EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A company has a web-based map application that provides status information about ongoing repairs. The application sometimes has millions of users. Repair teams have a mobile app that sends current location and status in a JSON message to a REST-based endpoint.
Few repairs occur on most days. The company wants the application to be highly available and to scale when large numbers of repairs occur after nature disasters. Customer use the application most often during these times. The company does not want to pay for idle capacity.

Question2: A company is building an application that consists of several microservices. The company has decided to use container technologies to deploy its software on AWS The company needs a solution that minimizes the amount of ongoing effort for maintenance and scaling. The company cannot manage additional infrastructure Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? {Select TWO )

Question3: A company runs a highly available image-processing application on Amazon EC2 instances in a single VPC The EC2 instances run inside several subnets across multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances do not communicate with each other However, the EC2 instances download images from Amazon S3 and upload images to Amazon S3 through a single NAT gateway The company is concerned about data transfer charges What is the MOST cost-effective way for the company to avoid Regional data transfer charges?

Question4: A company wants its public web application to run on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application must use a publicly trusted SSL certificate.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question5: An ecommerce company hosts its analytics application in the AWS Cloud. The application generates about
300 MB of data each month. The data is stored in JSON format The company is evaluating a disaster recovery solution to back up the data. The data must be accessible in milliseconds if it is needed, and the data must be kept for 30 days.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question6: A business's backup data totals 700 terabytes (TB) and is kept in network attached storage (NAS) at its data center. This backup data must be available in the event of occasional regulatory inquiries and preserved for a period of seven years. The organization has chosen to relocate its backup data from its on-premises data center to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Within one month, the migration must be completed. The company's public internet connection provides 500 Mbps of dedicated capacity for data transport.
What should a solutions architect do to ensure that data is migrated and stored at the LOWEST possible cost?

Question7: A company has migrated several applications to AWS in the past 3 months. The company wants to know the breakdown of costs for each of these applications. The company wants to receive a regular report that includes this information.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question8: A company has a data ingestion workflow that consists the following:
* An Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for notifications about new data deliveries
* An AWS Lambda function to process the data and record metadata
The company observes that the ingestion workflow fails occasionally because of network connectivity issues.
When such a failure occurs, the Lambda function does not ingest the corresponding data unless the company manually reruns the job.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to ensure that the Lambda function ingests all data in the future? (Select TWO.)

Question9: A company provides an online service for posting video content and transcoding it for use by any mobile platform. The application architecture uses Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Standard to collect and store the videos so that multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances can access the video content for processing As the popularity of the service has grown over time, the storage costs have become too expensive.
Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?

Question10: A company wants to host a web application on AWS that will communicate to a database within a VPC. The application should be highly available.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question11: A weather forecasting company needs to process hundreds of gigabytes of data with sub-mill (second latency.
The company has a high performance computing (HPC) environment in its data center and wants to expand its forecasting capabilities A solutions architect must identify a highly available cloud storage solution that can handle large amounts of sustained throughput Files that are stored in the solution should be accessible to thousands of compute instances that will simultaneously access and process the entire dataset What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question12: A company wants to share data that collected from self-driving cars with the automobile community The data will be made available from within an Amazon S3 bucket The company wants to minimize its cost of making this data available to other AWS accounts.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?

Question13: An application running on an Amazon EC2 instance needs to access an Amazon DynamoDB table Both the EC2 instance and the DynamoDB table are in the same AWS account A solutions architect must configure the necessary permissions Which solution will allow least privilege access to the DynamoDB table from the EC2 instance?

Question14: A company's website provides users with downloadable historical performance reports. The website needs a solution that will scale to meet the company's website demands globally. The solution should be cost-effective, limit the provisioning of infrastructure resources, and provide the fastest possible response time.
Which combination should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question15: 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?

Question16: 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?

Question17: A company has an ecommerce application that stores data in an on-premises SQL database. The company has decided to migrate this database to AWS. However, as part of the migration, the company wants to find a way to attain sub-millisecond responses to common read requests A solutions architect knows that the increase in speed is paramount and that a small percentage of stale data returned in the database reads is acceptable.
What should the solutions architect recommend'?

Question18: A company is building a disaster recovery (DR) solution The company wants to rotate its primary systems between AWS Regions on a regular basis. The company's application is geographically distributed and includes a serverless web tier The application's database tier runs on Amazon Aurora A solutions architect needs to build an architecture tor the database layer to implement managed, planned failover Which combination of actions will meet these requirements with the LEAST downtime*? (Select TWO )

Question19: A company is planning to migrate a legacy application to AWS. The application currently uses NFS to communicate to an on-premises storage solution to store application data. The application cannot be modified to use any other communication protocols other than NFS for this purpose Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend for use after the migration?

Question20: A company has deployed a database in Amazon RDS for MySQL. Due to increased transactions, the database support team is reporting slow reads against the DB instance and recommends adding a read replica.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take before implementing this change? {Select TWO.)

Question21: A web application must send order data to Amazon S3 to support near-time processing. A solutions architect needs to create an architecture that is scalable and fault tolerant.
Which solutions meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question22: 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?

Question23: 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?

Question24: 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^

Question25: A customer is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances hosted in a private subnet of a VPC. The EC2 instances are configured in an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). The EC2 instances use a NAT gateway outbound internet access However, the EC2 instances are not able to connect to the public internet to download software updates.

Question26: A company has an on-premises MySQL database that handles transactional data The company is migrating the database to the AWS Cloud The migrated database must maintain compatibility with the company's applications that use the database The migrated database also must scale automatically during periods of increased demand.
Which migration solution will meet these requirements?

Question27: 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'?

Question28: A company uses a popular content management system (CMS) tot its corporate website. However, the required patching and maintenance are burdensome. The company is redesigning its website and wants a new solution. The website will be updated tour times a year and does not need to have any dynamic content available The solution must provide high scalability and enhanced security Which combination of changes will meet those requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select TWO)

Question29: 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.)

Question30: A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances within a private subnet in a VPC The instances access data in an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region The VPC contains a NAT gateway in a public subnet to access the S3 bucket The company wants to reduce costs by replacing the NAT gateway without compromising security or redundancy Which solution meets these requirements?

Question31: A company's web application consists of multiple Amazon EC2 instances that run behind an Application Load Balancer in a VPC. An Amazon ROS for MySQL DB instance contains the data. The company needs the ability to automatically detect and respond to suspicious or unexpected behaviour in its AWS environment the company already has added AWS WAF to its architecture.
What should a solutions architect do next lo protect against threats?

Question32: A solutions architect is planning the deployment of a new static website The solution must minimize costs and provide at least 99% availability Which solution meets these requirements?

Question33: A developer has a script lo generate daily reports that users previously ran manually The script consistently completes in under 10 minutes The developer needs to automate this process in a cost-effective manner.
Which combination of services should the developer use? (Select TWO.)

Question34: 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?

