EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A company's security policy requires that all AWS API activity in its AWS accounts be recorded for 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?

Question2: 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?

Question3: A company is designing an application to run in a VPC on AWS The application consists of Amazon EC2 instances that tun in private subnets as part of an Auto Scaling group The application also includes a Network Load Balancer that extends across public subnets The application stores data in an Amazon RDS OB instance The company has attached a security group that is named "web-servers' to the EC2 instances. The company has attached a security group that is named "database" to the DB Instance.
How should a solutions architect configure the communication between the EC2 instances and the DB instance?

Question4: A company produces batch data that comes from different databases The company also produces live stream data from network sensors and application APIs. The company needs to consolidate all the data into one place for business analytics The company needs to process the incoming data and then stage the data in different Amazon S3 buckets Teams will later run onetime queries and import the data into a business intelligence tool to show key performance indicators (KPIs).
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select TWO.)

Question5: A company collects data from thousands of remote devices by using a RESTful web services application that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 instance receives the raw data, transforms the raw data, and stores all the data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The number of remote devices will increase into the millions soon. The company needs a highly scalable solution that minimizes operational overhead.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements9 (Select TWO.)

Question6: A company is running an online transaction processing (OLTP) workload on AWS This workload uses an unencrypted Amazon RDS DB instance in a Multi-AZ deployment Dairy database snapshots are taken from this instance What should a solutions architect do to ensure the database and snapshots are always encrypted moving forward?

Question7: 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''

Question8: A company hosts a three-tier web application that includes a PostgreSQL database The database stores the metadata from documents The company searches the metadata for key terms to retrieve documents that the company reviews in a report each month The documents are stored in Amazon S3 The documents are usually written only once, but they are updated frequency The reporting process takes a few hours with the use of relational queries The reporting process must not affect any document modifications or the addition of new documents.
What are the MOST operationally efficient solutions that meet these requirements? (Select TWO )

Question9: 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-prows toning 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?

Question10: 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?

Question11: A company runs a public three-Tier web application in a VPC The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances that run in private subnets need to communicate with a license server over the internet The company needs a managed solution that minimizes operational maintenance Which solution meets these requirements''

Question12: A company runs an AWS Lambda function in private subnets in a VPC The subnets have a default route to the internet through an Amazon EC2 NAT instance The Lambda function processes input data and saves its output as an object to Amazon S3 intermittently the Lambda function times out while trying to upload the object because of saturated traffic on the NAT instance's network The company wants to access Amazon S3 without traversing the internet Which solution will meet these requirements'

Question13: A solutions architect is investigating AWS file storage solutions that can be used with a company's on-premises Linux servers and applications. The company has an existing VPN connection set up between the company's VPC and its on-premises network.
Which AWS services should the solutions architect use? (Select TWO )

Question14: A company is running an application in a private subnet in a VPC win an attached internet gateway The company needs to provide the application access to the internet while restricting public access to the application The company does not want to manage additional infrastructure and wants a solution that is highly available and scalable Which solution meets these requirements?

Question15: 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?

Question16: 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?

Question17: 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 further reduce data transfer costs The company cannot modify the application's source code What should a solutions architect do to reduce costs?

Question18: An image hosting company uploads its large assets to Amazon S3 Standard buckets. The company uses multipart upload in parallel by using S3 APIs and overwrites if the same object is uploaded again. For the first
30 days after upload, the objects will be accessed frequently. The objects will be used less frequently after 30 days, but the access patterns for each object will be inconsistent. The company must optimize its S3 storage costs while maintaining high availability and resiliency of stored assets.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question19: A company runs a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances are in private subnets. A solutions architect implements an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB) and specifies the EC2 instances as the target group. However, the internet traffic is not reaching the EC2 instances.
How should the solutions architect reconfigure the architecture to resolve this issue9

Question20: A company uses Amazon API Gateway to manage its REST APIs that third-party service providers access.
The company must protect the REST APIs from SQL injection and cross site scripting attacks What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

Question21: 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?

Question22: A company is running a critical business application on an Amazon EC2 instance The EC2 instance is hosting an Apache web server and a MySQL database server The application serves static content and dynamic content to end users The application is experiencing severe availability issues because of heavy user demand The company needs a solution that resolves the availability issues with the least operational effort and the least change to the application What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question23: 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?

Question24: 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.)

Question25: 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?

Question26: 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?

Question27: A company has migrated an application to Amazon EC2 Linux instances. One of these EC2 instances runs several 1-hour tasks on a schedule. These tasks were written by different teams and have no common programming language. The company is concerned about performance and scalability while these tasks run on a single instance. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to resolve these concerns.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question28: 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?

Question29: 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?

