EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A solutions architect is creating an application that will handle batch processing of large amounts of data The input data will be held in Amazon S3 and the output data will be stored in a different S3 bucket For processing, the application will transfer the data over the network between multiple Amazon EC2 instances
What should the solutions architect do to reduce the overall data transfer costs?

Question2: A company has three VPCs named Development, Testing and Production in the us-east-1 Region. The three VPCs need to be connected to an on-premises data center and are designed to be separate to maintain security and prevent any resource sharing A solutions architect needs to find a scalable and secure solution
What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question3: A company is hosting a web application from an Amazon S3 bucket. The application uses Amazon Cognito as an identity provider lo authenticate users and return a JSON Web Token (JWT) that provides access to protected resources that am restored in another S3 bucket.
Upon deployment of the application, users report errors and are unable to access the protected content. A solutions architect must resolve this issue by providing proper permissions so that users can access the protected content.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question4: A company is using AWS to design a web application that will process insurance quotes Users will request quotes from the application Quotes must be separated by quote type, must be responded to within 24 hours, and must not get lost The solution must maximize operational efficiency and must minimize maintenance. Which solution meets these requirements?

Question5: 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?

Question6: A company is running a two-tier ecommerce website using AWS services The current architecture uses a public-facing Elastic Load Balancer that sends traffic to Amazon EC2 instances in a prrvate subnet. The static content is hosted on EC2 instances and the dynamic content is retneved from a MySQL database The application is running in the United States The company recently started selling to users in Europe and Australi
a. A solutions architect needs to design a solution so their international users have an improved browsing experience
Which solution is MOST cost-effective?

Question7: 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.)

Question8: A company is running a publicly accessible serverless application that uses Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambd
a. 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.)

Question9: 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?

Question10: A company is building a media sharing application and decides to use Amazon S3 for storage When a media file is uploaded, the company starts a multi-step process to create thumbnails identity objects in the images transcode videos into standard formats and resolutions and extract and store the metadata to an Amazon DynamoDB table The metadata is used for searching and navigation
The amount of traffic is variable The solution must be able to scale to handle spikes in load without unnecessary expenses
What should a solutions architect recommend to support this workload''

Question11: 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?

Question12: 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?

Question13: 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'?

Question14: A company is planning to move a dynamic web application to AWS. Application assets are stored in a Linux file server. The total volume of data is 140 TB, and the company has 100 Mbps of internet bandwidth available. The company does not want to make any changes to the application during migration. File permissions must be preserved.
How should a solutions architect migrate and store the data to meet these requirements?

Question15: A company needs to store data from its healthcare application. The application's data frequently changes. A new regulation requires audit access at all levels of the stored data.
The company hosts the application on an on-premises infrastructure that is running out of storage capacity. A solutions architect must securely migrate the existing data to AWS while satisfying the new regulation.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question16: 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?

Question17: An application running on an Amazon EC2 instance needs to access an Amazon DynamoDB table Both the EC2 instance and the DynamoDB table are in the same AWS account A solutions architect must configure the necessary permissions
Which solution will allow least privilege access to the DynamoDB table from the EC2 instance?

Question18: 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?

Question19: A company wants lo share data that is collected from sell-driving cars with the automobile community.
The data will be made available (rom 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?

Question20: A company stores can wordings on a monthly basis Users access lie recorded files randomly within 1year of recording, but users rarely access the files after 1year. The company wants to optimize its solution by allowing only files that ant newer than 1year old to be queried and retrieved as quickly as possible. A delay in retrieving older fees is acceptable
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question21: A company funs a website that uses a content management system (CMS) on Amazon EC2 The CMS runs on a smgleEC2 instance and uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance tor the data tor Website images are stored on an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume that is mounted inside the EC2 instance
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to improve the performance and residence of the website? (Select TWO )

Question22: A company has a web application hosted over 10 Amazon EC2 instances with traffic directed by Amazon Route 53 The company occasionally experiences a timeout error when attempting to browse the application The networking team finds that some DNS queries return IP addresses of unhealthy instances resulting in the timeout error
What should a solutions architect implement to overcome these timeout errors?

Question23: 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**

Question24: 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?