Question35: A solutions architect observes that a nightly batch processing job is automatically scaled up for 1 hour before the desired Amazon EC2 capacity is reached The peak capacity is the same every night and the batch jobs always start at 1 AM The solutions architect needs to find a cost-effective solution that will allow for the desired EC2 capacity to be reached quickly and allow the Auto Scaling group to scale down after the batch jobs are complete What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements^

Question36: A company runs an application on several Amazon EC2 instances that store persistent data on an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system. The company needs to replicate the data to another AWS Region by using an AWS managed service solution Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively'?

Question37: A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances. Traffic to the workload increases substantially during business hours and decreases afterward. The CPU utilization of an EC2 instance is a strong indicator of end-user demand on the application. The company has configured an Auto Scaling group to have a minimum group size of 2 EC2 instances and a maximum group size of 10 EC2 instances.
The company is concerned that the current scaling policy that is associated with the Auto Scaling group might not be correct. The company must avoid over-provisioning EC2 instances and incurring unnecessary costs.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question38: A company is managing health records on-peruses. The company must keep these records Indefinitely, disable any modifications to the records once they are stored, and granularly audit access at all levels. The chief technology officer (CTO) is concerned because there are already millions of record not being used by any application, and the current infrastructure is running out of space. The CTO has requested solutions architect design a solution to move easting data and support future records.
Which services can the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question39: A company has an AWS account used for software engineering. The AWS account has access to the company's on-premises data center through a pair of AWS Direct Connect connections All non-VPC traffic routes to the virtual private gateway A development team recently created an AWS Lambda function through the console The development team needs to allow the function to access a database that runs in a private subnet in the company's data center Which solution will meet these requirements'?

Question40: A company that recently started using AWS establishes a Site-to-Site VPN between its on-premises data center and AWS. The company's security mandate states that traffic originating from on premises should stay within the company's private IP space when communicating with an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster that is hosting a sample web application.
Which solution meets this requirement?

Question41: A solution architect has configured the following IAM policy.

Which action will be allowed by the policy?
Which action will be allowed by the policy?

Question42: A solutions architect is designing the architecture for a software demonstration environment The environment will run on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The system will experience significant increases in traffic during working hours but Is not required to operate on weekends.
Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to ensure that the system can scale to meet demand? (Select TWO)

Question43: 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?

Question44: 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?

Question45: A company hosts a website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The website serves static content Website traffic is increasing, and the company is concerned about a potential increase in cost.
What should a solutions architect do to reduce the cost of the website?

Question46: 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?

Question47: A solutions architect needs to design a managed storage solution for a company's application that includes high-performance machine learning This application runs on AWS Fargate, and the connected storage needs to have concurrent access to files and deliver high performance Which storage option should the solutions architect recommend?

Question48: A company's website hosted on Amazon EC2 instances processes classified data stored in Amazon S3. Due to security concerns, the company requires a private and secure connection between its EC2 resources and Amazon S3.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question49: A manufacturing company has machine sensors that upload csv files to an Amazon S3 bucket These csv files must be converted into images and must be made available as soon as possible for the automatic generation of graphical reports.
The images become irrelevant after 1 month, but the csv files must be kept to train machine learning (ML) models twice a year. The ML trainings and audits are planned weeks in advance.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select TWO )

Question50: 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?

Question51: A company's near-real-time streaming application is running on AWS. As the data is ingested, a job runs on the data and takes 30 minutes to complete. The workload frequently experiences high latency due to large amounts of incoming data A solutions architect needs to design a scalable and serverless solution to enhance performance.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take? (Select TWO.)

Question52: A solution architect has created two IAM policies. Policy1 and Policy2 . Both policies are attached to an IAM group.

A cloud engineer is added as an IAM user to the IAM group. Which action will the cloud engineer be able to perform?

Question53: A user wants to list the IAM role that Is attached to their Amazon EC2 Instance. The user has login access to the EC2 instance but does not have IAM permissions What should a solutions architect do to retrieve this information?
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Question54: A large media company hosts a web application on AWS. The company wants to start caching confidential media files so that users around the 'world will have reliable access to the files. The content is stored in Amazon S3 buckets. The company must deliver the content quickly, regardless of where the requests originate geographically Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question55: A corporation has recruited a new cloud engineer who should not have access to the CompanyConfidential Amazon S3 bucket. The cloud engineer must have read and write permissions on an S3 bucket named AdminTools.
Which IAM policy will satisfy these criteria?

Question56: A company has hired a solutions architect to design a reliable architecture for its application. The application consists of one Amazon RDS DB instance and two manually provisioned Amazon EC2 instances that run web servers. The EC2 instances are located in a single Availability Zone.
What should the solutions architect do to maximize reliability of the application Infrastructure?

Question57: 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?

Question58: A company is running a multi-tier ecommerce web application in the AWS Cloud. The web application is running on Amazon EC2 instances. The database tier is on a provisioned Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster with a writer and a reader in a Multi-AZ environment. The new requirement for the database tier is to serve the application to achieve continuous write availability through an instance failover.
What should a solutions architect do to meet this new requirement?

Question59: 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?

Question60: 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

Question61: A company wants to replicate its data to AWS to recover in the event of a disaster Today a system administrator has scripts that copy data to a NFS share Individual backup files need to be accessed with low latency by application administrators to deal with errors in processing What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question62: A company is using a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances to ingest data from on-premises data sources. The data is in JSON format and Ingestion rates can be as high as 1 MB/s. When an EC2 instance is rebooted, the data in-flight is lost. The company's data science team wants to query Ingested data In near-real time.
Which solution provides near-real -time data querying that is scalable with minimal data loss?

Question63: A company is hosting a three-tier ecommerce application in the AWS Cloud. The company hosts the website on Amazon S3 and integrates the website with an API that handles sales requests. The company hosts the API on three Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The API consists of static and dynamic front-end content along with backend workers that process sales requests asynchronously.
The company is expecting a significant and sudden increase in the number of sales requests during events for the launch of new products What should a solutions architect recommend to ensure that all the requests are processed successfully?

Question64: 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?

Question65: A company needs a storage solution for an application that runs on a high performance computing (HPC) cluster. The cluster is hosted on AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) The company needs a mountable file system that provides concurrent access to files while delivering hundreds of GBps of throughput at sub-millisecond latencies Which solution meets these requirements?

Question66: 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?

