EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A company is preparing to launch a public-facing web application in the AWS Cloud The architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances within a VPC behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). A third party service is used for the DNS. The company's solutions architect must recommend a solution to detect and protect against large scale DDoS attacks.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question2: A company has hired a solutions architect to design a reliable architecture for its application The application consists of one Amazon RDS DB instance and two manually provisioned Amazon EC2 instances that run web servers The EC2 instances are located in a single Availability Zone An employee recently deleted the DB instance and the application was unavailable for 24 hours as a result The company is concerned with the overall reliability of its environment What should the solutions architect do to maximize reliability of the application's infrastructure?

Question3: A company has a two-tier application architecture that runs in public and private subnets Amazon EC2 instances running the web application are in the public subnet and a database runs on the private subnet The web application instances and the database are running in a single Availability Zone (AZ).
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to provide high availability for this architecture? (Select TWO.)

Question4: A company is planning to migrate a mission-critical three-tor web application from on premises to the AWS Cloud. The backend database is snared with other on-premises systems and will remain in the on- premises data center.
The application tier requires quick and predictable response times between the presentation tier and the database Encryption is required for data in transit between client web browsers and the VPC. and between the on-promises data center and the VPC.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question5: A company has implemented one of its microservices on AWS Lambda that accesses an Amazon DynamoDB table named Books. A solutions architect is design an IAM policy to be attached to the Lambda function's IAM role, giving it access to put, update, and delete items in the Books table. the IAM policy must prevent function from performing any other actions on the Books table or any other.
Which IAM policy would fulfill these needs and provide the LEAST privileged access?
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Question6: A company has a three-tier, stateless web application. The company's web and application tiers run on Amazon BC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group with an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) root volume, and the database tier runs on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The company's recovery point objective (RPO) is 2 hours What should a solutions architect recommend to enable backups for this environment?

Question7: A company sells ringtones created from clips of popular songs. The files containing the ringtones are stored in Amazon S3 Standard and are at least 123 KB m size The company has millions of files but downloads are infrequent for ringtones older than 90 days The company needs to save money on storage while keeping the most accessed files readily available for its users.
Which action should the company take to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question8: A company wants to move its on-premises network, attached storage (NAS) to AWS. The company wants to make the data available to any Linux instances within its VPC and ensure changes are automatically synchronized across all instances accessing the data store. The majority of the data is accessed very rarely, and some files are accessed by multiple users at the same time.
Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?

Question9: A start-up company has a web application based in the us-east-1 Region with multiple Amazon EC2 instances running behind an Application Load Balancer across multiple Availability Zones As the company's user base grows in the us-west-1 Region, it needs 3 solution with low latency and high availability.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question10: 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?

Question11: An online shopping application accesses an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance. Database performance is slowing down the application. After upgrading to the next-generation instance type, there was no significant performance improvement.
Analysis shows approximately 700 IOPS are sustained, common queries run for long durations and memory utilization is high.
Which application change should a solutions architect recommend to resolve these issues?

Question12: 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.)

Question13: A company is building an application on Amazon EC2 instances that generates temporary transactional dat a. The application requires access to data storage that can provide configurable and consistent IOPS What should a solutions architect recommend*?

Question14: A company is running a media store across multiple Amazon EC2 instances distributed across multiple Availability Zones in a single VPC. The company wants a high-performing solution to share data between all the EC2 Instances, and prefers to keep the data within the VPC only.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

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 company runs an application using Amazon ECS. The application creates resized versions of an original image and then makes Amazon S3 API calls to store the resized images in Amazon S3. How can a solutions architect ensure that the application has permission to access Amazon S3?

Question17: A company uses Amazon S3 for storing a variety of files.
A solutions architect needs to design a feature that will allow users to instantly restore any deleted files within 30 days of deletion.
Which the MOST cost-efficient solution?

Question18: A company maintains a searchable repository of items on its website Tie data is stored in an Amazon RDS for MySQL database table that contains over 10 million rows The database has 2 TB of General Purpose SSD (gp2) storage. There are millions of updates against this data every day through the company's website The company has noticed some operations are taking 10 seconds or longer and has determined that the database storage performance is the bottleneck Which solution addresses the performance issue?

Question19: An environment has an Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones to as AZ-a and AZ-b has four instances, and AZ-b has three EC2 instances. The Auto Scaling group uses a default termination policies. None of the instances are protected from a scale-in event.
How will Auto Scaling processed if there is a scale-in event?

