EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets. The application needs to access an Amazon DynamoDB table. What is me MOST secure way to access the table while ensuring that the traffic does not leave the AWS network?

Question3: A company uses a combination of Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Fargate tasks to process daily transactions. The company faces unpredictable and sudden increases in transaction volume. The company needs a solution that will process the transactions immediately.
Which solution meets these requirement MOST cost-effectively?

Question4: A company has NFS servers in an on-premises data center that need to periodically back up small amounts of data to Amazon S3.
Which solution marts these requirement and is MOST cost-effective?

Question5: A company offers a food delivery service that is growing rapidly Because of the growth the company's order processing system is experiencing scaling problems during peak traffic hours. The current architecture includes the following;
* A group of Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to collect orders from the application
* Another group of EC2 instances that run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to fulfill orders The order collection process occurs quickly, but the order fulfillment process can take longer Data must not be lost because of a scaling event A solutions architect must ensure that the order collection process and the order fulfillment process can both scale properly during peak traffic hours The solution must optimize utilization of the company's AWS resources Which solution meets these requirements'?

Question6: A medical research lab produces data that is related to a new study. The lab wants to make the data available with minimum latency to clinics across the country for their on-premises file-based applications. The data files are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket that has read-only permissions for each clinic.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question7: 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?

Question8: A company has an API-based inventory reporting application running on Amazon EC2 instances The application stores information in an Amazon DynamoDB table The company's distribution centers have an on-premises shipping application that calls an API to update the inventory before printing shipping labels The company has been experiencing application interruptions several times each day. resulting in lost transactions What should a solutions architect recommend to improve application resiliency?

Question9: A company recently migrated multiple applications and databases from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. Most of the applications run on AWS Fargate. and some of the applications run on Amazon EC2 instances Most of the databases run on Amazon RDS, and a small number of databases run on EC2 Instances.
All the applications and databases must be available 24 hours a day. 7 days a week. The company uses AWS Organizations to manage AWS accounts. A solutions architect must recommend how to minimize the cost of these workloads over the next 3 years Which solution meets these requirements?

Question10: A company receives inconsistent service from its data center provider because the company is headquartered in an area affected by natural disasters The company is not ready to fully migrate to the AWS Cloud but it wants a failure environment on AWS in case the on-premises data center fails The company runs web servers that connect to external vendors The data available on AWS and on premises must be uniform.
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend that has the LEAST amount of downtime''

Question11: 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?
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Question12: 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?

Question13: A company wants to minimize cost by moving infrequently accessed audit archives to low-cost storage.
Which AWS service should the company use for this storage?

Question14: A company wants to use AWS Systems Manager to manage a fleet ol Amazon EC2 instances. According to the company's security requirements, no EC2 instances can have internet access. A solutions architect needs to design network connectivity from the EC2 instances to Systems Manager while fulfilling this security obligation.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question15: A company is hosting a static website on Amazon S3 and is using Amazon Route 53 for DNS. The website is experiencing increased demand from around the world. The company must decrease latency for users who access the website.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question16: 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?

Question17: A solutions architect must design a solution that uses Amazon CloudFront with an Amazon S3 origin to store a static website. The company's security policy requires that all website traffic be inspected by AWS WAF.
How should the solutions architect comply with these requirements?

Question18: A company needs to implement a relational database with a multi-Region disaster recovery Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 second and an Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 minute Which AWS solution can achieve this?

Question19: 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?

Question20: 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?

Question21: A company has deployed a database in Amazon RDS for MySQL. Due to increased transactions, the database 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.)

Question22: A company is developing a serverless web application that gives users the ability to interact with real-time analytics from online games. The data from the games must be streamed in real time. The company needs a durable, low-latency database option for user data. The company does not know how many users will use the application Any design considerations must provide response times of single-digit milliseconds as the application scales.
Which combination of AWS services will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question23: 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?

Question24: A company runs an online marketplace web application on AWS. The application serves hundreds of thousands of users during peak hours. The company needs a scalable, near-real-time solution to share the details of millions of financial transactions with several other internal applications Transactions also need to be processed to remove sensitive data before being stored in a document database for low-latency retrieval What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question25: A company is running a highly sensitive application on Amazon EC2 backed by an Amazon RDS database Compliance regulations mandate that all personally identifiable information (Pll) be encrypted at rest.
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of changes to the infrastructure?

Question26: A company is planning to run a group of Amazon EC2 instances that connect to an Amazon Aurora database.
The company has built an AWS CloudFormation template to deploy the EC2 instances and the Aurora DB cluster. The company wants to allow the instances to authenticate to the database in a secure way. The company does not want to maintain static database credentials.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?

