A company is hosting a static website on Amazon S3 and is using Amazon Route 53 for DNS. The website is experiencing increased demand from around the world. The company must decrease latency for users who access the website.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A solutions architect is designing a new hybrid architecture to extend a company s on-premises infrastructure to AWS The company requires a highly available connection with consistent low latency to an AWS Region. The company needs to minimize costs and is willing to accept slower traffic if the primary connection fails.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company is storing backup files by using Amazon S3 Standard storage. The files are accessed frequently for 1 month. However, the files are not accessed after 1 month. The company must keep the files indefinitely.
Which storage solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company that hosts its web application on AWS wants to ensure all Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon RDS DB instances. and Amazon Redshift clusters are configured with tags. The company wants to minimize the effort of configuring and operating this check.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?
A company is using a SQL database to store movie data that is publicly accessible. The database runs on an Amazon RDS Single-AZ DB instance A script runs queries at random intervals each day to record the number of new movies that have been added to the database. The script must report a final total during business hours The company's development team notices that the database performance is inadequate for development tasks when the script is running. A solutions architect must recommend a solution to resolve this issue. Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company receives 10 TB of instrumentation data each day from several machines located at a single factory. The data consists of JSON files stored on a storage area network (SAN) in an on-premises data center located within the factory. The company wants to send this data to Amazon S3 where it can be accessed by several additional systems that provide critical near-real-lime analytics. A secure transfer is important because the data is considered sensitive.
Which solution offers the MOST reliable data transfer?
A company is hosting a web application on AWS using a single Amazon EC2 instance that stores user-uploaded documents in an Amazon EBS volume. For better scalability and availability, the company duplicated the architecture and created a second EC2 instance and EBS volume in another Availability Zone placing both behind an Application Load Balancer After completing this change, users reported that, each time they refreshed the website, they could see one subset of their documents or the other, but never all of the documents at the same time.
What should a solutions architect propose to ensure users see all of their documents at once?
A company is migrating a distributed application to AWS The application serves variable workloads The legacy platform consists of a primary server trial coordinates jobs across multiple compute nodes The company wants to modernize the application with a solution that maximizes resiliency and scalability.
How should a solutions architect design the architecture to meet these requirements?
A company needs to review its AWS Cloud deployment to ensure that its Amazon S3 buckets do not have unauthorized configuration changes.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?
A solutions architect is designing an AWS Identity and Access Management (1AM) authorization model for a company's AWS account. The company has designated five specific employees to have full access to AWS services and resources in the AWS account.
The solutions architect has created an 1AM user for each of the five designated employees and has created an 1AM user group.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is moving its data management application to AWS. The company wants to transition to an event-driven architecture. The architecture needs to the more distributed and to use serverless concepts whit performing the different aspects of the workflow. The company also wants to minimize operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company hosts a data lake on AWS. The data lake consists of data in Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The company needs a reporting solution that provides data visualization and includes all the data sources within the data lake. Only the company's management team should have full access to all the visualizations. The rest of the company should have only limited access.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs to store data in Amazon S3 and must prevent the data from being changed. The company wants new objects that are uploaded to Amazon S3 to remain unchangeable for a nonspecific amount of time until the company decides to modify the objects. Only specific users in the company’s AWS account can have the ability to delete the objects. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company needs to keep user transaction data in an Amazon DynamoDB table.
The company must retain the data for 7 years.
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?
A solutions architect is designing a two-tier web application The application consists of a public-facing web tier hosted on Amazon EC2 in public subnets The database tier consists of Microsoft SQL Server running on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet Security is a high priority for the company
How should security groups be configured in this situation? (Select TWO )
A development team runs monthly resource-intensive tests on its general purpose Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance with Performance Insights enabled. The testing lasts for 48 hours once a month and is the only process that uses the database. The team wants to reduce the cost of running the tests without reducing the compute and memory attributes of the DB instance.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A solutions architect must design a highly available infrastructure for a website. The website is powered by Windows web servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The solutions architect must implement a solution that can mitigate a large-scale DDoS attack that originates from thousands of IP addresses. Downtime is not acceptable for the website.
Which actions should the solutions architect take to protect the website from such an attack? (Select TWO.)
A company is building an ecommerce web application on AWS. The application sends information about new orders to an Amazon API Gateway REST API to process. The company wants to ensure that orders are processed in the order that they are received.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants to migrate its on-premises application to AWS. The application produces output files that vary in size from tens of gigabytes to hundreds of terabytes The application data must be stored in a standard file system structure The company wants a solution that scales automatically, is highly available, and requires minimum operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs to configure a real-time data ingestion architecture for its application. The company needs an API, a process that transforms data as the data is streamed, and a storage solution for the data.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is running an SMB file server in its data center. The file server stores large files that are accessed frequently for the first few days after the files are created. After 7 days the files are rarely accessed.
The total data size is increasing and is close to the company's total storage capacity. A solutions architect must increase the company's available storage space without losing low-latency access to the most recently accessed files. The solutions architect must also provide file lifecycle management to avoid future storage issues.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has thousands of edge devices that collectively generate 1 TB of status alerts each day. Each alert is approximately 2 KB in size. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to ingest and store the alerts for future analysis.
The company wants a highly available solution. However, the company needs to minimize costs and does not want to manage additional infrastructure. Ad ditionally, the company wants to keep 14 days of data available for immediate analysis and archive any data older than 14 days.
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?
A company is developing an application that provides order shipping statistics for retrieval by a REST API. The company wants to extract the shipping statistics, organize the data into an easy-to-read HTML format, and send the report to several email addresses at the same time every morning.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A development team needs to host a website that will be accessed by other teams. The website contents consist of HTML, CSS, client-side JavaScript, and images Which method is the MOST cost-effective for hosting the website?
A company recently launched a variety of new workloads on Amazon EC2 instances in its AWS account. The company needs to create a strategy to access and administer the instances remotely and securely. The company needs to implement a repeatable process that works with native AWS services and follows the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is building an application in the AWS Cloud. The application will store data in Amazon S3 buckets in two AWS Regions. The company must use an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key to encrypt all data that is stored in the S3 buckets. The data in both S3 buckets must be encrypted and decrypted with the same KMS key. The data and the key must be stored in each of the two Regions.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has a data ingestion workflow that consists the following:
An Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for notifications about new data deliveries
An AWS Lambda function to process the data and record metadata
The company observes that the ingestion workflow fails occasionally because of network connectivity issues. When such a failure occurs, the Lambda function does not ingest the corresponding data unless the company manually reruns the job.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to ensure that the Lambda function ingests all data in the future? (Select TWO.)
A company hosts an application on AWS Lambda functions mat are invoked by an Amazon API Gateway API The Lambda functions save customer data to an Amazon Aurora MySQL database Whenever the company upgrades the database, the Lambda functions fail to establish database connections until the upgrade is complete The result is that customer data Is not recorded for some of the event
A solutions architect needs to design a solution that stores customer data that is created during database upgrades
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is designing an application where users upload small files into Amazon S3. After a user uploads a file, the file requires one-time simple processing to transform the data and save the data in JSON format for later analysis.
Each file must be processed as quickly as possible after it is uploaded. Demand will vary. On some days, users will upload a high number of files. On other days, users will upload a few files or no files.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has Amazon EC2 instances that run nightly batch jobs to process data. The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group that uses On-Demand billing. If a job fails on one instance: another instance will reprocess the job. The batch jobs run between 12:00 AM and 06 00 AM local time every day.
Which solution will provide EC2 instances to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively'?
A company needs guaranteed Amazon EC2 capacity in three specific Availability Zones in a specific AWS Region for an upcoming event that will last 1 week.
What should the company do to guarantee the EC2 capacity?
A company is migrating applications to AWS. The applications are deployed in different accounts. The company manages the accounts centrally by using AWS Organizations. The company's security team needs a single sign-on (SSO) solution across all the company's accounts. The company must continue managing the users and groups in its on-premises self-managed Microsoft Active Directory.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs the ability to analyze the log files of its proprietary application. The logs are stored in JSON format in an Amazon S3 bucket Queries will be simple and will run on-demand A solutions architect needs to perform the analysis with minimal changes to the existing architecture
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
A manufacturing company runs its report generation application on AWS. The application generates each report in about 20 minutes. The application is built as a monolith that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance. The application requires frequent updates to its tightly coupled modules. The application becomes complex to maintain as the company adds new features.
