AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03)
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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 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 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?
A financial service company has a two-tier consumer banking application. The frontend serves static web content. The backend consists of APIs. The company needs to migrate the frontendcomponent to AWS. The backend of the application will remain on premises. The company must protect the application from common web vulnerabilities and attacks.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has resources across multiple AWS Regions and accounts. A newly hired solutions architect discovers that a previous employee did not provide details about the resources inventory. The solutions architect needs to build and map the relationship details of the various workloads across all accounts.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company operates a food delivery service. Because of recent growth, the company ' s order processing system is experiencing scaling problems during peak traffic hours. The current architecture includes Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group that collect orders from an application. A second group of EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group fulfills the orders.
The order collection process occurs quickly, but the order fulfillment process can take longer. Data must not be lost because of a scaling event.
A solutions architect must ensure that the order collection process and the order fulfillment process can both scale adequately during peak traffic hours.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A transaction-processing company has weekly batch jobs that run on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. Transaction volume varies, but CPU utilization is always at least 60% during the batch runs. Capacity must be provisioned 30 minutes before the jobs begin.
Engineers currently scale the Auto Scaling group manually. The company needs an automated solution but cannot allocate time to analyze scaling trends.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the least operational overhead?
A finance company has a web application that generates credit reports for customers. The company hosts the frontend of the web application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances that is associated with an Application Load Balancer ALB. The application generates reports by running queries on an Amazon RDS for SQL Server database.
The company recently discovered that malicious traffic from around the world is abusing the application by submitting unnecessary requests. The malicious traffic is consuming significant compute resources. The company needs to address the malicious traffic.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
An application uses an Amazon SQS queue and two AWS Lambda functions. One of the Lambda functions pushes messages to the queue, and the other function polls the queue and receives queued messages.
A solutions architect needs to ensure that only the two Lambda functions can write to or read from the queue.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is designing a web application on AWS. The application uses a VPN connection between the company ' s on-premises data center and the company ' s VPC.
The company uses Amazon Route 53 as its DNS service. The application must use private DNS records to communicate with the on-premises services from a VPC.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST securely?
A company uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster to store its critical data in the us-east-1 Region. The company wants to develop a disaster recovery plan to recover the database in the us-west-1 Region. The company has a recovery time objective (RTO) of 5 minutes and has a recovery point objective (RPO) of 1 minute.
What should a solutions architect do to 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 runs Amazon EC2 instances as web servers. Peak traffic occurs at two predictable times each day. The web servers remain mostly idle during the rest of the day.
A solutions architect must manage the web servers while maintaining fault tolerance in the most cost-effective way.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs multiple workloads in separate AWS environments. The company wants to optimize its AWS costs but must maintain the same level of performance for the environments.
The company ' s production environment requires resources to be highly available. The other environments do not require highly available resources.
Each environment has the same set of networking components, including the following:
1 VPC
1 Application Load Balancer
4 subnets distributed across 2 Availability Zones 2 public subnets and 2 private subnets
2 NAT gateways 1 in each public subnet
1 internet gateway
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 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 company runs a MySQL database on a single Amazon EC2 instance.
The company needs to improve availability of the database to prepare for power outages.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company runs its legacy web application on AWS. The web application server runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in the public subnet of a VPC. The web application server collects images from customers and stores the image files in a locally attached Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. The image files are uploaded every night to an Amazon S3 bucket for backup.
A solutions architect discovers that the image files are being uploaded to Amazon S3 through the public endpoint. The solutions architect needs to ensure that traffic to Amazon S3 does not use the public endpoint.
A company hosts an application that processes highly sensitive customer transactions on AWS. The application uses Amazon RDS as its database. The company manages its own encryption keys to secure the data in Amazon RDS.
The company needs to update the customer-managed encryption keys at least once each year.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company needs a solution to prevent photos with unwanted content from being uploaded to the company’s web application. The solution must not involve training a machine learning (ML) model.
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?
A company wants to release a new device that will collect data to track overnight sleep on an intelligent mattress. Sensors will send data that will be uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket. Each mattress generates about 2 MB of data each night.
An application must process the data and summarize the data for each user. The application must make the results available as soon as possible. Every invocation of the application will require about 1 GB of memory and will finish running within 30 seconds.
Which solution will run the application MOST cost-effectively?
A company uses an Amazon CloudFront distribution to serve thousands of media files to users. The CloudFront distribution uses a private Amazon S3 bucket as an origin.
A solutions architect must prevent users in specific countries from accessing the company ' s files.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally-efficient way?
A company needs a solution to integrate transaction data from several Amazon DynamoDB tables into an existing Amazon Redshift data warehouse. The solution must maintain the provisioned throughput of DynamoDB.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The instances are in an EC2 Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in a single AWS Region. In the application, multiple users share the same long-running session. These shared sessions result in uneven loads across the EC2 instances.
The company plans to launch the application in additional AWS Regions. The company will deploy an ALB and an Auto Scaling group in each additional Region.
The company requires a solution that keeps users who share a session connected to the same EC2 instance. The solution must minimize network latency and distribute loads more evenly across the EC2 instances.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company runs an application on premises. The application needs to periodically upload large files to an Amazon S3 bucket. A solutions architect needs a solution to provide the application with short-lived authenticated access to the S3 bucket. The solution must not use long-term credentials. The solution needs to be secure and scalable.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company runs its applications on both Amazon EKS clusters and on-premises Kubernetes clusters. The company wants to view all clusters and workloads from a central location.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company wants to protect resources that the company hosts on AWS, including Application Load Balancers and Amazon CloudFront distributions.
The company wants an AWS service that can provide near real-time visibility into attacks on the company ' s resources. The service must also have a dedicated AWS team to assist with DDoS attacks.
Which AWS service will meet these requirements?
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 solutions architect is creating a website that will be hosted from an Amazon S3 bucket. The website must support secure browser connections (HTTPS).
Which combination of actions must the solutions architect take to meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. The company needs a secure, event-driven architecture in which specific Amazon SNS topics in Account A can publish messages to specific Amazon SQS queues in Account B.
