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Question1: A company is Re-architecting a strongly coupled application to be loosely coupled Previously the application used a request/response pattern to communicate between tiers. The company plans to use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to achieve decoupling requirements. The initial design contains one queue for requests and one for responses However, this approach is not processing all the messages as the application scales.What should a solutions architect do to resolve this issue?
Question2: A solutions architect is designing a two-tier web application The application consists of a public-facing web tier hosted on Amazon EC2 in public subnets The database tier consists of Microsoft SQL Server running on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet Security is a high priority for the company How should security groups be configured in this situation? (Select TWO )
Question3: An ecommerce company is experiencing an increase in user traffic. The company's store is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances as a two-tier two application consisting of a web tier and a separate database tier As traffic increases, the company notices that the architecture is causing significant delays in sending timely marketing and order confirmation email to users. The company wants to reduce the time it spends resolving complex email delivery issues and minimize operational overhead What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question4: A company Is launching an ecommerce website on AWS. This website is built with a three-tier architecture that includes a MySQL database In a Multi-AZ deployment of Amazon Aurora MySQL. The website application must be highly available and will initially be launched in an AWS Region with three Availability Zones The application produces a metric that describes the load the application experiences.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question5: 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?
Question6: 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 )
Question7: 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?
Question8: A company has an application that calls AWS Lambda functions A recent code review found database credentials stored in the source code The database credentials need to be removed from the Lambda source code The credentials must then be securely stored and rotated on an ongoing basis to meet security policy requirements What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
Question9: A company serves content to its subscribers across the world using an application running on AWS The application has several Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) Due to a recent change in copyright restrictions the chief information officer (CIO) wants to block access for certain countries Which action will meet these requirements?
Question10: 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?
Question11: A company's production application runs online transaction processing (OLTP) transactions on an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance The company is launching a new reporting tool that will access the same data The reporting tool must be highly available and not impact the performance of the production application.How can this be achieved?
Question12: A company is running a multi-tier web application on AWS. The application runs its database tier on Amazon Aurora MySQL. The application and database tiers are in the us-east-1 Region A database administrator who regularly monitors the Aurora DB cluster finds that an intermittent increase in read traffic is creating high CPU utilization on the read replica and causing increased read latency of the application What should a solutions architect do to improve read scalability?
Question13: 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?
Question14: 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?
Question15: 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?
Question16: 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?
Question17: A company wants to migrate a workload to AWS. The chief information security officer requires that all data be encrypted at rest when stored in the cloud. The company wants complete control of encryption key lifecycle management.The company must be able to immediately remove the key material and audit key usage independently of AWS CloudTrail. The chosen services should integrate with other storage services that will be used on AWS.Which services satisfies these security requirements?
Question18: A company wants a storage option that enables its data science team to analyze its data on premises and in the AWS Cloud The team needs to be able to run statistical analyses by using the data on premises and by using a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question19: 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''
Question20: 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?
Question21: An application is running on an Amazon EC2 instance and must have millisecond latency when running the workload. The application makes many small reads and writes to the file system, but the file system itself is small.Which Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume type should a solutions architect attach to their EC2 instance?
Question22: A company has a multi-tier application that runs six front-end web servers in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group in a single Availability Zone behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) A solutions architect needs to modify the infrastructure to be highly available without modifying the application Which architecture should the solutions architect choose that provides high availability?
Question23: 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?
Question24: A company receives 10 TB of instrumentation data each day from several machines located at a single factory.The data consists of JSON files stored on a storage area network (SAN) in an on-premises data center located within the factory. The company wants to send this data to Amazon S3 where it can be accessed by several additional systems that provide critical near-real-lime analytics. A secure transfer is important because the data is considered sensitive.Which solution offers the MOST reliable data transfer?
Question25: A company has a website running on Amazon EC2 instances across two Availability Zones. The company is expecting spikes in traffic on specific holidays, and wants to provide a consistent user experience. How can a solutions architect meet this requirement?
Question26: 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?
Question27: 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?
Question28: A company has a multi-tier application deployed on several Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group.An Amazon RDS for Oracle instance is the application'', data layer that uses Oracle-specific PUSQL functions. Traffic to the application has been steadily increasing This is causing the EC2 instances to become overloaded an i RDS instance to run out of storage. The Auto Scaling group does not have any scaling metrics and defines the minimum healthy instance count only. The company predicts that traffic will continue to increase at a steady but unpredictable rate before leveling off.What should a solutions architect do to ensure the system can automatically scale for the increased traffic?(Select TWO)
Question29: 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.)
