and sensitive files. The company wants to ensure that the files can be accessed only by authorized users. The files must be downloaded security to the employees devices.
The files are stored in an on-premises Windows files server. However, due to an increase in remote usage, the file server out of capacity.
Which solution will meet these requirement?
A company is designing a cloud communications platform that is driven by APIs. The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). The company uses Amazon API Gateway to provide external users with access to the application through APIs. The company wants to protect the platform against web exploits like SQL injection and also wants to detect and mitigate large, sophisticated DDoS attacks.
Which combination of solutions provides the MOST protection? (Select TWO.)
A company hosts a web application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group that scales in response to user demand The company wants to optimize cost savings without making a long-term commitment
Which EC2 instance purchasing option should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements'?
A company runs an application on a large fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The application reads and write entries into an Amazon DynamoDB table. The size of the DynamoDB tablecontinuously grows, but the application needs only data from the last 30 days. The company needs a solution that minimizes cost and development effort.
Which solution meets these requirements?
An IAM user made several configuration changes to AWS resources m their company's account during a production deployment last week. A solutions architect learned that a couple of security group rules are not configured as desired. The solutions architect wants to confirm which IAM user was responsible for making changes.
Which service should the solutions architect use to find the desired information?
An ecommerce company is experiencing an increase in user traffic. The company's store is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances as a two-tier web application consisting of a web tier and a separate database tier. As traffic increases, the company notices that the architecture is causing significant delays in sending timely marketing and order confirmation email to users. The company wants to reduce the time it spends resolving complex email delivery issues and minimize operational overhead.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A media company hosts its website on AWS. The website application's architecture includes a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and a database that is hosted on Amazon Aurora The company's cyber security teem reports that the application is vulnerable to SOL injection.
How should the company resolve this issue?
An online learning company is migrating to the AWS Cloud. The company maintains its student records in a PostgreSQL database. The company needs a solution in which its data is available and online across multiple AWS Regions at all times.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
A company wants to use Amazon S3 for the secondary copy of its on-premises dataset. The company would rarely need to access this copy. The storage solution’s cost should be minimal.
Which storage solution meets these requirements?
A company runs an application that receives data from thousands of geographically dispersed remote devices that use UDP The application processes the data immediately and sends a message back to the device if necessary No data is stored.
The company needs a solution that minimizes latency for the data transmission from the devices. The solution also must provide rapid failover to another AWS Region
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 Linux instances across multiple Availability Zones. The application needs a storage layer that is highly available and Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) compliant. The storage layer must provide maximum data durability and must be shareable across the EC2 instances. The data in the storage layer will be accessed frequency for the first 30 days and will be accessed infrequently alter that time.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company wants to migrate an Oracle database to AWS. The database consists of a single table that contains millions of geographic information systems (GIS) images that are high resolution and are identified by a geographic code.
When a natural disaster occurs tens of thousands of images get updated every few minutes. Each geographic code has a single image or row that is associated with it. The company wants a solution that is highly available and scalable during such events
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is developing a real-time multiplayer game that uses UDP for communications between the client and servers In an Auto Scaling group Spikes in demand are anticipated during the day, sothe game server platform must adapt accordingly Developers want to store gamer scores and other non-relational data in a database solution that will scale without intervention
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend?
A solution architect needs to assign a new microsoft for a company’s application. Clients must be able to call an HTTPS endpoint to reach the micoservice. The microservice also must use AWS identity and Access Management (IAM) to authentication calls. The soltions architect will write the logic for this microservice by using a single AWS Lambda function that is written in Go 1.x.
Which solution will deploy the function in the in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company has a large dataset for its online advertising business stored in an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in a single Availability Zone. The company wants business reporting queries to run without impacting the write operations to the production DB instance.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company has hundreds of Amazon EC2 Linux-based instances in the AWS Cloud. Systems administrators have used shared SSH keys to manage the instances After a recent audit, the company's security team is mandating the removal of all shared keys. A solutions architect must design a solution that provides secure access to the EC2 instances.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of administrative overhead?
A company will deployed a web application on AWS. The company hosts the backend database on Amazon RDS for MySQL with a primary DB instance and five read replicas to support scaling needs. The read replicas must log no more than 1 second bahind the primary DB Instance. The database routinely runs scheduled stored procedures.
As traffic on the website increases, the replicas experinces addtional lag during periods of peak lead. A solutions architect must reduce the replication lag as much as possible. The solutions architect must minimize changes to the applicatin code and must minimize ongoing overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
Migrate the database to Amazon Aurora MySQL. Replace the read replicas with Aurora Replicas, and configure Aurora Auto Scaling. Replace the stored procedures with Aurora MySQL native functions.
Deploy an Amazon ElasticCache for Redis cluser in front of the database. Modify the application to check the cache before the application queries the database. Repace the stored procedures with AWS Lambda funcions.
A solutions architect wants all new users to have specific complexity requirements and mandatory rotation periods tor IAM user passwords What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?
A company has a web server running on an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subnet with an Elastic IP address. The default security group is assigned to the EC2 instance. The default network ACL has been modified to block all traffic. A solutions architect needs to make the web server accessible from everywhere on port 443.
Which combination of steps will accomplish this task? (Choose two.)
A transaction processing company has weekly scripted batch jobs that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group. The number of transactions can vary but the beseline CPU utilization that is noted on each run is at least 60%. The company needs to provision the capacity 30 minutes before the jobs run.
Currently engineering complete this task by manually modifying the Auto Scaling group parameters. The company does not have the resources to analyze the required capacity trends for the Auto Scaling group counts. The company needs an automated way to modify the Auto Scaling group’s capacity.
Which solution will meet these requiements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A hospital is designing a new application that gathers symptoms from patients. The hospital has decided to use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) in the architecture.
A solutions architect is reviewing the infrastructure design Data must be encrypted at test and in transit. Only authorized personnel of the hospital should be able to access the data.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company uses a 100 GB Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server Single-AZ DB instance in the us-east-1 Region to store customer transactions. The company needs high availability and automate recovery for the DB instance.
The company must also run reports on the RDS database several times a year. The report process causes transactions to take longer than usual to post to the customer‘ accounts.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company is building a data analysis platform on AWS by using AWS Lake Formation. The platform will ingest data from different sources such as Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS. Thecompany needs a secure solution to prevent access to portions of the data that contain sensitive information.
A gaming company is moving its public scoreboard from a data center to the AWS Cloud. The company uses Amazon EC2 Windows Server instances behind an
Application Load Balancer to host its dynamic application. The company needs a highly available storage solution for the application. The application consists of static files and dynamic server-side code.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company sells datasets to customers who do research in artificial intelligence and machine learning (Al/ML) The datasets are large, formatted files that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region The company hosts a web application that the customers use to purchase access to a given dataset The web application is deployed on multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer After a purchase is made customers receive an S3 signed URL that allows access to the files.
The customers are distributed across North America and Europe The company wants to reduce the cost that is associated with data transfers and wants to maintain or improve performance.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company has an application that places hundreds of .csv files into an Amazon S3 bucket every hour. The files are 1 GB in size. Each time a file is uploaded, the company needs to convert the file to Apache Parquet format and place the output file into an S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is experiencing sudden increases in demand. The company needs to provision large Amazon EC2 instances from an Amazon Machine image (AMI) The instances will run m an Auto Scaling group. The company needs a solution that provides minimum initialization latency to meet the demand.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company is migrating its on-premises workload to the AWS Cloud. The company already uses several Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon RDS DB instances. The company wants a solution that automatically starts and stops the EC2 instances and D6 instances outside of business hours. The solution must minimize cost and infrastructure maintenance.
Which solution will meet these requirement?
A company is running a batch application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application consists of a backend with multiple Amazon RDS databases. The application is causing a high number of leads on the databases. A solutions architect must reduce the number of database reads while ensuring high availability.
What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
A company needs to create an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster to host a digital media streaming application. The EKS cluster will use a managed node group that is backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes for storage. The company must encrypt all data at rest by using a customer managed key that is stored in AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
Which combination of actions will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select TWO.)
A company has an application that collects data from loT sensors on automobiles. The data is streamed and stored in Amazon S3 through Amazon Kinesis Date Firehose The data produces trillions of S3 objects each year. Each morning, the company uses the data from the previous 30 days to retrain a suite of machine learning (ML) models.
Four times each year, the company uses the data from the previous 12 months to perform analysis and train other ML models The data must be available with minimal delay for up to 1 year. After 1 year, the data must be retained for archival purposes.
Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company has an AWS Lambda function that needs read access to an Amazon S3 bucket that is located in the same AWS account. Which solution will meet these requirement in the MOST secure manner?
A company has a multi-tier application deployed on several Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. An Amazon RDS for Oracle instance is the application’s data layer that uses Oracle-specific
PL/SQL functions. Traffic to the application has been steadily increasing. This is causing the EC2 instances to become overloaded and the RDS instance to run out of storage. The Auto Scaling group does not have any scaling metrics and defines the minimum healthy instance count only. The company predicts that traffic will continue to increase at a steady but unpredictable rate before levelling off.
What should a solutions architect do to ensure the system can automatically scale for the increased traffic? (Select TWO.)