Question30: A company is planning to deploy a business-critical application in the AWS Cloud. The application requires durable storage with consistent, low-latency performance Which type of storage should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question31: A computer is reviewing a recent migration of a three-tier application to a VPC. The security team discover that the principle of lest privilege is not being applied to Amazon EC2 security group ingress and egress rules between the application tiers.
What should a solution architect do to connect issue?

Question32: 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?

Question33: A company wants to migrate its 1 PB on-premises image repository to AWS. The images will be used by a serverless web application Images stored in the repository are rarely accessed, but they must be immediately available Additionally, the images must be encrypted at rest and protected from accidental deletion Which solution meets these requirements?

Question34: A company is planning to move its data to an Amazon S3 bucket. The data must be encrypted when it is stored in the S3 bucket. Additionally, the encryption key must be automatically rotated every year.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

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 an application that provides marketing services to stores. The services are based on previous purchased by store customers. The stores upload transaction data to the company through SFTP, and the data is processed an analysed 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 file that contains personality identifiable information (PII) that should not have included. The company wants administrators to be alerted if PII is shared again. The company also wants to automate remediation.

Question37: A company has an on-premises MySQL database used by the global tales team with infrequent access patterns.
The sales team requires the database to have minimal downtime. A database administrate wants to migrate this database to AWS without selecting a particular instance type in anticipation of more users In the future.
Which service should a solutions architect recommend?

Question38: A solutions architect is designing a workload that will store hourly energy consumption by business tenants in a building The sensors will feed a database through HTTP requests that will add up usage for each tenant The solutions architect must use managed services when possible The workload will receive more features in the future as the solutions architect adds independent components Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question39: A company runs a photo processing application mat 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 lees and needs to implement a solution to reduce these costs How can the solutions architect meet this requirement?

Question40: 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?

Question41: A company wants to perform an online migration of active datasets from an on-premises NFS server to an Amazon S3 bucket that is named DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET Data integrity verification is required during the transfer and at the end of the transfer. The data also must he encrypted A solutions architect is using an AWS solution to migrate the data.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question42: A company wants to improve the availability and performance of its hybrid application. The application consists of a stateful TCP-based workload hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in different AWS Regions and a stateless UDP-based workload hosted on premises.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to improve availability and performance?
(Select TWO.)

Question43: A company wants to monitor its AWS costs for financial review. The cloud operations team is designing an architecture in the AWS Organizations management account to query AWS Cost and Usage Reports for all member accounts. The team must run this query once a month and provide a detailed analysis of the bill.
Which solution is the MOST scalable and cost-effective way to meet these requirements?

Question44: A company has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains confidential information in its production AWS account The company has turned on AWS CloudTrail for the account. The account sends a copy of its logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. The company has configured the S3 bucket to log read and write data events.
A company auditor discovers that some objects in the S3 bucket have been deleted A solutions architect must provide the auditor with information about who deleted the objects What should the solutions architect do to provide this information?

Question45: A disaster relief company is designing a new solution to analyze real-time csv data. The data is collected by a network of thousands of research stations met are distributed across the world. The data volume is consistent and constant, and the size of each data We is 512 KB. The company needs to stream the data and analyze the data in real time.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question46: A company is using Amazon CloudFront with lis website. The company has enabled logging on the CloudFront distribution, and togs are saved in one of the company's Amazon S3 buckets The company needs to perform advanced analyses on the logs and build visualizations What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements'?

Question47: 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.)

Question48: A company needs to ingested and handle large amounts of streaming data that its application generates. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and sends data to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. which is contained wild default settings. Every other day the application consumes the data and writes the data to an Amazon S3 bucket for business intelligence (BI) processing the company observes that Amazon S3 is not receiving all the data that trio application sends to Kinesis Data Streams.
What should a solutions architect do to resolve this issue?

Question49: A company is running a photo hosting service in the us-east-1 Region. The service enables users across multiple countries to upload and view photos. Some photos are heavily viewed tor months, and others are viewed for less than a week. The application allows uploads of up to 20 MB for each photo. The service uses the photo metadata to determine which photos to display to each user.
Which solution provides the appropriate user access MOST cost-effectively?

Question50: A company runs multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances in a VPC across two Availability Zones The instances host applications that use a hierarchical directory structure The applications need to read and write rapidly and concurrently to shared storage.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question51: A company is building a shopping application on AWS. The application offers a catalog that changes once each month and needs to scale with traffic volume. The company wants the lowest possible latency from the application. Data from each user's shopping cart needs to be highly available. User session data must be available even if the user is disconnected and reconnects.
What should a solutions architect do to ensure that the shopping cart data is preserved at all times?