Question30: A solutions architect is designing a VPC with public and private subnets. The VPC and subnets use IPv4 CIDR blocks. There is one public subnet and one private subnet in each of three Availability Zones (AZs) for high availability. An interne! gateway is used to provide internet access for the public subnets. The private subnets require access to the internet to allow Amazon EC2 instances to download software updates. What should the solutions architect do to enable internet access for the private subnets?
Question31: 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?
Question32: 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?
Question33: 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?
Question34: A company needs guaranteed Amazon EC2 capacity in three specific Availability Zones in a specific AWS Region for an upcoming event that will last 1 week. What should the company do to guarantee the EC2 capacity?
Question35: A company is preparing to deploy a new serverless workload. A solutions architect needs to configure permissions for invoking an AWS Lambda function. The function will be triggered by an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule. Permissions should be configured using the principle of least privilege.Which solution will meet these requirements?
Question36: A company's website hosted on Amazon EC2 instances processes classified data stored in Amazon S3 Due to security concerns, the company requires a private and secure connection between its EC2 resources and Amazon S3 Which solution meets these requirements?
Question37: A company hosts an application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances The application processes messages from an Amazon SQS queue writes to an Amazon RDS table and deletes the message from the queue Occasional duplicate records are found in the RDS table The SQS queue does not contain any duplicate messages What should a solutions archived do to ensure messages are being processed once only?
Question38: 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?
Question39: A company has an application that ingests incoming messages. These messages are then quickly consumed by dozens of other applications and microservices. The number of messages varies drastically and sometimes spikes as high as 100.000 each second The company wants to decouple the solution and increase scalability Which solution meets these requirements?
Question40: A company is planning to use Amazon S3 to store images uploaded by its users. The images must be encrypted at rest in Amazon S3. The company does not want to spend time managing and rotating the keys, but it does want to control who can access those keys.What should a solutions architect use to accomplish this?
Question41: 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?
Question42: 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?
Question43: A company maintains about 300 TB m Amazon S3 Standard storage month after month. The S3 objects are each typically around 50 GB m size and are frequently replaced with multipart uploads by their global application. The number and size of S3 objects remain constant but the company's S3 storage costs are increasing each month.How should a solutions architect reduce costs in this situation?
Question44: A company is planning to use an Amazon DynamoDB table for data storage. The company is concerned about cost optimization. The table will not be used on most mornings in the evenings, the read and write traffic will often be unpredictable When traffic spikes occur they will happen very quickly.What should a solutions architect recommend?
Question45: 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?
Question46: 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?
Question47: A company needs to store data in Amazon S3 A compliance requirement states that when any changes are made to objects the previous state of the object with any changes must be preserved Additionally files older than 5 years should not be accessed but need to be archived for auditing What should a solutions architect recommend that is MOST cost-effective?
Question48: 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?
Question49: A solutions architect is creating a new VPC design. There are two public subnet for the load balancer, two private subnets for web servers, and two private subnets for MySQL. The web serves use only HTTPS. The solutions architect has already created a security group for the load Balancer allowing port 443 from 0.0 0.0/0.Company policy requires that each resource has the least access required to still be able to perform its tasks.Which additional configuration strategy should the solution architect use to meet these requirements?
Question50: 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?
Question51: 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?
Question52: 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?
Question53: 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?
Question54: 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?
Question55: A company hosts an online shopping application that stores all orders in an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Single-AZ DB instance Management wants to eliminate single points of failure and has asked a solutions architect to recommend an approach to minimize database downtime without requiring any changes to the application code.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question56: A company Is migrating lo the AWS Cloud. A file server is the first workload to migrate. Users must be able to access the file share using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.Which AWS managed service meets these requirements?
Question57: A company has a three-tier environment on AWS that ingests sensor data from its users' devices. The traffic flows through a Network Load Balancer (NLB) then to Amazon EC2 instances for the web tier, and finally to EC2 instances for the application tier that makes database calls What should a solutions architect do to improve the security of data in transit to the web tier?
Question58: A solution architect must design a solution that uses Amazon CloudFront with an Amazon S3 to store a static website. The company security policy requires that all websites traffic be inspected by AWS WAF.How should the solution architect company with these requirements?
Question59: 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''
Question60: A company is building a payment application that must be highly available even during regional service disruptions A solutions architect must design a data storage solution that can be easily replicated and used in other AWS Regions. The application also requires low-latency atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID) transactions that need to be immediately available to generate reports The development team also needs to use SQL.Which data storage solution meets these requirements'?