Each time the company patches a software module, the application experiences downtime. Report generation must restart from the beginning after any interruptions. The company wants to redesign the application so that the application can be flexible, scalable, and gradually improved. The company wants to minimize application downtime.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company's dynamic website is hosted using on-premises servers in the United States. The company is launching its product in Europe, and it wants to optimize site loading times for new European users. The site's backend must remain in the United States. The product is being launched in a few days, and an immediate solution is needed.
What should the solutions architect recommend?
A hospital recently deployed a RESTful API with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda The hospital uses API Gateway and Lambda to upload reports that are in PDF format and JPEG format The hospital needs to modify the Lambda code to identify protected health information (PHI) in the reports
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has stored 10 TB of log files in Apache Parquet format in an Amazon S3 bucket The company occasionally needs to use SQL to analyze the log files Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company runs a photo processing application that needs to frequently upload and download pictures from Amazon S3 buckets that are located in the same AWS Region. A solutions architect has noticed an increased cost in data transfer fees and needs to implement a solution to reduce these costs.
How can the solutions architect meet this requirement?
A company maintains a searchable repository of items on its website. The data is stored in an Amazon RDS for MySQL database table that contains more than 10 million rows The database has 2 TB of General Purpose SSD storage There are millions of updates against this data every day through the company's website
The company has noticed that some insert operations are taking 10 seconds or longer The company has determined that the database storage performance is the problem
Which solution addresses this performance issue?
To meet security requirements, a company needs to encrypt all of its application data in transit while communicating with an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. A recent security audit revealed that encryption at rest is enabled using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), but data in transit is not enabled.
What should a solutions architect do to satisfy the security requirements?
A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon Aurora database. The EC2 instances connect to the database by using user names and passwords that are stored locally in a file. The company wants to minimize the operational overhead of credential management.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?
A company wants to analyze and generate reports to track the usage of its mobile app. The app is popular and has a global user base The company uses a custom report building program to analyze application usage.
The program generates multiple reports during the last week of each month. The program takes less than 10 minutes to produce each report. The company rarely uses the program to generate reports outside of the last week of each month. The company wants to generate reports in the least amount of time when the reports are requested.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company has a new mobile app. Anywhere in the world, users can see local news on topics they choose. Users also can post photos and videos from inside the app.
Users access content often in the first minutes after the content is posted. New content quickly replaces older content, and then the older content disappears. The local nature of the news means that users consume 90% of the content within the AWS Region where it is uploaded.
Which solution will optimize the user experience by providing the LOWEST latency for content uploads?
A company has a multi-tier payment processing application that is based on virtual machines (VMs). The communication between the tiers occurs asynchronously through a third-party middleware solution that guarantees exactly-once delivery.
The company needs a solution that requires the least amount of infrastructure management. The solution must guarantee exactly-once delivery for application messaging
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company needs to extract the names of ingredients from recipe records that are stored as text files in an Amazon S3 bucket A web application will use the ingredient names to query an Amazon DynamoDB table and determine a nutrition score.
The application can handle non-food records and errors The company does not have any employees who have machine learning knowledge to develop this solution
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
An ecommerce company wants to launch a one-deal-a-day website on AWS. Each day will feature exactly one product on sale for a period of 24 hours. The company wants to be able to handle millions of requests each hour with millisecond latency during peak hours.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A developer is creating a serverless application that performs video encoding. The encoding process runs as background jobs and takes several minutes to encode each video. The process must not send an immediate result to users.
The developer is using Amazon API Gateway to manage an API for the application. The developer needs to run test invocations and request validations. The developer must distribute API keys to control access to the API.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an application that provides marketing services to stores. The services are based on previous purchases by store customers. The stores upload transaction data to the company through SFTP, and the data is processed and analyzed to generate new marketing offers. Some of the files can exceed 200 GB in size.
Recently, the company discovered that some of the stores have uploaded files that contain personally identifiable information (PII) that should not have been included. The company wants administrators to be alerted if PII is shared again. The company also wants to automate remediation.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?
A company needs to create an AWS Lambda function that will run in a VPC in the company's primary AWS account. The Lambda function needs to access files that the company stores
in an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system. The EFS file system is located in a secondary AWS account. As the company adds files to the file system the solution must scale to meet the demand.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company's applications run on Amazon EC2 instances in Auto Scaling groups. The company notices that its applications experience sudden traffic increases on random days of the week The company wants to maintain application performance during sudden traffic increases.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A solutions architect is designing a shared storage solution for a web application that is deployed across multiple Availability Zones The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group The company plans to make frequent changes to the content The solution must have strong consistency in returning the new content as soon as the changes occur.
Which solutions meet these requirements? (Select TWO)
A company is building a shopping application on AWS. The application offers a catalog that changes once each month and needs to scale with traffic volume. The company wants the lowest possible latency from the application. Data from each user's shopping carl needs to be highly available. User session data must be available even if the user is disconnected and reconnects.
What should a solutions architect do to ensure that the shopping cart data is preserved at all times?
A company manages AWS accounts in AWS Organizations. AWS 1AM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On) and AWS Control Tower are configured for the accounts. The company wants to manage multiple user permissions across all the accounts.
The permissions will be used by multiple 1AM users and must be split between the developer and administrator teams. Each team requires different permissions. The company wants a solution that includes new users that are hired on both teams.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A retail company has several businesses. The IT team for each business manages its own AWS account. Each team account is part of an organization in AWS Organizations. Each team monitors its product inventory levels in an Amazon DynamoDB table in the team's own AWS account.
The company is deploying a central inventory reporting application into a shared AWS account. The application must be able to read items from all the teams' DynamoDB tables.
Which authentication option will meet these requirements MOST securely?
A company has created an image analysis application in which users can upload photos and add photo frames to their images. The users upload images and metadata to indicate which photo frames they want to add to their images. The application uses a single Amazon EC2 instance and Amazon DynamoDB to store the metadata.
The application is becoming more popular, and the number of users is increasing. The company expects the number of concurrent users to vary significantly depending on the time of day and day of week. The company must ensure that the application can scale to meet the needs of the growing user base.
Which solution meats 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 bicycle sharing company is developing a multi-tier architecture to track the location of its bicycles during peak operating hours The company wants to use these data points in its existing analytics platform A solutions architect must determine the most viable multi-tier option to support this architecture The data points must be accessible from the REST API.
Which action meets these requirements for storing and retrieving location data?
A company is planning to use an Amazon DynamoDB table for data storage. The company is concerned about cost optimization. The table will not be used on most mornings. In the evenings, the read and write traffic will often be unpredictable. When traffic spikes occur, they will happen very quickly.
What should a solutions architect recommend?
A company runs a highly available image-processing application on Amazon EC2 instances in a single VPC The EC2 instances run inside several subnets across multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances do not communicate with each other However, the EC2 instances download images from Amazon S3 and upload images to Amazon S3 through a single NAT gateway The company is concerned about data transfer charges
What is the MOST cost-effective way for the company to avoid Regional data transfer charges?
A company has registered its domain name with Amazon Route 53. The company uses Amazon API Gateway in the ca-central-1 Region as a public interface for its backend microservice APIs. Third-party services consume the APIs securely. The company wants to design its API Gateway URL with the company's domain name and corresponding certificate so that the third-party services can use HTTPS.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 company wants to use NAT gateways in its AWS environment. The company's Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets must be able to connect to the public internet through the NAT gateways.
Which solution will meet these requirements'?
A solutions architect needs to design the architecture for an application that a vendor provides as a Docker container image The container needs 50 GB of storage available for temporary files The infrastructure must be serverless.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company hosts a three-tier web application in the AWS Cloud. A Multi-AZ Amazon RDS for MySQL server forms the database layer. Amazon ElastiCache forms the cache layer. The company wants a caching strategy that adds or updates data in the cache when a customer adds an item to the database. The data in the cache must always match the data in the database.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An ecommerce application uses a PostgreSQL database that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. During a monthly sales event, database usage increases and causes database connection issues for the application. The traffic is unpredictable for subsequent monthly sales events, which impacts the sales forecast. The company needs to maintain performance when there is an unpredictable increase in traffic.
