EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which solution should the company use for the data transfer to meet these requirements?

Question2: A company plans to store sensitive user data on Amazon S3. Internal security compliance requirement mandata encryption of data before sending it to Amazon S3.
What should a solution architect recommend to satisfy these requirements?

Question3: A company purchased Amazon EC2 Partial Upfront Reserved Instances for a 1-year term. A solutions architect wants to analyze how much the daily effective cost is with all possible discounts.
Which view must the solutions architect choose in the advanced options of Cost Explorer to get the correct values?

Question4: 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?

Question5: A gaming company is designing a highly available architecture. the application runs on a modified Linux kernel and support only UDP-based traffic. The company needs the front-end tier to provide the best possible user experience. The tier must have low latency, route traffic to the nearest edge location, and possible static IP addresses for entry into the application endpoints.
What should a solution architect do to meet these requirements?

Question6: A company is preparing to store confidential data in Amazon S3. For compliance reasons, the data must be encrypted at rest. Encryption key usage must be logged for auditing purposes. Keys must be rotated every year.
Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally efficient?

Question7: A company wants to migrate its web application to AWS. The legacy web application consists of a web tier, an application tier, and a MySQL database. The re-architected application must consist of technologies that do not require the administration team to manage instances or clusters.
Which combination of services should a solutions architect include in the overall architecture? (Select TWO)

Question8: A solutions architect needs to host a high performance computing (HPC) workload in the AWS Cloud The workload will run on hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances and will require parallel access to a shared file system to enable distributed processing of large datasets. Datasets will be accessed across multiple instances simultaneously. The workload requires access latency within 1 ms. After processing has completed, engineers will need access to the dataset for manual postprocessing.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question9: 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 Into and provide the fastest possible response time.
Which combination should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question10: 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 10 GB in size. The application owner will make the log file available to the vendor for a limited time.
What is the MOST secure way to do this?

Question11: 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?

Question12: A company with facilities in North America. Europe, and Asia is designing new distributed application to optimize its global supply chain and manufacturing process. The orders booked on one continent should be visible to all Regions in a second or less. The database should be able to support failover with a short Recovery Time Objective (RTO) The uptime of the application is important to ensure that manufacturing is not impacted What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question13: A company collects temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure data in cities across multiple continents.
The average volume of data collected per site each day is 500 GB. Each site has a high-speed internet connection. The company's weather forecasting applications are based in a single Region and analyze the data daily.
What is the FASTEST way to aggregate data for all of these global sites?

Question14: A company has an asynchronous web application where Amazon API Gateway triggers AWS Lambda functions to perform write and update operations on an Amazon RDS DB instance During periods of extreme use API Gateway and Lambda scale in response to the incoming workload but service outages occur due to congestion with Amazon RDS The company is seeking a cost-effective design to alleviate this congestion What should a solutions architect recommend'?

Question15: A solutions architect is helping a developer design a new ecommerce shopping cart application using AWS services. The developer is unsure of the current database schema and expects to make changes as the ecommerce site grows. The solution needs to be highly resilient and capable of automatically scaling read and write capacity.
Which database solution meets these requirements?

Question16: 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?

Question17: A company is building an application that consists of several microservices. The company has decided to use container technologies to deploy its software on AWS. The com minimizes the amount of ongoing effort for maintenance and scaling. The company cannot manage additional infrastructure.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question18: 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?

Question19: 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?

Question20: A company is building a RESTful serverless web application on AWS by using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The users of this web application will be geographically disturbed, and the company wants to reduce the latency of API requests to these users.
Which type of endpoint should a solutions architect use to meet these requirements?

Question21: A company has two AWS accounts: Production and Development There are code changes ready in the Development account to push to the Production account In the alpha phase, only two senior developers on the development team need access to the Production account in the beta phase, more developers might need access to perform testing as well.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question22: A company's web application uses an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL DB instance to store its application data.
During the financial closing period at the start of every month. Accountants run large queries that impact the database's performance due to high usage. The company wants to minimize the impact that the reporting activity has on the web application.
What should a solutions architect do to reduce the impact on the database with the LEAST amount of effort?

Question23: A company hosts its application in the AWS Cloud. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group and with an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company wants to ensure the application can be made available in another AWS Region with minimal downtime What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of downtime?

Question24: 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?

Question25: 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?