Question20: 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.)

Question21: A company wants to deploy an additional Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster for development purposes. The cluster will be used several times a week for a few minutes upon to debug production query issues. The company wants to keep overhead low for this resource.
Which solution meets the company's requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question22: A company has concerns about its Amazon RDS database. The workload is unpredictable, and periodic floods of new user registrations can cause the company to run out storage. The database runs on a general purpose instance with 300 GB of storage. What should a solution architect recommend to the company?

Question23: A company needs to retain application log files for a critical application for 10years. The application team regularly accesses logs from the past month for troubleshooting, but logs older than 1 month are rarely accessed. Theapplication generates more than 10 TB of logs per month. Which storage option meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question24: A company is running a batch application on Amazon EC2 instances The application consists of a backend with multiple Amazon RDS databases The application is causing a high number of reads on the databases A solutions architect must reduce the number of database reads while ensuring high availability.
What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Question25: 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?

Question26: 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?

Question27: 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?

Question28: A company has an application that uses Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to store dat a. The files are 1 GB in size or larger and are accessed often only tor the first few days after creation The application data is shared across a cluster of Linux servers. The company wants to reduce storage costs tor the application What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question29: A solutions architect has created a new AWS account and must secure AWS account root user access Which combination of actions will accomplish this? (Select TWO.)

Question30: A company hosts its application in the AWS Cloud. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group and with an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company wants to ensure the application can be made available in another AWS Region with minimal downtime What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of downtime?

Question31: 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?

Question32: A user is designing a new service that receives location updates from 3.600 rental cars every hour. The cars upload their location to an Amazon S3 bucket Each location must be checked for distance from the original rental location Which services will process the updates and automatically scale?

Question33: A company is migrating a Linux-based web server group to AWS The web servers must access files in a shared file store for some content To meet the migration date, minimal changes can be made What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question34: 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?

Question35: A gaming company is using Amazon DynamoDB to run a high-score leaderboard and record the game progress for users The company is launching a new game that is expected to be active for years The database activity at launch cannot be predicted; but it is expected to stabilize after 4 weeks Currently, the company is using on-demand capacity mode for processing reads and writes on all DynamoDB tables.
What is the MOST cost-effective way for the company to control the DynamoDB capacity during the new game launch?

Question36: 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?

Question37: A company runs a multi-tier web application that hosts news content The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones and use an Amazon Aurora database. A solutions architect needs to make the application more resilient to periodic increases in request rates.
Which architecture should the solutions architect implement? (Select TWO )

Question38: A developer has an application that uses an AWS Lambda function to upload files to Amazon S3 and needs the required permissions to perform the task.
The developer already has an IAM user with valid IAM credentials required for Amazon S3.
What should a solutions architect do to grant the permissions?

Question39: A company is experiencing growth as demand for its product has increased The company's existing purchasing application is slow when traffic spikes The application is a monolithic three tier application that uses synchronous transactions and sometimes sees bottlenecks in the application tier A solutions architect needs to design a solution that can meet required application response times while accounting for traffic volume spikes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question40: 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?

Question41: 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?

Question42: 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.)

Question43: A solutions architect is developing a multiple-subnet VPC architecture. The solution will consist of six subnets in two Availability Zones. The subnets are defined as public, private and dedicated for databases Only the Amazon EC2 instances running in the private subnets should be able to access a database.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question44: 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?

Question45: A solution architect is designing the infrastructure for an application. The application must have a managed MySQL database mat is highly available. The database will be (censed only by resources in the same VPC. The database also must have auto scaling for storage and compute Which solution meets these requirements?

Question46: 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?

Question47: A company requires operating system permission on a relational database server.
What should a solutions architect suggest as a configuration for a highly available database architecture?

Question48: 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?

Question49: A company runs an application that uses multiple Amazon EC2 instances to gather data from its users The data is then processed and transferred to Amazon S3 for long-term storage A review of the application shows that there were long penods of time when the EC2 instances were not being used A solutions architect needs to design a solution that optimizes utilization and reduces costs.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question50: 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?

Question51: 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?

Question52: A company collects temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure data in cities across multiple continents. The average volume of data collected per site each day is 500 GB. Each site has a high-speed internet connection. The company's weather forecasting applications are based in a single Region and analyze the data daily.
What is the FASTEST way to aggregate data for all of these global sites?

Question53: 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?

