EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A company has deployed a multiplayer game for mobile devices. The game requires live location tracking of players based on latitude and longitude. The data store for the game must support rapid updates and retrieval of locations.
The game uses an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance with read replicas to store the location data.
During peak usage periods, the database is unable to maintain the performance that is needed for reading and writing updates. The game's user base is increasing rapidly.
What should a solutions architect do to improve the performance of the data tier?

Question2: A company is running a database on Amazon Aurora The database is idle every evening An application that performs extensive reads on the database experiences performance issues during morning hours when user traffic spikes. During these peak penods. the application receives timeout errors when reading from the database The company does not have a dedicated operations team and needs an automated solution to address the performance issues Which actions should a solutions architect take to automatically adjust to the increased read load on the database? (Select TWO )

Question3: A company is planning to build a new web application on AWS The company expects predictable traffic most of the year and very high traffic on occasion. The web application needs to be highly available and fault tolerant with minimal latency.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question4: A solutions architect needs to design a resilient solution for Windows users' home directories. The solution must provide fault tolerance, file-level backup and recovery, and access control, based upon the company's Active Directory.
Which storage solution meets these requirements?

Question5: A social media company is building a feature tor its website. The feature will give users the ability to upload photos. The company expects significant increases in demand during large events and must ensure that the website can handle the upload traffic from users.
Which solution meets these requirements with the MOST scalability?

Question6: A company has a website running on Amazon EC2 Instances across two Availability Zones The company is expecting spikes in traffic on specific holidays and wants to provide a consistent user experience.
How can a solutions architect meet this requirement?

Question7: A solutions architect wants all new users to have specific complexity requirements and mandatory rotation periods tor IAM user passwords What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question8: An ecommerce company has noticed performance degradation of its Amazon RDS based web application The performance degradation is attributed to an increase in the number of read-only SQL queries triggered by business analysts A solutions architect needs to solve the problem with minimal changes to the existing web application What should the solutions architect recommend''

Question9: A company uses GPS trackers to document the migration patterns of thousands of sea turtles The trackers check every 5 minutes to see if a turtle has moved more than 100 yards (91 4 meters) If a turtle has moved its tracker sends the new coordinates to a web application running on three Amazon EC2 instances that are in multiple Availability Zones in one AWS Region Recently, the web application was overwhelmed while processing an unexpected volume of tracker data Data was lost with no way to replay the events A solutions architect must prevent this problem from happening again and needs a solution with the least operationa overhead What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements''

Question10: A company currently has 250 TB of backup files stored in Amazon S3 in a vendor's proprietary format. Using a Linux-based software application provided by the vendor, the company wants to retrieve files from Amazon S3, transform the files to an industry-standard format, and re-upload them to Amazon S3. The company wants to minimize the data transfer charges associated with this conversion What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question11: A company is implementing new data retention policies for all databases that run on Amazon RDS DB instances. The company must retain daily backups for a minimum period of 2 years. The backups must be consistent and restorable.
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question12: A company must migrate 20 TB of data from a data centre 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?

Question13: A company wants to run a hybrid workload for data processing. The data needs to be accessed by on-premises applications for local data processing using an NFS protocol and must also be accessible from the AWS Cloud for further analytics and batch processing Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question14: A company has an application workflow that uses an AWS Lambda function to download and decrypt files from Amazon S3 These files are encrypted using AWS Key Management Service Customer Master Keys (AWS KMS CMKs). A solutions architect needs to design a solution that will ensure the required permissions are set correctly.
Which combination of actions accomplish this? (Select TWO.)

Question15: A company's website provides users with downloadable historical performance reports. The website needs a solution that will scale to meet the company's website demands globally. The solution should be cost-effective, limit the provisioning of infrastructure resources, and provide the fastest possible response time.
Which combination should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question16: A company has two applications: a sender application that sends messages with payloads to be processed and a processing application intended to receive the messages with payloads The company wants to implement an AWS service to handle messages between the two applications The sender application can send about 1,000 messages each hour The messages may take up to 2 days to be processed If the messages fail to process, they must be retained so that they do not impact the processing of any remaining messages.
Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally efficient?

Question17: A company has established a new AWS account. The account is newly provisioned and no changes have been made to the default settings The company is concerned about the security of the AWS account root user What should be done to secure the root user?

Question18: 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 requirement1?

Question19: A company is migrating a NoSQL database cluster to Amazon EC2. The database automatically replicates data to maintain at least three copies of the data I/O throughput of the servers is the highest priority.
Which instance type should a solutions architect recommend for the migration?

