AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03)
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A company is developing a latency-sensitive application. Part of the application includes several AWS Lambda functions that need to initialize as quickly as possible. The Lambda functions are written in Java and contain initialization code outside the handlers to load libraries, initialize classes, and generate unique IDs.
Which solution will meet the startup performance requirement MOST cost-effectively?
A company hosts a web application in a VPC on AWS. A public Application Load Balancer (ALB) forwards connections from the internet to an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances. The Auto Scaling group runs in private subnets across four Availability Zones.
The company stores data in an Amazon S3 bucket in the same Region. The EC2 instances use NAT gateways in each Availability Zone for outbound internet connectivity.
The company wants to optimize costs for its AWS architecture.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company needs to design a hybrid network architecture The company's workloads are currently stored in the AWS Cloud and in on-premises data centers The workloads require single-digit latencies to communicate The company uses an AWS Transit Gateway transit gateway to connect multiple VPCs
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select TWO.)
A company uses AWS Lambda functions in a private subnet in a VPC to run application logic. The Lambda functions must not have access to the public internet. Additionally, all data communication must remain within the private network. As part of a new requirement, the application logic needs access to an Amazon DynamoDB table.
What is the MOST secure way to meet this new requirement?
A global ecommerce company is planning to enhance its AWS data storage architecture to improve system availability and resilience.
The company handles millions of daily transactions in relational form. It stores unstructured data in the form of images over 4 MB in size.
The solution must provide continuous operation in multiple geographic locations, minimize downtime/data loss, and support both transactional and unstructured data.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company plans to use AWS to run high-performance computing (HPC) workloads and analytics workloads. The company will run HPC workloads on Amazon EC2 instances. The workloads require a high-performance file system that can scale to millions of input/output operations per second (IOPS). Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company is developing a new online gaming application. The application will run on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple AWS Regions and will have a high number of globally distributed users. A solutions architect must design the application to optimize network latency for the users.
Which actions should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company has a three-tier web application that processes orders from customers. The web tier consists of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The processing tier consists of EC2 instances. The company decoupled the web tier and processing tier by using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS). The storage layer uses Amazon DynamoDB.
At peak times some users report order processing delays and halts. The company has noticed that during these delays, the EC2 instances are running at 100% CPU usage, and the SQS queue fills up. The peak times are variable and unpredictable.
The company needs to improve the performance of the application
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants to publish a private website for its on-premises employees. The website consists of several HTML pages and image files. The website must be available only through HTTPS and must be available only to on-premises employees. A solutions architect plans to store the website files in an Amazon S3 bucket.
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 solutions architect is designing a multi-Region disaster recovery (DR) strategy for a company. The company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances in Auto Scaling groups that are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company hosts the application in the company's primary and secondary AWS Regions.
The application must respond to DNS queries from the secondary Region if the primary Region fails. Only one Region must serve traffic at a time.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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A machine learning (ML) team is building an application that uses data that is in an Amazon S3 bucket. The ML team needs a storage solution for its model training workflow on AWS. The ML team requires high-performance storage that supports frequent access to training datasets. The storage solution must integrate natively with Amazon S3. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
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A company is migrating a large amount of data from on-premises storage to AWS. Windows, Mac, and Linux based Amazon EC2 instances in the same AWS Region will access the data by using SMB and NFS storage protocols. The company will access a portion of the data routinely. The company will access the remaining data infrequently.
The company needs to design a solution to host the data.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
An insurance company runs an application on premises to process contracts. The application processes jobs that are comprised of many tasks. The individual tasks run for up to 5 minutes. Some jobs can take up to 24 hours in total to finish. If a task fails, the task must be reprocessed.
The company wants to migrate the application to AWS. The company will use Amazon S3 as part of the solution. The company wants to configure jobs to start automatically when a contract is uploaded to an S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 is developing a microservices-based application to manage the company's delivery operations. The application consists of microservices that process orders, manage a fleet of delivery vehicles, and optimize delivery routes.
The microservices must be able to scale independently and must be able to handle bursts of traffic without any data loss.
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 company needs to give a globally distributed development team secure access to the company's AWS resources in a way that complies with security policies.
The company currently uses an on-premises Active Directory for internal authentication. The company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts that support multiple projects.
