EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: 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?

Question3: A company has an API-based inventory reporting application running on Amazon EC2 instances The application stores information in an Amazon DynamoDB table The company's distribution centers have an on-premises shipping application that calls an API to update the inventory before printing shipping labels The company has been experiencing application interruptions several times each day, resulting in lost transactions What should a solutions architect recommend to improve application resiliency?

Question4: 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.)

Question5: A company is deploying a multi-instance application within AWS that requires minimal latency between the instances.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question6: A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 Instances. The application is deployed in private subnets in three Availability Zones of the us-east-1 Region. The instances must be able to connect to the internet to download files The company wants a design that Is highly available across the Region.
Which solution should be implemented to ensure that there are no disruptions to Internet connectivity?

Question7: A company has a hybrid application hosted on multiple on-premises servers with static IP addresses. There is already a VPN that provides connectivity between the VPC and the on-premises network. The company wants to distribute TCP traffic across the on-premises servers for internet users.
What should a solutions architect recommend to provide a highly available and scalable solution?

Question8: 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?

Question9: A company needs to implement a relational database with a multi-Region disaster recovery Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 second and an Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 minute.
Which AWS solution can achieve this?

Question10: A company is using Site-to-Site VPN connections for secure connectivity to its AWS Cloud resources from on premises. Due to an increase in traffic across the VPN connections to the Amazon EC2 instances, users are experiencing slower VPN connectivity Which solution will improve the VPN throughput?

Question11: 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?

Question12: A company needs a secure connection between its on-premises environment and AWS. This connection does not need high bandwidth and will handle a small amount of traffic. The connection should be set up quickly.
What is the MOST cost-effective method to establish this type of connection?

Question13: 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.)

Question14: 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?

Question15: 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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Question16: 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?

Question17: A company wants to share forensic accounting data is stored in an Amazon RDS DB instance with an external auditor. The Auditor has its own AWS account and requires its own copy of the database.
How should the company securely share the database with the auditor?

Question18: 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?

Question19: A company wants to host a scalable web application on AWS. The application will be accessed by users from different geographic regions of the world. Application users will be able to download and upload unique data up to gigabytes in size. The development team wants a cost-effective solution to minimize upload and download latency and maximize performance.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question20: 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.)

Question21: 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?

Question22: A company is reviewing a recent migration of a three-tier application to a VPC. The security team discovers thai the principle of least privilege is not being applied to Amazon EC2 security group ingress and egress rules between the application tiers.
What should a solutions architect do to correct this issue?

Question23: 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?

Question24: A company is building a media-sharing application and decides to use Amazon S3 for storage. When a media file is uploaded the company starts a multi-step process to create thumbnails, identify objects in the images, transcode videos into standard formats and resolutions and extract and store the metadata to an Amazon DynamoDB table. The metadata is used for searching and navigation.
The amount of traffic is variable The solution must be able to scale to handle spikes in load without unnecessary expenses.
What should a solutions architect recommend to support this workload?

Question25: 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?

Question26: A company has a custom application with embedded credentials that retrieves information from an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. Management says the application must be made more secure with the least amount of programming effort. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question27: 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?

Question28: 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?

Question29: A company is running an online transaction processing (OLTP) workload on AWS. This workload uses an unencrypted Amazon RDS DB instance in a Multi-AZ deployment. Daily database snapshots are taken from this instance.
What should a solutions architect do to ensure the database and snapshots are always encrypted moving forward?

Question30: A company's application hosted on Amazon EC2 instances needs to access an Amazon S3 bucket. Due to data sensitivity, traffic cannot traverse the internet How should a solutions architect configure access?

Question31: A company is preparing to deploy a data lake on AWS A solutions architect must define the encryption strategy tor data at rest m Amazon S3 The company's security policy states
* Keys must be rotated every 90 days
* Strict separation of duties between key users and key administrators must be implemented
* Auditing key usage must be possible
What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question32: 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?