A telemarketing company is designing its customer call center functionality on AWS. The company needs a solution that provides multiples speakerrecognitionand generates transcript files The company wants to query the transcript files to analyze the business patterns The transcript files must be stored for 7 years for auditing piloses.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is using Amazon Route 53 latency-based routing to route requests to its UDP-based application for users around the world. The application is hosted on redundant servers in the company's on-premises data centers in the United States. Asia, and Europe. The company's compliance requirements state that the application must be hosted on premises The company wants to improve the performance and availability of the application
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company has an application thai runs on several Amazon EC2 instances Each EC2 instance has multiple Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) data volumes attached to it The application's EC2 instance configuration and data need to be backed up nightly The application also needs to be recoverable in a different AWS Region
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company needs to retain application logs files for a critical application for 10 years. The application team regularly accesses logs from the past month for troubleshooting, but logs older than 1 month are rarely accessed. The application generates more than 10 TB of logs per month.
Which storage option meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company has a highly dynamic batch processing job that uses many Amazon EC2 instances to complete it. The job is stateless in nature, can be started and stopped at any given time with no negative impact, and typically takes upwards of 60 minutes total to complete. The company has asked a solutions architect to design a scalable and cost-effective solution that meets the requirements of the job.
What should the solutions architect recommend?
A company has a data ingestion workflow that includes the following components:
• An Amazon Simple Notation Service (Amazon SNS) topic that receives notifications about new data deliveries
• An AWS Lambda function that processes and stores the data
The ingestion workflow occasionally fails because of network connectivity issues. When tenure occurs the corresponding data is not ingested unless the company manually reruns the job. What should a solutions architect do to ensure that all notifications are eventually processed?
A company has an AWS account used for software engineering. The AWS account has access to the company's on-premises data center through a pair of AWS Direct Connect connections. All non-VPC traffic routes to the virtual private gateway.
A development team recently created an AWS Lambda function through the console. The development team needs to allow the function to access a database that runs in a private subnet in the company's data center.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company owns an asynchronous API that is used to ingest user requests and, based on the request type, dispatch requests to the appropriate microservice for processing. The company is using Amazon API Gateway to deploy the API front end, and an AWS Lambda function that invokes Amazon DynamoDB to store user requests before dispatching them to the processing microservices.
The company provisioned as much DynamoDB throughput as its budget allows, but the company is still experiencing availability issues and is losing user requests.
What should a solutions architect do to address this issue without impacting existing users?
A company is developing a file-sharing application that will use an Amazon S3 bucket for storage. The company wants to serve all the files through an Amazon CloudFront distribution. The company does not want the files to be accessible through direct navigation to the S3 URL.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company runs a global web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The application stores data in Amazon Aurora. The company needs to create a disaster recovery solution and can tolerate up to 30 minutes of downtime and potential data loss. The solution does not need to handle the load when the primary infrastructure is healthy
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company is running an online transaction processing (OLTP) workload on AWS. This workload uses an unencrypted Amazon RDS DB instance in a Multi-AZ deployment. Daily database snapshots are taken from this instance.
What should a solutions architect do to ensure the database and snapshots are always encrypted moving forward?
A new employee has joined a company as a deployment engineer. The deployment engineer will be using AWS CloudFormation templates to create multiple AWS resources. A solutions architect wants the deployment engineer to perform job activities while following the principle of least privilege.
Which steps should the solutions architect do in conjunction to reach this goal? (Select two.)
A corporation has recruited a new cloud engineer who should not have access to the CompanyConfidential Amazon S3 bucket. The cloud engineer must have read and write permissions on an S3 bucket named AdminTools.
Which IAM policy will satisfy these criteria?
A company wants to build a scalable key management Infrastructure to support developers who need to encrypt data in their applications.
What should a solutions architect do to reduce the operational burden?
A company has a legacy data processing application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. Data is processed sequentially, but the order of results does not matter. The application uses a monolithicarchitecture. The only way that the company can scale the application to meet increased demand is to increase the size of the instances.
The company's developers have decided to rewrite the application to use a microservices architecture on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).
What should a solutions architect recommend for communication between the microservices?
A company is planning to move its data to an Amazon S3 bucket. The data must be encrypted when it is stored in the S3 bucket. Additionally, the encryption key must be automatically rotated every year.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
An online retail company has more than 50 million active customers and receives more than 25,000 orders each day. The company collects purchase data for customers and stores this data in Amazon S3. Additional customer data is stored in Amazon RDS.
The company wants to make all the data available to various teams so that the teams can perform analytics. The solution must provide the ability to manage fine-grained permissions for the data and must minimize operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants to run a gaming application on Amazon EC2 instances that are part of an Auto Scaling group in the AWS Cloud. The application will transmit data by using UDP packets. The company wants to ensure that the application can scale out and in as traffic increases and decreases.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A gaming company has a web application that displays scores. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application stores data in an Amazon RDS for MySQL database. Users are starting to experience long delays and interruptions that are caused by database read performance. The company wants to improve the user experience while minimizing changes to the application's architecture.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company wants to direct its users to a backup static error page if the company's primary website is unavailable. The primary website's DNS records are hosted in Amazon Route 53. The domain is pointing to an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company needs a solution that minimizes changes and infrastructure overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is building a web-based application running on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones. The web application will provide access to a repository of text documents totaling about 900 TB in size. The company anticipates that the web application will experience periods of high demand. A solutions architect must ensure that the storage component for the text documents can scale to meet the demand of the application at all times. The company is concerned about the overall cost of the solution.
Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company has a dynamic web application hosted on two Amazon EC2 instances. The company has its own SSL certificate, which is on each instance to perform SSL termination.
There has been an increase in traffic recently, and the operations team determined that SSL encryption and decryption is causing the compute capacity of the web servers to reach their maximum limit.
What should a solutions architect do to increase the application's performance?
A company hosts a website analytics application on a single Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instance. The analytics software is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database. The analytics software, the web server that provides PHP, and the database server are all hosted on the EC2 instance. The application is showing signs of performance degradation during busy times and is presenting 5xx errors. The company needs to make the application scale seamlessly.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company wants to run applications in containers in the AWS Cloud. These applications are stateless and can tolerate disruptions within the underlying infrastructure. The company needs a solution that minimizes cost and operational overhead.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company has an event-driven application that invokes AWS Lambda functions up to 800 times each minute with varying runtimes. The Lambda functions access data that is stored in an Amazon Aurora MySQL OB cluster. The company is noticing connection timeouts as user activity increases The database shows no signs of being overloaded. CPU. memory, and disk access metrics are all low.
Which solution will resolve this issue with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company runs a production application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The application reads the data from an Amazon SQS queue and processes the messages in parallel. The message volume is unpredictable and often has intermittent traffic. This application should continually process messages without any downtime.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company runs workloads on AWS. The company needs to connect to a service from an external provider. The service is hosted in the provider's VPC. According to the company’s security team, the connectivity must be private and must be restricted to the target service. The connection must be initiated only from the company’s VPC.
Which solution will mast these requirements?
A company's application Is having performance issues The application staleful and needs to complete m-memory tasks on Amazon EC2 instances. The company used AWS CloudFormation to deploy infrastructure and used the M5 EC2 Instance family As traffic increased, the application performance degraded Users are reporting delays when the users attempt to access the application.
Which solution will resolve these issues in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company is running a multi-tier web application on premises. The web application is containerized and runs on a number of Linux hosts connected to a PostgreSQL database that contains user records. The operational overhead of maintaining the infrastructure and capacity planning is limiting the company's growth. A solutions architect must improve the application's infrastructure.
Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Choose two.)
A company needs to move data from an Amazon EC2 instance to an Amazon S3 bucket. The company must ensure that no API calls and no data are routed through public internet routes. Only the EC2 instance can have access to upload data to the S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect needs to help a company optimize the cost of running an application on AWS. The application will use Amazon EC2 instances, AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda for compute within the architecture.
The EC2 instances will run the data ingestion layer of the application. EC2 usage will be sporadic and unpredictable. Workloads that run on EC2 instances can be interrupted at any time. The application front end will run on Fargate, and Lambda will serve the API layer. The front-end utilization and API layer utilization will be predictable over the course of the next year.
Which combination of purchasing options will provide the MOST cost-effective solution for hosting this application? (Choose two.)
A company is concerned about the security of its public web application due to recent web attacks. The application uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB). A solutions architect must reduce the risk of DDoS attacks against the application.
What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
A company is running several business applications in three separate VPCs within me us-east-1 Region. The applications must be able to communicate between VPCs. The applications also must be able to consistently send hundreds to gigabytes of data each day to a latency-sensitive application that runs in a single on-premises data center.
A solutions architect needs to design a network connectivity solution that maximizes cost-effectiveness
Which solution moots those requirements?
A company’s website provides users with downloadable historical performance reports. The website needs a solution that will scale to meet the company’s website demands globally. The solution should be cost-effective, limit the provisioning of infrastructure resources, and provide the fastest possible response time.
Which combination should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company has an ecommerce checkout workflow that writes an order to a database and calls a service to process the payment. Users are experiencing timeouts during the checkout process. When users resubmit the checkout form, multiple unique orders are created for the same desired transaction.
How should a solutions architect refactor this workflow to prevent the creation of multiple orders?
A company hosts a two-tier application on Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon RDS. The application's demand varies based on the time of day. The load is minimal after work hours and on weekends. The EC2 instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group that is configured with a minimum of two instances and a maximum of five instances. The application must be available at all times, but the company is concerned about overall cost.
Which solution meets the availability requirement MOST cost-effectively?
A company runs an application using Amazon ECS. The application creates esi/ed versions of an original image and then makes Amazon S3 API calls to store the resized images in Amazon S3.
How can a solutions architect ensure that the application has permission to access Amazon S3?