Which solution resolves this issue in the MOST cost-effective way?
A company is designing a web application on AWS The application will use a VPN connection between the company's existing data centers and the company's VPCs. 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 in the MOST secure manner?
A company's developers want a secure way to gain SSH access on the company's Amazon EC2 instances that run the latest version of Amazon Linux. The developers work remotely and in the corporate office.
The company wants to use AWS services as a part of the solution. The EC2 instances are hosted in a VPC private subnet and access the internet through a NAT gateway that is deployed in a public subnet.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
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 company has a mobile game that reads most of its metadata from an Amazon RDS DB instance. As the game increased in popularity, developers noticed slowdowns related to the game's metadata load times Performance metrics indicate that simply scaling the database will not help A solutions architect must explore all options that include capabilities for snapshots, replication, and sub-millisecond response times
What should the solutions architect recommend to solve these issues'?
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 Java-based job on an Amazon EC2 instance. The job runs every hour and takes 10 seconds to run. The job runs on a scheduled interval and consumes 1 GB of memory. The CPU utilization of the instance is low except for short surges during which the job uses the maximum CPU available. The company wants to optimize the costs to run the job.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has established a new AWS account. The account is newly provisioned and no changes have been made to the default settings. The company is concerned about the security of the AWS account root user.
What should be done to secure the root user?
A research company uses on-premises devices to generate data for analysis. The company wants to use the AWS Cloud to analyze the data. The devices generate .csv files and support writing the data to SMB file share. Company analysts must be able to use SQL commands to query the data. The analysts will run queries periodically throughout the day.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select THREE.)
A company maintains about 300 TB in Amazon S3 Standard storage month after month The S3 objects are each typically around 50 GB in size and are frequently replaced with multipart uploads by their global application The number and size of S3 objects remain constant but the company's S3 storage costs are increasing each month.
How should a solutions architect reduce costs in this situation?
An online video game company must maintain ultra-low latency for its game servers. The game servers run on Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs a solution that can handle millions of UDP internet traffic requests each second.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company stores text files in Amazon S3. The text files include customer chat messages, date and time information, and customer personally identifiable information (Pll).
The company needs a solution to provide samples of the conversations to an external service provider for quality control. The external service provider needs to randomly pick sample conversations up to the most recent conversation. The company must not share the customer Pll with the external service provider. The solution must scale when the number of customer conversations increases.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A financial services company wants to shut down two data centers and migrate more than 100 TB of data to AWS. The data has an intricate directory structure with millions of small files stored in deep hierarchies of subfolders. Most of the data is unstructured, and the company's file storage consists of SMB-based storage types from multiple vendors. The company does not want to change its applications to access the data after migration.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company's website is used to sell products to the public. The site runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). There is also an Amazon CloudFront distribution, and AWS WAF is being used to protect against SQL injection attacks. The ALB is the origin for the CloudFront distribution. A recent review of security logs revealed an external malicious IP that needs to be blocked from accessing the website.
What should a solutions architect do to protect the application?
A company is creating an application The company stores data from tests of the application in multiple on-premises locations
The company needs to connect the on-premises locations to VPCs in an AWS Region in the AWS Cloud The number of accounts and VPCs will increase during the next year The network architecture must simplify the administration of new connections and must provide the ability to scale.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead'?
A company wants to run its payment application on AWS The application receives payment notifications from mobile devices Payment notifications require a basic validation before they are sent for further processing
The backend processing application is long running and requires compute and memory to be adjusted The company does not want to manage the infrastructure
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company's web application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud recently increased in popularity. The web application currently exists on a single Amazon EC2 instance in a single public subnet. The web application has not been able to meet the demand of the increased web traffic.
The company needs a solution that will provide high availability and scalability to meet the increased user demand without rewriting the web application.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company has an application that delivers on-demand training videos to students around the world. The application also allows authorized content developers to upload videos. The data is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-2 Region.
The company has created an S3 bucket in the eu-west-2 Region and an S3 bucket in the ap-southeast-1 Region. The company wants to replicate the data to the new S3 buckets. The company needs to minimize latency for developers who upload videos and students who stream videos near eu-west-2 and ap-southeast-1.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the FEWEST changes to the application? (Select TWO.)
A solutions architect creates a VPC that includes two public subnets and two private subnets. A corporate security mandate requires the solutions architect to launch all Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet. However, when the solutions architect launches an EC2 instance that runs a web server on ports 80 and 443 in a private subnet, no external internet traffic can connect to the server.
What should the solutions architect do to resolve this issue?
A financial company needs to handle highly sensitive data The company will store the data in an Amazon S3 bucket The company needs to ensure that the data is encrypted in transit and at rest The company must manage the encryption keys outside the AWS Cloud
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is deploying a new application to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with an AWS Fargate cluster. The application needs a storage solution for data persistence. The solution must be highly available and fault tolerant. The solution also must be shared between multiple application containers.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company runs a three-tier web application in a VPC across multiple Availability Zones. Amazon EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group for the application tier.
The company needs to make an automated scaling plan that will analyze each resource's daily and weekly historical workload trends. The configuration must scale resources appropriately according to both the forecast and live changes in utilization.
Which scaling strategy should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company built an application with Docker containers and needs to run the application in the AWS Cloud The company wants to use a managed sen/ice to host the application
The solution must scale in and out appropriately according to demand on the individual container services The solution also must not result in additional operational overhead or infrastructure to manage
Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO)
A company is building a microservices-based application that will be deployed on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). The microservices will interact with each other. The company wants to ensure that the application is observable to identify performance issues in the future.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has 150 TB of archived image data stored on-premises that needs to be moved to the AWS Cloud within the next month. The company's current network connection allows up to 100 Mbps uploads for this purpose during the night only.
What is the MOST cost-effective mechanism to move this data and meet the migration deadline?
A company runs a container application on a Kubernetes cluster in the company's data center The application uses Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) to communicate with a message queue The data center cannot scale fast enough to meet the company's expanding business needs The company wants to migrate the workloads to AWS
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? \
A solutions architect is designing a highly available Amazon ElastiCache for Redis based solution. The solutions architect needs to ensure that failures do not result in performance degradation or loss of data locally and within an AWS Region. The solution needs to provide high availability at the node level and at the Region level.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has a stateless web application that runs on AWS Lambda functions that are invoked by Amazon API Gateway. The company v wants to deploy the application across multiple AWS Regions to provide Regional failover capabilities.
What should a solutions architect do to route traffic to multiple Regions?
A company is developing a mobile game that streams score updates to a backend processor and then posts results on a leaderboard A solutions architect needs to design a solution that can handle large traffic spikes process the mobile game updates in order of receipt, and store the processed updates in a highly available database The company also wants to minimize the management overhead required to maintain the solution
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company needs to migrate a MySQL database from its on-premises data center to AWS within 2 weeks. The database is 20 TB in size. The company wants to complete the migration with minimal downtime.
Which solution will migrate the database MOST cost-effectively?
A company has an application that processes customer orders. The company hosts the application on an Amazon EC2 instance that saves the orders to an Amazon Aurora database. Occasionally when traffic is high: the workload does not process orders fast enough.
What should a solutions architect do to write the orders reliably to the database as quickly as possible?
A company uses Amazon S3 to store high-resolution pictures in an S3 bucket. To minimize application changes, the company stores the pictures as the latest version of an S3 object
The company needs to retain only the two most recent versions ot the pictures.
The company wants to reduce costs. The company has identified the S3 bucket as a large expense.
Which solution will reduce the S3 costs with the LEAST operational overhead?
A solutions architect must provide an automated solution for a company's compliance policy that states security groups cannot include a rule that allows SSH from 0.0.0.0/0. The company needs to be notified if there is any breach in the policy. A solution is needed as soon as possible.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A solutions architect needs to optimize storage costs. The solutions architect must identify any Amazon S3 buckets that are no longer being accessed or are rarely accessed.
Which solution will accomplish this goal with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company operates an ecommerce website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in an Auto Scaling group. The site is experiencing performance issues related to a high request rate from illegitimate external systems with changing IP addresses. The security team is worried about potential DDoS attacks against the website. The company must block the illegitimate incoming requests in a way that has a minimal impact on legitimate users.