Question25: A medical records company is hosting an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application processes customer data files that are stored on Amazon S3. The EC2 instances are hosted in public subnets. The EC2 instances access Amazon S3 over the internet, but they do not require any other network access.
A new requirement mandates that the network traffic for file transfers take a private route and not be sent over the internet.
Which change to the network architecture should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement"?

Question26: A company hosts a multi-tier web application on Amazon Linux Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones The company observes that the Auto Scaling group launches more On-Demand Instances when the application's end users access high volumes of static web content The company wants to optimize cost
What should a solutions architect do to redesign the application MOST cost-effectively?

Question27: 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?

Question28: A company is running a web-based game in two Availability Zones in the us-west-2 Region The web servers use an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in public subnets The ALB has an SSL certificate from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) with a custom domain name The game is written in JavaScript and runs entirely in a user's web browser.
The game is increasing in popularity in many countries around the world The company wants to update the application architecture and optimize costs without compromising performance.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question29: 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?

Question30: A company build an application that gives users the ability to check in to places they visit, rank the places, and add reviews about their experiences. The application is successful and is experiencing a rapid increase in the number of users every month.
The company uses a single Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance for its database. The company fears that the database might not be able to handle the load for the upcoming month because the DB instance has activated alarms that are related to resource exhaustion.
A solutions architect must design a solution that prevents service interruptions at the database layer. The solutions architect also must minimize any changes to code.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question31: A company is planning to migrate a legacy application to AWS. The application currently uses NFS to communicate to an on-premises storage solution to store application dat
a. The application cannot be modified to use any other communication protocols other than NFS for this purpose
Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend for use after the migration?

Question32: A financial services company wants to shut down two data centers and migrate more than 100 TB of data to AWS. The data has an intricate directory structure with millions of small files stored in deep hierarchies of subfolders Most of the data is unstructured and the company's file storage consists of SMB-based storage types from multiple vendors The company does not want to change its applications to access the data after migration.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question33: A company is using a content management system that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 instance contains both the web server and the database software. The company must make its website platform highly available and must enable the website to scale to meet user demand
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question34: A company's database is hosted on an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster in the us-east-1 Region The database is 4 TB in size. The company needs to expand its disaster recovery strategy to the us-west-2 Region The company must have the ability to fail over to us-west-2 with a recovery time objective (RTO) of 15 minutes.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question35: 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?

Question36: 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.)

Question37: 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?

Question38: A solution architect is designing an application for a two-step order across. The first step is synhronous and must return to the user with little latency. The second step takes longer so it will be implemented in a separate component. Orders must be processed exacity once and in the order in which they are received.
How should the solutions architect integrate these components?

Question39: A company has two VPCs named Management and Production The Management VPC uses VPNs through a customer gateway to connect to a single device in the data center. The Production VPC uses a virtual private gateway with two attached AWS Direct Connect connections The Management and Production VPCs both use a single VPC peering connection to allow communication between the applications.
What should a solutions architect do to mitigate any single point of failure in this architecture?

Question40: 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?

Question41: A company is using Amazon Route 53 latency-based routing to route requests to its UDP-based application for users around the world. The application is hosted on redundant servers in the company's on-premises data centers in the United States. Asia, and Europe. The company's compliance requirements state that the application must be hosted on premises The company wants to improve the performance and availability of the application
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question42: 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?

Question43: A company hosts its web application on AWS using seven Amazon EC2 instances. The company requires that the IP addresses of all healthy EC2 instances be returned in response to DNS queries.
Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?

Question44: A company has an on-premises MySQL database used by the global tales team with infrequent access patterns. The sales team requires the database to have minimal downtime. A database administrate wants to migrate this database to AWS without selecting a particular instance type in anticipation of more users In the future.
Which service should a solutions architect recommend?

Question45: A company hosts a three-tier ecommerce application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) All ecommerce data is stored in an Amazon RDS for ManaDB Multi-AZ DB instance
The company wants to optimize customer session management during transactions The application must store session data durably
Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO )

Question46: 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?