Question26: A company has created a multi-tier application for its ecommerce website. The website uses an Application Load Balancer that resides in the public subnets, a web tier in me public subnets, and a MySQL cluster hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in the private subnets. The MySQL database needs to retrieve product catalog and pricing information that is hosted on the internet by a third-party provider. A solutions architect must devise a strategy that maximizes security without increasing operational overhead.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question27: A company Is creating a new application that will store a large amount of data. The data will be analyzed hourly and will be modified by several Amazon EC2 Linux instances that are deployed across multiple Availability Zones The needed amount of storage space will continue to grow for the next 6 months Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question28: A company runs a production application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances The application reads the data from an Amazon SQS queue and processes the messages in parallel. The message volume is unpredictable and often has intermittent traffic. This application should continually process messages without any downtime Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question29: A company must migrate 20 TB of data from a data center 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?

Question30: A company currently stores symmetric encryption keys in a hardware security module (HSM). A solution architect must design a solution to migrate key management to AWS. The solution should allow for key rotation and support the use of customer provided keys.
Where should the key material be stored to meet these requirements?

Question31: A media company has an application that tracks user clicks on its websites and performs analytics to provide near-real time recommendations. The application has a Heel of Amazon EC2 instances that receive data from the websites and send the data lo an Amazon RDS DB instance Another fleet of EC2 instances hosts the portion of the application that is continuously checking changes in the database and executing SQL queries to provide recommendations.
Management has requested a redesign to decouple the infrastructure The solution must ensure that data analysts are writing SQL to analyze the data only No data can the lost during the deployment What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question32: 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?

Question33: 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?

Question34: A company is running a three-tier web application to process credit card payments. The front-end user interface consists of static webpages. The application tier can have long-running processes The database tier uses MySQL.
The application is currently running on a single, general purpose large Amazon EC2 instance A solutions architect needs to decouple the services to make the web application highly available.
Which solution would provide the HIGHEST availability?

Question35: A solution architect is designing a hybrid application using the AWS cloud. The network between the on-premises data center and AWS will use an AWS Direct Connect (DX) connection. The application connectivity between AWS and the on-premises data center must be highly resilient.
Which DX configuration should be implemented to meet these requirements?

Question36: 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?

Question37: 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?

Question38: A developer has a script to generate daily reports that users previous. The script consistently complete in under
10 minutes. The developer needs to automate the process in a cost effective manner.
Which combination of services should the developer use? (Select two)

Question39: A restaurant reservation application needs to access a waiting list. When a customer tries to reserve a table, and none are available, the customer application will put the user on the waiting list, and the application will notify the customer when a table becomes free. The waiting list must preserve the order in which customers were added to the waiting list.
Which service should the solutions architect recommend to store this waiting list?

Question40: A solutions architect is designing an elastic application that will have between 10 and 50 Amazon EC2 concurrent instances running depending on the load Each instance must mount storage that will read and write to the same 50 GB folder Which storage type meets the requirements?

Question41: A solutions architect is using an AWS Cloud Formation template to deploy a three-tier web application The web application consists of a web tier and an application tier that stores and retrieves user data in Amazon DynamoDB tables The web and application tiers are hosted on Amazon EC2 instances, and the database tier is not publicly accessible The application EC2 instances need to access the DynamoDB tables without exposing API credentials in the template What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question42: A solutions architect is designing the architecture of a new application being deployed to the AWS Cloud The application will run on Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances and will automatically scale across multiple Availability Zones The EC2 instances will scale up and down frequently throughout the day An Application Load Balancer (ALB) will handle the load distribution The architecture needs to support distributed session data management The company is willing to make changes to code if needed.
What should the solutions architect do to ensure that the architecture supports distributed session data management?

Question43: A solutions architect is creating a new VPC design. There are two public subnet for the load balancer, two private subnets for web servers, and two private subnets for MySQL. The web serves use only HTTPS. The solutions architect has already created a security group for the load Balancer allowing port 443 from 0.0 0.0/0.
Company policy requires that each resource has the least access required to still be able to perform its tasks.
Which additional configuration strategy should the solution architect use to meet these requirements?

Question44: 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 meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?

Question45: A company fails an AWS security review conducted by a third party. The review finds that some of the company's methods to access the Amazon EMR API are not secure Developers are using AWS Cloud9, and access keys are connecting to the Amazon EMR API through the public internet Which combination of steps should the company take to MOST improve its security'' (Select TWO)

Question46: What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Write a custom AWS Lambda function to generate the thumbnail and alert the user Use the image upload process as an event source to invoke the Lambda functi...........

Question47: 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?

Question48: A company wants to replicate its data to AWS to recover in the event of a disaster. Today, a system administrator has scripts that copy data to a NFS share Individual backup files need to be accessed with low latency by application administrators to deal with errors in processing.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question49: 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?

Question50: A solutions architect is deploying a distributed database on multiple Amazon EC2 instances The database stores all data on multiple instances so it can withstand the loss of an instance The database requires block storage with latency and throughput to support several million transactions per second per server Which storage solution should the solutions architect use?

Question51: 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?