Question27: A security learn needs to enforce the rotation of all IAM users' access keys every 90 days If an access key Is found to be older, the key must be made inactive and removed A solutions architect must create a solution that will check for and remediate any keys older than 90 days Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?

Question28: A meteorological startup company has a custom web application to sell weather data to its users online. The company uses Amazon DynamoDB to store is data and wants to bu4d a new service that sends an alert to the managers of four Internal teams every time a new weather event is recorded. The company does not want true new service to affect the performance of the current application What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirement with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Question29: A company has deployed a business-critical application in the AWS Good The application uses Amazon EC2 instances that run in the us-east-1 Region The application uses Amazon S3 for storage of all critical data To meet compliance requirements the company must create a disaster recovery (DR) plan that provides the capability of a full failover to another AWS Region What should a solutions architect recommend for this DR plan?

Question30: 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 Seating 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 addressed?

Question31: A company has primary and secondary data canters that are 500 miles (804.7 km) apart and Interconnected with high-speed fiber.optic cable. The company needs a highly available and secure network connection between its data centers and a VPC on AWS for a mission-critical workload A solutions architect must choose a connection solution that provides maximum resiliency. Which solution meets these requirements?

Question32: A solutions architect wants all new users to have specific complexity requirements and mandatory rotation periods tor IAM user passwords What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question33: A company is running a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The application uses a database that runs on an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance. The application performs slowly as traffic increases, and the database experiences a heavy read load during periods of high traffic.
Which actions should a solutions architect take to resolve these performance issues? (Select TWO.)

Question34: An ecommerce company is running a multi-tier application on AWS. The front-end and backend tiers run on Amazon EC2, and the database runs on Amazon RDS for MYSQL. The backend tier communities with the RDS instance. There are frequent calls to return identical database from the database that are causing performance slowdowns.
Which action should be taken to improve the performance of the backend?

Question35: A company plant to host a survey website on AWS The company anticipates an unpredictable amount of traffic This traffic results m asynchronous updates to the database. The company wants to ensure mat writes to the database hosted on AWS do not gel dropped How should the company write its application to hand to these database requests?

Question36: 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?

Question37: 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?

Question38: A company needs to retain its AWS CloudTrail logs (or 3 years. The company is enforcing CloudTrail across a set of AWS accounts by using AWS Organizations from the parent account. The CloudTrail target S3 bucket is configured with S3 Versioning enabled An S3 Lifecycle policy is in place to delete current objects after 3 years.
After the fourth year of use of the S3 bucket, the S3 bucket metrics show that the number of objects has continued to rise. However, the number of new CloudTrail logs that are delivered to the S3 bucket has remained consistent.
Which solution will delete objects that are older than 3 years in the MOST cost-effective manner?

Question39: A company recently started using Amazon Aurora as the data store for its global ecommerce application When large reports are run developers report that the ecommerce application is performing poorly After reviewing metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, a solutions architect finds that the ReadlOPS and CPUUtilization metrics are spiking when monthly reports run.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question40: A company has deployed a multiplayer game for mobile devices. The game requires live location tracking of players based on latitude and longitude. The data store for the game must support rapid updates and retrieval of locations.
The game uses an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance with read replicas to store the location data.
During peak usage periods, the database is unable to maintain the performance that is needed for reading and writing updates. The game's user base is increasing rapidly.
What should a solutions architect do to improve the performance of the data tier?

Question41: 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?

Question42: What should a solutions architect do to ensure that all objects uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket are encrypted?

Question43: A marketing company is storing CSV files in an Amazon S3 bucket for statistical analysis An application on an Amazon EC2 instance needs permission to efficiently process the CSV data stored in the S3 bucket.

Question44: A company has a service that produces event data. The company wants to use AWS to process the event data as it is received. The data is written in a specific order that must be maintained throughout processing The company wants to implement a solution that minimizes operational overhead.
How should a solutions architect accomplish this?

Question45: A company runs a fleet of web services using an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance. Alter a routine compliance check, tire company sets a standard that requires a recovery point objective (RPO) of less than 1 second for all Its production databases.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question46: A company's website runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The website has a mix of dynamic and static content. Users around the globe are reporting that the website is slow Which set of actions will improve website performance for users worldwide?