Question33: 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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Question34: 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?

Question35: A company hosts its website on AWS. To address the highly variable demand, the company has implemented Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. Management is concerned that the company is over-provisioning its infrastructure, especially at the front end of the three-tier application. A solutions architect needs to ensure costs are optimized without impacting performance.
What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question36: 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?

Question37: A solutions architect is planning the deployment of a new static website. The solution must minimize costs and provide at least 99% availability. Which solution meets these requirements?

Question38: 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?

Question39: 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?

Question40: 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?

Question41: A company has a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection from its on-premises servers to AWS. The workloads using the connection are critical. The company requires a disaster recovery strategy with maximum resiliency that maintains the current connection bandwidth at a minimum.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question42: A company receives structured and semi-structured data from various sources once every day A solutions architect needs to design a solution that leverages big data processing frameworks. The data should be accessible using SQL queries and business intelligence tools.
What should the solutions architect recommend to build the MOST high-performing solution?

Question43: 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?

Question44: 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 )

Question45: 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?

Question46: A company is designing a new service that will run on Amazon EC2 instance behind an Elastic Load Balancer. However, many of the web service clients can only reach IP addresses whitelisted on their firewalls.
What should a solution architect recommend to meet the clients' needs?
What should a solution architect recommend to meet the clients' needs?

Question47: 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?

Question48: 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?

Question49: 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?

Question50: 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?

Question51: 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?

Question52: 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'?

Question53: 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?

Question54: 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?

Question55: A company has a mobile chat application with a data store based in Amazon DynamoDB. Users would like new messages to be read with as little latency as possible. A solutions architect needs to design an optimal solution that requires minimal application changes.
Which method should the solutions architect select?

Question56: 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''

Question57: A company has an application workflow that uses an AWS Lambda function to download and decrypt files from Amazon S3 These files are encrypted using AWS Key Management Service Customer Master Keys (AWS KMS CMKs) A solutions architect needs to design a solution that will ensure the required permissions are set correctly.
Which combination of actions accomplish this? (Select TWO.)

Question58: A company wants to replicate its data to AWS to recover in the event of a disaster. Today, a system administrator has scripts that copy data to a NFS share Individual backup files need to be accessed with low latency by application administrators to deal with errors in processing.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question59: A company uses a legacy on-premises analytics application that operates on gigabytes of csv files and represents months of data The legacy application cannot handle the growing size of csv files New csv files are added daily from various data sources to a central on-premises storage location The company wants to continue to support the legacy application while users learn AWS analytics services To achieve this, a solutions architect wants to maintain two synchronized copies of all the csv files on-premises and in Amazon S3 Which solution should the solutions architect recommend?

Question60: A company has a website deployed on AWS. The database backend is hosted on Amazon RDS for MySQL with a primary instance and five read replicas to support scaling needs. The read replicas should lag no more than 1 second behind the primary instance to support the user experience As traffic on the website continues to increase, the replicas are falling further behind during periods of peak load, resulting in complaints from users when searches yield inconsistent results A solutions architect needs to reduce the replication lag as much as possible, with minimal changes to the application code or operational requirements Which solution meets these requirements?

Question61: 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?

Question62: 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.)

Question63: 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?

Question64: 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?

Question65: 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?

Question66: 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?

Question67: 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?

Question68: A company is investigating potential solutions that would collect, process, and store users' service usage data. The business objective is to create an analytics capability that will enable the company to gather operational insights quickly using standard SQL queries. The solution should be highly available and ensure Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (ACID) compliance in the data tier.
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend?

Question69: 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?

Question70: 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?

Question71: 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?

Question72: 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?

Question73: 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?

Question74: A company allows its developers to attach existing IAM policies to existing IAM roles to enable (aster experimentation and agility However the security operations team is concerned that the developers could attach the existing administrator policy, which would allow the developers to circumvent any other security policies How should a solutions architect address this issue?