Question61: A company has an application that is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in two private subnets. A solutions architect must make the application available on the public internet with the least amount of N-y administrative effort.What should the solutions architect recommend?
Question62: A solutions architect must provide a fully managed replacement for an on-premises solution that allows employees and partners to exchange files The solution must be easily accessible to employees connecting from on-premises systems, remote employees, and external partners Which solution meets these requirements?
Question63: 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?
Question64: A company has developed a new video game as a web application. The application is in a three-tier architecture in a VPC with Amazon RDS for MySQL In the database layer Several players will compete concurrently online. The game's developers want to display a top-10 scoreboard in near-real time and offer the ability to stop and restore the game while preserving the current scores.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question65: A solutions architect is moving the static content from a public website hosted on Amazon EC2 instances to an Amazon S3 bucket. An Amazon CloudFront distribution will be used to deliver the static assets. The security group used by the EC2 instances restricts access to a limited set of IP ranges. Access to the static content should be similarly restricted.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
Question66: 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?
Question67: 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?
Question68: 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?
Question69: A company wants to migrate its web application to AWS. The legacy web application consists of a web tier, an application tier, and a MySQL database. The re-architected application must consist of technologies that do not require the administration team to manage instances or clusters.Which combination of services should a solutions architect include in the overall architecture? (Select TWO)
Question70: 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?
Question71: A company wants to migrate a high performance computing (HPC) application and data from on-premises to the AWS Cloud. The company uses tiered storage on-premises with hoi high-performance parallel storage to support the application during periodic runs of the application, and more economical cold storage to hold the data when the application is not actively running.Which combination of solutions should a solutions architect recommend to support the storage needs of the application? (Select TWO)
Question72: 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?
Question73: An administrator of a large company wants to monitor for and prevent any cryptocurrency-related attacks on the company"s AWS accounts Which AWS service can the administrator use to protect the company against attacks?
Question74: A company is preparing to store confidential data in Amazon S3. For compliance reasons, the data must be encrypted at rest. Encryption key usage must be logged for auditing purposes. Keys must be rotated every year.Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally efficient?
Question75: A company receives data from millions of users totaling about 1 TB each flay. The company provides its use's with usage reports gang back 12 months Al usage data must be stored tor at least 5 years to comply with regulatory and auditing requirements Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?
Question76: A healthcare company stores highly sensitive patient records. Compliance requires that multiple copies be stored in different locations Each record must be stored for 7 years. The company has a service level agreement (SLA) to provide records to government agencies immediately for the first 30 days and then within4 hours of a request thereafter.What should a solutions architect recommend?
Question77: 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?
Question78: A company has a mobile game that reads most of its metadata from an Amazon RDS DB instance As the game increased in popularity developers noticed slowdowns related to the game's metadata load times Performance metrics indicate that simply scaling the database will not help A solutions architect must explore all options that include capabilities for snapshots replication and sub-millisecond response times What should the solutions architect recommend to solve these issues?
Question79: 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?
Question80: 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?
Question81: 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)
Question82: 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?
Question83: A company is running a multi-tier web application on premises. The web application is containerized and runs on a number of Linux hosts connected to a PostgreSQL database that contains user records. The operational overhead of maintaining the infrastructure and capacity planning is limiting the company's growth A solutions architect must improve the application's infrastructure.Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Select TWO.)
Question84: An application hosted on AWS is experiencing performance problems, and the application vendor wants to perform an analysis of the log file to troubleshoot further. The log file is stored on Amazon S3 and is 10 GB in size. The application owner will make the log file available to the vendor for a limited time.What is the MOST secure way to do this?
Question85: 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?
Question86: 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'?
Question87: 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?
Question88: A company is selling up an application to use an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. The database must be architected for high availability across Availability Zones and AWS Regions with minimal downtime.How should a solutions architect meet this requirement?
Question89: 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?
Question90: A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new application being deployed to AWS. The application allows users to interactively download and upload files. Files older than 2 years will be accessedless frequently. The solutions architect needs to ensure that the application can scale to any number of files while maintaining high availability and durability.Which scalable solutions should the solutions architect recommend? (Choose two.)
Question91: 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?
Question92: A company has a three-tier image-sharing application it uses an Amazon EC2 instance for the front-end layer, another for the backend tier, and a third for the MySQL database A solutions architect has been tasked with designing a solution that is highly available, and requires the least amount of changes to the application.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question93: A company that recently started using AWS establishes a Site-to-Site VPN between its on-premises data center and AWS. The company's security mandate states that traffic originating from on premises should stay within the company's private IP space when communicating with an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster that is hosting a sample web application.Which solution meets this requirement?
