EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A company hosts more than 300 global websites and applications. The company requires a platform to analyze more than 30 TB of clickstream data each day.
What should a solutions architect do to transmit and process the clickstream data?

Question2: A company has an application that generates a large number of lies, each approximately 5 MB in size. The files are stored in Amazon S3. Company policy requires the files to be stored for 4 years before they can be deleted Immediate accessibility is always required as the files contain critical business data that is not easy to reproduce. The files are frequently accessed in the first 30 days of the object creation but are rarely accessed after the first 30 days Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?

Question3: 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?

Question4: 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?

Question5: A company wants to perform an online migration of active datasets from an on-premises NFS server to an Amazon S3 bucket that is named DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET Data integrity verification is required during the transfer and at the end of the transfer. The data also must he encrypted A solutions architect is using an AWS solution to migrate the data.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question6: 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?

Question7: A company wants to use an AWS Region as a disaster recovery location for its on-premises infrastructure. The company has 10 TB of existing data and the on-premises data center has a 1Gbps internet connection A solution architect must find a solution so the company can have its existing data on AWS in 72 hours without transmitting it using an unencrypted channel.
Which solution should the solutions architect
select

Question8: 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?

Question9: 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?

Question10: A company uses a payment processing system that requires messages for a particular payment ID to be received in the same order that they were sent Otherwise, the payments might be processed incorrectly.
Which actions should a solutions architect take to meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)

Question11: 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?

Question12: A company has a production web application in which users upload documents through a web interlace or a mobile app. According to a new regulatory requirement, new documents cannot be modified or deleted after they are stored.
What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Question13: A solutions architect is migrating a document management workload to AWS The workload keeps 7 TiB of contract documents on a snared storage file system and tracks them on an external database Most of the documents are stored and retrieved eventually for reference m the future The application cannot De modified during the migration, and the storage solution must be highly available.
Documents are retrieved and stored by web servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances In an Auto Scaling group The Auto Scaling group can have up to 12 instances. Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question14: 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.)

Question15: A solutions architect must design a solution that uses Amazon CloudFront with an Amazon S3 origin to store a static website. The company's security policy requires that all website traffic be inspected by AWS WAF.
How should the solutions architect comply with these requirements?

Question16: 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?

Question17: A solutions architect needs to design a nighty available application consisting of web. application and database tiers HTTPS content delivery should be as close to the edge as possible with the least delivery time Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST secure?

Question18: A solutions architect must create a highly available bastion host architecture. The solution needs to be resilient within a single AWS Region and should require only minimal effort to maintain.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question19: A company manages its own Amazon EC2 instances that run MySQL databases The company is manually managing replication and scaling as demand increases or decreases The company needs a new solution that simplifies the process of adding or removing compute capacity to or from its database tier as needed The solution also must offer improved performance, scaling, and durability with minimal effort from operations Which solution meets these requirements'?

Question20: 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?

Question21: 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?

Question22: A company has three AWS accounts Management Development and Production. These accounts use AWS services only in the us-east-1 Region All accounts have a VPC with VPC Flow Logs configured to publish data to an Amazon S3 bucket in each separate account For compliance reasons the company needs an ongoing method to aggregate all the VPC flow logs across all accounts into one destination S3 bucket in the Management account.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question23: A company is planning to migrate a TCP-based application into the company's VPC The application is publicly accessible on a nonstandard TCP port through a hardware appliance in the company's data centre. This public endpoint can process up to 3 million requests per second with low latency. The company requires the same level of performance for the new public endpoint in AWS.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?

Question24: 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?

Question25: 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?

Question26: 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?

Question27: A company is designing a new multi-tier web application that consists of the following components:
* Web and application servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances as part of Auto Scaling groups
* An Amazon RDS DB instance for data storage
A solutions architect needs to limit access to the application servers so that only the web servers can access them Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question28: A solutions architect must secure a VPC network that hosts Amazon EC2 instances The EC2 ^stances contain highly sensitive data and tun n a private subnet According to company policy the EC2 instances mat run m the VPC can access only approved third-party software repositories on the internet for software product updates that use the third party's URL Other internet traffic must be blocked.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question29: 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?