The company needs a solution to integrate with the existing infrastructure to provide centralized identity management and access control.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company tracks customer satisfaction by using surveys that the company hosts on its website. The surveys sometimes reach thousands of customers every hour. Survey results are currently sent in email messages to the company so company employees can manually review results and assess customer sentiment.
The company wants to automate the customer survey process. Survey results must be available for the previous 12 months.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST scalable way?
A company has an on-premises application that uses SFTP to collect financial data from multiple vendors. The company is migrating to the AWS Cloud. The company has created an application that uses Amazon S3 APIs to upload files from vendors.
Some vendors run their systems on legacy applications that do not support S3 APIs. The vendors want to continue to use SFTP-based applications to upload data. The company wants to use managed services for the needs of the vendors that use legacy applications.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
An adventure company has launched a new feature on its mobile app. Users can use the feature to upload their hiking and rafting photos and videos anytime. The photos and videos are stored in Amazon S3 Standard storage in an S3 bucket and are served through Amazon CloudFront.
The company needs to optimize the cost of the storage. A solutions architect discovers that most of the uploaded photos and videos are accessed infrequently after 30 days. However, some of the uploaded photos and videos are accessed frequently after 30 days. The solutions architect needs to implement a solution that maintains millisecond retrieval availability of the photos and videos at the lowest possible cost.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has a web application that uses Amazon API Gateway to route HTTPS requests to AWS Lambda functions. The application uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL database for its data storage. The application has experienced unpredictable surges in traffic that overwhelm the database with too many connection requests. The company wants to implement a scalable solution that is more resilient to database failures.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company wants to implement a data lake in the AWS Cloud. The company must ensure that only specific teams have access to sensitive data in the data lake. The company must have row-level access control for the data lake.
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A healthcare provider is planning to store patient data on AWS as PDF files. To comply with regulations, the company must encrypt the data and store the files in multiple locations. The data must be available for immediate access from any environment.
A company has a non-production application that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 instance has an instance profile and an associated IAM role.
The company wants to automate patching for the EC2 instance.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A startup company is hosting a website for its customers on an Amazon EC2 instance. The website consists of a stateless Python application and a MySQL database. The website serves only a small amount of traffic. The company is concerned about the reliability of the instance and needs to migrate to a highly available architecture. The company cannot modify the application code.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to achieve high availability for the website? (Select TWO.)
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A finance company collects streaming data for a real-time search and visualization system. They want to migrate to AWS using a native solution for ingest, search, and visualization.
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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 receives data transfers from a small number of external clients that use SFTP software on an Amazon EC2 instance. The clients use an SFTP client to upload data. The clients use SSH keys for authentication. Every hour, an automated script transfers new uploads to an Amazon S3 bucket for processing.
The company wants to move the transfer process to an AWS managed service and to reduce the time required to start data processing. The company wants to retain the existing user management and SSH key generation process. The solution must not require clients to make significant changes to their existing processes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 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 runs a mobile game app on AWS. The app stores data for every user session. The data updates frequently during a gaming session. The app stores up to 256 KB for each session. Sessions can last up to 48 hours.
The company wants to automate the deletion of expired session data. The company must be able to restore all session data automatically if necessary.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is redesigning its data intake process. In the existing process, the company receives data transfers and uploads the data to an Amazon S3 bucket every night. The company uses AWS Glue crawlers and jobs to prepare the data for a machine learning (ML) workflow.
The company needs a low-code solution to run multiple AWS Glue jobs in sequence and provide a visual workflow.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an application that runs only on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with scheduled scaling actions. However, the capacity does not always increase at the scheduled times, and instances terminate many times a day. A solutions architect must ensure that the instances launch on time and have fewer interruptions.
Which action will meet these requirements?
A company is migrating a legacy application from an on-premises data center to AWS. The application relies on hundreds of cron Jobs that run between 1 and 20 minutes on different recurring schedules throughout the day.
The company wants a solution to schedule and run the cron jobs on AWS with minimal refactoring. The solution must support running the cron jobs in response to an event in the future.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company plans to use an Amazon S3 bucket to archive backup data. Regulations require the company to retain the backup data for 7 years.
