EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: 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?

Question3: A company is moving Its on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The database has several applications that write to the same tables. The applications need to be migrated one by one with a month in between each migration Management has expressed concerns that the database has a high number of reads and writes. The data must be kept in sync across both databases throughout tie migration.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question4: A solutions architect is designing an architecture to run a third-party database server. The database software Is memory intensive and has a CPU-based licensing model where the cost Increases with the number of vCPU cores within the operating system. The solutions architect must select an Amazon EC2 instance with sufficient memory to run the database software, but the selected instance has a large number of vCPUs. The solutions architect must ensure that the vCPUs will not be underutilized and must minimize costs.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question5: 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?

Question6: 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?

Question7: 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?

Question8: A company uses Amazon S3 as its object storage solution. The company has thousands of S3 it uses to store dat a. Some of the S3 bucket have data that is accessed less frequently than others. A solutions architect found that lifecycle policies are not consistently implemented or are implemented partially. resulting in data being stored in high-cost storage.
Which solution will lower costs without compromising the availability of objects?

Question9: A solutions architect is planning the deployment of a new static website. The solution must minimize costs and provide at least 99% availability. Which solution meets these requirements?

Question10: A company's website is used to sell products to the public The site runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) There is also an Amazon CloudFront distribution and AWS WAF is being used to protect against SQL injection attacks The ALB is the origin for the CloudFront distribution A recent review of security logs revealed an external malicious IP that needs to be blocked from accessing the website What should a solutions architect do to protect the application?

Question11: An application uses an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. The RDS database is becoming low on disk space. A solutions architect wants to increase the disk space without downtime Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort?

Question12: A company is deploying a multi-instance application within AWS that requires minimal latency between the instances.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question13: A solutions architect is designing a web application that will run on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The company strictly requires that the application be resilient against malicious internet activity and attacks, and protect against new common vulnerabilities and exposures What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question14: A company that operates a web application on premises is preparing to launch a newer version of the application on AWS. The company needs to route requests to either the AWS-hosted or the on-premises-hosted application based on the URL query string. The on-premises application is not available from the internet, and a VPN connection is established between Amazon VPC and the company's data center. The company wants to use an Application Load Balancer (ALB) for this launch.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question15: A company has a service that produces event dat
a. The company wants to use AWS to process the event data as it is received. The data is written in a specific order that must be maintained throughout processing The company wants to implement a solution that minimizes operational overhead.
How should a solution architect accomplish this''

Question16: 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?

Question17: A company is building a website that relies on reading and writing to an Amazon DynamoDB database. The traffic associated with the website predictably peaks during business hours on weekdays and declines overnight and during weekends. A solutions architect needs to design a cost-effective solution that can handle the load.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question18: A website runs a web application that receives a burst of traffic each day at noon. The users upload new pictures and content daily, but have been complaining of timeouts. The architecture uses Amazon EC2 Auto Seating groups, and the custom application consistently takes 1 minute to initiate upon boot up before responding to user requests How should a solutions architect redesign the architecture to better respond to changing traffic?

Question19: 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?

Question20: A Solutions Architect must design a web application that will be hosted on AWS, allowing users to purchase access to premium, shared content that is stored in an S3 bucket. Upon payment, content will be available for download for 14 days before the user is denied access Which of the following would be the LEAST complicated implementation?

Question21: 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?

Question22: A company has on-premises servers running a relational database The current database serves high read traffic for users in different locations The company wants to migrate to AWS with the least amount of effort The database solution should support disaster recovery and not affect the company's current traffic flow.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question23: 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?

Question24: 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?

Question25: 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?

Question26: A company must re-evaluate its need for the Amazon EC2 instances it currently has provisioned in an Auto Scaling group. At present, the Auto Scaling group is configured for minimum of two instances and a maximum of four instances across two Availability zones. A Solutions architect reviewed Amazon CloudWatch metrics and found that CPU utilization is consistently low for the EC2 instances.
What should the solutions architect recommend to maximize utilization while ensuring the application remains fault tolerant?

Question27: 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 dat a. This impacts the website's read and write performance, and the users experience slow response times.
Which solution will improve the website's performance?

