EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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'?

Question2: A solution architect has created two IAM policies: Policy1 and Policy2. Both policies are attached to an IAM group.

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

Question3: A company is running a media store across multiple Amazon EC2 instances distributed across multiple Availability Zones in a single VPC. The company wants a high-performing solution to share data between all the EC2 Instances, and prefers to keep the data within the VPC only.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question4: A solutions architect is designing a high performance computing (HPC) workload on Amazon EC2 The EC2 instances need to communicate to each other frequently and require network performance with low latency and high throughput Which EC2 configuration meets these requirements'?

Question5: A company wants to run a hybrid workload for data processing. The data needs to be accessed by on-premises applications for local data processing using an NFS protocol, and must also be accessible from the AWS Cloud for further analytics and batch processing.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question6: 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.)

Question7: 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?

Question8: A company has an Amazon EC2 instance running on a private subnet that needs to access a public websites to download patches and updates. The company does not want external websites to see the EC2 instance IP address or initiate connection to it.
How can a solution architect achieve this objective?

Question9: A company wants to host a web application on AWS that will communicate to a database within a VPC. The application should be highly available.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question10: 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?

Question11: A company has on-premises servers running a relational database The current database serves high read traffic for users in different locations The company wants to migrate to AWS with the least amount of effort The database solution should support disaster recovery and not affect the company's current traffic flow.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question12: What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question13: A company hosts an application on an Amazon EC2 instance that requires a maximum of 200 GB storage space. The application is used infrequently, with peaks during mornings and evenings. Disk I/O varies, but peaks at 3,000 IOPS. The chief financial officer of the company is concerned about costs and has asked a solutions architect to recommend the most cost-effective storage option that does not sacrifice performance.
Which solution should the solutions architect recommend?

Question14: A company runs a static website through its on-premises data center. The company has multiple servers mat handle all of its traffic, but on busy days, services are interrupted and the website becomes unavailable. The company wants to expand its presence globally and plans to triple its website traffic.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question15: A company's web application is running on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The company recently changed its policy, which now requires the application to be accessed from one specific country only.
Which configuration will meet this requirement?

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 marketing company is storing CSV files in an Amazon S3 bucket for statistical analysis An application on an Amazon EC2 instance needs permission to efficiently process the CSV data stored in the S3 bucket.
Which action will MOST securely grant the EC2 instance access to the S3 bucket?

Question18: A company hosts its static website content from an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region. Content is made available through an Amazon CloudFront origin pointing to that bucket Cross-Region replication is set up to create a second copy of the bucket in the ap-southeast-1 Region. Management wants a solution that provides greater availability for the website.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to increase availability? (Select TWO.)

Question19: 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?

Question20: A company wants to migrate a workload to AWS. The chief information security officer requires that all data be encrypted at rest when stored in the cloud. The company wants complete control of encryption key lifecycle management.
The company must be able to immediately remove the key material and audit key usage independently of AWS CloudTrail. The chosen services should integrate with other storage services that will be used on AWS.
Which services satisfies these security requirements?

Question21: A company is deploying an application in three AWS Regions using an Application Load Balancer Amazon Route 53 will be used to distribute traffic between these Regions.
Which Route 53 configuration should a solutions architect use to provide the MOST high-performing experience?

Question22: A company is migrating a Linux-based web server group to AWS The web servers must access files in a shared file store for some content To meet the migration date, minimal changes can be made What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question23: A company wants to build a scalable key management infrastructure to support developers who need to encrypt data in their applications. What should a solutions architect do to reduce the operational burden?

Question24: A company is concerned that two NAT instances in use will no longer be able to support the traffic needed for the company's application. A solutions architect wants to implement a solution that is highly available fault tolerant, and automatically scalable What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question25: A solutions architect is working on optimizing a legacy document management application running on Microsoft Windows Server in an on-premises data center. The application stores a large number of files on a network file share The chief information officer wants to reduce the on-premises data center footprint and minimize storage costs by moving on-premises storage to AWS What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question26: 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?