Question67: A company's application is running on Amazon EC2 instances in a single Region In the event of a disaster a solutions architect needs to ensure that the resources can also be deployed to a second Region.
Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Select TWO )

Question68: A company is building an application in the AWS Cloud. The application will store data in Amazon S3 buckets in two AWS Regions. The company must use an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key to encrypt all data that is stored in the S3 buckets. The data in both S3 buckets must be encrypted and decrypted with the same KMS key. The data and the key must be stored in each of the two Regions.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question69: A company has a business-critical application that runs on Amazon bC2 instances. The application stores data m an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company must be able to revert the table to any point within the last 24 hours. Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question70: A media company is evaluating the possibility ot moving rts systems to the AWS Cloud The company needs at least 10 TB of storage with the maximum possible I/O performance for video processing. 300 TB of very durable storage for storing media content, and 900 TB of storage to meet requirements for archival media that is not in use anymore Which set of services should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question71: A company is hosting a static website on Amazon S3 and is using Amazon Route 53 for DNS. The website is experiencing increased demand from around the world. The company must decrease latency for users who access the website.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question72: A company wants to migrate a Windows-based application from on premises to the AWS Cloud. The application has three tiers, a business tier, and a database tier with Microsoft SQL Server. The company wants to use specific features of SQL Server such as native backups and Data Quality Services. The company also needs to share files for process between the tiers.
How should a solution architect design the architecture to meet these requirements?

Question73: A company runs an online ticketing application with backend services that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances belong to an Auto Scaling group and run behind an Application Load Balancer. The application experiences periods of high user traffic when a popular event is posted online. The company wants a solution that will be able to handle increases in user traffic without affecting the user experience.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question74: An online learning company is migrating to the AWS Cloud. The company maintains its student records in a PostgreSQL database. The company needs a solution in which its data is available and online across multiple AWS Regions at all times.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Question75: A company has multiple AWS accounts for various departments. One of the departments wants to share an Amazon S3 bucket with all other departments. Which solution will require the LEAST amount of effort?

Question76: 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?

Question77: A company runs multiple Windows workloads on AWS. The company's employees use Windows the file shares that are hosted on two Amazon EC2 instances. The file shares synchronize data between themselves and maintain duplicate copies. The company wants a highly available and durable storage solution that preserves how users currently access the files.

Question78: 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?

Question79: A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon Aurora database. The EC2 instances connect to the database by using user names and passwords that are stored locally in a file. The company wants to minimize the operational overhead of credential management.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?

Question80: Some of the company's customers are retrieving records frequently, leading to an increase in costs for the company. The company wants to limit retrieved requests in the future. The company also wants to ensure that if one customer reaches its retrieval limit other customers will not affected.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question81: A company is building ils web application by using contains on AWS. The company requires three instances of the web application to run at all times The application must be highly available and must be able to scale to meet increases In demand Which solution meets these requirements?

Question82: 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?

Question83: 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?

Question84: A company runs its ecommerce application on AWS. Every new order is published as a message in a RabbitMQ queue that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in a single Availability Zone. These messages are processed by a different application that runs on a separate EC2 instance. This application stores the details in a PostgreSQL database on another EC2 instance. All the EC2 instances are in the same Availability Zone.
The company needs to redesign its architecture to provide the highest availability with the least operational overhead.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question85: 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?

Question86: A company has enabled AWS CloudTrail logs to deliver log files to an Amazon S3 bucket for each of its developer accounts. The company has created a central AWS account for streamlining management and audit reviews An internal auditor needs to access the CloudTrail logs yet access needs to be restricted for all developer account users The solution must be secure and optimized How should a solutions architect meet these requirements?

Question87: 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?

Question88: A company hosts its web application on AWS using seven Amazon EC2 instances. The company requires that the IP addresses of all healthy EC2 instances be returned in response to DNS queries.
Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?

Question89: 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?

Question90: 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?

Question91: A company wants to experiment with individual AWS accounts tor its engineer team The company wants to be notified as soon as the Amazon EC2 instance usage for a given month exceeds a specific threshold for each account.
What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement MOST cost-effectively?

Question92: A company is hosting a high-traffic static website on Amazon S3 with an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has a default TTL of 0 seconds The company wants to implement caching to improve performance for the website However the company also wants to ensure that stale content is not served for more than a few minutes after a deployment Which combination of caching methods should a solutions architect implement to meet these requirements?
(Select TWO )

Question93: A company is building a solution that will report Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling events across all the applications In an AWS account. The company needs to use a serverless solution to store the EC2 Auto Scaling status data in Amazon S3 The company then will use the data m Amazon S3 to provide near-real time updates in a dashboard The solution must not affect the speed of EC2 instance launches.
How should the company move the data to Amazon S3 to meet these requirements?

Question94: A company has an on-premises application that collects data and stores it to an on-premises NFS server The company recently set up a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection The company is running out of storage capacity on premises. The company needs to migrate the application data from on premises to the AWS Cloud while maintaining low-latency access to the data from the on-premises application What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question95: 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?

Question96: A company recently launched a variety of new workloads on Amazon EC2 instances in its AWS account. The company needs to create a strategy to access and administer the instances remotely and securely. The company needs to implement a repeatable process that works with native AWS services and follows the AWS WellArchitected Framework.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question97: A company hosts a web application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group that scales in response to user demand The company wants to optimize cost savings without making a long-term commitment Which EC2 instance purchasing option should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements'?

Question98: A company processes images into thumbnails and returns an email confirmation to the end user upon completion. The company's existing solution is facing performance bottlenecks and scalability issues. The company wants to migrate this process to AWS and implement a solution that requires the least possible configuration Which solution meets these requirements?

Question99: An ecommerce company has an order-processing application that uses Amazon API Gateway and an AWS Lambda function. The application stores data in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database. During a recent sales event, a sudden surge in customer orders occurred. Some customers experienced timeouts and the application did not process the orders of those customers A solutions architect determined that the CPU utilization and memory utilization were high on the database because of a large number of open connections The solutions architect needs to prevent the timeout errors while making the least possible changes to the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question100: A company wants to use AWS Systems Manager to manage a fleet ol Amazon EC2 instances. According to the company's security requirements, no EC2 instances can have internet access. A solutions architect needs to design network connectivity from the EC2 instances to Systems Manager while fulfilling this security obligation.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question101: 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?

Question102: A company performs monthly maintenance on its AWS infrastructure. During these maintenance activities, the company needs to rotate the credentials tor its Amazon ROS tor MySQL databases across multiple AWS Regions Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question103: A company is designing a new web application that the company will deploy into a single AWS Region. The application requires a two-tier architecture that will include Amazon EC2 instances and an Amazon RDS DB instance. A solutions architect needs to design the application so that all components are highly available.

Question104: A company has an application with a REST-based interface that allows data to be received in near-real time from a third-party vendor Once received the application processes and stores the data for further analysis. The application is running on Amazon EC2 instances.
The third-party vendor has received many 503 Service Unavailable Errors when sending data to the application When the data volume spikes, the compute capacity reaches its maximum limit and the application is unable to process all requests.
Which design should a solutions architect recommend to provide a more scalable solution?

Question105: A company plans to store sensitive user data on Amazon S3 internal security compliance requirement mandate encryption of data before secured it to Amazon S3.
What should a solutions architect recommend to safely these requirements?

