A company has developed a microservices application. It uses a client-facing API with Amazon API Gateway and multiple internal services hosted on Amazon EC2 instances to process user requests The API is designed to support unpredictable surges in traffic, but internal services may become overwhelmed and unresponsive for a period of time during surges A solutions architect needs to design a more reliable solution that reduces errors when internal services become unresponsive or unavailable
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company has been running a web application with an Oracle relational database in an on-premises data center for the past 15 years. The company must migrate the database to AWS. The company needs to reduce operational overhead without having to modify the application's code.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company is hosting an application in its own data center The application uses Amazon S3 for data storage The application transfers several hundred terabytes of data every month to and from Amazon S3 The company needs to minimize the cost of this data transfer
Which solution meets this requirement?
A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances. Traffic to the workload increases substantially during business hours and decreases afterward. The CPU utilization of an EC2 instance is a strong indicator of end-user demand on the application. The company has configured an Auto Scaling group to have a minimum group size of 2 EC2 instances and a maximum group size of 10 EC2 instances.
The company is concerned that the current scaling policy that is associated with the Auto Scaling group might not be correct. The company must avoid over-provisioning EC2 instances and incurring unnecessary costs.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company is designing a new application that runs in a VPC on Amazon EC2 instances. The application stores data in Amazon S3 and uses Amazon DynamoDB as its database For compliance reasons, the company prohibits all traffic between the EC2 instances and other AWS services from passing over the public internet
What can a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
A company runs a web application that is backed by Amazon RDS. A new database administrator caused data loss by accidentally editing information in a database table To help recover from this type of incident, the company wants the ability to restore the database to its state from 5 minutes before any change within the last 30 days.
Which feature should the solutions architect include in the design to meet this requirement?
A company is concerned about the security of its public web application due to recent web attacks. The application uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB). A solutions architect must reduce the risk of DDoS attacks against the application
What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
A company needs to provide its employees with secure access to confidential and sensitive files. The company wants to ensure that the tiles can be accessed only by authorized users. The files must be downloaded securely to the employees' devices.
The tiles are stored in an on-premises Windows file server. However, due to an increase in remote usage, the file server is running out of capacity.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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?
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 is automating an order management application. The company's development team has decided to use SFTP to transfer and store the business-critical information files The files must be encrypted and must be highly available. The files also must be automatically deleted a month after they are created.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
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 solutions architect needs to design a resilient solution for Windows users' home directories. The solution must provide fault tolerance, file-level backup and recovery, and access control, based upon the company's Active Directory.
Which storage solution meets 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 must migrate 20 TB of data from a data centre to the AWS Cloud within 30 days. The company's network bandwidth is limited to 15 Mbps and cannot exceed 70% utilization.
What should a solutions architect do to 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 has an application that calls AWS Lambda functions. A recent code review found database credentials stored in the source code. The database credentials needs to be removed from the Lambda source code. The credentials must then be securely stored and rotated on a on-going basis to meet security policy requirements.
What should a solutions architect recommend meet these requirements?
A company processes large amounts of data. The output data is stored in Amazon S3 Standard storage in an S3 bucket, where it is analyzed for 1 month. The data must remain immediately accessible after the 1-month analysis period.
Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company has a customer relationship management (CRM) application that stores data in an Amazon RDS DB instance that runs Microsoft SQL Server. The company's IT staff has administrative access to the database. The database contains sensitive data. The company wants to ensure that the data is not accessible to the IT staff and that only authorized personnel can view the data.
What should a solutions architect do to secure the data?
A company has a Microsoft NET application that runs on an on-premises Windows Server. The application stores data by using an Oracle Database Standard Edition server. The company is planning a migration to AWS and wants to minimize development changes while moving the application. The AWS application environment should be highly available.
