AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03)
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A company wants to store a large amount of data as objects for analytics and long-term archiving. Resources from outside AWS need to access the data. The external resources need to access the data with unpredictable frequency. However, the external resource must have immediate access when necessary.
The company needs a cost-optimized solution that provides high durability and data security.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs a solution to back up and protect critical AWS resources. The company needs to regularly take backups of several Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases. To ensure high resiliency, the company must have the ability to validate and restore backups.
Which solution meets the requirement with LEAST operational overhead?
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 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 solutions architect is designing a multi-Region disaster recovery (DR) strategy for a company. The company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances in Auto Scaling groups that are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company hosts the application in the company's primary and secondary AWS Regions.
The application must respond to DNS queries from the secondary Region if the primary Region fails. Only one Region must serve traffic at a time.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 runs production workloads in its AWS account. Multiple teams create and maintain the workloads.
The company needs to be able to detect changes in resource configurations. The company needs to capture changes as configuration items without changing or modifying the existing resources.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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?
An online gaming company hosts its platform on Amazon EC2 instances behind Network Load Balancers (NLBs) across multiple AWS Regions. The NLBs can route requests to targets overthe internet. The company wants to improve the customer playing experience by reducing end-to-end load time for its global customer base.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs an application on Microsoft SQL Server databases in an on-premises data center. The company wants to migrate to AWS and optimize costs for its infrastructure on AWS.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 receives data transfers from a small number of external clients that use SFTP software on an Amazon EC2 instance. The clients use an SFTP client to upload data. The clients use SSH keys for authentication. Every hour, an automated script transfers new uploads to an Amazon S3 bucket for processing.
The company wants to move the transfer process to an AWS managed service and to reduce the time required to start data processing. The company wants to retain the existing user management and SSH key generation process. The solution must not require clients to make significant changes to their existing processes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An ecommerce company runs a multi-tier application on AWS. The frontend and backend tiers both run on Amazon EC2 instances. The database tier runs on an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The backend tier communicates with the RDS DB instance.
The application makes frequent calls to return identical datasets from the database. The frequent calls on the database cause performance slowdowns. A solutions architect must improve the performance of the application backend.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company is developing a public web application that needs to access multiple AWS services. The application will have hundreds of users who must log in to the application first before using the services.
The company needs to implement a secure and scalable method to grant the web application temporary access to the AWS resources.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs to run a critical data processing workload that uses a Python script every night. The workload takes 1 hour to finish.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
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 company wants to restrict access to the content of its web application. The company needs to protect the content by using authorization techniques that are available on AWS. The company also wants to implement a serverless architecture for authorization and authentication that has low login latency.
The solution must integrate with the web application and serve web content globally. The application currently has a small user base, but the company expects the application's user base to increase
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company hosts a multi-tier inventory reporting application on AWS. The company needs a cost-effective solution to generate inventory reports on demand. Admin users need to have the ability to generate new reports. Reports take approximately 5-10 minutes to finish. The application must send reports to the email address of the admin user who generates each report.
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A company stores petabytes of historical medical information on premises. The company has a process to manage encryption of the data to comply with regulations. The company needs a cloud-based solution for data backup, recovery, and archiving. The company must retain control over the encryption key material. Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company runs its databases on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The company wants a secure solution to manage the master user password by rotating the password every 30 days. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company stores a large volume of critical data in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL tables. The company is developing several new features for an upcoming product launch. Some of the new features require many table alterations.
The company needs a solution to test the altered tables for several days. After testing, the solution must make the new features available to customers in production.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the HIGHEST availability?
A company is launching a new application that will be hosted on Amazon EC2 instances. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that does not allow public IPv4 access that originates from the internet. However, the solution must allow the EC2 instances to make outbound IPv4 internet requests.
A company runs an AWS Lambda function in private subnets in a VPC. The subnets have a default route to the internet through an Amazon EC2 NAT instance. The Lambda function processes input data and saves its output as an object to Amazon S3.
Intermittently, the Lambda function times out while trying to upload the object because of saturated traffic on the NAT instance's network The company wants to access Amazon S3 without traversing the internet.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 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.