Question28: A bicycle sharing company is developing a multi-tier architecture to track the location of its bicycles during peak operating hours. The company wants to use these data points in its existing analytics platform. A solutions architect must determine the most viable multi-tier option to support this architecture. The data points must be accessible from the REST API.
Which action meets these requirements for storing and retrieving location data?

Question29: A solutions architect observes that a nightly batch processing job is automatically scaled up for 1 hour before the desired Amazon EC2 capacity is reached. The peak capacity is the same every night and the batch jobs always start at IAM. The solutions architect needs to find a cost-effective solution that will allow for the desired EC2 capacity to be reached quickly and allow the Auto Scaling group to scale down after the batch jobs are complete.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question30: 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?

Question31: 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?

Question32: A recent analysis of a company's IT expenses highlights the need to reduce backup costs. The company's chief information officer wants to simplify the on-premises backup infrastructure and reduce costs by eliminating the use of physical backup tapes. The company must preserve the existing investment in the on-premises backup applications and workflows.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question33: 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.)

Question34: 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?

Question35: A solutions architect is designing an architecture for a new application that requires low network latency and high network throughput between Amazon EC2 instances. Which component should be included in the architectural design?

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 possible
What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question37: Application developers have noticed that a production application is very slow when business reporting users run large production reports against the Amazon RDS instance backing the application. the CPU and memory utilization metrics for the RDS instance-d not exceed 60% while the reporting queries are running. The business reporting users must be able to generate reports without affecting the applications performance.
Which action will accomplish this?

Question38: A solutions architect is helping a developer design a new ecommerce shopping cart application using AWS services. The developer is unsure of the current database schema and expects to make changes as the ecommerce site grows. The solution needs to be highly resilient and capable of automatically scaling read and write capacity.
Which database solution meets these requirements?

Question39: 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?

Question40: A solutions architect is creating a data processing job that runs once daily and can take up to 2 hours to complete If the job is interrupted, it has to restart from the beginning How should the solutions architect address this issue in the MOST cost-effective manner?

Question41: 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?

Question42: 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?

Question43: A company is designing a new service that will run on Amazon EC2 instance behind an Elastic Load Balancer. However, many of the web service clients can only reach IP addresses whitelisted on their firewalls.
What should a solution architect recommend to meet the clients' needs?
What should a solution architect recommend to meet the clients' needs?

Question44: 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?

Question45: 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?

Question46: A solutions architect must design a database solution for a high-traffic ecommerce web application. The database stores customer profiles and shopping cart information. The database must support a peak load of several million requests each second and deliver responses in milliseconds. The operational overhead for managing and scaling the database must be minimized.
Which database solution should the solutions architect recommend?

Question47: 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?

Question48: A company with facilities in North Americ
a. 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?

Question49: 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?

Question50: 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)

Question51: 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.)

Question52: A company has applications hosted on Amazon EC2 instances with IPv6 addresses. The applications must initiate communications with other external applications using the internet. However, the company's security policy states that any external service cannot initiate a connection to the EC2 instances. What should a solutions architect recommend to resolve this issue?

Question53: A company has an on-premises application that collects data and stores it to an on-premises NFS server. The company recently set up a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection. The company is running out of storage capacity on premises. The company needs to migrate the application data from on premises to the AWS Cloud while maintaining low-latency access to the data from the on-premises application.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question54: A company must generate sales reports at the beginning of every month. The reporting process launches 20 Amazon EC2 instances on the first of the month. The process runs for 7 days and cannot be interrupted. The company wants to minimize costs.
Which pricing model should the company choose?

Question55: 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?

Question56: 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?

Question57: An operations team has a standard that states IAM policies should not be applied directly to users. Some new members have not been following this standard. The operation manager needs a way to easily identify the users with attached policies.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question58: A solutions architect at an ecommerce company wants to back up application log data to Amazon S3 The solutions architect is unsure how frequently the logs will be accessed or which logs will be accessed the most The company wants to keep costs as low as possible by using the appropriate S3 storage class.
Which S3 storage class should be implemented to meet these requirements?