Question47: A company processes large amounts of data. The output data is stored in Amazon S3 Standard storage in an S3 bucket, where it is analyzed for 1 month. The data must remain immediately accessible after the 1-month analysis period.
Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question48: A weather forecasting company needs to process hundreds of gigabytes of data with sub-mill (second latency.
The company has a high performance computing (HPC) environment in its data center and wants to expand its forecasting capabilities A solutions architect must identify a highly available cloud storage solution that can handle large amounts of sustained throughput Files that are stored in the solution should be accessible to thousands of compute instances that will simultaneously access and process the entire dataset What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question49: A solutions architect must secure a VPC network that hosts Amazon EC2 instances The EC2 ^stances contain highly sensitive data and tun n a private subnet According to company policy the EC2 instances mat run m the VPC can access only approved third-party software repositories on the internet for software product updates that use the third party's URL Other internet traffic must be blocked.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question50: A company has an internet-facing application that runs on premises. The application contains mostly user-generated content. The data is stored in an on-premises network-attached storage system. The company wants to archive this data annually and has chosen to move the archival data to Amazon S3. The company needs a solution to migrate the archival data into an S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question51: 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?

Question52: A company has designed an application where users provide small sets of textual data by calling a public API The application runs on AWS and includes a public Amazon API Gateway API that forwards requests to an AWS Lambda function for processing The Lambda function then writes the data to an Amazon Aurora Serverless database for consumption The company is concerned that it could lose some user data it a Lambda function fails to process the request property or reaches a concurrency limit.
What should a solutions architect recommend to resolve this concern?

Question53: A company wants to run an in-memory database for a latency-sensitive application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. The application processes more than 100,000 transactions each minute and requires high network throughput. A solutions architect needs to provide a cost-effective network design that minimizes data transfer charges.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question54: A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances. Traffic to the workload increases substantially during business hours and decreases afterward. The CPU utilization of an EC2 instance is a strong indicator of end-user demand on the application. The company has configured an Auto Scaling group to have a minimum group size of 2 EC2 instances and a maximum group size of 10 EC2 instances.
The company is concerned that the current scaling policy that is associated with the Auto Scaling group might not be correct. The company must avoid over-provisioning EC2 instances and incurring unnecessary costs.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question55: 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?

Question56: 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?

Question57: A financial services company wants to shut down two data centers and migrate more than 100 TB of data to AWS. The data has an intricate directory structure with millions of small files stored in deep hierarchies of subfolders Most of the data is unstructured and the company's file storage consists of SMB-based storage types from multiple vendors The company does not want to change its applications to access the data after migration.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question58: 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?

Question59: A company runs a fleet of web servers using an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance After a routine compliance check, the company sets a standard that requires a recovery pant objective (RPO) of less than 1 second for all its production databases.
Which solution meets these requirement?

Question60: A company previously migrated its data warehouse solution to AWS The company also has an AWS Direct Conned 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?

Question61: A company runs a web-based portal that provides users with global breaking news local alerts, and weather updates The portal delivers each user a personalized view by using a mixture of static and dynamic content Content is served over HTTPS through an API server running on an Amazon EC2 instance behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The company wants the portal to provide this content to its users across the world as quickly as possible How should a solutions architect design the application to ensure the LEAST amount of latency for all users?

Question62: A company allows users to upload and store photos through its website The website has users from all around the world. All images that users upload are stored in a centralized Amazon S3 bucket The company wants to increase the speed in which its entire user base can upload photos through the website.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question63: A company recently launched a new service that involves medical images The company scans the images and sends them from its on-premises data center through an AWS Direct Connect connection to Amazon EC2 instances After processing is complete, the images are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket A company requirement states that the EC2 instances cannot be accessible through the internet The EC2 instances run in a private subnet, which has a default route back to the on-premises data center for outbound internet access Usage of the new service is increasing rapidly A solutions architect must recommend a solution that meets the company's requirements and reduces the Direct Connect charges.
Which solution accomplishes these goals MOST cost-effectively?

Question64: A company is hosting its website by using Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load balancer across multiple Availability Zones. The instances run in an EC2 Scaling group. The website uses Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume to store product manuals for users to download. The company updates the product content often, so new instances launched by the Auto Scaling group often have data. It can take to 30 minutes for the new instances to receive all the updates. The updates also require 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 instances and that the architecture adjusts quickly to increased user demand. A solutions architect needs to meet these requirements without causing the company lo update Its application code or adjust its website What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?

Question65: A company has an ecommerce application that stores data in an on-premises SQL database. The company has decided to migrate this database to AWS. However, as part of the migration, the company wants to find a way to attain sub-millisecond responses to common read requests A solutions architect knows that the increase in speed is paramount and that a small percentage of stale data returned in the database reads is acceptable.
What should the solutions architect recommend'?

Question66: A company has an application that generates a large number of lies, 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?