An ecommerce company wants a disaster recovery solution for its Amazon RDS DB instances that run Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition. The company's current recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) are 24 hours.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A global company runs its workloads on AWS The company's application uses Amazon S3 buckets across AWS Regions for sensitive data storage and analysis. The company stores millions of objects in multiple S3 buckets daily. The company wants to identify all S3 buckets that are not versioning-enabled.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is migrating some workloads to AWS. However, many workloads will remain on premises. The on-premises workloads require secure and reliable connectivity to AWS with consistent, low-latency performance.
The company has deployed the AWS workloads across multiple AWS accounts and multiple VPCs. The company plans to scale to hundreds of VPCs within the next year.
The company must establish connectivity between each of the VPCs and from the on-premises environment to each VPC.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants to implement a data lake in the AWS Cloud. The company must ensure that only specific teams have access to sensitive data in the data lake. The company must have row-level access control for the data lake.
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A company has developed an API by using an Amazon API Gateway REST API and AWS Lambda functions. The API serves static content and dynamic content to users worldwide. The company wants to decrease the latency of transferring the content for API requests. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has AWS Lambda functions that use environment variables. The company does not want its developers to see environment variables in plaintext.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon S3 to store customer data that contains personally identifiable information (PII) attributes. The company needs to make the customer information available to company resources through an AWS Glue Catalog. The company needs to have fine-grained access control for the data so that only specific IAM roles can access the PII data.
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 is deploying a new gaming application on Amazon EC2 instances. The gaming application needs to have access to shared storage.
The company requires a high-performance solution to give the application the ability to use an existing custom protocol to access shared storage. The solution must ensure low latency and must be operationally efficient.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A financial services 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.
A company has set up hybrid connectivity between an on-premises data center and AWS by using AWS Site-to-Site VPN. The company is migrating a workload to AWS.
The company sets up a VPC that has two public subnets and two private subnets. The company wants to monitor the total packet loss and round-trip-time (RTT) between the data center and AWS.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has a three-tier web application that processes orders from customers. The web tier consists of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The processing tier consists of EC2 instances. The company decoupled the web tier and processing tier by using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS). The storage layer uses Amazon DynamoDB.
At peak times some users report order processing delays and halts. The company has noticed that during these delays, the EC2 instances are running at 100% CPU usage, and the SQS queue fills up. The peak times are variable and unpredictable.
The company needs to improve the performance of the application
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An ecommerce company is migrating its on-premises workload to the AWS Cloud. The workload currently consists of a web application and a backend Microsoft SQL database for storage.
The company expects a high volume of customers during a promotional event. The new infrastructure in the AWS Cloud must be highly available and scalable.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?
A company needs a secure connection between its on-premises environment and AWS. This connection does not need high bandwidth and will handle a small amount of traffic. The connection should be set up quickly.
What is the MOST cost-effective method to establish this type of connection?
A company is migrating applications from an on-premises Microsoft Active Directory that the company manages to AWS. The company deploys the applications in multiple AWS accounts. The company uses AWS Organizations to manage the accounts centrally.
The company's security team needs a single sign-on solution across all the company's AWS accounts. The company must continue to manage users and groups that are in the on-premises Active Directory
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is enhancing the security of its AWS environment, where the company stores a significant amount of sensitive customer data. The company needs a solution that automatically identifies and classifies sensitive data that is stored in multiple Amazon S3 buckets. The solution must automatically respond to data breaches and alert the company's security team through email immediately when noncompliant data is found.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A developer needs to export the contents of several Amazon DynamoDB tables into Amazon S3 buckets to comply with company data regulations. The developer uses the AWS CLI to runcommands to export from each table to the proper S3 bucket. The developer sets up AWS credentials correctly and grants resources appropriate permissions. However, the exports of some tables fail.
What should the developer do to resolve this issue?
An online education platform experiences lag and buffering during peak usage hours, when thousands of students access video lessons concurrently. A solutions architect needs to improve the performance of the education platform.
The platform needs to handle unpredictable traffic surges without losing responsiveness. The platform must provide smooth video playback performance at all times. The platform must create multiple copies of each video lesson and store the copies in various bitrates to serve users who have different internet speeds. The smallest video size is 7 GB.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company has 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.