Question54: 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?

Question55: A company is running a multi-tier ecommerce web application In the AWS Cloud. The application runs on Amazon EC2 Instances with an Amazon RDS MySQL Mutt>AZ DB instance. Amazon RDS is configured with the latest generation instance with 2,000 GB of storage in an Amazon EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volume. The database performance impacts the application during periods of high demand.
After analyzing the logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs, a database administrator finds that the application performance always degrades when the number of read and write IOPS is higher than 6.000 What should a solutions architect do to improve the application performance?

Question56: A company currently stores symmetric encryption keys in a hardware security module (HSM). A solution architect must design a solution to migrate key management to AWS. The solution should allow for key rotation and support the use of customer provided keys.
Where should the key material be stored to meet these requirements?

Question57: A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances within a private subnet in a VPC The instances access data in an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region. The VPC contains a NAT gateway in a public subnet to access the S3 bucket The company wants to reduce costs by replacing the NAT gateway without compromising security or redundancy Which solution meets these requirements?

Question58: 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'?

Question59: A company is looking for a solution that can store video archives in AWS from old news footage. The company needs to minimize costs and will rarely need to restore these files. When the files are needed, they must be available in a maximum of five minutes.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question60: An ecommerce application places orders in an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue When a message is received, the Amazon EC2 worker instances process the request The EC2 instancesare in an Auto Scaling group 236 How should the architecture be designed to scale the auto scaling group with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Question61: 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?

Question62: company's human resources (HR) department saves its sensitive documents in an Amazon S3 bucket named conf>dential_bucket An 1AM policy grants permission for ail S3 actions to a group of which each HR employee is a member A solutions architect needs to make the objects secure and raccessible outside the company's AWS account and on-premises IP CIDR range The solutions architect adds the following S3 bucket policy ( "Version": "2008-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Deny", "Principal": { "AWS": - "Action": "s3:"", "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::confidential_bucket/*", "Condition": { "StringNotLike": { "aws:sourceVpce": "vpce-C123456789" }, "NotlpAddress": { "aws:SourceIp": [ "10.100.0.0/24", "172.31.0.0/24" J } } } J } What is the effect of the added bucket policy?
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Question63: A company runs an application on three very large Amazon EC2 instances In a single Availability Zone in the us-east-1 Region Multiple 16 TB Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes are attached to each EC2 instance. The operations team uses an AWS Lambda script triggered by a schedule-based Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule to stop the instances on evenings and weekends, and start the instances on weekday mornings.
Before deploying the solution, the company used the public AWS pricing documentation to estimate the overall costs of running this data warehouse solution 5 days a week for 10 hours a day. When looking at monthly Cost Explorer charges for this new account, the overall charges are higher than the estimate.
What is the MOST likely cost factor that the company overlooked?

Question64: A company has a large Microsoft SharePoint deployment running on-premises that requires Microsoft Windows shared file storage. The company wants to migrate this workload to the AWS Cloud and is considering various storage options. The storage solution must be highly available and integrated with Active Directory for access control.
Which solution will satisfy these requirements?

Question65: 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?

Question66: 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?

Question67: 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?

Question68: A company is deploying a multi-instance application within AWS that requires minimal latency between the instances.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question69: A company is deploying a web portal. The company wants to ensure that only the web portion of the application is publicly accessible. To accomplish this, the VPC was designed with two public subnets and two private subnets. The application will run on several Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. SSL termination must be offloaded from the EC2 instances. What should a solutions architect do to ensure these requirements are met?

Question70: A company hosts a training site on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The company anticipates that its new course, which consists of dozens of training videos on the site, will be extremely popular when it is released in 1 week.
What should a solutions architect do to minimize the anticipated server load?

Question71: A company recently migrated a message processing system to AWS. The system receives messages into an ActiveMQ queue running on an Amazon EC2 instance. Messages are processed by a consumer application running on Amazon EC2 The consumer application processes the messages and writes results to a MySQL database running on Amazon EC2. The company wants this application to be highly available with low operational complexity Which architecture offers the HIGHEST availability?

Question72: 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 )

Question73: A company recently launched its website to serve content to its global user base. The company wants to store and accelerate the delivery of static content to its users by leveraging Amazon CloudFront with an Amazon EC2 instance attached as its origin.
How should a solutions architect optimize high availability for the application?

Question74: 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?

Question75: 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?

Question76: 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?

Question77: 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'?