Question94: 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?
Question95: 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?
Question96: 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?
Question97: 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?
Question98: A development team stores its Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance user name and password credentials in a configuration file. The configuration file is stored as plaintext on the root device volume of the team's Amazon EC2 instance. When the team's application needs to reach the database, it reads the file and loads the credentials into the code. The team has modified the permissions of the configuration file so that only the application can read its content A solutions architect must design a more secure solution.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
Question99: 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?
Question100: A company is. moving its on-premises applications to Amazon EC2 instances. However as a result of fluctuating compute requirements, the EC2 instances must always be ready to use between 8 AM and 5 PM in specific Availability Zones.Which EC2 instances should the company choose to run the applications?
Question101: 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?
Question102: 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?
Question103: 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'?
Question104: What should a solutions architect do to ensure that all objects uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket are encrypted?
Question105: 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?
Question106: A company has application running on Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC. One of the applications needs to call an Amazon S3 API to store and read objects. The company's security policies restrict any internet-bound traffic from the applications.Which action will fulfill these requirements and maintain security?
Question107: 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?
Question108: A company stores 200 GB of data each month in Amazon S3. The company needs to perform analytics on this data at the end of each month to determine the number of items sold in each sales region for the previous month.Which analytics strategy is MOST cost-effective for the company to use?
Question109: 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?
Question110: A development team needs to host a website that will be accessed by other teams. The website contents.consist of HTML, CSS, client side JavaScript, and images.Which method is the MOST cost-effective for hosting the website?
Question111: A company has a dynamic web application hosted on two Amazon EC2 instances. The company has its own SSL certificate, which is on each instance to perform SSL termination.There has been an increase in traffic recently, and the operations team determined that SSL encryption and decryption is causing the compute capacity of the web servers to reach their maximum limit.What should a solutions architect do to increase the application's performance?
Question112: 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?
Question113: 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?
Question114: 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?
Question115: A company stores user data in AWS. The data is used continuously with peak usage during business hours.Access patterns vary, with some data not being used tor months at a time.A solution architect must choose a cost that maintains the highest level ot durability while maintaining high availability.Which storage solution meets these requirements?
Question116: 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?
Question117: A company hosts its multi-tier public web application in the AWS Cloud. The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and its database runs on Amazon RDS The company is anticipating a large increase in sales during an upcoming holiday weekend A solutions architect needs to build a solution to analyze the performance of the web application with a granularity of no more than 2 minutes What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
Question118: 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?
Question119: A company is using a tape backup solution to store its key application data offsite The daily data volume is around 50 TB The company needs to retain the backups for 7 years for regulatory purposes The backups are rarely accessed and a week's notice is typically given if a backup needs to be restored The company is now considering a cloud-based option to reduce the storage costs and operational burden of managing tapes The company also wants to make sure that the transition (rom tape backups to the cloud minimizes disruptions Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective'?
Question120: A company has an on-premises data center that is running out of storage capacity. The company wants to migrate its storage infrastructure to AWS while minimizing bandwidth costs The solution must allow for immediate retrieval of data at no additional cost.How can these requirements be met?
Question121: A company has a web server running on an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subnet with an Elastic IP address The default security group is assigned to the EC2 instance. The default network ACL has been modified to block all traffic. A solutions architect needs to make the web server accessible from everywhere on port 443 Which combination of steps will accomplish this task? (Select TWO.)
Question122: 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?
Question123: A company has 700 TB of backup data stored in network attached storage (NAS) in its data center This backup data need to be accessible for infrequent regulatory requests and must be retained 7 years. The company has decided to migrate this backup data from its data center to AWS. The migration must be complete within 1 month The company has 500 Mbps of dedicated bandwidth on its public internet connection available for data transfer.What should a solutions architect do to migrate and store the data at the LOWEST cost?
Question124: 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?
Question125: A company delivers files in Amazon S3 to certain users who do not have AWS credentials. These users must be given access for a limited lime. What should a solutions architect do to securely meet these requirements?
Question126: A company is building an application on Amazon EC2 instances that generates temporary transactional data.The application requires access to data storage that can provide configurable and consistent IOPS What should a solutions architect recommend*?
Question127: 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?
Question128: A company's website is using an Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance for its transactional data storage.There are other internal systems that query this DB instance to fetch data for internal batch processing. The RDS DB instance slows down significantly the internal systems fetch data. This impacts the website's read and write performance, and the users experience slow response times.Which solution will improve the website's performance?
Question129: 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?
Question130: 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?