A company runs an application on EC2 instances that need access to RDS credentials stored in AWS Secrets Manager.
Which solution meets this requirement?
An e-commerce company has an application that uses Amazon DynamoDB tables 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 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 needs to ingest and analyze telemetry data from vehicles at scale for machine learning and reporting.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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A company uses Apache Hadoop and Spark on-prem. The infrastructure is complex and not scalable. They want to reduce operational complexity but keep data processing on-premises.
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A manufacturing company runs an order processing application in its VPC. The company wants to securely send messages from the application to an external Salesforce system that uses Open Authorization (OAuth).
A solutions architect needs to integrate the company's order processing application with the external Salesforce system.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company stores 5 PB of archived data on physical tapes. The company needs to preserve the data for another 10 years. The data center that stores the tapes has a 10 Gbps Direct Connect connection to an AWS Region. The company wants to migrate the data to AWS within the next 6 months.
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 company hosts its application on several Amazon EC2 instances inside a VPC. The company creates a dedicated Amazon S3 bucket for each customer to store their relevant information in Amazon S3.
The company wants to ensure that the application running on EC2 instances can securely access only the S3 buckets that belong to the company's AWS account.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company 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 customers located across the world. The company wants to use automation to secure its systems and network infrastructure The company's security team must be able to track and audit all incremental changes to the infrastructure.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is planning to migrate customer records to an Amazon S3 bucket. The company needs to ensure that customer records are protected against unauthorized access and are encrypted in transit and at rest. The company must monitor all access to the S3 bucket.
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?
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A company is building an ecommerce application that uses a relational database to store customer data and order history. The company also needs a solution to store 100 GB of product images. The company expects the traffic flow for the application to be predictable. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
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A financial services company plans to launch a new application on AWS to handle sensitive financial transactions. The company will deploy the application on Amazon EC2 instances. The company will use Amazon RDS for MySQL as the database. The company's security policies mandate that data must be encrypted at rest and in transit.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
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 recently migrated a data warehouse to AWS. The company has an AWS Direct Connect connection to AWS. Company users query the data warehouse by using a visualization tool. The average size of the queries that the data warehouse returns is 50 MB. The average visualization that the visualization tool produces is 500 KB in size. The result sets that the data warehouse returns are not cached.
The company wants to optimize costs for data transfers between the data warehouse and the company.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company has an application that uses an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database. The company is developing an application feature that will store sensitive information for an individual in the database.
During a security review of the environment, the company discovers that the RDS DB instance is not encrypting data at rest. The company needs a solution that will provide encryption at rest for all the existing data and for any new data that is entered for an individual.
Which combination of steps should the company take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company deploys its applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) behind an Application Load Balancer in an AWS Region. The application needs to store data in a PostgreSQL database engine. The company wants the data in the database to be highly available. The company also needs increased capacity for read workloads.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company 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.)
An ecommerce company runs an application that uses an Amazon DynamoDB table in a single AWS Region. The company wants to deploy the application to a second Region. The company needs to support multi-active replication with low latency reads and writes to the existing DynamoDB table in both Regions.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company stores sensitive customer data in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company frequently updates the data. The company wants to use the data to personalize offers for customers.
The company's analytics team has its own AWS account. The analytics team runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances that needs to process data from the DynamoDB tables. The company needs to follow security best practices to create a process to regularly share data from DynamoDB to the analytics team.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is building a serverless web application with multiple interdependent workflows that millions of users worldwide will access. The application needs to handle bursts of traffic.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
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 an application that runs on an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster on Amazon EC2 instances. The application has a U1 that uses Amazon DynamoDB and data services that use Amazon S3 as part of the application deployment.
The company must ensure that the EKS Pods for the U1 can access only Amazon DynamoDB and that the EKS Pods for the data services can access only Amazon S3. The company uses AWS Identity and Access Management |IAM).
Which solution meets these requirements?
A media company hosts a web application on AWS for uploading videos. Only authenticated users should upload within a specified time frame after authentication.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company runs 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 runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The instances need to access an Amazon RDS database by using specific credentials. The company uses AWS Secrets Manager to contain the credentials the EC2 instances must use. Which solution will meet this requirement?