Question106: A company is building an ecommerce application and needs to store sensitive customer information. The company needs to give customers the ability to complete purchase transactions on the website. The company also needs to ensure that sensitive customer data is protected, even from database administrators.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question107: A company is running a two-tier ecommerce website using AWS services The current architecture uses a public-facing Elastic Load Balancer that sends traffic to Amazon EC2 instances in a prrvate subnet. The static content is hosted on EC2 instances and the dynamic content is retneved from a MySQL database The application is running in the United States The company recently started selling to users in Europe and Australia. A solutions architect needs to design a solution so their international users have an improved browsing experience Which solution is MOST cost-effective?

Question108: A company runs a website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an ELB Application Load Balancer Amazon Route 53 Is used for the DNS The company wants to set up a backup website with a message including a phone number and email address that users can reach if the primary website is down.
How should the company deploy this solution?

Question109: 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?

Question110: 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?

Question111: A company is hosting multiple websites for several lines of business under its registered parent domain Users accessing these websites will be routed to appropriate backend Amazon EC2 instances based on the subdomain The websites host static webpages images, and server-side scripts like PHP and JavaScript.
Some of the websites experience peak access during the first two hours of business with constant usage throughout the rest of the day A solutions architect needs to design a solution that will automatically adjust capacity to these traffic patterns while keeping costs low.
Which combination of AWS services or features will meet these requirements? (Select TWO )

Question112: 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?

Question113: A solutions architect is designing the architecture for a new web application. The application will run on AWS Fargate containers with an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database.
The web application will perform primarily read queries against the database.
What should the solutions architect do to ensure that the website can scale with increasing traffic? (Select TWO.)

Question114: A company is running a high performance computing (HPC) workload on AWS across many Linux based Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs a shared storage system that is capable of sub-millisecond latencies, hundreds of Gbps of throughput and millions of IOPS. Users will store millions of small files.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question115: A company has a service that produces event data. The company wants to use AWS to process the event data as it is received. The data is written in a specific order that must be maintained throughout processing The company wants to implement a solution that minimizes operational overhead.
How should a solutions architect accomplish this?

Question116: A company currently operates a web application backed by an Amazon RDS MySQL database It has automated backups that are run daily and are not encrypted A security audit requires future backups to be encrypted and the unencrypted backups to be destroyed The company will make at least one encrypted backup before destroying the old backups.
What should be done to enable encryption for future backups?

Question117: A company is planning to store sensitive documents in an Amazon S3 bucket. The documents must be encrypted al rest. The company wants to manage the underlying keys that are used lor encryption However, the company does not want to manage the encryption and decryption process.
Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question118: 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?

Question119: A medical records company is hosting an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application processes customer data files that are stored on Amazon S3. The EC2 instances are hosted in public subnets. The EC2 instances access Amazon S3 over the internet, but they do not require any other network access.
A new requirement mandates that the network traffic for file transfers take a private route and not be sent over the internet.
Which change to the network architecture should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement"?

Question120: 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?

Question121: A solutions architect needs to design the architecture for an application that a vendor provides as a Docker container image. The container needs 50 GB of storage.
available for temporary files. The infrastructure must be serverless.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question122: A company hosts an application on AWS Lambda functions mat are invoked by an Amazon API Gateway API The Lambda functions save customer data to an Amazon Aurora MySQL database Whenever the company upgrades the database, the Lambda functions fail to establish database connections until the upgrade is complete The result is that customer data Is not recorded for some of the event A solutions architect needs to design a solution that stores customer data that is created during database upgrades Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question123: 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'?

Question124: An application running on an Amazon EC2 instance in VPC-A needs to access dies in another EC2 instance in VPC-B Both VPCs are in separate AWS accounts The network administrator needs to design a solution to enable secure access to EC2 instance in VPC-B from VPC-A The connectivity should not have a single point of failure or bandwidth concerns.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question125: A company is running a highly sensitive application on Amazon EC2 backed by an Amazon RDS database Compliance regulations mandate that all personally identifiable information (Pll) be encrypted at rest.
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of changes to the infrastructure?

Question126: A company has 150 TB of archived image data stored on-premises that needs to be moved to the AWS Cloud within the next month. The company's current network connection allows up to 100 Mbps uploads for this purpose during the night only.
What is the MOST cost-effective mechanism to move this data and meet the migration deadline?

Question127: A company wants to use a custom distributed application that calculates various profit and loss scenarios To achieve this goal, the company needs to provide a network connection between its Amazon EC2 instances.
The connection must minimize latency and must maximize throughput
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question128: A company needs to store data from its healthcare application. The application's data frequently changes. A new regulation requires audit access at all levels of the stored data.
The company hosts the application on an on-premises infrastructure that is running out of storage capacity. A solutions architect must securely migrate the existing data to AWS while satisfying the new regulation.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question129: A company is using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to present its application to the internet. The company finds abnormal traffic access patterns across the application. A solutions architect needs to improve visibility into the infrastructure to help the company understand these abnormalities better What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

Question130: A gaming company is moving its public scoreboard from a data center to the AWS Cloud. The company uses Amazon EC2 Windows Server instances behind an Application Load Balancer to host its dynamic application. The company needs a highly available storage solution for the application. The application consists of static files and dynamic server-side code.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.) ' Store the static files on Amazon S3. Use Amazon

Question131: A company runs a latency-sensitive gaming service in the AWS Cloud. The gaming service runs on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). An Amazon DynamoDB table stores the gaming data. All he infrastructure is in a single AWS Region. The main user base is in that same Region.
A solutions architect needs to update the architect to support a global expansion of the gaming service must operate with the least possible latency.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question132: 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?

Question133: An application allows users at a company's headquarters to access product data. The product data is stored in an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance The operations team has isolated an application performance slowdown and wants to separate read traffic from write traffic A solutions architect needs to optimize the application's performance quickly.
What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question134: 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.)

Question135: A marketing company is storing CSV files in an Amazon S3 bucket for statistical analysis An application on an Amazon EC2 instance needs permission to efficiently process the CSV data stored in the S3 bucket.

Question136: A company hosts a data lake on AWS. The data lake consists of data in Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The company needs a reporting solution that provides data visualization and includes all the data sources within the data lake. Only the company's management team should have full access to all the visualizations. The rest of the company should have only limited access.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question137: A solutions architect must secure a VPC network that hosts Amazon EC2 instances The EC2 ^stances contain highly sensitive data and tun n a private subnet According to company policy the EC2 instances mat run m the VPC can access only approved third-party software repositories on the internet for software product updates that use the third party's URL Other internet traffic must be blocked.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question138: A company wants to relocate its on-premises MySQL database to AWS The database accepts regular imports from a client-facing application when causes a high volume of write operations. The company is concerned that the amount of traffic might be causing performance issues within the application.
How should a solutions architect design the architecture on AWS?