Question78: A company is deploying an application that processes large quantities of data in parallel. The company plans to use Amazon EC2 instances for the workload The network architecture must be configurable to provide the lowest possible latency between nodes Which combination of network solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO )

Question79: 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?

Question80: 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.)

Question81: A company is planning to make a series of schema changes to tables on its Amazon Aurora DB cluster A solutions architect needs to test the changes in the most cost-effective manner possible. What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question82: A company hosts its multi-tier applications on AWS. For compliance, governance, auditing, and security, the company must track configuration changes on its AWS resources and record a history of API calls made to these resources What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question83: A company runs an online media site, hosted on-premises. An employee posted a product review that contained videos and pictures. The review went viral and the company needs to handle the resulting spike in website traffic.
What action would provide an immediate solution? 252

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 solutions architect is designing a system to analyze the performance of financial markets while the markets are closed The system will run a series of compute-intensive jobs for 4 hours every night The time to complete the compute jobs is expected to remain constant, and jobs cannot be interrupted once started Once completed, the system is expected to run for a minimum of 1 year Which type of Amazon EC2 instances should be used to reduce the cost of the system?

Question86: A company wants to use Amazon S3 for the secondary copy of its on-premises dataset. The company would rarely need to access this copy. The storage solution's cost should be minimal.
Which storage solution meets these requirements?

Question87: A mobile gaming company runs application servers on Amazon EC2 instances. The servers receive updates from players every 15 minutes. The mobile game creates a JSON object of the progress made in the game since the last update, and sends the JSON object to an Application Load Balancer. As the mobile game is played, game updates are being lost. The company wants to create a durable way to get the updates in older.
What should a solutions architect recommend to decouple the system?

Question88: 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?

Question89: 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?

Question90: 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?

Question91: A global company plans to track and store information about local allergens in an Amazon DynamoOB table and query this data from its website The company anticipates that website traffic will fluctuate The company estimates that the combined read and write capacity units will range from 10 10.000 per second, depending on the severity of the conditions for the given day. A solutions architect must design a solution that avoids throttling issues and manages capacity efficiently. What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively''

Question92: A company allows its developers to attach existing IAM policies to existing IAM roles to enable (aster experimentation and agility However the security operations team is concerned that the developers could attach the existing administrator policy, which would allow the developers to circumvent any other security policies How should a solutions architect address this issue?

Question93: A company has developed a database in Amazon RDS for MySQL. Due to increased support team is reporting slow reads against the DB instance and recommends adding a read replica.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take before implementing this change? (Select TWO.)

Question94: A company runs a legacy application with a single-tier architecture on an Amazon EC2 instance Disk I/O is low. with occasional small spikes during business hours. The company requires the instance to be stopped from 8 PM to 8 AM daily Which storage option is MOST appropriate for this workload?

Question95: 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?

Question96: A product team is creating a new application that will store a large amount of data The data will be analyzed hourly and modified by multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances The application team believes the amount of space needed will continue to grow for the next 6 months Which set of actions should a solutions architect take to support these needs'?

Question97: A solutions architect is designing a new API using Amazon API Gateway that will receive requests from users The volume of requests is highly variable, several hours can pass without receiving a single request The data processing will take place asynchronously but should be completed within a few seconds after a request is made Which compute service should the solutions architect have the API invoke to deliver the requirements at the lowest cost?

Question98: A company is running its application in a single region on Amazon EC2 with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and S3 as part of the storage design.
What should be done to reduce data transfer costs?

Question99: An application tunning on AWS Lambda requires an API key to access a third-party service. The key must be stored securely with audited access to the Lambda function only.
What is the MOST secure way to store the key?

Question100: A company uses an Amazon S3 bucket as its data lake storage platform The S3 bucket contains a massive amount of data that is accessed randomly by multiple teams and hundreds of applications The company wants to reduce the S3 storage costs and provide immediate availability for frequently accessed objects What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

Question101: A company wants to improve the availability and performance of its hybrid application The application consists of a stateful TCP-based workload hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in different AWS Regions and a stateless UOP-based workload hosted on premises.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to improve availability and performance? (Select TWO.)

Question102: 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?

Question103: A company wants to monitor its AWS costs for financial review. The cloud operations team is designing an architecture in the AWS Organizations master account to query AWS Cost and Usage Reports for all member accounts. The team must run this query once a month and provide a detailed analysis of the bill Which solution is the MOST scalable and cost-effective way to meet these requirements?