Question59: A company hosts an application used to upload files to an Amazon S3 bucket Once uploaded, the files are processed to extract metadata, which takes less than 5 seconds. The volume and frequency of the uploads vanes from a few files each hour to hundreds of concurrent uploads. The company has asked a solutions architect to design a cost effective architecture that will meet these requirements.
What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question60: A company wants to host its web application on AWS using multiple Amazon EC2 instances across different AWS Regions Since the application content will be specific to each geographic region, the client requests need to be routed to the server that hosts the content for that clients Region.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question61: A company hosts a website on premises and wants to migrate it to the AWS Cloud The website exposes a single hostname to the internet but it routes its functions to different on-premises server groups based on the path of the URL The server groups are scaled independently depending on the needs of the functions they support The company has an AWS Direct Connect connection configured to its on-premises network What should a solutions architect do to provide path-based routing to send the traffic to the correct group of servers?

Question62: A company has an application running on Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet. The application needs to store and retrieve data in Amazon S3 To reduce costs, the company wants to configure its AWS resources in a cost-effective manner How should the company accomplish this?

Question63: A company is migrating a NoSQL database cluster to Amazon EC2. The database automatically replicates data to maintain at least three copies of the dat a. I/O throughput of the servers is the highest priority. Which instance type should a solutions architect recommend for the migration?

Question64: A company decides to migrate its three-tier web application from on premises to the AWS Cloud. The new database must be capable of dynamically scaling storage capacity and performing table joins.
Which AWS service meets these requirements?

Question65: 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?

Question66: An ecommerce company has noticed performance degradation of its Amazon RDS based web application. The performance degradation is attribute to an increase in the number of read-only SQL queries triggered by business analysts. A solution architect needs to solve the problem with minimal changes to the existing web application.
What should the solution architect recommend?

Question67: 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?

Question68: 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?

Question69: 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.)

Question70: 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 )

Question71: 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

Question72: 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?

Question73: 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.)

Question74: 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?

Question75: 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 )

Question76: A gaming company has multiple Amazon EC2 instances in a single Availability Zone for its multiplayer game that communicates with users on Layer 4. The chief technology officer (CTO) wants to make the architecture highly available and cost-effective What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question77: 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?

Question78: 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?

Question79: A company requires that all versions of objects in its Amazon S3 bucket be retained Current object versions will be frequently accessed during the first 30 days, after which they will be rarely accessed and must be retrievable within 5 minutes Previous object versions need to be kept forever, will be rarely accessed, and can be retrieved within 1 week. All storage solutions must be highly available and highly durable What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective manner?

Question80: A company is designing an internet-facing web application. The application runs on Amazon EC2 for Linux-based instances that store sensitive user data in Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instances. The EC2 instances are in public subnets, and the RDS DB instances are in private subnets. The security team has mandated that the DB instances be secured against web-based attacks What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question81: 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?

Question82: A company uses Application Load Balancers (ALBs) in different AWS Regions. The ALBs receive inconsistent traffic that can spike and drop throughout the year The company's networking team needs to allow the IP addresses of the ALBs in the on-premises firewall to enable connectivity.
Which solution is the MOST scalable with minimal configuration changes?

Question83: A company has hired a new cloud engineer who should not have access to an Amazon S3 bucket named Company Confidential. the cloud engineer must be able to read from and write to an S3 bucket called AdminTools.
Which IAM policy will meet these requirements?
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Question84: 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

Question85: 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?

Question86: 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?

Question87: 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?

Question88: 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.)

Question89: 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?

Question90: A company is creating a three-tier web application consisting of a web server, an application server, and a database server. The application will track GPS coordinates of packages as they are being delivered. The application will update the database every 0-5 seconds.
The tracking will need to read a fast as possible for users to check the status of their packages. Only a few packages might be tracked on some days, whereas millions of package might be tracked on other days. Tracking will need to be searchable by tracking ID customer ID and order ID Order than 1 month no longer read to be tracked.
What should a solution architect recommend to accomplish this with minimal cost of ownership?

Question91: 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?

Question92: A company runs a production application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances The application reads the data from an Amazon SQS queue and processes the messages in parallel. The message volume is unpredictable and often has intermittent traffic. This application should continually process messages without any downtime Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question93: A solutions architect is creating an application that will handle batch processing of large amounts of dat a. The input data will be held in Amazon S3 and the output data will be stored in a different S3 bucket. For processing, the application will transfer the data over the network between multiple Amazon EC2 instances.
What should the solutions architect do to reduce the overall data transfer costs?