Question47: A company has a data ingestion workflow that consists the following:
An Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for notifications about new data deliveries
An AWS Lambda function to process the data and record metadata
The company observes that the ingestion workflow fails occasionally because of network connectivity issues. When such a failure occurs, the Lambda function does not ingest the corresponding data unless the company manually reruns the job.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to ensure that the Lambda function ingests all data in the future? (Select TWO.)

Question48: 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?

Question49: 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 )

Question50: A company with multiple accounts and teams wants to set up a new multi-account AWS environment.
Which AWS service supports this requirement?

Question51: A company runs a fleet of web servers using an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance After a routine compliance check, the company sets a standard that requires a recovery pant objective (RPO) of less than 1 second for all its production databases.
Which solution meets these requirement?

Question52: 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.)

Question53: 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?

Question54: A company has a financial application that produces reports. The reports average 50 KB in size and are stored in Amazon S3. The reports are frequently accessed during the first week after production and must be stored for several years The reports must be retrievable within 6 hours
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively1?

Question55: 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?

Question56: 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 dat
a. 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?

Question57: 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''

Question58: 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?

Question59: A company is adopting serverless architecture The company's solutions architect wants to modernize an application that has source data in csv format A large team of developers needs to use the application to run SQL queries and reports on demand by joining data across multiple tables
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select TWO )

Question60: 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?

Question61: A survey company has gathered data for several years from areas m\ 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?

Question62: 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?

Question63: A company needs to build a reporting solution on AWS. The solution must support SQL queries that data analysts run on the dat
a. The data analysts will run lower than 10 total queries each day. The company generates 3 GB of new data daily in an on-premises relational database. This data needs to be transferred to AWS to perform reporting tasks.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements at the LOWEST cost?

Question64: 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?

Question65: 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?

Question66: 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?

Question67: 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?

Question68: 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?

Question69: 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?

Question70: A company runs an online marketplace web application on AWS. The application serves hundreds of thousands of users during peak hours. The company needs a scalable, near-real-time solution to share the details of millions of financial transactions with several other internal applications Transactions also need to be processed to remove sensitive data before being stored in a document database for low-latency retrieval
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question71: 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?

Question72: A company created and hosts a legacy software application for its customers. The application runs on a dedicated Linux server for each customer. The application stores no persistent data except for MySQL data.
The company experienced some data corruption issues in the past and wants to move the application to AWS. The company needs to implement a solution to optimize the stability of the application. The solution also must give the company the ability to restore a customer's database to a specific point in time. The company will migrate customer data by using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS).
Which architecture should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question73: 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?

Question74: A website runs a web application that receives a burst of traffic each day at noon. The users upload new pictures and context daily, but have complaining of timeout. The architect uses Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups, and the custom application consistently takes 1 minutes to initiate upon boot up before responding to user requests.
How should a solutions architect redesign the architect to better respond to changing traffic?

Question75: A company is migrating its application to an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The disaster recovery (DR) requirements for the application include the ability to fail over to another AWS Region with minimal downtime.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)

Question76: A solutions architect is designing a workload that will store hourly energy consumption by business tenants in a building The sensors will feed a database through HTTP requests that will add up usage for each tenant The solutions architect must use managed services when possible The workload will receive more features in the future as the solutions architect adds independent components
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question77: A company is planning to use Amazon S3 to store images uploaded by its users. The images must be encrypted at rest in Amazon S3. The company does not want to spend time managing and rotating the keys, but it does want to control who can access those keys.
What should a solutions architect use to accomplish this?

Question78: A company runs a stateless web application in production on a group of Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application experiences heavy usage during an 8-hour period each business day. Application usage is moderate and steady overnight Application usage is low during weekends.
The company wants to minimize its EC2 costs without affecting the availability of the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question79: 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.)

Question80: 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'?

Question81: A company is testing an application that runs on an Amazon EC2 Linux instance. The instance contains a data volume of 500 GB that consists of a single Amazon Elastic Block Store {Amazon EBS) General Purpose SSD (gp2) volume
The application is now ready for production use and will be installed on multiple EC2 instances that run m an Auto Scaling group All instances need access to the data that was stored on the 500 GB volume. The company needs a highly available and fault-tolerant solution that does not introduce any significant changes to the applications code
Which solution meets these requirements''

Question82: A company's packaged application dynamically creates and returns single-use text files in response to user requests. The company is using Amazon CloudFront for distribution^ but wants to further reduce data transfer costs The company cannot modify the application's source code
What should a solutions architect do to reduce costs?

