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Question1: 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?
Question2: A web application must persist order data to Amazon S3 to support neat-real time processing. A solutions architect needs create an architecture that is both scalable and fault tolerant.Which solutions meet these requirements? (Select TWO )
Question3: A solution architect must migrate a Windows internet information Services (IIS) web application to AWS. The application currently relies on a file share hosted in the user's on-premises network-attached storage (NAS).The solution architected has proposed migrating the IIS web serversWhich replacement to the on-promises filo share is MOST resilient and durable?
Question4: A company is migrating from an on-premises infrastructure to the AWS Cloud One of the company's applications stores files on a Windows file server farm that uses Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) to keep data in sync A solutions architect needs to replace the file server farm Which service should the solutions architect use?
Question5: 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?
Question6: A company's operations teams has an existing Amazon S3 bucket configured to notify an Amazon SQS queue when new object are created within the bucket. The development team also wants to receive events when new objects are created. The existing operations team workflow must remain intact.Which solution would satisfy these requirements?
Question7: A company's near-real-time streaming application is running on AWS As (he data is ingested a job runs on the data and takes 30 minutes to complete The workload frequently experiences high latency due to large amounts of incoming data A solutions architect needs to design a scalable and serverless solution to enhance performance Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take? (Select TWO)
Question8: A company currently has 250 TB of backup files stored in Amazon S3 in a vendor's proprietary format. Using a Linux-based software application provided by the vendor, the company wants to retrieve files from Amazon S3, transform the files to an industry-standard format, and re-upload them to Amazon S3. The company wants to minimize the data transfer charges associated with this conversation.What should a solution architect do to accomplish this?
Question9: 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?
Question10: 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?
Question11: Management has decided to deploy all AWS VPCs with IPv6 enabled After some time a solutions architect tries to launch a new instance and receives an error stating that there is not enough IP address space available in the subnet What should the solutions architect do to fix this?
Question12: A company is launching a new application deployed on an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster and is using the Fargate launch type for ECS tasks. The company is monitoring CPU and memory usage because it is expecting high traffic to the application upon its launch. However, the company wants to reduce costs when utilization decreases.What should a solutions architect recommend?
Question13: An application running on an Amazon EC2 instance in VPC-A needs to access files in another EC2 instance in VPC-B. Both are in separate. AWS accounts. The network administrator needs to design a solution to enable secure access to EC2 instance in VOC-B from VPC-A. The connectivity should not have a single point of failure or bandwidth concerns.Which solution will meet these requirements?
Question14: A company is planning to transfer multiple terabytes of data to AWS. The data is collected offline from ships.The company want to run complex transformation before transferring the data.Which AWS service should a solutions architect recommend for this migration?
Question15: 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?
Question16: 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?
Question17: A company is deploying a web portal. The company wants to ensure that only the web portion of the application is publicly accessible. To accomplish this, the VPC was designed with two public subnets and two private subnets. The application will run on several Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. SSL termination must be offloaded from the EC2 instances. What should a solutions architect do to ensure these requirements are met?
Question18: A company is developing an ecommerce application that will consist of a load-balanced front end. a container-based application and a relational database A solutions architect needs to create a highly available solution that operates with as little manual intervention as possible Which solutions meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
Question19: A company has an automobile sales website that stores its listings in an database on Amazon RDS When an automobile is sold, the listing needs to be removed from the website and the data must be sent to multiple target systems.Which design should a solutions architect recommend?
Question20: 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 )
Question21: The following IAM policy is attached to an IAM group. This is the only policy applied to the group.What are the effective IAM permissions of this policy for group members?
Question22: 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?
Question23: 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?
Question24: A company has no existing file share services. A new project requires access to file storage that is mountable as a drive for on-premises desktops. The file server must authenticate users to an Active Directory domain before they are able to access the storage.Which service will allow Active Directory users to mount storage as a drive on their desktops?
Question25: A company built an application that lets users check in to places they visit, rank the places, and add reviews about their experiences The application is successful with a rapid increase in the number of users every month The chief technology officer fears the database supporting the current Infrastructure may not handle the new load the following month because the single Amazon RDS for MySQL instance has triggered alarms related lo resource exhaustion due to read requests.What can a solutions architect recommend to prevent service Interruptions at the database layer with minimal changes to code?