Which combination of actions should the company take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company hosts an online shopping application that stores all orders in an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Single-AZ DB instance Management wants to eliminate single points of failure 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 is deploying an application that processes streaming data in near-teal time. The company plans to use Amazon EC2 instances for the workload The network architecture must be configurable to provide the lowest possible latency between nodes.
Which networking solution meets these requirements?
A company recently launched its website to servo content to its global user base. The company wants to store and accelerate the delivery of static content to its users by leveraging Amazon CloudFront with an Amazon EC2 instance attached as its origin
How should a solutions architect optimize high availability tor the application?
A solutions architect is designing the storage architecture tor a new web application used for storing and viewing engineering drawings All application components will be deployed on the AWS infrastructure.
The application design must support caching to minimize the amount of time that users wait for the engineering drawings to load The application must be able to store petabytes of data.
Which combination of storage and caching should the solutions architect use?
A company has deployed a business-critical application in the AWS Good The application uses Amazon EC2 instances that run in the us-east-1 Region The application uses Amazon S3 for storage of all critical data
To meet compliance requirements the company must create a disaster recovery (DR) plan that provides the capability of a full failover to another AWS Region
What should a solutions architect recommend for this DR plan?
A company recently announced the deployment of its retail website to a global audience. The website runs on multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones.
The company wants to provide its customers with different versions of content based on the devices that the customers use to access the website.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements7 (Select TWO.)
A solutions architect needs to design a nighty available application consisting of web. application and database tiers HTTPS content delivery should be as close to the edge as possible with the least delivery time
Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST secure?
A solutions architect is designing a high performance computing (HPC) workload on Amazon EC2 The EC2 instances need to communicate to each other frequently and require network performance with low latency and high throughput
Which EC2 configuration meets these requirements?
A recent analysis of a company's IT expenses highlights the need to reduce backup costs The company s chief information officer wants to simplify the on-premises backup infrastructure and reduce costs by eliminating the use ol physical backup tapes The company must preserve the existing investment in the on-premises backup applications and workflows
What should a solutions architect recommend''
A company 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 company hosts its static website content from an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region Content is made available through an Amazon CloudFront origin pointing to that bucket Cross-Region replication is set up to create a second copy of the bucket in the ap-southeast-1 Region Management wants a solution that provides greater availability for the website
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to increase availability'? (Select TWO.
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 work. The files are stored in an Amazon S3 Ducket 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 serves content to its subscribers across the world using an application running on AWS The application has several Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) Due to a recent change in copyright restrictions, the chief information officer (CiO) wants to block access for certain countries.
Which action will meet these requirements?
A developer has a script lo generate daily reports that users previously ran manually The script consistently completes in under 10 minutes The developer needs to automate this process in a cost-effective manner.
Which combination of services should the developer use? (Select TWO.)
A company provides machine learning solutions .The company's users need to download large data sets from the company's Amazon S3 bucket. These downloads often take a long lime, especially when the users are running many simulations on a subset of those datasets. Users download the datasets to Amazon EC2 instances in the same AWS Region as the S3 bucket. Multiple users typically use the same datasets at the same time.
Which solution will reduce the lime that is required to access the datasets?
A company has data stored in an on-premises data center that is used by several on-premises applications The company wants to maintain its existing application environment and be able to use AWS services for data analytics and future visualizations
Which storage service should a solutions architect recommend?
A company has recently updated its internal security standards The company must now ensure all Amazon S3 buckets and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes are encrypted with keys created and periodically rotated by internal security specialists The company is looking for a native, software-based AWS service to accomplish this goal
What should a solutions architect recommend as a solution?
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 using a VPC peering strategy to connect its VPCs in a single Region to allow for cross-communication. A recent increase in account creations and VPCs has made it difficult to maintain the VPC peering strategy, and the company expects to grow to hundreds of VPCs. There are also new requests to create site-to-site VPNs some of the VPCs. A solution architect has been tasked with creating a centrally managed networking setup for multiple account, VPCs and VPNs.
Which networking solution these requirements?