Question139: A company wants to move its on-premises network attached storage (NAS) to AWS The company wants to make the data available to any Linux instances within its VPC and ensure changes are automatically synchronized across all instances accessing the data store The majority of the data is accessed very rarely, and some files are accessed by multiple users at the same time Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?

Question140: 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?

Question141: A hospital recently deployed a RESTful API with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda The hospital uses API Gateway and Lambda to upload reports that are in PDF format and JPEG format The hospital needs to modify the Lambda code to identify protected health information (PHI) in the reports Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question142: 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?

Question143: A company uses GPS trackers to document the migration patterns of thousands of sea turtles The trackers check every 5 minutes to see if a turtle has moved more than 100 yards (91 4 meters) If a turtle has moved its tracker sends the new coordinates to a web application running on three Amazon EC2 instances that are in multiple Availability Zones in one AWS Region Recently, the web application was overwhelmed while processing an unexpected volume of tracker data Data was lost with no way to replay the events A solutions architect must prevent this problem from happening again and needs a solution with the least operationa overhead What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements''

Question144: A solutions architect must migrate a Windows Internet Information Services (IIS) web application to AWS The application currently relies on a file share hosted in the user's on-premises network-attached storage (NAS) The solutions architect has proposed migrating the MS web servers to Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones that are connected to the storage solution, and configuring an Elastic Load Balancer attached to the instances Which replacement to the on-premises file share is MOST resilient and durable?

Question145: 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?

Question146: A company is designing a shared storage solution for a gaming application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud The company needs the ability to use SMB clients to access data solution must be fully managed.
Which AWS solution meets these requirements?

Question147: A company is running a database on am Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The company must maintain a near-real-time replica of the database on premises. The company needs to encrypt the data in transit and is using a 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question148: A company is deploying an application that processes streaming data in near-teal time. The company plans to use Amazon EC2 instances for the workload The network architecture must be configurable to provide the lowest possible latency between nodes.
Which networking solution meets these requirements?

Question149: A monolithic application was recently migrated to AWS and is now running on a single Amazon EC2 instance Due to application limitations it is not possible to use automatic scaling to scale out the application. The chief technology officer (CTO) wants an automated solution to restore the EC2 instance in the unlikely event the underlying hardware fails What would allow foe automatic recovery of the EC2 instance as quickly as possible?

Question150: A startup company is using me AWS Cloud to develop a traffic control monitoring system for a large city The system must be highly available and must provide near-real-time results for residents and city officials even during peak events Gigabytes of data will come in daily from loT devices that run at intersections and freeway ramps across the city The system must process the data sequentially to provide the correct timeline However results need to show only what has happened in the last 24 hours.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question151: An application development team is designing a microservice that will convert large images to smaller compressed images When a user uploads an image through the web interface the microservice should store the image in an Amazon S3 bucket process and compress the image with an AWS Lambda function, and store the image in its compressed form m a different S3 bucket A solutions architect needs to design a solution that uses durable stateless components to process the images automatically Which combination of actions will meet these requirements^ (Select TWO )

Question152: 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?

Question153: A company hosts its multi-tier, public web application in the AWS Cloud. The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and its database runs on Amazon RDS The company is anticipating a large increase in sales during an upcoming holiday weekend A solutions architect needs to build a solution to analyze the performance of the web application with a granularity of no more than 2 minutes.
What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Question154: A company is deploying a two-tier web application in a VPC. The web tier is using an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with public subnets that span multiple Availability Zones. The database tier consists of an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in separate private subnets. The web tier requires access to the database to retrieve product information.
The web application is not working as intended. The web application reports that it cannot connect to the database. The database is confirmed to be up and running. All configurations for the network ACLs. security groups, and route tables are still in their default states.
What should a solutions architect recommend to fix the application?

Question155: A gaming company hosts a browser-based application on AWS The users of the application consume a large number of videos and images that are stored in Amazon S3. This content is the same for all users The application has increased in popularity, and millions of users worldwide are accessing these media files.
The company wants to provide the files to the users while reducing the load on the origin Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question156: A company has media and application files that need to be shared internally. Users currently are authenticated using Active Directory and access files from a Microsoft Windows platform The chief executive officer wants to keep the same user permissions, but wants the company to improve the process as the company is reaching its storage capacity limit.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question157: A company has a mutt-tier application deployed on several Amazon EC2 instances m an Auto Scaling group.
An Amazon RDS for Oracle instance is the application's data layer that uses Oracle-specific PL/'SQL functions. Traffic to the application has been steadily Increasing. This is causing the EC2 instances to become overloaded and the RDS instance to run out of storage. The Auto Scaling group does not have any scaling metrics and defines the minimum healthy instance count only. The company predicts that traffic will continue to increase at a steady but unpredictable rate before levelling off.
What should a solutions architect do to ensure the system can automatically scale for the increased traffic?
(Select TWO.)

Question158: A company offers a food delivery service that is growing rapidly Because of the growth the company's order processing system is experiencing scaling problems during peak traffic hours. The current architecture includes the following;
* A group of Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to collect orders from the application
* Another group of EC2 instances that run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to fulfill orders The order collection process occurs quickly, but the order fulfillment process can take longer Data must not be lost because of a scaling event A solutions architect must ensure that the order collection process and the order fulfillment process can both scale properly during peak traffic hours The solution must optimize utilization of the company's AWS resources Which solution meets these requirements'?

Question159: The DNS provider that hosts a company's domain name records is experiencing outages that cause service disruption for a website running on AWS The company needs to migrate to a more resilient managed DNS service and wants the service to run on AWS.
What should a solutions architect do to rapidly migrate the DNS hosting service?

Question160: A company needs to move data from an Amazon EC2 instance to an Amazon S3 bucket. The company mutt ensure that no API calls and no data aim routed through public internet routes Only the EC2 instance can have access to upload data to the S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question161: An online gaming company is designing a game that is expected to be popular all over the world A solutions architect needs to define an AWS Cloud architecture that supports near-real-time recording and displaying of current game statistics for each player along with the names of the top 25 players in the world at any given time Which AWS database solution and configuration should the solutions architect use to meet these requirements?

Question162: A company receives inconsistent service from its data center provider because the company is headquartered in an area affected by natural disasters The company is not ready to fully migrate to the AWS Cloud but it wants a failure environment on AWS in case the on-premises data center fails The company runs web servers that connect to external vendors The data available on AWS and on premises must be uniform.
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend that has the LEAST amount of downtime''

Question163: 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?

Question164: A company is migrating Us applications to AWS Currently applications that run on premises generate hundreds of terabytes of data that is stored on a shared file system The company Is running an analytics application in the cloud that runs hourly to generate Insights from this data The company needs a solution to handle the ongoing data transfer between the on-premises shared file system and Amazon S3 The solution also must be able to handle occasional interruptions m internet connectivity Which solution should the company use for the data transfer to meet these requirements?