Question52: A company is storing sensitive user information in an Amazon S3 bucket The company wants to provide secure access to this bucket from the application tier running on Ama2on EC2 instances inside a VPC Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Select TWO.)

Question53: 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 be read as 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 packages might be tracked on other days Tracking will need to be searchable by tracking ID customer ID and order ID Orders older than 1 month no longer need to be tracked.
What should a solutions architect recommend to accomplish this with minimal total cost of ownership?

Question54: 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?

Question55: 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?

Question56: A company has five organizational units (OUS) as part of its organization in AWS Organization. Each OU correlate to the five business that the company owns. The company research and development R&D business is separating from the company and will need its own organization. A solutions architect creates a separate new management account for this purpose.

Question57: A company recently expanded globally and wants to make its application accessible to users in those geographic locations. The application is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group. The company needs the ability to shift traffic from resources in one region to another.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question58: 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?

Question59: 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?

Question60: The financial application at a company stores monthly reports in an Amazon S3 bucket. The vice president of finance has mandated that ail access to these reports be logged and that any modifications to the tog files be detected.
Which actions can a solutions architect take to meet these requirements?

Question61: An application that is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances needs to access an Amazon S3 bucket Traffic must not traverse the internet How should a solutions architect configure access to meet these requirements?

Question62: A company has a highly dynamic batch processing job that uses many Amazon EC2 instances to complete it The job is stateless in nature, can be started and stopped at any given time with no negative impact, and typically takes upwards of 60 minutes total to complete The company has asked a solutions architect to design a scalable and cost-effective solution that meets the requirements of the job.
What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question63: A company needs to migrate a legacy application from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud because of hardware capacity constraints. The application runs 24 hours a day. & days a week,. The application database storage continues to grow over time.
What should a solution architect do to meet these requirements MOST cost-affectivity?

Question64: A company has a stateless web application that runs on AWS Lambda functions that are invoked by Amazon API Gateway. The company wants to deploy the application across multiple AWS Regions to provide Regional failover capabilities.
What should a solutions architect do to route traffic to multiple Regions?

Question65: 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?

Question66: A solutions architect needs to ensure that API calls to Amazon DynamoDB from Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC do not traverse the internet What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this? (Select TWO.)

Question67: 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?

Question68: A company has a web application that is based ornavaan^PH^Tnecompan^lanstomove the application from on premises to AWS The company needs the ability to test new site features frequently The company also needs a highly available and managed solution that requires minimum operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question69: 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?

Question70: A company has a dynamic web application hosted on two Amazon EC2 instances The company has its own SSL certificate which is on each instance to perform SSL termination.
There has been an increase in traffic recently, and the operations team determined that SSL encryption and decryption is causing the compute capacity of the web servers to reach their maximum limit.
What should a solutions architect do to increase the application's performance^

Question71: 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?

Question72: 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?

Question73: A news company that has reporters ail over the world is hosting its broadcast system on AWS The reporters send live broadcasts to the broadcast system The reporters use software on their phones to send live streams through the Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP).
A solutions architect must design a solution that gives the reporters the ability to send the highest quality streams. The solution must provide accelerated TCP connections back to the broadcast system.
What should the solutions a use to meet these requirements?

Question74: 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?

Question75: 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?

Question76: A bicycle sharing company is developing a multi-tier architecture to track the location of its bicycles during peak operating hours The company wants to use these data points in its existing analytics platform A solutions architect must determine the most viable multi-tier option to support this architecture The data points must be accessible from the REST API.
Which action meets these requirements for storing and retrieving location data?

Question77: 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?

Question78: A company runs a static website through its on-premises data center. The company has multiple servers that handle all of its traffic, but on busy days, services are interrupted and the website becomes unavailable. The company wants to expand its presence globally and plans to triple its website traffic.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question79: 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?

Question80: A company has a website hosted on AWS The website is behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that is configured to handle HTTP and HTTPS separately. The company wants to forward all requests to the website so that the requests will use HTTPS.
What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Question81: A company wants to run applications in container in the AWS Cloud. Those applications arc stateless and can tolerate disruptions. What should a solutions architect do to meet those requirements?
What should a solution architect do to meet these requirements?

Question82: A company is running a multi-tier web application on AWS. The application runs its database on Amazon Aurora MySQL. The application and database tiers are in the us-easily Region.
A database administrator who monitors the Aurora DB cluster finds that an intermittent increase in read traffic is creating high CPU utilization on the read replica. The result is increased read latency for the application.
The memory and disk utilization of the DB instance are stable throughout the event of increased latency.
What should a solutions architect do to improve the read scalability?

Question83: 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?