Question94: A company wants to replicate its data to AWS to recover in the event of a disaster. Today, a system administrator has scripts that copy data to a NFS share Individual backup files need to be accessed with low latency by application administrators to deal with errors in processing.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question95: 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 )

Question96: 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?

Question97: A solutions 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 solutions architect has proposed migrating the IIS web servers to Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones that are connected to the storage solution, and configuring an Elastic Load Balancer attached to the instances.
Which replacement to the on-premises file share is MOST resilient and durable?

Question98: 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?

Question99: A solutions architect needs to ensure that API calls to Amazon DynamoDB from Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC do not traverse the internet What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this? (Select TWO )

Question100: 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?

Question101: 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?

Question102: 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?

Question103: A company has an application that posts messages to Amazon SQS Another application polls the queue and processes the messages in an l/O-intensive operation The company has a service level agreement (SLA) that specifies the maximum amount of time that can elapse between receiving the messages and responding to the users Due to an increase in the number of messages the company has difficulty meeting its SLA consistently.
What should a solutions architect do to help improve the application's processing time and ensure it can handle the load at any level?

Question104: A company is hosting a web application on AWS using a single Amazon EC2 instance that stores user-uploaded documents in an Amazon EBS volume For better scalability and availability the company duplicated the architecture and created a second EC2 instance and EBS volume in another Availability Zone: placing both behind an Application Load Balancer After completing this change users reported that each time they refreshed the website they could see one subset of their documents or the other but never all of the documents at the same time What should a solutions architect propose to ensure users see all of their documents at once?

Question105: 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''

Question106: 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?

Question107: 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?

Question108: 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?

Question109: A company is planning to migrate its virtual server-based workloads to AWS The company has internet-facing load balancers backed by application servers. The application servers rely on patches from an internet-hosted repository Which services should a solutions architect recommend be hosted on the public subnet*? (Select TWO.)

Question110: 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?

Question111: 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?

Question112: 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?

Question113: 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?

Question114: A company hosts historical weather records in Amazon S3. The records are downloaded from the company's website by way of a URL that resolves to a domain name. Users all over the world access this content through subscriptions A third-party provider hosts the company's root domain name, but the company recently migrated some of its services to Amazon Route 53 The company wants to consolidate contracts, reduce latency for users, and reduce costs related to serving the application to subscribers.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question115: A company has multiple AWS accounts, for various departments. One of the departments wants to share an Amazon S3 bucket with all other department.
Which solution will require the LEAST amount of effort?

Question116: 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?

Question117: 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?

Question118: A company has an application that generates a large number of files, each approximately 5 MB in size. The files are stored in Amazon S3. Company policy requires the files to be stored for 4 years before they can be deleted. Immediate accessibility is always required as the files contain critical business data that is not easy to reproduce. The files are frequently accessed in the first 30 days of the object creation but are rarely accessed after the first 30 days.
Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?

Question119: 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?

Question120: A group requires permissions to list an Amazon S3 bucket and delete objects from that bucket. An administrator has created the following IAM policy to provide access to the bucket and applied that policy to the group. The group is not able to delete objects in the bucket. The company follows least-privilege access rules.

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Question121: 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 )

Question122: A company wants to optimize the cost of its data storage for data that is accessed quarterly. The company requires high throughput, low latency, and rapid access, when needed Which Amazon S3 storage class should a solutions architect recommend?

Question123: 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?

Question124: A company has an on-premises business application that generates hundreds of files each day. These files are stored on an SMB file share and require a low-latency connection to the application servers A new company policy states all application-generated files must be copied to AWS There is already a VPN connection to AWS The application development team does not have time to make the necessary code modifications to move the application to AWS Which service should a solutions architect recommend to allow the application to copy files to AWS?

Question125: A company wants to use an AWS Region as a disaster recovery location for its on-premises infrastructure. The company has 10 TB of existing data, and the on-premise data center has a 1 Gbps internet connection. A solutions architect must find a solution so the company can have its existing data on AWS in 72 hours without transmitting it using an unencrypted channel.
Which solution should the solutions architect select?