Which solution meets these requirements while maintaining least privilege?
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 running a two-tier web-based application in an on-premises data center. The application layer consists of a single server running a stateful application. The application connects to a PostgreSQL database running on a separate server. The user base is expected to grow significantly, so the company is migrating the application and database to AWS. The solution will use Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing.
Which solution will provide a consistent user experience that will allow the application and database tiers to scale?
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 networking solution meets these requirements?
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?
A company has an online gaming application that has TCP and UDP multiplayer gaming capabilities. The company uses Amazon Route 53 to point the application traffic to multiple Network Load Balancers (NLBs) in different AWS Regions. The company needs to improve application performance and decrease latency for the online game in preparation for user growth.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 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 is designing the network for an online multi-player game. The game uses the UDP networking protocol and will be deployed in eight AWS Regions. The network architecture needs to minimize latency and packet loss to give end users a high-quality gaming experience.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An analytics application runs on multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances that use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Standard storage. The files vary in size and access frequency. The company accesses the files infrequently after 30 days. However, users sometimes request older files to generate reports.
The company wants to reduce storage costs for files that are accessed infrequently. The company also wants throughput to adjust based on the size of the file system. The company wants to use the TransitionToIA Amazon EFS lifecycle policy to transition files to Infrequent Access (IA) storage after 30 days.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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?
A company runs a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer ALB. The application is served at one hostname that has two dynamic paths. The first path is named /reports and performs CPU-intensive work that has unpredictable traffic. The second path is named /generateToken and must always respond in less than 1 second. All requests currently go to a single target group. The /generateToken path latency exceeds 1 second during periods when the /reports usage is high. The company must ensure that latency for /generateToken remains under 1 second.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
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 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 company has an application that uses a MySQL database that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The instance currently runs in a single Availability Zone. The company requires a fault-tolerant database solution that provides a recovery time objective (RTO) and a recovery point objective (RPO) of 2 minutes or less. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants to create an API to authorize users by using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). The company needs to support dynamic access to multiple AWS services by using path-based routing.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A website runs on Amazon EC2 behind an ALB with Amazon CloudFront in front. The site is receiving a high rate of unwanted requests from specific IP addresses.
How should the solutions architect address this problem?
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 an ecommerce application that users access through multiple mobile apps and web applications. The company needs a solution that will receive requests from the mobile apps and web applications through an API.
Request traffic volume varies significantly throughout each day. Traffic spikes during sales events. The solution must be loosely coupled and ensure that no requests are lost.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A video production company stores raw 4K video footage on an Amazon EFS file system by using the EFS Standard storage class. Each video file is around 100 GB. The EFS file system is mounted to an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances that transcode the video files.
Editors need to access each file frequently for up to 90 days. After 90 days, the files are rarely needed. However, the files must remain available with sub-second latency for on-demand edit requests.
The company wants to reduce monthly storage costs without any changes to the existing mount points that the editors use.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company ' s SAP application has a backend SQL Server database in an on-premises environment. The company wants to migrate its on-premises application and database server to AWS. The company needs an instance type that meets the high demands of its SAP database. On-premises performance data shows that both the SAP application and the database have high memory utilization.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs an application on EC2 instances that need access to RDS credentials stored in AWS Secrets Manager.
Which solution meets this requirement?
A company is building a serverless application to process ecommerce orders. The application must handle bursts of traffic and process orders asynchronously in the order received.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 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 is implementing a new policy to enhance the security of its AWS environment. The policy requires all administrative actions that users perform on the AWS Management Console to be secured by multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Which solution will allow the company to enforce this policy in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company plans to deploy an application that uses an Amazon CloudFront distribution. The company will set an Application Load Balancer (ALB) as the origin for the distribution. The company wants to ensure that users access the ALB only through the CloudFront distribution. The company plans to deploy the solution in a new VPC.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company hosts a public web application on AWS with a three-tier architecture: a frontend Auto Scaling group, an application Auto Scaling group, and an Amazon RDS database.
During unexpected traffic spikes, the company notices long delays in startup time when the frontend and application tiers scale out. The company needs to improve scaling performance without negatively affecting user experience.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A marketing team wants to build a campaign for an upcoming multi-sport event. The team has news reports from the past five years in PDF format. The team needs a solution to extract insights about the content and the sentiment of the news reports. The solution must use Amazon Textract to process the news reports.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is designing a website that displays stock market prices to users. The company wants to use Amazon ElastiCache Redis OSS for the data caching layer. The company needs to ensure that the website’s data caching layer can automatically fail over to another node if necessary.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company generates approximately 20 GB of data multiple times each day. The company uses AWS DataSync to copy all data from on-premises storage to Amazon S3 every 6 hours for further processing. The analytics team wants to modify the copy process to copy only data relevant to the analytics team and ignore the rest of the data. The team wants to copy data as soon as possible and receive a notification when the copy process is finished. Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select THREE.)
A company needs to design a solution to process videos that users upload to an Amazon S3 bucket. Each video file is approximately 1 GB in size and takes approximately 20 minutes to process. During peak hours, the company expects to process approximately 100 simultaneous uploads. The video file processing is stateless and can run in parallel as soon as the video files arrive in the S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective way?
A company wants to share data that is collected from self-driving cars with the automobile community. The data will be made available from within an Amazon S3 bucket. The company wants to minimize its cost of making this data available to other AWS accounts.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?
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 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?
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 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?
A company runs an application that consists of multiple microservices. The company mandates that the microservices use messages to communicate with each other. The application must archive the microservices ' messages for 30 days.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of development effort?
A company is building an application on AWS that connects to an Amazon RDS database. The company wants to manage the application configuration and to securely store and retrieve credentials for the database and other services.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?
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 that are granted to IAM users to determine which IAM users have more permissions than required.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?
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?
A company wants to use automatic machine learning (ML) to create and visualize forecasts of complex scenarios and trends.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST management overhead?