Question20: A company has an ecommerce application that stores data in an on-premises SQL database. The company has decided to migrate this database to AWS. However, as part of the migration, the company wants to find a way to attain sub-millisecond responses to common read requests A solutions architect knows that the increase in speed is paramount and that a small percentage of stale data returned in the database reads is acceptable.
What should the solutions architect recommend'?

Question21: A company is running a mission-critical application on Amazon EC2 instances henna an Application Load Balancer The instances run in an Auto Scaling group in a single AWS Region The application is using a database in Ama2on Aurora as the data tier. A recent audit revealed that the current deployment of Aurora is not highly available.
What should a solutions architect do to improve the availability of the database

Question22: A company uses a simple state website and wants to host it on AWS. The company already has a domain that it uses for email. The company needs a hosting solution that supports HTTPS. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question23: A company is using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to present its application to the internet. The company finds abnormal traffic access patterns across the application. A solutions architect needs to improve visibility into the infrastructure to help the company understand these abnormalities better What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

Question24: A company wants to migrate its accounting system from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud m a single AWS Region. Data security and an immutable audit log are the top priorities. The company must monitor all AWS activities for compliance auditing. The company that enabled AWS CloudTrail but wants to make sure it meets meat requirements Which actions should a solutions architect take lo protect and secure CloudTrail? (Select TWO.)

Question25: A company wants to build a scalable key management Infrastructure to support developers who need to encrypt data in their applications.
What should a solutions architect do to reduce the operational burden?

Question26: A company operates a website on Amazon EC2 Linux instances Some of the instances are failing.
Troubleshooting points to insufficient swap space on the failed instances. The operations team lead needs a solution to monitor this.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question27: A company is building a new data analysis application that will ingest large volumes of data into an Amazon S3 bucket. The company is concerned that sensitive information, such as personally identifiable information (Pll). might be included in some of the data that is ingested. The company needs a solution that will scan for sensitive data and log the findings.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question28: 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.)

Question29: A company has primary and secondary data canters that are 500 miles (804.7 km) apart and Interconnected with high-speed fiber.optic cable. The company needs a highly available and secure network connection between its data centers and a VPC on AWS for a mission-critical workload A solutions architect must choose a connection solution that provides maximum resiliency. Which solution meets these requirements?

Question30: A company is launching a new application deployed on an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster and is using the Fargate launch type tor 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?

Question31: A company hosts multiple production applications. One of the applications consists of resources from Amazon EC2. AWS Lambda. Amazon RDS. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) across multiple AWS Regions. All company resources are tagged with a tag name of "application" and a value that corresponds to each application. A solutions architect must provide the quickest solution for identifying all of the tagged components.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question32: 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**

Question33: A company has an image processing workload running on Amazon Elastic Container Service {Amazon ECS) in two private subnets Each private subnet uses a NAT instance for Internet access All images are stored in Amazon S3 buckets The company is concerned about the data transfer costs between Amazon ECS and Amazon S3 What should a solutions architect do to reduce costs?

Question34: 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 funning on Amazon EC2. The company wants this application to be highly available with tow operational complexity Which architecture otters the HGHEST availability?

Question35: A company runs en application on a large fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The application reads and write entries into an Amazon DynamoDB table The size of the OynamoDB table continuously grows but the application needs only data from the last 30 days The company needs a solution that minimizes cost and development effort Which solution meets these requirements'?

Question36: A company is planning to host its compute-intensive applications on Amazon EC2 instances. The majority of the network traffic will be between these applications The company needs a solution that minimizes latency and maximizes network throughput The underlying hardware for the EC2 instances must not be shared with any other company Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question37: A company has an on-premises data center that is running out of storage capacity. The company wants to migrate its storage infrastructure to AWS while minimizing bandwidth costs. The solution must allow for immediate retrieval of data at no additional cost.
How can these requirements be met?

Question38: A company uses Amazon Redshift for to data warehouse. The company wants to ensure high durability for its data in case of any component failure. What should a solution architect recommend?

Question39: A company has multiple AWS accounts with applications deployed in the us-west-2 Region Application logs are stored within Amazon S3 buckets in each account The company wants to build a centralized log analysis solution that uses a single S3 bucket Logs must not leave us-west-2. and the company wants to incur minimal operational overhead.
Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?

