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Question1: A company wants to migrate a high performance computing (HPC) application and data from on-premises to the AWS Cloud. The company uses tiered storage on-premises with hoi high-performance parallel storage to support the application during periodic runs of the application, and more economical cold storage to hold the data when the application is not actively running.Which combination of solutions should a solutions architect recommend to support the storage needs of the application? (Select TWO)
Question2: A company is working with an external vendor that requires write access to the company's Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. The vendor has its own AWS account.What should a solutions architect do to implement least privilege access7
Question3: A financial services company has a web application that serves users in the United States and Europe The application consists of a database tier and a web server tier The database tier consists of a MySQL database hosted in us-east-1 Amazon Route 53 geoproximity routing is used to direct traffic to instances in the closest Region A performance review of the system reveals that European users are not receiving the same level of query performance as those in the United States Which changes should be made to the database tier to improve performance?
Question4: A healthcare company stores highly sensitive patient records. Compliance requires that multiple copies be stored in different locations Each record must be stored for 7 years. The company has a service level agreement (SLA) to provide records to government agencies immediately for the first 30 days and then within4 hours of a request thereafter.What should a solutions architect recommend?
Question5: A company has a two-tier application architecture that runs in public and private subnets Amazon EC2 instances running the web application are in the public subnet and a database runs on the private subnet The web application instances and the database are running in a single Availability Zone (AZ).Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to provide high availability for this architecture?(Select TWO.)
Question6: A solutions architect is designing a customer-facing application. The application is expected to have a variable amount of reads and writes depending on the time of year and clearly defined access patterns throughout the year. Management requires that database auditing and scaling be managed in the AWS Cloud. The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) must be less than 5 hours.Which solutions can accomplish this? (Select TWO.)
Question7: A company Is seeing access requests by some suspicious IP addresses. The security team discovers the requests are horn different IP addresses under the same CIDR range.What should a solutions architect recommend to the team?
Question8: A solutions architect is developing a multiple-subnet VPC architecture. The solution will consist of six subnets in two Availability Zones. The subnets are defined as public, private and dedicated for databases Only the Amazon EC2 instances running in the private subnets should be able to access a database.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question9: 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?
Question10: A company uses Amazon Redshift for its data warehouse. The company wants to ensure high durability for its data in case of any component failure. What should a solutions architect recommend?
Question11: A company is planning to migrate a commercial off-the-shelf application from its on-premises data center to AWS. The software has a software licensing model using sockets and cores with predictable capacity and uptime requirements. The company wants to use its existing licenses, which were purchased earlier this year.Which Amazon EC2 pricing option is the MOST cost-effective?
Question12: A company built an application that lets users check in to places they visit, rank the places, and add reviews about their experiences The application is successful with a rapid increase in the number of users every month The chief technology officer fears the database supporting the current Infrastructure may not handle the new load the following month because the single Amazon RDS for MySQL instance has triggered alarms related lo resource exhaustion due to read requests.What can a solutions architect recommend to prevent service Interruptions at the database layer with minimal changes to code?
Question13: A company has an on-premises business application that generates hundreds of files each day. These files are stored on an SMB file share and require a low-latency connection to the application servers A new company policy states all application-generated files must be copied to AWS There is already a VPN connection to AWS The application development team does not have time to make the necessary code modifications to move the application to AWS Which service should a solutions architect recommend to allow the application to copy files to AWS?
Question14: A company Is migrating lo the AWS Cloud. A file server is the first workload to migrate. Users must be able to access the file share using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.Which AWS managed service meets these requirements?
Question15: An online photo application lets users upload photos and perform image editing operations The application offers two classes of service free and paid Photos submitted by paid users are processed before those submitted by free users Photos are uploaded to Amazon S3 and the job information is sent to Amazon SQS.Which configuration should a solutions architect recommend?
Question16: An application allows users at a company's headquarters to access product data The product data is stored in an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. The operations team has isolated an application performance slowdown and wants to separate read traffic from write traffic. A solutions architect needs to optimize the application's performance quickly.What should the solutions architect recommend?
Question17: A solutions architect is designing storage for a high performance computing (HPC) environment based on Amazon Linux. The workload stores and processes a large amount of engineering drawings that require shared storage and heavy computing.Which storage option would be the optimal solution?
Question18: A solutions architect needs to design a low-latency solution for a static single-page application accessed by users utilizing a custom domain name. The solution must be serverless, encrypted in transit, and cost-effective.Which combination of AWS services and features should the solutions architect use? (Select TWO.)