A healthcare company is developing an AWS Lambda function that publishes notifications to an encrypted Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. The notifications contain protected health information (PHI).
The SNS topic uses AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer-managed keys for encryption. The company must ensure that the application has the necessary permissions to publish messages securely to the SNS topic.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company runs an application that stores and shares photos. Users upload the photos to an Amazon S3 bucket. Every day, users upload approximately 150 photos. The company wants to design a solution that creates a thumbnail of each new photo and stores the thumbnail in a second S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is designing an IPv6 application that is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet within a VPC. The application will store user-uploaded content in Amazon S3 buckets. The application will save each S3 object ' s URL link and metadata in Amazon DynamoDB.
The company must not use public internet connections to transmit user-uploaded content or metadata.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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?
A company is building an ecommerce platform that will allow customers to place orders online. Customer traffic varies significantly. An order-processing microservice is running on a group of Amazon EC2 instances. A solutions architect must ensure that the application remains responsive and decoupled from the frontend. The application must also be able to reprocess orders that the application fails to process on the first attempt. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company operates multiple VPCs in a single AWS account. Account users need temporary access to Amazon S3 buckets. The S3 buckets are private and have no public endpoints.
The solution must follow the principle of least privilege for access to each environment and must avoid distributing permanent access keys.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company hosts a website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances run Amazon Linux in an Auto Scaling group. Each instance stores product manuals on Amazon EBS volumes.
New instances often start with outdated data and may take up to 30 minutes to download updates. The company needs a solution ensuring all instances always have up-to-date product manuals, can scale rapidly, and does not require application code changes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is storing data in Amazon S3 buckets. The company needs to retain any objects that contain personally identifiable information (PII) that might need to be reviewed.
A solutions architect must develop an automated solution to identify objects that contain PII and apply the necessary controls to prevent deletion before review.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
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 company runs an application that stores and shares photos. Users upload photos to an Amazon S3 bucket. Approximately 150 photos are uploaded daily. The company wants to create a thumbnail for each new photo and store it in a second S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company currently runs a Linux-based application in a self-managed Docker container that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. The application runs a lightweight data processing tool that always completes its job within 3 minutes. The company wants an alternative deployment solution for the application to reduce infrastructure management overhead. The company is willing to make any required changes to the image.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company deployed an application in two AWS Regions. If the application becomes unavailable in one Region, the application must fail over to the second Region. The failover process must avoid stale DNS client caches. The company wants to use one endpoint to access both copies of the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs a multi-tier web application that hosts news content. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones and use an Amazon Aurora database.
A solutions architect needs to make the application more resilient to periodic increases in request rates.
Which architecture should the solutions architect implement? (Select TWO.)
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 hosts an application on AWS that uses an Amazon S3 bucket and an Amazon Aurora database. The company wants to implement a multi-Region disaster recovery DR strategy that minimizes potential data loss.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 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 has an on-premises SFTP file transfer solution. The company is migrating to the AWS Cloud to scale the file transfer solution and to optimize costs by using Amazon S3. The company ' s employees will use their credentials for the on-premises Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to access the new solution The company wants to keep the current authentication and file access mechanisms.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company wants to use a data lake that is hosted on Amazon S3 to provide analytics services for historical data. The data lake consists of 800 tables but is expected to grow to thousands of tables. More than 50 departments use the tables, and each department has hundreds of users. Different departments need access to specific tables and columns.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
An ecommerce company stores terabytes of customer data in the AWS Cloud. The data contains personally identifiable information (PII). The company wants to use the data in three applications. Only one of the applications needs to process the PII. The PII must be removed before the other two applications process the data.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has applications that run in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company outsources operational support of the applications. The company needs to provide access for the external support engineers without compromising security.
The external support engineers need access to the AWS Management Console. The external support engineers also need operating system access to the company ' s fleet of Amazon EC2 instances that run Amazon Linux in private subnets.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST securely?
A company is preparing to store confidential data in Amazon S3. For compliance reasons, the data must be encrypted at rest. Encryption key usage must be logged for auditing purposes. Keys must be rotated every year.
Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally efficient?
A financial company is migrating its banking applications to a set of AWS accounts managed by AWS Organizations. The applications will store sensitive customer data on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. The company will take regular snapshots for backup purposes.
The company wants to implement controls across all AWS accounts to prevent sharing EBS snapshots publicly.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company runs its application by using Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Lambda functions. The EC2 instances run in private subnets of a VPC. The Lambda functions need direct network access to the EC2 instances for the application to work.
The application will run for 1 year. The number of Lambda functions that the application uses will increase during the 1-year period. The company must minimize costs on all application resources.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 company is using microservices to build an ecommerce application on AWS. The company wants to preserve customer transaction information after customers submit orders. The company wants to store transaction data in an Amazon Aurora database. The company expects sales volumes to vary throughout each year.
A company ' s ecommerce website has unpredictable traffic and uses AWS Lambda functions to directly access a private Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance. The company wants to maintain predictable database performance and ensure that the Lambda invocations do not overload the database with too many connections.
What should a solutions architect do to meet 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 runs multiple web applications on Amazon EC2 instances behind a single Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application experiences unpredictable traffic spikes throughout each day. The traffic spikes cause high latency. The unpredictable spikes last less than 3 hours. The company needs a solution to resolve the latency issue caused by traffic spikes.
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 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 recently migrated its application to a VPC on AWS. An AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection connects the company ' s on-premises network to the VPC. The application retrieves customer data from another system that resides on premises. The application uses an on-premises DNS server to resolve domain records. After the migration, the application is not able to connect to the customer data because of name resolution errors.
Which solution will give the application the ability to resolve the internal domain names?
A company has a batch processing application that runs every day. The process typically takes an average 3 hours to complete. The application can handle interruptions and can resume the process after a restart. Currently, the company runs the application on Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances.
