EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A company is rebelling its data canter and wants to securely transfer 50 TB of data lo AWS *ilhm 2 weeks.
The existing data center has a Site-to-Site VPN connection to AWS that is 90 % utilized Which AWS service should a solutions architect use to meet these requirements?

Question2: 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?

Question3: 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?

Question4: A solutions architect is creating a new VPC design There are two public subnets for the load balancer, two private subnets for web servers and two private subnets for MySQL The web servers use only HTTPS The solutions architect has already created a security group tor the load balancer allowing port 443 from 0 0 0 0/0 Company policy requires that each resource has the teas! access required to still be able to perform its tasks Which additional configuration strategy should the solutions architect use to meet these requirements?

Question5: A company is running a three-tier web application to process credit card payments The front-end user interface consists of static webpages The application tier can have long-runmng processes The database tier uses MySQL The application is currently running on a single general purpose large Amazon EC2 instance A solutions architect needs to decouple the services to make the web application highly available Which solution would provide the HIGHEST availability

Question6: 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 work. The files are stored in an Amazon S3 Ducket A solutions architect has been asked to design an efficient and effective solution Which action should the solutions architect take to accomplish this?

Question7: 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?

Question8: 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.
What should the solutions architect do to maximize reliability of the application Infrastructure?

Question9: 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?

Question10: 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?

Question11: A company wants to use a custom distributed application that calculates various profit and loss scenarios To achieve this goal, the company needs to provide a network connection between its Amazon EC2 instances.
The connection must minimize latency and must maximize throughput
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question12: A company runs a shopping application lhat uses Amazon DynamoDB to store customer information. In case of data corruption, a solutions architect needs to design a solution that meets a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO> of 1 hour.
What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question13: A solutions architect is designing a shared storage solution for a web application that is deployed across multiple Availability Zones. The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The company plans to make frequent changes to the content. The solution must have strong consistency in returning the new content as soon as the changes occur.
Which solutions meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question14: A solutions architect is creating an application. The application will run on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets across multiple Availability Zones in a VPC. The EC2 instances will frequently access large files that contain confidential information. These files are stored in Amazon S3 buckets for processing. The solutions architect must optimize the network architecture to minimize data transfer costs.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question15: A company runs an online ticketing application with backend services that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances belong to an Auto Scaling group and run behind an Application Load Balancer. The application experiences periods of high user traffic when a popular event is posted online. The company wants a solution that will be able to handle increases in user traffic without affecting the user experience.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question16: An application development team is designing a microservice that will convert large images to smaller compressed images When a user uploads an image through the web interface the microservice should store the image in an Amazon S3 bucket process and compress the image with an AWS Lambda function, and store the image in its compressed form m a different S3 bucket A solutions architect needs to design a solution that uses durable stateless components to process the images automatically Which combination of actions will meet these requirements^ (Select TWO )

Question17: A company is designing a shared storage solution for a gaming application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud The company needs the ability to use SMB clients to access data solution must be fully managed.
Which AWS solution meets these requirements'?

Question18: 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?

Question19: What should a solutions architect do to ensure that all objects uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket are encrypted?

Question20: A company has hired an external vendor to perform work in the company's AWS account The vendor uses an automated tool that is hosted in an AWS account that the vendor owns The vendor does not have 1AM access to the company's AWS account How should a solutions architect grant this access to the vendor?

Question21: 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?

Question22: An ecommerce company uses an Amazon Aurora DB cluster to store customer transactions. The company also maintains a separate Amazon DynamoDB table that contains item sales information The company wants the DB cluster to invoke a recently deployed AWS Lambda function to update the DynamoDB table every time a row is inserted into the database Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question23: A company allows its developers to attach existing IAM policies to existing IAM roles to enable faster 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 solution architect address this issue?

Question24: A solutions architect is designing a multi-Region disaster recovery solution (or an application that will provide public API access The application will use Amazon EC2 instances with a userdata script to load application code and an Amazon RDS for MySQL database The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is 3 hours and the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is 24 hours Which architecture would meet these requirements at the LOWEST cost/?

Question25: 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?

Question26: A company has a service that produces event data. 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 solutions architect accomplish this?

Question27: 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'?

Question28: 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?