Question83: Which AWS service or feature can be used find availability status information on all AWS services?

Question84: 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?

Question85: 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?

Question86: 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?

Question87: A company wants to provide users with access lo AWS resources. The company has 1.500 users and manages their access to on-premises resources through Active Directory user groups on the corporate network However, the company does not want users to have to maintain another identity to access the resources A solutions architect must manage user access to the AWS resources while preserving access to the on-premises resources
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question88: A solutions architect observes that a nightly batch processing job is automatically scaled up for 1 hour before the desired Amazon EC2 capacity is reached The peak capacity is the same every night and the batch jobs always start at 1 AM The solutions architect needs to find a cost-effective solution that will allow for the desired EC2 capacity to be reached quickly and allow the Auto Scaling group to scale down after the batch jobs are complete
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements^

Question89: A company wants to migrate its 1 PB on-premises image repository to AWS. The images will be used by a serverless web application Images stored in the repository are rarely accessed, but they must be immediately available Additionally, the images must be encrypted at rest and protected from accidental deletion
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question90: A developer is creating an AWS Lambda function to perform dynamic updates to a database when an item is added to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) queue A solutions architect must recommend a solution that tracks any usage of database credentials in AWS CloudTrail. The solution also must provide auditing capabilities.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question91: A company has an application that scans millions of connected devices for security threats and pushes the scan logs to an Amazon S3 bucket. A total of 70 GB of data is generated each week, and the company needs to store 3 years of data for historical reporting. The company must process aggregate, and enrich the data from Amazon S3 by performing complex analytical queries and joins in the least amount of time The aggregated dataset is visualized on an Amazon QuickSight dashboard.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question92: 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?

Question93: A medical research lab produces data that is related to a new study. The lab wants to make the data available with minimum latency to clinics across the country for their on-premises file-based applications. The data files are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket that has read-only permissions for each clinic.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question94: The financial application at a company stores monthly reports in an Amazon S3 bucket. The vice president of finance has mandated that ail access to these reports be logged and that any modifications to the tog files be detected
Which actions can a solutions architect take to meet these requirements?

Question95: A company is managing health records on-peruses. The company must keep these records Indefinitely, disable any modifications to the records once they are stored, and granularly audit access at all levels. The chief technology officer (CTO) is concerned because there are already millions of record not being used by any application, and the current infrastructure is running out of space. The CTO has requested solutions architect design a solution to move easting data and support future records.
Which services can the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

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 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 IAM access to the company's AWS account
How should a solutions architect grant this access to the vendor?

Question98: A company runs a highly available image-processing application on Amazon EC2 instances in a single VPC The EC2 instances run inside several subnets across multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances do not communicate with each other However, the EC2 instances download images from Amazon S3 and upload images to Amazon S3 through a single NAT gateway The company is concerned about data transfer charges
What is the MOST cost-effective way for the company to avoid Regional data transfer charges?

Question99: 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?

Question100: A company is building a web application that serves a content management system The content management system runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones Users are constantly adding and updating files blogs and other website assets in the content management system
A solutions architect must implement a solution in which all the EC2 instances share up-to-date website content with the least possible lag time
Which solution meets these requirements''

Question101: A solutions architect must provide an automated solution for a company's compliance policy that states security groups cannot include a rule that allows SSH from 0 0 0 0/0 The company needs to be notified if there is any breach in the policy A solution is needed as soon as possible
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question102: A company has migrated several applications to AWS in the past 3 months. The company wants to know the breakdown of costs for each of these applications. The company wants to receive a regular report that includes this information.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question103: A company has two AWS accounts: Production and Development. The company needs to push code changes in the Development account to the Production account. In the alpha phase, only two developers on the development team need access to the Production account. In the beta phase, more developers will need access to perform testing.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question104: A company is migrating a large, mission-critical database to AWS. A solutions architect has decided to use an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance that Is deployed with 80,000 Provisioned IOPS for storage The solutions architect is using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to perform the data migration. The migration is taking longer than expected, and the company wants to speed up the process. The company's network team has ruled out bandwidth as a limiting factor.
Which actions should the solutions architect take to speed up the migration? (Select TWO.)