Question84: A solutions architect is creating a new VPC design There are two public subnets for the load balancer, two private subnets for web servers and two private subnets for MySQL The web servers use only HTTPS The solutions architect has already created a security group tor the load balancer allowing port 443 from 0 0 0 0/0 Company policy requires that each resource has the teas! access required to still be able to perform its tasks Which additional configuration strategy should the solutions architect use to meet these requirements?

Question85: 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?

Question86: 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?

Question87: A company stores can wordings on a monthly basis Users access lie recorded files randomly within 1year of recording, but users rarely access the files after 1year. The company wants to optimize its solution by allowing only files that ant newer than 1year old to be queried and retrieved as quickly as possible. A delay in retrieving older fees is acceptable Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question88: 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

Question89: A solutions architect plans to convert a company's monolithic web application into a multi-tier application The company wants to avoid managing its own Infrastructure The minimum requirements for the web application are high availability, scalability, and regional low latency during peak hours The solution should also store and retrieve data with millisecond latency using the application's API.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question90: Application developers have noticed that a production application is very slow when business reporting users run large production reports against the Amazon RDS instance backing the application The CPU and memory utilization metrics for the RDS instance do not exceed 60% while the reporting queries are running The business reporting users must be able to generate reports without affecting the application's performance.
Which action will accomplish this?

Question91: A solution architect is designing an application for a two-step order across. The first step is synhronous 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 exacity once and in the order in which they are received.
How should the solutions architect integrate these components?

Question92: A company is implementing a new business application The application runs on two Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon S3 bucket for document storage A solutions architect needs to ensure that the EC?
instances can access the S3 bucket
What should the solutions architect do to moot this requirement?

Question93: A company hosts a multiplayer gaming application on AWS. The company wants the application to read data with sub-millisecond latency and run one-time queries on historical data.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question94: An airline that is based in the United States provides services for routes in North America and Europe. The airline is developing a new read-intensive application that customers can use to find flights on either continent.
The application requires strong read consistency and needs scalable database capacity to accommodate changes in user demand. The airline needs the database service to synchronize with the least possible latency between the two continents and to provide a simple failover mechanism to a second AWS Region.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question95: A company uses an Amazon S3 bucket to store static images for its website. The company configured permissions to allow access to Amazon S3 objects by privileged users only. What should a solutions architect do to protect against data loss? (Select TWO.)

Question96: A solution architect is creating a new Amazon CloudFront distribution for an application Some of Ine information submitted by users is sensitive. The application uses HTTPS but needs another layer" of security The sensitive information should be protected throughout the entire application stack end access to the information should be restricted to certain applications Which action should the solutions architect take?

Question97: 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?

Question98: A company has a production web application in which users upload documents through a web interlace or a mobile app. According to a new regulatory requirement, new documents cannot be modified or deleted after they are stored.
What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Question99: 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?

Question100: A company wants to use high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure on AWS for financial risk modelling. 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?

Question101: A company's ecommerce website has unpredictable traffic and uses AWS Lambda functions to directly access a private Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance. The company wants to maintain predictable database performance and ensure that the Lambda invocations do not overload the database with too many connections.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question102: 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?

Question103: A company has an automobile sales website that stores its listings in a database on Amazon RDS When an automobile is sold the listing needs to be removed from the website and the data must be sent to multiple target systems.
Which design should a solutions architect recommend?

Question104: A company's reporting system delivers hundreds of csv files to an Amazon S3 bucket each day The company must convert these files to Apache Parquet format and must store the files in a transformed data bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?

Question105: A company is preparing to deploy a data lake on AWS A solutions architect must define the encryption strategy for data at rest in Amazon S3. The company's security policy states
* Keys must be rotated every 90 days
* Strict separation of duties between key users and key administrators must be implemented
* Auditing key usage must be possible
What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question106: 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?

Question107: A company runs an application that receives data from thousands of geographically dispersed remote devices that use UDP The application processes the data immediately and sends a message back to the device if necessary No data is stored.
The company needs a solution that minimizes latency for the data transmission from the devices. The solution also must provide rapid failover to another AWS Region Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question108: A company runs an on-premises application that is powered by a MySQL database The company is migrating the application to AWS to Increase the application's elasticity and availability The current architecture shows heavy read activity on the database during times of normal operation Every 4 hours the company's development team pulls a full export of the production database to populate a database in the staging environment During this period, users experience unacceptable application latency The development team is unable to use the staging environment until the procedure completes A solutions architect must recommend replacement architecture that alleviates the application latency issue The replacement architecture also must give the development team the ability to continue using the staging environment without delay Which solution meets these requirements?

Question109: A company is planning to use Amazon S3 to store images uploaded by its users. The images must be encrypted at rest in Amazon S3. The company does not want to spend time managing and rotating the keys, but it does want to control who can access those keys.
What should a solutions architect use to accomplish this?

