EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A solutions architect is designing a solution to access a catalog of images and provide users with the ability to submit requests to customize images Image customization parameters will be in any request sent to an AWS API Gateway API The customized image will be generated on demand, and users will receive a link they can click to view or download their customized image The solution must be highly available for viewing and customizing images What is the MOST cost-effective solution to meet these requirements?

Question2: A company has an on-premises data center that is running out of storage capacity. The company wants to migrate its storage infrastructure to AWS while minimizing bandwidth costs The solution must allow for immediate retrieval of data at no additional cost.
How can these requirements be met?

Question3: 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 install 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?

Question4: 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.)

Question5: A company recently implemented hybrid cloud connectivity using AWS Direct Connect and is migrating data to Amazon S3. The company is looking for a fully managed solution that will automate and accelerate the replication of data between the on-premises storage systems and AWS storage services.
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to keep the data private?

Question6: A company's production application runs online transaction processing (OLTP) transactions on an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance The company is launching a new reporting tool that will access the same data The reporting tool must be highly available and not impact the performance of the production application.
How can this be achieved?

Question7: 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?

Question8: A company requires a durable backup storage solution for its on-premises database servers while ensuring on-premises applications maintain access to these backups for quick recovery. The company will use AWS storage services as the destination for these backups A solutions architect is designing a solution with minimal operational overhead Which solution should the solutions architect implement?

Question9: A company recently expanded globally and wants to make its application accessible to users in those geographic locations. The application is deploying on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load balancer in an Auto Scaling group. The company needs the ability shift traffic from resources in one region to another.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question10: A company needs to share an Amazon S3 bucket with an external vendor. The bucket owner must be able to access all objects.
Which action should be taken to share the S3 bucket?

Question11: 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?

Question12: A company has an application that calls AWS Lambda functions A recent code review found database credentials stored in the source code The database credentials need to be removed from the Lambda source code The credentials must then be securely stored and rotated on an ongoing basis to meet security policy requirements What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question13: 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?

Question14: A company is developing a real-time multiplier game that uses UDP for communications between 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 solution architect recommend?

Question15: A company runs an application on a group of Amazon Linux EC2 instances The application writes log files using standard API calls For compliance reasons, all log files must be retained indefinitely and will be analyzed by a reporting tool that must access all files concurrently Which storage service should a solutions architect use to provide the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question16: A company has two applications it wants to migrate to AWS. Both applications process a large set of files by accessing the same files at the same time. Both applications need to read the files with low latency. Which architecture should a solutions architect recommend for this situation?

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 company must re-evaluate its need for the Amazon EC2 instances it currently has provisioned in an Auto Scaling group. At present, the Auto Scaling group is configured for minimum of two instances and a maximum of four instances across two Availability zones. A Solutions architect reviewed Amazon CloudWatch metrics and found that CPU utilization is consistently low for the EC2 instances.
What should the solutions architect recommend to maximize utilization while ensuring the application remains fault tolerant?

Question19: 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?

Question20: A solutions architect has configured the following 1AM policy.

Which action will be allowed by the policy?

Question21: A company wants to migrate a high performance computing (HPC) application and data from on-premises to the AWS Cloud The company uses tiered storage on premises with hot high-performance parallel storage to support the application during periodic runs of the application and more economical cold storage to hold the data when the application is not actively running Which combination of solutions should a solutions architect recommend to support the storage needs of the application? (Select TWO )

Question22: A company currently stores symmetric encryption keys in a hardware security module (HSM). A solution architect must design a solution to migrate key management to AWS. The solution should allow for key rotation and support the use of customer provided keys.
Where should the key material be stored to meet these requirements?

Question23: A company is seeing access requests by some suspicious IP addresses. The security team discovers the requests are from different IP addresses under the same CIDR range.
What should a solutions architect recommend to the team?