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 company hosts a website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The website serves static content. Website traffic is increasing. The company wants to minimize the website hosting costs.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A 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 is setting up a development environment on AWS for a team of developers. The team needs to access multiple Amazon S3 buckets to store project data. The team also needs to use Amazon EC2 to run development instances.
The company needs to ensure that the developers have access only to specific Amazon S3 buckets and EC2 instances. Access permissions must be assigned according to each developer's role on the team. The company wants to minimize the use of permanent credentials and to ensure access is securely managed according to the principle of least privilege.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is migrating a data processing application to AWS. The application processes several short-lived batch jobs that cannot be disrupted. The process generates data after each batch job finishes running. The company accesses the data for 30 days following data generation. After 30 days, the company stores the data for 2 years.
The company wants to optimize costs for the application and data storage. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs an automated solution to detect cryptocurrency mining activity on Amazon EC2 instances. The solution must automatically isolate any identified EC2 instances for forensic analysis.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs a web application in a single AWS Region. A solutions architect wants to ensure that the web application can continue to operate if the application becomes unavailable in the Region.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company 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 runs an application as a task in an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster. The application must have read and write access to a specific group of Amazon S3 buckets. The S3 buckets are in the same AWS Region and AWS account as the ECS cluster. The company needs to grant the application access to the S3 buckets according to the principle of least privilege.
Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company needs to store confidential files on AWS. The company accesses the files every week. The company must encrypt the files by using envelope encryption, and the encryption keys must be rotated automatically. The company must have an audit trail to monitor encryption key usage.
Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances within a private subnet in a VPC. The instances access data in an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region. The VPC contains a NAT gateway in a public subnet to access the S3 bucket. The company wants to reduce costs by replacing the NAT gateway without compromising security or redundancy.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company hosts an application on AWS that stores files that users need to access. The application uses two Amazon EC2 instances. One instance is in Availability Zone A, and the second instance is in Availability Zone B. Both instances use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. Users must be able to access the files at any time without delay. Users report that the two instances occasionally contain different versions of the same file. Users occasionally receive HTTP 404 errors when they try to download files. The company must address the customer issues. The company cannot make changes to the application code. Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company stores data in Amazon S3. According to regulations, the data must not contain personally identifiable information (PII). The company recently discovered that S3 buckets have some objects that contain PII. The company needs to automatically detect PII in S3 buckets and to notify the company's security team. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is planning to run an AI/ML workload on AWS. The company needs to train a model on a dataset that is in Amazon S3 Standard. A model training application requires multiple compute nodes and single-digit millisecond access to the data.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective way?
A company 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 running a media store across multiple Amazon EC2 instances distributed across multiple Availability Zones in a single VPC. The company wants a high-performing solution to share data between all the EC2 instances, and prefers to keep the data within the VPC only.
What should a solutions architect recommend?
A company 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?
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A company operates an online photo-sharing service and stores data in AWS Account A in a centralized Amazon S3 bucket. The company wants to grant a second AWS account named Account B access to the centralized S3 bucket. The company owns Account B.
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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 up to 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.
A healthcare provider is planning to store patient data on AWS as PDF files. To comply with regulations, the company must encrypt the data and store the files in multiple locations. The data must be available for immediate access from any environment.
A company 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 media streaming company is redesigning its infrastructure to accommodate increasing demand for video content that users consume daily. The company needs to process terabyte-sized videos to block some content in the videos. Video processing can take up to 20 minutes.
The company needs a solution that is cost-effective, highly available, and scalable.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is building a new web application on AWS. The application needs to consume files from a legacy on-premises application that runs a batch process and outputs approximately 1 GB of data every night to an NFS file mount.
A solutions architect needs to design a storage solution that requires minimal changes to the legacy application and keeps costs low.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company 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 company runs an order management application on AWS. The application allows customers to place orders and pay with a credit card. The company uses an Amazon CloudFront distribution to deliver the application.
A security team has set up logging for all incoming requests. The security team needs a solution to generate an alert if any user modifies the logging configuration.