Question67: A company is automating an order management application. The company's development team has decided to use SFTP to transfer and store the business-critical information files The files must be encrypted and must be highly available. The files also must be automatically deleted a month after they are created.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question68: A recent analysis of a company's IT expenses highlights the need to reduce backup costs The company s chief information officer wants to simplify the on-premises backup infrastructure and reduce costs by eliminating the use ol physical backup tapes The company must preserve the existing investment in the on-premises backup applications and workflows What should a solutions architect recommend''

Question69: A company provides an API to its users trial automates inquires for tax computations based on item prices.
The company experiences a larger number of inquiries during the holiday season only that cause slower response times. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that is scalable and elastic.
What should the solution architect do lo accompli this?

Question70: A company is running an application on AWS to process weather sensor data that is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. Three batch jobs run hourly to process the data in the S3 bucket for different purposes. The company wants to reduce the overall processing time by running. The three applications in parallel using an event-based approach.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question71: A company wants to track its daily AWS resource usage to avoid reaching service quotas unexpectedly The company needs to receive notifications when any service quota is exceeded Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)

Question72: A company runs an application on a group of Amazon Linux EC2 instances. For compliance reasons, the company must retain all application log files for 7 years. The log files will be analyzed by a reporting tool that must be able to access all the files concurrently.
Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question73: A company wants to migrate an on-premises data center to AWS. The data canter hosts an SFTP server that stores its data on an NFS-based file system. The server holds 200 GB of data that needs to be transferred. The server must be hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance that uses an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system When combination of steps should a solutions architect take to automate this task? (Select TWO )

Question74: A company plans to store sensitive user data on Amazon S3 internal security compliance requirement mandate encryption of data before secured it to Amazon S3.
What should a solutions architect recommend to safely these requirements?

Question75: A company is building a website that relies on reading and writing to an Amazon DynamoDB database The website experiences high traffic during normal business hours, but the traffic declines drastically overnight and during weekends The company is concerned about operating costs Which solution will meet the website's traffic demands MOST cost-effectively?

Question76: 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?

Question77: A development team needs to host a website that will be accessed by other teams. The website contents consist of HTML. CSS, client-side JavaScript, and images Which method is the MOST cost-effective for hosting the website?

Question78: A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new application that is being deployed on AWS.
The application's users will interactively download and upload files. Files that are more than 90 days old will be accessed less frequently than newer files, but all files need to be instantly available. The solutions architect must ensure that the application can scale to store petabytes of data with maximum durability.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question79: A company is building applications in containers The company wants to migrate its on-premises development and operations services from its on-premises data center to AWS Management states that production systems must be cloud agnostic and use the same configuration and administrative tools across all production systems A solutions architect needs to design a managed solution that will align with open-source software Which solution meets these requirements?

Question80: A company wants to improve the availability and performance of its hybrid application. The application consists of a stateful TCP-based workload hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in different AWS Regions and a stateless UDP-based workload hosted on premises.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to improve availability and performance?
(Select TWO.)

Question81: A solutions architect is designing the storage architecture tor a new web application used for storing and viewing engineering drawings All application components will be deployed on the AWS infrastructure.
The application design must support caching to minimize the amount of time that users wait for the engineering drawings to load The application must be able to store petabytes of data.
Which combination of storage and caching should the solutions architect use?

Question82: A company's web application is running on Amazon EC2 instances behind an application Load Balancer. The company changed its policy., which now requires the application to be accessed from one specific country only.
Which configuration will meet this requirement?

Question83: A company is hosting a three-tier ecommerce application in the AWS Cloud. The company hosts the website on Amazon S3 and integrates the website with an API that handles sales requests. The company hosts the API on three Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The API consists of static and dynamic front-end content along with backend workers that process sales requests asynchronously.
The company is expecting a significant and sudden increase in the number of sales requests during events for the launch of new products What should a solutions architect recommend to ensure that all the requests are processed successfully?

Question84: A company runs an internal browser-based application The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The Auto Scaling group scales up to 20 instances during work hours but scales down to 2 instances overnight Staff are complaining that the application is very slow when the day begins although it runs well by mid-morning.
How should the scaling be changed to address the staff complaints and keep costs to a minimum'?

Question85: 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?

Question86: A company serves a multilingual website from a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) This architecture is currently running in the us-west-1 Region but is exhibiting high request latency for users located in other parts of the world The website needs to serve requests quickly and efficiently regardless of a user's location However the company does not want to recreate the existing architecture across multiple Regions.
How should a solutions architect accomplish this?