Question24: A solutions architect is designing a two-tier web application The application consists of a public-facing web tier hosted on Amazon EC2 in public subnets The database tier consists of Microsoft SQL Server running on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet Security is a high priority for the company How should security groups be configured in this situation? (Select TWO )

Question25: A company recently deployed a new auditing system to centralize information about operating system versions, patching, and installed software for Amazon EC2 instances. A solutions architect must ensure all instances provisioned through EC2 Auto Scaling groups successfully send reports to the auditing system as soon as they are launched and terminated.
Which solution achieves these goals MOST efficiently?

Question26: A company hosts its product information webpages on AWS. The existing solution uses multiple Amazon C2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group. The website also uses a custom DNS name and communicates with HTTPS only using a dedicated SSL certificate. The company is planning a new product launch and wants to be sure that users from around the world have the best possible experience on the new website.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question27: A company uses Amazon S3 as its object storage solution. The company has thousands of S3 it uses to store dat a. Some of the S3 bucket have data that is accessed less frequently than others. A solutions architect found that lifecycle policies are not consistently implemented or are implemented partially. resulting in data being stored in high-cost storage.
Which solution will lower costs without compromising the availability of objects?

Question28: A company wants to deploy a shared file system for its .NET application servers and Microsoft SQL Server database running on Amazon EC2 instance with Windows Server 2016. The solution must be able to be integrated in to the corporate Active Directory domain, be highly durable, be managed by AWS, and provided levels of throuput and IOPS.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question29: A company has deployed an API in a VPC behind an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB) An application that consumes the API as a client is deployed in a second account in private subnets behind a NAT gateway. When requests to the client application increase, the NAT gateway costs are higher than expected. A solutions architect has configured the ALB to be internal.
Which combination of architectural changes will reduce the NAT gateway costs? (Select TWO )

Question30: A company has migrated an on-premises Oracle database to an Amazon RDS (or Oracle Multi-AZ DB instance In the us-east-l Region. A solutions architect is designing a disaster recovery strategy to have the database provisioned In the us-west-2 Region In case the database becomes unavailable in the us-east-1 Region. The design must ensure the database is provisioned in the us-west-2 Region in a maximum of 2 hours, with a data loss window of no more than 3 hours.
How can these requirements be met?

Question31: 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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Question32: A solutions architect is designing a system to analyze the performance of financial markets while the markets are closed The system will run a series of compute-intensive jobs for 4 hours every night The time to complete the compute jobs is expected to remain constant, and jobs cannot be interrupted once started Once completed, the system is expected to run for a minimum of 1 year Which type of Amazon EC2 instances should be used to reduce the cost of the system?

Question33: A company is creating an architecture for a mobile app that requires minimal latency for its users The company's architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer running in an Auto Scaling group The EC2 instances connect to Amazon RDS. Application beta testing showed there was a slowdown when reading the data However the metrics indicate that the EC2 instances do not cross any CPU utilization thresholds How can this issue be addressed1?

Question34: A company delivers files in Amazon S3 to certain users who do not have AWS credentials. These users must be given access for a limited lime. What should a solutions architect do to securely meet these requirements?

Question35: A company runs an internal browser-based application The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones The Auto Scaling group scales up to 20 instances during work hours, but scales down to 2 instances overnight Staff are complaining that the application is very slow when the day begins, although it runs well by mid-morning.
How should the scaling be changed to address the staff complaints and keep costs to a minimum?

Question36: A company has a multi-tier application that runs six front-end web servers in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group in a single Availability Zone behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) A solutions architect needs to modify the infrastructure to be highly available without modifying the application Which architecture should the solutions architect choose that provides high availability?

Question37: 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?

Question38: A company plans to store sensitive user data on Amazon S3. Internal security compliance requirement mandata encryption of data before sending it to Amazon S3.
What should a solution architect recommend to satisfy these requirements?