Question27: A company has 150 TB of archived image data stored on-premises that needs to be mowed to the AWS Cloud within the next month. The company's current network connection allows up to 100 Mbps uploads for this purpose during the night only.
What is the MOST cost-effective mechanism to move this data and meet the migration deadline?

Question28: 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 )

Question29: A company runs an application that uses multiple Amazon EC2 instances to gather data from its users The data is then processed and transferred to Amazon S3 for long-term storage A review of the application shows that there were long penods of time when the EC2 instances were not being used A solutions architect needs to design a solution that optimizes utilization and reduces costs.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question30: A solutions architect needs to design a low-latency solution for a static single-page application accessed by users utilizing a custom domain name. The solution must be serverless, encrypted in transit, and cost-effective.
Which combination of AWS services and features should the solutions architect use? (Select TWO.)

Question31: A company that develops web applications has launched hundreds of Application Load Balancers (ALBs) in multiple Regions. The company wants to create an allow list (or the IPs of all the load balancers on its firewall device. A solutions architect is looking for a one-time, highly available solution to address this request, which will also help reduce the number of IPs that need to be allowed by the firewall.
What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question32: A company hosts an application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances The application processes messages from an Amazon SQS queue writes to an Amazon RDS table and deletes the message from the queue Occasional duplicate records are found in the RDS table The SQS queue does not contain any duplicate messages What should a solutions archived do to ensure messages are being processed once only?

Question33: A company wants to use Amazon S3 for the secondary copy of its on-premises dataset. The company would rarely need to access this copy. The storage solution's cost should be minimal.
Which storage solution meets these requirements?

Question34: A company is planning to use Amazon S3 lo store images uploaded by its users The images must be encrypted at rest in Amazon S3 The company does not want to spend time managing and rotating the keys, but it does want to control who can access those keys What should a solutions architect use to accomplish this?

Question35: A company has recently updated its internal security standards. The company must now ensure all Amazon S3 buckets and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes are encrypted with keys created and periodically rotated by internal security specialists. The company is looking for a native, software-based AWS service to accomplish this goal.
What should a solutions architect recommend as a solution?

Question36: A company is preparing to launch a public-facing web application in the AWS Cloud The architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances within a VPC behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). A third party service is used for the DNS. The company's solutions architect must recommend a solution to detect and protect against large scale DDoS attacks Which solution meets these requirements?

Question37: 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?

Question38: A company had a build server that is in an Auto Scaling group and often has multiple Linux instances running.
The build server requires consistent and mountable shared NFS storage for jobs and configurations.
Which storage option should a solutions architect recommend?

Question39: A company is running a multi-tier web application on premises. The web application is containerized and runs on a number of Linux hosts connected to a PostgreSQL database that contains user records. The operational overhead of maintaining the infrastructure and capacity planning is limiting the company's growth A solutions architect must improve the application's infrastructure.
Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Select TWO.)

Question40: 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?

Question41: A solutions architect is designing a multi-Region disaster recovery solution for an application that will provide public API access. The application will use Amazon EC2 instances with a userdata script to load application code and an Amazon RDS for MySQL database The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is 3 hours and the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is 24 hours.
Which architecture would meet these requirements at the LOWEST cost?

Question42: A solutions architect is designing a security solution for a company that wants to provide developers with individual AWS accounts through AWS Organizations, while also maintaining standard security controls.
Because the individual developers will have AWS account root user-level access to their own accounts, the solutions architect wants to ensure that the mandatory AWS CloudTrail configuration that is applied to new developer accounts is not modified.
Which action meets these requirements?

Question43: 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?

Question44: A solutions architect is using Amazon S3 to design the storage architecture of a new digital media application.
The media files must be resilient to the loss of an Availability Zone Some files are accessed frequently while other files are rarely accessed in an unpredictable pattern. The solutions architect must minimize the costs of storing and retrieving the media files.
Which storage option meets these requirements?