Question40: A company has applications that are deployed in multiple AWS Regions. The applications use an architecture that is based on Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). and Amazon DynamoDB The company lacks a mechanism for centralized data backup. A solutions architect must centralize data backup with the least possible operational effort.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question41: A company runs a three-tier web application in a VPC across multiple Availability Zones Amazon EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group tor the application tier The company needs to make an automated scaling plan that will analyze each resource's daily and weekly historical workload trends The configuration must scale resources appropriately according to both the forecast and live changes in utilization Which scaling strategy should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question42: A company needs a backup strategy for its three-tier stateless web application The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group with a dynamic scaling policy that is configured to respond to scaling events The database tier runs on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL The web application does not require temporary local storage on the EC2 instances The company's recovery point objective (RPO) is 2 hours The backup strategy must maximize scalability and optimize resource utilization for this environment Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question43: A company hosts a marketing website in an on-premises data center. The website consists of static documents and runs on a single server. An administrator updates the website content infrequently and uses an SFTP client to upload new documents.
The company decides to host its website on AWS and to use Amazon CloudFront. The company's solutions architect creates a CloudFront distribution. The solutions architect must design the most cost-effective and resilient architecture for website hosting to serve as the CloudFront origin Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question44: 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.

Question45: A company is building a document storage application on AWS. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones. The company requires the document store to be highly available The documents need to be returned immediately when requested. The lead engineer has configured the application to use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) to store the documents, but is willing to consider other options to meet the availability requirement.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question46: A company is preparing to deploy a data lake on AWS A solutions architect must define the encryption strategy for data at rest in 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?

Question47: 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?

Question48: A company is running a media store across multiple Amazon EC2 instances distnbuted 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?

Question49: A company captures ordered clickstream data from multiple websites and uses batch processing to analyze the data. The company receives 100 million event records, all approximately 1 KB in size, each day. The company loads the data into Amazon Redshift each night, and business analysts consume the data.
The company wants to move toward near-real-time data processing for timely insights. The solution should process the streaming data while requiring the least possible operational overhead.
Which combination of AWS services will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select TWO.)

Question50: A three-tier web application processes orders from customers. The web tier consists of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer, a middle tier of three EC2 instances decoupled from the web tier using Amazon SQS. and an Amazon DynamoDB backend At peak times customers who submit orders using the site have to wait much longer than normal to receive confirmations due to lengthy processing times A solutions architect needs to reduce these processing times Which action will be MOST effective in accomplishing this?

Question51: 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 prayers. The application la deployed In a very AWS Region. It runs on Amazon FC2 Instances Vial are part of Auto Scaling groups configured behind Application Load Balancers (ALBs) A solutions architect needs to implement a mechanism to monitor the hearth of the application and redirect traffic to healthy endpoints.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question52: 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 )

Question53: A company has designed an application where users provide small sets of textual data by calling a public API The application runs on AWS and includes a public Amazon API Gateway API that forwards requests to an AWS Lambda function for processing The Lambda function then writes the data to an Amazon Aurora Serverless database for consumption The company is concerned that it could lose some user data it a Lambda function fails to process the request property or reaches a concurrency limit.
What should a solutions architect recommend to resolve this concern?

Question54: A news company that has reporters ail over the world is hosting its broadcast system on AWS The reporters send live broadcasts to the broadcast system The reporters use software on their phones to send live streams through the Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP).
A solutions architect must design a solution that gives the reporters the ability to send the highest quality streams. The solution must provide accelerated TCP connections back to the broadcast system.
What should the solutions a use to meet these requirements?

Question55: A company built an application with Docker containers and needs to run the application in the AWS Cloud.
The company wants to use a managed service to host the application.
The solution must scale in and out appropriately according to demand on the individual container services. The solution also must not result in additional operational overhead or infrastructure to manage. Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question56: A company's application is running on Amazon EC2 instances in 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 )

Question57: A company has created a multi-tier application for its ecommerce website The website uses an Application Load Balancer that resides in the public subnets, a web tier in the public subnets, and a MySQL cluster hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in the private subnets. The MySQL database needs to retrieve product catalog and pricing information that is hosted on the internet by a third-party provider A solutions architect must devise a strategy that maximizes security without increasing operational overhead What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question58: A company uses an application to present metrics from sporting events to the public. The application must scale quickly during live events and must store these metrics for log-term reporting purposes. The company's architecture includes the following:
* Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group in private subnets
* A network Load Balancer That runs in public subnets
* A MongoDB database cluster that runs across multiple EC2 instances
A solutions architect must implement a solution that minimizes operational overhead The solution alto must be able to Kale automatically. What should the solutions architect set up to meet these requirements?

Question59: A company has a corporate network on premises and has three VPCs in the AWS Cloud. The company has one VPC each for development, test, and, production. The company wants its system administrators to security gain remote command-line access from the corporate network to Amazon EC2 instances in the VPCs.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question60: A company is running a multi-tier recommence web application in the AWS Cloud. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances with an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ OB instance. Amazon ROS is configured with the latest generation DB instance with 2.000 GB of storage In a General Purpose SSD (gp3) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBSl volume. The database performance affects the application during periods high demand.
A database administrator analyzes the logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs and discovers that the application performance always degrades when the number of read and write IOPS is higher than 20.000.
What should a solutions architect do to improve the application performance?