During the retention period, the company must prevent users, including administrators, from deleting the data. The company can delete the data after 7 years.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An ecommerce company experiences a surge in mobile application traffic every Monday at 8 AM during the company's weekly sales events. The application's backend uses an Amazon API Gateway HTTP API and AWS Lambda functions to process user requests. During peak sales periods, users report encountering TooManyRequestsException errors from the Lambda functions. The errors result in a degraded user experience. A solutions architect needs to design a scalable and resilient solution that minimizes the errors and ensures that the application's overall functionality remains unaffected.
A company wants to implement new security compliance requirements for its development team to limit the use of approved Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).
The company wants to provide access to only the approved operating system and software for all its Amazon EC2 instances. The company wants the solution to have the least amount of lead time for launching EC2 instances.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company hosts a public web application on AWS. The website has a three-tier architecture. The frontend web tier is comprised of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The application tier is a second Auto Scaling group. The database tier is an Amazon RDS database.
The company has configured the Auto Scaling groups to handle the application's normal level of demand. During an unexpected spike in demand, the company notices a long delay in the startup time when the frontend and application layers scale out. The company needs to improve the scaling performance of the application without negatively affecting the user experience.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A solutions architect is building an Amazon S3 data lake for a company. The company uses Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to ingest customer personally identifiable information (PII) and transactional data in near real-time to an S3 bucket. The company needs to mask all PII data before storing thedata in the data lake.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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?
A company has a website that handles dynamic traffic loads. The website architecture is based on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group that is configured to use scheduled scaling. Each EC2 instance runs code from an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) volume and stores shared data back to the same volume.
The company wants to optimize costs for the website.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
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.
A company stores a large volume of critical data in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL tables. The company is developing several new features for an upcoming product launch. Some of the new features require many table alterations.
The company needs a solution to test the altered tables for several days. After testing, the solution must make the new features available to customers in production.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the HIGHEST availability?
A company runs all its business applications in the AWS Cloud. The company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts.
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 needs to accommodate traffic for a web application that the company hosts on AWS, especially during peak usage hours.
The application uses Amazon EC2 instances as web servers, an Amazon RDS DB instance for database operations, and an Amazon S3 bucket to store transaction documents. The application struggles to scale effectively and experiences performance issues.
The company wants to improve the scalability of the application and prevent future performance issues. The company also wants to improve global access speeds to the transaction documents for the company's global users.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company plans to rehost an application to Amazon EC2 instances that use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) as the attached storage
A solutions architect must design a solution to ensure that all newly created Amazon EBS volumes are encrypted by default. The solution must also prevent the creation of unencrypted EBS volumes
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 company needs to migrate its customer transactions database from on-premises to AWS. The database resides on an Oracle DB instance that runs on a Linux server. According to a new security requirement, the company must rotate the database password each year.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has an application that serves clients that are deployed in more than 20.000 retail storefront locations around the world. The application consists of backend web services that are exposed over HTTPS on port 443 The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 Instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The retail locations communicate with the web application over the public internet. The company allows each retail location to register the IP address that the retail location has been allocated by its local ISP.
The company's security team recommends to increase the security of the application endpoint by restricting access to only the IP addresses registered by the retail locations.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company is planning to connect a remote office to its AWS infrastructure. The office requires permanent and secure connectivity to AWS. The connection must provide secure access to resources in two VPCs. However, the VPCs must not be able to access each other.
A gaming company is building an application that uses a database to store user data. The company wants the database to have an active-active configuration that allows data writes to a secondary AWS Region. The database must achieve a sub-second recovery point objective (RPO).
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An ecommerce company hosts an analytics application on AWS. The company deployed the application to one AWS Region. The application generates 300 MB of data each month. The application stores the data in JSON format. The data must be accessible in milliseconds when needed. The company must retain the data for 30 days. The company requires a disaster recovery solution to back up the data.
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 runs a Microsoft Windows SMB file share on-premises to support an application. The company wants to migrate the application to AWS. The company wants to share storage across multiple Amazon EC2 instances.
Which solutions will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select TWO.)
A company is building an application in the AWS Cloud. The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company uses Amazon Route 53 for the DNS.
The company needs a managed solution with proactive engagement to detect against DDoS attacks.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants to improve the availability and performance of its hybrid application. The application consists of a stateful TCP-based workload hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in different AWS Regions and a stateless UDP-based workload hosted on premises.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to improve availability and performance? (Select TWO.)