Question19: A company has no existing file share services. A new project requires access to file storage that is mountable as a drive for on-premises desktops. The file server must authenticate users to an Active Directory domain before they are able to access the storage.Which service will allow Active Directory users to mount storage as a drive on their desktops?
Question20: A company is planning to migrate a business-critical dataset to Amazon S3. The current solution design uses a single S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region with versioning enabled to store the dataset. The company's disaster recovery policy states that all data multiple AWS Regions.How should a solutions architect design the S3 solution?
Question21: A company has an application with a REST-based Interface that allows data to be received in near-real time from a third-party vendor Once received, the application processes and stores the data for further analysis. The application Is running on Amazon EC2 instances.The third-party vendor has received many 503 Service Unavailable Errors when sending data to the application. When the data volume spikes, the compute capacity reaches its maximum limit and the application is unable to process all requests.Which design should a solutions architect recommend to provide a more scalable solution?
Question22: 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?
Question23: A company is using Site-to-Site VPN connections for secure connectivity to its AWS Cloud resources from on premises. Due to an increase in traffic across the VPN connections to the Amazon EC2 instances, users are experiencing slower VPN connectivity Which solution will improve the VPN throughput?
Question24: An application is running on an Amazon EC2 instance and must have millisecond latency when running the workload. The application makes many small reads and writes to the file system, but the file system itself is small.Which Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume type should a solutions architect attach to their EC2 instance?
Question25: A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 Instances. The application is deployed in private subnets in three Availability Zones of the us-east-1 Region. The instances must be able to connect to the internet to download files The company wants a design that Is highly available across the Region.Which solution should be implemented to ensure that there are no disruptions to Internet connectivity?
Question26: A solutions architect is designing a solution that requires frequent updates to a website that is hosted on Amazon S3 with versioning enabled. For compliance reasons, older versions of the objects will not be accessed frequently and will need to be deleted after 2 years.What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements at the LOWEST cost?
Question27: 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? (Select TWO.)
Question28: A manufacturing company wants to implement predictive maintenance on its machinery equipment The company will install thousands of loT sensors that will send data to AWS in real time A solutions architect is tasked with implementing a solution that will receive events in an ordered manner for each machinery asset and ensure that data is saved for further processing at a later time Which solution would be MOST efficient?
Question29: A company has a 143 TB MySQL database that it wants to migrate to AWS. The plan is to use Amazon Aurora MySQL as the platform going forward. The company has a 100 Mbps AWS Direct Connect connection to Amazon VPC.Which solution meets the company's needs and takes the LEAST amount of time?
Question30: A company recently launched its website to serve 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 for the application?
Question31: A company wants to use Amazon S3 for the secondary copy of its on-premises dataset. The company would rarely need to access this copy. The storage solution's cost should be minimal.Which storage solution meets these requirements?
Question32: A company wants a storage option that enables its data science team to analyze its data on premises and in the AWS Cloud The team needs to be able to run statistical analyses by using the data on premises and by using a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question33: A company wants to move its on-premises network, attached storage (NAS) to AWS. The company wants to make the data available to any Linux instances within its VPC and ensure changes are automatically synchronized across all instances accessing the data store. The majority of the data is accessed very rarely, and some files are accessed by multiple users at the same time.Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?
Question34: A solutions architect is working on optimizing a legacy document management application running on Microsoft a network file share. The chief information officer wants to reduce the on-premises data center footprint and minimize storage by moving on-premises storage to AWS.What should the solution architect do to meet these requirements?
Question35: 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?
Question36: A solutions architect is moving the static content from a public website hosted on Amazon EC2 instances to an Amazon S3 bucket. An Amazon CloudFront distribution will be used to deliver the static assets. The security group used by the EC2 instances restricts access to a limited set of IP ranges. Access to the static content should be similarly restricted.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
Question37: A company has an application that posts messages to Amazon SQS Another application polls the queue and processes the messages in an l/O-intensive operation The company has a service level agreement (SLA) that specifies the maximum amount of time that can elapse between receiving the messages and responding to the users Due to an increase in the number of messages the company has difficulty meeting its SLA consistently.What should a solutions architect do to help improve the application's processing time and ensure it can handle the load at any level?
Question38: A solutions architect is designing a web application that will run on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The company strictly requires that the application be resilient against malicious internet activity and attacks, and protect against new common vulnerabilities and exposures What should the solutions architect recommend?
Question39: A company has a live chat application running on list on-premises servers that use WebSockets. The company wants to migrate the application to AWS Application traffic is inconsistent, and the company expects there to be more traffic with sharp spikes in the future.The company wants a highly scalable solution with no server maintenance nor advanced capacity planning Which solution meets these requirements?