Question87: A company has a large Microsoft SharePoint deployment running on-premises that requires Microsoft Windows shared file storage The company wants to migrate this workload to the AWS Cloud and is considering various storage options The storage solution must be highly available and integrated with Active Directory for access control Which solution will satisfy these requirements?

Question88: A company's application is running on Amazon EC2 instances within an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancer Based on the application's history the company anticipates a spike in traffic during a holiday each year A solutions architect must design a strategy to ensure that the Auto Scaling group proactively increases capacity to minimize any performance impact on application users.
Which solution will meet these requirements'?

Question89: 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?

Question90: A company hosts a marketing website in an on-premises data center. The website consists of static documents and runs on a single server. An administrator updates the website content infrequently and uses an SFTP client to upload new documents.
The company decides to host its website on AWS and to use Amazon CloudFront. The company's solutions architect creates a CloudFront distribution. The solutions architect must design the most cost-effective and resilient architecture for website hosting to serve as the CloudFront origin Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question91: A company has three AWS accounts Management Development and Production. These accounts use AWS services only in the us-east-1 Region All accounts have a VPC with VPC Flow Logs configured to publish data to an Amazon S3 bucket in each separate account For compliance reasons the company needs an ongoing method to aggregate all the VPC flow logs across all accounts into one destination S3 bucket in the Management account.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question92: A company is planning to migrate its virtual server-based workloads to AWS The company has internet-facing load balancers backed by application servers The application servers rely on patches from an internet-hosted repository Which services should a solutions architect recommend be hosted on the public subnet? (Select TWO.)

Question93: A company maintains about 300 TB in Amazon S3 Standard storage month after month The S3 objects are each typically around 50 GB in size and are frequently replaced with multipart uploads by their global application The number and size of S3 objects remain constant but the company's S3 storage costs are increasing each month How should a solutions architect reduce costs in this situation?

Question94: A large international university has deployed all of its compute services in the AWS Cloud. These services include Amazon EC2. Amazon RDS. and Amazon DynamoDB. The university currently relies on many custom scripts to back up its infrastructure. However, the university wants to centralize management and automate data backups as much as possible by using AWS native options.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question95: A company that operates a web application on premises is preparing to launch a newer version of the application on AWS The company needs to route requests to either the AWS-hosted or the on-premises-hosted application based on the URL query string The on-premises application Is not available from the Internet, and a VPN connection Is established between Amazon VPC and the company's data center. The company wants to use an Application Load Balancer (ALB) for this launch Which solution meets these requirements''

Question96: 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?

Question97: A company recently migrated a message processing system to AWS. The system receives messages into an ActiveMQ queue running on an Amazon EC2 instance. Messages are processed by a consumer application running on Amazon EC2. The consumer application processes the messages and writes results to a MySQL database funning on Amazon EC2. The company wants this application to be highly available with tow operational complexity Which architecture otters the HGHEST availability?

Question98: A social media company is building a feature tor its website. The feature will give users the ability to upload photos. The company expects significant increases in demand during large events and must ensure that the website can handle the upload traffic from users.
Which solution meets these requirements with the MOST scalability?

Question99: 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?

Question100: A company needs a backup strategy for its three-tier stateless web application The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group with a dynamic scaling policy that is configured to respond to scaling events The database tier runs on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL The web application does not require temporary local storage on the EC2 instances The company's recovery point objective (RPO) is 2 hours The backup strategy must maximize scalability and optimize resource utilization for this environment Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question101: A company is planning to host its compute-intensive applications on Amazon EC2 instances. The majority of the network traffic will be between these applications The company needs a solution that minimizes latency and maximizes network throughput The underlying hardware for the EC2 instances must not be shared with any other company Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question102: 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 in
1 week
What should a solutions architect do to minimize the anticipated server load?

Question103: A company wants to move from many standalone AWS accounts to a consolidated, multi-account architecture.
The company plans to create many new AWS accounts for different business units The company needs to authenticate access to these AWS accounts by using a centralized corporate directory service Which combination of actions should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements? (Select TWO )

Question104: A company needs the ability to analyze the log files of its proprietary application The logs are stored in JSON format in an Amazon S3 bucket Queries will be simple and will run on-demand A solutions architect needs to perform the analysis with minimal changes to the existing architecture What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Question105: 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 analysis solution that uses a single S3 bucket Logs must not leave us-west-2. and the company wants to incur minimal operational overhead.
Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?

Question106: 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 the 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?

Question107: A company recently announced the deployment of its retail website to a global audience. The website runs on multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones.
The company wants to provide its customers with different versions of content based on the devices that the customers use to access the website.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements7 (Select TWO.)