A telemarketing company is designing its customer call center functionality on AWS. The company needs a solution that provides multiple speaker recognition and generates transcript files. The company wants to query the transcript files to analyze the business patterns.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs its databases on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The company wants a secure solution to manage the master user password by rotating the password every 30 days. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is running a highly sensitive application on Amazon EC2 backed by an Amazon RDS database Compliance regulations mandate that all personally identifiable information (Pll) be encrypted at rest.
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of changes to the infrastructure?
A company is developing software that uses a PostgreSQL database schema. The company needs to configure development environments and test environments for its developers.
Each developer at the company uses their own development environment, which includes a PostgreSQL database. On average, each development environment is used for an 8-hour workday. The test environments will be used for load testing that can take up to 2 hours each day.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company has a large data workload that runs for 6 hours each day. The company cannot lose any data while the process is running. A solutions architect is designing an Amazon EMR cluster configuration to support this critical data workload.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A logistics company is creating a data exchange platform to share shipment status information with shippers. The logistics company can see all shipment information and metadata. The company distributes shipment data updates to shippers.
Each shipper should see only shipment updates that are relevant to their company. Shippers should not see the full detail that is visible to the logistics company. The company creates an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for each shipper to share data. Some shippers use a mobile app to submit shipment status updates.
The company needs to create a data exchange platform that provides each shipper specific access to the data that is relevant to their company.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company runs several applications on Amazon EC2 instances. The company stores configuration files in an Amazon S3 bucket.
A solutions architect must provide the company's applications with access to the configuration files. The solutions architect must follow AWS best practices for security.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An ecommerce company is planning to migrate an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database to the AWS Cloud. The company needs to migrate the database to SQL Server Always On availability groups. The cloud-based solution must be highly available.
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A company wants to migrate its accounting system from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud in a single AWS Region. Data security and an immutable audit log are the top priorities. The company must monitor all AWS activities for compliance auditing. The company has enabled AWS CloudTrail but wants to make sure it meets these requirements.
Which actions should a solutions architect take to protect and secure CloudTrail? (Select TWO.)
A company currently stores 5 TB of data in on-premises block storage systems. The company's current storage solution provides limited space for additional data. The company runs applications on premises that must be able to retrieve frequently accessed data with low latency. The company requires a cloud-based storage solution.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company is building a serverless application to process orders from an e-commerce site. The application needs to handle bursts of traffic during peak usage hours and to maintain high availability. The orders must be processed asynchronously in the order the application receives them.
A company wants to restrict access to the content of its web application. The company needs to protect the content by using authorization techniques that are available on AWS. The company also wants to implement a serverless architecture for authorization and authentication that has low login latency.
The solution must integrate with the web application and serve web content globally. The application currently has a small user base, but the company expects the application's user base to increase
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A global ecommerce company runs its critical workloads on AWS. The workloads use an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance that is configured for a Multi-AZ deployment.
Customers have reported application timeouts when the company undergoes database failovers. The company needs a resilient solution to reduce failover time
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is developing a serverless, bidirectional chat application that can broadcast messages to connected clients. The application is based on AWS Lambda functions. The Lambda functions receive incoming messages in JSON format.
The company needs to provide a frontend component for the application.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company runs a workload in an AWS Region. Users connect to the workload by using an Amazon API Gateway REST API.
The company uses Amazon Route 53 as its DNS provider and has created a Route 53 Hosted Zone. The company wants to provide unique and secure URLs for all workload users.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency? (Select THREE.)
A company is developing a serverless web application that gives users the ability to interact with real-time analytics from online games. The data from the games must be streamed in real time. The company needs a durable, low-latency database option for user data. The company does not know how many users will use the application. Any design considerations must provide response times of single-digit milliseconds as the application scales.
Which combination of AWS services will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company wants to design a microservices architecture for an application. Each microservice must perform operations that can be completed within 30 seconds.
The microservices need to expose RESTful APIs and must automatically scale in response to varying loads. The APIs must also provide client access control and rate limiting to maintain equitable usage and service availability.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company needs to grant a team of developers access to the company's AWS resources. The company must maintain a high level of security for the resources.