A solutions architect needs to securely store a database user name and password that an application uses to access an Amazon RDS DB instance. The application that accesses the database runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The solutions architect wants to create a secure parameter in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.
What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
A company uses a popular content management system (CMS) for its corporate website. However, the required patching and maintenance are burdensome. The company is redesigning its website and wants anew solution. The website will be updated four times a year and does not need to have any dynamic content available. The solution must provide high scalability and enhanced security.
Which combination of changes will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Choose two.)
A business's backup data totals 700 terabytes (TB) and is kept in network attached storage (NAS) at its data center. This backup data must be available in the event of occasional regulatory inquiries and preserved for a period of seven years. The organization has chosen to relocate its backup data from its on-premises data center to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Within one month, the migration must be completed. The company's public internet connection provides 500 Mbps of dedicated capacity for data transport.
What should a solutions architect do to ensure that data is migrated and stored at the LOWEST possible cost?
A hospital wants to create digital copies for its large collection of historical written records. The hospital will continue to add hundreds of new documents each day. The hospital's data team will scan the documents and will upload the documents to the AWS Cloud.
A solutions architect must implement a solution to analyze the documents, extract the medical information, and store the documents so that an application can run SQL queries on the data. The solution must maximize scalability and operational efficiency.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company is building a containerized application on premises and decides to move the application to AWS. The application will have thousands of users soon after li is deployed. The company Is unsure how to manage the deployment of containers at scale. The company needs to deploy the containerized application in a highly available architecture that minimizes operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A medical records company is hosting an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application processes customer data files that are stored on Amazon S3. The EC2 instances are hosted in public subnets. The EC2 instances access Amazon S3 over the internet, but they do not require any other network access.
A new requirement mandates that the network traffic for file transfers take a private route and not be sent over the internet.
Which change to the network architecture should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?
A company has a Windows-based application that must be migrated to AWS. The application requires the use of a shared Windows file system attached to multiple Amazon EC2 Windows instances that are deployed across multiple Availability Zones.
What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
A large media company hosts a web application on AWS. The company wants to start caching confidential media files so that users around the world will have reliable access to the files. The content is stored in Amazon S3 buckets. The company must deliver the content quickly, regardless of where the requests originate geographically.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company recently started using Amazon Aurora as the data store for its global ecommerce application When large reports are run developers report that the ecommerce application is performing poorly After reviewing metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, a solutions architect finds that the ReadlOPS and CPUUtilization metrics are spiking when monthly reports run.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution?
An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer The application performs best when the CPU utilization of the EC2 instances is at or near 40%.
What should a solutions architect do to maintain the desired performance across all instances in the group?
A company needs to connect its on-premises data center network to a new VPC. The data center network has a 100 Mbps symmetrical internet connection. An application that is running on premises will transfer multiple gigabytes of data each day. The application will use an Amazon Data Firehose delivery stream for processing.
What should a solutions architect recommend for maximum performance?
A company runs a monolithic application in its on-premises data center. The company used Java/Tomcat to build the application. The application uses Microsoft SQL Server as a database.
The company wants to migrate the application to AWS.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company wants to provide users with access to AWS resources. The company has 1,500 users and manages their access to on-premises resources through Active Directory user groups on the corporate network. However, the company does not want users to have to maintain another identity to access the resources. A solutions architect must manage user access to the AWS resources while preserving access to the on-premises resources.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company stores 5 PB of archived data on physical tapes. The company needs to preserve the data for another 10 years. The data center that stores the tapes has a 10 Gbps Direct Connect connection to an AWS Region. The company wants to migrate the data to AWS within the next 6 months.
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A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. Each department in the company has its own AWS account. A security team needs to implement centralized governance and control to enforce security best practices across all accounts. The team wants to have control over which AWS services each account can use. The team needs to restrict access to sensitive resources based on IP addresses or geographic regions. The root user must be protected with multi-factor authentication (MFA) across all accounts.
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A company has an application with a REST-based interface that allows data to be received in near-real time from a third-party vendor. Once received, the application processes and stores the data for further analysis. The application is running on Amazon EC2 instances.
The third-party vendor has received many 503 Service Unavailable Errors when sending data to the application. When the data volume spikes, the compute capacity reaches its maximum limit and the application is unable to process all requests.
Which design should a solutions architect recommend to provide a more scalable solution?
A retail company runs its application on AWS. The application uses Amazon EC2 for web servers, Amazon RDS for database services, and Amazon CloudFront for global content distribution.
The company needs a solution to mitigate DDoS attacks.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company has a web application that uses several web servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The instances use a shared Amazon RDS for MySQL database.
The company requires a secure method to store database credentials. The credentials must be automatically rotated every 30 days without affecting application availability.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes to run an application. The company creates one snapshot of each EBS volume every day.
The company needs to prevent users from accidentally deleting the EBS volume snapshots. The solution must not change the administrative rights of a storage administrator user.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative effort?
A company is planning to run an AI/ML workload on AWS. The company needs to train a model on a dataset that is in Amazon S3 Standard. A model training application requires multiple compute nodes and single-digit millisecond access to the data.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective way?
A company stores data for multiple business units in a single Amazon S3 bucket that is in the company's payer AWS account. To maintain data isolation, the business units store data in separate prefixes in the S3 bucket by using an S3 bucket policy.
The company plans to add a large number of dynamic prefixes. The company does not want to rely on a single S3 bucket policy to manage data access at scale. The company wants to develop a secure access management solution in addition to the bucket policy to enforce prefix-level data isolation.
A company is launching a new application that requires a structured database to store user profiles, application settings, and transactional data. The database must be scalable with application traffic and must offer backups.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company recently migrated a data warehouse to AWS. The company has an AWS Direct Connect connection to AWS. Company users query the data warehouse by using a visualization tool. The average size of the queries that the data warehouse returns is 50 MB. The average visualization that the visualization tool produces is 500 KB in size. The result sets that the data warehouse returns are not cached.
The company wants to optimize costs for data transfers between the data warehouse and the company.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company stores data in Amazon S3. According to regulations, the data must not contain personally identifiable information (PII). The company recently discovered that S3 buckets have some objects that contain PII. The company needs to automatically detect PII in S3 buckets and to notify the company's security team. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is building a serverless application that processes large volumes of data from a mobile app. The application uses an AWS Lambda function to process the data and store the data in an Amazon DynamoDB table.
The company needs to ensure that the application can recover from failures and continue processing data without losing any records.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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A company has launched an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. Most of the connections to the database come from serverless applications. Application traffic to the database changes significantly at random intervals. At times of high demand, users report that their applications experience database connection rejection errors.
Which solution will resolve this issue with the LEAST operational overhead?
A finance company uses backup software to back up its data to physical tape storage on-premises. To comply with regulations, the company needs to store the data for 7 years. The company must be able to restore archived data within one week when necessary.
The company wants to migrate the backup data to AWS to reduce costs. The company does not want to change the current backup software.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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An ecommerce company hosts an API that handles sales requests. The company hosts the API frontend on Amazon EC2 instances that run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company hosts the API backend on EC2 instances that perform the transactions. The backend tiers are loosely coupled by an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue.
The company anticipates a significant increase in request volume during a new product launch event. The company wants to ensure that the API can handle increased loads successfully.
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A media company runs an application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances that requires high storage input/output operations per second (IOPS).
To achieve the necessary performance, a solutions architect wants to stripe multiple Amazon EBS volumes together and attach the volumes to EC2 instances. The solutions architect wants to receive a notification when IOPS are over-provisioned.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An international company needs to share data from an Amazon S3 bucket to employees who are located around the world. The company needs a secure solution to provide employees with access to the S3 bucket. The employees are already enrolled in AWS IAM Identity Center.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company hosts an ecommerce application that stores all data in a single Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance that is fully managed by AWS. The company needs to mitigate the risk of a single point of failure.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort?
A solutions architect needs to design a storage solution that requires minimal changes to the legacy application and keeps costs low.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
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A healthcare company uses an Amazon EMR cluster to process patient data. The data must be encrypted in transit and at rest. Local volumes in the cluster also need to be encrypted. Which solution will meet these requirements?
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A company wants to store a large amount of data as objects for analytics and long-term archiving. Resources from outside AWS need to access the data. The external resources need to access the data with unpredictable frequency. However, the external resource must have immediate access when necessary.
The company needs a cost-optimized solution that provides high durability and data security.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is hosting multiple websites for several lines of business under its registered parent domain. Users accessing these websites will be routed to appropriate backend Amazon EC2instances based on the subdomain. The websites host static webpages, images, and server-side scripts like PHP and JavaScript.
Some of the websites experience peak access during the first two hours of business with constant usage throughout the rest of the day. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that will automatically adjust capacity to these traffic patterns while keeping costs low.
Which combination of AWS services or features will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A solutions architect is investigating compute options for a critical analytics application. The application uses long-running processes to prepare and aggregate data. The processes cannot be interrupted. The application has a known baseline load. The application needs to handle occasional usage surges.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A solutions architect is creating a data reporting application that will send traffic through third-party network firewalls in an AWS security account. The firewalls and application servers must be load balanced.
The application uses TCP connections to generate reports. The reports can run for several hours and can be idle for up to 1 hour. The reports must not time out during an idle period.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect needs to review all permissions granted to IAM users to determine which users have more permissions than required.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?
A company uses Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases for its data tier. The company must implement password rotation for the databases.
