EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A Solutions Architect is designing a database solution that must support a high rate of random disk reads and writes. It must provide consistent performance, and requires longterm persistence.
Which storage solution BEST meets these requirements?

Question2: A Solutions Architect is creating an application running in an Amazon VPC that needs to access AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. Network security rules prohibit any route table entry with a 0.0.0.0/0 destination.
What infrastructure addition will allow access to the AWS service while meeting the requirements?

Question3: A social networking portal experiences latency and throughput issues due to an increased number of users. Application servers use very large datasets from an Amazon RDS database, which creates a performance bottleneck on the database.
Which AWS service should be used to improve performance?

Question4: A Solutions Architect is architecting a workload that requires a performant objectbased storage system that must be shared with multiple Amazon EC2 instances.
Which AWS service meets this requirement?

Question5: An application has components running in a public subnet and a private subnet. The components within the private sub net must connect to the internet to receive updates.
How should this be accomplished without moving the components into a public subnet?

Question6: A gaming application is heavily dependent on caching and uses Amazon ElastiCache for Redis. The application performance was recently degraded due to failure of the cache node.
What should a Solutions Architect recommend to minimize performance degradation in the future?

Question7: An organization regularly backs up their application data. The application backups are required to be stored on Amazon S3 for a certain amount of time. The backups should be accessed instantly in the event of a disaster recovery.
Which of the following Amazon S3 storage classes would be the MOST cost-effective option to meet the needs of this scenario?

Question8: A solutions architect is designing a multi-tier application consisting of an application load balancer, an amazon rds database instance, and an auto scaling group of amazon ec2 instances. Each tier is in a separate subnet.
There are some ec2 instances in the subnet that belong to another application. The rds database instance should accept traffic only from the ec2 instances in the auto scaling group.
What should be done to meet these requirements?

Question9: A customer owns a MySQL database that is accessed by various clients who expect, at most, 100 ms latency on requests. Once a record is stored in the database, it rarely changed. Clients only access one record at a time.
Database access has been increasing exponentially due to increased client demand. The resultant load will soon exceed the capacity of the most expensive hardware available for purchase. The customer wants to migrate to AWS, and is willing to change database systems.
Which service would alleviate the database load issue and offer virtually unlimited scalability for the future?

Question10: A Solutions Architect is working on a PCI-compliant architecture that needs to call an external service provider's API. The external provider requires IP whitelisting to verify the calling party.
How should the Solutions Architect provide the external party with the IP addresses for whitelisting?

Question11: A company has a legal requirement to store point-in-time copies of its Amazon RDS PostGreSQL database instance in facilities that are at least 200 miles apart.
Use of which of the following provides the easiest way to comply with this requirement?

Question12: Legacy applications currently send messages through a single Amazon EC2 instance, which then routes the messages to the appropriate destinations. The Amazon EC2 instance is a bottleneck and single point of failure, so the company would like to address these issues.
Which services could address this architectural use case? (Choose two.)

Question13: A university is running an internal web application on AWS that students can access from the university network to check their exam results. The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and pulls results from an Amazon DynamoDB table. Auto Scaling is currently configured to add a new web server when CPU is greater than 80% for 5 minutes.
DynamoDB is configured to increase both read and write capacity units by five when utilization is greater than
80%. Exam results are released at 9:00 a.m. each Monday, and
80% of students, attempt to access their unique result within the first 30 minutes. Despite Auto Scaling being enabled, students are complaining of slow response times and errors when they view the site. There are no performance complaints after 9:30 a.m. on Monday.
Which recommendation should a Solutions Architect make to improve performance in a cost-effective manner?

Question14: A website keeps a record of user actions using a globally unique identifier (GUID) retrieve from Amazon Aurora in place of the user name within the audit record security protocols state that the GUID state that the GUID content must not leave the company's VPN.
As the web traffic has increase, the number of web servers and azure read replicas has also increased to keep up with the user record for the GUID.
What should be done to reduce the number of read replicas required while improving performance?

Question15: A Solutions Architect must design a web application that will be hosted on AWS, allowing users to purchase access to premium, shared content that is stored in an S3 bucket.
Upon payment, content will be available for download for 14 days before the user is denied access.
Which of the following would be the LEAST complicated implementation?

Question16: A Solutions Architect is designing a Lambda function that calls an API to list all running Amazon RDS instances. How should the request be authorized?