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A media company hosts a web application on AWS. The application gives users the ability to upload and view videos. The application stores the videos in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company wants to ensure that only authenticated users can upload videos. Authenticated users must have the ability to upload videos only within a specified time frame after authentication. Which solution will meet these requirements 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 global company runs a data lake application in the us-east-1 Region and the eu-west-1 Region in an active-passive configuration. Application data is stored locally in Amazon S3 buckets in each AWS Region. The bucket in us-east-1 is the primary active bucket that handles all writes. The company needs to ensure that the application has Regional fault tolerance. The company also needs the storage layer to provide a highly available active-active capability for reads across Regions. The storage layer must provide low latency access through a single global endpoint.
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 solutions architect needs to host a high performance computing (HPC) workload in the AWS Cloud. The workload will run on hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances and will require parallel access to a shared file system to enable distributed processing of large datasets. Datasets will be accessed across multiple instances simultaneously. The workload requires access latency within 1 ms. After processing has completed, engineers will need access to the dataset for manual postprocessing.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A finance company uses backup software to back up its data to physical tape storage on-premises. To comply with regulations, the company needs to store the data for 7 years. The company must be able to restore archived data within one week when necessary.
The company wants to migrate the backup data to AWS to reduce costs. The company does not want to change the current backup software.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company hosts a database that runs on an Amazon RDS instance deployed to multiple Availability Zones. A periodic script negatively affects a critical application by querying the database. How can application performance be improved with minimal costs?
A company is planning to migrate an on-premises online transaction processing (OLTP) database that uses MySQL to an AWS managed database management system. Several reporting and analytics applications use the on-premises database heavily on weekends and at the end of each month. The cloud-based solution must be able to handle read-heavy surges during weekends and at the end of each month.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A website uses EC2 instances with Auto Scaling and EFS. How can the company optimize costs?
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 is building a serverless application to process clickstream data from its website. The clickstream data is sent to an Amazon Kinesis Data Streams data stream from the application web servers.
The company wants to enrich the clickstream data by joining the clickstream data with customer profile data from an Amazon Aurora Multi-AZ database. The company wants to use Amazon Redshift to analyze the enriched data. The solution must be highly available.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company tracks customer satisfaction by using surveys that the company hosts on its website. The surveys sometimes reach thousands of customers every hour. Survey results are currently sent in email messages to the company so company employees can manually review results and assess customer sentiment.
The company wants to automate the customer survey process. Survey results must be available for the previous 12 months.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST scalable way?
A company is building a serverless application to process orders from an e-commerce site. The application needs to handle bursts of traffic during peak usage hours and to maintain high availability. The orders must be processed asynchronously in the order the application receives them.
A company is migrating its on-premises Oracle database to an Amazon RDS for Oracle database. The company needs to retain data for 90 days to meet regulatory requirements. The company must also be able to restore the database to a specific point in time for up to 14 days.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is planning to migrate a legacy application to AWS. The application currently uses NFS to communicate to an on-premises storage solution to store application data. The application cannot be modified to use any other communication protocols other than NFS for this purpose.
Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend for use after the migration?
A company stores user data in AWS. The data is used continuously with peak usage during business hours. Access patterns vary, with some data not being used for months at a time. A solutions architect must choose a cost-effective solution that maintains the highest level of durability while maintaining high availability.
Which storage solution meets these requirements?
An ecommerce company is launching a new marketing campaign. The company anticipates the campaign to generate ten times the normal number of daily orders through the company's ecommerce application. The campaign will last 3 days.
The ecommerce application architecture is based on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group and an Amazon RDS for MySQL database. The application writes order transactions to an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system before the application writes orders to the database. During normal operations, the application write operations peak at 5,000 IOPS.
A solutions architect needs to ensure that the application can handle the anticipated workload during the marketing campaign.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company has an employee web portal. Employees log in to the portal to view payroll details. The company is developing a new system to give employees the ability to upload scanned documents for reimbursement. The company runs a program to extract text-based data from the documents and attach the extracted information to each employee's reimbursement IDs for processing.
The employee web portal requires 100% uptime. The document extract program runs infrequently throughout the day on an on-demand basis. The company wants to build a scalable and cost-effective new system that will require minimal changes to the existing web portal. The company does not want to make any code changes.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort?
