EMT Practice Test

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Question1: a website on Amazon S3. The website serves petabytes of outbound traffic monthly, which accounts for most of the company's AWS costs. What should a solutions architect do to reduce costs?

Question2: A company is building applications in containers. The company wants to migrate its on-premises development and operations services from its on-premises data center to AWS. Management states that production system must be cloud agnostic and use the same configuration and administrator tools across production systems. A solutions architect needs to design a managed solution that will align open-source software.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question3: A company wants to use an AWS Region as a disaster recovery location for its on-premises infrastructure. The company has 10 TB of existing data, and the on-premise data center has a 1 Gbps internet connection. A solutions architect must find a solution so the company can have its existing data on AWS in 72 hours without transmitting it using an unencrypted channel.
Which solution should the solutions architect select?

Question4: An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets. The application needs to access an Amazon DynamoDB table. What is the MOST secure way to access the table while ensuring that the traffic does not leave the AWS network?

Question5: A database is on an Amazon RDS MYSQL 5.6 Multi-AZ DB instance that experience highly dynamic reads.
Application developers notice a significant slowdown when testing read performance from a secondary AWS Region. The developers want a solution that provides less than 1 second of read replication latency.
What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question6: 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.)

Question7: A solutions architect has configured the following IAM policy.

Which action will be allowed by the policy?

Question8: A company has a three-tier image-sharing application it uses an Amazon EC2 instance for the front-end layer, another for the backend tier, and a third for the MySQL database A solutions architect has been tasked with designing a solution that is highly available, and requires the least amount of changes to the application Which solution meets these requirements'?

Question9: A solutions architect is deploying a distributed database on multiple Amazon EC2 instances The database stores all data on multiple instances so it can withstand the loss of an instance The database requires block storage with latency and throughput to support several million transactions per second per server Which storage solution should the solutions architect use?

Question10: An application running on an Amazon EC2 instance in VPC-A needs to access files in another EC2 instance in VPC-B. Both are in separate. AWS accounts. The network administrator needs to design a solution to enable secure access to EC2 instance in VOC-B from VPC-A. The connectivity should not have a single point of failure or bandwidth concerns.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question11: A company's legacy application is currently relying on a single-instance Amazon RDS MySQL database without encryption Due to new compliance requirements, all existing and new data in this database must be encrypted How should this be accomplished?

Question12: A company is planning to build a new web application on AWS. The company expects predictable traffic most of the year and very high traffic on occasion. The web application needs to be highly available and fault tolerant with minimal latency.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question13: A company has a Microsoft Windows-based application that must be migrated to AWS. This application requires the use of a shared Windows file system attached to multiple Amazon EC2 Windows instances.
What should a solution architect do to accomplish this?

Question14: A company has several business systems that require access to data stored in a file share. the business systems will access the file share using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. The file share solution should be accessible from both of the company's legacy on-premises environment and with AWS.
Which services mod the business requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question15: A solutions architect is designing a new service behind Amazon API Gateway The request patterns for the service will be unpredictable and can change suddenly from 0 requests to over 500 per second The total size of the data that needs to be persisted in a backend database is currently less than 1 GB with unpredictable future growth Data can be queried using simple key-value requests Which combination of AWS services would meet these requirements? (Select TWO )

Question16: A company runs multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances in a VPC with applications that use a hierarchical directory structure. The applications need to rapidly and concurrently read and write to shared storage How can this be achieved?

Question17: A company has a two-tier application architecture that runs in public and private subnets Amazon EC2 instances running the web application are in the public subnet and a database runs on the private subnet The web application instances and the database are running in a single Availability Zone (AZ).
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to provide high availability for this architecture?
(Select TWO.)

Question18: A web application is deployed in the AWS Cloud It consists of a two-tier architecture that includes a web layer and a database layer The web server is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks What should a solutions architect do to remediate the vulnerability?

Question19: 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.)

Question20: A company runs an application in a branch office within a small data closet with no virtualized compute resources. The application data is stored on an NFS volume. Compliance standards require a daily offsite backup of the NFS volume.
Which solution meet these requirements?

Question21: A company operates a website on Amazon EC2 Linux instances. Some of the instances are faring Troubleshooting points to insufficient swap space on the failed instances. The operations team lead needs a solution to monitor this.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question22: 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''

Question23: A company decides to migrate its three-tier web application from on premises to the AWS Cloud. The new database must be capable of dynamically scaling storage capacity and performing table joins.
Which AWS service meets these requirements?

Question24: A company has created a VPC with multiple private subnets in multiple Availability Zones (AZs) and one public subnet in one of the AZs. The public subnet is used to launch a NAT gateway. There are instance in the private subnet that use a NAT gateway to connect to the internet. In case is used of an AZ failure, the company wants to ensure that the instance are not all experiencing internet connectivity issues and that there is a backup plan ready.
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend that is MOST highly available?