The company wants to optimize costs while maintaining the same performance level.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is designing a new multi-tier web application that consists of the following components:
• Web and application servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances as part of Auto Scaling groups
• An Amazon RDS DB instance for data storage
A solutions architect needs to limit access to the application servers so that only the web servers can access them. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company operates a data lake in Amazon S3. The company wants to query and filter data directly in S3 without downloading objects.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 company is building an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster for its workloads. All secrets that are stored in Amazon EKS must be encrypted in the Kubernetes etcd key-value store.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect manages a web application for a company. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The Auto Scaling group configuration includes a minimum of 3 instances and a maximum of 300 instances. The maximum helps handle unpredictable, short-lived traffic surges.
The application must scale to meet demand. However, to help manage costs, the number of running instances should not exceed 180 for longer than 1 continuous hour.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company hosts an application on AWS and has generated approximately 2.5 TB of data over 12 years. The data is stored on Amazon EBS volumes.
The company wants a cost-effective backup solution for long-term storage and must be able to retrieve the data within minutes for audits.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs applications and stores data in multiple AWS accounts. The company uses AWS Organizations to manage all its accounts.
The company needs a solution to efficiently and centrally manage data backups for the AWS services that the company uses. The solution must improve the company ' s disaster recovery posture. The solution must also protect data backups against accidental deletion or a malicious attack on an AWS account.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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. The 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 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.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 is designing a solution to capture customer activity on the company ' s web applications. The company wants to analyze the activity data to make predictions.
Customer activity on the web applications is unpredictable and can increase suddenly. The company requires a solution that integrates with other web applications. The solution must include an authorization step.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is creating a new application that will store a large amount of data. The data will be analyzed hourly and will be modified by several Amazon EC2 Linux instances that are deployed across multiple Availability Zones. The needed amount of storage space will continue to grow for the next 6 months.
Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company is building a serverless web application that will serve customers globally by using REST API endpoints. The application must minimize latency regardless of the application us-er ' s geographic location. The initial amount of traffic that the application will handle is un-known.
A company stores a large number of image files in an Amazon S3 bucket. The images need to be readily available for 180 days. The company rarely accesses images that are older than 180 days. However, the company must be able to access images immediately when necessary.
The company wants to archive images that are older than 360 days, but the company must be able to access the images instantly when required. The images cannot be deleted. The company requires high availability and redundancy throughout the entire lifecycle of the files.
The company will use S3 Standard storage for the first 180 days. The company needs to configure S3 Lifecycle rules to handle the remaining lifecycle stages of the files.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
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 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 uses Amazon Route 53 as its DNS provider. The company hosts a website both on premises and in the AWS Cloud. The company ' s on-premises data center is near the us-west-1 Region. The company hosts the website on AWS in the eu-central-1 Region.
The company wants to optimize load times for the website as much as possible.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An application team uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts in a dedicated organizational unit OU. The accounts do not host production workloads.
The application team is implementing an ecommerce solution by using Amazon EC2 instances. A solutions architect needs to implement controls to prevent the application team from exceeding the project budget for the application.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company uses a Microsoft SQL Server database. The applications currently connect using SQL Server protocols. The company wants to migrate to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with minimal changes to application code.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company is migrating a new application from an on-premises data center to a new VPC in the AWS Cloud. The company has multiple AWS accounts and VPCs that share many subnets and applications. The company wants to have fine-grained access control for the new application.The company wants to ensure that all network resources across accounts and VPCs that are granted permission to access the new application can access the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 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?
An internal product team is deploying a new application to a private VPC in a company ' s AWS account. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in a security group named App1. The EC2 instances store application data in an Amazon S3 bucket and use AWS Secrets Manager to store application service credentials. The company ' s security policy prohibits applications in a private VPC from using public IP addresses to communicate.
Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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 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?
A company stores 5 PB of archived data on physical tapes in an on-premises data center. The company needs to retain the data for 10 years. The company does not want to change an existing backup workflow. The data center that stores the tapes has a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection to an AWS Region. The company wants to migrate the data to AWS as soon as possible.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective way?
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 runs business applications on AWS. The company uses 50 AWS accounts, thousands of VPCs, and three AWS Regions across the United States and Europe. The company has an existing AWS Direct Connect connection that connects an on-premises data center to a single Region.
A solutions architect needs to establish network connectivity between the on-premises data center and the remaining two Regions. The solutions architect must also establish connectivity between the VPCs. On-premises users and applications must be able to connect to applications that run in the VPCs. The solutions architect creates a transit gateway in each Region and configures the transit gateways as inter-Region peers.
What should the solutions architect do next to meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon S3 to host its static website. The company wants to add a contact form to the webpage. The contact form will have dynamic server-side components for users to input their name, email address, phone number, and user message.
The company expects fewer than 100 site visits each month. The contact form must notify the company by email when a customer fills out the form.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company needs to create a compliance management solution. The company wants to use a combination of AWS services to achieve the fine-grained visibility that the solution requires. The compliance management solution must provide a centralized method for company employees to review security findings and out-of-compliance findings.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST ongoing maintenance?
A company is creating a web application that will store a large number of images in Amazon S3. The images will be accessed by users over variable periods of time. The company wants to:
Retain all the images.
Incur no cost for retrieval.
Have minimal management overhead.
Have the images available with no impact on retrieval time.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company needs to use its on-premises LDAP directory service to authenticate its users to the AWS Management Console. The directory service is not compatible with Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML).
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company wants to share data between applications that run in separate AWS accounts. The company wants to use Amazon API Gateway REST APIs to expose private APIs. The company wants to ensure that only authorized accounts can invoke the private APIs.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company runs a website on Amazon EC2 instances. Clients use the HTTP protocol to connect to the application. The company does not want the EC2 instances to have internet access. However, the application should remain available through the internet. The application must scale in response to traffic demands.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is building a data processing application that uses AWS Lambda functions. The Lambda functions need to communicate with an Amazon RDS DB instance deployed inside a VPC in the same AWS account.
Which solution meets these requirements in the most secure way?
A company is designing an application to maintain a record of customer orders. The application will generate events. The company wants to use an Amazon EventBridge event bus to send the application ' s events to an Amazon DynamoDB table. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A weather forecasting company needs to process hundreds of gigabytes of data with sub-millisecond latency. The company has a high performance computing (HPC) environment in its data center and wants to expand its forecasting capabilities.