What should a solutions architect recommend?
A company is developing a marketing communications service that targets mobile app users. The company needs to send confirmation messages with Short Message Service (SMS) to its users. The users must be able to reply to the SMS messages. The company must store the responses for a year for analysis.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon S3 as its data lake. The company has a new partner that must use SFTP to upload data files A solutions architect needs to implement a highly available SFTP solution that minimizes operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has two VPCs that are located in the us-west-2 Region within the same AWS account. The company needs to allow network traffic between these VPCs. Approximately 500 GB of data transfer will occur between the VPCs each month.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution to connect these VPCs?
An ecommerce company has noticed performance degradation of its Amazon RDS based web application. The performance degradation is attributed to an increase in the number of read-only SQL queries triggered by business analysts. A solutions architect needs to solve the problem with minimal changes to the existing web application.
What should the solutions architect recommend?
A company is creating an application that runs on containers in a VPC. The application stores and accesses data in an Amazon S3 bucket During the development phase, the application will store and access 1 TB of data in Amazon S3 each day. The company wants to minimize costs and wants to prevent traffic from traversing the internet whenever possible.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company offers a food delivery service that is growing rapidly. Because of the growth, the company’s order processing system is experiencing scaling problems during peak traffic hours. The current architecture includes the following:
• A group of Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to collect orders from the application
• Another group of EC2 instances that run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to fulfill 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 properly during peak traffic hours. The solution must optimize utilization of the company’s AWS resources.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company plans to use Amazon ElastiCache for its multi-tier web application. A solutions architect creates a Cache VPC for the ElastiCache cluster and an App VPC for the application’s Amazon EC2 instances. Both VPCs are in the us-east-1 Region.
The solutions architect must implement a solution to provide the application’s EC2 instances with access to the ElastiCache cluster.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company deployed a serverless application that uses Amazon DynamoDB as a database layer The application has experienced a large increase in users. The company wants to improve database response time from milliseconds to microseconds and to cache requests to the database.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company runs multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances in a VPC across two Availability Zones. The instances host applications that use a hierarchical directory structure. The applications need to read and write rapidly and concurrently to shared storage.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company hosts a website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The website serves static content Website traffic is increasing and the company is concerned about a potential increase in cost.
What should a solutions architect do to reduce the cost of the website?
A company has a popular gaming platform running on AWS. The application is sensitive to latency because latency can impact the user experience and introduce unfair advantages to some players. The application is deployed in every AWS Region. It runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are part of Auto Scaling groups configured behind Application Load Balancers (ALBs). A solutions architect needs to implement a mechanism to monitor the health of the application and redirect traffic to healthy endpoints.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company runs a website that uses a content management system (CMS) on Amazon EC2. The CMS runs on a single EC2 instance and uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance for the data tier. Website images are stored on an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume that is mounted inside the EC2 instance.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to improve the performance and resilience of the website? (Select TWO.)
A company uses an on-premises network-attached storage (NAS) system to provide file shares to its high performance computing (HPC) workloads. The company wants to migrate its latency-sensitive HPC workloads and its storage to the AWS Cloud. The company must be able to provide NFS and SMB multi-protocol access from the file system.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST latency? (Select TWO.)
A company website hosted on Amazon EC2 instances processes classified data stored in The application writes data to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes The company needs to ensure that all data that is written to the EBS volumes is encrypted at rest.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company runs applications on AWS that connect to the company's Amazon RDS database. The applications scale on weekends and at peak times of the year. The company wants to scale the database more effectively for its applications that connect to the database.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company wants to use an AWS CloudFormatlon stack for its application in a test environment. The company stores the CloudFormation template in an Amazon S3 bucket that blocks public access. The company wants to grant CloudFormation access to the template in the S3 bucket based on specific user requests to create the test environment The solution must follow security best practices.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is concerned that two NAT instances in use will no longer be able to support the traffic needed for the company’s application. A solutions architect wants to implement a solution that is highly available, fault tolerant, and automatically scalable.
What should the solutions architect recommend?
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 is conducting an internal audit. The company wants to ensure that the data in an Amazon S3 bucket that is associated with the company's AWS Lake Formation data lake does not contain sensitive customer or employee data. The company wants to discover personally identifiable information (Pll) or financial information, including passport numbers and credit card numbers.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants lo build a web application on AWS. Client access requests to the website are not predictable and can be idle for a long time. Only customers who have paid a subscription fee can have the ability to sign in and use the web application.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select THREE.)
A solutions architect needs to review a company's Amazon S3 buckets to discover personally identifiable information (Pll). The company stores the Pll data in the us-east-I Region and us-west-2 Region.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company's containerized application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The application needs to download security certificates before it can communicate with other business applications. The company wants a highly secure solution to encrypt and decrypt the certificates in near real time. The solution also needs to store data in highly available storage after the data is encrypted.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company wants to use artificial intelligence (Al) to determine the quality of its customer service calls. The company currently manages calls in four different languages, including English. The company will offer new languages in the future. The company does not have the resources to regularly maintain machine learning (ML) models.
The company needs to create written sentiment analysis reports from the customer service call recordings. The customer service call recording text must be translated into English.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company has two VPCs named Management and Production. The Management VPC uses VPNs through a customer gateway to connect to a single device in the data center. The Production VPC uses a virtual private gateway AWS Direct Connect connections. The Management and Production VPCs both use a single VPC peering connection to allow communication between the
What should a solutions architect do to mitigate any single point of failure in this architecture?
A company wants to migrate an on-premises data center to AWS. The data canter hosts an SFTP server that stores its data on an NFS-based file system. The server holds 200 GB of data that needs to be transferred. The server must be hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance that uses an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system
When combination of steps should a solutions architect take to automate this task? (Select TWO )
A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) solution for the application. The DR solution needs to have a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 4 hours. The DR solution also needs to use the fewest possible AWS resources during normal operations.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company wants to share accounting data with an external auditor. The data is stored in an Amazon RDS DB instance that resides in a private subnet. The auditor has its own AWS account and requires its own copy of the database.
What is the MOST secure way for the company to share the database with the auditor?
A company wants to experiment with individual AWS accounts for its engineer team. The company wants to be notified as soon as the Amazon EC2 instance usage for a given month exceeds a specific threshold for each account.
What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement MOST cost-effectively?
A company runs a container application by using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). The application includes microservices that manage customers and place orders. The company needs to route incoming requests to the appropriate microservices.
Which solution will meet this requirement MOST cost-effectively?
A company wants to create an application to store employee data in a hierarchical structured relationship. The company needs a minimum-latency response to high-traffic queries for the employee data and must protect any sensitive data. The company also needs to receive monthly email messages if any financial information is present in the employee data.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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 needs to store contract documents. A contract lasts for 5 years. During the 5-year period, the company must ensure that the documents cannot be overwritten or deleted. The company needs to encrypt the documents at rest and rotate the encryption keys automatically every year.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select TWO.)
A social media company runs its application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The ALB is the origin for an Amazon CloudFront distribution. The application has more than a billion images stored in an Amazon S3 bucket and processes thousands of images each second. The company wants to resize the images dynamically and serve appropriate formats to clients.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company hosts an online shopping application that stores all orders in an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Singfe-AZ DB instance. Management wants to eliminate single points of C^ilure and has asked a solutions architect to recommend an approach to minimize database downtime without requiring any changes to the application code.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company runs a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group that has a target group. The company desgned the application to work with session affinity (sticky sessions) for a better user experience.
The application must be available publicly over the internet as an endpoint_ A WAF must be applied to the endpoint for additional security. Session affinity (sticky sessions) must be configured on the endpoint
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO)
A company hosts an internal serverless application on AWS by using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The company's employees report issues with high latency when they begin using the application each day. The company wants to reduce latency.
Which 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?
An ecommerce company stores terabytes of customer data in the AWS Cloud. The data contains personally identifiable information (Pll). The company wants to use the
data in three applications. Only one of the applications needs to process the Pll. The Pll 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 an on-premises server that uses an Oracle database to process and store customer information The company wants to use an AWS database service to achieve higher availability and to improve application performance. The company also wants to offload reporting from its primary database system.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company is using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys to encrypt AWS Lambda environment variables. A solutions architect needs to ensure that the required permissions are in place to decrypt and use the environment variables.