Question45: A start-up company has a web application based in the us-east-1 Region with multiple Amazon EC2 instances running behind an Application Load Balancer across multiple Availability Zones. As the company's user base grows in the us-west-1 Region, it needs a solution with low latency and high availability.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question46: A company wants to migrate its MySQL database from on premises to AWS. The company recently experienced a database outage that significantly impacted the business. To ensure this does not happen again, the company wants a reliable database solution on AWS that minimizes data loss and stores every transaction on at least two nodes.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question47: An online shopping application accesses an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance. Database performance is slowing down the application. After upgrading to the next-generation instance type, there was no significant performance improvement.
Analysis shows approximately 700 IOPS are sustained, common queries run for long durations and memory utilization is high.
Which application change should a solutions architect recommend to resolve these issues?

Question48: A company wants to host its web application on AWS using multiple Amazon EC2 instances across different AWS Regions Since the application content will be specific to each geographic region, the client requests need to be routed to the server that hosts the content for that clients Region.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question49: 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?

Question50: 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.)

Question51: A company has hired a new cloud engineer who should not have access to an Amazon S3 bucket named Company Confidential. the cloud engineer must be able to read from and write to an S3 bucket called AdminTools.
Which IAM policy will meet these requirements?
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Question52: A media company has an application that tracks user clicks on its websites and performs analytics to provide near-real time recommendations. The application has a Heel of Amazon EC2 instances that receive data from the websites and send the data lo an Amazon RDS DB instance Another fleet of EC2 instances hosts the portion of the application that is continuously checking changes in the database and executing SQL queries to provide recommendations.
Management has requested a redesign to decouple the infrastructure The solution must ensure that data analysts are writing SQL to analyze the data only No data can the lost during the deployment What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question53: A company's website is used to sell products to the public The site runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) There is also an Amazon CloudFront distribution and AWS WAF is being used to protect against SQL injection attacks The ALB is the origin for the CloudFront distribution A recent review of security logs revealed an external malicious IP that needs to be blocked from accessing the website What should a solutions architect do to protect the application?

Question54: A company has a web application with sporadic usage patterns. There is heavy usage at the beginning of each month, moderate usage at the start of each week, and unpredictable usage during the week. The application consists of a web server and a MySQL database server running inside the data center. The company would like to move the application to the AWS Cloud, and needs to select a cost-effective database platform that will not require database modifications.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question55: A company runs a web service on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones The company needs a minimum of four instances at all limes to meet the required service level agreement (SLA) while keeping costs low.
If an Availability Zone fails, how can the company remain compliant with the SLA?

Question56: A company has a mobile game that reads most of its metadata from an Amazon RDS DB instance As the game increased in popularity developers noticed slowdowns related to the game's metadata load times Performance metrics indicate that simply scaling the database will not help A solutions architect must explore all options that include capabilities for snapshots replication and sub-millisecond response times What should the solutions architect recommend to solve these issues?

Question57: A company has an application hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in two VPCs across different AWS Regions To communicate with each other, the instances use the internet for connectivity. The security team wants to ensure that no communication between the instances happens over the internet What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this''

Question58: A company has an application that generates a large number of files, each approximately 5 MB in size. The files are stored in Amazon S3. Company policy requires the files to be stored for 4 years before they can be deleted. Immediate accessibility is always required as the files contain critical business data that is not easy to reproduce. The files are frequently accessed in the first 30 days of the object creation but are rarely accessed after the first 30 days.
Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?

Question59: A solutions architect is helping a developer design a new ecommerce shopping cart application using AWS services. The developer is unsure of the current database schema and expects to make changes as the ecommerce site grows. The solution needs to be highly resilient and capable of automatically scaling read and write capacity.
Which database solution meets these requirements?

Question60: 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?