Question30: A development team is collaborating with another company to create an integrate product. The other company needs to access an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) queue that is contained in the development team's account. The other company wants to poll the queue without giving up its own account permissions to do so.
How should a solutions architect provide access to the 303 queue?

Question31: A company's security policy requires that all AWS API activity in its AWS accounts be recorded for periodic auditing. The company needs to ensure that AWS CloudTrail is enabled on all of its current and future AWS accounts using AWS Organizations Which solution is MOST secure?

Question32: A solutions architect Is designing a new API using Amazon API Gateway that will receive requests from users. The volume of requests is highly variable: several hours can pass without receiving a single request. The data processing will take place asynchronously, but should be completed within a few seconds after a request la made.
Which compute service should the solutions architect have the API invoke to deliver the requirements at the lowest cost?

Question33: Which AWS service or feature can be used find availability status information on all AWS services?

Question34: 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?

Question35: 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.)

Question36: 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?

Question37: A doctor's office is moving all of its patient data to the AWS Cloud The office needs to retain all the data indefinitely, but the data is rarely accessed after a year. The data must be immediately available during the first year However, to minimize cost, the office is willing to wait a day for data that is more than 1 year old to become available.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select TWO )

Question38: 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?

Question39: 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?

Question40: A startup company is using me AWS Cloud to develop a traffic control monitoring system for a large city The system must be highly available and must provide near-real-time results for residents and city officials even during peak events Gigabytes of data will come in daily from loT devices that run at intersections and freeway ramps across the city The system must process the data sequentially to provide the correct timeline However results need to show only what has happened in the last 24 hours.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question41: 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?

Question42: 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?

Question43: A company runs a public three-Tier web application in a VPC The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances that run in private subnets need to communicate with a license server over the internet The company needs a managed solution that minimizes operational maintenance Which solution meets these requirements''

Question44: 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.)

Question45: A company wants to host a web application on AWS that will communicate to a database within a VPC. The application should be highly available.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question46: 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?

Question47: 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?

Question48: A solutions architect finds that an Amazon Aurora cluster with On-Demand Instance pricing is being underutilized for a blog application The application is used only for a few minutes several times each day for reads What should a solutions architect do to optimize utilization MOST cost-effectively?

Question49: A recently created startup built a three-tier web application. The front end nas static content The application layer is based on mtcroservtces User data is stored as JSON documents that need to be accessed with low latency. The company expects regular traffic to be tow during the first year with peaks in traffic when it publicizes new features every month. The startup team needs to minimize operational overhead costs What should a solutions architect recommend to accomplish this?

Question50: A company has a website hosted on AWS The website is behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that is configured to handle HTTP and HTTPS separately. The company wants to forward all requests to the website so that the requests will use HTTPS.
What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Question51: 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?

Question52: 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'?'

Question53: A company must save ail the email messages that its employees send to customers for a period of 12 months. The messages are stored m a binary format and vary m size from 1 KB to 20 KB. The company has selected Amazon S3 as the storage service for the messages Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively9 (Select TWO.)

Question54: A company has data stored in an on-premises data center that is used by several on-premises applications The company wants to maintain its existing application environment and be able to use AWS services for data analytics and future visualizations Which storage service should a solutions architect recommend?

Question55: A company recently migrated a legacy application from an on-premises data center to AWS The application is running on an Amazon EC2 instance The EC2 instance is deployed in a private subnet in a VPC without inbound internet access The application support team requires SSH access to the operating system to perform periodic maintenance Which solution provides secure access with the LEAST operational effort?

Question56: 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?

Question57: 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?

Question58: A meteorological startup company has a custom web application to sell weather data to its users online. The company uses Amazon DynamoDB to store is data and wants to bu4d a new service that sends an alert to the managers of four Internal teams every time a new weather event is recorded. The company does not want true new service to affect the performance of the current application What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirement with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Question59: 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?