Question61: 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?

Question62: A company hosts its multi-tier, public web application in the AWS Cloud. The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and its database runs on Amazon RDS The company is anticipating a large increase in sales during an upcoming holiday weekend A solutions architect needs to build a solution to analyze the performance of the web application with a granularity of no more than 2 minutes.
What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Question63: A company wants to share data that collected from self-driving cars with the automobile community The data will be made available from within an Amazon S3 bucket The company wants to minimize its cost of making this data available to other AWS accounts.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?

Question64: A company's security policy requires that all AWS API activity in its AWS accounts be recorded for 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?

Question65: A company has a website hosted on AWS The website is behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that is configured to handle HTTP and HTTPS separately. The company wants to forward all requests to the website so that the requests will use HTTPS.
What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Question66: A disaster relief company is designing a new solution to analyze real-time csv data. The data is collected by a network of thousands of research stations met are distributed across the world. The data volume is consistent and constant, and the size of each data We is 512 KB. The company needs to stream the data and analyze the data in real time.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question67: A company needs to provide its employees with secure access to confidential and sensitive files. The company wants to ensure that the tiles can be accessed only by authorized users. The files must be downloaded securely to the employees' devices.
The tiles are stored in an on-premises Windows file server. However, due to an increase in remote usage, the file server is running out of capacity.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question68: A company's infrastructure consists of hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances that use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage. A solutions architect must ensure that every EC2 instance can be recovered after a disaster What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of effort?

Question69: A solutions architect It designing a VPC with public and private subnets. The VPC and subnets use IPv4 CIDR blocks. There is one public subnet and one private subnet in each of three Availability Zones (AZs) for high availability An internet gateways used to provide internet access for the public subnets. The private subnets require access to the internet to allow Amazon BC2 Instances to download software updates.
What should the solutions architect do to enable internet access for the private subnets?

Question70: A company is using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer master keys (CMKs) to encrypt AWS Lambda environment variables A solutions architect needs to ensure that the required permissions are in place to decrypt and use the environment variables.
Which steps must the solutions architect take to implement the correct permissions? (Select TWO.)

Question71: 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?

Question72: A solution architect is designing he architect 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 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 charges to code if needed.
What should the solutions architect do to ensure that the architecture supports distributed session data management?

Question73: A company used an AWS Direct Connect connection to copy 1 PB of data from a colocation facility to an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region. The company now wants to copy the data to another S3 bucket in the us-weet-2 Region.
Which solution will meet this requirement?

Question74: A company receives data from millions of users totalling about 1 TB each day. The company providers its users with usage report going back 12 months. All usage data must be stored for at least 5 years to comply with regularly and auditing requirement?
Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?

Question75: A company is developing a video conversion application hosted on AWS The application will be available in two tiers: a free tier and a paid tier. Users in the paid tier will have their videos converted first and then the free tier users will have their videos converted Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?

Question76: 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?

Question77: A company's facility has badge readers at every entrance throughout the building. When badges are scanned, the readers send a message over HTTPS to indicate who attempted to access that particular entrance.
A solutions architect must design a system to process these messages from the sensors. The solution must be highly available, and the results must be made available for the company's security team to analyze.
Which system architecture should the solutions architect recommend?

Question78: A company wants to use high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure on AWS for financial risk modelling. 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?

Question79: A solution architect is creating a new Amazon CloudFront distribution for an application Some of Ine information submitted by users is sensitive. The application uses HTTPS but needs another layer" of security The sensitive information should be protected throughout the entire application stack end access to the information should be restricted to certain applications Which action should the solutions architect take?

Question80: A company is upgrading its critical web-based application. The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances that are part of an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company wants to test the new configurations with a specific amount of traffic before the company begins to route all traffic to the upgraded application.
How should a solutions architect design the architecture to meet these requirements?

Question81: A company has a mutt-tier application deployed on several Amazon EC2 instances m an Auto Scaling group.
An Amazon RDS for Oracle instance is the application's data layer that uses Oracle-specific PL/'SQL functions. Traffic to the application has been steadily Increasing. This is causing the EC2 instances to become overloaded and the RDS instance to run out of storage. The Auto Scaling group does not have any scaling metrics and defines the minimum healthy instance count only. The company predicts that traffic will continue to increase at a steady but unpredictable rate before levelling off.
What should a solutions architect do to ensure the system can automatically scale for the increased traffic?
(Select TWO.)