Which steps must the solutions architect take to implement the correct permissions? (Choose two.)
A company stores raw collected data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The data is used for several types of analytics on behalf of the company’s customers. The type of analytics requested to determines the access pattern on the S3 objects.
The company cannot predict or control the access pattern. The company wants to reduce its S3 costs.
which solution will meet these requirements?
A group requires permissions to list an Amazon S3 bucket and delete objects from that bucket An administrator has created the following 1AM policy to provide access to the bucket and applied that policy to the group. The group is not able to delete objects in the bucket. The company follows least-privilege access rules.
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A company is using a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances to ingest data from on-premises data sources. The data is in JSON format and Ingestion rates can be as high as 1 MB/s. When an EC2 instance is rebooted, the data in-flight is lost. The company's data science team wants to query Ingested data In near-real time.
Which solution provides near-real -time data querying that is scalable with minimal data loss?
A company provides an online service for posting video content and transcoding it for use by any mobile platform. The application architecture uses Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Standard to collect and store the videos so that multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances can access the video content for processing As the popularity of the service has grown over time, the storage costs have become too expensive.
Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?
A company is designing a new Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) deployment to host multi-tenant applications that use a single cluster. The company wants to ensure that each pod has its own hosted environment. The environments must not share CPU, memory, storage, or elastic network interfaces.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs a three-tier web application in the AWS Cloud that operates across three Availability Zones. The application architecture has an Application Load Balancer, an Amazon EC2 web server that hosts user session states, and a MySQL database that runs on an EC2 instance. The company expects sudden increases in application traffic. The company wants to be able to scale to meet future application capacity demands and to ensure high availability across all three Availability Zones.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A gaming company uses Amazon DynamoDB to store user information such as geographic location, player data, and leaderboards. The company needs to configure continuous backups to an Amazon S3 bucket with a minimal amount of coding. The backups must not affect availability of the application and must not affect the read capacity units (RCUs) that are defined for the table
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company has an on-premises MySQL database that handles transactional data. The company is migrating the database to the AWS Cloud. The migrated database must maintain compatibility with the company's applications that use the database. The migrated database also must scale automatically during periods of increased demand.
Which migration solution will meet these requirements?
The following IAM policy is attached to an IAM group. This is the only policy applied to the group.
A company is developing a new mobile app. The company must implement proper traffic filtering to protect its Application Load Balancer (ALB) against common application-level attacks, such as cross-site scripting or SQL injection. The company has minimal infrastructure and operational staff. The company needs to reduce its share of the responsibility in managing, updating, and securing servers for its AWS environment.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Lambda functions to run its application. The company has VPCs with public subnets and private subnets in its AWS account. The EC2 instances run in a private subnet in one of the VPCs. The Lambda functions need direct network access to the EC2 instances for the application to work.
The application will run for at least 1 year. The company expects the number of Lambda functions that the application uses to increase during that time. The company wants to maximize its savings on all application resources and to keep network latency between the services low.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company recently created a disaster recovery site in a Different AWS Region.The company needs to transfer large amounts of data back and forth between NFS file systems in the two Regions on a periods.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company hosts a web application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group that scales in response to user demand The company wants to optimize cost savings without making a long-term commitment
Which EC2 instance purchasing option should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements'?
A company wants to run an in-memory database for a latency-sensitive application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. The application processes more than 100,000 transactions each minute and requires high network throughput. A solutions architect needs to provide a cost-effective network design that minimizes data transfer charges.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company wants to migrate its 1 PB on-premises image repository to AWS. The images will be used by a serverless web application Images stored in the repository are rarely accessed, but they must be immediately available Additionally, the images must be encrypted at rest and protected from accidental deletion
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company sells datasets to customers who do research in artificial intelligence and machine learning (Al/ML) The datasets are large, formatted files that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region The company hosts a web application that the customers use to purchase access to a given dataset The web application is deployed on multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer After a purchase is made customers receive an S3 signed URL that allows access to the files.
The customers are distributed across North America and Europe The company wants to reduce the cost that is associated with data transfers and wants to maintain or improve performance.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A media company hosts its website on AWS. The website application's architecture includes a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and a database that is hosted on Amazon Aurora The company's cyber security teem reports that the application is vulnerable to SOL injection.
How should the company resolve this issue?
A transaction processing company has weekly scripted batch jobs that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group. The number of transactions can vary but the beseline CPU utilization that is noted on each run is at least 60%. The company needs to provision the capacity 30 minutes before the jobs run.
Currently engineering complete this task by manually modifying the Auto Scaling group parameters. The company does not have the resources to analyze the required capacity trends for the Auto Scaling group counts. The company needs an automated way to modify the Auto Scaling group’s capacity.
Which solution will meet these requiements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A solutions architect is creating a new VPC design There are two public subnets for the load balancer, two private subnets for web servers and two private subnets for MySQL The web servers use only HTTPS The solutions architect has already created a security group tor the load balancer allowing port 443 from 0 0 0 0/0 Company policy requires that each resource has the teas! access required to still be able to perform its tasks
Which additional configuration strategy should the solutions architect use to meet these requirements?
A company's facility has badge readers at every entrance throughout the building. When badges are scanned, the readers send a message over HTTPS to indicate who attempted to access that particular entrance.
A solutions architect must design a system to process these messages from the sensors. The solution must be highly available, and the results must be made available for the company's security team to analyze.
Which system architecture should the solutions architect recommend?
A hospital is designing a new application that gathers symptoms from patients. The hospital has decided to use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) in the architecture.
A solutions architect is reviewing the infrastructure design Data must be encrypted at test and in transit. Only authorized personnel of the hospital should be able to access the data.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A solutions architect needs to design a system to store client case files. The files are core company assets and are important. The number of files will grow over time.
The files must be simultaneously accessible from multiple application servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The solution must have built-in redundancy.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company runs a public three-Tier web application in a VPC The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances that run in private subnets need to communicate with a license server over the internet The company needs a managed solution that minimizes operational maintenance
Which solution meets these requirements''
A company has a web application that is based on Java and PHP The company plans to move the application from on premises to AWS The company needs the ability to test new site features frequently. The company also needs a highly available and managed solution that requires minimum operational overhead
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is using Amazon CloudFront with this website. The company has enabled logging on the CloudFront distribution, and logs are saved in one of the company's Amazon S3 buckets The company needs to perform advanced analyses on the logs and build visualizations
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements'?
An ecommerce company needs to run a scheduled daily job to aggregate and filler sales records for analytics. The company stores the sales records in an Amazon S3 bucket. Each object can be up to 10 G6 in size Based on the number of sales events, the job can take up to an hour to complete. The CPU and memory usage of the fob are constant and are known in advance.
A solutions architect needs to minimize the amount of operational effort that is needed for the job to run. Which solution meets these requirements?
A company has a large dataset for its online advertising business stored in an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in a single Availability Zone. The company wants business reporting queries to run without impacting the write operations to the production DB instance.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company has a regional subscription-based streaming service that runs in a single AWS Region. The architecture consists of web servers and application servers on Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances are in Auto Scaling groups behind Elastic Load Balancers. The architecture includes an Amazon Aurora database cluster that extends across multiple Availability Zones.
The company wants to expand globally and to ensure that its application has minimal downtime.
A company has deployed a web application on AWS. The company hosts the backend database on Amazon RDS for MySQL with a primary DB instance and five read replicas to support scallng needs. The read replicas must lag no more than 1 second behind the primary DB instance. The database routinely runs scheduled stored procedures.
As traffic on the website increases, the replicas experince addtional lag during periods of peak load. A solutions architect must reduce the replication lag as much as possible. The solutin architect must minimize changes to the application code and must minimize ongoing operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company’s security team requests that network traffic be captured in VPC Flow Logs. The logs will be frequently accessed for 90 days and then accessed intermittently.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements when configuring the logs?