Question17: A Solutions Architect is architecting a workload that requires a performant objectbased storage system that must be shared with multiple Amazon EC2 instances.
Which AWS service meets this requirement?

Question18: A company is implementing a data lake solution on Amazon S3. Its security policy mandates that the data stored in Amazon S3 should be encrypted at rest.
Which options can achieve this? (Select TWO.)

Question19: A company is running a series of national TV campaigns. These 30-second advertisements will introduce sudden traffic peaks targeted at a Node.js application. The company expects traffic to increase from five requests each minute to more than 5,000 requests each minute.
Which AWS service should a Solutions Architect use to ensure traffic surges can be handled?

Question20: A company's new web application running on Amazon EC2 across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) will be heavily accessed during regular business hours After business hours, usage will be minimal. What fleet-scaling approach should be used to size the EC2 fleet to handle the traffic demands?

Question21: A Solutions Architect is concerned that the current security group rules for a database tier are too permissive and may permit requests that should be restricted. Below are the current security group permissions for the database tier:
1 Protocol: TCP
2 Port Range: 1433 (MS SQL)
3 Source: ALL
Currently, the only identified resource that needs to connect to the databases is the application tier consisting of an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances.
What changes can be made to this security group that would offer the users LEAST privilege?

Question22: A Solutions Architect is designing a solution that can monitor memory and disk space utilization of all Amazon EC2 instances running Amazon Linux and Windows.
Which solution meets this requirement?

Question23: A three-tier application is being created to host small news articles. The application is expected to serve millions of users. When breaking news occurs, the site must handle very large spikes in traffic without significantly impacting database performance.
Which design meets these requirements while minimizing costs?

Question24: A company uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application running on c4.large instances. Users are reporting high latency and failed requests. Further investigation reveals that the EC2 instances are running at or near 100% CPU utilization.
What should a Solutions Architect do to address the performance issues?

Question25: An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones (AZs) behind an Application Load Balancer. The load balancer is in public subnets; the EC2 instances are in private subnets and must not be accessible from the internet. The EC2 instances must call external services on the internet. If one AZ becomes unavailable, the remaining EC2 instances must still be able to call the external services.
How should these requirements be met?

Question26: An application requires block storage for file updates. The data is 500 GB and must continuously sustain 100 MiB/s of aggregate read/write operations.
Which storage option is appropriate for this application?

Question27: An organization runs an online voting system for a television program. During broadcasts, hundreds of thousands of votes are submitted within minutes and sent to a front-end fleet of auto-scaled Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances push the votes to an RDBMS database. The database is unable to keep up with the front-end connection requests.

Question28: A web application runs on 10 EC2 instances launched from a single customer Amazon Machine Image (AMI).
The EC2 instances are behind an Internet Application Load Balancer.
Amazon Route 53 provides DNS for the application.
How should a Solutions Architect automate recovery when a web server instance stops replying to request?

Question29: An application calls a service run by a vendor. The Vendor charges based on the number of calls. The finance department needs to know the number of calls that are made to the service to validate the billing statements.
How can a Solution Architect design a system to durably store the number of calls without requiring changes to the application?

Question30: A Solutions Architect designed a system based on Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.
After the workflow was put into production, the company noticed it performed slowly and identified Kinesis Data Streams as the problem. One of the streams has a total of 10 Mb/s throughput.
What should the Solutions Architect recommend to improve performance?

Question31: A Solutions Architect is developing a new web application on AWS. The services must scale to support an increasing load. The Architect wants to focus on software development and deploying new features rather than provisioning or managing servers.
Which AWS service is appropriate?

Question32: A company needs to capture all client connection information from its Application Load Balancer every five minutes. This data will be used to analyze traffic patterns and troubleshoot the application.
How can a Solutions Architect meet this requirement?

Question33: A Solutions Architect notices slower response times from an application. The CloudWatch metrics on the MySQL RDS indicate Read IOPS are high and fluctuate significantly when the database is under load.
How should the database environment be re-designed to resolve the IOPS fluctuation?

Question34: A Solutions Architect needs to allow developers to have SSH connectivity to web servers. The requirements are as follows:
1 Limit access to users origination from the corporate network.
2 Web servers cannot have SSH access directly from the Internet.
3 Web servers reside in a private subnet.
Which combination of steps must the Architect complete to meet these requirements?
(Choose two.)

Question35: A company is using Amazon S3 as its local repository for weekly analysis reports. One of the company-wide requirements is to secure data at rest using encryption. The company chose Amazon S3 server-side encryption. The company wants to know how the object is decrypted when a GET request is issued.
Which of the following answers this question?