Question75: A company has a legacy application that processes data in two parts The second part of the process takes longer than the first, so the company has decided to rewrite the application as two microservices running on Amazon ECS that can scale independently.
How should a solutions architect integrate the microservices?

Question76: A financial services company has a web application that serves users in the United States and Europe The application consists of a database tier and a web server tier The database tier consists of a MySQL database hosted in us-east-1 Amazon Route 53 geoproximity routing is used to direct traffic to instances in the closest Region A performance review of the system reveals that European users are not receiving the same level of query performance as those in the United States Which changes should be made to the database tier to improve performance?

Question77: A company is using Amazon EC2 to run its big data analytics workloads. These variable workloads run each night, and it is critical they finish by the start of business the following day. A solutions architect has been tasked with designing the MOST cost-effective solution.
Which solution will accomplish this?

Question78: 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?

Question79: A company recently deployed a two-tier application in two Availability Zones in the us-east-1 Region. The databases are deployed in a private subnet while the web servers are deployed in a public subnet. An internet gateway is attached to the VPC. The application and database run on Amazon EC2 instances. The database servers are unable to access patches on the internet. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that maintains database security with the least operational overhead.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question80: 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?

Question81: 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?

Question82: A company must migrate 20 TB of data from a data center to the AWS Cloud within 30 days. The company's network bandwidth is limited to 15 Mbps and cannot exceed 70% utilization. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question83: 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?

Question84: A company provides an API to its users that automates inquiries for tax computations based on item prices. The company experiences a larger number of inquiries during the holiday season only that cause slower response times. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that is scalable and elastic What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question85: 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?

Question86: 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?

Question87: 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''

Question88: 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?

Question89: 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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Question90: A company is moving its legacy workload to the AWS Cloud. The workload files will be shared, appended, and frequently accessed through Amazon EC2 instances when they are first created The files will be accessed occasionally as they age What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question91: 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?

Question92: 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?

Question93: 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?

Question94: 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?

Question95: A company is designing a message-driven order processing application on AWS. The application consists of many services and needs to communicate the results of its processing to multiple consuming services. Each of the consuming services may take up to 5 days to receive the messages Which process will meet these requirements?

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 hosts an application used to upload files to an Amazon S3 bucket Once uploaded, the files are processed to extract metadata, which takes less than 5 seconds. The volume and frequency of the uploads vanes from a few files each hour to hundreds of concurrent uploads. The company has asked a solutions architect to design a cost effective architecture that will meet these requirements.
What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question98: A company has been storing analytics data in an Amazon RDS instance for the past few years. The company asked a solutions architect to find a solution that allows users to access this data using an API The expectation is that the application will experience periods of inactivity but could receive bursts of traffic within seconds Which solution should the solutions architect suggest?

Question99: 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?

Question100: 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?

Question101: 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?

Question102: 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?

Question103: 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?

Question104: 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 )

Question105: An ecommerce company is running a multi-tier application on AWS. The front-end and backend tiers both run on Amazon EC2. and the database runs on Amazon RDS for MySQL. The backend tier communicates with the RDS instance. There are frequent calls to return identical datasets from the database that are causing performance slowdowns.
Which action should be taken to improve the performance of the backend?

Question106: 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?

Question107: 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?

Question108: A company's application is running on Amazon EC2 instances m a single Region in the event of a disaster a solutions architect needs to ensure that the resources can also be deployed to a second Region Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Select TWO)

Question109: A solutions architect observes that a nightly batch processing job is automatically scaled up for 1 hour before the desired Amazon EC2 capacity is reached. The peak capacity is the same every night and the batch jobs always start at 1 AM. The solutions architect needs to find a cost-effective solution that will allow for the desired EC2 capacity to be reached quickly and allow the Auto Scaling group to scale down after the batch jobs are complete.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question110: A company is planning to deploy an Amazon RDS DB instance running Amazon Aurora The company has a backup retention policy requirement of 90 days Which solution should a solutions architect recommend?