Question52: A company has two applications: a sender application that sends messages with payloads to be processed and a processing application intended to receive the messages with payloads The company wants to implement an AWS service to handle messages between the two applications. The sender application can send about 1,000 messages each hour The messages may take up to 2 days to be processed If the messages fail to process, they must be retained so that they do not impact the processing of any remaining messages Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally efficient?

Question53: An application team has started using Amazon EMR to run batch jobs using datasets located in Amazon S3.
During the initial testing of the workload a solutions architect notices that the account is starting to accrue NAT gateway data processing costs How can the learn optimize the cost of the workload?

Question54: 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.)

Question55: A company wants to run workload-Intensive queries from its 10 TB Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster.
Temporary schema changes need to be made to the database to generate monthly reports However, these changes are not desired for the ongoing production cluster The company must choose the most operationally efficient solution to meet these requirements.
Which solution should the company choose?

Question56: 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?

Question57: A user owns a MySQL database that is accessed by various clients who expect, at most, 100 ms latency on requests. Once a record is stored in the database, it is rarely changed. Clients only access one record al a time.
Database access has been increasing exponentially due to increased client demand. The resultant load will soon exceed the capacity of the most expensive hardware available for purchase. The user wants to migrate to AWS, and is willing to change database systems.
Which service would alleviate the database load issue and offer virtually unlimited scalability for the future?

Question58: A company's application is running on Amazon EC2 instances m a single Region in the event of a disaster a solutions architect needs to ensure that the resources can also be deployed to a second Region Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Select TWO)

Question59: A Solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a company that needs to host hundreds of machine learning models for its users. During startup, the models need to load up to 10 GB of data from Amazon S3 into memory, but they do not need disk access. Most of the models are used sporadically, but the users expect all of them to be highly available and accessible with low latency.
Which solution meets the requirements and is MOST cost-effective?

Question60: 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 within
4 hours of a request thereafter.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question61: A company requires a durable backup storage solution for its on-premises database servers while ensuring on-premises applications maintain access to these backups for quick recovery. The company will use AWS storage services as the destination for these backups A solutions architect is designing a solution with minimal operational overhead Which solution should the solutions architect implement?

Question62: 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?

Question63: 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?

Question64: A company's security policy requires that alt AWS API activity in its AWS accounts be recorded tor periodic auditing. The company needs to ensure that AWS CloudTrail is enabled on all of its current and future AWS accounts using AWS Organizations Which solution is MOST secure?

Question65: A company is performing an AWS Well-Architected Framework review of an existing workload deployed on AWS. The review identified a public-facing website running on the same Amazon EC2 instance as a Microsoft Active Directory domain controller that was install recently to support other AWS services. A solutions architect needs to recommend a new design that would improve the security of the architecture and minimize the administrative demand on IT staff.
What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question66: 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?

Question67: A company is creating a web application that will store a large number of images in Amazon S3 The images will be accessed by users over variable periods of time. The company wants to:
* Retain all the images
* Incur no cost for retrieval.
* Have minimal management overhead.
* Have the images available with no impact on retrieval time.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question68: 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?

Question69: 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?

Question70: 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?

Question71: 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'?

Question72: A company is running a multi-tier ecommerce web application in the AWS Cloud The web application is running on Amazon EC2 instances. The database tier Is on a provisioned Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster with a writer and a reader in a Multi-AZ environment. The new requirement for the database tier is to serve the application to achieve continuous write availability through an Instance failover.
What should a solutions architect do to meet this new requirement?

Question73: 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?

Question74: 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 Additionally, 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?

Question75: A company currently operates a web application backed by an Amazon RDS MySQL database It has automated backups that are run daily and are not encrypted A security audit requires future backups to be encrypted and the unencrypted backups to be destroyed The company will make at least one encrypted backup before destroying the old backups What should be done to enable encryption for future backups''

Question76: 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?

Question77: A company has a custom application with embedded credentials that retrieves information from an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. Management says the application must be made more secure with the least amount of programming effort. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question78: A company operates a website on Amazon EC2 Linux instances. Some of the instances are faring Troubleshooting points to insufficient swap space on the failed instances. The operations team lead needs a solution to monitor this.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question79: A company is deploying an application in three AWS Regions using an Application Load Balancer Amazon Route 53 will be used to distribute traffic between these Regions.
Which Route 53 configuration should a solutions architect use to provide the MOST high-performing experience?

Question80: 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?

Question81: 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?

Question82: 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.)

Question83: 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?

Question84: An ecommerce company is running a multi-tier application on AWS. The front-end and backend tiers both run on Amazon EC2. and the database runs on Amazon RDS for MySQL. The backend tier communicates with the RDS instance. There are frequent calls to return identical datasets from the database that are causing performance slowdowns.
Which action should be taken to improve the performance of the backend?