Question25: A company hosts a training site on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The company anticipates that its new course, which consists of dozens of training videos on the site, will be extremely popular when it is released in
1 week.
What should a solutions architect do to minimize the anticipated server load?

Question26: A company hosts its core network services, including directory services and DNS. in its on-premises data center. The data center is connected to the AWS Cloud using AWS Direct Connect (DX) Additional AWS accounts are planned that will require quick, cost-effective, and consistent access to these network services What should a solutions architect implement to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Question27: 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?

Question28: A group requires permissions to list an Amazon S3 bucket and delete objects from that bucket. An administrator has created the following IAM policy to provide access to the bucket and applied that policy to the group. The group is not able to delete objects in the bucket. The company follows least-privilege access rules.

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Question29: A company has an application that posts messages to Amazon SQS Another application polls the queue and processes the messages in an l/O-intensive operation The company has a service level agreement (SLA) that specifies the maximum amount of time that can elapse between receiving the messages and responding to the users Due to an increase in the number of messages the company has difficulty meeting its SLA consistently.
What should a solutions architect do to help improve the application's processing time and ensure it can handle the load at any level?

Question30: 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?

Question31: 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?

Question32: A company's website runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The website has a mix of dynamic and static content Users around the globe are reporting that the website is slow Which set of actions will improve website performance for users worldwide?

Question33: A solutions architect is implementing a document review application using an Amazon S3 bucket for storage The solution must prevent accidental deletion of the documents and ensure that all versions of the documents are available Users must be able to download, modify, and upload documents Which combination of actions should be taken to meet these requirements'? (Select TWO )

Question34: A company runs a high performance computing (HPC) workload on AWS. The workload required low-latency network performance and high network throughput with tightly coupled node-to-node communication. The Amazon EC2 instances are properly sized for compute and storage capacity, and are launched using default options.
What should a solutions architect propose to improve the performance of the workload'?

Question35: A company's application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones On the first day of every month at midnight the application becomes much slower when the month-end financial calculation batch executes This causes the CPU utilization of the EC2 instances to immediately peak to 100%. which disrupts the application What should a solutions architect recommend to ensure the application is able to handle the workload and avoid downtime?

Question36: A company is migrating to the AWS Cloud. A file server is the first workload to migrate. Users must be able to access the file share using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. Which AWS managed service meets these requirements?

Question37: A company's application is running on Amazon EC2 instances within an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancer Based on the application's history, the company anticipates a spike in traffic during a holiday each year A solutions architect must design a strategy to ensure that the Auto Scaling group proactively increases capacity to minimize any performance impact on application users Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question38: A company has a dynamic web application hosted on two Amazon EC2 instances. The company has its own SSL certificate, which is on each instance to perform SSL termination.
There has been an increase in traffic recently, and the operations team determined that SSL encryption and decryption is causing the compute capacity of the web servers to reach their maximum limit.
What should a solutions architect do to increase the application's performance?

Question39: A solutions architect is designing an architecture for a new application that requires low network latency and high network throughput between Amazon EC2 instances. Which component should be included in the architectural design?

Question40: 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-d not exceed 60% while the reporting queries are running. The business reporting users must be able to generate reports without affecting the applications performance.
Which action will accomplish this?

Question41: A company is hosting a website behind multiple Application Load Balancers. The company has different distribution rights for its content around the world. A solutions architect needs to ensure that users are served the correct content without violating distribution rights.
Which configuration should the solutions architect choose to meet these requirements?
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Question42: A solution architect is designing a hybrid application using the AWS cloud. The network between the on-premises data center and AWS will use an AWS Direct Connect (DX) connection. The application connectivity between AWS and the on-premises data center must be highly resilient.
Which DX configuration should be implemented to meet these requirements?

Question43: 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?

Question44: An engineering team is developing and deploying AWS Lambda functions. The team needs to create roles and manage policies in AWS IAM to configure the permissions of the Lambda functions.
How should the permissions for the team be configured so they also adhere to the concept of least privilege?

Question45: A bicycle sharing company is developing a multi-tier architecture to track the location of its bicycles during peak operating hours The company wants to use these data points in its existing analytics platform A solutions architect must determine the most viable multi-tier option to support this architecture The data points must be accessible from the REST API Which action meets these requirements for storing and retrieving location data?

Question46: A company is migrating a three-tier application to AWS. The application requires a MySQL database. In the past, the application users reported poor application performance when creating new entries. These performance issues were caused by users generating different real-time reports from the application duringworking hours.
Which solution will improve the performance of the application when it is moved to AWS?