Question104: A company has recently updated its internal security standards. The company must now ensure all Amazon S3 buckets and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes are encrypted with keys created and periodically rotated by internal security specialists. The company is looking for a native, software-based AWS service to accomplish this goal.
What should a solutions architect recommend as a solution?

Question105: 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?

Question106: 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?

Question107: A company hosts an application on an Amazon EC2 instance that requires a maximum of 200 GB storage space. The application is used infrequently, with peaks during mornings and evenings. Disk I/O varies, but peaks at 3,000 IOPS. The chief financial officer of the company is concerned about costs and has asked a solutions architect to recommend the most cost-effective storage option that does not sacrifice performance.
Which solution should the solutions architect recommend?

Question108: A company has global users accessing an application deployed in different AWS Regions, exposing public static IP addresses. The users are experiencing poor performance when accessing the application over the internet.
What should a solutions architect recommend to reduce internet latency?

Question109: What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question110: An application allows users at a company's headquarters to access product data The product data is stored in an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. The operations team has isolated an application performance slowdown and wants to separate read traffic from write traffic. A solutions architect needs to optimize the application's performance quickly.
What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question111: 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?

Question112: 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?

Question113: A company is using Amazon S3 as its local repository for weekly analysis reports One of the company-wide requirements is to secure data at rest using encryption. The company chooses Amazon 53 server-side encryption (SSE) how can the object be decrypted when a GET request is issued?

Question114: 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)

Question115: 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''

Question116: A company fails an AWS security reviews conducted by the third-party. The review finds out that some of the company method to access the Amazon EMR through the public internet.
Which combination of steps should the company take to MOST improve its security? (Select TWO.)

Question117: 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?

Question118: A financial company operates its production AWS environment in the us-east-1 Region and uses Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots to back up its instances. To meet a compliance requirement, the company must maintain a secondary copy of all critical data at least 100 miles (160.9 km) away from its primary location.
What is the MOST cost-effective way for the company to meet this requirement?

Question119: 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?

Question120: A solutions architect plans to convert a company's monolithic web application into a multi-tier application. The company wants to avoid managing its own infrastructure. The minimum requirements for the web application are high availability scalability and regional low latency during peak hours The solution should also store and retrieve data with millisecond latency using the application's API Which solution meets these requirements?

Question121: A company has copied 1 PB of data from a colocation facility to an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region using an AWS Direct Connect link. The company now wants to copy the data to another S3 bucket in the us-west-2 Region. The colocation facility does not allow the use AWS Snowball.
What should a solutions architect recommend to accomplish this?

Question122: 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?

Question123: 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?

Question124: Management has decided to deploy all AWS VPCs with IPv6 enabled After some time a solutions architect tries to launch a new instance and receives an error stating that there is not enough IP address space available in the subnet What should the solutions architect do to fix this?

Question125: A company has a 143 TB MySQL database that it wants to migrate to AWS. The plan is to use Amazon Aurora MySQL as the platform going forward. The company has a 100 Mbps AWS Direct Connect connection to Amazon VPC.
Which solution meets the company's needs and takes the LEAST amount of time?

Question126: 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)

Question127: 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?

Question128: 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 within 4 hours of a request thereafter.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question129: A company is using Amazon EC2 to run its big data analytics workloads. These variable workloads run each night, and it is critical they finish by the start of business the following day. A solutions architect has been tasked with designing the MOST cost-effective solution.
Which solution will accomplish this?

Question130: A company plans to store sensitive user data on Amazon S3. Internal security compliance requirement mandata encryption of data before sending it to Amazon S3.
What should a solution architect recommend to satisfy these requirements?

Question131: A company is developing a data lake solution in Amazon S3 to analyze large scale datasets. The solution makes infrequent SOL queries only in addition, the company wants to minimize infrastructure costs Which AWS service should be used to meet these requirements?

Question132: 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?

Question133: 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?

Question134: Organizers for a global event want to put daily reports online as static HTML pages The pages are expected to generate millions of views from users around the world The files are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket A solutions architect has been asked to design an efficient and effective solution Which action should the solutions architect take to accomplish this?

Question135: A solutions architect needs to deploy a node js-based web application that is highly available and scales automatically. The marketing team needs to roll back on application releases quickly and they need to have an operational dashboard. The Marketing team does not want to manage deployment of operating system patches to the Linux servers.
Which AWS service satisfies these requirements?