A gaming company is moving its public scoreboard from a data center to the AWS Cloud. The company uses Amazon EC2 Windows Server instances behind an
Application Load Balancer to host its dynamic application. The company needs a highly available storage solution for the application. The application consists of static files and dynamic server-side code.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A rapidly growing ecommerce company is running its workloads in a single AWS Region. A solutions architect must create a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that includes a different AWS Region The company wants its database to be up to date in the DR Region with the least possible latency The remaining infrastructure in the DR Region needs to run at reduced capacity and must be able to scale up it necessary
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LOWEST recovery time objective (RTO)?
A company hosts a three-tier ecommerce application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) All ecommerce data is stored in an Amazon RDS for ManaDB Multi-AZ DB instance
The company wants to optimize customer session management during transactions The application must store session data durably
Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO )
An online learning company is migrating to the AWS Cloud. The company maintains its student records in a PostgreSQL database. The company needs a solution in which its data is available and online across multiple AWS Regions at all times.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
A company wants to configure its Amazon CloudFront distribution to use SSL/TLS certificates. The company does not want to use the default domain name for the distribution. Instead, the company wants to use a different domain name for the distribution.
Which solution will deploy the certificate with icurring any additional costs?
A solution architect must create a disaster recovery (DR) plan for a high-volume software as a service (SaaS) platform. All data for the platform is stored in an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster.
The DR plan must replcate data to a secondary AWS Region.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
Use MySQL binary log replication to an Aurora cluster
An Amazon EC2 instance is located in a private subnet in a new VPC. This subnet does not have outbound internet access, but the EC2 instance needs the ability to download monthly security updates from an outside vendor.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company needs to transfer 600 TB of data from its on-premises network-attached storage (NAS) system to the AWS Cloud. The data transfer must be complete within 2 weeks. The data is sensitive and must be encrypted in transit. The company's internet connection can support an upload speed of 100 Mbps.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
An application that is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances needs to access an Amazon S3 bucket Traffic must not traverse the internet How should a solutions architect configure access to meet these requirements?
A company has a web server running on an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subnet with an Elastic IP address. The default security group is assigned to the EC2 instance. The default network ACL has been modified to block all traffic. A solutions architect needs to make the web server accessible from everywhere on port 443.
Which combination of steps will accomplish this task? (Choose two.)
A company is using AWS to design a web application that will process insurance quotes Users will request quotes from the application Quotes must be separated by quote type, must be responded to within 24 hours, and must not get lost The solution must maximize operational efficiency and must minimize maintenance. Which solution meets these requirements?
A company needs to ingested and handle large amounts of streaming data that its application generates. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and sends data to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. which is contained wild default settings. Every other day the application consumes the data and writes the data to an Amazon S3 bucket for business intelligence (BI) processing the company observes that Amazon S3 is not receiving all the data that trio application sends to Kinesis Data Streams.
What should a solutions architect do to resolve this issue?
A company is migrating an old application to AWS The application runs a batch job every hour and is CPU intensive The batch job takes 15 minutes on average with an on-premises server The server has 64 virtual CPU (vCPU) and 512 GiB of memory
Which solution will run the batch job within 15 minutes with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company runs an application on a large fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The application reads and write entries into an Amazon DynamoDB table. The size of the DynamoDB table continuously grows, but the application needs only data from the last 30 days. The company needs a solution that minimizes cost and development effort.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company wants to restrict access to the content of one of its man web applications and to protect the content by using authorization techniques available on AWS. The company wants to implement a serverless architecture end an authentication solution for fewer tian 100 users. The solution needs to integrate with the main web application and serve web content globally. The solution must also scale as to company's user base grows while providing lowest login latency possible.
A development team has launched a new application that is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances inside a development VPC. A solution architect needs to create a new VPC in the same account. The new VPC will be peered with the development VPC. The VPC CIDR block for the development VPC is 192. 168. 00/24. The solutions architect needs to create a CIDR block for the new VPC. The CIDR block must be valid for a VPC peering connection to the development VPC.
What is the SMALLEST CIOR block that meets these requirements?
A company runs an internal browser-based application The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The Auto Scaling group scales up to 20 instances during work hours but scales down to 2 instances overnight Staff are complaining that the application is very slow when the day begins although it runs well by mid-morning.
How should the scaling be changed to address the staff complaints and keep costs to a minimum'?
A company has migrated an application to Amazon EC2 Linux instances. One of these EC2 instances runs several 1-hour tasks on a schedule. These tasks were written by different teams and have no common programming language. The company is concerned about performance and scalability while these tasks run on a single instance. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to resolve these concerns.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company stores confidential data in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database in the ap-southeast-3 Region The database is encrypted with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key The company was recently acquired and must securely share a backup of the database with the acquiring company's AWS account in ap-southeast-3.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company wants to improve its ability to clone large amounts of production data into a test environment in the same AWS Region. The data is stored in Amazon EC2 instances on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. Modifications to the cloned data must not affect the production environment. The software that accesses this data requires consistently high I/O performance.
A solutions architect needs to minimize the time that is required to clone the production data into the test environment.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is launching an application on AWS. The application uses an Application Load (ALB) to direct traffic to at least two Amazon EC2 instances in a single target group.
The instances are in an Auto Scaling group for each environment. The company requires a development and a production environment. The production environment will have periods of high traffic.
Which solution will configure the development environment MOST cost-effectively?
A company runs an application that receives data from thousands of geographically dispersed remote devices that use UDP The application processes the data immediately and sends a message back to the device if necessary No data is stored.
The company needs a solution that minimizes latency for the data transmission from the devices. The solution also must provide rapid failover to another AWS Region
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is running a batch application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application consists of a backend with multiple Amazon RDS databases. The application is causing a high number of leads on the databases. A solutions architect must reduce the number of database reads while ensuring high availability.
What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
A solutions architect needs to securely store a database user name and password that an application uses to access an Amazon RDS DB instance. The application that accesses the database runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The solutions architect wants to create a secure parameter in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.
What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
A company has hundreds of Amazon EC2 Linux-based instances in the AWS Cloud. Systems administrators have used shared SSH keys to manage the instances After a recent audit, the company's security team is mandating the removal of all shared keys. A solutions architect must design a solution that provides secure access to the EC2 instances.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of administrative overhead?
A company has an AWS account used for software engineering. The AWS account has access to the company's on-premises data center through a pair of AWS Direct Connect connections. All non-VPC traffic routes to the virtual private gateway.
A development team recently created an AWS Lambda function through the console. The development team needs to allow the function to access a database that runs in a private subnet in the company's data center.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect must design a solution that uses Amazon CloudFront with an Amazon S3 origin to store a static website. The company's security policy requires that all website traffic be inspected by AWS WAR
How should the solutions architect comply with these requirements?
A company is migrating an application from on-premises servers to Amazon EC2 instances. As part of the migration design requirements, a solutions architect must implement infrastructure metric alarms. The company does not need to take action if CPU utilization increases to more than 50% for a short burst of time. However, if the CPU utilization increases to more than 50% and read IOPS on the disk are high at the same time, the company needs to act as soon as possible. The solutions architect also must reduce false alarms.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company runs a global web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The application stores data in Amazon Aurora. The company needs to create a disaster recovery solution and can tolerate up to 30 minutes of downtime and potential data loss. The solution does not need to handle the load when the primary infrastructure is healthy
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company is running a multi-tier web application on premises. The web application is containerized and runs on a number of Linux hosts connected to a PostgreSQL database that contains user records. The operational overhead of maintaining the infrastructure and capacity planning is limiting the company's growth. A solutions architect must improve the application's infrastructure.
Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Choose two.)
A company runs a stateless web application in production on a group of Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application experiences heavy usage during an 8-hour period each business day. Application usage is moderate and steady overnight Application usage is low during weekends.
The company wants to minimize its EC2 costs without affecting the availability of the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has implemented a self-managed DNS solution on three Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB) in the us-west-2 Region. Most of the company's users are located in the United States and Europe. The company wants to improve the performance and availability of the solution. The company launches and configures three EC2 instances in the eu-west-1 Region and adds the EC2 instances as targets for a new NLB.
Which solution can the company use to route traffic to all the EC2 instances?
A media company is evaluating the possibility ot moving rts systems to the AWS Cloud The company needs at least 10 TB of storage with the maximum possible I/O performance for video processing. 300 TB of very durable storage for storing media content, and 900 TB of storage to meet requirements for archival media that is not in use anymore
Which set of services should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company has an event-driven application that invokes AWS Lambda functions up to 800 times each minute with varying runtimes. The Lambda functions access data that is stored in an Amazon Aurora MySQL OB cluster. The company is noticing connection timeouts as user activity increases The database shows no signs of being overloaded. CPU. memory, and disk access metrics are all low.