Question29: A solutions architect must transfer 750 TB of data from an on-premises network-attached file system to Amazon S3 Glacier. The migration must not saturate the on-premises 10 Mbps internet connection.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question30: A company stores project information in a shared spreadsheet. The company wants to create a web application to replace the spreadsheet The company has chosen Amazon DynamoDB to store the spreadsheet's data and is designing the web application to display the project information that is obtained from DynamoDB.
A solutions architect must design the web application's backend by using managed services that require minimal operational maintenance.
Which architectures meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question31: A company observes an increase in Amazon EC2 costs in its most recent bill The billing team notices unwanted vertical scaling of instance types for a couple of EC2 instances A solutions architect needs to create a graph comparing the last 2 months of EC2 costs and perform an in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of the vertical scaling How should the solutions architect generate the information with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question32: 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.)

Question33: Some of the company's customers are retrieving records frequently, leading to an increase in costs for the company. The company wants to limit retrieved requests in the future. The company also wants to ensure that if one customer reaches its retrieval limit other customers will not affected.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question34: 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?

Question35: A company is planning to store sensitive documents in an Amazon S3 bucket. The documents must be encrypted al rest. The company wants to manage the underlying keys that are used lor encryption However, the company does not want to manage the encryption and decryption process.
Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question36: 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?

Question37: 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?

Question38: A company has a Windows-based application that must be migrated to AWS. The application requires the use of a shared Windows Me system attached to multiple Amazon EC2 Windows instances that are deployed across multiple Availability Zones What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Question39: 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?

Question40: A developer has a script lo generate daily reports that users previously ran manually The script consistently completes in under 10 minutes The developer needs to automate this process in a cost-effective manner.
Which combination of services should the developer use? (Select TWO.)

Question41: 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?

Question42: A company has 150 TB of archived image data stored on-premises that needs to be moved 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?

Question43: A solutions architect must design a highly available infrastructure for a website. The website is powered by Windows web servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The solutions architect must implement a solution that can mitigate a large-scale DDoS attack that originates from thousands of IP addresses. Downtime is not acceptable for the website.
Which actions should the solutions architect take to protect the website from such an attack? (Select TWO.)

Question44: 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?

Question45: A solutions architect must design a database solution for a high-traffic ecommerce web application. The database stores customer profiles and shopping cart information. The database must support a peak load of several million requests each second and deliver responses in milliseconds The operational overhead for managing and scaling the database must be minimized Which database solution should the solutions architect recommend?

Question46: A company hosls 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?

Question47: An ecommerce company hosts its analytics application in the AWS Cloud. The application generates about
300 MB of data each month. The data is stored in JSON format The company is evaluating a disaster recovery solution to back up the data. The data must be accessible in milliseconds if it is needed, and the data must be kept for 30 days.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question48: 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?

Question49: 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?

Question50: A company recently signed a contract with an AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner for help with an application migration initiative. A solutions architect needs to share an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from an existing AWS account with the MSP Partner's AWS account. The AMI is backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and uses a customer managed customer master key (CMK) to encrypt EBS volume snapshots.
What is the MOST secure way for the solutions architect to share the AMI with the MSP Partner's AWS account?

Question51: 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?

Question52: A company hosts an online shopping application that stores all orders in an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Single-AZ DB instance Management wants to eliminate single points of failure and has asked a solutions architect to recommend an approach to minimize database downtime without requiring any changes to the application code Which solution meets these requirements?

Question53: A company needs the ability to analyze the log files of its proprietary application The logs are stored in JSON format in an Amazon S3 bucket Queries will be simple and will run on-demand A solutions architect needs to perform the analysis with minimal changes to the existing architecture What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Question54: A company needs to connect its on-premises data center network to a new VPC. The data center network has a
100 Mbps symmetrical internet connection. An application that is running on premises will transfer multiple gigabytes of data each day. The application will use an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream for processing What should a solutions architect recommend for maximum performance?

Question55: A company plant to host a survey website on AWS The company anticipates an unpredictable amount of traffic This traffic results m asynchronous updates to the database. The company wants to ensure mat writes to the database hosted on AWS do not gel dropped How should the company write its application to hand to these database requests?

Question56: A company previously migrated its data warehouse solution to AWS The company also has an AWS Direct Conned 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?