Question105: A company is hosting a high-traffic static website on Amazon S3 with an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has a default TTL of 0 seconds The company wants to implement caching to improve performance for the website However the company also wants to ensure that stale content is not served for more than a few minutes after a deployment
Which combination of caching methods should a solutions architect implement to meet these requirements? (Select TWO )

Question106: 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?

Question107: A solutions architect is designing a new hybrid architecture to extend a company s on-premises infrastructure to AWS The company requires a highly available connection with consistent low latency to an AWS Region. The company needs to minimize costs and is willing to accept slower traffic if the primary connection fails
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question108: An ecommerce company is building a distributed application that involves several serverless functions and AWS services to complete order-processing tasks. These tasks require manual approvals as part of the workflow A solutions architect needs to design an architecture for the order-processing application The solution must be able to combine multiple AWS Lambda functions into responsive serverless applications The solution also must orchestrate data and services that run on Amazon EC2 instances, containers, or on-premises servers
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question109: 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.)

Question110: A company wants to host a scalable web application on AWS The application will be accessed by users from different geographic regions of the world. Application users will be able to download and upload unique data up to gigabytes in size. The development team wants a cost-effective solution to minimize upload and download latency and maximize performance
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question111: 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?

Question112: 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?

Question113: A company wants to migrate an on-premises data center to AWS. The data canter hosts an SFTP server that stores its data on an NFS-based file system. The server holds 200 GB of data that needs to be transferred. The server must be hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance that uses an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system
When combination of steps should a solutions architect take to automate this task? (Select TWO )

Question114: A company has a stateless web application that runs on AWS Lambda functions that are invoked by Amazon API Gateway. The company wants to deploy the application across multiple AWS Regions to provide Regional failover capabilities.
What should a solutions architect do to route traffic to multiple Regions?

Question115: 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?

Question116: A company is running a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The application uses a database that runs on an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance. The application performs slowly as traffic increases, and the database experiences a heavy read load during periods of high traffic.
Which actions should a solutions architect take to resolve these performance issues? (Select TWO.)

Question117: 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/?

Question118: 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?

Question119: 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.)

Question120: 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?

Question121: A data science team requires storage for nightly log processing. The size and number of logs is unknown and will persist for 24 hours only. What is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question122: A solution architect has created a new AWS account and must secure AWS account root user access Which combination of actions mil accomplish this? (Select TWO )

Question123: 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?

Question124: A company serves content to its subscribers across the world using an application running on AWS The application has several Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) Due to a recent change in copyright restrictions, the chief information officer (CiO) wants to block access for certain countries.
Which action will meet these requirements?

Question125: 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.)

Question126: A company runs an application on a group of Amazon Linux EC2 instances. For compliance reasons, the company must retain all application log files for 7 years. The log files will be analyzed by a reporting tool that must be able to access all the files concurrently.
Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question127: A company is performing an AWS Well-Architected Framework review of an existing workload deployed on AWS The review Identified a public-facing website running on the same Amazon EC2 instance as a Microsoft Active Directory domain controller that was installed recently to support other AWS services A solutions architect needs to recommend a new design that would improve the security of the architecture and minimize the administrative demand on IT staff
What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question128: 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?

Question129: 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'

Question130: A company is creating a new application that will store a large amount of dat
a. 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?

Question131: A company is using a VPC that is provisioned with a 10.10.1.0/24 CIDR block Because of continued growth IP address space in this block might be depleted soon. A solutions architect must add more IP address capacity to the VPC
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question132: 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?

Question133: A company is developing an API that mobile apps will use to retneve weather information During beta testing the company ran the API on Amazon EC2 instances and used an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to route requests to a single Auto Scaling group The company used an Amazon DynamoDB table for persistent data storage
The company wants to move to an architecture that can scale easily with the least possible operational overhead
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question134: A company is developing a real-time multiplayer game that uses UDP for communications between the client and servers In an Auto Scaling group Spikes in demand are anticipated during the day, so the game server platform must adapt accordingly Developers want to store gamer scores and other non-relational data in a database solution that will scale without intervention
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend?