Question36: How can a user track memory usage in an EC2 instance?

Question37: A company wants to migrate a highly transactional database to AWS. Requirements state that the database has more than 6 TB of data and will grow exponentially.
Which solution should a Solutions Architect recommend?

Question38: a company is storing application data in Amazon S3 buckets across multiple AWS regions. Company policy requires that encryption keys be generated at the company headquarters, but the encryption keys may be stored in AWS after generation. The solutions architect plans to configure cross-region replication.
Which solution will encrypt the data while requiring the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Question39: A Solutions Architect must select the most cost-efficient architecture for a service that responds to web requests. These web requests are small and query a DynamoDB table.
The request rate ranges from zero to several hundred each second, without any predictable patterns.
What is the MOST cost-efficient architecture for this service?

Question40: A company has many applications on Amazon EC2 instances running in Auto Scaling groups. Company policies require that data on the attached Amazon EBS volume must be retained.
Which actions will meet this requirement without impacting performance?

Question41: A Solutions Architect is creating a new relational database. The Compliance team will use the database, and mandates that data content must be stored across three different Availability Zones.
Which of the following options should the Architect Use?

Question42: A Solutions Architect has designed a VPC that meets all necessary security requirements for their organization. Any applications deployed in the organization must use this VPC design.
How can project teams deploy, manage, and delete VPCs that meet this design with the LEAST administrative effort?

Question43: As part of a migration strategy, a Solutions Architect needs to analyze workloads that can be optimized for performance and cost. The Solutions Architect has identified a stateless application that serves static content as a potential candidate to move to the cloud.
The Solutions Architect has the flexibility to choose an identity solution between Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon.
Which AWS solution offers flexibility and ease of use, and the LEAST operational overhead for this migration?

Question44: A company is developing a new stateless web service with low memory requirements.
The service needs to scale based on demand.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question45: A Solutions Architect is designing a new web application on Amazon EC2. The system must make application-specific metrics, such as application security events, available to the SysOps teams.
How should the solutions Architect enable this in the design?

Question46: A company has a popular multi-player mobile game hosted in its on-premises datacenter. The current infrastructure can no longer keep up with demand and the company is considering a move to the cloud.
Which solution should a Solutions Architect recommend as the MOST scalable and costeffective solution to meet these needs?

Question47: A company's website receives 50,000 requests each second, and the company wants to use multiple applications to analyze the navigation patterns of the users on their website so that the experience can be personalized.
What can a Solutions Architect use to collect page clicks for the website and process them sequentially for each user?

Question48: A company is storing data in an Amazon DynamoDB table and needs to take daily backups and retain them for
6 months.
How should the Solutions Architect meet these requirements without impacting the production workload?

Question49: A company expects its user base to increase five times over one year. Its application is hosted in one region and uses an Amazon RDS MySQL database, an ELB Application Load Balancer, and Amazon ECS to host the website and its microservices.
Which design changes should a Solutions Architect recommend to support the expected growth? (Choose two.)

Question50: A company has an application that stores sensitive data. The company is required by government regulations to store multiple copies of its data.
What would be the MOST resilient and cost-effective option to meet this requirement?

Question51: A retail company runs hourly flash sales and has a performance issue on its Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database. The Database Administrators have identified that the issue with performance happens when finance and marketing employees refresh sales dashboards that are used for reporting real-time sales data.
What should be done to resolve the issue without impacting performance?

Question52: A company has an Amazon RDS database backing its production website. The Sales team needs to run queries against the database to track training program effectiveness.
Queries against the production database cannot impact performance, and the solution must be easy to maintain.
How can these requirements be met?

Question53: A customer is deploying a production portal application on AWS. The database tier has structured data. The company requires a solution that is easily manageable and highly available.
How can these requirements be met?

Question54: A Solutions Architect plans to migrate a load balancer tier from a data center to AWS.
Several websites have multiple domains that require secure load balancing. The Architect decides to use Elastic Load Balancing Application Load Balancers.
What is the MOST efficient method for achieving secure communication?

Question55: An application uses an Amazon SQS queue as a transport mechanism to deliver data to a group of EC2 instances for processing. The application owner wants to add a mechanism to archive the incoming data without modifying application code on the EC2 instances.
How can this application be re-architected to archive the data without modifying the processing instances?