The company requires an access control solution that will prevent unauthorized access to the sensitive data.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has customers located across the world. The company wants to use automation to secure its systems and network infrastructure The company's security team must be able to track and audit all incremental changes to the infrastructure.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an e-commerce site. The site is designed as a distributed web application hosted in multiple AWS accounts under one AWS Organizations organization. The web application is comprised of multiple microservices. All microservices expose their AWS services either through Amazon CloudFront distributions or public Application Load Balancers (ALBs). The company wants to protect public endpoints from malicious attacks and monitor security configurations. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
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 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 stores sensitive financial reports in an Amazon S3 bucket. To comply with auditing requirements, the company must encrypt the data at rest. Users must not have the ability to change the encryption method or remove encryption when the users upload data. The company must be able to audit all encryption and storage actions. Which solution will meet these requirements and provide the MOST granular control?
A company needs to archive an on-premises relational database. The company wants to retain the data. The company needs to be able to run SQL queries on the archived data to create annual reports. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company needs a secure connection between its on-premises environment and AWS. This connection does not need high bandwidth and will handle a small amount of traffic. The connection should be set up quickly.
What is the MOST cost-effective method to establish this type of connection?
A company is developing a containerized web application that needs to be highly available and scalable. The application requires access to GPU resources.
A company uses an Amazon S3 bucket as its data lake storage platform The S3 bucket contains a massive amount of data that is accessed randomly by multiple teams and hundreds of applications. The company wants to reduce the S3 storage costs and provide immediate availability for frequently accessed objects
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?
A company wants to migrate applications from its on-premises servers to AWS. As a first step, the company is modifying and migrating a non-critical application to a single Amazon EC2 instance. The application will store information in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company needs to follow security best practices when deploying the application on AWS.
Which approach should the company take to allow the application to interact with Amazon S3?
A company deploys its applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) behind an Application Load Balancer in an AWS Region. The application needs to store data in a PostgreSQL database engine. The company wants the data in the database to be highly available. The company also needs increased capacity for read workloads.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company runs its critical storage application in the AWS Cloud. The application uses Amazon S3 in two AWS Regions. The company wants the application to send remote user data to the nearest S3 bucket with no public network congestion. The company also wants the application to fail over with the least amount of management of Amazon S3.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an organization in AWS Organizations that has all features enabled. The company has multiple Amazon S3 buckets in multiple AWS Regions around the world. The S3 buckets contain sensitive data.
The company needs to ensure that no personally identifiable information (PII) is stored in the S3 buckets. The company also needs a scalable solution to identify PII.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect is configuring a VPC that has public subnets 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). An internet gateway is attached to the VPC.
The private subnets require access to the internet to allow Amazon EC2 instances to download software updates.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
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.
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A gaming company hosts a browser-based application on AWS. The users of the application consume a large number of videos and images that are stored in Amazon S3. This content is the same for all users.
The application has increased in popularity, and millions of users worldwide are accessing these media files. The company wants to provide the files to the users while reducing the load on the origin.
Which solution meets 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 is migrating a data processing application to AWS. The application processes several short-lived batch jobs that cannot be disrupted. The process generates data after each batch job finishes running. The company accesses the data for 30 days following data generation. After 30 days, the company stores the data for 2 years.
The company wants to optimize costs for the application and data storage. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is developing a social media application. The company anticipates rapid and unpredictable growth in users and data volume. The application needs to handle a continuous high volume of user requests. User requests include long-running processes that store large amounts of user-generated content and user profiles in a relational format. The processes must run in a specific order. The company requires an architecture that can scale resources to meet demand spikes without downtime or performance degradation. The company must ensure that the components of the application can evolve independently without affecting other parts of the system. Which combination of AWS services will meet these requirements?
A company hosts an application in a private subnet. The company has already integrated the application with Amazon Cognito. The company uses an Amazon Cognito user pool to authenticate users.
The company needs to modify the application so the application can securely store user documents in an Amazon S3 bucket.
Which combination of steps will securely integrate Amazon S3 with the application? (Select TWO.)
How can trade data from DynamoDB be ingested into an S3 data lake for near real-time analysis?