Question47: A company is managing health records on-premises 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 records not being used by any application, and the current infrastructure is running out of space The CTO has requested a solutions architect design a solution to move existing data and support future records Which services can the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements'?

Question48: A company has created an isolated backup of its environment in another Region. The application is running in warm standby mode and is fronted by an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The current failover process is manual and requires updating a DNS alias record to point to the secondary ALB in another Region.
What should a solution architect do to automate the failover process?

Question49: An application uses an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. The RDS database is becoming low on disk space.
A solutions architect wants to increase the disk space without downtime Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort?

Question50: A company has a large Microsoft SharePoint deployment running on-premises that requires Microsoft Windows shared file storage. The company wants to migrate this workload to the AWS Cloud and is considering various storage options. The storage solution must be highly available and integrated with Active Directory for access control.
Which solution will satisfy these requirements?

Question51: 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?

Question52: A company is running a two-tier ecommerce website using services. The current architect uses a publish-facing Elastic Load Balancer that sends traffic to Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet. The static content is hosted on EC2 instances, and the dynamic content is retrieved from a MYSQL database. The application is running in the United States. The company recently started selling to users in Europe and Australia. A solution architect needs to design solution so their international users have an improved browsing experience.
Which solution is MOST cost-effective?

Question53: 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 jobs to be processed The processor application is stateless The solutions architect must ensure that the application is loosely coupled and the job items are durably stored Which design should the solutions architect use?

Question54: A solutions architect has created a new AWS account and must secure AWS account root user access Which combination of actions will accomplish this? (Select TWO.)

Question55: A solutions architect is designing storage for a high performance computing (HPC) environment based on Amazon Linux. The workload stores and processes a large amount of engineering drawings that require shared storage and heavy computing.
Which storage option would be the optimal solution?

Question56: A company is using a VPC peering strategy to connect its VPCs in a single Region to allow for cross-communication. A recent increase in account creations and VPCs has made it difficult to maintain the VPC peering strategy, and the company expects to grow to hundreds of VPCs. There are also new requests to create site-to-site VPNs with some of the VPCs. A solutions architect has been tasked with creating a centrally networking setup for multiple accounts, VPNS, and VPNs.
Which networking solution meets these requirements?

Question57: A company serves content to its subscribers across the world using an application running on AWS The application has several Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) Due to a recent change in copyright restrictions the chief information officer (CIO) wants to block access for certain countries Which action will meet these requirements?

Question58: An application running on AWS uses an Amazon Aurora Multi-AZ deployment for its database When evaluating performance metrics, a solutions architect discovered that the database reads are causing high I/O and adding latency to the write requests against the database What should the solutions architect do to separate the read requests from the write requests?

Question59: A recently acquired company is required to build its own infrastructure on AWS and migrate multiple applications to the cloud within a month Each application has approximately 50 TB of data to be transferred After the migration is complete this company and its parent company will both require secure network connectivity with consistent throughput from their data centers to the applications A solutions architect must ensure one-time data migration and ongoing network connectivity Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question60: 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?

Question61: As part of budget planning, management wants a report of AWS billed items listed by user. The data will be used to create department budgets. A solutions architect needs to determine the most efficient way to obtain this report information.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question62: An operations team has a standard that states IAM policies should not be applied directly to users. Some new members have not been following this standard. The operation manager needs a way to easily identify the users with attached policies.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question63: A company has established a new AWS account. The account is newly provisioned and no changed have been made to the default settings. The company is concerned about the security of the AWS account root user.
What should be done to secure the root user?

Question64: 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?

Question65: A company stores call recordings on a monthly basis Statistically, the recorded data may be referenced randomly within a year but accessed rarely after 1 year Files that are newer than 1 year old must be queried and retrieved as quickly as possible. A delay in retrieving older files is acceptable A solutions architect needs to store the recorded data at a minimal cost Which solution is MOST cost-effective?

Question66: A recent analysis of a company's IT expenses highlights the need to reduce backup costs. The company's chief information officer wants to simplify the on-premises backup infrastructure and reduce costs by eliminating the use of physical backup tapes. The company must preserve the existing investment in the on-premises backup applications and workflows.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question67: A company is looking for a solution that can store video archives in AWS from old news footage. The company needs to minimize costs and will rarely need to restore these files. When the files are needed, they must be available in a maximum of five minutes.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question68: A solutions architect is moving the static content from a public website hosted on Amazon EC2 instances to an Amazon S3 bucket. An Amazon CloudFront distribution will be used to deliver the static assets. The security group used by the EC2 instances restricts access to a limited set of IP ranges. Access to the static content should be similarly restricted.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question69: A company's dynamic website is hosted using on-premises servers in the United States. The company is launching its product in Europe and it wants to optimize site loading times for new European users. The site's backend must remain in the United States. The product is being launched in a few days, and an immediate solution is needed What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question70: A media streaming company collects real-time data and stores it in a disk-optimized database system The company is not getting the expected throughput and wants an in-memory database storage solution that performs faster and provides high availability using data replication.
Which database should a solutions architect recommend'?