Question82: A company runs an application on an Amazon EC2 instances backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). The instances needs to be available for 12 hours daily. The company wants to save costs by making the instance outside the window required for the application. However, the contents of the memory must be preserved whenever the instance is unavailable.
What should a solutions architect do lo meet this requirement?

Question83: A company recently launched its website to servo 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 tor the application?

Question84: A company's web application is running on Amazon EC2 instances behind an application Load Balancer. The company changed its policy., which now requires the application to be accessed from one specific country only.
Which configuration will meet this requirement?

Question85: 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 requirements?

Question86: A company is hosting an application in its own data center The application uses Amazon S3 for data storage The application transfers several hundred terabytes of data every month to and from Amazon S3 The company needs to minimize the cost of this data transfer Which solution meets this requirement?

Question87: A solution architect has created two IAM policies. Policy1 and Policy2 . Both policies are attached to an IAM group.

A cloud engineer is added as an IAM user to the IAM group. Which action will the cloud engineer be able to perform?

Question88: 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 America. The company wants to expand the application to serve a global user base The company needs to deploy the application to multiple AWS Regions Average latency must be less than 1 second on updates to the 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''

Question89: A company runs a fleet of web services using an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance. Alter a routine compliance check, tire company sets a standard that requires a recovery point objective (RPO) of less than 1 second for all Its production databases.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question90: A solutions architect must create a highly available bastion host architecture. The solution needs to be resilient within a single AWS Region and should require only minimal effort to maintain.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question91: An ecommerce company is creating an application that requires a connection to a third-party payment service to process payments. The payment service needs to explicitly allow the public IP address of the server that is making the payment request. However, the company's security policies do not allow any server to be exposed directly to the public internet.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question92: A survey company has gathered data for several years from areas the United States. The company hosts the data in an Amazon S3 bucket that is 3 TB m size and growing. The company has started to share the data with a European marketing firm that has S3 buckets The company wants to ensure that its data transfer costs remain as low as possible Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question93: A company has a data ingestion workflow that includes the following components:
* An Amazon Simple Notation Service (Amazon SNS) topic that receives notifications about new data deliveries
* An AWS Lambda function that processes and stores the data
The ingestion workflow occasionally fails because of network connectivity issues. When tenure occurs the corresponding data is not ingested unless the company manually reruns the job. What should a solutions architect do to ensure that all notifications are eventually processed?

Question94: A company runs a website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an ELB Application Load Balancer Amazon Route 53 Is used for the DNS The company wants to set up a backup website with a message including a phone number and email address that users can reach if the primary website is down.
How should the company deploy this solution?

Question95: 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 foe automatic recovery of the EC2 instance as quickly as possible?

Question96: A company has NFS servers in an on-premises data center that need to periodically back up small amounts of data to Amazon S3.
Which solution marts these requirement and is MOST cost-effective?

Question97: 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-premises data center has a 1Gbps internet connection A solution 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

Question98: An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer The application performs best when the CPU utilization of the EC2 instances is at or near 40%.
What should a solutions architect do to maintain the desired performance across all instances in the group?

Question99: A solutions architect must design a solution that uses Amazon CloudFront with an Amazon S3 origin to store a static website. The company's security policy requires that all website traffic be inspected by AWS WAF.
How should the solutions architect comply with these requirements?

Question100: 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'?

Question101: A company has an application that uses an Amazon OynamoDB table lew storage. A solutions architect discovers that many requests to the table are not returning the latest data. The company's users have not reported any other issues with database performance Latency is in an acceptable range.
Which design change should the solutions architect recommend?

Question102: A healthcare computer stores highly sensitive 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 thin within 4 hours of a request thereafter.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question103: 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'?

Question104: A company has developed a microservices application. It uses a client-facing API with Amazon API Gateway and multiple internal services hosted on Amazon EC2 instances to process user requests The API is designed to support unpredictable surges in traffic, but internal services may become overwhelmed and unresponsive for a period of time during surges A solutions architect needs to design a more reliable solution that reduces errors when internal services become unresponsive or unavailable Which solution meets these requirements?

Question105: A company's security team requests that network traffic be captured in VPC Flow Logs The logs will be frequently accessed for 90 days and then accessed intermittently What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements when configuring the logs?

Question106: A company manages and runs a critical data management application in containers that are hosted on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The application has endpoints that are exposed through Application Load Balancers (ALBs). The application uses an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system mount for persistent data storage. The company has configured Amazon ECS to use a minimal IAM instance role.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to improve the overall security posture of the application? (Select TWO.)

Question107: A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a company that needs to host hundreds of machine learning models for its users Dunng startup, the models need to load up to 10 GB of data from Amazon S3 into memory, out they do not need disk access Most of the models are used sporadically but the users expect all of them to be highly available and accessible with low latency.
Which solution meets the requirements and is MOST cost-effective1?