Question165: A company is building a media sharing application and decides to use Amazon S3 for storage When a media file is uploaded, the company starts a multi-step process to create thumbnails identity objects in the images transcode videos into standard formats and resolutions and extract and store the metadata to an Amazon DynamoDB table The metadata is used for searching and navigation The amount of traffic is variable The solution must be able to scale to handle spikes in load without unnecessary expenses What should a solutions architect recommend to support this workload''

Question166: A company is building a new data analysis application that will ingest large volumes of data into an Amazon S3 bucket. The company is concerned that sensitive information, such as personally identifiable information (Pll). might be included in some of the data that is ingested. The company needs a solution that will scan for sensitive data and log the findings.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question167: 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?

Question168: A company has an AWS Glue extract. transform, and load (ETL) job that runs every day at the same time. The job processes XML data that is in an Amazon S3 bucket.
New data is added to the S3 bucket every day. A solutions architect notices that AWS Glue is processing all the data during each run.
What should the solutions architect do to prevent AWS Glue from reprocessing old data?

Question169: 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 )

Question170: A company is hosting a web application on AWS using a single Amazon EC2 instance that stores user-uploaded documents in an Amazon EBS volume. For better scalability and availability, the company duplicated the architecture and created a second EC2 instance and EBS volume in another Availability Zone placing both behind an Application Load Balancer After completing this change, users reported that, each time they refreshed the website, they could see one subset of their documents or the other, but never all of the documents at the same time.
What should a solutions architect propose to ensure users see all of their documents at once?

Question171: 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?

Question172: A company runs demonstration environments for its customers on Amazon EC2 instances. Each environment is isolated in its own VPC. The company's operations team needs to be notified when RDP or SSH access to an environment has been established.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question173: A company is hosting 60 TB of production-level data in an Amazon S3 bucket A solutions architect needs to bring that data on premises for quarterly audit requirements This export of data must be encrypted while in transit The company has low network bandwidth in place between AWS and its on-premises data center.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question174: 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?

Question175: A development team is collaborating with another company to create an integrate product. The other company needs to access an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) queue that is contained in the development team's account. The other company wants to poll the queue without giving up its own account permissions to do so.
How should a solutions architect provide access to the 303 queue?

Question176: A company has a web application for travel ticketing. The application is based on a database that runs in a single data center in North America. The company wants to expand the application to serve a global user base The company needs to deploy the application to multiple AWS Regions Average latency must be less than 1 second on updates to the reservation database The company wants to have separate deployments of its web platform across multiple Regions. However, the company must maintain a single primary reservation database that is globally consistent Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements''

Question177: A company is using a SQL database to store movie data that is publicly accessible. The database runs on an Amazon RDS Single-AZ DB instance A script runs queries at random intervals each day to record the number of new movies that have been added to the database. The script must report a final total during business hours The company's development team notices that the database performance is inadequate for development tasks when the script is running. A solutions architect must recommend a solution to resolve this issue. Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question178: A company hosts its application in the AWS Cloud. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group and with an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company wants to ensure the application can be made available in another AWS Region with minimal downtime.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of downtime?

Question179: A company is running a multi-tier recommence web application in the AWS Cloud. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances with an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ OB instance. Amazon ROS is configured with the latest generation DB instance with 2.000 GB of storage In a General Purpose SSD (gp3) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBSl volume. The database performance affects the application during periods high demand.
A database administrator analyzes the logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs and discovers that the application performance always degrades when the number of read and write IOPS is higher than 20.000.
What should a solutions architect do to improve the application performance?

Question180: 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?

Question181: A company is designing an application that will run on an AWS Lambda function within a VPC Gateway API will invoke the Lambda function. A solution architect needs to recommend an Amazon CloudWatch solution that developers can use to identify the users who are generating the most network traffic.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question182: An ecommerce company has noticed performance degradation of its Amazon RDS based web application The performance degradation is attributed to an increase in the number of read-only SQL queries triggered by business analysts A solutions architect needs to solve the problem with minimal changes to the existing web application What should the solutions architect recommend''

Question183: A company needs to build a reporting solution on AWS. The solution must support SQL queries that data analysts run on the data. The data analysts will run lower than 10 total queries each day. The company generates 3 GB of new data daily in an on-premises relational database. This data needs to be transferred to AWS to perform reporting tasks.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements at the LOWEST cost?

Question184: 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?

Question185: A company's application integrates with multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) sources for data collection. The company runs Amazon EC2 instances to receive the data and to upload the data to an Amazon S3 bucket for analysis. The same EC2 instance that receives and uploads the data also sends a notification to the user when an upload is complete. The company has noticed slow application performance and wants to improve the performance as much as possible.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question186: A company has two applications: a sender application that sends messages with payloads to be processed and a processing application intended to receive the messages with payloads The company wants to implement an AWS service to handle messages between the two applications The sender application can send about 1,000 messages each hour The messages may take up to 2 days to be processed If the messages fail to process, they must be retained so that they do not impact the processing of any remaining messages.
Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally efficient?

Question187: The application's traffic is often low. but it occasionally grows significantly. During these sudden increases in traffic, DynamoDB returns throttling errors. The result is that error pages are displayed to end users.
What should a solutions architect do to reduce these errors?

Question188: 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?

Question189: A company operates a two-tier application for image processing. The application uses two Availability Zones, each with one public subnet and one private subnet. An Application Load Balancer (ALB) for the web tier uses the public subnets. Amazon EC2 instances for the application tier use the private subnets.
Users report that the application is running more slowly than expected. A security audit of the web server log files shows that the application is receiving millions of illegitimate requests from a small number of IP addresses. A solutions architect needs to resolve the immediate performance problem while the company investigates a more permanent solution.
What should the solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?

Question190: A company has an ecommerce checkout workflow that writes an order to a database and calls a service to process the payment. Users are experiencing timeouts during the checkout process. When users resubmit the checkout form, multiple unique orders are created for the same desired transaction.
How should a solutions architect refactor this workflow to prevent the creation of multiple orders?

Question191: A company is running a publicly accessible serverless application that uses Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The application's traffic recently spiked due to fraudulent requests from botnets.
Which steps should a solutions architect take to block requests from unauthorized users? (Select TWO.)

Question192: A mobile gaming company runs application servers on Amazon EC2 instances. The servers receive updates from players every 15 minutes. The mobile game creates a JSON object of the progress made in the game since the last update and sends the JSON object to an Application Load Balancer As the mobile game is played game updates are being lost. The company wants to create a durable way to get the updates in order What should a solutions architect recommend to decouple the system?

Question193: A company funs a website that uses a content management system (CMS) on Amazon EC2 The CMS runs on a smgleEC2 instance and uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance tor the data tor Website images are stored on an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume that is mounted inside the EC2 instance Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to improve the performance and residence of the website? (Select TWO )

Question194: 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?