Question135: A solutions architect is investigating AWS file storage solutions that can be used with a company's on-premises Linux servers and applications. The company has an existing VPN connection set up between the company's VPC and its on-premises network.
Which AWS services should the solutions architect use? (Select TWO )

Question136: A ride-sharing company stores historical service usage data as structured csv data files in Amazon S3 A data analyst needs to perform SQL queries on this data A solutions architect must recommend a solution that optimizes cost-effectiveness for the queries Which solution meets these requirements?

Question137: A company has a three-tier application image sharing. The application uses an Amazon EC2 instance for the front-end layer, another EC2 instance tor the application layer, and a third EC2 instance for a MySQL database A solutions architect must design a scalable and nighty available solution mat requires the least amount of change to the application.
Which solution meets these requirement?

Question138: 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 dat
a. 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?

Question139: A company wants to migrate its MySQL database from on premises to AWS. The company recently experienced a database outage that significantly impacted the business To ensure this does not happen again the company wants a reliable database solution on AWS that minimizes data loss and stores every transaction on at least two nodes
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question140: A company copies 200 TB of data from a recent ocean survey onto AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices The company has a high performance computing (HPC) cluster that is hosted on AWS to look for oil and gas deposits A solutions architect must provide the cluster with consistent sub-millisecond latency and high-throughput access to the data on the Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices The company is sending the devices back to AWS
Which solution will meet these requirements'?

Question141: What should a solutions architect do to ensure that all objects uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket are encrypted?

Question142: 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.)

Question143: A social media company allows users to upload images to its website. The website runs on Amazon EC2 instances. During upload requests, the website resizes the images to a standard size and stores the resized images in Amazon S3. Users are experiencing slow upload requests to the website.
The company needs to reduce coupling within the application and improve website performance A solutions architect must design the most operationally efficient process for image uploads
Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements'? (Select TWO.)

Question144: 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?

Question145: 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?

Question146: A company is developing a mobile game that streams score updates to a backend processor and then posts results on a leaderboard A solutions architect needs to design a solution that can handle large traffic spikes process the mobile game updates in order of receipt and store the processed updates in a highly available database The company also wants to minimize the management overhead required to maintain the solution
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question147: A company wants to replicate its data to AWS to recover in the event of a disaster Today a system administrator has scripts that copy data to a NFS share Individual backup files need to be accessed with low latency by application administrators to deal with errors in processing
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question148: 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?

Question149: 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?

Question150: 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?

Question151: A company has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains confidential information in its production AWS account The company has turned on AWS CloudTrail for the account. The account sends a copy of its logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. The company has configured the S3 bucket to log read and write data events.
A company auditor discovers that some objects in the S3 bucket have been deleted A solutions architect must provide the auditor with information about who deleted the objects
What should the solutions architect do to provide this information?

Question152: 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?

Question153: 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?

Question154: 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

Question155: A company has a web application that users access from around the world The company has web servers in multiple AWS Regions to support the traffic A solutions architect must configure an Amazon Route 53 routing policy to send traffic to only the active web servers
Which configuration meets this requirement?

Question156: A company wants to improve the availability and performance of its hybrid application. The application consists of a stateful TCP-based workload hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in different AWS Regions and a stateless UDP-based workload hosted on premises.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to improve availability and performance? (Select TWO.)

Question157: A company is investigating potential solutions to collect process, and store users' service usage data The company needs to create an analytics capability so that the company can use standard SQL queries to gather operational insights quickly. The solution must be highly available The solution also must ensure atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability (ACID) compliance in the data tier
Which solution meets these requirements''

Question158: A company has an internet-facing application that runs on premises. The application contains mostly user-generated content. The data is stored in an on-premises network-attached storage system. The company wants to archive this data annually and has chosen to move the archival data to Amazon S3. The company needs a solution to migrate the archival data into an S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question159: 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'?

Question160: 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'?

Question161: 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?