Question108: A company is designing a new web service that will run on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer. However, many of the web service clients can only reach IP addresses whitelisted on their firewalls.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet the clients' needs?

Question109: 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?

Question110: A company is planning to run a group of Amazon EC2 instances that connect to an Amazon Aurora database.
The company has built an AWS CloudFormation template to deploy the EC2 instances and the Aurora DB cluster. The company wants to allow the instances to authenticate to the database in a secure way. The company does not want to maintain static database credentials.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?

Question111: At part of budget planning. management wants a report of AWS billed dams listed by user. The data will be used to create department budgets. A solution architect needs to determine the most efficient way to obtain this report Information Which solution meets these requirement?

Question112: 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?

Question113: 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 needs to be removed from the Lambda source code.
The credentials must then be securely stored and rotated on a on-going basis to meet security policy requirements.
What should a solutions architect recommend meet these requirements?

Question114: A company has deployed a business-critical application in the AWS Good The application uses Amazon EC2 instances that run in the us-east-1 Region The application uses Amazon S3 for storage of all critical data To meet compliance requirements the company must create a disaster recovery (DR) plan that provides the capability of a full failover to another AWS Region What should a solutions architect recommend for this DR plan?

Question115: 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?

Question116: 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?

Question117: A company wants to relocate its on-premises MySQL database to AWS The database accepts regular imports from a client-facing application when causes a high volume of write operations. The company is concerned that the amount of traffic might be causing performance issues within the application.
How should a solutions architect design the architecture on AWS?

Question118: A solution architect is designing a new service behind API Gateway. The request pattern for the service will be unpredictable and can change suddenly from 0 request to over 500 per second. The total size of the data that needs to be persisted database is currently less than 1 GB unpredictable future growth. Date can be queried using sampling key -value request.
Which combination of AWS services would meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question119: A company's near-real-time streaming application is running on AWS. As the 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.)

Question120: A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new application being deployed on AWS. The process should run in parallel while adding and removing application nodes as needed based on the number of fobs to be processed. The processor application is stateless. The solutions architect must ensure that the application is loosely copied and the job items are durably stored Which design should the solutions architect use?

Question121: A company is deploying an application that processes large quantities of data in batches as needed. The company plans to use Amazon EC2 instances for the workload. The network architecture must support a highly scalable solution and prevent groups of nodes from sharing the same underlying hardware.
Which combination of network solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question122: 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?

Question123: A company has created an isolated backup of its environment in another Region The application is running in warm standby mode and is fronted by an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The current failover process is manual and requires updating a DNS alias record to point to the secondary ALB in another Region What should a solutions architect do to automate the failover process?

Question124: A company is running a multi-tier ecommerce web application in the AWS Cloud. The web application is running on Amazon EC2 instances. The database tier is on a provisioned Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster with a writer and a reader in a Multi-AZ environment. The new requirement for the database tier is to serve the application to achieve continuous write availability through an instance failover.
What should a solutions architect do to meet this new requirement?

Question125: A company is creating a new application that will store a large amount of data. The data will be analyzed hourly and will be modified by several Amazon EC2 Linux instances that are deployed across multiple Availability Zones. The needed amount of storage space will continue to grow for the next 6. Months.
Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question126: 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?

Question127: A company is building a website that relies on reading and writing to an Amazon DynamoDB database The website experiences high traffic during normal business hours, but the traffic declines drastically overnight and during weekends The company is concerned about operating costs Which solution will meet the website's traffic demands MOST cost-effectively?

Question128: A company is deploying a two-tier web application in a VPC. The web tier is using an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with public subnets that span multiple Availability Zones. The database tier consists of an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in separate private subnets. The web tier requires access to the database to retrieve product information.
The web application is not working as intended. The web application reports that it cannot connect to the database. The database is confirmed to be up and running. All configurations for the network ACLs. security groups, and route tables are still in their default states.
What should a solutions architect recommend to fix the application?

Question129: A company has several Amazon EC2 instances set up m a private subnet for security reasons. These instances host applications that read and write large amounts of data to end from Amazon S3 regularly. Currently subnet routing directs all the traffic destined for the internet through a NAT gateway. The company wants to optimize the overall coat without impacting the ability of the application to communication Amazon S3 or the outside internet.
What should a solutions architect do to optimize costs?

Question130: A company is seeing access requests by some suspicious IP addresses The security team discovers the requests are from different IP addresses under the same CIDR range What should a solutions architect recommend to the team?