Question60: 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?

Question61: A company uses Application Load Balancers (ALBs) in different AWS Regions The ALBs receive inconsistent traffic that can spike and drop throughout the year The company's networking team needs to allow the IP addresses of the ALBs in the on-premises firewall to enable connectivity Which solution is the MOST scalable with minimal configuration changes?

Question62: A company experienced a breach that affected several applications in its on-premises data center The attacker took advantage of vulnerabilities in the custom applications that were running on the servers The company is now migrating its applications to run on Amazon EC2 instances The company wants to implement a solution that actively scans for vulnerabilities on the EC2 instances and sends a report that details the findings Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question63: A company processes large amounts of dat
a. The output data is stored in Amazon S3 Standard storage in an S3 bucket, where it is analyzed for 1 month. The data must remain immediately accessible after the 1-month analysis period.
Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question64: A gaming company hosts a browser-based application on AWS The users of the application consume a large number of videos and images that are stored in Amazon S3. This content is the same for all users The application has increased in popularity, and millions of users worldwide are accessing these media files. The company wants to provide the files to the users while reducing the load on the origin Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question65: A company has designed an application where users provide small sets of textual data by calling a public API The application runs on AWS and includes a public Amazon API Gateway API that forwards requests to an AWS Lambda function for processing The Lambda function then writes the data to an Amazon Aurora Serverless database for consumption The company is concerned that it could lose some user data it a Lambda function fails to process the request property or reaches a concurrency limit.
What should a solutions architect recommend to resolve this concern?

Question66: 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?

Question67: 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?

Question68: 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?

Question69: A company runs a photo processing application mat needs to frequently upload and download pictures from Amazon S3 buckets that are located in the same AWS Region A solutions architect has noticed an increased cost in data transfer lees and needs to implement a solution to reduce these costs How can the solutions architect meet this requirement?

Question70: 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?

Question71: 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?

Question72: A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances. Traffic to the workload increases substantially during business hours and decreases afterward. The CPU utilization of an EC2 instance is a strong indicator of end-user demand on the application. The company has configured an Auto Scaling group to have a minimum group size of 2 EC2 instances and a maximum group size of 10 EC2 instances.
The company is concerned that the current scaling policy that is associated with the Auto Scaling group might not be correct. The company must avoid over-provisioning EC2 instances and incurring unnecessary costs.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question73: A company is deploying a two-tier web application in a VPC. The web tier is using an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with public subnets that span multiple Availability Zones. The database tier consists of an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in separate private subnets. The web tier requires access to the database to retrieve product information.
The web application is not working as intended. The web application reports that it cannot connect to the database. The database is confirmed to be up and running. All configurations for the network ACLs. security groups, and route tables are still in their default states.
What should a solutions architect recommend to fix the application?

Question74: 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?

Question75: A disaster relief company is designing a new solution to analyze real-time csv dat a. 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.)

Question76: 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?

Question77: 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?

Question78: A company has several web servers that need to frequently access a common Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance The company wants a secure method for the web servers to connect to the database while meeting a security requirement to rotate user credentials frequently Which solution meets these requirements?

Question79: Application developers have noticed that a production application is very slow when business reporting users run large production reports against the Amazon RDS instance backing the application The CPU and memory utilization metrics for the RDS instance do not exceed 60% while the reporting queries are running The business reporting users must be able to generate reports without affecting the application's performance.
Which action will accomplish this?

Question80: A company needs guaranteed Amazon EC2 capacity in three specific Availability Zones in a specific AWS Region for an upcoming event that will last 1 week.
What should the company do to guarantee the EC2 capacity?

Question81: 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?

Question82: 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.)

Question83: An administrator of a large company wants to monitor for and prevent any cryptocurrency-related attacks on the company's AWS accounts Which AWS service can the administrator use to protect the company against attacks?

Question84: 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?