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 runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company wants to create a public API for the application that uses JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for authentication. The company wants the API to integrate directly with the ALB.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 a solution to automate email ingestion. The company needs to automatically parse email messages, look for email attachments, and save any attachments to an Amazon S3 bucket in near real time. Email volume varies significantly from day to day.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is launching a new application that requires a structured database to store user profiles, application settings, and transactional data. The database must be scalable with application traffic and must offer backups.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is developing a microservices-based application to manage the company's delivery operations. The application consists of microservices that process orders, manage a fleet of delivery vehicles, and optimize delivery routes.
The microservices must be able to scale independently and must be able to handle bursts of traffic without any data loss.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company 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 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 solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new stateless application that will be deployed on AWS. The solutions architect created an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and launch template for the application.
Based on the number of jobs that need to be processed, the processing must run in parallel while adding and removing application Amazon EC2 instances as needed. The application must be loosely coupled. The job items must be durably stored.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is launching a new gaming application. The company will use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups to deploy the application. The application stores user data in a relational database.
The company has office locations around the world that need to run analytics on the user data in the database. The company needs a cost-effective database solution that provides cross-Region disaster recovery with low-latency read performance across AWS Regions.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A startup company is hosting a website for its customers on an Amazon EC2 instance. The website consists of a stateless Python application and a MySQL database. The website serves only a small amount of traffic. The company is concerned about the reliability of the instance and needs to migrate to a highly available architecture. The company cannot modify the application code.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to achieve high availability for the website? (Select TWO.)
A company is migrating a daily Microsoft Windows batch job from the company's on-premises environment to AWS. The current batch job runs for up to 1 hour. The company wants to modernize the batch job process for the cloud environment.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company needs to grant a team of developers access to the company's AWS resources. The company must maintain a high level of security for the resources.
The company requires an access control solution that will prevent unauthorized access to the sensitive data.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A 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 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 is creating a low-latency payment processing application that supports TLS connections from IPv4 clients. The application requires outbound access to the public internet. Users must access the application from a single entry point.
The bank wants to use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) tasks to deploy the application. The company wants to enable AWSVPC network mode.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST securely?
A company runs a monolithic application in its on-premises data center. The company used Java/Tomcat to build the application. The application uses Microsoft SQL Server as a database.
The company wants to migrate the application to AWS.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company wants to deploy an AWS Lambda function that will read and write objects to Amazon S3 bucket. The Lambda function must be connected to the company's VPC. The company must deploy the Lambda function only to private subnets in the VPC. The Lambda function must not be allowed to access the internet.
Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company is hosting multiple websites for several lines of business under its registered parent domain. Users accessing these websites will be routed to appropriate backend Amazon EC2instances based on the subdomain. The websites host static webpages, images, and server-side scripts like PHP and JavaScript.
Some of the websites experience peak access during the first two hours of business with constant usage throughout the rest of the day. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that will automatically adjust capacity to these traffic patterns while keeping costs low.
Which combination of AWS services or features will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company hosts a video streaming web application in a VPC. The company uses a Network Load Balancer (NLB) to handle TCP traffic for real-time data processing. There have been unauthorized attempts to access the application.
The company wants to improve application security with minimal architectural change to prevent unauthorized attempts to access the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an application with a REST-based interface that allows data to be received in near-real time from a third-party vendor. Once received, the application processes and stores the data for further analysis. The application is running on Amazon EC2 instances.
The third-party vendor has received many 503 Service Unavailable Errors when sending data to the application. When the data volume spikes, the compute capacity reaches its maximum limit and the application is unable to process all requests.
Which design should a solutions architect recommend to provide a more scalable solution?
A 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 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 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 needs to secure an Amazon API Gateway REST API. Users need to be able to log in to the API by using common external social identity providers (IdPs). The social IdPs must use standard authentication protocols such as SAML or OpenID Connect (OIDC). The solutions architect needs to protect the API against attempts to exploit application vulnerabilities.
Which combination of steps will meet these security requirements? (Select TWO.)
A social media company wants to store its database of user profiles, relationships, and interactions in the AWS Cloud. The company needs an application to monitor any changes in the database. The application needs to analyze the relationships between the data entities and to provide recommendations to users.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
TESTED 20 Sep 2025