Question162: A manufacturing company has machine sensors that upload csv files to an Amazon S3 bucket These csv files must be converted into images and must be made available as soon as possible for the automatic generation of graphical reports.
The images become irrelevant after 1 month, but the csv files must be kept to train machine learning (ML) models twice a year. The ML trainings and audits are planned weeks in advance.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select TWO )

Question163: A company uses an Amazon S3 bucket to store static images for its website. The company configured permissions to allow access to Amazon S3 objects by privileged users only. What should a solutions architect do to protect against data loss? (Select TWO.)

Question164: A company has an application in which users create a large number of files The company plans to migrate the application from its on-premises data center to AWS Currently, the application uploads the files to a shared storage system A separate fleet of servers then processes the files Access to the files is controlled through Linux file system permissions
The company needs to migrate the fleet of servers to Amazon EC2 instances The company must maximize storage scalability and durability without changing the code of the existing application
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question165: 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?

Question166: A company runs an application on several Amazon EC2 instances that store persistent data on an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system. The company needs to replicate the data to another AWS Region by using an AWS managed service solution
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively'?

Question167: 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?

Question168: 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?

Question169: A database is on an Amazon RDS MySQL 5.6 Multi-AZ 06 instance that experiences highly dynamic reads. Application developers notice a significant slowdown when testing read performance from a secondary AWS Region. The developers want a solution that provider less than 1 second of read replication latency
What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question170: 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?

Question171: 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.)

Question172: A company has a mobile chat application with a data store based in Amazon DynamoDB. Users would like new messages to be need with as little latency as possible. A possible architect needs design an optimal solution that requires minimal application changes.
Which method should the solution architect select?

Question173: A company wants to use AWS Systems Manager to manage a fleet ol Amazon EC2 instances. According to the company's security requirements, no EC2 instances can have internet access. A solutions architect needs to design network connectivity from the EC2 instances to Systems Manager while fulfilling this security obligation.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question174: A company has an automobile sales website that stores its listings in a database on Amazon RDS When an automobile is sold the listing needs to be removed from the website and the data must be sent to multiple target systems.
Which design should a solutions architect recommend?

Question175: 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?

Question176: A company wants to share data that a 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?

Question177: 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)

Question178: 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?

Question179: A company is developing a new online gaming application. The application will run on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple AWS Regions and will have a high number of globally distributed users A solutions architect must design the application to optimize network latency for the users.
Which actions should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question180: 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?

Question181: A company recently launched a new service that involves medical images The company scans the images and sends them from its on-premises data center through an AWS Direct Connect connection to Amazon EC2 instances After processing is complete, the images are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket
A company requirement states that the EC2 instances cannot be accessible through the internet The EC2 instances run in a private subnet, which has a default route back to the on-premises data center for outbound internet access
Usage of the new service is increasing rapidly A solutions architect must recommend a solution that meets the company's requirements and reduces the Direct Connect charges.
Which solution accomplishes these goals MOST cost-effectively?

Question182: 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?

Question183: 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?

Question184: A company hosts multiple production applications. One of the applications consists of resources from Amazon EC2. AWS Lambd
a. 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?

Question185: 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?

Question186: A company is planning to store data on Amazon RDS DB instances. The company must encrypt the data at rest
What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Question187: A company is building a disaster recovery (DR) solution The company wants to rotate its primary systems between AWS Regions on a regular basis. The company's application is geographically distributed and includes a serverless web tier The application's database tier runs on Amazon Aurora
A solutions architect needs to build an architecture tor the database layer to implement managed, planned failover
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements with the LEAST downtime*? (Select TWO )

Question188: 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?

Question189: An application running on AWS uses an Amazon Aurora Multi-AZ deployment for its database When evaluating performance metrics, a solutions architect discovered that the database reads are causing high I/O and adding latency to the write requests against the database
What should the solutions architect do to separate the read requests from the write requests?

Question190: A company wants to build an immutable infrastructure for its software applications The company wants to test the software applications before sending traffic to them The company seeks an efficient solution that limits the effects of application bugs
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect recommend? {Select TWO)

Question191: A business application is hosted on Amazon EC2 and uses Amazon S3 for encrypted object storage. The chief information security officer has directed that no application traffic between the two services should traverse the public internet.
Which capability should the solutions architect use to meet the compliance requirements?