Question85: A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a company that needs to host hundreds of machine learning models for its users Dunng startup, the models need to load up to 10 GB of data from Amazon S3 into memory, out they do not need disk access Most of the models are used sporadically but the users expect all of them to be highly available and accessible with low latency.
Which solution meets the requirements and is MOST cost-effective1?

Question86: 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''

Question87: A company is running a database on Amazon Aurora The database is idle every evening An application that performs extensive reads on the database experiences performance issues during morning hours when user traffic spikes. During these peak penods. the application receives timeout errors when reading from the database The company does not have a dedicated operations team and needs an automated solution to address the performance issues Which actions should a solutions architect take to automatically adjust to the increased read load on the database? (Select TWO )

Question88: 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?

Question89: A company is running a critical business application on an Amazon EC2 instance The EC2 instance is hosting an Apache web server and a MySQL database server The application serves static content and dynamic content to end users The application is experiencing severe availability issues because of heavy user demand The company needs a solution that resolves the availability issues with the least operational effort and the least change to the application What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question90: A company is hosting its website by using Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load balancer across multiple Availability Zones. The instances run in an EC2 Scaling group. The website uses Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume to store product manuals for users to download. The company updates the product content often, so new instances launched by the Auto Scaling group often have dat a. It can take to 30 minutes for the new instances to receive all the updates. The updates also require the EBS volumes to be resized during business hours.
The company wants to ensure that the product manuals are always up to data on all instances and that the architecture adjusts quickly to increased user demand. A solutions architect needs to meet these requirements without causing the company lo update Its application code or adjust its website What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?

Question91: 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 )

Question92: A company collects 10 GB of telemetry data dairy from various machines. The company stores the data in an Amazon S3 bucket in a source data account.
The company has hired several consuming agencies to use this data for analysis. Each agency needs read access to the data for its analysis. The company must share the data from tie source data account by choosing a solution that maximizes security and operational efficiency. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question93: A company needs to run its external website on Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises virtualized servers The AWS environment has a 1 GB AWS Direct Connect connection to the data center The application has IP addresses that will not change The on-premises and AWS servers are able to restart themselves while maintaining the same IP address if a failure occurs Some website users have to add their vendors to an allow list, so the solution must have a fixed IP address The company needs a solution with the lowest operational overhead to handle this split traffic What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question94: A company sells datasets to customers who do research in artificial intelligence and machine learning (Al/ML) The datasets are large, formatted files that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region The company hosts a web application that the customers use to purchase access to a given dataset The web application is deployed on multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer After a purchase is made customers receive an S3 signed URL that allows access to the files.
The customers are distributed across North America and Europe The company wants to reduce the cost that is associated with data transfers and wants to maintain or improve performance.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question95: 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 )

Question96: 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?

Question97: 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?

Question98: A company needs to migrate a large amount of data from an on-premises storage area network (SAN) to Amazon S3 The SAN currently has 200 TB of data and is receiving an additional 20 TB of data each month The company has a 500 Mbps connection to the internet What should the company do to migrate the data to Amazon S3 in the LEAST amount of time?

Question99: 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?

Question100: 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?

Question101: A company has a custom application with embedded credentials that retrieves information from an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. Management says the application must be made more secure with the least amount of programming effort.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question102: 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?

Question103: 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?

Question104: 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?

Question105: 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?

Question106: 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.)

Question107: A company has an image processing workload running on Amazon Elastic Container Service {Amazon ECS) in two private subnets Each private subnet uses a NAT instance for Internet access All images are stored in Amazon S3 buckets The company is concerned about the data transfer costs between Amazon ECS and Amazon S3 What should a solutions architect do to reduce costs?

Question108: 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?

Question109: 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?

Question110: 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?

Question111: 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?

Question112: 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.)

Question113: 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/?

Question114: 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?

Question115: A company hosts a training site on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The company anticipates that its new course which consists of dozens of training videos on the site, will be extremely popular when it is released in 1 week What should a solutions architect do to minimize the anticipated server load?