Question136: A company has been storing analytics data in an Amazon RDS instance for the past few years. The company asked a solutions architect to find a solution that allows users to access this data using an API The expectation is that the application will experience periods of inactivity but could receive bursts of traffic within seconds Which solution should the solutions architect suggest?

Question137: A team has an application that detects new objects being uploaded into an Amazon bucket. The upload a trigger AWS Lambda function to write metadata into an Amazon DynamoDB table and an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database.
Which action should the team take to ensure high availability?

Question138: 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?

Question139: A company needs to implement a relational database with a multi-Region disaster recovery Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 second and an Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 minute.
Which AWS solution can achieve this?

Question140: A gaming company is designing a highly available architecture. the application runs on a modified Linux kernel and support only UDP-based traffic. The company needs the front-end tier to provide the best possible user experience. The tier must have low latency, route traffic to the nearest edge location, and possible static IP addresses for entry into the application endpoints.
What should a solution architect do to meet these requirements?

Question141: A company provides an online service for posting video content and transcoding it for use by any mobile platform. The application architecture uses Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Standard to collect and store the videos so that multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances can access the video content for processing As the popularity of the service has grown over time, the storage costs have become too expensive Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?

Question142: 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?

Question143: 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?

Question144: After reviewing the cost optimization checks in AWS Trusted Advisor, a team finds that it has 10,000 Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots in its account that are more than 30 days old. When the team determines that it needs to implement better governance for the lifecycle of its resources.
Which actions should the team take to automate the lifecycle management of the EBS snapshots with the LEAST effort? (Select TWO )

Question145: 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'?

Question146: 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?

Question147: 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?

Question148: 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?

Question149: 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?

Question150: A company is deploying an application in three AWS Regions using an Application Load Balancer Amazon Route 53 will be used to distribute traffic between these Regions.
Which Route 53 configuration should a solutions architect use to provide the MOST high-performing experience?

Question151: A company has thousands of edge devices that collectively generate 1 TB of status alerts each day Each alert is approximately 2 KB in size A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to ingest and store the alerts for future analysis. The company wants a highly available solution However the company needs to minimize costs and does not want to manage additional infrastructure Additionally, the company wants to keep 14 days of data available for immediate analysis and archive any data older than 14 days What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

Question152: A company is making a prototype of the infrastructure for its new website by manually provisioning the necessary infrastructure This infrastructure includes an Auto Scaling group an Application Load Balancer, and an Amazon RDS database After the configuration has been thoroughly validated the company wants the capability to immediately deploy the infrastructure for development and production use in two Availability Zones in an automated fashion What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements''

Question153: An application running on an Amazon EC2 instance needs to access an Amazon DynamoDB table Both the EC2 instance and the DynamoDB table are in the same AWS account A solutions architect must configure the necessary permissions.
Which solution will allow least privilege access to the DynamoDB table from the EC2 instance?

Question154: 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?

Question155: A company has a popular gaming platform running on AWS. The application is sensitive to latency because latency can impact the user experience and introduce unfair advantages to some players The application is deployed in every AWS Region it runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are part of Auto Scaling groups configured behind Application Load Balancers (ALBs) A solutions architect needs to implement a mechanism to monitor the health of the application and redirect traffic to healthy endpoints.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question156: A company wants to automate the security assessment of its Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs to validate and demonstrate that security and compliance standards are being followed throughout the development process What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question157: 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.)

Question158: A company hosts a static website on-premises and wants to migrate the website to AWS The website should load as quickly as possible for users around the world The company also wants the most cost-effective solution What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question159: 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?

Question160: A company wants to build an online marketplace application on AWS as a set of loosely coupled microservices. For this application, when a customer submits a new order, two microservices should handle the event simultaneously. The Email microservice will send a confirmation email, and the OrderProcessing microservice will start the order delivery process. It a customer cancels an order, the OrderCancelation and Email microservices should handle the event simultaneously.
A solutions architect wants to use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to design the messaging between the microservices.
How should the solutions architect design the solution?

Question161: A solutions architect is reviewing the cost of a company's scheduled nightly maintenance. The solutions architect notices that three Amazon EC2 instances are being run to perform nine scripted tasks that take less than 5 minutes each to complete. The scripts are all written in Python. Which action should the company take to optimize costs of the nightly maintenance?