Question26: 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?
Question27: 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?
Question28: 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?
Question29: 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 )
Question30: 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?
Question31: 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?
Question32: A company is working with an external vendor that requires write access to the company's Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. The vendor has its own AWS account.What should a solutions architect do to implement least privilege access7
Question33: A company hosts more than 300 global websites and applications. The company requires a platform to analyze more than 30 TB of clickstream data each day. What should a solutions architect do to transmit and process the clickstream data?
Question34: A company is preparing to migrate its on-premises application to AWS The application consists of application servers and a Microsoft SQL Server database The database cannot be migrated to a different engine because SQL Server features are used in the application's NET code. The company wants to attain the greatest availability possible while minimizing operational and management overhead What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?
Question35: A solutions architect must create a highly available bastion host architecture. The solution needs to be resilient within a single AWS Region and should require only minimal effort to maintain.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question36: 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 possibleWhat should the solutions architect recommend?
Question37: A company collects temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure data in cities across multiple continents.The average volume of data collected per site each day is 500 GB. Each site has a high-speed internet connection. The company's weather forecasting applications are based in a single Region and analyze the data daily.What is the FASTEST way to aggregate data for all of these global sites?
Question38: 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?
Question39: 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?
Question40: 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.)
Question41: 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?
Question42: 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?
Question43: 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?
Question44: 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?
Question45: 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?
Question46: 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?
Question47: 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?
Question48: 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?
Question49: 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?
Question50: A solutions architect is designing an application for a two-step order process The first step is synchronous and must return to the user with little latency The second step takes longer, so it will be implemented in a separate component Orders must be processed exactly once and in the order in which they are received How should the solutions architect integrate these components?
Question51: A company wants to automate the security assessment of its Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs to validate and demonstrate that security and compliance standards are being followed throughout the development process What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question52: 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.A)B)C)D)
Question53: 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?
Question54: 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?
Question55: A company runs a high performance computing (HPC) workload on AWS. The workload required low-latency network performance and high network throughput with tightly coupled node-to-node communication. The Amazon EC2 instances are properly sized for compute and storage capacity, and are launched using default options.What should a solutions architect propose to improve the performance of the workload?
Question56: A Solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a company that needs to host hundreds of machine learning models for its users. During startup, the models need to load up to 10 GB of data from Amazon S3 into memory, but they do not need disk access. Most of the models are used sporadically, but the users expect all of them to be highly available and accessible with low latency.Which solution meets the requirements and is MOST cost-effective?
Question57: A company runs an application in a branch office within a small data closet with no virtualized compute resources. The application data is stored on an NFS volume. Compliance standards require a daily offsite backup of the NFS volume.Which solution meet these requirements?
Question58: 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?
Question59: 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?
Question60: 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?
Question61: 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?
Question62: 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?
Question63: A company has enabled AWS CloudTrail logs to deliver log files to an Amazon S3 bucket for each of its developer accounts. The company has created a central AWS account for streamlining management and audit reviews. An internal auditor needs to access the CloudTrail logs, yet access needs to be restricted for all developer account users. The solution must be secure and optimized.How should a solutions architect meet these requirements?
Question64: A company has media and application files that need to be shared internally. Users currently are authenticated using Active Directory and access files from a Microsoft Windows platform. The chief execute officer wants to keep the same user permissions, but wants the company to improve the process as the company is reaching its storage capacity limit.What should a solutions architect recommend?
Question65: A company uses Amazon S3 as its object storage solution. The company has thousands of S3 it uses to store data. 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?
Question66: 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?
Question67: 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?
Question68: A company has an ecommerce application running In a single VPC. The application stack has a single web server and an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance The company launches new products twice a month. This Increases website traffic by approximately 400% for a minimum of 72 hours During product launches, users experience slow response times and frequent timeout errors in their browsers What should a solutions architect do to mitigate the slow response times and timeout errors while minimizing operational overhead?