Which solution meets this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is developing a public web application that needs to access multiple AWS services. The application will have hundreds of users who must log in to the application first before using the services.
The company needs to implement a secure and scalable method to grant the web application temporary access to the AWS resources.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses an AWS Transfer for SFTP public server endpoint and Amazon S3 storage to host large datasets for its customers. The company provides customers SSH private keys to authenticate and download their datasets. The Transfer for SFTP server is configured with structured logging that is saved to an S3 bucket. The company wants to charge customers based on their monthly data download usage. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company stores sensitive customer data in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company frequently updates the data. The company wants to use the data to personalize offers for customers.
The company's analytics team has its own AWS account. The analytics team runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances that needs to process data from the DynamoDB tables. The company needs to follow security best practices to create a process to regularly share data from DynamoDB to the analytics team.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is redesigning a static website. The company needs a solution to host the new website in the company's AWS account. The solution must be secure and scalable.
Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company manages multiple AWS accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company's applications run on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple AWS Regions. The company needs a solution to simplify the management of security rules across the accounts in its organization. The solution must apply shared security group rules, audit security groups, and detect unused and redundant rules in VPC security groups across all AWS environments.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company runs an order management application on AWS. The application allows customers to place orders and pay with a credit card. The company uses an Amazon CloudFront distribution to deliver the application. A security team has set up logging for all incoming requests. The security team needs a solution to generate an alert if any user modifies the logging configuration.
Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A developer used the AWS SDK to create an application that aggregates and produces log records for 10 services. The application delivers data to an Amazon Kinesis Data Streams stream.
Each record contains a log message with a service name, creation timestamp, and other log information. The stream has 15 shards in provisioned capacity mode. The stream uses service name as the partition key.
The developer notices that when all the services are producing logs,ProvisionedThroughputExceededException errors occur during PutRecord requests. The stream metrics show that the write capacity the applications use is below the provisioned capacity.
How should the developer resolve this issue?
A company is deploying a critical application by using Amazon RDS for MySQL. The application must be highly available and must recover automatically. The company needs to support interactive users (transactional queries) and batch reporting (analytical queries) with no more than a 4-hour lag. The analytical queries must not affect the performance of the transactional queries.
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A company is building an ecommerce application that uses a relational database to store customer data and order history. The company also needs a solution to store 100 GB of product images. The company expects the traffic flow for the application to be predictable. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
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A global company is migrating its workloads from an on-premises data center to AWS. The AWS environment includes multiple AWS accounts. IAM roles. AWS Config rules, and a VPC.
The company wants an automated process to provision new accounts on demand when the company's business units require new accounts.
Which solution will meet these requirements with LEAST effort?
A solutions architect creates an Auto Scaling group for a memory-intensive application. The solutions architect wants to scale up and scale down based on memory usage. Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company runs a Windows-based ecommerce application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application has a very high transaction rate. The company requires a durable storage solution that can deliver 200,000 IOPS for each EC2 instance.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is using an Amazon Redshift cluster to run analytics queries for multiple sales teams. In addition to the typical workload, on the last Monday morning of each month, thousands of users run reports. Users have reported slow response times during the monthly surge.
The company must improve query performance without impacting the availability of the Redshift cluster.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
Which solution meets these requirements?
A solutions architect is designing a shared storage solution for a web application that is deployed across multiple Availability Zones The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that arein an Auto Scaling group The company plans to make frequent changes to the content The solution must have strong consistency in returning the new content as soon as the changes occur.
Which solutions meet these requirements? (Select TWO)
A company hosts an application used to upload files to an Amazon S3 bucket Once uploaded, the files are processed to extract metadata which takes less than 5 seconds The volume and frequency of the uploads varies from a few files each hour to hundreds of concurrent uploads The company has asked a solutions architect to design a cost-effective architecture that will meet these requirements.
What should the solutions architect recommend?
A company is deploying an application that processes streaming data in near-real time The company plans to use Amazon EC2 instances for the workload The network architecture must be configurable to provide the lowest possible latency between nodes
Which combination of network solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO)
A company is running a photo hosting service in the us-east-1 Region. The service enables users across multiple countries to upload and view photos. Some photos are heavily viewed for months, and others are viewed for less than a week. The application allows uploads of up to 20 MB for each photo. The service uses the photo metadata to determine which photos to display to each user.
Which solution provides the appropriate user access MOST cost-effectively?
A company needs to create an AWS Lambda function that will run in a VPC in the company's primary AWS account. The Lambda function needs to access files that the company stores
in an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system. The EFS file system is located in a secondary AWS account. As the company adds files to the file system the solution must scale to meet the demand.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company hosts a three-tier web application in the AWS Cloud. A Multi-AZ Amazon RDS for MySQL server forms the database layer. Amazon ElastiCache forms the cache layer. The company wants a caching strategy that adds or updates data in the cache when a customer adds an item to the database. The data in the cache must always match the data in the database.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect is designing an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) authorization model for a company's AWS account. The company has designated five specific employees to have full access to AWS services and resources in the AWS account.
The solutions architect has created an IAM user for each of the five designated employees and has created an IAM user group.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants to rearchitect a large-scale web application to a serverless microservices architecture. The application uses Amazon EC2 instances and is written in Python.
The company selected one component of the web application to test as a microservice. The component supports hundreds of requests each second. The company wants to create and test the microservice on an AWS solution that supports Python. The solution must also scale automatically and require minimal infrastructure and minimal operational support.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company's website hosted on Amazon EC2 instances processes classified data stored in Amazon S3 Due to security concerns, the company requires a pnvate and secure connection between its EC2 resources and Amazon S3.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A solutions architect must provide an automated solution for a company's compliance policy that states security groups cannot include a rule that allows SSH from 0.0.0.0/0. The company needs to be notified if there is any breach in the policy. A solution is needed as soon as possible.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company runs a real-time data ingestion solution on AWS. The solution consists of the most recent version of Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). The solution is deployed in a VPC in private subnets across three Availability Zones.
A solutions architect needs to redesign the data ingestion solution to be publicly available over the internet. The data in transit must also be encrypted.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company has NFS servers in an on-premises data center that need to periodically back up small amounts of data to Amazon S3. Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?
A financial company needs to handle highly sensitive data The company will store the data in an Amazon S3 bucket The company needs to ensure that the data is encrypted in transit and at rest The company must manage the encryption keys outside the AWS Cloud
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An ecommerce application uses a PostgreSQL database that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. During a monthly sales event, database usage increases and causes database connection issues for the application. The traffic is unpredictable for subsequent monthly sales events, which impacts the sales forecast. The company needs to maintain performance when there is an unpredictable increase in traffic.
Which solution resolves this issue in the MOST cost-effective way?
A company has a multi-tier payment processing application that is based on virtual machines (VMs). The communication between the tiers occurs asynchronously through a third-party middleware solution that guarantees exactly-once delivery.
The company needs a solution that requires the least amount of infrastructure management. The solution must guarantee exactly-once delivery for application messaging
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company has deployed a multiplayer game for mobile devices. The game requires live location tracking of players based on latitude and longitude. The data store for the game must support rapid updates and retrieval of locations.
The game uses an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance with read replicas to store the location data. During peak usage periods, the database is unable to maintain the performance that is needed for reading and writing updates. The game's user base is increasing rapidly.
What should a solutions architect do to improve the performance of the data tier?
A company stores text files in Amazon S3. The text files include customer chat messages, date and time information, and customer personally identifiable information (Pll).
The company needs a solution to provide samples of the conversations to an external service provider for quality control. The external service provider needs to randomly pick sample conversations up to the most recent conversation. The company must not share the customer Pll with the external service provider. The solution must scale when the number of customer conversations increases.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company's marketing data is uploaded from multiple sources to an Amazon S3 bucket A series ot data preparation jobs aggregate the data for reporting The data preparation jobs need to run at regular intervals in parallel A few jobs need to run in a specific order later
The company wants to remove the operational overhead of job error handling retry logic, and state management
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs a highly available web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The company uses Amazon CloudWatch metrics
As the traffic to the web application Increases, some EC2 instances become overloaded with many outstanding requests The CloudWatch metrics show that the number of requests processed and the time to receive the responses from some EC2 instances are both higher compared to other EC2 instances The company does not want new requests to be forwarded to the EC2 instances that are already overloaded.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an AWS Direct Connect connection from its on-premises location to an AWS account The AWS account has 30 different VPCs in the same AWS Region The VPCs use private virtual interfaces (VIFs) Each VPC has a CIDR block that does not overlap with other networks under the company's control
The company wants to centrally manage the networking architecture while still allowing each VPC to communicate with all other VPCs and on-premises networks
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
A company is running its production and nonproduction environment workloads in multiple AWS accounts. The accounts are in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company needs to design a solution that will prevent the modification of cost usage tags.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs multiple workloads in its on-premises data center. The company's data center cannot scale fast enough to meet the company's expanding business needs. The company wants to collect usage and configuration data about the on-premises servers and workloads to plan a migration to AWS.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An analytics company uses Amazon VPC to run its multi-tier services. The company wants to use RESTful APIs to offer a web analytics service to millions of users. Users must be verified by using an authentication service to access the APIs.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A city has deployed a web application running on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application's users have reported sporadic performance, which appears to be related to DDoS attacks originating from random IP addresses. The city needs a solution that requires minimal configuration changes and provides an audit trail for the DDoS sources.
Which solution meets these requirements?