Question57: A company has a web application with sporadic usage patterns There is heavy usage at the beginning of each month moderate usage at the start of each week and unpredictable usage during the week The application consists of a web server and a MySQL database server running inside the data center The company would like to move the application to the AWS Cloud and needs to select a cost-effective database platform that will not require database modifications Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question58: 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?

Question59: A company is running a highly sensitive application on Amazon EC2 backed by an Amazon RDS database Compliance regulations mandate that all personally identifiable information (Pll) be encrypted at rest.
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of changes to the infrastructure?

Question60: A customer is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances hosted in a private subnet of a VPC. The EC2 instances are configured in an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). The EC2 instances use a NAT gateway outbound internet access However, the EC2 instances are not able to connect to the public internet to download software updates.

Question61: A company's legacy application is currently relying on a single-instance Amazon RDS MySQL database without encryption. Due to new compliance requirements all existing and new data in this database must be encrypted.
How should this be accomplished?

Question62: 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?

Question63: 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.)

Question64: A company develops web applications. As part of its development process, the company constantly launches and deletes Application Load Balancers (ALBs) in multiple AWS Regions.
The company wants to create an allow list on its firewall device. The allow list will contain the IP addresses of an the load balancers. A solutions architect needs a one-line, highly available solution that will accomplish that goal and will help reduce the number of IP addresses that the firewall needs to allow.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Question65: A company is deploying an application that processes streaming data in near-teal time. 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 networking solution meets these requirements?

Question66: A company uses a combination of Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Fargate tasks to process daily transactions. The company faces unpredictable and sudden increases in transaction volume. The company needs a solution that will process the transactions immediately.
Which solution meets these requirement MOST cost-effectively?

Question67: A company runs a web application that is backed by Amazon RDS. A new database administrator caused data loss by accidentally editing information in a database table To help recover from this type of incident, the company wants the ability to restore the database to its state from 5 minutes before any change within the last
30 days.
Which feature should the solutions architect include in the design to meet this requirement?

Question68: A solutions architect needs to design a system to store client case files. The tiles are core company assets and are important. The number of tiles will grow over time. The files must be simultaneously accessible from multiple application servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The solution must have built-in redundancy.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question69: A company has an AWS account used for software engineering. The AWS account has access to the company's on-premises data center through a pair of AWS Direct Connect connections All non-VPC traffic routes to the virtual private gateway A development team recently created an AWS Lambda function through the console The development team needs to allow the function to access a database that runs in a private subnet in the company's data center Which solution will meet these requirements'?

Question70: 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?

Question71: A company uses Amazon S3 to store its confidential audit documents. The S3 bucket uses bucket policies to restrict access to audit team IAM user credentials according to the principle of least privilege Company managers are wonted about accidental deletion of documents in the S3 bucket and want a more secure solution What should a solutions architect do to secure the audit documents?

Question72: A solutions architect is designing a solution to access a catalog of images and provide users with the ability to submit requests to customize images Image customization parameters wilt be in every request that is sent to an Amazon API Gateway API. The solution will generate tie customized images on demand. Users will receive a link that they can use to view or download their customized images. The solution must be highly available for viewing and customizing images What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements MOST cost effectively?

Question73: An airline that is based in the United States provides services for routes in North America and Europe. The airline is developing a new read-intensive application that customers can use to find flights on either continent.
The application requires strong read consistency and needs scalable database capacity to accommodate changes in user demand. The airline needs the database service to synchronize with the least possible latency between the two continents and to provide a simple failover mechanism to a second AWS Region.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question74: A company has developed a new content-sharing application that runs on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The application runs on Amazon Linux Docker tasks that use the Amazon EC2 launch type.
The application requires a storage solution that has the following characteristics:
* Accessibility (or multiple ECS tasks through bind mounts
* Resiliency across Availability Zones
* Burslable throughput of up to 3 Gbps
* Ability to be scaled up over time
Which storage solution meets these requirements?

Question75: A company runs a web-based portal that provides users with global breaking news local alerts, and weather updates The portal delivers each user a personalized view by using a mixture of static and dynamic content Content is served over HTTPS through an API server running on an Amazon EC2 instance behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The company wants the portal to provide this content to its users across the world as quickly as possible How should a solutions architect design the application to ensure the LEAST amount of latency for all users?

Question76: 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?

Question77: A company has a web application that includes an embedded NoSQL database The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group in a single Availability Zone.
A recent increase in traffic requires the application to be highly available and for the database to be eventually consistent Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead*?