Question195: A company has an image processing workload running on Amazon Elastic Container Service {Amazon ECS) in two private subnets Each private subnet uses a NAT instance for Internet access All images are stored in Amazon S3 buckets The company is concerned about the data transfer costs between Amazon ECS and Amazon S3 What should a solutions architect do to reduce costs?

Question196: 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?

Question197: 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?

Question198: A company runs a critical customer -lacing application on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) The application has a microservices architecture The company needs to implement a solution that collects, aggregates and summarizes metrics and logs from the application in a centralized location Which solution meets these requirements?

Question199: 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?

Question200: 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?

Question201: A company sells datasets to customers who do research in artificial intelligence and machine learning (Al/ML) The datasets are large, formatted files that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region The company hosts a web application that the customers use to purchase access to a given dataset The web application is deployed on multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer After a purchase is made customers receive an S3 signed URL that allows access to the files.
The customers are distributed across North America and Europe The company wants to reduce the cost that is associated with data transfers and wants to maintain or improve performance.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question202: 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?

Question203: A company wants to manage Amazon Machine Images (AMls). The company currently copies AMls to the same AWS Region where the AMls were created. The company needs to design an application that captures AWS API calls and sends alerts whenever the Amazon EC2 Createlmage API operation is called within the company's account Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question204: 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?

Question205: 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?

Question206: A company has an API-based inventory reporting application running on Amazon EC2 instances The application stores information in an Amazon DynamoDB table The company's distribution centers have an on-premises shipping application that calls an API to update the inventory before printing shipping labels The company has been experiencing application interruptions several times each day. resulting in lost transactions What should a solutions architect recommend to improve application resiliency?

Question207: 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?

Question208: 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?

Question209: A company has a web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. The company wants end users to authenticate themselves before they use the web application. The web application accesses AWS resources, such as Amazon S3 buckets, on behalf of users who are logged on.
Which combination of actions must a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO).

Question210: A company is developing a real-time multiplayer game that uses UDP for communications between the client and servers In an Auto Scaling group Spikes in demand are anticipated during the day, so the game server platform must adapt accordingly Developers want to store gamer scores and other non-relational data in a database solution that will scale without intervention Which solution should a solutions architect recommend?

Question211: 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?

Question212: A company has a hybrid application hosted on multiple on-premises servers with static IP addresses There is already a VPN that provides connectivity between the VPC and the on-premises network. The company wants to distribute TCP traffic across the on-premises servers for internet users What should a solutions architect recommend to provide a highly available and scalable solution?

Question213: A company has a document management application that contains PDF documents The company hosts the application on Amazon EC2 instances According to regulations, the instances must not have access to the internet The application must be able to read and write to a persistent storage system that provides native versioning capabilities A solutions architect needs to design secure storage that maximizes resiliency and facilitates data sharing across instances Which solution meets these requirements?

Question214: 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?

Question215: A company runs us two-tier ecommerce website on AWS The web tier consists of a load balancer that sends traffic to Amazon EC2 instances The database tier uses an Amazon RDS D8 instance The EC2 instances and the ROS DB instance should not be exposed to the public internet The EC2 instances require internet access to complete payment processing of orders through a third-party web service The application must be highly available Which combination of configuration options will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question216: A solutions architect must create a highly available bastion host architecture. The solution needs to be resilient within a single AWS Region and should require only minimal effort to maintain.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question217: 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?

Question218: A company recently launched Linux-based application instances on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet and launched a Linux-based bastion host on an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subnet of a VPC A solutions architect needs to connect from the on-premises network, through the company's internet connection to the bastion host and to the application servers The solutions architect must make sure that the security groups of all the EC2 instances will allow that access Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO)

Question219: 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?

Question220: 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?

Question221: A company runs a multi-tier web application that hosts news content. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones and use an Amazon Aurora database A solutions architect needs to make the application more resilient to periodic increases in request rates.
Which architecture should the solutions architect implement? (Select TWO.)

Question222: 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?

Question223: A company that primarily runs its application servers on premises has deeded to migrate to AWS. The company wants to minimize its need to scale its Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) storage on premises. The company wants only its recently accessed data to remain stored locally Which AWS solution should the company use to meet these requirements?

Question224: A company hosts more than 300 global websites and applications. The company requires a platform to analyze more than 30 TB of clickstream data each day.
What should a solutions architect do to transmit and process the clickstream data?

Question225: A company is migrating its on-premises PostgreSQL database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The on-premises database must remain online and accessible during the migration. The Aurora database must remain synchronized with the on-premises database.
Which combination of actions must a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question226: A company with multiple accounts and teams wants to set up a new multi-account AWS environment.
Which AWS service supports this requirement?

Question227: The following IAM policy is attached to an IAM group. This is the only policy applied to the group.


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

Question228: A company is using AWS Organizations with two AWS accounts Logistics and Sales. The Logistics account operates an Amazon Redshift cluster The Sates account includes Amazon EC2 instances The Sales account needs to access the Logistics account's Amazon Redshift cluster What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement MOST cost-effectively'?

Question229: A company wants to run its critical applications in containers to meet requirements tor scalability and availability The company prefers to focus on maintenance of the critical applications The company does not want to be responsible for provisioning and managing the underlying infrastructure that runs the containerized workload What should a solutions architect do to meet those requirements?

Question230: A company manages its own Amazon EC2 instances that run MySQL databases The company is manually managing replication and scaling as demand increases or decreases The company needs a new solution that simplifies the process of adding or removing compute capacity to or from its database tier as needed The solution also must offer improved performance, scaling, and durability with minimal effort from operations Which solution meets these requirements'?

Question231: A company is adopting serverless architecture The company's solutions architect wants to modernize an application that has source data in csv format A large team of developers needs to use the application to run SQL queries and reports on demand by joining data across multiple tables Which combination of actions will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select TWO )

Question232: 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.)

Question233: 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?

Question234: 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?

Question235: A company manages a data lake in an Amazon S3 bucket that numerous applications share The S3 bucket contains unique folders with a prefix for each application The company wants to restrict each application to its specific folder and have granular control of the objects in each folder Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Question236: 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?

Question237: A company wants to design its cloud architecture so that its workloads are resilient, can consistently perform their intended functions correctly, and can recover from failure quickly Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework does this architecture represent?

Question238: 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?

Question239: A company is using a content management system that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 instance contains both the web server and the database software. The company must make its website platform highly available and must enable the website to scale to meet user demand What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question240: A company is running several business applications in three separate VPCs within me us-east-1 Region. The applications must be able to communicate between VPCs. The applications also must be able to consistently send hundreds to 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 moots those requirements?

Question241: A company runs a global web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The application stores data in Amazon Aurora. The company needs to create a disaster recovery solution and can tolerate up to 30 minutes of downtime and potential data loss. The solution does not need to handle the load when the primary infrastructure is healthy What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question242: 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?

Question243: 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.)