Question40: A company has an application that ingests incoming messages. These messages are then quickly consumed by dozens of other applications and microservices. The number of messages varies drastically and sometimes spikes as high as 100.000 each second The company wants to decouple the solution and increase scalability Which solution meets these requirements?
Question41: A company allows its developers to attach existing IAM policies to existing IAM roles to enable (aster experimentation and agility However the security operations team is concerned that the developers could attach the existing administrator policy, which would allow the developers to circumvent any other security policies How should a solutions architect address this issue?
Question42: A company wants to improve the availability and performance of its hybrid application The application consists of a stateful TCP-based workload hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in different AWS Regions and a stateless UOP-based workload hosted on premises.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to improve availability and performance?(Select TWO.)
Question43: A company runs an application in a branch office within a small data closet with no virtualized compute resources. The application data is stored on an NFS volume. Compliance standards require a daily offsite backup of the NFS volume.Which solution meet these requirements?
Question44: A solutions architect at an ecommerce company wants to back up application log data to Amazon S3 The solutions architect is unsure how frequently the logs will be accessed or which logs will be accessed the most The company wants to keep costs as low as possible by using the appropriate S3 storage class.Which S3 storage class should be implemented to meet these requirements?
Question45: An application requires a development environment (DEV) and production environment (PROD) for several years. The DEV instances will run for 10 hours each day during normal business hours, while the PROD instances will run 24 hours each day. A solutions architect needs to determine a compute instance purchase strategy to minimize costs.Which solution is the MOST cost-effective?
Question46: A company captures clickstream data from multiple websites and analyzes it using batch processing. The data is loaded nightly into Amazon Redshift and is consumed by business analysts. The company wants to move towards near-real-time data processing for timely insights. The solution should process the streaming data with minimal effort and operational overhead.Which combination of AWS services are MOST cost-effective for this solution? (Choose two.)
Question47: 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?
Question48: A company has a mobile chat application with a data store based in Amazon DynamoDB. Users would like new messages to be read with as little latency as possible. A solutions architect needs to design an optimal solution that requires minimal application changes.Which method should the solutions architect select?
Question49: A solutions architect is designing a solution where users will De directed to a backup static error page it the primary website is unavailable The primary website's DNS records are hosted in Amazon Route 53 where their domain is pointing to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) Which configuration should the solutions architect use to meet the company's needs while minimizing changes and infrastructure overhead?
Question50: A company has an application that generates a large number of files, each approximately 5 MB in size. The files are stored in Amazon S3. Company policy requires the files to be stored for 4 years before they can be deleted. Immediate accessibility is always required as the files contain critical business data that is not easy to reproduce. The files are frequently accessed in the first 30 days of the object creation but are rarely accessed after the first 30 days.Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?
Question51: An online shopping application accesses an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance. Database performance is slowing down the application. After upgrading to the next-generation instance type, there was no significant performance improvement.Analysis shows approximately 700 IOPS are sustained, common queries run for long durations and memory utilization is high.Which application change should a solutions architect recommend to resolve these issues?
Question52: 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?
Question53: A company hosts its web application on AWS using seven Amazon EC2 instances The company requires that the IP addresses of all healthy EC2 instances be returned in response to DNS queries.Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?
Question54: A user wants to list the IAM role that is attached to their Amazon EC2 instance The user has login access to the EC2 instance but does not have IAM permissions What should a solutions architect do to retrieve this information?
Question55: A company is building a payment application that must be highly available even during regional service disruptions A solutions architect must design a data storage solution that can be easily replicated and used in other AWS Regions. The application also requires low-latency atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID) transactions that need to be immediately available to generate reports The development team also needs to use SQL.Which data storage solution meets these requirements'?
Question56: A company hosts historical weather records in Amazon S3. The records are downloaded from the company's website by way of a URL that resolves to a domain name. Users all over the world access this content through subscriptions A third-party provider hosts the company's root domain name, but the company recently migrated some of its services to Amazon Route 53 The company wants to consolidate contracts, reduce latency for users, and reduce costs related to serving the application to subscribers.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question57: A company has a three-tier image-sharing application it uses an Amazon EC2 instance for the front-end layer, another for the backend tier, and a third for the MySQL database A solutions architect has been tasked with designing a solution that is highly available, and requires the least amount of changes to the application.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question58: A company needs a secure connection between its on-premises environment and AWS. This connection does not need high bandwidth and will handle a small amount of traffic. The connection should be set up quickly.What is the MOST cost-effective method to establish this type of connection?