Question56: An application runs on EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancing Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The application provides a RESTful interface with both synchronous and asynchronous operations. The asynchronous operations require up to 5 minutes to complete. Although the application must remain available at all times, after business hours, the traffic going to the application is greatly reduced and often results in the Auto Scaling group running the minimum number of On-Demand Instances.
What should the Solutions Architect recommend to optimize the cost of the environment after business hours?

Question57: A popular e-commerce application runs on AWS. The application encounters performance issues. The database is unable to handle the amount of queries and load during peak times. The database is running on the RDS Aurora engine on the largest instance size available. What should an administrator do to improve performance?

Question58: An interactive, dynamic website runs on Amazon EC2 instances in a single subnet behind an ELB Classic Load Balancer.
Which design changes will make the site more highly available?

Question59: A Solutions Architect is designing a web application for document sharing. The users will upload documents that are then made available to other users. There will be tens of thousands of these documents.
What is the MOST cost-effective storage solution?

Question60: A Solutions Architect is designing an application on AWS that uses persistent block storage. Data must be encrypted at rest.
Which solution meets the requirement?

Question61: A photo-sharing website running on AWS allows users to generate thumbnail images of photos stored in Amazon S3. An Amazon DynamoDB table maintains the locations of photos, and thumbnails are easily re-created from the originals if they are accidentally deleted.
How should the thumbnail images be stored to ensure the LOWEST cost?

Question62: A Solutions Architect is designing a high-performance computing job that runs on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets. To allow the application to download patches, the infrastructure must be altered to allow the instances to access external endpoints. Any changes to the infrastructure must involve minimal ongoing systems management effort.
What will allow the EC2 instances to access the endpoint while meeting these requirements?

Question63: A workload consists of downloading an image from an Amazon S3 bucket, processing the image, and moving it to another Amazon S3 bucket. An Amazon EC2 instance runs a scheduled task every hour to perform the operation.
How should a Solutions Architect redesign the process so that it is highly available?

Question64: A Solutions Architect is designing a stateful web application that will run for one year (24/7) and then be decommissioned. Load on this platform will be constant, using a number of r4.8xlarge instances. Key drivers for this system include high availability, but elasticity is not required.
What is the MOST cost-effective way to purchase compute for this platform?

Question65: A company is using an Amazon S3 bucket located in us-west-2 to serve videos to their customers. Their customers are located all around the world and the videos are requested a lot during peak hours. Customers in Europe complain about experiencing slow downloaded speeds, and during peak hours, customers in all locations report experiencing HTTP 500 errors.
What can a Solutions Architect do to address these issues?

Question66: A company wants to migrate a three-tier web application to AWS. The company wants to control the placement of the instances and have visibility into underlying sockets and cores for licensing purposes.
Which compute model should a Solutions Architect choose to accomplish this task?

Question67: A Solutions Architect is building an application that stores object data. Compliance requirements state that the data stored is immutable.
Which service meets these requirements?

Question68: A Company will run different data analytics jobs on large petabyte-scale datasets, Using standard SQL and existing business intelligence tools. The data is mostly structured, but part of the data unstructured and resides in Amazon S3.
What Technologies should be used to support this use case?

Question69: A Solutions Architect needs to deploy an HTTP/HTTPS service on Amazon EC2 instances with support for WebSockets using load balancers.
How can the Architect meet these requirements?

Question70: A company will host a static website within an Amazon S3 bucket. The website will serve millions of users globally, and the company wants to minimize data transfer costs.
What should the Solutions Architect do to ensure costs are kept to a minimum?

Question71: A Solution Architect is designing a three-tier web application. The Architect wants to restrict access to the database tier to accept traffic from the application servers only.
However, these application servers are in an Auto Scaling group and may vary in quantity.
How should the Architect configure the database servers to meet the requirements?

Question72: A company has asked a Solutions Architect to ensure that data is protected during data transfer to and from Amazon S3.
Use of which service will protect the data in transit?

Question73: A customer set up an Amazon VPC with one private subnet and one public subnet with a NAT gateway. The VPC will contain a group of Amazon EC2 instances. All instances will configure themselves at startup by downloading a bootstrap script from an Amazon S3 bucket with a policy that only allows access from the customer's Amazon EC2 instances and then deploys an application through GIT. A Solutions Architect has been asked to design a solution that provides the highest level of security regarding network connectivity to the Amazon EC2 instances.
How should the Architect design the infrastructure?