Question126: 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?

Question127: A solutions architect is designing the architecture of a new application being deployed to the AWS Cloud The application will run on Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances and will automatically scale across multiple Availability Zones The EC2 instances will scale up and down frequently throughout the day An Application Load Balancer (ALB) will handle the load distribution The architecture needs to support distributed session data management The company is willing to make changes to code if needed.
What should the solutions architect do to ensure that the architecture supports distributed session data management?

Question128: A company hosts its web application on AWS using seven Amazon EC2 instances The company requires that the IP addresses of all healthy EC2 instances be returned in response to DNS queries.
Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?

Question129: A company has created a VPC with multiple private subnets in multiple Availability Zones (AZs) and one public subnet in one of the AZs. The public subnet is used to launch a NAT gateway. There are instance in the private subnet that use a NAT gateway to connect to the internet. In case is used of an AZ failure, the company wants to ensure that the instance are not all experiencing internet connectivity issues and that there is a backup plan ready.
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend that is MOST highly available?

Question130: A company is concerned that two NAT instances in use will no longer be able to support the traffic needed for the company's application. A solutions architect wants to implement a solution that is highly available fault tolerant, and automatically scalable What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question131: A company runs its production workload on an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster that includes six Aurora Replicas. The company wants near-real-lime reporting queries from one of its departments to be automatically distributed across three of the Aurora Replicas. Those three replicas have a different compute and memory specification from the rest of the DB cluster Which solution meets these requirements?

Question132: 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?

Question133: 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?

Question134: 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?

Question135: A company is hosting multiple websites for several lines of business under its registered parent domain. Users accessing these websites will be routed to appropriate backend Amazon EC2 instances based on the subdomain. The websites host static webpages, images, and server-side scripts like PHP and JavaScript.
Some of the websites experience peak access during the first two hours of business with constant usage throughout the rest of the day. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that will automatically adjust capacity to these traffic patterns while keeping costs low.
Which combination of AWS services or features will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question136: A company runs a static website through its on-premises data center. The company has multiple servers mat handle all of its traffic, but on busy days, services are interrupted and the website becomes unavailable. The company wants to expand its presence globally and plans to triple its website traffic.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question137: 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?

Question138: 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?

Question139: 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?

Question140: A company is hosting 60 TB of production-level data in an Amazon S3 bucket A solutions architect needs to bring that data on premises for quarterly audit requirements This export of data must be encrypted while in transit The company has low network bandwidth in place between AWS and its on-premises data center What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements9

Question141: 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?

Question142: A company has data stored in an on-premises data center that is used by several on-premises applications. The company wants to maintain its existing application environment and be able to use AWS services for data analytics and future visualizations.
Which storage service should a solutions architect recommend?

Question143: A solutions architect wants all new users to have specific complexity requirements and mandatory rotation periods for IAM user passwords What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question144: A company's application is running on Amazon EC2 instances within an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancer Based on the application's history, the company anticipates a spike in traffic during a holiday each year. A solutions architect must design a strategy to ensure that the Auto Scaling group proactively increases capacity lo minimize any performance impact on application users.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question145: A web application is deployed in the AWS Cloud It consists of a two-tier architecture that includes a web layer and a database layer The web server is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks What should a solutions architect do to remediate the vulnerability?

Question146: 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)

Question147: 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.)

Question148: A solutions architect is designing the storage architecture for a new web application used for stonng and viewing engineering drawings. All application components will be deployed on the AWS infrastructure.
The application design must support caching to minimize the amount of time that users wait for the engineering drawings to load. The application must be able to store petabytes of dat a. Which combination of storage and caching should the solutions architect use?

Question149: A company is using a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances to ingest data from on-premises data sources. The data is in JSON format and ingestion rates can be as high as 1 MB/s. When an EC2 instance is rebooted, the data in-flight is lost. The company's data science team wants to query ingested data in near-real time.
Which solution provides near-real-time data querying that is scalable with minimal data loss?

Question150: 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?

Question151: A company is investigating potential solutions that would collect, process, and store users' service usage dat a. 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?

Question152: 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?