Question85: 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

Question86: A company hosts a multi-tier web application that uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster for storage.
The application tier is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances. The comp.......... mandate that the database credentials be encrypted and rotated every 14 days.
What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement with the LEAST operational effort?

Question87: An application calls a service run by a vendor. The vendor charges based on the number of calls. The finance department needs to know the number of calls that are made to the service to validate the billing statements How can a solutions architect design a system to durably store the number of calls without requiring changes to the application?

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 is planning to migrate a mission-critical three-tor web application from on premises to the AWS Cloud. The backend database is snared with other on-premises systems and will remain in the on- premises data center.
The application tier requires quick and predictable response times between the presentation tier and the database Encryption is required for data in transit between client web browsers and the VPC. and between the on-promises data center and the VPC.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question90: 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.)

Question91: A company is hosting its website by using Amazon EC2 instance behind an Elastic Load Balancer across multiple Availability Zones. The instance run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group. The website uses Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes to store product manuals for users to download.
The company updates the product content often, so new instance launched by the Auto Scaling group often have old data. It can take up to 30 minutes for the new instances to receive all the updates. The updates also requires the EBS volumes to be resized during business hours.
The company wants to ensure that the product manuals are always up to data on all that the architecture adjusts quickly to increased user demand. A solutions architect needs to meet these requirements without causing the company to update its application code or adjust its website.
What should the solution architect do to accomplish this goal?

Question92: A data science team requires storage for nightly log processing. The size and number of logs is unknown and will persist for 24 hours only What is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question93: A company has an application that uses Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to store data. The files are
1 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?

Question94: 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 Availability Zones.
What should a solution architect do to meet this requirement?

Question95: A solutions architect is designing a mission-critical web application. It will consist of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer and a relational database. The database should be highly available and fault tolerant.
Which database implementations will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question96: 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?

Question97: A database is on an Amazon RDS MYSQL 5.6 Multi-AZ DB instance that experience highly dynamic reads.
Application developers notice a significant slowdown when testing read performance from a secondary AWS Region. The developers want a solution that provides less than 1 second of read replication latency.
What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question98: 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'?

Question99: A company requires that all versions of objects in its Amazon S3 bucket be retained Current object versions will be frequently accessed during the first 30 days, after which they will be rarely accessed and must be retrievable within 5 minutes Previous object versions need to be kept forever, will be rarely accessed, and can be retrieved within 1 week. All storage solutions must be highly available and highly durable What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective manner?

Question100: A development team is creating an event-based application that uses AWS Lambda functions. Events will be generated when files are added to an Amazon S3 bucket. The development team currently has Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) configured as the event target from Amazon S3.
What should a solution architect do to process the events from Amazon S3 in a scalable why?

Question101: 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'?

Question102: A company has an on-premises data center that is running out of storage capacity. The company wants to migrate its storage infrastructure to AWS while minimizing bandwidth costs The solution must allow for immediate retrieval of data at no additional cost.
How can these requirements be met?

Question103: A solutions architect must design a solution for a persistent database that is being migrated from on-premises to AWS. The database requires 64,000 IOPS according to the database administrator. If possible, the database administrator wants to use a single Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume to host the database instance.
Which solution effectively meets the database administrator's criteria?

Question104: A company has an application mat 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 tiles that contain personally identifiable information (PII) mat should not have been included. The company wants administrators to be alerted if Pll is shared again. The company also wants to automate remediation.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAS F development effort?

Question105: A solutions architect is designing the architecture for a software demonstration environment. The environment will run on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Seating group bel (ALB). The system will experience significant increases in traffic during working hours but is not required to operate on weekends.
Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to ensure that the system can scale to meet demand? (Select TWO.)

Question106: A solutions architect is designing the storage architecture for a new web application used for stonng 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?

Question107: 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?

Question108: A company receives data from millions of users totaling about 1 TB each flay. The company provides its use's with usage reports gang back 12 months Al usage data must be stored tor at least 5 years to comply with regulatory and auditing requirements Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?

Question109: 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 )

Question110: A company mandates that an Amazon S3 gateway endpoint must allow traffic to trusted buckets only Which method should a solutions architect implement to meet this requirement?

Question111: 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?

Question112: A company's infrastructure consists of hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances that use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage A solutions architect must ensure that every EC2 instance can be recovered after a disaster What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of effort?

Question113: A company runs an application in the AWS Cloud and uses Amazon DynamoDB as the database The company deploys Amazon EC2 instances to a private network to process data from the database The company uses two NAT instances to provide connectivity to DynamoDB.
The company wants to retire the NAT instances A solutions architect must implement a solution that provides connectivity to DynamoDB and that does not require ongoing management.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution that meets these requirements?