Question59: A company is creating an architecture for a mobile app that requires minimal latency for its users The company's architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer running in an Auto Scaling group The EC2 instances connect to Amazon RDS. Application beta testing showed there was a slowdown when reading the data However the metrics indicate that the EC2 instances do not cross any CPU utilization thresholds How can this issue be addressed1?
Question60: A media streaming company collects real-time data and stores it in a disk-optimized database system The company is not getting the expected throughput and wants an in-memory database storage solution that performs faster and provides high availability using data replication.Which database should a solutions architect recommend'?
Question61: A media company is evaluating the possibility of moving its 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?
Question62: An application is running on Amazon EC2 instances Sensitive information required for the application is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket The bucket needs to be protected from internet access while only allowing services within the VPC access to the bucket.Which combination of actions should a solutions archived take to accomplish this'' (Select TWO.)
Question63: A company is managing health records on-premises. The company must keep these records indefinitely, disable any modifications to the records once they are stored, and granularly audit access at all levels. The chief technology officer (CTO) is concerned because there are already millions of records not being used by any application, and the current infrastructure is running out of space The CTO has requested a solutions architect design a solution to move existing data and support future records Which services can the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements'?
Question64: A company is moving its legacy workload to the AWS Cloud. The workload files will be shared, appended, and frequently accessed through Amazon EC2 instances when they are first created The files will be accessed occasionally as they age What should a solutions architect recommend?
Question65: A start-up company has a web application based in the us-east-1 Region with multiple Amazon EC2 instances running behind an Application Load Balancer across multiple Availability Zones As the company's user base grows in the us-west-1 Region, it needs 3 solution with low latency and high availability.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?
Question66: A company wants to build an online marketplace application on AWS as a set of loosely coupled microservices. For this application, when a customer submits a new order, two microservices should handle the event simultaneously. The Email microservice will send a confirmation email, and the OrderProcessing microservice will start the order delivery process. It a customer cancels an order, the OrderCancelation and Email microservices should handle the event simultaneously.A solutions architect wants to use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to design the messaging between the microservices.How should the solutions architect design the solution?
Question67: A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new application being deployed on AWS The process should run in parallel while adding and removing application nodes as needed based on the number of jobs to be processed The processor application is stateless The solutions architect must ensure that the application is loosely coupled and the job items are durably stored Which design should the solutions architect use?
Question68: A company has multiple AWS accounts, for various departments. One of the departments wants to share an Amazon S3 bucket with all other department.Which solution will require the LEAST amount of effort?
Question69: A company is planning on deploying a newly built application on AWS in a default VPC The application will consist of a web layer and database layer. The web server was created in public subnets, and the MySQL database was created in private subnets. All subnets are created with the default network ACL settings, and the default security group in the VPC will be replaced with new custom security groups.The following are the key requirements:* The web servers must be accessible only to users on an SSL connection.* The database should be accessible to the web layer, which is created in a public subnet only.* All traffic to and from the IP range 182.20.0.0/16 subnet should be blocked.Which combination of steps meets these requirements? (Select TWO.)
Question70: A company has been storing analytics data in an Amazon RDS instance for the past few years. The company asked a solutions architect to find a solution that allows users to access this data using an API The expectation is that the application will experience periods of inactivity but could receive bursts of traffic within seconds Which solution should the solutions architect suggest?
Question71: A company recently deployed a two-tier application in two Availability Zones in the us-east-1 Region. The databases are deployed in a private subnet while the web servers are deployed in a public subnet. An internet gateway is attached to the VPC. The application and database run on Amazon EC2 instances. The database servers are unable to access patches on the internet. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that maintains database security with the least operational overhead.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question72: A solutions architect is tasked with transferring 750 TB of data from a network-attached file system located at a branch office to Amazon S3 Glacier The solution must avoid saturating the branch office's low-bandwidth internet connection.What is the MOST cost-effective solution?
Question73: A company runs a web service on Amazon CC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across two Availability zones I he company needs a minimum of tour instances at all limes to meet the required service level agreement (SLA) while keeping costs low If an Availability Zone tails, how can the company remain compliant with the SLA?
Question74: A company hosts a static website on-premises and wants to migrate the website to AWS The website should load as quickly as possible for users around the world The company also wants the most cost-effective solution What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?
Question75: A company has migrated an on-premises Oracle database to an Amazon RDS (or Oracle Multi-AZ DB instance In the us-east-l Region. A solutions architect is designing a disaster recovery strategy to have the database provisioned In the us-west-2 Region In case the database becomes unavailable in the us-east-1 Region. The design must ensure the database is provisioned in the us-west-2 Region in a maximum of 2 hours, with a data loss window of no more than 3 hours.How can these requirements be met?
Question76: 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?