Question74: A Solutions Architect has a multi-layer application running in Amazon VPC. The application has an ELB Classic Load Balancer as the front end in a public subnet, and an Amazon EC2-based reverse proxy that performs content-based routing to two backend Amazon EC2 instances hosted in a private subnet. The Architect sees tremendous traffic growth and is concerned that the reverse proxy and current backend set up will be insufficient.
Which actions should the Architect take to achieve a cost-effective solution that ensures the application automatically scales to meet traffic demand? (Select two.)

Question75: A Solutions Architect has a three-tier web application that serves customers worldwide. Analysis reveals that product images take more time to load than expected.
Which action will improve the image load time?

Question76: An organization must process a stream of large-volume hashtag data in real time and needs to run custom SQL queries on the data to get insights on certain tags. The organization needs this solution to be elastic and does not want to manage clusters.
Which of the following AWS services meets these requirements?

Question77: A Solutions Architect must select the storage type for a big data application that requires very high sequential I/O. The data must persist if the instance is stopped.
Which of the following storage types will provide the best fit at the LOWEST cost for the application?

Question78: A company is using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to secure their Amazon RDS databases. An auditor has recommended that the company log all use of their AWS KMS keys.
What is the SIMPLEST solution?

Question79: An application running on Amazon EC2 has been experiencing performance issues when accessing an Amazon RDS for Oracle database. The database has been provisioned correctly for average workloads, but there are several usage spikes each day that have saturated the database, causing the application to time out. The application is write-heavy, updating information more often than reading information. A Solutions Architect has been asked to review the application design.
What should the Solutions Architect recommend to improve performance?

Question80: One company wants to share the contents of their Amazon S3 bucket with another company. Security requirements mandate that only the other company's AWS accounts have access to the contents of the Amazon S3 bucket.
Which Amazon S3 feature will allow secure access to the Amazon S3 bucket?

Question81: A Solutions Architect is designing an application that is expected to have millions of users. The Architect needs options to store session data.
Which option is the MOST performant?

Question82: An application publishes Amazon SNS messages in response to several events. An AWS Lambda function subscribes to these messages. Occasionally the function will fail while processing a message, so the original event message must be preserved for root cause analysis.
What architecture will meet these requirements without changing the workflow?

Question83: A Solutions Architect is designing an architecture for a mobile gaming application. The application is expected to be very popular. The Architect needs to prevent the Amazon RDS MySQL database from becoming a bottleneck due to frequently accessed queries.

Question84: A solutions Architect is designing a new workload where an AWS Lambda function will access an Amazon DynamoDB table.
What is the MOST secure means of granting the Lambda function access to the DynamoDB table?

Question85: A Solutions Architect is building a new feature using a Lambda to create metadata when a user uploads a picture to Amazon S3. All metadata must be indexed.
Which AWS service should the Architect use to store this metadata?

Question86: A Solutions Architect is designing a public-facing web application for employees to upload images to their social media account. The application consists of multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an elastic load balancer, an Amazon S3 bucket where uploaded images are stored, and an Amazon DynamoDB table for storing image metadata.
Which AWS service can the Architect use to automate the process of updating metadata in the DynamoDB table upon image upload?

Question87: A customer has a production application that frequently overwrites and deletes data, the application requires the most up-to-date version of the data every time it is requested.
Which storage should a Solutions Architect recommend to bet accommodate this use case?

Question88: A company has an application that accesses a MySQL database installed on a single EC2 instance. The instance recently experienced a fault and brought down the entire application for several hours. The company wants to address the issue but is concerned about spending too much time modifying application code or managing the legacy application.
What should the Solutions Architect recommend to remove this single point of failure with the FEWEST changes to the application code and the LEAST amount of administrative effort?

Question89: A company has a Node.js application running on Amazon EC2 that currently retrieves data for customers from a DynamoDB table. The company is seeing many repeat queries for the same items, and the number of queries is continuing to increase as the application gains popularity.
What solution will reduce the number of read capacity units (RCUs) required while minimizing the amount of refactoring that must be done to the application?

Question90: A Solutions Architect must design a storage solution for incoming billing reports in CSV format. The data does not need to be scanned frequently and is discarded after 30 days.
Which service will be MOST cost-effective in meeting these requirements?

Question91: A user is testing a new service that receives location updates from 3,600 rental cars every hour.
Which service will collect data and automatically scale to accommodate production workload?

Question92: A Solutions Architect is deploying a new production MySQL database on AWS. It is critical that the database is highly available.
What should the Architect do to achieve this goal with Amazon RDS?