An online video game company must maintain ultra-low latency for its game servers. The game servers run on Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs a solution that can handle millions of UDP internet traffic requests each second.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company uses AWS Organizations to run workloads within multiple AWS accounts A tagging policy adds department tags to AWS resources when the company creates tags.
An accounting team needs to determine spending on Amazon EC2 consumption The accounting team must determine which departments are responsible for the costs regardless of AWS account The accounting team has access to AWS Cost Explorer for all AWS accounts within the organization and needs to access all reports from Cost Explorer.
Which solution meets these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way'?
A company hosts a data lake on Amazon S3. The data lake ingests data in Apache Parquet format from various data sources. The company uses multiple transformation steps to prepare the ingested data. The steps include filtering of anomalies, normalizing of data to standard date and time values, and generation of aggregates for analyses.
The company must store the transformed data in S3 buckets that data analysts access. The company needs a prebuilt solution for data transformation that does not require code. The solution must provide data lineage and data profiling. The company needs to share the data transformation steps with employees throughout the company.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has a web application that includes an embedded NoSQL database. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group in a single Availability Zone.
A recent increase in traffic requires the application to be highly available and for the database to be eventually consistent
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has Amazon EC2 instances that run nightly batch jobs to process data. The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group that uses On-Demand billing. If a job fails on one instance: another instance will reprocess the job. The batch jobs run between 12:00 AM and 06 00 AM local time every day.
Which solution will provide EC2 instances to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively'?
A company is developing a mobile game that streams score updates to a backend processor and then posts results on a leaderboard A solutions architect needs to design a solution that can handle large traffic spikes process the mobile game updates in order of receipt, and store the processed updates in a highly available database The company also wants to minimize the management overhead required to maintain the solution
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
An ecommerce company runs applications in AWS accounts that are part of an organization in AWS Organizations The applications run on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL databases across all the accounts The company needs to prevent malicious activity and must identify abnormal failed and incomplete login attempts to the databases
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company built an application with Docker containers and needs to run the application in the AWS Cloud The company wants to use a managed sen/ice to host the application
The solution must scale in and out appropriately according to demand on the individual container services The solution also must not result in additional operational overhead or infrastructure to manage
Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO)
A company wants to analyze and troubleshoot Access Denied errors and Unauthonzed errors that are related to IAM permissions The company has AWS CloudTrail turned on Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?
A company has applications that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances connect to Amazon RDS databases by using an IAM role that has associated policies. The company wants to use AWS Systems Manager to patch the EC2 instances without disrupting the running applications.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company's application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in multiple Availability Zones. The application needs to ingest real-time data from third-party applications.
The company needs a data ingestion solution that places the ingested raw data in an Amazon S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is deploying a new application to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with an AWS Fargate cluster. The application needs a storage solution for data persistence. The solution must be highly available and fault tolerant. The solution also must be shared between multiple application containers.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company maintains about 300 TB in Amazon S3 Standard storage month after month The S3 objects are each typically around 50 GB in size and are frequently replaced with multipart uploads by their global application The number and size of S3 objects remain constant but the company's S3 storage costs are increasing each month.
How should a solutions architect reduce costs in this situation?
A research company runs experiments that are powered by a simu-lation application and a visualization application. The simu-lation application runs on Linux and outputs intermediate data to an NFS share every 5 minutes. The visualization application is a Windows desktop application that displays the simu-lation output and requires an SMB file system.
The company maintains two synchronized file systems. This strategy is causing data duplication and inefficient resource usage. The company needs to migrate the applications to AWS without making code changes to either application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is deploying an application in three AWS Regions using an Application Load Balancer Amazon Route 53 will be used to distribute traffic between these Regions. Which Route 53 configuration should a solutions architect use to provide the MOST high-performing experience?
A pharmaceutical company is developing a new drug. The volume of data that the company generates has grown exponentially over the past few months. The company's researchers regularly require a subset of the entire dataset to be immediately available with minimal lag. However the entire dataset does not need to be accessed on a daily basis. All the data currently resides in on-premises storage arrays, and the company wants to reduce ongoing capital expenses.
Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company has an application that delivers on-demand training videos to students around the world. The application also allows authorized content developers to upload videos. The data is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-2 Region.
The company has created an S3 bucket in the eu-west-2 Region and an S3 bucket in the ap-southeast-1 Region. The company wants to replicate the data to the new S3 buckets. The company needs to minimize latency for developers who upload videos and students who stream videos near eu-west-2 and ap-southeast-1.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the FEWEST changes to the application? (Select TWO.)
A company manages AWS accounts in AWS Organizations. AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On) and AWS Control Tower are configured for the accounts. The company wants to manage multiple user permissions across all the accounts.
The permissions will be used by multiple IAM users and must be split between the developer and administrator teams. Each team requires different permissions. The company wants a solution that includes new users that are hired on both teams.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is designing a new web application that will run on Amazon EC2 Instances. The application will use Amazon DynamoDB for backend data storage. The application traffic will be unpredictable. T company expects that the application read and write throughput to the database will be moderate to high. The company needs to scale in response to application traffic.
Which DynamoDB table configuration will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company wants to analyze and generate reports to track the usage of its mobile app. The app is popular and has a global user base The company uses a custom report building program to analyze application usage.
The program generates multiple reports during the last week of each month. The program takes less than 10 minutes to produce each report. The company rarely uses the program to generate reports outside of the last week of each month. The company wants to generate reports in the least amount of time when the reports are requested.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company that uses AWS Organizations runs 150 applications across 30 different AWS accounts The company used AWS Cost and Usage Report to create a new report in the management account The report is delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket that is replicated to a bucket in the data collection account.
The company's senior leadership wants to view a custom dashboard that provides NAT gateway costs each day starting at the beginning of the current month.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs to optimize the cost of its Amazon EC2 Instances. The company also needs to change the type and family of its EC2 instances every 2-3 months.
What should the company do lo meet these requirements?
A company has released a new version of its production application The company's workload uses Amazon EC2. AWS Lambda. AWS Fargate. and Amazon SageMaker. The company wants to cost optimize the workload now that usage is at a steady state. The company wants to cover the most services with the fewest savings plans. Which combination of savings plans will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company is creating a prototype of an ecommerce website on AWS. The website consists of an Application Load Balancer, an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances for web servers, and an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance that runs with the Single-AZ configuration.
The website is slow to respond during searches of the product catalog. The product catalog is a group of tables in the MySQL database that the company does not ate frequently. A solutions architect has determined that the CPU utilization on the DB instance is high when product catalog searches occur.
What should the solutions architect recommend to improve the performance of the website during searches of the product catalog?
A company stores sensitive data in Amazon S3 A solutions architect needs to create an encryption solution The company needs to fully control the ability of users to create, rotate, and disable encryption keys with minimal effort for any data that must be encrypted.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs containers in a Kubernetes environment in the company's local data center. The company wants to use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and other AWS managed services Data must remain locally in the company's data center and cannot be stored in any remote site or cloud to maintain compliance
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs a solution to prevent AWS CloudFormation stacks from deploying AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) resources that include an inline policy or "•" in the statement The solution must also prohibit deployment ot Amazon EC2 instances with public IP addresses The company has AWS Control Tower enabled in its organization in AWS Organizations.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is migrating five on-premises applications to VPCs in the AWS Cloud. Each application is currently deployed in isolated virtual networks on premises and should be deployed similarly in the AWS Cloud. The applications need to reach a shared services VPC. All the applications must be able to communicate with each other.
If the migration is successful, the company will repeat the migration process for more than 100 applications.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?
A company uses Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP in its primary AWS Region for CIFS and NFS file shares. Applications that run on Amazon EC2 instances access the file shares The company needs a storage disaster recovery (OR) solution in a secondary Region. The data that is replicated in the secondary Region needs to be accessed by using the same protocols as the primary Region.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is developing an application to support customer demands. The company wants to deploy the application on multiple Amazon EC2 Nitro-based instances within the same Availability Zone. The company also wants to give the application the ability to write to multiple block storage volumes in multiple EC2 Nitro-based instances simultaneously to achieve higher application availability.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) to run its self-managed database The company has 350 TB of data spread across all EBS volumes. The company takes daily EBS snapshots and keeps the snapshots for 1 month. The dally change rate is 5% of the EBS volumes.
Because of new regulations, the company needs to keep the monthly snapshots for 7 years. The company needs to change its backup strategy to comply with the new regulations and to ensure that data is available with minimal administrative effort.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company uses 50 TB of data for reporting The company wants to move this data from on premises to AWS A custom application in the company's data center runs a weekly datatransformation job The company plans to pause the application until the data transfer is complete and needs to begin the transfer process as soon as possible
The data center does not have any available network bandwidth for additional workloads. A solutions architect must transfer the data and must configure the transformation job to continue to run in the AWS Cloud.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet The application needs to process sensitive information from an Amazon S3 bucket The application must not use the internet to connect to the S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 Instances in a private subnet. The application needs to store and retrieve data in Amazon S3 buckets. According to regulatory requirements, the data must not travel across the public internet.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company wants to build a logging solution for its multiple AWS accounts. The company currently stores the logs from all accounts in a centralized account. The company has created an Amazon S3 bucket in the centralized account to store the VPC flow logs and AWS CloudTrail logs. All logs must be highly available for 30 days for frequent analysis, retained tor an additional 60 days tor backup purposes, and deleted 90 days after creation.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company has two AWS accounts: Production and Development. The company needs to push code changes in the Development account to the Production account. In the alpha phase, only two senior developers on the development team need access to the Production account. In the beta phase, more developers will need access to perform testing.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an application that is running on Amazon EC2 instances A solutions architect has standardized the company on a particular instance family and various instance sizes based on the current needs of the company.