Which solution will resolve this issue with the LEAST operational overhead?
A new employee has joined a company as a deployment engineer. The deployment engineer will be using AWS CloudFormation templates to create multiple AWS resources. A solutions architect wants the deployment engineer to perform job activities while following the principle of least privilege.
Which steps should the solutions architect do in conjunction to reach this goal? (Select two.)
A company’s website provides users with downloadable historical performance reports. The website needs a solution that will scale to meet the company’s website demands globally. The solution should be cost-effective, limit the provisioning of infrastructure resources, and provide the fastest possible response time.
Which combination should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company wants to migrate its on-premises data center to AWS. According to the company's compliance requirements, the company can use only the ap-northeast-3 Region. Company administrators are not permitted to connect VPCs to the internet.
Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer The application performs best when the CPU utilization of the EC2 instances is at or near 40%.
What should a solutions architect do to maintain the desired performance across all instances in the group?
A company needs to retain application logs files for a critical application for 10 years. The application team regularly accesses logs from the past month for troubleshooting, but logs older than 1 month are rarely accessed. The application generates more than 10 TB of logs per month.
Which storage option meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company wants to run a gaming application on Amazon EC2 instances that are part of an Auto Scaling group in the AWS Cloud. The application will transmit data by using UDP packets. The company wants to ensure that the application can scale out and in as traffic increases and decreases.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company is building a containerized application on premises and decides to move the application to AWS. The application will have thousands of users soon after li is deployed. The company Is unsure how to manage the deployment of containers at scale. The company needs to deploy the containerized application in a highly available architecture that minimizes operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A large media company hosts a web application on AWS. The company wants to start caching confidential media files so that users around the world will have reliable access to the files. The content is stored in Amazon S3 buckets. The company must deliver the content quickly, regardless of where the requests originate geographically.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company recently started using Amazon Aurora as the data store for its global ecommerce application When large reports are run developers report that the ecommerce application is performing poorly After reviewing metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, a solutions architect finds that the ReadlOPS and CPUUtilization metrics are spiking when monthly reports run.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution?
A company runs its ecommerce application on AWS. Every new order is published as a message in a RabbitMQ queue that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in a single Availability Zone. These messages are processed by a different application that runs on a separate EC2 instance. This application stores the details in a PostgreSQL database on another EC2 instance. All the EC2 instances are in the same Availability Zone.
The company needs to redesign its architecture to provide the highest availability with the least operational overhead.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company has a service that produces event data. The company wants to use AWS to process the event data as it is received. The data is written in a specific order that must be maintained throughout processing The company wants to implement a solution that minimizes operational overhead.
How should a solutions architect accomplish this?
A company is migrating its on-premises PostgreSQL database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The on-premises database must remain online and accessible during the migration. The Aurora database must remain synchronized with the on-premises database.
Which combination of actions must a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company has a data ingestion workflow that includes the following components:
• An Amazon Simple Notation Service (Amazon SNS) topic that receives notifications about new data deliveries
• An AWS Lambda function that processes and stores the data
The ingestion workflow occasionally fails because of network connectivity issues. When tenure occurs the corresponding data is not ingested unless the company manually reruns the job. What should a solutions architect do to ensure that all notifications are eventually processed?
A company wants to manage Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). The company currently copies AMIs to the same AWS Region where the AMIs were created. The company needs to design an application that captures AWS API calls and sends alerts whenever the Amazon EC2 Createlmage API operation is called within the company's account.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has a dynamic web application hosted on two Amazon EC2 instances. The company has its own SSL certificate, which is on each instance to perform SSL termination.
There has been an increase in traffic recently, and the operations team determined that SSL encryption and decryption is causing the compute capacity of the web servers to reach their maximum limit.
What should a solutions architect do to increase the application's performance?
A company has a Windows-based application that must be migrated to AWS. The application requires the use of a shared Windows file system attached to multiple Amazon EC2 Windows instances that are deployed across multiple Availability Zones.
What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
A solutions architect is optimizing a website for an upcoming musical event. Videos of the performances will be streamed in real time and then will be available on demand. The event is expected to attract a global online audience.
Which service will improve the performance of both the real-lime and on-demand streaming?
A company wants to measure the effectiveness of its recent marketing campaigns. The company performs batch processing on csv files of sales data and stores the results in an Amazon S3 bucket once every hour. The S3 bi petabytes of objects. The company runs one-time queries in Amazon Athena to determine which products are most popular on a particular date for a particular region Queries sometimes fail or take longer than expected to finish.
Which actions should a solutions architect take to improve the query performance and reliability? (Select TWO.)
A company is planning to build a high performance computing (HPC) workload as a service solution that Is hosted on AWS A group of 16 AmazonEC2Ltnux Instances requires the lowest possible latency for node-to-node communication. The instances also need a shared block device volume for high-performing storage.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect needs to help a company optimize the cost of running an application on AWS. The application will use Amazon EC2 instances, AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda for compute within the architecture.
The EC2 instances will run the data ingestion layer of the application. EC2 usage will be sporadic and unpredictable. Workloads that run on EC2 instances can be interrupted at any time. The application front end will run on Fargate, and Lambda will serve the API layer. The front-end utilization and API layer utilization will be predictable over the course of the next year.
Which combination of purchasing options will provide the MOST cost-effective solution for hosting this application? (Choose two.)
A company is running several business applications in three separate VPCs within me us-east-1 Region. The applications must be able to communicate between VPCs. The applications also must be able to consistently send hundreds to gigabytes of data each day to a latency-sensitive application that runs in a single on-premises data center.
A solutions architect needs to design a network connectivity solution that maximizes cost-effectiveness
Which solution moots those requirements?
A company runs an Oracle database on premises. As part of the company’s migration to AWS, the company wants to upgrade the database to the most recent available version. The company also wants to set up disaster recovery (DR) for the database. The company needs to minimize the operational overhead for normal operations and DR setup. The company also needs to maintain access to the database's underlying operating system.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an ecommerce checkout workflow that writes an order to a database and calls a service to process the payment. Users are experiencing timeouts during the checkout process. When users resubmit the checkout form, multiple unique orders are created for the same desired transaction.
How should a solutions architect refactor this workflow to prevent the creation of multiple orders?
A company uses a three-tier web application to provide training to new employees. The application is accessed for only 12 hours every day. The company is using an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance to store information and wants to minimize costs.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company is building a web-based application running on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones. The web application will provide access to a repository of text documents totaling about 900 TB in size. The company anticipates that the web application will experience periods of high demand. A solutions architect must ensure that the storage component for the text documents can scale to meet the demand of the application at all times. The company is concerned about the overall cost of the solution.
Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is planning to move its data to an Amazon S3 bucket. The data must be encrypted when it is stored in the S3 bucket. Additionally, the encryption key must be automatically rotated every year.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
An ecommerce company hosts its analytics application in the AWS Cloud. The application generates about 300 MB of data each month. The data is stored in JSON format. The company is evaluating a disaster recovery solution to back up the data. The data must be accessible in milliseconds if it is needed, and the data must be kept for 30 days.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
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 global company is using Amazon API Gateway to design REST APIs for its loyalty club users in the us-east-1 Region and the ap-southeast-2 Region. A solutions architect must design a solution to protect these API Gateway managed REST APIs across multiple accounts from SQL injection and cross-site scripting attacks.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of administrative effort?
A gaming company has a web application that displays scores. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application stores data in an Amazon RDS for MySQL database. Users are starting to experience long delays and interruptions that are caused by database read performance. The company wants to improve the user experience while minimizing changes to the application's architecture.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Organizers for a global event want to put daily reports online as static HTML pages. The pages are expected to generate millions of views from users around the world. The files are stored In an Amazon S3 bucket. A solutions architect has been asked to design an efficient and effective solution.
Which action should the solutions architect take to accomplish this?
A company has a highly dynamic batch processing job that uses many Amazon EC2 instances to complete it. The job is stateless in nature, can be started and stopped at any given time with no negative impact, and typically takes upwards of 60 minutes total to complete. The company has asked a solutions architect to design a scalable and cost-effective solution that meets the requirements of the job.