A solutions architect must identify a highly available cloud storage solution that can handle large amounts of sustained throughput Files that are stored in the solution should be accessible to thousands of compute instances that will simultaneously access and process the entire dataset.
What should the solutions architect do to 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 uses Amazon EC2 instances spread across two Availability Zones to provide large and small maps to customers. The large maps do not change. The company updates the small maps by adding small metadata files each day. Customers download the large maps once but download the smaller maps frequently. Several Amazon EBS volumes containing replicated data are spread between the Availability Zones.
Which solutions will store the map data MOST cost-effectively? (Select TWO.)
A company is migrating a document management application to AWS. The application runs on Linux servers. The company will migrate the application to Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The company stores 7 TiB of documents in a shared storage file system. An external relational database tracks the documents.
Documents are stored once and can be retrieved multiple times for reference at any time. The company cannot modify the application during the migration. The storage solution must be highly available and must support scaling over time.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company deploys a stateful application on Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances in multiple Availability Zones behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application workload is predictable, and the company has not received any CPU usage alerts. The company expects to run the application for at least 1 year.
The company expects CPU usage to increase by 50% during an upcoming 2-week holiday period. The company wants to optimize costs for the application for both the holiday period and normal operations.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective way?
A solutions architect needs to design a solution for a high performance computing (HPC) workload. The solution must include multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Each EC2 instance requires 10 Gbps of bandwidth individually for single-flow traffic. The EC2 instances require an aggregate throughput of 100 Gbps of bandwidth across all EC2 instances. Communication between the EC2 instances must have low latency.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs an application on premises. The application stores files that the application servers process in a shared storage system. The company uses Linux file system permissions to control access to the files.
The company plans to migrate the application servers to Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones. The company does not want to change the application code.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 company is designing a microservice-based architecture tor a new application on AWS. Each microservice will run on its own set of Amazon EC2 instances. Each microservice will need to interact with multiple AWS services such as Amazon S3 and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS).
The company wants to manage permissions for each EC2 instance based on the principle of least privilege.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
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 runs an ecommerce application on premises on Microsoft SQL Server. The company is planning to migrate the application to the AWS Cloud. The application code contains complex T-SQL queries and stored procedures. The company wants to minimize database server maintenance and operating costs after the migration is completed. The company also wants to minimize the need to rewrite code as part of the migration effort.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses AWS CloudFormation to deploy IAM resources within accounts that AWS Control Tower governs. The security team wants to prevent the deployment of IAM roles that include inline policies with the following statements:
" Effect " : " Allow " , " Action " : " * " , " Resource " : " * "
Which solution will meet this requirement?
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 TLS certificates.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company must follow strict regulations for the management of data encryption keys. The company manages its own key externally and imports the key into AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). The company must control the imported key material and must rotate the key material on a regular schedule.
A solutions architect needs to import the key material into AWS KMS and rotate the key without interrupting applications that use the key.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is implementing a shared storage solution for a media application that the company hosts on AWS. The company needs the ability to use SMB clients to access stored data.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?
A company provides a trading platform to customers. The platform uses an Amazon API Gateway REST API, AWS Lambda functions, and an Amazon DynamoDB table. Each trade that the platform processes invokes a Lambda function that stores the trade data in Amazon DynamoDB. The company wants to ingest trade data into a data lake in Amazon S3 for near real-time analysis. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
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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 company hosts a training website on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances that run web server software. The company anticipates that a new training product will be extremely popular and will receive high user traffic. The training product consists of dozens of training videos that are hosted on the website.
A solutions architect must minimize the load on the company ' s web servers.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A solutions architect needs to build a log storage solution for a client. The client has an application that produces user activity logs that track user API calls to the application. The application typically produces 50 GB of logs each day. The client needs a storage solution that makes the logs available for occasional querying and analytics.
A company hosts a website on Amazon EC2 instances. The website processes classified data. The company stores the processed data in an Amazon S3 bucket. Because of security concerns, the company must ensure that traffic between the EC2 instances and the S3 bucket does not use public IP addresses.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A marketing company receives a large amount of new clickstream data in Amazon S3 from a marketing campaign The company needs to analyze the clickstream data in Amazon S3 quickly. Then the company needs to determine whether to process the data further in the data pipeline.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company ' s packaged application dynamically creates and returns single-use text files in response to user requests. The company is using Amazon CloudFront for distribution, but wants to further reduce data transfer costs. The company cannot modify the application ' s source code.
What should a solutions architect do to reduce costs?
A company runs an HPC workload that uses a 200-TB file system on premises. The company needs to migrate this data to Amazon FSx for Lustre. Internet capacity is 10 Mbps, and all data must be migrated within 30 days.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
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 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 has developed an API using an Amazon API Gateway REST API and AWS Lambda functions. The API serves static and dynamic content to users worldwide. The company wants to decrease the latency of transferring content for API requests.
Options:
The lead member of a DevOps team creates an AWS account. A DevOps engineer shares the account credentials with a solutions architect through a password manager application.
The solutions architect needs to secure the root user for the new account.
Which actions will meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)
A company is deploying a business-critical application that requires durable storage with consistent, low-latency performance.
Which storage option should a solutions architect recommend?
A media company needs to migrate its Windows-based video editing environment to AWS. The company ' s current environment processes 4K video files that require sustained throughput of 2 GB per second across multiple concurrent users.
The company ' s storage needs increase by 1 TB each week. The company needs a shared file system that supports SMB protocol and can scale automatically based on storage demands.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company hosts an industrial control application that receives sensor input through Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. The application needs to support new sensors for real-time anomaly detection in monitored equipment.
The company wants to integrate new sensors in a loosely-coupled, fully managed, and serverless way. The company cannot modify the application code.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company deployed an application in two AWS Regions. If the application fails in one Region, traffic must fail over to the second Region. The failover must avoid stale DNS client caches, and the company requires one endpoint for both Regions.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company is developing a highly available natural language processing NLP application. The application handles large volumes of concurrent requests. The application performs NLP tasks such as entity recognition, sentiment analysis, and key phrase extraction on text data.