Question131: A company recently released a new type of internet-connected sensor. The company is expecting lo sell thousands of sensors, which are designed to stream high volumes of data each second to a central location. A solutions architect must design a solution that ingests and stores data so that engineering teams can analyze it in near-real time with millisecond responsiveness.Which solution should the solutions architect recommend?
Question132: A business application is hosted on Amazon EC2 and uses Amazon S3 for encrypted object storage. The chief information security officer has directed that no application traffic between the two services should traverse the public internet.Which capability should the solutions architect use to meet the compliance requirements?
Question133: 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?A)B)C)D)
Question134: 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?
Question135: A solution architect is performing a security review of a recently migrated workload. The workload is a web application that consists of amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load balancer. The solution architect must improve the security posture and minimize the impact of a DDoS attack on resources.Which solution is MOST effective?
Question136: A solutions architect needs to design a low-latency solution for a static single-page application accessed by users utilizing a custom domain name. The solution must be serverless, encrypted in transit, and cost-effective.Which combination of AWS services and features should the solutions architect use? (Select TWO.)
Question137: An ecommerce website is deploying its web application as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) container instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). During periods of high activity, the website slows down and availability is reduced. A solutions architect uses Amazon CloudWatch alarms to receive notifications whenever there is an availability issue so they can scale out resources. Company management wants a solution that automatically responds to such events.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question138: 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?
Question139: 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?
Question140: A company's order fulfillment service uses a MySQL database. The database needs to support a large number of concurrent queries and transactions Developers are spending time patching and tuning the database This is causing delays in releasing new product features The company wants to use cloud-based services to help address this new challenge The solution must allow the developers to migrate the database with little or no code changes and must optimize performance.Which service should a solutions architect use to meet these requirements?
Question141: 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?
Question142: 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.)
Question143: A user wants to list the IAM role that is attached to their Amazon EC2 instance The user has login access to the EC2 instance but does not have IAM permissions What should a solutions architect do to retrieve this information?
Question144: A company has two applications: a sender application that sends messages with payloads to be processed and a processing application intended to receive the messages with payloads The company wants to implement an AWS service to handle messages between the two applications. The sender application can send about 1,000 messages each hour The messages may take up to 2 days to be processed If the messages fail to process, they must be retained so that they do not impact the processing of any remaining messages Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally efficient?
Question145: A company has a highly dynamic batch processing job that uses many Amazon EC2 instances to complete it.The job is stateless in nature, can be started and stopped at any given time with no negative impact, and typically takes upwards of 60 minutes total to complete The company has asked a solutions architect to design a scalable and cost-effective solution that meets the requirements of the job.What should the solutions architect recommend?
Question146: A three-tier web application processes orders from customers. The web tier consists of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer, a middle tier of three EC2 instances decoupled from the web tier using Amazon SQS. and an Amazon DynamoDB backend. At peak times, customers who submit orders using the site have to wait much longer than normal to receive confirmations due to lengthy processing times. A solutions architect needs to reduce these processing times.Which action will be MOST effective in accomplishing this?
Question147: A company captures clickstream data from multiple websites and analyzes it using batch processing. The data is loaded nightly into Amazon Redshift and is consumed by business analysts. The company wants to move towards near-real-time data processing for timely insights. The solution should process the streaming data with minimal effort and operational overhead.Which combination of AWS services are MOST cost-effective for this solution? (Choose two.)
Question148: A company has created a multi-tier application for its ecommerce website. The website uses an Application Load Balancer that resides in the public subnets, a web tier in me public subnets, and a MySQL cluster hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in the private subnets. The MySQL database needs to retrieve product catalog and pricing information that is hosted on the internet by a third-party provider. A solutions architect must devise a strategy that maximizes security without increasing operational overhead.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question149: A company that develops web applications has launched hundreds of Application Load Balancers (ALBs) in multiple Regions. The company wants to create an allow list (or the IPs of all the load balancers on its firewall device. A solutions architect is looking for a one-time, highly available solution to address this request, which will also help reduce the number of IPs that need to be allowed by the firewall.What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
Question150: 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)
Question151: 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''
Question152: 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?
Question153: 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?
Question154: A company wants to use high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure on AWS for financial risk modeling. The company s HPC workloads run on Linux Each HPC workflow runs on hundreds of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, is short-lived, and generates thousands of output files that are ultimately stored in persistent storage for analytics and long-term future use The company seeks a cloud storage solution that permits the copying of on premises data to long-term persistent storage to make data available for processing by all EC2 instances. The solution should also be a high performance file system that is integrated with persistent storage to read and write datasets and output files.Which combination of AWS services meets these requirements?