Question61: A company is planning to migrate a business-critical dataset to Amazon S3. The current solution design uses a single S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region with versioning enabled to store the dataset. The company's disaster recovery policy states that all data multiple AWS Regions.
How should a solutions architect design the S3 solution?

Question62: 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?

Question63: Organizers for a global event want to put daily reports online as static HTML pages The pages are expected to generate millions of views from users around the world The files are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket A solutions architect has been asked to design an efficient and effective solution Which action should the solutions architect take to accomplish this?

Question64: 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?

Question65: A company has implemented one of its microservices on AWS Lambda that accesses an Amazon DynamoDB table named Books. A solutions architect is design an IAM policy to be attached to the Lambda function's IAM role, giving it access to put, update, and delete items in the Books table. the IAM policy must prevent function from performing any other actions on the Books table or any other.
Which IAM policy would fulfill these needs and provide the LEAST privileged access?
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Question66: 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?

Question67: A solutions architect is optimizing a website for an upcoming musical event Videos of the performances will be streamed in real time and then will be available on demand The event is expected to attract a global online audience Which service will improve the performance of both the real-time and on-demand streaming?

Question68: A company has applications hosted on Amazon EC2 instances with IPv6 addresses. The applications must initiate communications with other external applications using the internet. However, the company's security policy states that any external service cannot initiate a connection to the EC2 instances. What should a solutions architect recommend to resolve this issue?

Question69: 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?

Question70: 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'?

Question71: 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?

Question72: 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?

Question73: A company has 700 TB of backup data stored in network attached storage (NAS) in its data center This backup data need to be accessible for infrequent regulatory requests and must be retained 7 years. The company has decided to migrate this backup data from its data center to AWS. The migration must be complete within 1 month The company has 500 Mbps of dedicated bandwidth on its public internet connection available for data transfer.
What should a solutions architect do to migrate and store the data at the LOWEST cost?

Question74: A recently created startup built a three-tier web application. The front end has static content. The application layer is based on microservices. User data is stored as JSON documents that need to be accessed with low latency. The company expects regular traffic to be low during the first year, with peaks in traffic when it publicizes new features every month. The startup team needs to minimize operational overhead costs.
What should a solutions architect recommend to accomplish this?

Question75: A company is building a document storage application on AWS. The Application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones. The company requires the document store to be highly available. The documents need to be returned immediately when requested. The lead engineer has configured the application to use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) to store the documents, but is willing to consider other options to meet the availability requirement.
What should a solution architect recommend?

Question76: A company is hosting its static website in an Amazon S3 bucket, which is the origin for Amazon CioudFront.
The company has users in the United States. Canada, and Europe and wants to reduce costs. What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question77: A gaming company has multiple Amazon EC2 instances in a single Availability Zone for its multiplayer game that communicates with users on Layer 4 The chief technology officer (CTO) wants to make the architecture highly available and cost-effective.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question78: 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?

Question79: 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''

Question80: A solutions architect is designing a new API using Amazon API Gateway that will receive requests from users The volume of requests is highly variable, several hours can pass without receiving a single request The data processing will take place asynchronously but should be completed within a few seconds after a request is made Which compute service should the solutions architect have the API invoke to deliver the requirements at the lowest cost?

Question81: 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?

Question82: 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?

Question83: 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?

Question84: What should a solutions architect do to ensure that all objects uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket are encrypted?

Question85: A company has a live chat application running on list on-premises servers that use WebSockets. The company wants to migrate the application to AWS Application traffic is inconsistent, and the company expects there to be more traffic with sharp spikes in the future.
The company wants a highly scalable solution with no server maintenance nor advanced capacity planning Which solution meets these requirements?