Question114: A company has an application hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in two VPCs across different AWS Regions To communicate with each other, the instances use the internet for connectivity. The security team wants to ensure that no communication between the instances happens over the internet What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this''

Question115: A company has created an isolated backup of its environment in another Region. The application is running in warm standby mode and is fronted by an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The current failover process is manual and requires updating a DNS alias record to point to the secondary ALB in another Region.
What should a solutions architect do to automate the failover process?

Question116: 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.)

Question117: A website runs a web application that receives a burst of traffic each day at noon. The users upload new pictures and content daily, but have been complaining of timeouts. The architecture uses Amazon EC2 Auto Seating groups, and the custom application consistently takes 1 minute to initiate upon boot up before responding to user requests How should a solutions architect redesign the architecture to better respond to changing traffic?

Question118: A company's packaged application dynamically creates and returns single-use text files in response to user requests. The company is using Amazon CloudFront for distribution, but wants to future reduce data transfer costs. The company modify the application's source code.
What should a solution architect do to reduce costs?

Question119: A company hosts an application used to upload files to an Amazon S3 bucket Once uploaded, the files are processed to extract metadata, which takes less than 5 seconds. The volume and frequency of the uploads vanes from a few files each hour to hundreds of concurrent uploads. The company has asked a solutions architect to design a cost effective architecture that will meet these requirements.
What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question120: A company needs to connect several VPCs in the us-east Region that span hundreds of AWS accounts. The company's networking team has its own AWS account to manage the cloud network. What is the MOST operationally efficient solution to connect the VPCs?

Question121: A company is looking for a solution that can store video archives in AWS from old news footage. The company needs to minimize costs and will rarely need to restore these files. When the files are needed, they must be available in a maximum of five minutes.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question122: A company built a food ordering application that captures user data and stores it for future analysis. The application's static front end is deployed on an Amazon EC? instance. The front-end application sends the requests to the backend application running on separate EC2 instance. The backend application then stores the data in Amazon RDS.
What should a solutions architect do to decouple the architecture and make it scalable?

Question123: 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?

Question124: 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?

Question125: 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?

Question126: 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 Lambada 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?

Question127: A media company stores video content in an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. A certain video file has become popular and a large number of users across the world are accessing this content. This has resulted in a cost increase.
Which action will DECREASE cost without compromising user accessibility?

Question128: A solutions architect is designing a highly available website that is served by multiple web servers hosted outside of AWS. If an instance becomes unresponsive, the architect needs to remove it from the rotation.
What is the MOST efficient way to fulfill this requirement?

Question129: A company is relocating its data center and wants to securely transfer 50 TB of data to AWS within 2 weeks The existing data center has a Site-to-Site VPN connection to AWS that is 90% utilized.
Which AWS service should a solutions architect use to meet these requirements?

Question130: A company plans to deploy a new application in AWS that reads and writes information to a database. The company wants to deploy the application in two different AWS Regions with each application writing to a database in their Region. The databases in the Two Regions needs to keep We data synchronized What should be used to meet these requirements?

Question131: A solutions architect needs to allow developers to have SSH connectivity to web servers The requirements are as follows
* Limit access to users originating from the corporate network.
* Web servers cannot have SSH access directly from the internet.
* Web servers reside in a private subnet.
Which combination of steps must the architect complete to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question132: 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 combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this goal? (Select TWO.)

Question133: 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?

Question134: 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?

Question135: A company operates a website on Amazon EC2 Linux instances Some of the instances are failing Troubleshooting points to insufficient swap space on the failed instances The operations team lead needs a solution to monitor this What should a solutions architect recommend"?

Question136: A company has a three-tier environment on AWS that ingests sensor data from its users' devices. The traffic flows through a Network Load Balancer (NLB) then to Amazon EC2 instances for the web tier, and finally to EC2 instances for the application tier that makes database calls What should a solutions architect do to improve the security of data in transit to the web tier?

Question137: 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?

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 is running a multi-tier web application on AWS. The application runs its database tier on Amazon Aurora MySQL. The application and database tiers are in the us-east-1 Region A database administrator who regularly monitors the Aurora DB cluster finds that an intermittent increase in read traffic is creating high CPU utilization on the read replica and causing increased read latency of the application What should a solutions architect do to improve read scalability?

Question140: A company is hosting its static website in an Amazon S3 bucket, which is the origin for Amazon CioudFront.
The company has users in the United States. Canada, and Europe and wants to reduce costs. What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question141: A company wants to use an AWS Region as a disaster recovery location for its on-premises infrastructure. The company has 10 TB of existing data, and the on-premise data center has a 1 Gbps internet connection. A solutions architect must find a solution so the company can have its existing data on AWS in 72 hours without transmitting it using an unencrypted channel.
Which solution should the solutions architect select?