At part of budget planning. management wants a report of AWS billed dams listed by user. The data will be used to create department budgets. A solution architect needs to determine the most efficient way to obtain this report Information
Which solution meets these requirement?
A solutions architect is implementing a document review application using an Amazon S3 bucket for storage. The solution must prevent accidental deletion of the documents and ensure that all versions of the documents are available Users must be able to download, modify, and upload documents.
Which combination of actions should be taken to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company's web application is running on Amazon EC2 instances behind an application Load Balancer. The company changed its policy., which now requires the application to be accessed from one specific country only.
Which configuration will meet this requirement?
A company provides an API to its users trial automates inquires for tax computations based on item prices. The company experiences a larger number of inquiries during the holiday season only that cause slower response times. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that is scalable and elastic.
What should the solution architect do lo accompli this?
A company wants to migrate its accounting system from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud m a single AWS Region. Data security and an immutable audit log are the top priorities. The company must monitor all AWS activities for compliance auditing. The company that enabled AWS CloudTrail but wants to make sure it meets meat requirements
Which actions should a solutions architect take lo protect and secure CloudTrail? (Select TWO.)
A company wants to move a multi-tiered application from on premises to the AWS Cloud to improve the application’s performance. The application consists of application tiers that communicate with each other by way of
Which solution moots these and is the MOST operationally efficient?
A company is preparing to store confidential data in Amazon S3 For compliance reasons the data must be encrypted at rest Encryption key usage must be logged tor auditing purposes. Keys must be rotated every year.
Which solution meets these requirements and «the MOST operationally efferent?
A customer is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances hosted in a private subnet of a VPC. The EC2 instances are configured in an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). The EC2 instances use a NAT gateway outbound internet access However, the EC2 instances are not able to connect to the public internet to download software updates.
A company has NFS servers in an on-premises data center that need to periodically back up small amounts of data to Amazon S3.
Which solution marts these requirement and is MOST cost-effective?
A company is running an application on AWS to process weather sensor data that is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. Three batch jobs run hourly to process the data in the S3 bucket for different purposes. The company wants to reduce the overall processing time by running. The three applications in parallel using an event-based approach.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A database is on an Amazon RDS MySQL 5.6 Multi-AZ 06 instance that experiences highly dynamic reads. Application developers notice a significant slowdown when testing read performance from a secondary AWS Region. The developers want a solution that provider less than 1 second of read replication latency
What should the solutions architect recommend?
A company stores can wordings on a monthly basis Users access lie recorded files randomly within 1year of recording, but users rarely access the files after 1year. The company wants to optimize its solution by allowing only files that ant newer than 1year old to be queried and retrieved as quickly as possible. A delay in retrieving older fees is acceptable
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is running several business applications in three separate VPCs within the us-east-1 Region. The applications must be able to communicate between VPCs. The applications also must be able to consistently send hundreds of 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 meets these requirements?
An application hosted on AWS is experiencing performance problems, and the application vendor wants to perform an analysis of the log file to troubleshoot further. The log file is stored on Amazon S3 and is 10GB in size. The application owner will make the log file available to the vendor for a limited time.
Whit it the MOST secure way to do this?
A company uses an application to present metrics from sporting events to the public. The application must scale quickly during live events and must store these metrics for log-term reporting purposes. The company’s architecture includes the following:
* Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group in private subnets
* A network Load Balancer That runs in public subnets
* A MongoDB database cluster that runs across multiple EC2 instances
A solutions architect must implement a solution that minimizes operational overhead The solution alto must be able to Kale automatically. What should the solutions architect set up to meet these requirements?
A company has primary and secondary data canters that are 500 miles (804.7 km) apart and Interconnected with high-speed fiber.optic cable. The company needs a highly available and secure network connection between its data centers and a VPC on AWS for a mission-critical workload A solutions architect must choose a connection solution that provides maximum resiliency. Which solution meets these requirements?