Question110: 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?

Question111: 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 for the first few days after creation The application data is shared across a cluster of Linux servers The company wants to reduce storage costs for the application.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question112: 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?

Question113: A company uses Application Load Balancers (ALBs) in different AWS Regions The ALBs receive inconsistent traffic that can spike and drop throughout the year The company's networking team needs to allow the IP addresses of the ALBs in the on-premises firewall to enable connectivity Which solution is the MOST scalable with minimal configuration changes?

Question114: A company has a Windows-based application that must be migrated to AWS. The application requires the use of a shared Windows Me system attached to multiple Amazon EC2 Windows instances that are deployed across multiple Availability Zones What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Question115: A solutions architect is designing a multi-Region disaster recovery solution (or an application that will provide public API access The application will use Amazon EC2 instances with a userdata script to load application code and an Amazon RDS for MySQL database The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is 3 hours and the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is 24 hours Which architecture would meet these requirements at the LOWEST cost/?

Question116: A company hosts a multi-tier web application on Amazon Linux Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones The company observes that the Auto Scaling group launches more On-Demand Instances when the application's end users access high volumes of static web content The company wants to optimize cost What should a solutions architect do to redesign the application MOST cost-effectively?

Question117: A company has several business systems that require access to data stored in a file share. The business systems will access the die share using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. The file share solution should be accessible from both of the company's legacy on-premises environments and with AWS Which services meet the business requirements? (Select TWO )

Question118: 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?

Question119: 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 share an Amazon Machine Image (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 customer master key (CMK) to 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?

Question120: A solutions architect needs to design a nighty available application consisting of web. application and database tiers HTTPS content delivery should be as close to the edge as possible with the least delivery time Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST secure?

Question121: A company has on-premises servers that run a relational database The database serves high-read traffic for users in different locations The company wants to migrate the database to AWS with the least amount of effort The database solution must support high availability and must not affect the company's current traffic flow Which solution meets these requirements?

Question122: A company is running a database on Amazon Aurora The database is idle every evening An application that performs extensive reads on the database experiences performance issues during morning hours when user traffic spikes. During these peak penods. the application receives timeout errors when reading from the database The company does not have a dedicated operations team and needs an automated solution to address the performance issues Which actions should a solutions architect take to automatically adjust to the increased read load on the database? (Select TWO )

Question123: 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?

Question124: A company has implemented a self-managed DNS solution on three Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB) in the us-west-2 Region Most of the company's users are located in the United States and Europe The company wants to improve the performance and availability of the solution by using an AWS Region in Europe The company launches and configures three EC2 instances in the eu-west-1 Region and adds the EC2 instances as targets for a new NLB Which solutions will allow traffic to be routed to all the EC2 instances? (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 is using a centralized AWS account to store log data in various Amazon S3 buckets A solutions architect needs to ensure that the data is encrypted at rest before the data is uploaded to the S3 buckets. The data also must be encrypted in transit.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question127: A company's security team requests that network traffic be captured in VPC Flow Logs The logs will be frequently accessed for 90 days and then accessed intermittently What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements when configuring the logs?

Question128: A solutions architect needs to design a network that will allow multiple Amazon EC2 instances to access a common data source used for mission-critical data that can be accessed by all the EC2 instances simultaneously. The solution must be highly scalable, easy to implement, and support the NFS protocol Which solution meets these requirements?

Question129: 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?

Question130: A company uses an Amazon S3 bucket as its data lake storage platform. The S3 bucket contains a massive amount of data that is accessed randomly by multiple teams and hundreds of applications The company wants to reduce me S3 storage costs and provide immediate availability for frequently accessed objects What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

Question131: A company wants to host a scalable web application on AWS The application will be accessed by users from different geographic regions of the world. Application users will be able to download and upload unique data up to gigabytes in size. The development team wants a cost-effective solution to minimize upload and download latency and maximize performance What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question132: A doctor's office is moving all of its patient data to the AWS Cloud The office needs to retain all the data indefinitely, but the data is rarely accessed after a year. The data must be immediately available during the first year However, to minimize cost, the office is willing to wait a day for data that is more than 1 year old to become available.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select TWO )

Question133: A company recently migrated a legacy application from an on-premises data center to AWS The application is running on an Amazon EC2 instance The EC2 instance is deployed in a private subnet in a VPC without inbound internet access The application support team requires SSH access to the operating system to perform periodic maintenance Which solution provides secure access with the LEAST operational effort?

Question134: 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 installed 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?