Question162: A company is designing a web application using AWS that processes insurance quotes Users will request quotes from the application Quotes must be separated by quote type must be responded to within 24 hours, and must not be lost The solution should be simple to set up and maintain.
Which solution meets these requirements''

Question163: A company has a build server that is in an Auto Scaling group and often has multiple Linux instances running. The build server requires consistent shared NFS storage for jobs and configurations.
Which storage option should a solution architect recommend?

Question164: 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?

Question165: A company runs a web service on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones The company needs a minimum of four instances at all limes to meet the required service level agreement (SLA) while keeping costs low.
If an Availability Zone fails, how can the company remain compliant with the SLA?

Question166: A solutions architect is designing an elastic application that will have between 10 and 50 Amazon EC2 concurrent instances running depending on the load Each instance must mount storage that will read and write to the same 50 GB folder Which storage type meets the requirements?

Question167: 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?

Question168: A solutions architect is redesigning a monolithic application to be a loosely coupled application composed of two microservices: Microservice A and Microservice B Microservice A places messages in a mam Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) queue for Microservice B to consume When Microservice B fails to process a message after four retries, the message needs to be removed from the queue and stored for further investigation.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question169: A company has an asynchronous web application where Amazon API Gateway triggers AWS Lambda functions to perform write and update operations on an Amazon RDS DB instance During periods of extreme use API Gateway and Lambda scale in response to the incoming workload but service outages occur due to congestion with Amazon RDS The company is seeking a cost-effective design to alleviate this congestion What should a solutions architect recommend'?

Question170: 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.)

Question171: A restaurant reservation application needs to access a waiting list. When a customer tries to reserve atable, and none are available, the customer application will put the user on the waiting list, and theapplication will notify the customer when a table becomes free. The waiting list must preserve the order in which customers were added to the waiting list. Which service should the solutions architect recommend to store this waiting list?

Question172: 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?

Question173: A recently created startup built a three-tier web application. The front end has static content. The application layer is based on microservices. User data is stored as JSON documents that need to be accessed with low latency. The company expects regular traffic to be low during the first year, with peaks in traffic when it publicizes new features every month. The startup team needs to minimize operational overhead costs.
What should a solutions architect recommend to accomplish this?

Question174: A solutions architect is using Amazon S3 to design the storage architecture of a new digital media application. The media files must be resilient to the loss of an Availability Zone Some files are accessed frequently while other files are rarely accessed in an unpredictable pattern. The solutions architect must minimize the costs of storing and retrieving the media files.
Which storage option meets these requirements?

Question175: 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?

Question176: A company wants to create an application that will transmit protected health information (PHI) to thousands of service consumers in different AWS accounts The application servers will sit in private VPC subnets The routing for the application must be fault tolerant.
What should be done to meet these requirements?

Question177: A company is hosting an election reporting website on AWS for users around the world The website uses Amazon EC2 Instances for the web and application tiers in an Auto Scaling group with Application Load Balancers The database tier uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL database The website is updated with election results once an hour and has historically observed hundreds of users accessing the reports The company Is expecting a significant increase In demand because of upcoming elections in different countries. A solutions architect must Improve The website's ability to handle additional demand while minimizing the need for additional EC2 instances Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question178: A company previously migrated its data warehouse solution to AWS. The company also has an AWS Direct Connect connection. Corporate office users query the data warehouse using a visualization tool. The average size of a query returned by the data warehouse is 50 MB and each webpage sent by the visualization tool is approximately 500 KB. Result sets returned by the data warehouse are not cached.
Which solution provides the LOWEST data transfer egress cost for the company?

Question179: A company finds that, as its use of Amazon EC2 instances grows us Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EDS) storage costs are increasing faster man expected. Which EBS management practices would help reduce costs? (Select TWO. )

Question180: A company is running an application on AWS to process weather sensor data that is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. Three batch jobs run hourly to process the data in the S3 bucket for different purposes The company wants to reduce the overall processing time by running the three applications in parallel using an event-based approach What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question181: 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.)

Question182: A company has many applications on Amazon EC2 instances running in Auto Scaling groups. Company policy requires that the data on the attached Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes be retained.
Which action will meet these requirements without impacting performance?

Question183: A solutions architect needs to ensure that all Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes restored from unencrypted EBS snapshots are encrypted What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question184: A company wants to reduce Its Amazon S3 storage costs in its production environment without impacting durability or performance of the stored objects What is the FIRST step the company should take to meet these objectives?