Question77: An operations team has a standard that states IAM policies should not be applied directly to users. Some new members have not been following this standard. The operation manager needs a way to easily identify the users with attached policies.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?
Question78: A company has on-premises servers running a relational database The current database serves high read traffic for users in different locations The company wants to migrate to AWS with the least amount of effort The database solution should support disaster recovery and not affect the company's current traffic flow.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question79: A company has global users accessing an application deployed in different AWS Regions, exposing public static IP addresses. The users are experiencing poor performance when accessing the application over the internet.What should a solutions architect recommend to reduce internet latency?
Question80: A company wants to host a web application on AWS that will communicate to a database within a VPC. The application should be highly available.What should a solutions architect recommend?
Question81: A solutions architect must analyze and update a company's existing 1AM policies prior to deploying a new workload. The solutions architect created the following policy:What is the net effect of this policy?
Question82: An application running on AWS uses an Amazon Aurora Multi-AZ deployment for its database When evaluating performance metrics, a solutions architect discovered that the database reads are causing high I/O and adding latency to the write requests against the database What should the solutions architect do to separate the read requests from the write requests?
Question83: An administrator of a large company wants to monitor for and prevent any cryptocurrency-related attacks on the company"s AWS accounts Which AWS service can the administrator use to protect the company against attacks?
Question84: 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?
Question85: A web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The application allows users to create custom reports of historical weather data. Generating a report can take up to 5 minutes.These long-running requests use many of the available incoming connections, making the system unresponsive to other users How can a solutions architect make the system more responsive?
Question86: A solutions architect is designing an architecture for a new application that requires low network latency and high network throughput between Amazon EC2 instances. Which component should be included in the architectural design?
Question87: A company is planning to migrate a legacy application to AWS. The application currently uses NFS to communicate to an on-premises storage solution to store application data. The application cannot be modified to use any other communication protocols other than NFS for this purpose. Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend for use after the migration?
Question88: An ecommerce company has noticed performance degradation of its Amazon RDS based web application. The performance degradation is attribute to an increase in the number of read-only SQL queries triggered by business analysts. A solution architect needs to solve the problem with minimal changes to the existing web application.What should the solution architect recommend?
Question89: A company has an application that uses Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to store data. The files are1 GB in size or larger and are accessed often only tor the first few days after creation The application data is shared across a cluster of Linux servers. The company wants to reduce storage costs tor the application What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question90: A solutions architect is using Amazon S3 to design the storage architecture of a new digital media application.The media files must be resilient to the loss of an Availability Zone Some files are accessed frequently while other files are rarely accessed in an unpredictable pattern. The solutions architect must minimize the costs of storing and retrieving the media files.Which storage option meets these requirements?
Question91: A company is developing a real-time multiplier game that uses UDP for communications between client and servers in an Auto Scaling group Spikes in demand are anticipated during the day, so the game server platform must adapt accordingly. Developers want to store gamer scores and other non-relational data in a database solution that will scale without intervention.Which solution should a solution architect recommend?
Question92: 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?
Question93: A company has three VPCs named Development, Testing and Production in the us-east-1 Region. The three VPCs need to be connected to an on-premises data center and are designed to be separate to maintain security and prevent any resource sharing A solutions architect needs to find a scalable and secure solution What should the solutions architect recommend?
Question94: A company maintains about 300 TB m Amazon S3 Standard storage month after month. The S3 objects are each typically around 50 GB m 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?
Question95: A company is running an ecommerce application on Amazon EC2 The application consists of a stateless web tier that requires a minimum of 10 instances, and a peak of 250 instances to support the application's usage The application requires 50 instances 80% of the time Which solution should be used to minimize costs?
Question96: A company's website hosted on Amazon EC2 instances processes classified data stored in Amazon S3 Due to security concerns, the company requires a private and secure connection between its EC2 resources and Amazon S3 Which solution meets these requirements?
Question97: A company's near-real-time streaming application is running on AWS As (he data is ingested a job runs on the data and takes 30 minutes to complete The workload frequently experiences high latency due to large amounts of incoming data A solutions architect needs to design a scalable and serverless solution to enhance performance Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take? (Select TWO)
Question98: A company wants to host its web application on AWS using multiple Amazon EC2 instances across different AWS Regions Since the application content will be specific to each geographic region, the client requests need to be routed to the server that hosts the content for that clients Region.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?
Question99: A mobile gaming company runs application servers on Amazon EC2 instances. The servers receive updates from players every 15 minutes. The mobile game creates a JSON object of the progress made in the game since the last update, and sends the JSON object to an Application Load Balancer. As the mobile game is played, game updates are being lost. The company wants to create a durable way to get the updates in older.What should a solutions architect recommend to decouple the system?