Question69: A company serves a multilingual website from a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) This architecture is currently running in the us-west-l Region but is exhibiting high request latency for users located in other parts of the world The website needs to serve requests quickly and efficiently regardless of a user's location However, the company does not want to recreate the existing architecture across multiple Regions.How should a solutions architect accomplish this?
Question70: 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?
Question71: An application running on an Amazon EC2 instance needs to access an Amazon DynamoDB table Both the EC2 instance and the DynamoDB table are in the same AWS account A solutions architect must configure the necessary permissions.Which solution will allow least privilege access to the DynamoDB table from the EC2 instance?
Question72: 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?
Question73: 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.)
Question74: A company with facilities in North America. Europe, and Asia is designing new distributed application to optimize its global supply chain and manufacturing process. The orders booked on one continent should be visible to all Regions in a second or less. The database should be able to support failover with a short Recovery Time Objective (RTO) The uptime of the application is important to ensure that manufacturing is not impacted What should a solutions architect recommend?
Question75: A company runs an application on an Amazon EC2 instance Backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). The instance needs to be available for 12 hours daily. The company wants to save costs by making the instance unavailable outside the window required for the application However the contents of the instance's memory must be preserved whenever the instance is unavailable What should a solutions architect do lo meet this requirement?
Question76: 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?
Question77: A company has two VPCs named Management and Production. The Management VPC uses VPNs through a customer gateway to connect to a single device in the data center The Production VPC uses a virtual private gateway with two attached AWS Direct Connect connections. The Management and Production VPCs both use a single VPC peering connection to allow communication between the applications.What should a solutions architect do to mitigate any single point of failure in this architecture?
Question78: 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 )
Question79: A company is planning on deploying a newly built application on AWS in a default VPC The application will consist of a web layer and database layer. The web server was created in public subnets, and the MySQL database was created in private subnets. All subnets are created with the default network ACL settings, and the default security group in the VPC will be replaced with new custom security groups.The following are the key requirements:* The web servers must be accessible only to users on an SSL connection.* The database should be accessible to the web layer, which is created in a public subnet only.* All traffic to and from the IP range 182.20.0.0/16 subnet should be blocked.Which combination of steps meets these requirements? (Select TWO.)
Question80: 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?
Question81: A company is planning to migrate a legacy application to AWS. The application currently uses NFS to communicate to an on-premises storage solution to store application data. The application cannot be modified to use any other communication protocols other than NFS for this purpose. Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend for use after the migration?
Question82: A company has developed a microservices application It uses a client-facing API with Amazon API Gateway and multiple internal services hosted on Amazon EC2 instances to process user requests The API is designed to support unpredictable surges in traffic, but internal services may become overwhelmed and unresponsive for a period of time during surges A solutions architect needs to design a more reliable solution that reduces errors when internal services become unresponsive or unavailable.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question83: 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?
Question84: A new employee has joined a company as a deployment engineer. The deployment engineer will be using AWS CloudFormation templates to create multiple AWS resources. A solutions architect wants the deployment engineer to perform job activities. while following the principle of least privilege.Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this goal? (Select TWO.)
Question85: 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'?
Question86: An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets. The application needs to access an Amazon DynamoDB table. What is the MOST secure way to access the table while ensuring that the traffic does not leave the AWS network?
Question87: What should the solutions architect recommend?
Question88: A company is migrating a NoSQL database cluster to Amazon EC2. The database automatically replicates data to maintain at least three copies of the data. I/O throughput of the servers is the highest priority. Which instance type should a solutions architect recommend for the migration?
Question89: 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?
Question90: 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?
Question91: A company that hosts its web application on AWS wants to ensure all Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon RDS DB instances and Amazon Redshift clusters are configured with tags. The company wants to minimize the effort of configuring and operating this check.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this''
Question92: 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?
Question93: A solutions architect is developing a multiple-subnet VPC architecture. The solution will consist of six subnets in two Availability Zones. The subnets are defined as public, private and dedicated for databases Only the Amazon EC2 instances running in the private subnets should be able to access a database.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question94: 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?
Question95: 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?
Question96: 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?
Question97: A company's packaged application dynamically creates and returns single-use text files in response to user requests. The company is using Amazon CloudFront for distribution, but wants to future reduce data transfer costs. The company modify the application's source code.What should a solution architect do to reduce costs?