Question39: A company hosts a static website on-premises and wants to migrate the website to AWS The website should load as quickly as possible for users around the world The company also wants the most cost-effective solution What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question40: A company has a custom application running on an Amazon EC? instance that:
* Reads a large amount of data from Amazon S3
* Performs a multi stage analysis
* Writes the results to Amazon DynamoDB
The application writes a significant number of large temporary files during the multi stage analysis The process performance depends on the temporary storage performance.
What would be the fastest storage option for holding the temporary files?

Question41: A solutions architect is tasked with transferring 750 TB of data from a network-attached file system located at a branch office to Amazon S3 Glacier The solution must avoid saturating the branch office's low-bandwidth internet connection What is the MOST cost-effective solution1?

Question42: 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 )

Question43: 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?

Question44: A company has a web server running on an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subnet with an Elastic IP address The default security group is assigned to the EC2 instance. The default network ACL has been modified to block all traffic. A solutions architect needs to make the web server accessible from everywhere on port 443 Which combination of steps will accomplish this task? (Select TWO.)

Question45: A solution architect is performing a security review of a recently migrated workload. The workload is a web application that consists of amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load balancer. The solution architect must improve the security posture and minimize the impact of a DDoS attack on resources.
Which solution is MOST effective?

Question46: A website runs a web application that receives a burst of traffic each day at noon. The users upload new pictures and content daily, but have been complaining of timeouts. The architecture uses Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups, and the custom application consistently takes 1 minute to initiate upon boot up before responding to user requests.
How should a solutions architect redesign the architecture to better respond to changing traffic?

Question47: A three-tier web application processes orders from customers. The web tier consists of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer, a middle tier of three EC2 instances decoupled from the web tier using Amazon SQS. and an Amazon DynamoDB backend. At peak times, customers who submit orders using the site have to wait much longer than normal to receive confirmations due to lengthy processing times. A solutions architect needs to reduce these processing times.
Which action will be MOST effective in accomplishing this?

Question48: A company has multiple AWS accounts, for various departments. One of the departments wants to share an Amazon S3 bucket with all other department.
Which solution will require the LEAST amount of effort?

Question49: 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?

Question50: 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.)

Question51: 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'?

Question52: 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?

Question53: 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 Australi a. A solution architect needs to design solution so their international users have an improved browsing experience.
Which solution is MOST cost-effective?

Question54: An application requires a development environment (DEV) and production environment (PROD) for several years. The DEV instances will run for 10 hours each day during normal business hours, while the PROD instances will run 24 hours each day. A solutions architect needs to determine a compute instance purchase strategy to minimize costs.
Which solution is the MOST cost-effective?

Question55: A company running an on-premises application is migrating the application to AWS to increase its elasticity and availability. The current architecture uses a Microsoft SQL Server database with heavy read activity. The company wants to explore alternate database options and migrate database engines, if needed. Every 4 hours, the development team does a full copy of the production database to populate a test database. During this period, users experience latency.
What should a solution architect recommend as replacement database?

Question56: 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?

Question57: A data science team requires storage for nightly log processing. The size and number of logs is unknown and will persist for 24 hours only What is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question58: 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?

Question59: A company runs a web service on Amazon CC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across two Availability 7ones I he company needs a minimum of tour instances a! all limes to meet the required service level agreement (SLA) while keeping costs low If an Availability Zone tails, how can the company remain compliant with the SLA?

Question60: A company is designing a web application using AWS that processes insurance quotes Users will request quotes from the application Quotes must be separated by quote type must be responded to within 24 hours, and must not be lost The solution should be simple to set up and maintain.
Which solution meets these requirements''

Question61: A company has global users accessing an application deployed in different AWS Regions, exposing public static IP addresses. The users are experiencing poor performance when accessing the application over the internet.
What should a solutions architect recommend to reduce internet latency?

Question62: 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?

Question63: A solutions architect is designing a solution where users will De directed to a backup static error page it the primary website is unavailable The primary website's DNS records are hosted in Amazon Route 53 where their domain is pointing to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) Which configuration should the solutions architect use to meet the company's needs while minimizing changes and infrastructure overhead?

Question64: 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?

Question65: 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 m the group?