Question86: A company is hosting a web application on AWS using a single Amazon EC2 instance that stores user-uploaded documents in an Amazon EBS volume For better scalability and availability the company duplicated the architecture and created a second EC2 instance and EBS volume in another Availability Zone:
placing both behind an Application Load Balancer After completing this change users reported that each time they refreshed the website they could see one subset of their documents or the other but never all of the documents at the same time What should a solutions architect propose to ensure users see all of their documents at once?

Question87: A security team wants to limit access to specific services or actions in all of the team's AWS accounts. All accounts belong to a large organization in AWS Organizations The solution must be scalable and there must be a single point where permissions can be maintained.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question88: 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?

Question89: A solutions architect is designing a VPC with public and private subnets. The VPC and subnets use IPv4 CIDR blocks. There is one public subnet and one private subnet in each of three Availability Zones (AZs) for high availability. An interne! gateway is used to provide internet access for the public subnets. The private subnets require access to the internet to allow Amazon EC2 instances to download software updates. What should the solutions architect do to enable internet access for the private subnets?

Question90: 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?

Question91: A company is using a tape backup solution to store its key application data offsite The daily data volume is around 50 TB The company needs to retain the backups for 7 years for regulatory purposes The backups are rarely accessed and a week's notice is typically given if a backup needs to be restored The company is now considering a cloud-based option to reduce the storage costs and operational burden of managing tapes The company also wants to make sure that the transition (rom tape backups to the cloud minimizes disruptions Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective'?

Question92: 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?

Question93: 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?

Question94: A solutions architect must design a solution for a persistent database that is being migrated from on-premises to AWS. The database requires 64,000 IOPS according to the database administrator. If possible, the database administrator wants to use a single Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume to host the database instance.
Which solution effectively meets the database administrator's criteria?

Question95: A company mandates that an Amazon S3 gateway endpoint must allow traffic to trusted buckets only Which method should a solutions architect implement to meet this requirement?

Question96: A development team is collaborating with another company to create an integrated product. The other company needs to access an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue that is contained in the development team's account. The other company wants to poll the queue without giving up its own account permissions to do so.
How should a solutions architect provide access to the SQS queue?

Question97: 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?

Question98: A company recently launched its website to serve content to its global user base. The company wants to store and accelerate the delivery of static content to its users by leveraging Amazon CloudFront with an Amazon EC2 instance attached as its origin.
How should a solutions architect optimize high availability for the application?

Question99: 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?

Question100: 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?

Question101: 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?

Question102: 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?

Question103: An application is running on Amazon EC2 instances Sensitive information required for the application is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket The bucket needs to be protected from internet access while only allowing services within the VPC access to the bucket.
Which combination of actions should a solutions archived take to accomplish this'' (Select TWO.)

Question104: An online photo application lets users upload photos and perform image editing operations The application offers two classes of service free and paid Photos submitted by paid users are processed before those submitted by free users Photos are uploaded to Amazon S3 and the job information is sent to Amazon SQS.
Which configuration should a solutions architect recommend?

Question105: A company hosts a static website within an Amazon S3 bucket. A solutions architect needs to ensure that data can be recovered in case of accidental deletion.
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Which action will accomplish this?

Question106: A company's web application uses an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL DB instance to store its application data.
During the financial closing period at the start of every month. Accountants run large queries that impact the database's performance due to high usage. The company wants to minimize the impact that the reporting activity has on the web application.
What should a solutions architect do to reduce the impact on the database with the LEAST amount of effort?

Question107: 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?

Question108: 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?

Question109: 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?

Question110: A company uses Application Load Balancers (ALBs) in different AWS Regions. The ALBs receive inconsistent traffic that can spike and drop throughout the year The company's networking team needs to allow the IP addresses of the ALBs in the on-premises firewall to enable connectivity.
Which solution is the MOST scalable with minimal configuration changes?

Question111: A company is preparing to store confidential data in Amazon S3. For compliance reasons, the data must be encrypted at rest. Encryption key usage must be logged for auditing purposes. Keys must be rotated every year.
Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally efficient?

Question112: 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?

Question113: 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?