Question185: A company relies on an application that needs at least 4 Amazon EC2 instances during regular traffic and must scale up to 12 EC2 instances during peak loads. The application is critical to the business and must be highly available Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question186: A company has an application that scans millions of connected devices for security threats and pushes the scan logs to an Amazon S3 bucket. A total of 70 GB of data is generated each week, and the company needs to store 3 years of data for historical reporting. The company must process, aggregate, and enrich the data from Amazon S3 by performing complex analytical queries and joins in the least amount of time. The aggregated dataset is visualized on an Amazon QuickSight dashboard. What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question187: A company is hosting a website behind multiple Application Load Balancers. The company has different distribution rights for its content around the world. A solutions architect needs to ensure that users are served the correct content without violating distribution rights.
Which configuration should the solutions architect choose to meet these requirements?

Question188: A company's security policy requires that alt AWS API activity in its AWS accounts be recorded tor periodic auditing. The company needs to ensure that AWS CloudTrail is enabled on all of its current and future AWS accounts using AWS Organizations Which solution is MOST secure?

Question189: 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?

Question190: 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''

Question191: A solutions architect is designing a security solution for a company that wants to provide developers with individual AWS accounts through AWS Organizations, while also maintaining standard security controls. Because the individual developers will have AWS account root user-level access to their own accounts, the solutions architect wants to ensure that the mandatory AWS CloudTrail configuration that is applied to new developer accounts is not modified.
Which action meets these requirements?

Question192: 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?

Question193: A company runs an application on a group of Amazon Linux EC2 instances The application writes log files using standard API calls For compliance reasons, all log files must be retained indefinitely and will be analyzed by a reporting tool that must access all files concurrently Which storage service should a solutions architect use to provide the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question194: 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?

Question195: 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)

Question196: A solutions architect is designing an architecture that includes web application and database tiers The web tier must be capable of auto scaling. The solutions architect has decided to separate each tier into itsown subnets. The design includes two public subnets and four private subnets. The security team requires that tiers be able to communicate with each other only when there is a business need and that all other network traffic be blocked What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question197: 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?

Question198: A company has a Windows-based application that must be migrated to AWS. The application requires the use of a shared Windows file system attached to multiple Amazon EC2 Windows instances that are deployed across Availability Zones.
What should a solution architect do to meet this requirement?

Question199: 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?

Question200: 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?

Question201: A company owns an asynchronous API that is used to ingest use requests and, based on the request type, dispatch requests to the appropriate microservice for processing.
The company is using Amazon API Gateway to deploy the API front end, and an AWS Lambda function that invokes Amazon DynamoDB to store user requests before dispatching them to the processing microservices.
The company provisioned as much DynamoDB throughput as its budget allows, but the company is still experiencing availability issues and is losing user requests.
What should a solutions architect do to address this Issue without impacting existing users?

Question202: A company is using Amazon RDS for MySQL. The company disaster recovery requirements state that a near real time replica of the database must be maintained on premises. The company wants the data to be encrypted in transit/ Which solution meets these requirements?

Question203: A company's website receives 50,000 requests each second. The company wants to use multiple applications to analyze the navigation patterns of the website users so that the experience can be personalized. Which AWS services or feature should a solutions architect use to collect page clicks for the website and process them sequentially for each user?

Question204: An engineering team is developing and deploying AWS Lambda functions. The team needs to create roles and manage policies in AWS IAM to configure the permissions of the Lambda functions.
How should the permissions for the team be configured so they also adhere to the concept of least privilege?

Question205: 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?

Question206: A company is reviewing a recent migration of a three-tier application to a VPC. The security team discovers thai the principle of least privilege is not being applied to Amazon EC2 security group ingress and egress rules between the application tiers.
What should a solutions architect do to correct this issue?

Question207: A company has a web application for travel ticketing. The application is based on a database that runs in a single data center in North Americ a. The company wants to expand the application to serve a global user base. The company needs to display the application to multiple AWS Regions. Average latency must be less than 1 second on updates to reservation database.
The company wants to have separate deployments of its web platform across multiple Regions.
However, the company must maintain a single primary reservation database that is globally consistent.
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question208: A disaster response team is using drones to collect images ot recent storm damage. The response team's laptops lack the storage and compute capacity to transfer the images and process the dat a. While the team has Amazon EC2 instances for processing and Amazon S3 buckets for storage, network connectivity is intermittent and unreliable. The images need to be processed to evaluate the damage.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question209: 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?

Question210: 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?