The company needs to store data that the application processes in a highly available and scalable database.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect needs to design a system to process incoming work items immediately. Processing can take up to 30 minutes and involves calling external APIs, executing multiple states, and storing intermediate states.
The solution must scale with variable workloads and minimize operational overhead.
Which combination of steps meets these requirements? (Select TWO.)
Question:
A company wants to deploy an internal web application on AWS. The web application must be accessible only from the company ' s office. The company needs to download security patches for the web application from the internet. The company has created a VPC and has configured an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection to the company ' s office. A solutions architect must design a secure architecture for the web application. Which solution will meet these requirements?
Options:
A company uses Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer ALB to serve content to users. The company uses 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.
Question:
A company recently migrated a large amount of research data to an Amazon S3 bucket. The company needs an automated solution to identify sensitive data in the bucket. A security team also needs to monitor access patterns for the data 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to identify suspicious activities or evidence of tampering with security controls.
Options:
A company has a VPC with multiple private subnets that host multiple applications. The applications must not be accessible to the internet. However, the applications need to access multiple AWS services. The applications must not use public IP addresses to access the AWS services.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
An ecommerce company has an application that uses Amazon DynamoDB tables that are configured with provisioned capacity. Order data is stored in a table named Orders. The Orders table has a primary key of order-ID and a sort key of product-ID. The company configured an AWS Lambda function to receive DynamoDB streams from the Orders table and to update a table named Inventory.
The company has noticed that during peak sales periods, updates to the Inventory table take longer than the company can tolerate.
Which solutions will resolve the slow table updates? Select TWO.
A company recently launched a new application for its customers. The application runs on multiple Amazon EC2 instances across two Availability Zones. End users use TCP to communicate with the application.
The application must be highly available and must automatically scale as the number of users increases.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select TWO.)
A solutions architect is designing a three-tier web application. The architecture consists of an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB) and a web tier that is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets. The application tier with the business logic runs on EC2 instances in private subnets. The database tier consists of Microsoft SQL Server that runs on EC2 instances in private subnets. Security is a high priority for the company. Which combination of security group configurations should the solutions architect use? (Select THREE.)
A company wants to provide a third-party system that runs in a private data center with access to its AWS account. The company wants to call AWS APIs directly from the third-party system. The company has an existing process for managing digital certificates. The company does not want to use SAML or OpenID Connect (OIDC) capabilities and does not want to store long-term AWS credentials.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An ecommerce company is migrating its on-premises workload to the AWS Cloud. The workload consists of a web application and a backend Microsoft SQL Server database. The company expects a high volume of customers during a promotional event. The new AWS infrastructure must be highly available and scalable.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?
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?
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?
A company is designing a new internal web application in the AWS Cloud. The new application must securely retrieve and store multiple employee usernames and passwords from an AWS managed service.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has 5 TB of datasets. The datasets consist of 1 million user profiles and 10 million connections. The user profiles have connections as many-to-many relationships. The company needs a performance-efficient way to find mutual connections up to five levels.
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 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 Lambda 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 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 has a static website that is hosted on Amazon CloudFront in front of Amazon S3. The static website uses a database backend. The company notices that the website does not reflect updates that have been made in the website ' s Git repository. The company checks the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline between the Git repository and Amazon S3. The company verifies that the webhooks are configured properly and that the CI/CD pipeline Is sending messages that indicate successful deployments.
A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that displays the updates on the website.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has deployed resources in the us-east-1 Region. The company also uses thousands of AWS Outposts servers deployed at remote locations around the world. These Outposts servers regularly download new software versions from us-east-1 that consist of hundreds of files. The company wants to improve the latency of the software download process.
Which solution will 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.
A company runs a fleet of Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances to support a document processing application that has variable usage patterns. The company wants to optimize compute costs for the application. The company needs a solution that can tolerate occasional disruptions to document processing jobs.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company operates a data lake in Amazon S3 that stores large datasets in multiple formats. The company has an application that retrieves and processes subsets of data from multiple objects in the data lake based on filtering criteria. For each data query, the application currently downloads the entire S3 object and performs transformations. The current process requires a large amount of transformation time.
The company wants a solution that will give the application the ability to query and filter directly on S3 objects without downloading the objects.
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 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 solutions architect is designing a customer-facing application for a company. The application ' s database will have a clearly defined access pattern throughout the year and will have a variable number of reads and writes that depend on the time of year. The company must retain audit records for the database for 7 days. The recovery point objective (RPO) must be less than 5 hours.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A solutions architect is storing sensitive data generated by an application in Amazon S3. The solutions architect wants to encrypt the data at rest. A company policy requires an audit trail of when the AWS KMS key was used and by whom.
Which encryption option 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 is migrating an online marketplace application from a mainframe system to an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances access an Amazon Aurora cluster. The application requires a scalable, persistent caching solution to store the results of in-progress transactions and SQL queries.
A company hosts an Amazon EC2 instance in a private subnet in a new VPC. The VPC also has a public subnet that has the default route set to an internet gateway. The private subnet does not have outbound internet access.
The EC2 instance needs to have the ability to download monthly security updates from an outside vendor. However, the company must block any connections that are initiated from the internet.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 company stores sensitive financial information for an application in Amazon RDS for MySQL. The company requires a stateful solution to ensure that only a specific on-premises IP address can access the RDS database instances. The company wants to rotate database credentials automatically. The company does not want to hardcode the credentials into the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company hosts its order processing system on AWS. The architecture consists of a frontend and a backend. The frontend includes an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto-Scaling group. The backend includes an EC2 instance and an Amazon RDS MySQL database.
To prevent incomplete or lost orders, the company wants to ensure that order states are always preserved. The company wants to ensure that every order will eventually be processed, even after an outage or pause. Every order must be processed exactly once.