A company has a large fleet of vehicles that are equipped with internet connectivity to send telemetry to the company. The company receives over 1 million data points every 5 minutes from the vehicles. The company uses the data in machine learning (ML) applications to predict vehicle maintenance needs and to preorder parts. The company produces visual reports based on the captured data. The company wants to migrate the telemetry ingestion, processing, and visualization workloads to AWS. 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 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 company has a single AWS account. The company runs workloads on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple VPCs in one AWS Region. The company also runs workloads in an on-premises data center that connects to the company's AWS account by using AWS Direct Connect.
The company needs all EC2 instances in the VPCs to resolve DNS queries for the internal.example.com domain to the authoritative DNS server that is located in the on-premises data center. The solution must use private communication between the VPCs and the on-premises network. All route tables, network ACLs, and security groups are configured correctly between AWS and the on-premises data center.
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
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 an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system on Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region. Users connect to the ERP system by using a public API that is hosted on the EC2 instances. International users report slow API response times from their data centers.
A solutions architect needs to improve API response times for the international users.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
An ecommerce company is redesigning a product catalog system to handle millions of products and provide fast access to product information. The system needs to store structured product data such as product name, price, description, and category. The system also needs to store unstructured data such as high-resolution product videos and user manuals. The architecture must be highly available and must be able to handle sudden spikes in traffic during large-scale sales events.
An ecommerce company hosts a three-tier web application in a VPC. The web tier runs on Amazon EC2 instances in two Availability Zones. The company stores a product catalog and customer sales information in Amazon DynamoDB.
The company's finance team uses a reporting application to generate reports of daily product sales. When the finance team runs the daily reports, a sudden performance decrease affects website customers.
The company wants to improve the performance of the system.
Which solution will meet these requirements with MINIMAL changes to the current architecture?
An ecommerce company wants to collect user clickstream data from the company's website for real-time analysis. The website experiences fluctuating traffic patterns throughout the day. The company needs a scalable solution that can adapt to varying levels of traffic.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has set up hybrid connectivity between an on-premises data center and AWS by using AWS Site-to-Site VPN. The company is migrating a workload to AWS.
The company sets up a VPC that has two public subnets and two private subnets. The company wants to monitor the total packet loss and round-trip-time (RTT) between the data center and AWS.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is setting up a development environment on AWS for a team of developers. The team needs to access multiple Amazon S3 buckets to store project data. The team also needs to use Amazon EC2 to run development instances.
The company needs to ensure that the developers have access only to specific Amazon S3 buckets and EC2 instances. Access permissions must be assigned according to each developer's role on the team. The company wants to minimize the use of permanent credentials and to ensure access is securely managed according to the principle of least privilege.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is developing an application in the AWS Cloud. The application's HTTP API contains critical information that is published in Amazon API Gateway. The critical information must be accessible from only a limited set of trusted IP addresses that belong to the company's internal network.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company plans to run a high performance computing (HPC) workload on Amazon EC2 Instances The workload requires low-latency network performance and high network throughput with tightly coupled node-to-node communication.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company plans to deploy containerized microservices in the AWS Cloud. The containers must mount a persistent file store that the company can manage by using OS-level permissions. The company requires fully managed services to host the containers and file store.
A company is creating an application. The company stores data from tests of the application in multiple on-premises locations.
The company needs to connect the on-premises locations to VPCs in an AWS Region in the AWS Cloud. The number of accounts and VPCs will increase during the next year. The network architecture must simplify the administration of new connections and must provide the ability to scale.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?
A company hosts its applications in multiple private and public subnets in a VPC. The applications in the private subnets need to access an API. The API is available on the internet and is hosted in the company's on-premises data center. A solutions architect needs to establish connectivity for applications in the private subnets.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is building a serverless application to process orders from an ecommerce site. The application needs to handle bursts of traffic during peak usage hours and to maintain high availability. The orders must be processed asynchronously in the order the application receives them.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect is designing the architecture for a two-tier web application. The web application consists of an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB) that forwards traffic to an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances.
The EC2 instances must be able to access an Amazon RDS database. The company does not want to rely solely on security groups or network ACLs. Only the minimum resources that are necessary should be routable from the internet.
Which network design meets these requirements?
A company is migrating a production environment application to the AWS Cloud. The company uses Amazon RDS for Oracle for the database layer. The company needs to configure thedatabase to meet the needs of high I/O intensive workloads that require low latency and consistent throughput. The database workloads are read intensive and write intensive.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses a set of Amazon EC2 instances to host a website. The website uses an Amazon S3 bucket to store images and media files.