Question78: 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.)

Question79: 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?

Question80: A company has a web server running on an Amazon EC2 instance in public subnet with an Elastic IP address.
The default security group is assigned to the EC2 instances. The default network ACL has been modified to block all traffic. A solution architect needs to make the web server accessible from everywhere on port 443.
Which combination of steps will accomplish this task? (Select TWO)

Question81: A company provides machine learning solutions .The company's users need to download large data sets from the company's Amazon S3 bucket. These downloads often take a long lime, especially when the users are running many simulations on a subset of those datasets. Users download the datasets to Amazon EC2 instances in the same AWS Region as the S3 bucket. Multiple users typically use the same datasets at the same time.
Which solution will reduce the lime that is required to access the datasets?

Question82: A company has an application that uses Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to store data.
The files are 1 GB in size or larger and are accessed often only for the first few days after creation.
The application data is shared across a cluster of Linux servers The company wants to reduce storage costs for the application.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question83: 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.)

Question84: 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?

Question85: 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?

Question86: 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?

Question87: 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?

Question88: A company is developing an Internal application that uses a PostgreSQL database. The company has decided to host the database on Amazon Aurora The application does not need to be highly available but data must be stored in multiple Availability Zones to maximize durability.
Which database configuration meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question89: A company wants to run an in-memory database for a latency-sensitive application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. The application processes more than 100,000 transactions each minute and requires high network throughput. A solutions architect needs to provide a cost-effective network design that minimizes data transfer charges.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question90: 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?

Question91: 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?

Question92: A solutions architect needs to design a managed storage solution for a company's application that includes high-performance machine learning This application runs on AWS Fargate, and the connected storage needs to have concurrent access to files and deliver high performance Which storage option should the solutions architect recommend?

Question93: 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?

Question94: A company is running a publicly accessible serverless application that uses Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The application's traffic recently spiked due to fraudulent requests from botnets.
Which steps should a solutions architect take to block requests from unauthorized users? (Select TWO.)

Question95: A company recently expanded globally and wants to make its application accessible to users in those geographic locations. The application is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group. The company needs the ability to shift traffic from resources in one region to another.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question96: A company's website is used to sell products to the public The site runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) There is also an Amazon CloudFront distribution and AWS WAF Is being used to protect against SQL injection attacks The ALB is the origin for the CloudFront distribution A recent review of security logs revealed an external malicious IP that needs to be blocked from accessing the website What should a solutions architect do to protect the application?

Question97: An application hosted on AWS is experiencing performance problems, and the application vendor wants to perform an analysis of the log file to troubleshoot further. The log file is stored on Amazon S3 and is 10GB in size. The application owner will make the log file available to the vendor for a limited time.
Whit it the MOST secure way to do this?

Question98: 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?

Question99: 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?

Question100: 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?

Question101: 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?

Question102: 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?

Question103: A solutions architect must provide a fully managed replacement for an on-premises solution that allows employees and partners to exchange files The solution must be easily accessible to employees connecting from on-premises systems, remote employees, and external partners Which solution meets these requirements?

Question104: A company has two VPCs that are located in the us-west-2 Region within the same AWS account. The company needs to allow network traffic between these VPCs. Approximately 500 GB of data transfer will occur between the VPCs each month.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution to connect these VPCs'?'

Question105: 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?

Question106: A media streaming company collects real-time data and stores it in a disk-optimized database system. The company is not getting the expected throughput and wants an m-memory database storage solution that performs faster and provides high availability using data replication.
Which database should a solutions architect recommend?

Question107: 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?

Question108: 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**

Question109: A company has a service that reads and writes large amounts of data from an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region The service is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances within the private subnet of a VPC. The service communicates with Amazon S3 over a NAT gateway in the public subnet However, the company wants a solution that will reduce the data output costs.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question110: 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?

Question111: 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?

Question112: 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?

Question113: An ecommerce company is running a multi-tier application on AWS. The front-end and backend tiers run on Amazon EC2, and the database runs on Amazon RDS for MYSQL. The backend tier communities with the RDS instance. There are frequent calls to return identical database from the database that are causing performance slowdowns.
Which action should be taken to improve the performance of the backend?

Question114: A company uses on-premises servers to host Its application. The company is running out of storage capacity.
The applications use both block storage and NFS storage. The company needs a high-performing solution that supports local caching without re-architecting its existing applications Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements'? (Select TWO.)