Question116: A company has deployed an internal API in a VPC behind an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB). An application that consumes the API as a client is deployed in a VPC in a second account The application is deployed in private subnets behind a NAT gateway. When requests to the client application increase, the NAT gateway costs are higher than expected.
Which combination of architectural changes will reduce the NAT gateway costs? (Select TWO.)

Question117: 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?

Question118: The application's traffic is often low. but it occasionally grows significantly. During these sudden increases in traffic, DynamoDB returns throttling errors. The result is that error pages are displayed to end users.
What should a solutions architect do to reduce these errors?

Question119: A company's application is running on Amazon EC2 instances in a single Region In the event of a disaster a solutions architect needs to ensure that the resources can also be deployed to a second Region.
Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Select TWO )

Question120: 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.)

Question121: A company wants to move from many standalone AWS accounts to a consolidated, multi-account architecture. The company plans to create many new AWS accounts for different business units The company needs to authenticate access to these AWS accounts by using a centralized corporate directory service Which combination of actions should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements? (Select TWO )

Question122: 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.)

Question123: A company runs an internet-facing web application on AWS. The company uses Amazon Route 53 for DNS management and has a public hosted zone lo route traffic from the internet to the application. The company wants to tog DNS response codes to help system administrators perform any root cause analysis in the future.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question124: 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?

Question125: A company is running a photo hosting service in the us-east-1 Region. The service enables users across multiple countries to upload and view photos. Some photos are heavily viewed tor months, and others are viewed for less than a week. The application allows uploads of up to 20 MB for each photo. The service uses the photo metadata to determine which photos to display to each user.
Which solution provides the appropriate user access MOST cost-effectively?

Question126: A company has a highly dynamic batch processing job that uses many Amazon EC2 instances to complete it The job is stateless in nature, can be started and stopped at any given time with no negative impact, and typically takes upwards of 60 minutes total to complete The company has asked a solutions architect to design a scalable and cost-effective solution that meets the requirements of the job.
What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question127: A media company is evaluating the possibility ot moving rts systems to the AWS Cloud The company needs at least 10 TB of storage with the maximum possible I/O performance for video processing. 300 TB of very durable storage for storing media content, and 900 TB of storage to meet requirements for archival media that is not in use anymore Which set of services should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question128: 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?

Question129: 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?

Question130: 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'?

Question131: 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 )

Question132: A company wants to share data that collected from self-driving cars with the automobile community The data will be made available from within an Amazon S3 bucket The company wants to minimize its cost of making this data available to other AWS accounts.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?

Question133: 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.)

Question134: A healthcare computer stores highly sensitive records. Compliance requires that multiple copies be stored in different locations. Each record must be stored for 7 years. The company has a service level agreement (SLA) to provide records to government agencies immediately for the first 30 days and thin within 4 hours of a request thereafter.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question135: A large media company hosts a web application on AWS. The company wants to start caching confidential media files so that users around the 'world will have reliable access to the files. The content is stored in Amazon S3 buckets. The company must deliver the content quickly, regardless of where the requests originate geographically Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question136: 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?

Question137: 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 )

Question138: 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?

Question139: A company requires that all version of object in its Amazon S3 bucket be retained. Current object versions will be frequently accessed during the first 30 days, after which they will be rarely accessed and must be retrievable within 5 minutes. Previous object versions need to be kept forever, will be rarely accessed, and can be retrieved within 1 week. All store solutions must be highly available and highly durable What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements in the MOST costs-effective manner?

Question140: A company is planning to deploy a business-critical application in the AWS Cloud. The application requires durable storage with consistent, low-latency performance Which type of storage should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question141: 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?

Question142: 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?

Question143: A company hosts an application on AWS. The application interacts with an Amazon DynamoDB table that has 10 read capacity units (RCUs) Data from Amazon CloudWatch alarms shows that throttling is occurring on read requests to the DynamoDB table. The company needs to prevent this issue from happening in the future as the application continues to grow.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question144: 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?