Question98: A manufacturing company wants to implement predictive maintenance on its machinery equipment The company will install thousands of loT sensors that will send data to AWS in real time A solutions architect is tasked with implementing a solution that will receive events in an ordered manner for each machinery asset and ensure that data is saved for further processing at a later time Which solution would be MOST efficient?
Question99: A company wants to move a multi-tiered application from on premises to the AWS Cloud to improve the application's performance. The application consists of application tiers that communicate with each other by way of RESTful services. Transactions are dropped when one tier becomes overloaded A solutions architect must design a solution that resolves these issues and modernizes the application.Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally efficient?
Question100: 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?
Question101: A company has two AWS accounts Production and Development There are code changes ready in the Development account to push to the Production account In the alpha phase, only two senior developers on the development team need access to the Production account in the beta phase, more developers might need access to perform testing as well.What should a solutions architect recommend?
Question102: 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?
Question103: A company has multiple applications that use Amazon RDS lor MySQL as is database. The company recently discovered that a new custom reporting application has Increased the number of Queries on the database. This is slowing down performance.How should a solutions architect resolve this issue with the LEAST amount of application changes?
Question104: A company's web application is using multiple Linux Amazon EC2 instances and storing data on Amazon EBS volumes. The company is looking for a solution to increase the resiliency of the application in case of a failure and to provide storage that complies with atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID).What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question105: 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?
Question106: A company has an on-premises MySQL database used by the global sales team with infrequent access patterns. The sales team requires the database to have minimal downtime. A database administrator wants to migrate this database to AWS without selecting a particular instance type in anticipation of more users in the future.Which service should a solution architect recommend?
Question107: A solutions architect is designing a mission-critical web application. It will consist of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer and a relational database. The database should be highly available and fault tolerant.Which database implementations will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
Question108: A company is planning to build a new web application on AWS. The company expects predictable traffic most of the year and very high traffic on occasion. The web application needs to be highly available and fault tolerant with minimal latency.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
Question109: A company Is reviewing Its AWS Cloud deployment to ensure its data is not accessed by anyone without appropriate authorization. A solutions architect is tasked with identifying all open Amazon S3 buckets and recording any S3 bucket configuration changes.What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?
Question110: 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.Which action will accomplish this?
Question111: 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?
Question112: A company has a 143 TB MySQL database that it wants to migrate to AWS. The plan is to use Amazon Aurora MySQL as the platform going forward. The company has a 100 Mbps AWS Direct Connect connection to Amazon VPC.Which solution meets the company's needs and takes the LEAST amount of time?
Question113: A public-facing web application queries a database hosted on a Amazon EC2 instance in a private subnet. A large number of queries involve multiple table joins, and the application performance has been degrading due to an increase in complex queries. The application team will be performing updates to improve performance.What should a solutions architect recommend to the application team? (Select TWO.)
Question114: A company is running an ecommerce application on Amazon EC2 The application consists of a stateless web tier that requires a minimum of 10 instances, and a peak of 250 instances to support the application's usage The application requires 50 instances 80% of the time Which solution should be used to minimize costs?
Question115: A solutions architect is working on optimizing a legacy document management application running on Microsoft a network file share. The chief information officer wants to reduce the on-premises data center footprint and minimize storage by moving on-premises storage to AWS.What should the solution architect do to meet these requirements?
Question116: A company operates an ecommerce website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in an Auto Scaling group. The site is experiencing performance issues related to a high request rate from illegitimate external systems with changing IP addresses. The security team is worried about potential DDoS attacks against the website The company must block the illegitimate incoming requests in a way that has a minimal impact on legitimate users What should a solutions architect recommend?
Question117: A solutions architect is designing a solution that requires frequent updates to a website that is hosted on Amazon S3 with versioning enabled. For compliance reasons, older versions of the objects will not be accessed frequently and will need to be deleted after 2 years.What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements at the LOWEST cost?