Question100: A company hosts its multi-tier public web application in the AWS Cloud. The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and its database runs on Amazon RDS The company is anticipating a large increase in sales during an upcoming holiday weekend A solutions architect needs to build a solution to analyze the performance of the web application with a granularity of no more than 2 minutes What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
Question101: A development team is collaborating with another company to create an integrated product. The other company needs to access an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue that is contained in the development team's account. The other company wants to poll the queue without giving up its own account permissions to do so.How should a solutions architect provide access to the SQS queue?
Question102: A company recently deployed a new auditing system to centralize information about operating system versions, patching, and installed software for Amazon EC2 instances. A solutions architect must ensure all instances provisioned through EC2 Auto Scaling groups successfully send reports to the auditing system as soon as they are launched and terminated.Which solution achieves these goals MOST efficiently?
Question103: A solution architect has created two IAM policies: Policy1 and Policy2. Both policies are attached to an IAM group.A cloud engineer is added as an IAM user to the IAM group. Which action will the cloud engineer be able to perform?
Question104: A company has 150 TB of archived image data stored on-premises that needs to be mowed 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?
Question105: A company is hosting 60 TB of production-level data in an Amazon S3 bucket A solutions architect needs to bring that data on premises for quarterly audit requirements This export of data must be encrypted while in transit The company has low network bandwidth in place between AWS and its on-premises data center What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements9
Question106: A company hosts a training site on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The company anticipates that its new course, which consists of dozens of training videos on the site, will be extremely popular when it is released in1 week.What should a solutions architect do to minimize the anticipated server load?
Question107: A company Is launching an ecommerce website on AWS. This website is built with a three-tier architecture that includes a MySQL database In a Multi-AZ deployment of Amazon Aurora MySQL. The website application must be highly available and will initially be launched in an AWS Region with three Availability Zones The application produces a metric that describes the load the application experiences.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question108: A company had a build server that is in an Auto Scaling group and often has multiple Linux instances running.The build server requires consistent and mountable shared NFS storage for jobs and configurations.Which storage option should a solutions architect recommend?
Question109: A company runs an application on a group of Amazon Linux EC2 instances The application writes log files using standard API calls For compliance reasons, all log files must be retained indefinitely and will be analyzed by a reporting tool that must access all files concurrently Which storage service should a solutions architect use to provide the MOST cost-effective solution?
Question110: A company has an ecommerce application running In a single VPC. The application stack has a single web server and an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance The company launches new products twice a month. This Increases website traffic by approximately 400% for a minimum of 72 hours During product launches, users experience slow response times and frequent timeout errors in their browsers What should a solutions architect do to mitigate the slow response times and timeout errors while minimizing operational overhead?
Question111: A company wants to use high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure on AWS for financial risk modeling. The company s HPC workloads run on Linux Each HPC workflow runs on hundreds of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, is short-lived, and generates thousands of output files that are ultimately stored in persistent storage for analytics and long-term future use The company seeks a cloud storage solution that permits the copying of on premises data to long-term persistent storage to make data available for processing by all EC2 instances. The solution should also be a high performance file system that is integrated with persistent storage to read and write datasets and output files.Which combination of AWS services meets these requirements?
Question112: A company has an on-premises application that collects data and stores it to an on-premises NFS server. The company recently set up a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection. The company is running out of storage capacity on premises. The company needs to migrate the application data from on premises to the AWS Cloud while maintaining low-latency access to the data from the on-premises application.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question113: A company is using Amazon DynamoDB with provisioned throughput for the database tier of its ecommerce website. During flash sales, customers experience periods of time when the database cannot handle the high number of transactions taking place. This causes the company to lose transactions During normal periods, the database performs appropriately.Which solution solves the performance problem the company faces?
Question114: A company hosts its application using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and wants to ensure high availability. The company wants to be able (o deploy updates to its application even if nodes in one Availability Zone are not accessible.The expected request volume for the application is 100 requests per second, and each container task is able to serve at least 60 requests pet second The company set up Amazon ECS with a rolling update deployment type with the minimum healthy percent parameter set to 50% and the maximum percent set lo 100%.Which configuration of tasks and Availability Zones meets these requirements?
Question115: A company hosts a website on premises and wants to migrate it to the AWS Cloud The website exposes a single hostname to the internet but it routes its functions to different on-premises server groups based on the path of the URL The server groups are scaled independently depending on the needs of the functions they support The company has an AWS Direct Connect connection configured to its on-premises network What should a solutions architect do to provide path-based routing to send the traffic to the correct group of servers?