Question244: A company needs to retain application logs files for a critical application for 10 years. The application team regularly accesses logs from the past month for troubleshooting, but logs older than 1 month are rarely accessed. The application generates more than 10 TB of logs per month.
Which storage option meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question245: A company is using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer master keys (CMKs) to encrypt AWS Lambda environment variables A solutions architect needs to ensure that the required permissions are in place to decrypt and use the environment variables.
Which steps must the solutions architect take to implement the correct permissions? (Select TWO.)

Question246: A public-facing web application queries a database hosted on a Amazon EC2 instance in a private subnet. A large number of queries involve multiple table joins, and the application performance has been degrading due to an increase in complex queries. The application team will be performing updates to improve performance.
What should a solutions architect recommend to the application team? (Select TWO.)

Question247: 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?

Question248: 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?

Question249: 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?

Question250: 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?

Question251: A company has a service that reads and writes large amounts of data from an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region The service is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances within the private subnet of a VPC. The service communicates with Amazon S3 over a NAT gateway in the public subnet However, the company wants a solution that will reduce the data output costs.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question252: A company is migrating a NoSQL database cluster to Amazon EC2. The database automatically replicates data to maintain at least three copies of the data I/O throughput of the servers is the highest priority.
Which instance type should a solutions architect recommend for the migration?

Question253: A company hosts an online shopping application that stores all orders in an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Single-AZ DB instance Management wants to eliminate single points of failure and has asked a solutions architect to recommend an approach to minimize database downtime without requiring any changes to the application code Which solution meets these requirements?

Question254: 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?

Question255: A company wants to measure the effectiveness of its recent marketing campaigns. The company performs batch processing on csv files of sales data and stores the results an Amazon S3 bucket once every hour. The S3 bi petabytes of objects. The company runs one-time queries in Amazon Athena to determine which products are most popular on a particular date for a particular region Queries sometimes fail or take longer than expected to finish.
Which actions should a solutions architect take to improve the query performance and reliability? (Select TWO.)

Question256: 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?

Question257: To meet security requirements, a company needs to encrypt all of its application data in transit while communicating with an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance A recent security audit revealed that encryption al rest is enabled using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). but data in transit Is not enabled What should a solutions architect do to satisfy the security requirements?

Question258: 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?

Question259: 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?

Question260: 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?

Question261: A solutions architect must design a database solution for a high-traffic ecommerce web application. The database stores customer profiles and shopping cart information. The database must support a peak load of several million requests each second and deliver responses in milliseconds The operational overhead for managing and scaling the database must be minimized Which database solution should the solutions architect recommend?

Question262: A solutions architect must design a solution that uses Amazon CloudFront with an Amazon S3 origin to store a static website. The company's security policy requires that all website traffic be inspected by AWS WAF.
How should the solutions architect comply with these requirements?

Question263: 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?

Question264: 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?

Question265: A gaming company has a web application that displays scores. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application stores data in an Amazon RDS for MySQL database.
Users are starting to experience long delays and interruptions that are caused by database read performance.
The company wants to improve the user experience while minimizing changes to the application's architecture.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question266: 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?

Question267: A company is designing a cloud communications platform trial is driven by APIs. The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). The company uses Amazon API Gateway to provide external users with access to the application through APIs. The company wants to protect the platform against web exploits like SQL Injection and also wants to detect and mitigate large, sophisticated DDoS attacks Which combination of solutions provides the MOST protection? (Select TWO.)

Question268: A solutions architect creates a VPC that includes two public subnets and two private subnets A corporate security mandate requires the solutions architect to launch all Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet However when the solutions architect launches an EC2 instance that runs a web server on ports 80 and 443 in a private subnet, no external internet traffic can connect to the server What should the solutions architect do to resolve this issue?

Question269: A company must migrate 20 TB of data from a data centre to the AWS Cloud within 30 days. The company's network bandwidth is limited to 15 Mbps and cannot exceed 70% utilization.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question270: A company wants to migrate its existing on-premises monolithic application to AWS.
The company wants to keep as much of the front- end code and the backend code as possible. However, the company wants to break the application into smaller applications. A different team will manage each application. The company needs a highly scalable solution that minimizes operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question271: A company has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains mission-critical data. The company wants to ensure this data is protected from accidental deletion. The data should still be accessible, and a user should be able to delete the data internationally.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Select TWO.)

Question272: A company wants to create a mobile app that allows users to stream slow-motion video clips on their mobile devices Currently, the app captures video clips and uploads the video clips in raw format into an Amazon S3 bucket The app retrieves these video clips directly from the S3 bucket. However the videos are large in their raw format.
Users are experiencing issues with buffering and playback on mobile devices. The company wants to implement solutions to maximize the performance and scalability of the app while minimizing operational overhead Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question273: A company is migrating a distributed application to AWS The application serves variable workloads The legacy platform consists of a primary server trial coordinates jobs across multiple compute nodes The company wants to modernize the application with a solution that maximizes resiliency and scalability How should a solutions architect design the architecture to meet these requirements?

Question274: 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?

Question275: A company wants to minimize cost by moving infrequently accessed audit archives to low-cost storage.
Which AWS service should the company use for this storage?

Question276: An ecommerce company is creating an application that requires a connection to a third-party payment service to process payments. The payment service needs to explicitly allow the public IP address of the server that is making the payment request. However, the company's security policies do not allow any server to be exposed directly to the public internet.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question277: 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?

Question278: An ecommerce company is building a distributed application that involves several serverless functions and AWS services to complete order-processing tasks. These tasks require manual approvals as part of the workflow A solutions architect needs to design an architecture for the order-processing application The solution must be able to combine multiple AWS Lambda functions into responsive serverless applications The solution also must orchestrate data and services that run on Amazon EC2 instances, containers, or on-premises servers Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question279: A company has a mobile chat application with a data store based in Amazon DynamoDB. Users would like new messages to be need with as little latency as possible. A possible architect needs design an optimal solution that requires minimal application changes.
Which method should the solution architect select?

Question280: A company has migrated a two-tier application from its on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud The data tier is a Multi-AZ deployment of Amazon RDS for Oracle with 12 TB of General Purpose SSD Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage The application is designed to process and store documents in the database as binary large objects (blobs) with an average document size of 6 MB The database size has grown over time reducing the performance and increasing the cost of storage. The company must improve the database performance and needs a solution that is highly available and resilient Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question281: Which AWS service or feature can be used find availability status information on all AWS services?

Question282: A company is running a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The application uses a database that runs on an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance. The application performs slowly as traffic increases, and the database experiences a heavy read load during periods of high traffic.
Which actions should a solutions architect take to resolve these performance issues? (Select TWO.)

Question283: A company's web application uses an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL DB instance to store its application data During the financial closing period at the start of every month, Accountants run large queries that impact the database's performance due to high usage The company wants to minimize the impact that the reporting activity has on the web application What should a solutions architect do to reduce the impact on the database with the LEAST amount of effort?

Question284: 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?