Question71: A company with facilities in North America. Europe, and Asia is designing new distributed application to optimize its global supply chain and manufacturing process. The orders booked on one continent should be visible to all Regions in a second or less. The database should be able to support failover with a short Recovery Time Objective (RTO) The uptime of the application is important to ensure that manufacturing is not impacted What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question72: 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?

Question73: A company is processing data on a daily basis The results of the operations are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket, analyzed daily for one week, and then must remain immediately accessible for occasional analysis What is the MOST cost-effective storage solution alternative to the current configuration?

Question74: A company built an application that lets users check in to places they visit, rank the places, and add reviews about their experiences The application is successful with a rapid increase in the number of users every month The chief technology officer fears the database supporting the current Infrastructure may not handle the new load the following month because the single Amazon RDS for MySQL instance has triggered alarms related lo resource exhaustion due to read requests.
What can a solutions architect recommend to prevent service Interruptions at the database layer with minimal changes to code?

Question75: A solution 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 solution architected has proposed migrating the IIS web servers
Which replacement to the on-promises filo share is MOST resilient and durable?

Question76: A company is planning to migrate its virtual server-based workloads to AWS The company has internet-facing load balancers backed by application servers. The application servers rely on patches from an internet-hosted repository Which services should a solutions architect recommend be hosted on the public subnet*? (Select TWO.)

Question77: A company captures clickstream data from multiple websites and analyzes it using batch processing. The data is loaded nightly into Amazon Redshift and is consumed by business analysts. The company wants to move towards near-real-time data processing for timely insights. The solution should process the streaming data with minimal effort and operational overhead.
Which combination of AWS services are MOST cost-effective for this solution? (Choose two.)

Question78: 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?

Question79: A web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application allows users to create custom reports of historical weather data. Generating a report can take up to 5 minutes.
These long-running requests use many of the available incoming connections, making the system unresponsive to other users.
How can a solutions architect make the system more responsive?

Question80: A product team is creating a new application that will store a large amount of data The data will be analyzed hourly and modified by multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances The application team believes the amount of space needed will continue to grow for the next 6 months Which set of actions should a solutions architect take to support these needs'?

Question81: A solutions architect at an ecommerce company wants to back up application log data to Amazon S3 The solutions architect is unsure how frequently the logs will be accessed or which logs will be accessed the most The company wants to keep costs as low as possible by using the appropriate S3 storage class.
Which S3 storage class should be implemented to meet these requirements?

Question82: A company relies on an application that needs at least 4 Amazon EC2 instances during regular traffic and must scale up to 12 EC2 instances during peak loads. The application is critical to the business and must be highly available Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question83: A solutions architect is designing a customer-facing application. The application is expected to have a variable amount of reads and writes depending on the time of year and clearly defined access patterns throughout the year. Management requires that database auditing and scaling be managed in the AWS Cloud. The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) must be less than 5 hours.
Which solutions can accomplish this? (Select TWO.)

Question84: A company wants to optimize the cost of its data storage for data that is accessed quarterly. The company requires high throughput, low latency, and rapid access, when needed Which Amazon S3 storage class should a solutions architect recommend?

Question85: 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 for automatic recovery of the EC2 instance as quickly as possible?

Question86: A company recently released a new type of internet-connected sensor. The company is expecting lo sell thousands of sensors, which are designed to stream high volumes of data each second to a central location. A solutions architect must design a solution that ingests and stores data so that engineering teams can analyze it in near-real time with millisecond responsiveness.
Which solution should the solutions architect recommend?

Question87: A solutions architect is designing a web application that will run on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The company strictly requires that the application be resilient against malicious internet activity and attacks, and protect against new common vulnerabilities and exposures What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question88: A media company is evaluating the possibility of moving its systems to the AWS Cloud. The company needs at least 10 TB of storage with the maximum possible I/O performance for video processing. 300 TB of very durable storage for storing media content, and 900 TB of storage to meet requirements for archival media that is not in use anymore.
Which set of services should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question89: 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''

Question90: A company runs an application using Amazon ECS. The application creates resized versions of an original image and then makes Amazon S3 API calls to store the resized images in Amazon S3. How can a solutions architect ensure that the application has permission to access Amazon S3?

Question91: A disaster response team is using drones to collect images ot recent storm damage. The response team's laptops lack the storage and compute capacity to transfer the images and process the data. While the team has Amazon EC2 instances for processing and Amazon S3 buckets for storage, network connectivity is intermittent and unreliable. The images need to be processed to evaluate the damage.
What should a solutions architect recommend?