Question131: A company needs to retain its AWS CloudTrail logs (or 3 years. The company is enforcing CloudTrail across a set of AWS accounts by using AWS Organizations from the parent account. The CloudTrail target S3 bucket is configured with S3 Versioning enabled An S3 Lifecycle policy is in place to delete current objects after 3 years.
After the fourth year of use of the S3 bucket, the S3 bucket metrics show that the number of objects has continued to rise. However, the number of new CloudTrail logs that are delivered to the S3 bucket has remained consistent.
Which solution will delete objects that are older than 3 years in the MOST cost-effective manner?

Question132: A company has thousands of edge devices that collectively generate 1 TB of status averts each day Each alert s 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^

Question133: 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?

Question134: 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?

Question135: A solutions architect needs to host a high performance computing (HPC) workload in the AWS Cloud. The workload will run on hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances and will require parallel access to a shared file system to enable distributed processing of large datasets. Datasets will be accessed across multiple instances simultaneously. The workload requires access latency within 1 ms. After processing has completed, engineers will need access to the dataset for manual postprocessing.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question136: A solution architect has configured the following IAM policy.

Which action will be allowed by the policy?
Which action will be allowed by the policy?

Question137: 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?

Question138: A company is running a multi-tier web application on AWS. The application runs its database on Amazon Aurora MySQL. The application and database tiers are in the us-easily Region.
A database administrator who monitors the Aurora DB cluster finds that an intermittent increase in read traffic is creating high CPU utilization on the read replica. The result is increased read latency for the application.
The memory and disk utilization of the DB instance are stable throughout the event of increased latency.
What should a solutions architect do to improve the read scalability?

Question139: A company hosts its static website content from an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region Content is made available through an Amazon CloudFront origin pointing to that bucket Cross-Region replication is set up to create a second copy of the bucket in the ap-southeast-1 Region Management wants a solution that provides greater availability for the website Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to increase availability'? (Select TWO.

Question140: An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets. The application needs to access an Amazon DynamoDB table. What is me MOST secure way to access the table while ensuring that the traffic does not leave the AWS network?

Question141: 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?

Question142: A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances. Traffic to the workload increases substantially during business hours and decreases afterward. The CPU utilization of an EC2 instance is a strong indicator of end-user demand on the application. The company has configured an Auto Scaling group to have a minimum group size of 2 EC2 instances and a maximum group size of 10 EC2 instances.
The company is concerned that the current scaling policy that is associated with the Auto Scaling group might not be correct. The company must avoid over-provisioning EC2 instances and incurring unnecessary costs.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question143: A company is developing a file-sharing application that will use an Amazon S3 bucket for storage The company wants to serve all the files through an Amazon CloudFront distribution. The company does not want the files to be accessible through direct navigation to the S3 URL What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question144: A company plans to store sensitive user data on Amazon S3 internal security compliance requirement mandate encryption of data before secured it to Amazon S3.
What should a solutions architect recommend to safely these requirements?

Question145: An entertainment company is using Amazon DynamoDB to store media metadata. The application Is read intensive and experience delays The company does not have staff to handle additional operational overhead and needs to Improve the performance efficiency of DynamoDB without reconfiguring the application What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?

Question146: A company recently implemented hybrid cloud connectivity using AWS Direct Connect and is migrating data to Amazon S3. The company is looking for a fully managed solution that will automate and accelerate the replication of data between the on-premises storage systems and AWS storage services.
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to keep the data private?

Question147: A company recently launched Linux-based application instances on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet and launched a Linux-based bastion host on an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subnet of a VPC A solutions architect needs to connect from the on-premises network, through the company's internet connection to the bastion host and to the application servers The solutions architect must make sure that the security groups of all the EC2 instances will allow that access Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO)

Question148: A solutions architect is designing a multi-tier application for a company. The application's users upload images from a mobile device. The application generates a thumbnail of each image and returns a message to the user to confirm that the image was uploaded successfully.
The thumbnail generation can take up to 60 seconds, but the company wants to provide a faster response time to its users to notify them that the original image was received. The solutions architect must design the application to asynchronously dispatch requests to the different application tiers.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question149: A company hosts a three-tier web application that includes a PostgreSQL database The database stores the metadata from documents The company searches the metadata for key terms to retrieve documents that the company reviews in a report each month The documents are stored in Amazon S3 The documents are usually written only once, but they are updated frequency The reporting process takes a few hours with the use of relational queries The reporting process must not affect any document modifications or the addition of new documents.
What are the MOST operationally efficient solutions that meet these requirements? (Select TWO )

Question150: A weather forecasting company needs to process hundreds of gigabytes of data with sub-mill (second latency.
The company has a high performance computing (HPC) environment in its data center and wants to expand its forecasting capabilities A solutions architect must identify a highly available cloud storage solution that can handle large amounts of sustained throughput Files that are stored in the solution should be accessible to thousands of compute instances that will simultaneously access and process the entire dataset What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question151: A law firm needs to share information with the public. The information includes hundreds of files that must be publicly readable. Modifications or deletions of the files by anyone before a designated future date are prohibited.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST secure way?