A company decides to use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) for data encryption operations. The company must create a KMS key and automate the rotation of the key. The company also needs the ability to deactivate the key and schedule the key for deletion.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company ' s solutions architect is building a static website to be deployed in Amazon S3 for a production environment. The website integrates with an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database by using an AWS Lambda function. The website that is deployed to production will use a Lambda alias that points to a specific version of the Lambda function.
The company must rotate the database credentials every 2 weeks. Lambda functions that the company deployed previously must be able to use the most recent credentials.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is developing a monolithic Microsoft Windows based application that will run on Amazon EC2 instances. The application will run long data-processing jobs that must not be in-terrupted. The company has modeled expected usage growth for the next 3 years. The company wants to optimize costs for the EC2 instances during the 3-year growth period.
A company sets up an organization in AWS Organizations that contains 10AWS accounts. A solutions architect must design a solution to provide access to the accounts for several thousand employees. The company has an existing identity provider (IdP). The company wants to use the existing IdP for authentication to AWS.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A media company stores customer-uploaded videos in an Amazon S3 bucket with the Standard storage class. The company wants to create an S3 Lifecycle configuration. The company will set the maximum retention time to 7 days. However, the configuration must delete any video that is more than 1 TB in size after 48 hours.
A company wants to deploy its containerized application workloads to a VPC across three Availability Zones. The company needs a solution that is highly available across Availability Zones. The solution must require minimal changes to the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
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 financial company is migrating banking applications to AWS accounts managed through AWS Organizations. The applications store sensitive customer data on Amazon EBS volumes, and the company takes regular snapshots for backups.
The company must implement controls across all accounts to prevent sharing EBS snapshots publicly, with the least operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
The company must encrypt finance reports that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. An AWS Lambda function must be able to decrypt the reports dynamically. An IAM group that the company ' s security administrators use must manage the encryption keys. The IAM group must manage key rotation, deletion, and creation. The company must grant access to the keys according to the principle of least privilege.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has a serverless web application that is comprised of AWS Lambda functions. The application experiences spikes in traffic that cause increased latency because of cold starts. The company wants to improve the application’s ability to handle traffic spikes and to minimize latency. The solution must optimize costs during periods when traffic is low.
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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 company runs a web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer ALB. The application uses Amazon DynamoDB as its database. The company wants to ensure high performance for reads and writes.
Which solution will meet this requirement MOST cost-effectively?
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 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 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 has migrated several applications to AWS in the past 3 months. The company wants to know the breakdown of costs for each of these applications. The company wants to receive a regular report that Includes this Information.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
An ecommerce company hosts an application on AWS across multiple Availability Zones. The application experiences uniform load throughout most days.
The company hosts some components of the application in private subnets. The components need to access the internet to install and update patches.
A solutions architect needs to design a cost-effective solution that provides secure outbound internet connectivity for private subnets across multiple Availability Zones. The solution must maintain high availability.
A company uses Amazon Redshift to store structured data and Amazon S3 to store unstructured data. The company wants to analyze the stored data and create business intelligence reports. The company needs a data visualization solution that is compatible with Amazon Redshift and Amazon S3.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A financial services company needs to migrate an on-premises MySQL database workload to AWS. The database requires consistent low-latency performance with a baseline of 32,000 IOPS to process transactions.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 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 solutions architect is designing the architecture for a company website that is composed of static content. The company ' s target customers are located in the United States and Europe.
Which architecture should the solutions architect recommend to MINIMIZE cost?
A company is building a containerized application on AWS. The application uses the Linux operating system. The company needs to provide a persistent storage solution for the application.
The company expects the storage solution to have varying data access patterns. The solution must have native storage tiering capabilities and must be scalable. The solution must not require the company to provision storage upfront.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective way?
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?
An analytics application runs on multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances that use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Standard storage. Files are accessed infrequently after 30 days, but some older files are occasionally retrieved for reporting.
The company wants to reduce storage costs and allow throughput to scale based on file system size. The company will use the EFS lifecycle policy to transition files to Infrequent Access (IA) after 30 days.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 uses an Amazon RDS MySQL database to store data for several applications. The company wants to understand use patterns for the database so the company can identify oppor-tunities to optimize costs.
A solutions architect needs to analyze the RDS DB instance to identify right-sizing opportuni-ties.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?
A finance company hosts a data lake in Amazon S3. The company receives financial data records over SFTP each night from several third parties. The company runs its own SFTP server on an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subnet of a VPC. After the files are uploaded, they are moved to the data lake by a cron job that runs on the same instance. The SFTP server is reachable on DNS sftp.example.com through the use of Amazon Route 53.
What should a solutions architect do to improve the reliability and scalability of the SFTP solution?
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 is designing a microservice-based architecture for a new application on AWS. Each microservice will run on its own set of Amazon EC2 instances. Each microservice will need to interact with multiple AWS services.
The company wants to manage permissions for each EC2 instance according to the principle of least privilege.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST administrative overhead?
A company runs multiple workloads on virtual machines (VMs) in an on-premises data center. The company is expanding rapidly. The on-premises data center is not able to scale fast enough to meet business needs. The company wants to migrate the workloads to AWS.
The migration is time sensitive. The company wants to use a lift-and-shift strategy for non-critical workloads.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company hosts an end-user application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company needs to configure end-to-end encryption between the ALB and the EC2 instances.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational effort?
A company is moving data from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. The company must store all its data in an Amazon S3 bucket. To comply with regulations, the company must also ensure that the data will be protected against overwriting indefinitely.
Which solution will ensure that the data in the S3 bucket cannot be overwritten?
A company runs several custom applications on Amazon EC2 instances. Each team within the company manages its own set of applications and backups. To comply with regulations, the company must be able to report on the status of backups and ensure that backups are encrypted.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?
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?
An ecommerce company runs several internal applications in multiple AWS accounts. The company uses AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts.
A security appliance in the company ' s networking account must inspect interactions between applications across AWS accounts.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses an Amazon EC2 instance to run a script to poll for and process messages in an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. The company wants to reduce operational overhead while maintaining its ability to process an increasing number of messages that are added to the queue. Which solution will meet these requirements?