Question93: A company has a web application running in a Docker container that connects to a MySQL server in an on-premises data center. The deployment and maintenance of this application are becoming time-consuming and slowing down new feature releases. The company wants to migrate the application to AWS and use services that helps facilitate infrastructure management and deployment.
Which architectures should the company consider on AWS? (Choose two.)

Question94: An application running in a private subnet accesses an Amazon DynamoDB table.
There is a security requirement that the data never leave the AWS network.
How should this requirement be met?

Question95: A company requires operating system permission on a relational database server.
What should a Solutions Architect suggest as a configuration for a highly available database architecture?

Question96: A customer owns a simple API for their website that receives about 1,000 requests each day and has an average response time of 50 ms. It is currently hosted on one c4.large instance.
Which changes to the architecture will provide high availability at the LOWEST cost?

Question97: A company has asked the Solutions Architect to modify its AWS-hosted internal application to allow for load balancing. The customer requests always come from the company domain (example.net). The company requires that incoming HTTP and HTTPS traffic is routed based on the path element of the URL in the request.
Which implementation can satisfy all requirements?

Question98: A customer has an application that is used by enterprise customers outside of AWS.
Some of these customers use legacy firewalls that cannot whitelist by DNS name, but whitelist based only on IP address. The application is currently deployed in two Availability Zones, with one EC2 instance in each that has Elastic IP addresses. The customer wants to whitelist only two IP addresses, but the two existing EC2 instances cannot sustain the amount of traffic.
What can a Solutions Architect do to support the customer and allow for more capacity?
(Choose two.)

Question99: A Solutions Architect is designing an application that requires having six Amazon EC2 instances running at all times. The application will be deployed in the sa-east-1 region, which has three Availability Zones: sa-east-1 a, sa-east-1 b, and sa-east-1 c.
Which action will provide 100 percent fault tolerance and the LOWEST cost in the event that one Availability Zone in the region becomes unavailable?

Question100: A Solutions Architect is designing a web application that will be hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in a public subnet. The web application uses a MySQL database in a private subnet. The database should be accessible to database administrators.
Which of the following options should the Architect recommend? (Choose two.)

Question101: A customer is looking for a storage archival solution for 1,000 TB of data. The customer requires that the solution be durable and data be available within a few hours of requesting it, but not exceeding a day. The solution should be as cost-effective as possible.
To meet security compliance policies, data must be encrypted at rest. The customer expects they will need to fetch the data two times in a year.
Which storage solution should a Solutions Architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question102: A company hosts a website using Amazon API Gateway on the front end. Recently, there has been heavy traffic on the website and the company wants to control access by allowing authenticated traffic only.
How should the company limit access to authenticated users only? (Select TWO.)

Question103: A company is designing a website that will be hosted on Amazon S3.
How should users be prevented from linking directly to the assets in the S3 bucket?

Question104: A company is using Amazon S3 for backups from an on-premises environment.
Regulatory requirements state that data must be retained for at least 7 years. The data is infrequently accessed for 35 days, but needs to be instantly available. After 35 days, the data is rarely accessed.
Which combination of actions will provide the MOST cost-effective solution? (Choose two)

Question105: A company has an Amazon RDS-managed online transaction processing system that has very heavy read and write. The Solutions Architect notices throughput issues with the system.
How can the responsiveness of the primary database be improved?

Question106: An application hosted on AWS uses object storage for storing internal reports that are accessed daily by the CFO. Currently, these reports are publicly available.
How should a Solutions Architect re-design this architecture to prevent unauthorized access to these reports?

Question107: A Solutions Architect is designing a highly-available website that is served by multiple web servers hosted outside of AWS. If an instance becomes unresponsive, the Architect needs to remove it from the rotation.
What is the MOST efficient way to fulfill this requirement?

Question108: Application servers currently deployed in a private subnet require the ability to integrate with a third-party service accessible through the Internet.
Which changes are required to provide outbound Internet connectivity in the VPC without providing inbound Internet connectivity to the application servers?

Question109: A large media site has multiple applications in Amazon ECS. A Solutions Architect needs to use content metadata and route traffic to specific services.
What is the MOST efficient method to perform this task?

Question110: A prediction process requires access to a trained model that is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. The process takes a few seconds to process an image and make a prediction. The process is not overly resource-intensive, does not require any specialized hardware, and takes less than 512 MB of memory to run.
What would be the MOST effective compute solution for this use case?