Question142: a website on Amazon S3. The website serves petabytes of outbound traffic monthly, which accounts for most of the company's AWS costs. What should a solutions architect do to reduce costs?

Question143: A company stores user data in AWS. The data is used continuously with peak usage during business hours.
Access patterns vary, with some data not being used for months at a time.
A solution architect must choose a cost that maintains the highest level ot durability while maintaining high availability.
Which storage solution meets these requirements?

Question144: A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new application being deployed to AWS. The application allows users to interactively download and upload files. Files older than 2 years will be accessedless frequently. The solutions architect needs to ensure that the application can scale to any number of files while maintaining high availability and durability.
Which scalable solutions should the solutions architect recommend? (Choose two.)

Question145: 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?

Question146: A solutions architect needs to design a centralized logging solution for a group of web applications running on Amazon EC2 instances. The solution requires minimal development effort due to budget containts.
What should the architect recommend?

Question147: A company is designing a cloud communications platform trial is driven by APIs. The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). The company uses Amazon API Gateway to provide external users with access to the application through APIs. The company wants to protect the platform against web exploits like SQL Injection and also wants to detect and mitigate large, sophisticated DDoS attacks Which combination of solutions provides the MOST protection? (Select TWO.)

Question148: A company has an application running as a service in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon EC2) using the Amazon launch type. The application code makes AWS API calls to publish messages to Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS).
What is the MOST secure method of giving the application permission to publish messages to Amazon SQS?

Question149: A company has an application that is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in two private subnets. A solutions architect must make the application available on the public internet with the least amount of N-y administrative effort.
What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question150: 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?

Question151: A company has copied 1 PB of data from a colocation facility to an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region using an AWS Direct Connect link. The company now wants to copy the data to another S3 bucket in the us-west-2 Region. The colocation facility does not allow the use AWS Snowball.
What should a solutions architect recommend to accomplish this?

Question152: 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?

Question153: 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?

Question154: A company has developed a database in Amazon RDS for MySQL. Due to increased support team is reporting slow reads against the DB instance and recommends adding a read replica.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take before implementing this change? (Select TWO.)

Question155: 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?

Question156: 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?

Question157: A solution architect is designing the infrastructure for an application. The application must have a managed MySQL database mat is highly available. The database will be (censed only by resources in the same VPC.
The database also must have auto scaling for storage and compute
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question158: 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?

Question159: A company has an application running on Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet. The application needs to store and retrieve data in Amazon S3 To reduce costs, the company wants to configure its AWS resources in a cost-effective manner.
How should the company accomplish this?

Question160: 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?

Question161: 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?

Question162: A company provides a three-tier web application to its customers Each customer has an AWS account in which the application is deployed, and these accounts are members of the company's organization in AWS Organizations To protect its customers' AWS accounts and applications the company wants to monitor them for unusual and unexpected behavior The company needs to analyze and monitor customer VPC Flow Logs. AWS CloudTrail logs, and DNS logs What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question163: 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?

Question164: A company has a custom application running on an Amazon EC2 instance that:
* Reads a large amount of data from Amazon S3
* Performs a multi-stage analysis.
* Writes the results to Amazon DynamoDB.
The application writes a significant number of large, temporary files during the multi-stage analysis. The process performance depends on the temporary storage performance.
What would be the fastest storage option for holding the temporary files?

Question165: 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?

Question166: 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 identity the root cause of the vertical scaling.
How should the solutions architect generate the information with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question167: A company is creating a three-tier web application consisting of a web server, an application server, and a database server. The application will track GPS coordinates of packages as they are being delivered. The application will update the database every 0-5 seconds.
The tracking will need to read a fast as possible for users to check the status of their packages. Only a few packages might be tracked on some days, whereas millions of package might be tracked on other days.
Tracking will need to be searchable by tracking ID customer ID and order ID Order than 1 month no longer read to be tracked.
What should a solution architect recommend to accomplish this with minimal cost of ownership?

Question168: A solutions architect is designing a multi-tier application for a company The application's users upload images from a mobile device The application generates a thumbnail of each image and returns a message to the user to confirm that the image was uploaded successfully The thumbnail generation can take up to 60 seconds, but the company wants to provide a faster response time to its users to notify them that the original image was received The solutions architect must design the application to asynchronously dispatch requests to the different application tiers.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question169: A company provides an API to its users that automates inquiries 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 solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question170: An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets. The application needs to access an Amazon DynamoDB table. What is the MOST secure way to access the table while ensuring that the traffic does not leave the AWS network?

Question171: 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.)