The company wants to automate website infrastructure creation to deploy the website to multiple AWS Regions. The company also wants to provide the EC2 instances access to the S3 bucket so the instances can store and access data by using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST securely?
A company runs a web application in a single AWS Region. A solutions architect wants to ensure that the web application can continue to operate if the application becomes unavailable in the Region.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company needs to run its external website on Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises virtualized servers. The AWS environment has a 1 GB AWS Direct Connect connection to the data center. The application has IP addresses that will not change. The on-premises and AWS servers are able to restart themselves while maintaining the same IP address if a failure occurs. Some website users have to add their vendors to an allow list, so the solution must have a fixed IP address. The company needs a solution with the lowest operational overhead to handle this split traffic.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
How can a law firm make files publicly readable while preventing modifications or deletions until a specific future date?
A company uses AWS to run its e-commerce platform, which is critical to its operations and experiences a high volume of traffic and transactions. The company has configured a multi-factor authentication (MFA) device to secure its AWS account root user credentials. The company wants to ensure that it will not lose access to the root user account if the MFA device is lost.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs to optimize its Amazon S3 storage costs for an application that generates many files that cannot be recreated Each file is approximately 5 MB and is stored in Amazon S3 Standard storage.
The company must store the files for 4 years before the files can be deleted The files must be immediately accessible The files are frequently accessed in the first 30 days of object creation, but they are rarely accessed after the first 30 days.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application needs to access an Amazon RDS database. The company wants to grant the EC2 instances access permissions to the RDS database while following the principle of least privilege.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an application that receives and processes purchase orders. The application supports only XML data. The company needs to configure the application to accept orders in JSON format. The company does not want to modify the application.
A solutions architect is using an Amazon API Gateway HTTP API to create a new purchase order API. The solutions architect needs to modify the application DNS record to point to the new HTTP API.
A company is developing a latency-sensitive application. Part of the application includes several AWS Lambda functions that need to initialize as quickly as possible. The Lambda functions are written in Java and contain initialization code outside the handlers to load libraries, initialize classes, and generate unique IDs.
Which solution will meet the startup performance requirement MOST cost-effectively?
A company runs a Node.js function on a server in its on-premises data center. The data center stores data in a PostgreSQL database. The company stores the credentials in a connection string in an environment variable on the server. The company wants to migrate its application to AWS and to replace the Node.js application server with AWS Lambda. The company also wants to migrate to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and to ensure that the database credentials are securely managed.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has an ordering application that stores customer information in Amazon RDS for MySQL. During regular business hours, employees run one-time queries for reporting purposes. Timeouts are occurring during order processing because the reporting queries are taking a long time to run. The company needs to eliminate the timeouts without preventing employees from performing queries.
A company launches a new web application that uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database. The company wants to add new features to the application that rely on AI. The company requires vector storage capability to use AI tools.
Which solution will meet this requirement 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. The company wants to minimize the website hosting costs.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A finance company uses an on-premises search application to collect streaming data from various producers. The application provides real-time updates to search and visualization features. The company is planning to migrate to AWS and wants to use an AWS native solution. Which solution will meet these requirements?
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A company runs an application on several Amazon EC2 instances that store persistent data on an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system. The company needs to replicate the data to another AWS Region by using an AWS managed service solution. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
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A company runs an application that uses Docker containers in an on-premises data center. The application runs on a container host that stores persistent data files in a local volume. Container instances use the stored persistent data.
The company wants to migrate the application to fully managed AWS services.
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 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?
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's reporting system delivers hundreds of .csv files to an Amazon S3 bucket each day. The company must convert these files to Apache Parquet format and must store the files in a transformed data bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?
A company has AWS Lambda functions that use environment variables. The company does not want its developers to see environment variables in plaintext.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is migrating mobile banking applications to run on Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC. Backend service applications run in an on-premises data center. The data center has an AWS Direct Connect connection into AWS. The applications that run in the VPC need to resolve DNS requests to an on-premises Active Directory domain that runs in the data center.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?