Question116: A company is experiencing growth as demand for its product has increased The company's existing purchasing application is slow when traffic spikes The application is a monolithic three tier application that uses synchronous transactions and sometimes sees bottlenecks in the application tier A solutions architect needs to design a solution that can meet required application response times while accounting for traffic volume spikes.Which solution will meet these requirements?
Question117: A business application is hosted on Amazon EC2 and uses Amazon S3 for encrypted object storage. The chief information security officer has directed that no application traffic between the two services should traverse the public internet.Which capability should the solutions architect use to meet the compliance requirements?
Question118: A company stores user data in AWS. The data is used continuously with peak usage during business hours.Access patterns vary, with some data not being used tor months at a time.A solution architect must choose a cost that maintains the highest level ot durability while maintaining high availability.Which storage solution meets these requirements?
Question119: 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?
Question120: A company is moving Its on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The database has several applications that write to the same tables. The applications need to be migrated one by one with a month in between each migration Management has expressed concerns that the database has a high number of reads and writes. The data must be kept in sync across both databases throughout tie migration.What should a solutions architect recommend?
Question121: A solutions architect wants all new users to have specific complexity requirements and mandatory rotation periods for IAM user passwords What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?
Question122: A company has an automobile sales website that stores its listings in an database on Amazon RDS When an automobile is sold, the listing needs to be removed from the website and the data must be sent to multiple target systems.Which design should a solutions architect recommend?
Question123: A company is planning to deploy an Amazon RDS DB instance running Amazon Aurora The company has a backup retention policy requirement of 90 days Which solution should a solutions architect recommend?
Question124: A company previously migrated its data warehouse solution to AWS. The company also has an AWS Direct Connect connection. Corporate office users query the data warehouse using a visualization tool. The average size of a query returned by the data warehouse is 50 MB and each webpage sent by the visualization tool is approximately 500 KB. Result sets returned by the data warehouse are not cached.Which solution provides the LOWEST data transfer egress cost for the company?
Question125: A solutions architect needs to ensure that API calls to Amazon DynamoDB from Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC do not traverse the internet What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this? (Select TWO )
Question126: A solutions architect is designing an application for a two-step order process The first step is synchronous and must return to the user with little latency The second step takes longer, so it will be implemented in a separate component Orders must be processed exactly once and in the order in which they are received How should the solutions architect integrate these components?
Question127: An engineering team is developing and deploying AWS Lambda functions. The team needs to create roles and manage policies in AWS IAM to configure the permissions of the Lambda functions.How should the permissions for the team be configured so they also adhere to the concept of least privilege?
Question128: A solutions architect is redesigning a monolithic application to be a loosely coupled application composed of two microservices: Microservice A and Microservice B Microservice A places messages in a mam Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) queue for Microservice B to consume When Microservice B fails to process a message after four retries, the message needs to be removed from the queue and stored for further investigation.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question129: A company is developing a video conversion application hosted on AWS. The application will be available in two tiers: a free tier and a paid tier. Users in the paid tier will have their videos converted first and then the tree tier users will have their videos converted.Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?
Question130: A software vendor is deploying a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that will be utilized by many AWS users. The service is hosted in a VPC behind a Network Load Balancer. The software vendor wants to provide access to this service to users with the least amount of administrative overhead and without exposing the service to the public internet What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?
Question131: 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 of physical backup tapes. The company must preserve the existing investment in the on-premises backup applications and workflows.What should a solutions architect recommend?
Question132: A company has a website running on Amazon EC2 instances across two Availability Zones. The company is expecting spikes in traffic on specific holidays, and wants to provide a consistent user experience. How can a solutions architect meet this requirement?
Question133: A solutions architect is designing an architecture to run a third-party database server. The database software Is memory intensive and has a CPU-based licensing model where the cost Increases with the number of vCPU cores within the operating system. The solutions architect must select an Amazon EC2 instance with sufficient memory to run the database software, but the selected instance has a large number of vCPUs. The solutions architect must ensure that the vCPUs will not be underutilized and must minimize costs.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question134: A company hosts a static website within an Amazon S3 bucket. A solutions architect needs to ensure that data can be recovered in case of accidental deletion.Which action will accomplish this?
Question135: A Solutions Architect must design a web application that will be hosted on AWS, allowing users to purchase access to premium, shared content that is stored in an S3 bucket. Upon payment, content will be available for download for 14 days before the user is denied access Which of the following would be the LEAST complicated implementation?
Question136: A company needs to store data in Amazon S3 A compliance requirement states that when any changes are made to objects the previous state of the object with any changes must be preserved Additionally files older than 5 years should not be accessed but need to be archived for auditing What should a solutions architect recommend that is MOST cost-effective?