Question135: A global company hosts its web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The web application has static data and dynamic data. The company stores its static data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company wants to improve performance and reduce latency for the static data and dynamic data. The company is using its own domain name registered with Amazon Route 53.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question136: 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.)

Question137: 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?

Question138: 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?

Question139: A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances. that are part of an Auto Scaling group Traffic to the application increases substantially during business hours. A solutions architect needs to implement an Auto Scaling policy that addresses user latency concerns during periods of high traffic. The company does not want to provision more compute man is necessary What should me solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question140: A company is running several business applications in three separate VPCs within the us-east-1 Region. The applications must be able to communicate between VPCs. The applications also must be able to consistently send hundreds of gigabytes of data each day to a latency-sensitive application that runs in a single on-premises data center.
A solutions architect needs to design a network connectivity solution that maximizes cost-effectiveness.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question141: 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.)

Question142: An Amazon EC2 administrator created the following policy associated with an IAM group containing several users

What is the effect of this policy?

Question143: 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?

Question144: A company is investigating potential solutions to collect process, and store users' service usage data The company needs to create an analytics capability so that the company can use standard SQL queries to gather operational insights quickly. The solution must be highly available The solution also must ensure atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability (ACID) compliance in the data tier Which solution meets these requirements''

Question145: 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?

Question146: 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?

Question147: 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?

Question148: 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?

Question149: A company stores millions of objects in Amazon S3. The data is in JSON format and Apache Parquet format.
The data is partitioned and new objects are added daily. A solutions architect needs to create a solution so that employees can use SQL to perform one-time queries against all the data. The solution must avoid code changes and must minimize operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question150: A company wants to implement a disaster recovery plan for its primary on-premises file storage volume. The file storage volume is mounted from an Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) device on a local storage server. The file storage volume holds hundreds of terabytes (TB) of data.
The company wants to ensure that end users retain immediate access to all file types from the on-premises systems without experiencing latency.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of change to the company's existing infrastructure?

Question151: 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 company's IT security guidelines 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?

Question152: A company has a financial application that produces reports. The reports average 50 KB in size and are stored in Amazon S3. The reports are frequently accessed during the first week after production and must be stored for several years The reports must be retrievable within 6 hours Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively1?

Question153: A company is building a new furniture inventory application The company has deployed the application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones The EC2 instances run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in their VPC A solutions architect has observed that incoming traffic seems to favor one EC2 instance resulting in latency for some requests What should the solutions architect do to resolve this issue?

Question154: A company is planning to migrate to AWS. The network layout will include more than 1.000 VPCs in a single AWS Region The resources in the VPCs need to communicate with each other What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question155: A company is developing a file-sharing application that will use an Amazon S3 bucket for storage The company wants to serve all the files through an Amazon CloudFront distribution. The company does not want the files to be accessible through direct navigation to the S3 URL What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question156: A company has a stateless asynchronous application that runs in an Apache Hadoop cluster The application is invoked on demand to run extract, transform and load (ETL) jobs several limes a day A solutions architect needs to migrate this application to the AWS Cloud by designing an Amazon EMR cluster for the workload. The cluster must be available immediately to process jobs.
Which implementation meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question157: A company hosts a three-tier ecommerce application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) All ecommerce data is stored in an Amazon RDS for ManaDB Multi-AZ DB instance The company wants to optimize customer session management during transactions The application must store session data durably Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO )

Question158: A company is designing an internet-facing web application. The application runs on Amazon EC2 for Linux-based instances that store sensitive user data in Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instances The EC2 instances are in public subnets, and the RDS DB instances are in private subnets. The security team has mandated that the DB instances be secured against web-based attacks.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question159: 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?

Question160: A company needs to send large amounts of data from its data center to an Amazon S3 bucket on a regular basis. The data must be encrypted and must be transferred over a network that provides consistent bandwidth and low latency.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question161: A company has an application that processes customer of tiers. The company hosts the application on an Amazon EC2 instance that saves the orders to an Amazon Aurora database. Occasionally when traffic Is high, the workload does not process orders fast enough.
What should a solutions architect do to write the orders reliably to the database as quickly as possible?

Question162: A pharmaceutical company is developing a new drug. The volume of data that the company generates has grown exponentially over the past few months. The company's researchers regularly require a subset of the entire dataset to be immediately available with minimal lag. However, the entire dataset does not need to be accessed on a daily basis. All the data currently resides in on-premises storage arrays, and the company wants to reduce ongoing capital expenses.
Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question163: 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 )

Question164: 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?

Question165: A company is implementing new data retention policies for all databases that run on Amazon RDS DB instances. The company must retain daily backups for a minimum period of 2 years. The backups must be consistent and restorable.
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question166: 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?