What should the solutions architect recommend?
A company wants to migrate its MySQL database from on premises to AWS. The company recently experienced a database outage that significantly impacted the business. To ensure this does not happen again, the company wants a reliable database solution on AWS that minimizes data loss and stores every transaction on at least two nodes.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company hosts a website analytics application on a single Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instance. The analytics software is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database. The analytics software, the web server that provides PHP, and the database server are all hosted on the EC2 instance. The application is showing signs of performance degradation during busy times and is presenting 5xx errors. The company needs to make the application scale seamlessly.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A solutions architect is creating a new Amazon CloudFront distribution for an application. Some of the information submitted by users is sensitive. The application uses HTTPS but needs another layer of security. The sensitive information should be protected throughout the entire application stack, and access to the information should be restricted to certain applications.
Which action should the solutions architect take?
A company hosts a two-tier application on Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon RDS. The application's demand varies based on the time of day. The load is minimal after work hours and on weekends. The EC2 instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group that is configured with a minimum of two instances and a maximum of five instances. The application must be available at all times, but the company is concerned about overall cost.
Which solution meets the availability requirement MOST cost-effectively?
A reporting team receives files each day in an Amazon S3 bucket. The reporting team manually reviews and copies the files from this initial S3 bucket to an analysis S3 bucket each day at the same time to use with Amazon QuickSight. Additional teams are starting to send more files in larger sizes to the initial S3 bucket.
The reporting team wants to move the files automatically analysis S3 bucket as the files enter the initial S3 bucket. The reporting team also wants to use AWS Lambda functions to run pattern-matching code on the copied data. In addition, the reporting team wants to send the data files to a pipeline in Amazon SageMaker Pipelines.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has several on-premises Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) network storage servers The company wants to reduce the number of these servers by moving to the AWS Cloud. A solutions architect must provide low-latency access to frequently used data and reduce the dependency on on-premises servers with a minimal number of infrastructure changes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company's web application is running on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The company recently changed its policy, which now requires the application to be accessed from one specific country only.
Which configuration will meet this requirement?
A company's application Is having performance issues The application staleful and needs to complete m-memory tasks on Amazon EC2 instances. The company used AWS CloudFormation to deploy infrastructure and used the M5 EC2 Instance family As traffic increased, the application performance degraded Users are reporting delays when the users attempt to access the application.
Which solution will resolve these issues in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company produces batch data that comes from different databases. The company also produces live stream data from network sensors and application APIs. The company needs to consolidate all the data into one place for business analytics. The company needs to process the incoming data and then stage the data in different Amazon S3 buckets. Teams will later run one-time queries and import the data into a business intelligence tool to show key performance indicators (KPIs).
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Choose two.)
A company runs workloads in the AWS Cloud The company wants to centrally collect security data to assess security across the entire company and to improve workload protection.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?
A company uses Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP in its primary AWS Region for CIFS and NFS file shares. Applications that run on Amazon EC2 instances access the file shares The company needs a storage disaster recovery (OR) solution in a secondary Region. The data that is replicated in the secondary Region needs to be accessed by using the same protocols as the primary Region.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is 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 company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage AWS accounts that contain applications. The company sets up a dedicated monitoring member account in the organization. The company wants to query and visualize observability data across the accounts by using Amazon CloudWatch.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 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 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 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?
A company wants to use an API to translate text from one language to another. The API must receive an HTTP header value and pass the value to an embedded library. The API translates documents in 6 minutes. The API requires a custom authorization mechanism.
A solutions architect needs to connect a company's corporate network to its VPC to allow on-premises access to its AWS resources. The solution must provide encryption of all traffic between the corporate network and the VPC at the network layer and the session layer. The solution also must provide security controls to prevent unrestricted access between AWS and the on-premises systems.
Which solution meets these requirements?
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.
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 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?
An ecommerce company runs Its application on AWS. The application uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL cluster in Multi-AZ mode for the underlying database. During a recent promotional campaign, the application experienced heavy read load and write load. Users experienced timeout issues when they attempted to access the application.
A solutions architect needs to make the application architecture more scalable and highly available.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST downtime?
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?
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'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 uses Amazon RDS (or PostgreSQL to run its applications in the us-east-1 Region. The company also uses machine learning (ML) models to forecast annual revenue based on neat real-time reports. The reports are generated by using the same RDS for PostgreSQL database. The database performance slows during business hours. The company needs to improve database performance.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
How can DynamoDB data be made available for long-term analytics with minimal operational overhead?
A company needs to ingest and analyze telemetry data from vehicles at scale for machine learning and reporting.
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.
Options (Select TWO):
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 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 (1AM).
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST securely?
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 needs a solution to prevent AWS CloudFormation stacks from deploying AWS Identity and Access Management (1AM) resources that include an inline policy or "•" in the statement The solution must also prohibit deployment ot Amazon EC2 instances with public IP addresses The company has AWS Control Tower enabled in its organization in AWS Organizations.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company manages a data lake in an Amazon S3 bucket that numerous applications access The S3 bucket contains a unique prefix for each application The company wants to restrict each application to its specific prefix and to have granular control of the objects under each prefix.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is enhancing the security of its AWS environment, where the company stores a significant amount of sensitive customer data. The company needs a solution that automatically identifies and classifies sensitive data that is stored in multiple Amazon S3 buckets. The solution must automatically respond to data breaches and alert the company's security team through email immediately when noncompliant data is found.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company 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 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 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 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 deploys Amazon EC2 instances that run in a VPC. The EC2 instances load source data into Amazon S3 buckets so that the data can be processed in the future. According to compliance laws, the data must not be transmitted over the public internet. Servers in the company's on-premises data center will consume the output from an application that runs on the LC2 instances.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon EC2 instances and stores data on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. The company must ensure that all data is encrypted at rest by using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). The company must be able to control rotation of the encryption keys.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company uses AWS to host its public ecommerce website. The website uses an AWS Global Accelerator accelerator for traffic from the internet. Tt\e Global Accelerator accelerator forwards the traffic to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that is the entry point for an Auto Scaling group.
The company recently identified a ODoS attack on the website. The company needs a solution to mitigate future attacks.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort?
A company's application is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances and uses AWS Lambda functions for an event-driven architecture. The company uses nonproduction development environments in a different AWS account to test new features before the company deploys the features to production.
The production instances show constant usage because of customers in different time zones. The company uses nonproduction instances only during business hours on weekdays. The company does not use the nonproduction instances on the weekends. The company wants to optimize the costs to run its application on AWS.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A law firm needs to make hundreds of files readable for the general public. The law firm must prevent members of the public from modifying or deleting the files before a specified future date. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST securely?
A company is building a new furniture inventory application. The company has deployed the application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in their VPC.
A solutions architect has observed that incoming traffic seems to favor one EC2 instance, resulting in latency for some requests.
What should the solutions architect do to resolve this issue?
A company 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.
How can a law firm make files publicly readable while preventing modifications or deletions until a specific future date?
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 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 that uses AWS Organizations runs 150 applications across 30 different AWS accounts The company used AWS Cost and Usage Report to create a new report in the management account The report is delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket that is replicated to a bucket in the data collection account.
The company's senior leadership wants to view a custom dashboard that provides NAT gateway costs each day starting at the beginning of the current month.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs to set up a centralized solution to audit API calls to AWS for workloads that run on AWS services and non AWS services. The company must store logs of the audits for 7 years.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has developed an API using Amazon API Gateway REST API and AWS Lambda. How can latency be reduced for users worldwide?
A company has stored millions of objects across multiple prefixes in an Amazon S3 bucket by using the Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class. The company needs to delete all data older than 3 years except for a subset of data that must be retained. The company has identified the data that must be retained and wants to implement a serverless solution.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is building a serverless application to process large video files that users upload. The application performs multiple tasks to process each video file. Processing can take up to 30 minutes for the largest files.
The company needs a scalable architecture to support the processing application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company 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.)
Asocial media company has workloads that collect and process data The workloads store the data in on-premises NFS storage The data store cannot scale fast enough to meet the company's expanding business needs The company wants to migrate the current data store to AWS
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
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?