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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 runs a content management system on an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster. The system allows visitors to provide feedback about the company ' s products by uploading documents and photos of the products to an Amazon S3 bucket.
The company has a workflow on AWS that processes uploaded documents to perform sentiment analysis of photos and text. The processing workflow calls multiple AWS services.
The company needs a solution to automate the processing workflow. The solution must handle any failed uploads.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?
A company runs a high-traffic web application that has a three-tier architecture consisting of a web layer, an application layer, and a database layer. The web layer and application layer run on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application layer is stateless and supports automatic scaling. The database layer uses Amazon RDS for MySQL in a Multi-AZ configuration and relies on a relational architecture.
The company is preparing for a large marketing event that is expected to drive a sharp increase in read traffic. The company must ensure that the application remains highly available and responsive under load. The company wants to scale the application ' s architecture components but does not want to modify the application.
Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company collects data from sensors. The company needs a cloud-based solution to store and transform the sensor data to make critical decisions. The solution must store the data for up to 2 days. After 2 days, the solution must delete the data. The company needs to use the transformeddata in an automated workflow that has manual approval steps.
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 has 15 employees. The company stores employee start dates in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company wants to send an email message to each employee on the day of the employee ' s work anniversary.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company is developing a new application that will run on Amazon EC2 instances. The application needs to access multiple AWS services.
The company needs to ensure that the application will not use long-term access keys to access AWS services.
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?
The DNS provider that hosts a company ' s domain name records is experiencing outages that cause service disruption for a website running on AWS. The company needs to migrate to a more resilient managed DNS service and wants the service to run on AWS.
What should a solutions architect do to rapidly migrate the DNS hosting service?
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 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 runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application is deployed in private subnets in three Availability Zones of the us-east-1 Region. The instances must be able to connect to the internet to download files. The company wants a design that is highly available across the Region.
Which solution should be implemented to ensure that there are no disruptions to internet connectivity?
A media company is migrating a Microsoft Windows-based application to the AWS Cloud. The company uses the application to analyze media files.
The company requires a resilient shared storage solution that the company can access by using the SMB protocol.
Which storage solution will meet these requirements?
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 uses AWS to run its ecommerce platform. The platform is critical to the company ' s operations and has a high volume of traffic and transactions. The company configures 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 city ' s weather forecast team is using Amazon DynamoDB in the data tier for an application. The application has several components. The analysis component of the application requires repeated reads against a large dataset. The application has started to temporarily consume all the read capacity in the DynamoDB table and is negatively affecting other applications that need to access the same data.
Which solution will resolve this issue with the LEAST development effort?
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 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 has multiple AWS accounts with applications deployed in the us-west-2 Region. Application logs are stored within Amazon S3 buckets in each account. The company wants to build a centralized log analysis solution that uses a single S3 bucket. Logs must not leave us-west-2, and the company wants to incur minimal operational overhead.
A company ' s application uses Network Load Balancers, Auto Scaling groups, Amazon EC2 instances, and databases that are deployed in an Amazon VPC. The company wants to capture information about traffic to and from the network interfaces in near real time in its Amazon VPC. The company wants to send the information to Amazon OpenSearch Service for analysis.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect needs to save a particular automated database snapshot from an Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server DB instance for longer than the maximum number of days. Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company stores a large dataset for an online advertising business in an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The company wants to run business reporting queries on the data without affecting write operations to the DB instance.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. Multiple teams access each AWS account by assuming IAM roles. Each team has a unique IAM role. Each IAM role has a unique set of permissions.
A security team wants to automate some security tasks by deploying AWS Lambda functions within each AWS account. The security team wants to ensure that only members of the security team can modify the Lambda functions directly.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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?
A financial services company needs to store and manage trading documentation. The documentation includes real-time trade confirmation data, financial statements, and settlement documents that frequently exceed 1 MB in size. The company ' s current provisioned database solution stores and manages this documentation. This current solution experiences high-volume trading activity during market hours but very low activity during off-hours.
The company currently uses a provisioned database solution that is sized to handle the load for peak trading hours. This solution results in significant unused capacity during off-hours. The company needs a solution that will maintain performance during peak hours.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company maintains its accounting records in a custom application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs to migrate the data to an AWS managed service for development and maintenance of the application data. The solution must require minimal operational support and provide immutable, cryptographically verifiable logs of data changes.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A gaming company is building an application with Voice over IP capabilities. The application will serve traffic to users across the world. The application needs to be highly available with an automated failover across AWS Regions. The company wants to minimize the latency of users without relying on IP address caching on user devices.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A developer is creating an ecommerce workflow in an AWS Step Functions state machine that includes an HTTP Task state. The task passes shipping information and order details to an endpoint.
The developer needs to test the workflow to confirm that the HTTP headers and body are correct and that the responses meet expectations.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is developing a SaaS solution for customers. The solution runs on Amazon EC2 instances that have Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes attached.
Within the SaaS application, customers can request how much storage they need. The application needs to allocate the amount of block storage each customer requests.
A solutions architect must design an operationally efficient solution that meets the storage scaling requirement.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is developing a rating system for its ecommerce web application. The company needs a solution to save ratings that users submit in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company wants to ensure that developers do not need to interact directly with the DynamoDB table. The solution must be scalable and reusable.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
An online food delivery company wants to optimize its storage costs. The company has been collecting operational data for the last 10 years in a data lake that was built on Amazon S3 by using a Standard storage class. The company does not keep data that is older than 7 years. A solutions architect frequently uses data from the past 6 months for reporting and runs queries on data from the last 2 years about once a month. Data that is more than 2 years old is rarely accessed and is only used for audit purposes.
Which combination of solutions will optimize the company ' s storage costs? (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 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 has a production Amazon RDS for MySQL database. The company needs to create a new application that will read frequently changing data from the database with minimal impact on the database ' s overall performance. The application will rarely perform the same query more than once.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?