A company uses a combination of Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Fargate tasks to process daily transactions. The company faces unpredictable and sudden increases in transaction volume. The company needs a solution that will process the transactions immediately.
Which solution meets these requirement MOST cost-effectively?
A company needs to save the results from a medical trial to an Amazon S3 repository. The repository must allow a few scientists to add new dies and must restrict all other users to read-only access No users can have the ability to modify or delete any files in the repository. The company must heap every lie in the repository for a minimum of 1 year after its creation date.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
Which AWS service can a company use to store and manage Docker images?
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 uses AWS to run all components of its three-tier web application. The company wants to automatically detect any potential security breaches within the environment The company wants to track any findings and notify administrators if a potential breach occurs
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company runs an online ticketing application with backend services that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances belong to an Auto Scaling group and run behind an Application Load Balancer. The application experiences periods of high user traffic when a popular event is posted online. The company wants a solution that will be able to handle increases in user traffic without affecting the user experience.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company wants to move from many standalone AWS accounts to a consolidated, multi-account architecture. The company plans to create many new AWS accounts for different business units The company needs to authenticate access to these AWS accounts by using a centralized corporate directory service
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements? (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 company is running a web-based game in two Availability Zones in the us-west-2 Region The web servers use an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in public subnets The ALB has an SSL certificate from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) with a custom domain name The game is written in JavaScript and runs entirely in a user's web browser.
The game is increasing in popularity in many countries around the world The company wants to update the application architecture and optimize costs without compromising performance.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company is running a photo hosting service in the us-east-1 Region. The service enables users across multiple countries to upload and view photos. Some photos are heavily viewed tor months, and others are viewed for less than a week. The application allows uploads of up to 20 MB for each photo. The service uses the photo metadata to determine which photos to display to each user.
Which solution provides the appropriate user access MOST cost-effectively?
A company has a hybrid application hosted on multiple on-premises servers with static IP addresses There is already a VPN that provides connectivity between the VPC and the on-premises network. The company wants to distribute TCP traffic across the on-premises servers for internet users
What should a solutions architect recommend to provide a highly available and scalable solution?
A company recently expanded globally and wants to make its application accessible to users in those geographic locations. The application is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group. The company needs the ability to shift traffic from resources in one region to another.
What should a solutions architect recommend?
A company is building a website that relies on reading and writing to an Amazon DynamoDB database The website experiences high traffic during normal business hours, but the traffic declines drastically overnight and during weekends The company is concerned about operating costs
Which solution will meet the website's traffic demands MOST cost-effectively?
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 manages its own Amazon EC2 instances that run MySQL databases The company is manually managing replication and scaling as demand increases or decreases The company needs a new solution that simplifies the process of adding or removing compute capacity to or from its database tier as needed The solution also must offer improved performance, scaling, and durability with minimal effort from operations
Which solution meets these requirements'?
A company observes an increase in Amazon EC2 costs in its most recent bill The billing team notices unwanted vertical scaling of instance types for a couple of EC2 instances A solutions architect needs to create a graph comparing the last 2 months of EC2 costs and perform an in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of the vertical scaling
How should the solutions architect generate the information with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is experiencing sudden increases in demand. The company needs to provision large Amazon EC2 instances from an Amazon Machine image (AMI) The instances will run m an Auto Scaling group. The company needs a solution that provides minimum initialization latency to meet the demand.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A solution architect has configured the following IAM policy.
Which action will be allowed by the policy?
Which action will be allowed by the policy?
A global company plans to track and store information about local allergens in aj Amazon DynamoDB table and query this data from its website The website traffic will fluctuate The combined read capacity units (RCUs) and write capacity units (WCUs) will range from 10 per second to 10.000 per second, depending on the severity of the conditions for the given day A solutions architect must design a solution that avoids throttling issues and manages capacity efficiently The solution also must provide the ability to set a maximum number of capacity units
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?