A company runs a critical public application on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. The application has a microservices architecture. The company needs to implement a solution that collects, aggregates, and summarizes metrics and logs from the application in a centralized location.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company is migrating its online shopping platform to AWS and wants to adopt a serverless architecture.
The platform has a user profile and preference service that does not have a defined schema. The platform allows user-defined fields.
Profile information is updated several times daily. The company must store profile information in a durable and highly available solution. The solution must capture modifications to profile data for future processing.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs a critical Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in a single Availability Zone. The company must improve the availability of the DB instance.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company is building a serverless application to process large video files that users upload. The application performs multiple tasks to process each video file. Processing can take up to 30 minutes for the largest files.
The company needs a scalable architecture to support the processing application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to serve content to users. The company uses Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes to store data.
The company needs to encrypt data in transit and at rest.
Which combination of services will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company runs an application on several Amazon EC2 instances. Multiple Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes are attached to each EC2 instance. The company needs to back up the configurations and the data of the EC2 instances every night. The application must be recoverable in a secondary AWS Region.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A solutions architect is creating a new Amazon CloudFront distribution for an application. Some of the information submitted by users is sensitive. The application uses HTTPS but needs another layer of security. The sensitive information should be protected throughout the entire application stack, and access to the information should be restricted to certain applications.
Which action should the solutions architect take?
A company wants to send data from its on-premises systems to Amazon S3 buckets. The company created the S3 buckets in three different accounts. The company must send the data privately without traveling across the internet. The company has no existing dedicated connectivity to AWS.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A solutions architect is designing the architecture for a web application that has a frontend and a backend. The backend services must receive data from the frontend services for processing. The frontend must manage access to the application by using API keys. The backend must scale without affecting the frontend.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon API Gateway to manage its REST APIs that third-party service providers access The company must protect the REST APIs from SQL injection and cross-site scripting attacks.
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?
A company wants to use AWS Direct Connect to connect the company's on-premises networks to the AWS Cloud. The company runs several VPCs in a single AWS Region. The company plans to expand its VPC fleet to include hundreds of VPCs.
A solutions architect needs to simplify and scale the company's network infrastructure to accommodate future VPCs.
Which service or resource will meet these requirements?
A company is building a new web application on AWS. The application needs to consume files from a legacy on-premises application that runs a batch process and outputs approximately 1 GB of data every night to an NFS file mount.
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?
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 deploying a new application to a VPC on existing Amazon EC2 instances. The application has a presentation tier that uses an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances. The application also has a database tier that uses an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ database.
The VPC has two public subnets that are split between two Availability Zones. A solutions architect adds one private subnet to each Availability Zone for the RDS database. The solutions architect wants to restrict network access to the RDS database to block access from EC2 instances that do not host the new application.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company is building a cloud-based application on AWS that will handle sensitive customer data. The application uses Amazon RDS for the database. Amazon S3 for object storage, and S3 Event Notifications that invoke AWS Lambda for serverless processing.
The company uses AWS IAM Identity Center to manage user credentials. The development, testing, and operations teams need secure access to Amazon RDS and Amazon S3 while ensuring the confidentiality of sensitive customer data. The solution must comply with the principle of least privilege.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
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 primary and secondary data centers that are 500 miles (804.7 km) apart and interconnected with high-speed fiber-optic cable. The company needs a highly available and secure network connection between its data centers and a VPC on AWS for a mission-critical workload.
A solutions architect must choose a connection solution that provides maximum resiliency.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company is enhancing the security of its AWS environment, where the company stores a significant amount of sensitive customer data. The company needs a solution that automatically identifies and classifies sensitive data that is stored in multiple Amazon S3 buckets. The solution must automatically respond to data breaches and alert the company's security team through email immediately when noncompliant data is found.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is developing a new application that uses a relational database to store user data and application configurations. The company expects the application to have steady user growth. The company expects the database usage to be variable and read-heavy, with occasional writes.
The company wants to cost-optimize the database solution. The company wants to use an AWS managed database solution that will provide the necessary performance.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is building a serverless application to process clickstream data from its website. The clickstream data is sent to an Amazon Kinesis Data Streams data stream from the application web servers.
The company wants to enrich the clickstream data by joining the clickstream data with customer profile data from an Amazon Aurora Multi-AZ database. The company wants to use Amazon Redshift to analyze the enriched data. The solution must be highly available.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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?