Question108: A solutions architect is optimizing a website for an upcoming musical event Videos of the performances will be streamed in real time and then will be available on demand The event is expected to attract a global online audience Which service will improve the performance of both the real-time and on-demand streaming?

Question109: A solutions architect Is designing a new API using Amazon API Gateway that will receive requests from users. The volume of requests is highly variable: several hours can pass without receiving a single request. The data processing will take place asynchronously, but should be completed within a few seconds after a request la made.
Which compute service should the solutions architect have the API invoke to deliver the requirements at the lowest cost?

Question110: 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 m-memory database storage solution that performs faster and provides high availability using data replication.
Which database should a solutions architect recommend?

Question111: A company runs an application on an Amazon EC2 instance. The application frequently writes and reads tens of thousands of intermediate computation results to disk To finish within the allowed duration, the application must be able to complete all intermediate computations with sustained low latency.
Which Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume type should a solutions architect attach to the EC2 instance to meet these requirements?

Question112: 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?

Question113: A company is migrating a Linux-based web server group to AWS. The web servers must access files in a shared file store for some content. The company must not make any changes to the application.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question114: A website runs a web application that receives a burst of traffic each day at noon. The users upload new pictures and context daily, but have complaining of timeout. The architect uses Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups, and the custom application consistently takes 1 minutes to initiate upon boot up before responding to user requests.
How should a solutions architect redesign the architect to better respond to changing traffic?

Question115: 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?

Question116: 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'?

Question117: A company is running a web-based game in two Availability Zones in the us-west-2 Region The web servers use an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in public subnets The ALB has an SSL certificate from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) with a custom domain name The game is written in JavaScript and runs entirely in a user's web browser.
The game is increasing in popularity in many countries around the world The company wants to update the application architecture and optimize costs without compromising performance.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question118: A company is migrating to 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?

Question119: A company runs a stateless web application in production on a group of Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application experiences heavy usage during an 8-hour period each business day. Application usage is moderate and steady overnight Application usage is low during weekends.
The company wants to minimize its EC2 costs without affecting the availability of the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question120: A company has applications that are deployed in multiple AWS Regions. The applications use an architecture that is based on Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). and Amazon DynamoDB The company lacks a mechanism for centralized data backup. A solutions architect must centralize data backup with the least possible operational effort.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question121: A company is developing a new online gaming application. The application will run on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple AWS Regions and will have a high number of globally distributed users A solutions architect must design the application to optimize network latency for the users.
Which actions should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question122: A company is migrating Us applications to AWS Currently applications that run on premises generate hundreds of terabytes of data that is stored on a shared file system The company Is running an analytics application in the cloud that runs hourly to generate Insights from this data The company needs a solution to handle the ongoing data transfer between the on-premises shared file system and Amazon S3 The solution also must be able to handle occasional interruptions m internet connectivity Which solution should the company use for the data transfer to meet these requirements?

Question123: A company has several Amazon EC2 instances set up m a private subnet for security reasons. These instances host applications that read and write large amounts of data to end from Amazon S3 regularly. Currently subnet routing directs all the traffic destined for the internet through a NAT gateway. The company wants to optimize the overall coat without impacting the ability of the application to communication Amazon S3 or the outside internet.
What should a solutions architect do to optimize costs?

Question124: 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.)

Question125: A company is experiencing sudden increases in demand. The company needs to provision large Amazon EC2 instances from an Amazon Machine image (AMI) The instances will run m an Auto Scaling group. The company needs a solution that provides minimum initialization latency to meet the demand.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question126: A company's application is running on Amazon EC2 instances in 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 )

Question127: A solutions architect It designing a VPC with public and private subnets. The VPC and subnets use IPv4 CIDR blocks. There is one public subnet and one private subnet in each of three Availability Zones (AZs) for high availability An internet gateways used to provide internet access for the public subnets. The private subnets require access to the internet to allow Amazon BC2 Instances to download software updates.
What should the solutions architect do to enable internet access for the private subnets?

Question128: A company wants to migrate its MySQL database from on premises to AWS. The company recently experienced a database outage that significantly impacted the business To ensure this does not happen again the company wants a reliable database solution on AWS that minimizes data loss and stores every transaction on at least two nodes Which solution meets these requirements?

Question129: A company has a web application that users access from around the world The company has web servers in multiple AWS Regions to support the traffic A solutions architect must configure an Amazon Route 53 routing policy to send traffic to only the active web servers Which configuration meets this requirement?