The company wants to maximize cost savings for the application over the next 3 years. The company needs to be able to change the instance family and sizes in the next 6 months based on application popularity and usage
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is migrating its workloads to AWS. The company has sensitive and critical data in on-premises relational databases that run on SQL Server instances. The company wants to use the AWS Cloud to increase security and reduce operational overhead for the databases. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A video game company is deploying a new gaming application to its global users. The company requires a solution that will provide near real-time reviews and rankings of the players.
A solutions architect must design a solution to provide fast access to the data. The solution must also ensure the data persists on disks in the event that the company restarts the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company wants to migrate an application to AWS. The company wants to increase the application's current availability The company wants to use AWS WAF in the application's architecture.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs workloads in the AWS Cloud The company wants to centrally collect security data to assess security across the entire company and to improve workload protection.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?
A company's near-real-time streaming application is running on AWS. As the data is ingested, a Job runs on the data and takes 30 minutes to complete. The workload frequently experiences high latency due to large amounts of incoming data. A solutions architect needs to design a scalable and serverless solution to enhance performance.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take? (Select TWO.)
A company uses AWS to host its public ecommerce website. The website uses an AWS Global Accelerator accelerator for traffic from the internet. Tt\e Global Accelerator accelerator forwards the traffic to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that is the entry point for an Auto Scaling group.
The company recently identified a ODoS attack on the website. The company needs a solution to mitigate future attacks.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort?
A company has an Amazon S3 data lake The company needs a solution that transforms the data from the data lake and loads the data into a data warehouse every day The data warehouse must have massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities.
Data analysts then need to create and train machine learning (ML) models by using SQL commands on the data The solution must use serverless AWS services wherever possible
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is hosting a high-traffic static website on Amazon S3 with an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has a default TTL of 0 seconds The company wants to implement caching to improve performance for the website However, the company also wants to ensure that stale content Is not served for more than a few minutes after a deployment
Which combination of caching methods should a solutions architect implement to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company is building a web application that serves a content management system. The content management system runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (Al B). The FC? instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability 7ones. Users are constantly adding and updating files, blogs and other website assets in the content management system.
A solutions architect must implement a solution in which all the EC2 Instances share up-to-date website content with the least possible lag time.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company hosts an application on Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances in an Auto Scaling group. Application peak hours occur at the same time each day. Application users report slow application performance at the start of peak hours. The application performs normally 2-3 hours after peak hours begin. The company wants to ensure that the application works properly at the start o* peak hours.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has multiple VPCs across AWS Regions to support and run workloads that are isolated from workloads in other Regions Because of a recent application launch requirement, the company's VPCs must communicate with all other VPCs across all Regions.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of administrative effort?
A company uses GPS trackers to document the migration patterns of thousands of sea turtles. The trackers check every 5 minutes to see if a turtle has moved more than 100 yards (91.4 meters). If a turtle has moved, its tracker sends the new coordinates to a web application running on three Amazon EC2 instances that are in multiple Availability Zones in one AWS Region.
Jgpently. the web application was overwhelmed while processing an unexpected volume of tracker data. Data was lost with no way to replay the events. A solutions
ftitect must prevent this problem from happening again and needs a solution with the least operational overhead.
at should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company runs an application in a VPC with public and private subnets. The VPC extends across multiple Availability Zones. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets. The application uses an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) queue.
A solutions architect needs to design a secure solution to establish a connection between the EC2 instances and the SOS queue
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has migrated a fleet of hundreds of on-premises virtual machines (VMs) to Amazon EC2 instances. The instances run a diverse fleet of Windows Server versions along with several Linux distributions. The company wants a solution that will automate inventory and updates of the operating systems. The company also needs a summary of common vulnerabilities of each instance for regular monthly reviews.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon RDS with default backup settings for Its database tier The company needs to make a dally backup of the database to meet regulatory requirements. The company must retain the backups (or 30 days.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has an internal application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The EC2 instances are compute optimized and use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes.
The company wants to identify cost optimizations across the EC2 instances, the Auto Scaling group, and the EBS volumes.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A development team uses multiple AWS accounts for its development, staging, and production environments. Team members have been launching large Amazon EC2 instances that are underutilized. A solutions architect must prevent large instances from being launched in all accounts.
How can the solutions architect meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
A media company has a multi-account AWS environment in the us-east-1 Region. The company has an Amazon Simple Notification Service {Amazon SNS) topic in a production account that publishes performance metrics. The company has an AWS Lambda function in an administrator account to process and analyze log data.
The Lambda function that is in the administrator account must be invoked by messages from the SNS topic that is in the production account when significant metrics tM* reported.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company runs a stateful production application on Amazon EC2 instances The application requires at least two EC2 instances to always be running.
A solutions architect needs to design a highly available and fault-tolerant architecture for the application. The solutions architect creates an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances.
Which set of additional steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements?
A company has a mobile app for customers The app's data is sensitive and must be encrypted at rest The company uses AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
The company needs a solution that prevents the accidental deletion of KMS keys The solution must use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to send an email notification to administrators when a user attempts to delete a KMS key
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead''
A company is designing an event-driven order processing system Each order requires multiple validation steps after the order is created. An independent AWS Lambda function performs each validation step. Each validation step is independent from the other validation steps Individual validation steps need only a subset of the order event information.
The company wants to ensure that each validation step Lambda function has access to only the information from the order event that the function requires The components of the order processing system should be loosely coupled to accommodate future business changes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants to create a mobile app that allows users to stream slow-motion video clips on their mobile devices. Currently, the app captures video clips and uploads the video clips in raw format into an Amazon S3 bucket. The app retrieves these video clips directly from the S3 bucket. However, the videos are large in their raw format.
Users are experiencing issues with buffering and playback on mobile devices. The company wants to implement solutions to maximize the performance and scalability of the app while minimizing operational overhead.
Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company uses an Amazon CloudFront distribution to serve content pages for its website. The company needs to ensure that clients use a TLS certificate when accessing the company's website. The company wants to automate the creation and renewal of the Tl S certificates.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company has a web application in the AWS Cloud and wants to collect transaction data in real time. The company wants to prevent data duplication and does not want to manage infrastructure. The company wants to perform additional processing on the data after the data is collected.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants to add its existing AWS usage cost to its operation cost dashboard A solutions architect needs to recommend a solution that will give the company access to its usage cost programmatically. The company must be able to access cost data for the current year and forecast costs for the next 12 months.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company deploys Amazon EC2 instances that run in a VPC. The EC2 instances load source data into Amazon S3 buckets so that the data can be processed in the future. According to compliance laws, the data must not be transmitted over the public internet. Servers in the company's on-premises data center will consume the output from an application that runs on the LC2 instances.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company's application is running on Amazon EC2 instances within an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) load balancer Based on the application's history, the company anticipates a spike in traffic during a holiday each year. A solutions architect must design a strategy to ensure that the Auto Scaling group proactively increases capacity to minimize any performance impact on application users.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A media company hosts a web application on AWS for uploading videos. Only authenticated users should upload within a specified time frame after authentication.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company runs its production workload on an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster that includes six Aurora Replicas. The company wants near-real-time reporting queries from one of its departments to be automatically distributed across three of the Aurora Replicas. Those three replicas have a different compute and memory specification from the rest of the DB cluster.
Which solution meets these requirements?
An online gaming company is transitioning user data storage to Amazon DynamoDB to support the company's growing user base. The current architecture includes DynamoDB tables that contain user profiles, achievements, and in-game transactions.
The company needs to design a robust, continuously available, and resilient DynamoDB architecture to maintain a seamless gaming experience for users.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A website uses EC2 instances with Auto Scaling and EFS. How can the company optimize costs?
A company is running a media store across multiple Amazon EC2 instances distributed across multiple Availability Zones in a single VPC. The company wants a high-performing solution to share data between all the EC2 instances, and prefers to keep the data within the VPC only.
What should a solutions architect recommend?
A company stores user data in AWS. The data is used continuously with peak usage during business hours. Access patterns vary, with some data not being used for months at a time. A solutions architect must choose a cost-effective solution that maintains the highest level of durability while maintaining high availability.
Which storage solution meets these requirements?
How can DynamoDB data be made available for long-term analytics with minimal operational overhead?
A medical company wants to perform transformations on a large amount of clinical trial data that comes from several customers. The company must extract the data from a relational databasethatcontains the customer data. Then the company will transform the data by using a series of complex rules. The company will load the data to Amazon S3 when the transformations are complete.
All data must be encrypted where it is processed before the company stores the data in Amazon S3. All data must be encrypted by using customer-specific keys.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational effort?
An ecommerce company is migrating its on-premises workload to the AWS Cloud. The workload currently consists of a web application and a backend Microsoft SQL database for storage.
The company expects a high volume of customers during a promotional event. The new infrastructure in the AWS Cloud must be highly available and scalable.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?
A company is planning to deploy its application on an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless v2 cluster. The application will receive large amounts of traffic. The company wants to optimize the storage performance of the cluster as the load on the application increases
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company needs to migrate a MySQL database from an on-premises data center to AWS within 2 weeks. The database is 180 TB in size. The company cannot partition the database.
The company wants to minimize downtime during the migration. The company's internet connection speed is 100 Mbps.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
How can trade data from DynamoDB be ingested into an S3 data lake for near real-time analysis?