Question167: A startup company is hosting a website for its customers on an Amazon EC2 instance. The website consists of a stateless python application and a MySQL database. The website serves only a small amount of traffic. The company is concerned about the reliability of the instance and needs to migrate to a highly available architecture. The company cannot modify the application code.
Which combination of actions should a solution architect take to achieve high availability for the website?
(Select TWO.)

Question168: 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?

Question169: 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?

Question170: A trucking company is deploying an application that will track the GPS coordinates of all the company's trucks The company needs a solution that will generate real-time statistics based on metadata lookups with high read throughput and microsecond latency The database must be fault tolerant and must minimize operational overhead and development effort.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question171: A company has a customer relationship management (CRM) application that stores data in an Amazon RDS DB instance that runs Microsoft SQL Server. The company's IT staff has administrative access to the database.
The database contains sensitive data. The company wants to ensure that the data is not accessible to the IT staff and that only authorized personnel can view the data.
What should a solutions architect do to secure the data?

Question172: A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new application being deployed on AWS. The process should run in parallel while adding and removing application nodes as needed based on the number of fobs to be processed. The processor application is stateless. The solutions architect must ensure that the application is loosely copied and the job items are durably stored Which design should the solutions architect use?

Question173: 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?

Question174: A company is rebelling its data canter and wants to securely transfer 50 TB of data lo AWS *ilhm 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?

Question175: A rapidly growing ecommerce company is running its workloads in a single AWS Region. A solutions architect must create a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that includes a different AWS Region. The company wants its database to be up to date in the DR Region with the least possible latency. The remaining infrastructure in the DR Region needs to run at reduced capacity and must be able to scale up if necessary.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LOWEST recovery time objective (RTO)?

Question176: 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.)

Question177: A company runs an infrastructure monitoring service. The company is building a new feature that will enable the service to monitor data in customer AWS accounts. The new feature will call AWS APIs m customer accounts to describe Amazon EC2 instances and read Amazon CloudWatch metrics What should the company do to obtain access to customer accounts in the MOST secure way?

Question178: A company is running an ASP.NET MVC application on a single Amazon EC2 instance. A recent increase in application traffic is causing slow response times for users during lunch hours. The company needs to resolve this concern with the least amount of configuration.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question179: A leasing company generates and emails PDF statements every month for all its customers. Each statement is about 400 KB in size Customers can download their statements from the website for up to 30 days from when the statements were generated At the end of their 3-year lease, the customers are emailed a ZIP file that contains all the statements What is the MOST cost-effective storage solution for this situation?

Question180: A company has two AWS accounts in the same AWS Region. One account is a publisher account, and the other account is a subscriber account Each account has its own Amazon S3 bucket.
An application puts media objects into the publisher account's S3 bucket The objects are encrypted with server-side encryption with customer-provided encryption keys (SSE-C). The company needs a solution that will automatically copy the objects to the subscriber's account's S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question181: 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?

Question182: A manufacturing company wants to implement predictive maintenance on its machinery equipment. The company will install thousands of loT sensors that will send data to AWS in real time. A solutions architect is tasked with implementing a solution that will receive events in an ordered manner for each machinery asset and ensure that data is saved for further processing at a later time Which solution would be MOST efficient^

Question183: A company runs batch processes on Amazon EC2 instances that are needed only during business hours These processes must preserve the data at alt times but the speed of processing is not important The company needs to run these processes in the MOST cost-effective manner Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question184: A company hosts multiple production applications. One of the applications consists of resources from Amazon EC2. AWS Lambda. Amazon RDS. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) across multiple AWS Regions. All company resources are tagged with a tag name of "application" and a value that corresponds to each application. A solutions architect must provide the quickest solution for identifying all of the tagged components.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question185: A company's order fulfillment service uses a MySQL database The database needs to support a large number of concurrent queries and transactions Developers are spending time patching and tuning the database This is causing delays in releasing new product features The company wants to use cloud-based services to help address this new challenge The solution must allow the developers to migrate the database with little or no code changes and must optimize performance Which service should a solutions architect use to meet these requirements'?

Question186: A company has a corporate network on premises and has three VPCs in the AWS Cloud. The company has one VPC each for development, test, and, production. The company wants its system administrators to security gain remote command-line access from the corporate network to Amazon EC2 instances in the VPCs.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question187: 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?

Question188: 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?

Question189: A company has an application that uses an Amazon OynamoDB table lew storage. A solutions architect discovers that many requests to the table are not returning the latest data. The company's users have not reported any other issues with database performance Latency is in an acceptable range.
Which design change should the solutions architect recommend?

Question190: 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 horn the database. The company uses two NAT instances to provide connectivity lo 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?