Question152: 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?

Question153: A company allows users to upload and store photos through its website The website has users from all around the world. All images that users upload are stored in a centralized Amazon S3 bucket The company wants to increase the speed in which its entire user base can upload photos through the website.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question154: 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. The company must not make any changes to the application.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question155: A company is planning to migrate a TCP-based application into the company's VPC The application is publicly accessible on a nonstandard TCP port through a hardware appliance in the company's data centre.
This public endpoint can process up to 3 million requests per second with low latency. The company requires the same level of performance for the new public endpoint in AWS.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?

Question156: A company runs an application In a branch office within a small data closet with no vitalized compute resources. The application data is stored on an NFS volume Compliance standards require a daily offsite backup of the NFS volume.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question157: 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?

Question158: 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?

Question159: A company is launching a new application that will be hosted on Amazon EC2 instances. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that does not allow public IPv4 access that originates from the internet. However, the solution must allow the EC2 instances to make outbound IPv4 internet requests.
The initial design proposal shows that the EC2 instances would be located in two private subnets across two Availability Zones. The entire architecture must be highly available.
How should the solutions architect change the architecture to meet these requirements?

Question160: A company serves a multilingual website from a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) This architecture is currently running in the us-west-1 Region but is exhibiting high request latency for users located in other parts of the world The website needs to serve requests quickly and efficiently regardless of a user's location However the company does not want to recreate the existing architecture across multiple Regions.
How should a solutions architect accomplish this?

Question161: 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 ol physical backup tapes The company must preserve the existing investment in the on-premises backup applications and workflows What should a solutions architect recommend''

Question162: A company hosts a popular website in the AWS Cloud, A solutions architect needs to provide reports about user click behaviour in near-real time as users navigate the website.
Which solution will meet this requirement

Question163: 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?

Question164: A company has been running a web application with an Oracle relational database in an on-premises data center for the past 15 years. The company must migrate the database to AWS. The company needs to reduce operational overhead without having to modify the application's code.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question165: A company has an application that ingests incoming messages Dozens of other applications and microservices then quickly consume these messages The number of messages vanes drastically and sometimes increases suddenly to 100 000 each second. The company wants to decouple the solution and increase scalability.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question166: A company recently migrated multiple applications and databases from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. Most of the applications run on AWS Fargate. and some of the applications run on Amazon EC2 instances Most of the databases run on Amazon RDS, and a small number of databases run on EC2 Instances.
All the applications and databases must be available 24 hours a day. 7 days a week. The company uses AWS Organizations to manage AWS accounts. A solutions architect must recommend how to minimize the cost of these workloads over the next 3 years Which solution meets these requirements?

Question167: A solutions architect needs to design a nighty available application consisting of web. application and database tiers HTTPS content delivery should be as close to the edge as possible with the least delivery time Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST secure?

Question168: A company operates an ecommerce website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in an Auto Scaling group The site is experiencing performance issues related to a high request rate from illegitimate external systems with changing IP addresses The security team is worried about potential DDoS attacks against the website The company must block the illegitimate incoming requests in a way that has a minimal impact on legitimate users.
What should a solutions architect recommend1?

Question169: A company has deployed a database in Amazon RDS for MySQL. Due to increased transactions, the database 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.)

Question170: 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?

Question171: A company has an application that collects data from loT sensors on automobiles. The data is streamed and stored in Amazon S3 through Amazon Kinesis Date Firehose The data produces trillions of S3 objects each year. Each morning, the company uses the data from the previous 30 days to retrain a suite of machine learning (ML) models.
Four times each year, the company uses the data from the previous 12 months to perform analysis and train other ML models The data must be available with minimal delay for up to 1 year. After 1 year, the data must be retained for archival purposes.
Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question172: A company runs an AWS Lambda function in private subnets in a VPC The subnets have a default route to the internet through an Amazon EC2 NAT instance The Lambda function processes input data and saves its output as an object to Amazon S3 intermittently the Lambda function times out while trying to upload the object because of saturated traffic on the NAT instance's network The company wants to access Amazon S3 without traversing the internet Which solution will meet these requirements'

Question173: 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 systems must be cloud agnostic and use the same configuration and administrative tools across all production systems A solutions architect needs to design a managed solution that will align with open-source software Which solution meets these requirements?