A solutions architect is designing an application that helps users fill out and submit registration forms. The solutions architect plans to use a two-tier architecture that includes a web application server tier and a worker tier.
The application needs to process submitted forms quickly. The application needs to process each form exactly once. The solution must ensure that no data is lost.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company hosts its application on several Amazon EC2 instances inside a VPC. The company creates a dedicated Amazon S3 bucket for each customer to store their relevant information in Amazon S3.
The company wants to ensure that the application running on EC2 instances can securely access only the S3 buckets that belong to the company's AWS account.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company's application is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances and uses AWS Lambda functions for an event-driven architecture. The company uses nonproduction development environments in a different AWS account to test new features before the company deploys the features to production.
The production instances show constant usage because of customers in different time zones. The company uses nonproduction instances only during business hours on weekdays. The company does not use the nonproduction instances on the weekends. The company wants to optimize the costs to run its application on AWS.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company uses an Amazon DynamoDB table to store data that the company receives from devices. The DynamoDB table supports a customer-facing website to display recent activity oncustomer devices The company configured the table with provisioned throughput for writes and reads
The company wants to calculate performance metrics for customer device data on a daily basis. The solution must have minimal effect on the table's provisioned read and write capacity
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has multiple Amazon RDS DB instances that run in a development AWS account. All the instances have tags to identify them as development resources. The company needs the development DB instances to run on a schedule only during business hours.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company currently runs an on-premises stock trading application by using Microsoft Windows Server. The company wants to migrate the application to the AWS Cloud. The company needs to design a highly available solution that provides low-latency access to block storage across multiple Availability Zones. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort?
A company runs its workloads on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The container images that the ECS task definition uses need to be scanned for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). New container images that are created also need to be scanned.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the FEWEST changes to the workloads?
A company is using AWS DataSync to migrate millions of files from an on-premises system to AWS. The files are 10 KB in size on average.
The company wants to use Amazon S3 for file storage. For the first year after the migration the files will be accessed once or twice and must be immediately available. After 1 year the files must be archived for at least 7 years.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company wants to isolate its workloads by creating an AWS account for each workload. The company needs a solution that centrally manages networking components for the workloads. The solution also must create accounts with automatic security controls (guardrails).
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has developed an API using Amazon API Gateway REST API and AWS Lambda. How can latency be reduced for users worldwide?
A company stores data in an on-premises Oracle relational database. The company needs to make the data available in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL for analysis The company uses an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection to connect its on-premises network to AWS.
The company must capture the changes that occur to the source database during the migration to Aurora PostgreSQL.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has Amazon EC2 instances in multiple AWS Regions. The instances all store and retrieve confidential data from the same Amazon S3 bucket. The company wants to improve the security of its current architecture.
The company wants to ensure that only the Amazon EC2 instances within its VPC can access the S3 bucket. The company must block all other access to the bucket.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company is designing the architecture for a new mobile app that uses the AWS Cloud. The company uses organizational units (OUs) in AWS Organizations to manage its accounts. The company wants to tag Amazon EC2 instances with data sensitivity by using values of sensitive and nonsensitive IAM identities must not be able to delete a tag or create instances without a tag
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A media company uses an Amazon CloudFront distribution to deliver content over the internet The company wants only premium customers to have access to the media streams and file content. The company stores all content in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company also delivers content on demand to customers for a specific purpose, such as movie rentals or music downloads.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is building a new furniture inventory application. The company has deployed the application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in their VPC.
A solutions architect has observed that incoming traffic seems to favor one EC2 instance, resulting in latency for some requests.
What should the solutions architect do to resolve this issue?
A company runs its application on Oracle Database Enterprise Edition The company needs to migrate the application and the database to AWS. The company can use the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model while migrating to AWS The application uses third-party database features that require privileged access.
A solutions architect must design a solution for the database migration.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that can handle up to 5,000 messages per second. The solution must publish messages as events to multiple consumers. The messages are upto 500 KB in size. The message consumers need to have the ability to use multiple programming languages to consume the messages with minimal latency. The solution must retain published messages for more than 3 months. The solution must enforce strict ordering of the messages.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A media company is using video conversion tools that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The video conversion tools run on a combination of Windows EC2 instances and Linux EC2 instances. Each video file is tens of gigabytes in size. The video conversion tools must process the video files in the shortest possible amount of time. The company needs a single, centralized file storage solution that can be mounted on all the EC2 instances that host the video conversion tools.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to host an API. The EC2 instances are in a target group that is associated with an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company stores data in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database.
The API has a weekly maintenance window. The company must ensure that the API returns a static maintenance response during the weekly maintenance window.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
A finance company is migrating its trading platform to AWS. The trading platform processes a high volume of market data and processes stock trades. The company needs to establish a consistent, low-latency network connection from its on-premises data center to AWS.
The company will host resources in a VPC. The solution must not use the public internet.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company recently migrated a monolithic application to an Amazon EC2 instance and Amazon RDS. The application has tightly coupled modules. The existing design of the application gives the application the ability to run on only a single EC2 instance.
The company has noticed high CPU utilization on the EC2 instance during peak usage times. The high CPU utilization corresponds to degraded performance on Amazon RDS for read requests. The company wants to reduce the high CPU utilization and improve read request performance.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A digital image processing company wants to migrate its on-premises monolithic application to the AWS Cloud. The company processes thousands of images and generates large files as part of the processing workflow.
The company needs a solution to manage the growing number of image processing jobs. The solution must also reduce the manual tasks in the image processing workflow. The company does not want to manage the underlying infrastructure of the solution.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company runs several websites on AWS for its different brands Each website generates tens of gigabytes of web traffic logs each day. A solutions architect needs to design a scalable solution to give the company's developers the ability to analyze traffic patterns across all the company's websites. This analysis by the developers will occur on demand once a week over the course of several months. The solution must support queries with standard SQL.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company hosts a video streaming web application in a VPC. The company uses a Network Load Balancer (NLB) to handle TCP traffic for real-time data processing. There have been unauthorized attempts to access the application.
The company wants to improve application security with minimal architectural change to prevent unauthorized attempts to access the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has developed a non-production application that is composed of multiple microservices for each of the company's business units. A single development team maintains all the microservices.
The current architecture uses a static web frontend and a Java-based backend that contains the application logic. The architecture also uses a MySQL database that the company hosts on an Amazon EC2 instance.
The company needs to ensure that the application is secure and available globally.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company runs its production workload on Amazon EC2 instances with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. A solutions architect needs to analyze the current EBS volume cost and to recommend optimizations. The recommendations need to include estimated monthly saving opportunities.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A media company hosts its video processing workload on AWS. The workload uses Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group to handle varying levels of demand. The workload stores the original videos and the processed videos in an Amazon S3 bucket.
The company wants to ensure that the video processing workload is scalable. The company wants to prevent failed processing attempts because of resource constraints. The architecturemust be able to handle sudden spikes in video uploads without impacting the processing capability.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST overhead?
A company has several on-premises Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) network storage servers The company wants to reduce the number of these servers by moving to the AWS Cloud. A solutions architect must provide low-latency access to frequently used data and reduce the dependency on on-premises servers with a minimal number of infrastructure changes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company stores customer data in a multitenant Amazon S3 bucket. Each customer's data is stored in a prefix that is unique to the customer. The company needs to migrate data for specific customers to a new. dedicated S3 bucket that is in the same AWS Region as the source bucket. The company must preserve object metadata such as creation date and version IDs.
After the migration is finished, the company must delete the source data for the migrated customers from the original multitenant S3 bucket.
Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements with the LEAST overhead? (Select THREE.)
An online education platform experiences lag and buffering during peak usage hours, when thousands of students access video lessons concurrently. A solutions architect needs to improve the performance of the education platform.
The platform needs to handle unpredictable traffic surges without losing responsiveness. The platform must provide smooth video playback performance at all times. The platform must create multiple copies of each video lesson and store the copies in various bitrates to serve users who have different internet speeds. The smallest video size is 7 GB.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company has stored millions of objects across multiple prefixes in an Amazon S3 bucket by using the Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class. The company needs to delete all data older than 3 years except for a subset of data that must be retained. The company has identified the data that must be retained and wants to implement a serverless solution.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company creates operations data and stores the data in an Amazon S3 bucket for the company's annual audit, an external consultant needs to access an annual report that is stored in the S3 bucket. The external consultant needs to access the report for 7 days.
The company must implement a solution to allow the external consultant access to only the report.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company stores data in Amazon S3. According to regulations, the data must not contain personally identifiable information (Pll). The company recently discovered that S3 buckets havesome objects that contain Pll. The company needs to automatically detect Pll in S3 buckets and to notify the company's security team.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses AWS Organizations with all features enabled and runs multiple Amazon EC2 workloads in the ap-southeast-2 Region. The company has a service control policy (SCP) that prevents any resources from being created in any other Region. A security policy requires the company to encrypt all data at rest.
An audit discovers that employees have created Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes for EC2 instances without encrypting the volumes. The company wants any new EC2instances that any IAM user or root user launches in ap-southeast-2 to use encrypted EBS volumes. The company wants a solution that will have minimal effect on employees who create EBS volumes.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company hosts a serverless application on AWS. The application uses Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database. The company notices an increase in application errors that result from database connection timeouts during times Of peak traffic or unpredictable traffic. The company needs a solution that reduces the application failures with the least amount of change to the code.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company has a serverless website with millions of objects in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company uses the S3 bucket as the origin for an Amazon CloudFront distribution. The company did not set encryption on the S3 bucket before the objects were loaded. A solutions architect needs to enable encryption for all existing objects and for all objects that are added to the S3 bucket in the future.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort?