Question191: A company is migrating a large, mission-critical database to AWS. A solutions architect has decided to use an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance that Is deployed with 80,000 Provisioned IOPS for storage The solutions architect is using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to perform the data migration.
The migration is taking longer than expected, and the company wants to speed up the process. The company's network team has ruled out bandwidth as a limiting factor.
Which actions should the solutions architect take to speed up the migration? (Select TWO.)

Question192: A company has developed a new content-sharing application that runs on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The application runs on Amazon Linux Docker tasks that use the Amazon EC2 launch type.
The application requires a storage solution that has the following characteristics:
* Accessibility (or multiple ECS tasks through bind mounts
* Resiliency across Availability Zones
* Burstable throughput of up to 3 Gbps
* Ability to be scaled up over time
Which storage solution meets these requirements?

Question193: 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?

Question194: A company has an application that ingests incoming messages Dozens of other applications and microservices then quickly consume these messages The number of messages vanes drastically and sometimes increases suddenly to 100 000 each second. The company wants to decouple the solution and increase scalability.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question195: 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?

Question196: 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?

Question197: 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?

Question198: 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?

Question199: A company is hosting its website on Amazon S3 and is using Amazon CloudFront to cache content The company has an upcoming product launch An employee accidentally published marketing content to the website before the official release of the product The company needs to remove the marketing content from the website as quickly as possible Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question200: A company's order system sends requests from clients to Amazon EC2 instances The EC2 instances process the orders and then store the orders in a database on Amazon RDS. Users report that they must reprocess orders when the system fails. The company wants a resilient solution that can process orders automatically if a system outage occurs.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question201: 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?

Question202: A company needs to keep user transaction data in an Amazon DynamoDB table.
The company must retain the data for 7 years.
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

Question203: A company captures ordered clickstream data from multiple websites and uses batch processing to analyze the data. The company receives 100 million event records, all approximately 1 KB in size, each day. The company loads the data into Amazon Redshift each night, and business analysts consume the data.
The company wants to move toward near-real-time data processing for timely insights. The solution should process the streaming data while requiring the least possible operational overhead.
Which combination of AWS services will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select TWO.)

Question204: A company wants to move a multi-tiered application from on premises to the AWS Cloud to improve the application's performance. The application consists of application tiers that communicate with each other by way of Which solution moots these and is the MOST operationally efficient?

Question205: 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?

Question206: A company runs a shopping application lhat uses Amazon DynamoDB to store customer information. In case of data corruption, a solutions architect needs to design a solution that meets a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO> of 1 hour.
What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question207: 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?

Question208: 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?

Question209: A company build an application that gives users the ability to check in to places they visit, rank the places, and add reviews about their experiences. The application is successful and is experiencing a rapid increase in the number of users every month.
The company uses a single Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance for its database. The company fears that the database might not be able to handle the load for the upcoming month because the DB instance has activated alarms that are related to resource exhaustion.
A solutions architect must design a solution that prevents service interruptions at the database layer. The solutions architect also must minimize any changes to code.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question210: A company is developing a mobile game that streams score updates to a backend processor and then posts results on a leaderboard A solutions architect needs to design a solution that can handle large traffic spikes process the mobile game updates in order of receipt and store the processed updates in a highly available database The company also wants to minimize the management overhead required to maintain the solution What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question211: A solutions architect is designing a two-tier web application The application consists of a public-facing web tier hosted on Amazon EC2 in public subnets The database tier consists of Microsoft SQL Server running on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet Security is a high priority for the company How should security groups be configured in this situation? (Select TWO )

Question212: 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?

Question213: An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer The application performs best when the CPU utilization of the EC2 instances is at or near 40%.
What should a solutions architect do to maintain the desired performance across all instances in the group?

Question214: 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?

Question215: A company's database is hosted on an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster in the us-east-1 Region The database is 4 TB in size. The company needs to expand its disaster recovery strategy to the us-west-2 Region The company must have the ability to fail over to us-west-2 with a recovery time objective (RTO) of 15 minutes.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question216: 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?

Question217: A company is testing an application that runs on an Amazon EC2 Linux instance. The instance contains a data volume of 500 GB that consists of a single Amazon Elastic Block Store {Amazon EBS) General Purpose SSD (gp2) volume The application is now ready for production use and will be installed on multiple EC2 instances that run m an Auto Scaling group All instances need access to the data that was stored on the 500 GB volume. The company needs a highly available and fault-tolerant solution that does not introduce any significant changes to the applications code Which solution meets these requirements''

Question218: A company is running a popular social media website. The website gives users the ability to upload images to share with other users. The company wants to make sure that the images do not contain inappropriate content.
The company needs a solution that minimizes development effort.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question219: 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?

Question220: 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?