Question172: A company wants to deploy an additional Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster for development purposes. The cluster will be used several times a week for a few minutes upon to debug production query issues. The company wants to keep overhead low for this resource.
Which solution meets the company's requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question173: A company is running its application in a single region on Amazon EC2 with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and S3 as part of the storage design.
What should be done to reduce data transfer costs?

Question174: A company has hired a solutions architect to design a reliable architecture for its application The application consists of one Amazon RDS DB instance and two manually provisioned Amazon EC2 instances that run web servers The EC2 instances are located in a single Availability Zone An employee recently deleted the DB instance and the application was unavailable for 24 hours as a result The company is concerned with the overall reliability of its environment What should the solutions architect do to maximize reliability of the application's infrastructure?

Question175: 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?

Question176: A solutions architect is creating an application that will handle batch processing of large amounts of data. The input data will be held in Amazon S3 and the output data will be stored in a different S3 bucket. For processing, the application will transfer the data over the network between multiple Amazon EC2 instances.
What should the solutions architect do to reduce the overall data transfer costs?

Question177: A company wants to build a scalable key management infrastructure to support developers who need to encrypt data in their applications. What should a solutions architect do to reduce the operational burden?

Question178: 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?

Question179: A company has an application workflow that uses an AWS Lambda function to download and decrypt files from Amazon S3 These files are encrypted using AWS Key Management Service Customer Master Keys (AWS KMS CMKs) A solutions architect needs to design a solution that will ensure the required permissions are set correctly.
Which combination of actions accomplish this? (Select TWO.)

Question180: A company recently implemented hybrid cloud connectivity using AWS Direct Connect and is migrating data to Amazon S3. The company is looking for a fully managed solution that will automate and accelerate the replication of data between the on-premises storage systems and AWS storage services.
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to keep the data private?

Question181: A company requires operating system permission on a relational database server.
What should a solutions architect suggest as a configuration for a highly available database architecture?

Question182: A company runs an online media site, hosted on-premises. An employee posted a product review that contained videos and pictures. The review went viral and the company needs to handle the resulting spike in website traffic.
What action would provide an immediate solution? 252

Question183: 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?

Question184: A company that develops web applications has launched hundreds of Application Load Balancers (ALBs) in multiple Regions. The company wants to create an allow list (or the IPs of all the load balancers on its firewall device. A solutions architect is looking for a one-time, highly available solution to address this request, which will also help reduce the number of IPs that need to be allowed by the firewall.
What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question185: A company runs a website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an ELB Application Load Balancer. Amazon Route 53 is used for the DNS. The company wants to set up a backup website with a message including a phone number and email address that users can reach if the primary website is down.
How should the company deploy this solution?

Question186: A company recently signed a contract with an AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner for help with an application migration initiative. A solutions architect needs to ... (AMI) from an existing AWS account with the MSP Partner's AWS account. The AMI is backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and uses a customer managed .....encrypt EBS volume snapshots.
What is the MOST secure way for the solutions architect to share the AMI with the MSP Partner's AWS account?

Question187: 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?

Question188: A company owns an asynchronous API that is used to ingest use requests and, based on the request type, dispatch requests to the appropriate microservice for processing.
The company is using Amazon API Gateway to deploy the API front end, and an AWS Lambda function that invokes Amazon DynamoDB to store user requests before dispatching them to the processing microservices.
The company provisioned as much DynamoDB throughput as its budget allows, but the company is still experiencing availability issues and is losing user requests.
What should a solutions architect do to address this Issue without impacting existing users?

Question189: A company stores user data in AWS. The data is used continuously with peak usage during business hours.
Access patterns vary, with some data not being used for months at a time. A solution architect must choose a cost-effective solution that maintains the highest level of durability while maintaining high availability.
Which storage solution meets these requirements?

Question190: A solutions architect has configured the following IAM policy.

Which action will be allowed by the policy?

Question191: A company finds that, as its use of Amazon EC2 instances grows us Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EDS) storage costs are increasing faster man expected. Which EBS management practices would help reduce costs? (Select TWO. )

Question192: 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 CPU Utilization metrics are spiking when monthly reports run.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question193: A solutions architect must provide a fully managed replacement for an on-premises solution that allows employees and partners to exchange files The solution must be easily accessible to employees connecting from on-premises systems, remote employees, and external partners Which solution meets these requirements?

Question194: 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?

Question195: 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?

Question196: A company has multiple AWS accounts with applications deployed in the us-west-2 Region Application logs are stored within Amazon S3 buckets in each account. The company wants to build a centralized log analysts solution that uses a single S3 bucket Logs must not leave us-west-2T and the company wants to incur minimal operational overhead.
Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?