A company wants to use an event-driven programming model with AWS Lambda. The company wants to reduce startup latency for Lambda functions that run on Java 11. The company does not have strict latency requirements for the applications. The company wants to reduce cold starts and outlier latencies when a function scales up.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company wants to share accounting data with an external auditor. The data is stored in an Amazon RDS DB instance that resides in a private subnet. The auditor has its own AWS account and requires its own copy of the database.
What is the MOST secure way for the company to share the database with the auditor?
A company needs to integrate with a third-party data feed. The data feed sends a webhook to notify an external service when new data is ready for consumption A developer wrote an AWS Lambfe function to retrieve data when the company receives a webhook callback The developer must make the Lambda function available for the third party to call.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company is looking for a solution that can store video archives in AWS from old news footage. The company needs to minimize costs and will rarely need to restore these files. When the h|es are needed, they must be available in a maximum of five minutes.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution?
A company has a three-tier application for image sharing. The application uses an Amazon EC2 instance for the front-end layer, another EC2 instance for the application layer, and a third EC2 instance for a MySQL database. A solutions architect must design a scalable and highly available solution that requires the least amount of change to the application.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A gaming company uses Amazon DynamoDB to store user information such as geographic location, player data, and leaderboards. The company needs to configure continuous backups to an Amazon S3 bucket with a minimal amount of coding. The backups must not affect availability of the application and must not affect the read capacity units (RCUs) that are defined for the table
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company runs an application using Amazon ECS. The application creates resized versions of an original image and then makes Amazon S3 API calls to store the resized images in Amazon S3.
How can a solutions architect ensure that the application has permission to access Amazon $3?
A company has deployed a Java Spring Boot application as a pod that runs on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in private subnets. The application needs to write data to an Amazon DynamoDB table. A solutions architect must ensure that the application can interact with the DynamoDB table without exposing traffic to the internet.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to accomplish this goal? (Choose two.)
A company wants to use high-performance computing and artificial intelligence to improve its fraud prevention and detection technology. The company requires distributed processing to complete a single workload as quickly as possible.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs an infrastructure monitoring service. The company is building a new feature that will enable the service to monitor data in customer AWS accounts. The new feature will call AWS APIs in customer accounts to describe Amazon EC2 instances and read Amazon CloudWatch metrics.
What should the company do to obtain access to customer accounts in the MOST secure way?
A company’s compliance team needs to move its file shares to AWS. The shares run on a Windows Server SMB file share. A self-managed on-premises Active Directory controls access to the files and folders.
The company wants to use Amazon FSx for Windows File Server as part of the solution. The company must ensure that the on-premises Active Directory groups restrict access to the FSx for Windows File Server SMB compliance shares, folders, and files after the move to AWS. The company has created an FSx for Windows File Server file system.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A hospital needs to store patient records in an Amazon S3 bucket. The hospital's compliance team must ensure that all protected health information (PHI) is encrypted in transit and at rest. The compliance team must administer the encryption key for data at rest.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company operates an ecommerce website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in an Auto Scaling group. The site is experiencing performance issues related to a high request rate from illegitimate external systems with changing IP addresses. The security team is worried about potential DDoS attacks against the website. The company must block the illegitimate incoming requests in a way that has a minimal impact on legitimate users.
What should a solutions architect recommend?
A company is moving its on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The database has several applications that write to the same tables. The applications need to be migrated one by one with a month in between each migration. Management has expressed concerns that the database has a high number of reads and writes. The data must be kept in sync across both databases throughout the migration.
What should a solutions architect recommend?
An application running on an Amazon EC2 instance in VPC-A needs to access files in another EC2 instance in VPC-B. Both VPCs are in separate AWS accounts. The network administrator needs to design a solution to configure secure access to EC2 instance in VPC-B from VPC-A. The connectivity should not have a single point of failure or bandwidth concerns.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An application uses an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. The RDS database is becoming low on disk space. A solutions architect wants to increase the disk space without downtime.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort?
A company's data platform uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL database. The database has multiple read replicas and multiple DB instances across different Availability Zones. Users have recently reported errors from the database that indicate that there are too many connections. The company wants to reduce the failover time by 20% when a read replica is promoted to primary writer.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company's applications run on Amazon EC2 instances in Auto Scaling groups. The company notices that its applications experience sudden traffic increases on random days of the week The company wants to maintain application performance during sudden traffic increases.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company hosts multiple production applications. One of the applications consists of resources from Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon RDS, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) across multiple AWS Regions. All company resources are tagged with a tag name of “application” and a value that corresponds to each application. A solutions architect must provide the quickest solution for identifying all of the tagged components.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company wants to use artificial intelligence (Al) to determine the quality of its customer service calls. The company currently manages calls in four different languages, including English. The company will offer new languages in the future. The company does not have the resources to regularly maintain machine learning (ML) models.
The company needs to create written sentiment analysis reports from the customer service call recordings. The customer service call recording text must be translated into English.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company wants to use an AWS CloudFormatlon stack for its application in a test environment. The company stores the CloudFormation template in an Amazon S3 bucket that blocks public access. The company wants to grant CloudFormation access to the template in the S3 bucket based on specific user requests to create the test environment The solution must follow security best practices.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has hired an external vendor to perform work in the company’s AWS account. The vendor uses an automated tool that is hosted in an AWS account that the vendor owns. The vendor does not have IAM access to the company’s AWS account.
How should a solutions architect grant this access to the vendor?
A solutions architect is designing the storage architecture for a new web application used for storing and viewing engineering drawings. All application components will be deployed on the AWS infrastructure.
The application design must support caching to minimize the amount of time that users wait for the engineering drawings to load. The application must be able to store petabytes of data. Which combination of storage and caching should the solutions architect use?
A company is developing an application that will run on a production Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster The EKS cluster has managed node groups that are provisioned with On-Demand Instances.
The company needs a dedicated EKS cluster for development work. The company will use the development cluster infrequently to test the resiliency of the application. The EKS cluster must manage all the nodes.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is creating an application that runs on containers in a VPC. The application stores and accesses data in an Amazon S3 bucket During the development phase, the application will store and access 1 TB of data in Amazon S3 each day. The company wants to minimize costs and wants to prevent traffic from traversing the internet whenever possible.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs a website that stores images of historical events. Website users need the ability to search and view images based on the year that the event in the image occurred. On average, users request each image only once or twice a year The company wants a highly available solution to store and deliver the images to users.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company hosts a website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The website serves static content Website traffic is increasing and the company is concerned about a potential increase in cost.
What should a solutions architect do to reduce the cost of the website?
A company has an on-premises server that uses an Oracle database to process and store customer information The company wants to use an AWS database service to achieve higher availability and to improve application performance. The company also wants to offload reporting from its primary database system.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
An image hosting company uploads its large assets to Amazon S3 Standard buckets The company uses multipart upload in parallel by using S3 APIs and overwrites if the same object is uploaded again. For the first 30 days after upload, the objects will be accessed frequently. The objects will be used less frequently after 30 days, but the access patterns for each object will be inconsistent The company must optimize its S3 storage costs while maintaining high availability and resiliency of stored assets.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A social media company wants to allow its users to upload images in an application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud. The company needs a solution that automatically resizes the images so that the images can be displayed on multiple device types. The application experiences unpredictable traffic patterns throughout the day. The company is seeking a highly available solution that maximizes scalability.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company runs an application on a group of Amazon Linux EC2 instances. For compliance reasons, the company must retain all application log files for 7 years. The log files will be analyzed by a reporting tool that must be able to access all the files concurrently.
Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A social media company is building a feature for its website. The feature will give users the ability to upload photos. The company expects significant increases in demand during large events and must ensure that the website can handle the upload traffic from users.
Which solution meets these requirements with the MOST scalability?
A company runs a web application that is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances in the private subnet of a VPC. An Application Load Balancer (ALB) that extends across the public subnets directs web traffic to the EC2 instances. The company wants to implement new security measures to restrictinbound traffic from the ALB to the EC2 instances while preventing access from any other source inside or outside the private subnet of the EC2 instances.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants lo build a web application on AWS. Client access requests to the website are not predictable and can be idle for a long time. Only customers who have paid a subscription fee can have the ability to sign in and use the web application.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select THREE.)
A recent analysis of a company's IT expenses highlights the need to reduce backup costs. The company's chief information officer wants to simplify the on- premises backup infrastructure and reduce costs by eliminating the use of physical backup tapes. The company must preserve the existing investment in the on- premises backup applications and workflows.
What should a solutions architect recommend?
A company has a financial application that produces reports. The reports average 50 KB in size and are stored in Amazon S3. The reports are frequently accessed during the first week after production and must be stored for several years. The reports must be retrievable within 6 hours.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
An loT company is releasing a mattress that has sensors to collect data about a user's sleep. The sensors will send data to an Amazon S3 bucket. The sensors collect approximately 2 MB of data every night for each mattress. The company must process and summarize the data for each mattress. The results need to be available as soon as possible Data processing will require 1 GB of memory and will finish within 30 seconds.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is using a centralized AWS account to store log data in various Amazon S3 buckets. A solutions architect needs to ensure that the data is encrypted at rest before the data is uploaded to the S3 buckets. The data also must be encrypted in transit.
Which solution meets these requirements?