Question115: 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?

Question116: A solution architect at a company is designing the architecture for a two-tiered web application. The web application is composed of an internet facing application load balancer that forwards traffic to an auto scaling group of amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances must be able to access a database that runs on Amazon RDS.
The company has requested a defence-in-depth approach to the network layout. The company does not want to rely solely on security groups or network ACLs. Only the minimum resources that are necessary should be routable from the internet.
Which network design should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question117: 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''

Question118: 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?

Question119: 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?

Question120: A company wants to move a multi-tiered application from on premises to the AWS Cloud to improve the application's performance. The application consists of application tiers that communicate with each other by way of Which solution moots these and is the MOST operationally efficient?

Question121: 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?

Question122: 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?

Question123: 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''

Question124: A company has a customer relationship management (CRM) application that stores data in an Amazon RDS DB instance that runs Microsoft SQL Server. The company's IT staff has administrative access to the database.
The database contains sensitive data. The company wants to ensure that the data is not accessible to the IT staff and that only authorized personnel can view the data.
What should a solutions architect do to secure the data?

Question125: An online learning company is migrating to the AWS Cloud. The company maintains its student records in a PostgreSQL database. The company needs a solution in which its data is available and online across multiple AWS Regions at all times.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Question126: 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?

Question127: A company is designing a new application that runs in a VPC on Amazon EC2 instances. The application stores data in Amazon S3 and uses Amazon DynamoDB as its database For compliance reasons, the company prohibits all traffic between the EC2 instances and other AWS services from passing over the public internet What can a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Question128: 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?

Question129: A solutions architect is designing the architecture for a new web application. The application will run on AWS Fargate containers with an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database.
The web application will perform primarily read queries against the database.
What should the solutions architect do to ensure that the website can scale with increasing traffic? (Select TWO.)

Question130: A company is developing a serverless web application that gives users the ability to interact with real-time analytics from online games. The data from the games must be streamed in real time. The company needs a durable, low-latency database option for user data. The company does not know how many users will use the application Any design considerations must provide response times of single-digit milliseconds as the application scales.
Which combination of AWS services will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question131: 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?

Question132: 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?

Question133: 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?

Question134: A company is automating an order management application. The company's development team has decided to use SFTP to transfer and store the business-critical information files The files must be encrypted and must be highly available. The files also must be automatically deleted a month after they are created.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question135: 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?

Question136: A company recently started using Amazon Aurora as the data store for its global ecommerce application When large reports are run developers report that the ecommerce application is performing poorly After reviewing metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, a solutions architect finds that the ReadlOPS and CPUUtilization metrics are spiking when monthly reports run.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question137: A company runs its Infrastructure on AWS and has a registered base of 700.000 users for res document management application The company intends to create a product that converts large pdf files to jpg Imago files. The .pdf files average 5 MB in size. The company needs to store the original files and the converted files.
A solutions architect must design a scalable solution to accommodate demand that will grow rapidly over lime.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question138: A company offers a food delivery service that is growing rapidly Because of the growth the company's order processing system is experiencing scaling problems during peak traffic hours. The current architecture includes the following;
* A group of Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to collect orders from the application
* Another group of EC2 instances that run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to fulfill orders The order collection process occurs quickly, but the order fulfillment process can take longer Data must not be lost because of a scaling event A solutions architect must ensure that the order collection process and the order fulfillment process can both scale properly during peak traffic hours The solution must optimize utilization of the company's AWS resources Which solution meets these requirements'?

Question139: A company is planning to migrate a business-critical dataset to Amazon S3 The current solution design uses a single S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region with versioning enabled to store the dataset. The company's disaster recovery policy states that all data must be in multiple AWS Regions.
How should a solutions architect design the S3 solution?

Question140: 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.)

Question141: A solutions architect is designing the architecture for a company website that is composed of static content.
The company's target customers are located in the United States and Europe.
Which architecture should the solutions architect recommend to MINIMIZE cost?

Question142: A company provides an API to its users trial automates inquires 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 solution architect do lo accompli this?

Question143: A user wants to list the 1AM role that Is attached to their Amazon EC2 Instance. The user has login access to the EC2 instance but does not have 1AM permissions What should a solutions architect do to retrieve this information?
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