Question118: A company has an on-premises application that generates a large amount of time-sensitive data that is backed up to Amazon S3. The application has grown and there are user complaints about internet bandwidth limitations. A solutions architect needs to design a long term solution that allows for both timely backups to Amazon S3 and with minimal impact on internet connectivity tor internal users.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question119: A meteorological startup company has a custom web application to sell weather data to its users online. The company uses Amazon DynamoDB to store its data and wants to build a new service that sends an alert to the managers of four internal teams every time a new weather event is recorded The company does not want this new service to affect the performance of the current application What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
Question120: A company needs to comply with a regulatory requirement that states all emails must Pe stored and archived externally for 7 years. An administrator has created compressed email files on premises and wants a managed service to transfer the files to AWS storage.Which managed service should a solutions architect recommend?
Question121: 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?
Question122: A company is using a third-party vendor to manage its marketplace analytics. The vendor needs limited programmatic access to resources in the company's account. All the needed policies have been created to grant appropriate access.Which additional component will provide the vendor with the MOST secure access to the account?
Question123: A company has created an isolated backup of its environment in another Region. The application is running in warm standby mode and is fronted by an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The current failover process is manual and requires updating a DNS alias record to point to the secondary ALB in another Region.What should a solutions architect do to automate the failover process?
Question124: A solutions architect is designing a customer-facing application. The application is expected to have a variable amount of reads and writes depending on the time of year and clearly defined access patterns throughout the year. Management requires that database auditing and scaling be managed in the AWS Cloud. The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) must be less than 5 hours.Which solutions can accomplish this? (Select TWO.)
Question125: An application running on an Amazon EC2 instance needs to securely access tiles on an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon I tile system. The EFS tiles are stored using encryption at rest. Which solution for accessing the tiles is MOST secure?
Question126: A company is developing a mobile game that streams score updates to a backend processor and then posts results on a leaderboard. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that can handle large traffic spikes, process the mobile game updates in order of receipt, and store the processed updates in a highly available database. The company also wants to minimize the management overhead required to maintain the solution.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question127: 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?
Question128: 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?
Question129: A solutions architect needs to design a network that will allow multiple Amazon EC2 instances to access a common data source used for mission-critical data that can be accessed by all the EC2 instances simultaneously The solution must be highly scalable, easy to implement and support the NFS protocol Which solution meets these requirements?
Question130: A company owns an asynchronous API that is used to ingest use requests and, based on the request type, dispatch requests to the appropriate microservice for processing.The company is using Amazon API Gateway to deploy the API front end, and an AWS Lambda function that invokes Amazon DynamoDB to store user requests before dispatching them to the processing microservices.The company provisioned as much DynamoDB throughput as its budget allows, but the company is still experiencing availability issues and is losing user requests.What should a solutions architect do to address this Issue without impacting existing users?
Question131: A company has an application that uses Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to store data. The files are1 GB in size or larger and are accessed often only tor the first few days after creation The application data is shared across a cluster of Linux servers. The company wants to reduce storage costs tor the application What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question132: A company is hosting an election reporting website on AWS for users around the world The website uses Amazon EC2 Instances for the web and application tiers in an Auto Scaling group with Application Load Balancers The database tier uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL database The website is updated with election results once an hour and has historically observed hundreds of users accessing the reports The company Is expecting a significant increase In demand because of upcoming elections in different countries. A solutions architect must Improve The website's ability to handle additional demand while minimizing the need for additional EC2 instances Which solution will meet these requirements?
Question133: A company plans to host a survey website on AWS. The company anticipates an unpredictable amount of traffic. This traffic results in asynchronous updates to the database. The company wants to ensure that writes to the database hosted on AWS do not get dropped.Haw should the company write Its application to handle these database requests?
Question134: 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?
Question135: 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?
Question136: 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?
Question137: 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?
Question138: The financial application at a company stores monthly reports in an Amazon S3 bucket. The vice president of finance has mandated that all access to these reports be logged and that any modifications to the log files be detected Which actions can a solutions architect take to meet these requirements7
Question139: 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?
Question140: 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?
Question141: A company has three VPCs named Development, Testing and Production in the us-east-1 Region. The three VPCs need to be connected to an on-premises data center and are designed to be separate to maintain security and prevent any resource sharing A solutions architect needs to find a scalable and secure solution What should the solutions architect recommend?
Question142: 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?