Question130: A solution architect at a company is designing the architecture for a two-tiered web application. The web application is composed of an internet facing application load balancer that forwards traffic to an auto scaling group of amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances must be able to access a database that runs on Amazon RDS.
The company has requested a defence-in-depth approach to the network layout. The company does not want to rely solely on security groups or network ACLs. Only the minimum resources that are necessary should be routable from the internet.
Which network design should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question131: 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?

Question132: A company observes an increase in Amazon EC2 costs in its most recent bill The billing team notices unwanted vertical scaling of instance types for a couple of EC2 instances A solutions architect needs to create a graph comparing the last 2 months of EC2 costs and perform an in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of the vertical scaling How should the solutions architect generate the information with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question133: A company has an application in which users create a large number of files The company plans to migrate the application from its on-premises data center to AWS Currently, the application uploads the files to a shared storage system A separate fleet of servers then processes the files Access to the files is controlled through Linux file system permissions The company needs to migrate the fleet of servers to Amazon EC2 instances The company must maximize storage scalability and durability without changing the code of the existing application Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question134: 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 recommend1?

Question135: A company stores use' data in AWS The data is used continuously with peak usage during business hours Access patterns vary with some data not being used for months at a time A solutions architect must choose a cost-effective solution that maintains the highest level of durability while maintaining high availability.
Which storage solution meets these requirements?

Question136: 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 identity 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''

Question137: A company is deploying an application that processes large quantities of data in batches as needed. The company plans to use Amazon EC2 instances for the workload. The network architecture must support a highly scalable solution and prevent groups of nodes from sharing the same underlying hardware.
Which combination of network solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question138: A company wants to design its cloud architecture so that its workloads are resilient, can consistently perform their intended functions correctly, and can recover from failure quickly Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework does this architecture represent?

Question139: A company is using a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances to ingest data from on-premises data sources. The data is in JSON format and Ingestion rates can be as high as 1 MB/s. When an EC2 instance is rebooted, the data in-flight is lost. The company's data science team wants to query Ingested data In near-real time.
Which solution provides near-real -time data querying that is scalable with minimal data loss?

Question140: A company is seeing access requests by some suspicious IP addresses The security team discovers the requests are from different IP addresses under the same CIDR range What should a solutions architect recommend to the team?

Question141: A solution architect is designing a new service behind API Gateway. The request pattern for the service will be unpredictable and can change suddenly from 0 request to over 500 per second. The total size of the data that needs to be persisted database is currently less than 1 GB unpredictable future growth. Date can be queried using sampling key -value request.
Which combination of AWS services would meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question142: A company needs to store data from its healthcare application. The application's data frequently changes. A new regulation requires audit access at all levels of the stored data.
The company hosts the application on an on-premises infrastructure that is running out of storage capacity. A solutions architect must securely migrate the existing data to AWS while satisfying the new regulation.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question143: A company is running a media store across multiple Amazon EC2 instances distnbuted 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?

Question144: A company is using a VPC that is provisioned with a 10.10.1.0/24 CIDR block Because of continued growth IP address space in this block might be depleted soon. A solutions architect must add more IP address capacity to the VPC Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question145: A company is developing a real-time multiplayer game that uses UDP for communications between the 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 solutions architect recommend?

Question146: A company has deployed an internal API in a VPC behind an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB). An application that consumes the API as a client is deployed in a VPC in a second account The application is deployed in private subnets behind a NAT gateway. When requests to the client application increase, the NAT gateway costs are higher than expected.
Which combination of architectural changes will reduce the NAT gateway costs? (Select TWO.)

Question147: A survey company has gathered data for several years from areas the United States. The company hosts the data in an Amazon S3 bucket that is 3 TB m size and growing. The company has started to share the data with a European marketing firm that has S3 buckets The company wants to ensure that its data transfer costs remain as low as possible Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question148: 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?

Question149: A company hosts more than 300 global websites and applications. The company requires a platform to analyze more than 30 TB of clickstream data each day.
What should a solutions architect do to transmit and process the clickstream data?

Question150: A company has 150 TB of archived image data stored on-premises that needs to be moved to the AWS Cloud within the next month. The company's current network connection allows up to 100 Mbps uploads for this purpose during the night only.
What is the MOST cost-effective mechanism to move this data and meet the migration deadline?

Question151: The following IAM policy is attached to an IAM group. This is the only policy applied to the group.


What are the effective IAM permissions of this policy for group members?

Question152: A company uses AWS to run all components of its three-tier web application. The company wants to automatically detect any potential security breaches within the environment The company wants to track any findings and notify administrators if a potential breach occurs Which solution meets these requirements?