Question197: A company needs to use its on-premises LDAP directory service to authenticate its users to the AWS Management Console. The directory service is not compatible with Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Which solution meets these requirements?

Question198: A company is hosting an election reporting website on AWS for users around the world The website uses Amazon EC2 Instances for the web and application tiers in an Auto Scaling group with Application Load Balancers The database tier uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL database The website is updated with election results once an hour and has historically observed hundreds of users accessing the reports The company Is expecting a significant increase In demand because of upcoming elections in different countries. A solutions architect must Improve The website's ability to handle additional demand while minimizing the need for additional EC2 instances Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question199: A solutions architect is designing the architecture for a company website that is composed of static content.
The company's target customers are located in the United States Which architecture should the solutions architect recommend to MINIMIZE cost?

Question200: A company is making a prototype of the infrastructure for its new website by manually provisioning the necessary infrastructure This infrastructure includes an Auto Scaling group an Application Load Balancer, and an Amazon RDS database After the configuration has been thoroughly validated the company wants the capability to immediately deploy the infrastructure for development and production use in two Availability Zones in an automated fashion What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements''

Question201: 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?

Question202: A company's operations teams has an existing Amazon S3 bucket configured to notify an Amazon SQS queue when new object are created within the bucket. The development team also wants to receive events when new objects are created. The existing operations team workflow must remain intact.
Which solution would satisfy these requirements?

Question203: A company manages a data lake in an Amazon S3 bucket that numerous application share. The S3 bucket contain unique folders with a prefix for each application. The company wants to restrict each application to its specific folder and have more granular control of the objects in each folder.
Which solution met these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort?

Question204: 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?

Question205: A company plans to store sensitive user data on Amazon S3. Internal security compliance requirement mandata encryption of data before sending it to Amazon S3.
What should a solution architect recommend to satisfy these requirements?

Question206: A company is developing a new mobile app. The company must implement proper traffic filtering to protect its Application Load Balanacer (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?

Question207: A company is planning to build a new web application on AWS. The company expects predictable traffic most of the year and very high traffic on occasion. The web application needs to be highly available and fault tolerant with minimal latency.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question208: A company Is reviewing Its AWS Cloud deployment to ensure its data is not accessed by anyone without appropriate authorization. A solutions architect is tasked with identifying all open Amazon S3 buckets and recording any S3 bucket configuration changes.
What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question209: A company wants to migrate its 1PB 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?

Question210: A company runs an application on three very large Amazon EC2 instances In a single Availability Zone in the us-east-1 Region Multiple 16 TB Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes are attached to each EC2 instance. The operations team uses an AWS Lambda script triggered by a schedule-based Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule to stop the instances on evenings and weekends, and start the instances on weekday mornings.
Before deploying the solution, the company used the public AWS pricing documentation to estimate the overall costs of running this data warehouse solution 5 days a week for 10 hours a day. When looking at monthly Cost Explorer charges for this new account, the overall charges are higher than the estimate.
What is the MOST likely cost factor that the company overlooked?

Question211: A company is hosting a website behind multiple Application Load Balancers. The company has different distribution rights for its content around the world. A solutions architect needs to ensure that users are served the correct content without violating distribution rights.
Which configuration should the solutions architect choose to meet these requirements?

Question212: A company stores project information in a shared spreadsheet. The company wants to create a web application to replace the spreadsheet. The company has chosen ......................spreadsheet's data and is designing the web application to display the project information that is obtained from DynamoDB.
A solutions architect must design the web application's backend by using managed services that require minimal operational maintenance Which architectures meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question213: A company is running a publicly accessible serverless application that uses Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The application's traffic recently spiked due to fraudulent requests from botnets.
Which steps should a solutions architect take to block requests from unauthorized users? (Select TWO.)

Question214: A disaster response team is using drones to collect images ot recent storm damage. The response team's laptops lack the storage and compute capacity to transfer the images and process the data. While the team has Amazon EC2 instances for processing and Amazon S3 buckets for storage, network connectivity is intermittent and unreliable. The images need to be processed to evaluate the damage.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question215: A company designed a stateless two-tier that uses Amazon EC2 in a single Availability Zone and an Amazon RDS multi-AZ DB instance. New company management wants to ensure the application is highly available.
What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Question216: 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?

Question217: A company has established a new AWS account. The account is newly provisioned and no changed 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?

Question218: A company wants to improve the availability of an existing firewall. To meet the compliance requirements of the applications hosted in the VPC. the company's security team is using a proprietary firewall running on Amazon EC2 instances All internet traffic flows through the primary firewall. When the primary firewall goes down, the team manually changes the VPC route table so that it uses a secondary firewall running in a different Availability Zone.
Which strategies should a solutions architect use to improve the availability of the firewall? (Select TWO.)