Question137: A company has an on-premises volume backup solution that has reached its end of file. The company wants to use AWS as part of a new backup solution and wants to maintain local access to at' the data while is backed up on AWS. The company wants to ensure that the data backed up on AWS. The company automatically and securely transferred.Which solution meets these requirement?
Question138: A company is building a media-sharing application and decides to use Amazon S3 for storage. When a media file is uploaded the company starts a multi-step process to create thumbnails, identify objects in the images, transcode videos into standard formats and resolutions and extract and store the metadata to an Amazon DynamoDB table. The metadata is used for searching and navigation.The amount of traffic is variable The solution must be able to scale to handle spikes in load without unnecessary expenses.What should a solutions architect recommend to support this workload?
Question139: 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?
Question140: A company has several business systems that require access to data stored in a file share. the business systems will access the file share using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. The file share solution should be accessible from both of the company's legacy on-premises environment and with AWS.Which services mod the business requirements? (Select TWO.)
Question141: A company is building a website that relies on reading and writing to an Amazon DynamoDB database. The traffic associated with the website predictably peaks during business hours on weekdays and declines overnight and during weekends. A solutions architect needs to design a cost-effective solution that can handle the load.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question142: 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?
Question143: A company currently has 250 TB of backup files stored in Amazon S3 in a vendor's proprietary format. Using a Linux-based software application provided by the vendor, the company wants to retrieve files from Amazon S3, transform the files to an industry-standard format, and re-upload them to Amazon S3. The company wants to minimize the data transfer charges associated with this conversation.What should a solution architect do to accomplish this?
Question144: A solutions architect must design a database solution for a high-traffic ecommerce web application. The database stores customer profiles and shopping cart information. The database must support a peak load of several million requests each second and deliver responses in milliseconds. The operational overhead for managing and scaling the database must be minimized.Which database solution should the solutions architect recommend?
Question145: A company has an Amazon EC2 instance running on a private subnet that needs to access a public websites to download patches and updates. The company does not want external websites to see the EC2 instance IP address or initiate connection to it.How can a solution architect achieve this objective?
Question146: A company wants to deploy a shared file system for its .NET application servers and Microsoft SQL Server database running on Amazon EC2 instance with Windows Server 2016. The solution must be able to be integrated in to the corporate Active Directory domain, be highly durable, be managed by AWS, and provided levels of throuput and IOPS.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question147: A company plans to host a survey website on AWS. The company anticipates an unpredictable amount of traffic. This traffic results in asynchronous updates to the database. The company wants to ensure that writes to the database hosted on AWS do not get dropped.Haw should the company write Its application to handle these database requests?
Question148: Application developers have noticed that a production application is very slow when business reporting users run large production reports against the Amazon RDS instance backing the application. the CPU and memory utilization metrics for the RDS instance-d not exceed 60% while the reporting queries are running. The business reporting users must be able to generate reports without affecting the applications performance.Which action will accomplish this?
Question149: A company hosts its website on AWS. To address the highly variable demand, the company has implemented Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. Management is concerned that the company is over-provisioning its infrastructure, especially at the front end of the three-tier application. A solutions architect needs to ensure costs are optimized without impacting performance.What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?
Question150: A company has multiple applications that use Amazon RDS lor MySQL as is database. The company recently discovered that a new custom reporting application has Increased the number of Queries on the database. This is slowing down performance.How should a solutions architect resolve this issue with the LEAST amount of application changes?
Question151: A company has an on-premises application that generates a large amount of time-sensitive data that is backed up to Amazon S3. The application has grown and there are user complaints about internet bandwidth limitations. A solutions architect needs to design a long term solution that allows for both timely backups to Amazon S3 and with minimal impact on internet connectivity tor internal users.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question152: A company's production application runs online transaction processing (OLTP) transactions on an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance The company is launching a new reporting tool that will access the same data The reporting tool must be highly available and not impact the performance of the production application.How can this be achieved?
Question153: A solutions architect must migrate a Windows Internet Information Services (IIS) web application to AWS The application currently relies on a file share hosted in the user's on-premises network-attached storage (NAS). The solutions architect has proposed migrating the IIS web servers to Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones that are connected to the storage solution, and configuring an Elastic Load Balancer attached to the instances.Which replacement to the on-premises file share is MOST resilient and durable?
Question154: A company runs a multi-tier web application that hosts news content The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones and use an Amazon Aurora database. A solutions architect needs to make the application more resilient to periodic increases in request rates.Which architecture should the solutions architect implement? (Select TWO )