Question153: A solutions architect is designing a solution to access a catalog of images and provide users with the ability to submit requests to customize images Image customization parameters wilt be in every request that is sent to an Amazon API Gateway API. The solution will generate tie customized images on demand. Users will receive a link that they can use to view or download their customized images. The solution must be highly available for viewing and customizing images What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements MOST cost effectively?

Question154: A company is using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer master keys (CMKs) to encrypt AWS Lambda environment variables A solutions architect needs to ensure that the required permissions are in place to decrypt and use the environment variables.
Which steps must the solutions architect take to implement the correct permissions? (Select TWO.)

Question155: An entertainment company is using Amazon DynamoDB to store media metadata. The application Is read intensive and experience delays The company does not have staff to handle additional operational overhead and needs to Improve the performance efficiency of DynamoDB without reconfiguring the application What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?

Question156: 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?

Question157: A company uses Amazon Redshift for to data warehouse. The company wants to ensure high durability for its data in case of any component failure. What should a solution architect recommend?

Question158: A large media company hosts a web application on AWS. The company wants to start caching confidential media files so that users around the 'world will have reliable access to the files. The content is stored in Amazon S3 buckets. The company must deliver the content quickly, regardless of where the requests originate geographically Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question159: A disaster response team is using drones to collect images of 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'?

Question160: 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 (NIB) 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?

Question161: A company has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains mission-critical data. The company wants to ensure this data is protected from accidental deletion. The data should still be accessible, and a user should be able to delete the data internationally.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Select TWO.)

Question162: A media company is evaluating the possibility ot moving rts systems to the AWS Cloud The company needs at least 10 TB of storage with the maximum possible I/O performance for video processing. 300 TB of very durable storage for storing media content, and 900 TB of storage to meet requirements for archival media that is not in use anymore Which set of services should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question163: A database is on an Amazon RDS MySQL 5.6 Multi-AZ 06 instance that experiences highly dynamic reads.
Application developers notice a significant slowdown when testing read performance from a secondary AWS Region. The developers want a solution that provider less than 1 second of read replication latency What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question164: 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?

Question165: 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?

Question166: A company receives structured and semi-structured data from various sources once every day A solutions architect needs to design a solution that leverages big data processing frameworks The data should be accessible using SQL queries and business intelligence tools What should the solutions architect recommend to build the MOST high-performing solution**

Question167: 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 conversion What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question168: A company is preparing to store confidential data in Amazon S3 For compliance reasons the data must be encrypted at rest Encryption key usage must be logged tor auditing purposes. Keys must be rotated every year.
Which solution meets these requirements and the MOST operationally efferent?

Question169: A company is deploying a two-tier web application in a VPC. The web tier is using an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with public subnets that span multiple Availability Zones. The database tier consists of an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in separate private subnets. The web tier requires access to the database to retrieve product information.
The web application is not working as intended. The web application reports that it cannot connect to the database. The database is confirmed to be up and running. All configurations for the network ACLs. security groups, and route tables are still in their default states.
What should a solutions architect recommend to fix the application?

Question170: A company runs a web application that is backed by Amazon RDS. A new database administrator caused data loss by accidentally editing information in a database table To help recover from this type of incident, the company wants the ability to restore the database to its state from 5 minutes before any change within the last
30 days.
Which feature should the solutions architect include in the design to meet this requirement?

Question171: 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-premises data center has a 1Gbps internet connection A solution 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

Question172: A company runs a three-tier web application in a VPC across multiple Availability Zones Amazon EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group tor the application tier The company needs to make an automated scaling plan that will analyze each resource's daily and weekly historical workload trends The configuration must scale resources appropriately according to both the forecast and live changes in utilization Which scaling strategy should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question173: A company develops web applications. As part of its development process, the company constantly launches and deletes Application Load Balancers (ALBs) in multiple AWS Regions.
The company wants to create an allow list on its firewall device. The allow list will contain the IP addresses of an the load balancers. A solutions architect needs a one-line, highly available solution that will accomplish that goal and will help reduce the number of IP addresses that the firewall needs to allow.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Question174: A solutions architect must design a highly available infrastructure for a website. The website is powered by Windows web servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The solutions architect must implement a solution that can mitigate a large-scale DDoS attack that originates from thousands of IP addresses. Downtime is not acceptable for the website.
Which actions should the solutions architect take to protect the website from such an attack? (Select TWO.)

Question175: A company asks a solutions architect to design a new network architecture for its on-premises applications.
The company has five application VPCs Each application VPC supports a different application. All the application VPCs need to reach a shared services VPC for enterprise services. The application VPCs need to communicate with each other.
The number of VPCs will increase as the company grows The company needs a solution that minimizes operational overhead during setup and maintenance Which solution will meet these requirements?