Question145: A company runs demonstration environments for its customers on Amazon EC2 instances. Each environment is isolated in its own VPC. The company's operations team needs to be notified when RDP or SSH access to an environment has been established.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question146: A company wants to enforce strict security guidelines on accessing AWS Cloud resources as the company migrates production workloads from its data centers. Company management wants all users to receive permissions according to their job roles and functions.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question147: 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?

Question148: 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.)

Question149: 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?

Question150: A company is hosting a three-tier ecommerce application in the AWS Cloud. The company hosts the website on Amazon S3 and integrates the website with an API that handles sales requests. The company hosts the API on three Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The API consists of static and dynamic front-end content along with backend workers that process sales requests asynchronously.
The company is expecting a significant and sudden increase in the number of sales requests during events for the launch of new products What should a solutions architect recommend to ensure that all the requests are processed successfully?

Question151: 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 )

Question152: 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?

Question153: What should a solutions architect do to ensure that all objects uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket are encrypted?

Question154: A company is running a multi-tier web application on premises. The web application is containerized and runs on a number of Linux hosts connected to a PostgreSQL database that contains user records The operational overhead of maintaining the infrastructure and capacity planning is limiting the company's growth A solutions architect must improve the application's infrastructure.
Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Select TWO.)

Question155: An application allows users at a company's headquarters to access product dat a. The product data is stored in an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance The operations team has isolated an application performance slowdown and wants to separate read traffic from write traffic A solutions architect needs to optimize the application's performance quickly What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question156: A solutions architect plans to convert a company's monolithic web application into a multi-tier application The company wants to avoid managing its own Infrastructure The minimum requirements for the web application are high availability, scalability, and regional low latency during peak hours The solution should also store and retrieve data with millisecond latency using the application's API.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question157: A company runs an on-premises application The company is planning to move the application to containers by using Kubernetes The company wants to migrate the application to AWS to reduce the overhead of container infrastructure management A solutions architect must configure the environment to allow deployment of the company's own custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to nodes Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead'?

Question158: 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?

Question159: A company runs an internal browser-based application The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The Auto Scaling group scales up to 20 instances during work hours but scales down to 2 instances overnight Staff are complaining that the application is very slow when the day begins although it runs well by mid-morning.
How should the scaling be changed to address the staff complaints and keep costs to a minimum'?

Question160: A company is hosting 60 TB of production-level data in an Amazon S3 bucket A solutions architect needs to bring that data on premises for quarterly audit requirements This export of data must be encrypted while in transit The company has low network bandwidth in place between AWS and its on-premises data center.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question161: A company is preparing to migrate its on-premises application to AWS. The application consists of application servers and a Microsoft SQL Server database The company cannot migrate the database to a different engine because SQL Server features are used in the application's NET code The company wants to maximize availability and minimize operational overhead.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question162: A company is building ils web application by using contains on AWS. The company requires three instances of the web application to run at all times The application must be highly available and must be able to scale to meet increases In demand Which solution meets these requirements?

Question163: 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?

Question164: A company is launching a new application deployed on an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster and is using the Fargate launch type tor ECS tasks The company is monitoring CPU and memory usage because it is expecting high traffic to the application upon its launch However the company wants to reduce costs when utilization decreases What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question165: A company asks a solutions architect to design a new network architecture for its on-premises applications. The company has five application VPCs Each application VPC supports a different application. All the application VPCs need to reach a shared services VPC for enterprise services. The application VPCs need to communicate with each other.
The number of VPCs will increase as the company grows The company needs a solution that minimizes operational overhead during setup and maintenance Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question166: 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?

Question167: A company is building a document storage application on AWS. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones. The company requires the document store to be highly available The documents need to be returned immediately when requested. The lead engineer has configured the application to use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) to store the documents, but is willing to consider other options to meet the availability requirement.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question168: A manufacturing company wants to implement predictive maintenance on its machinery equipment The company will install thousands of loT sensors that will send data to AWS in real time. A solutions architect is tasked with implementing a solution that will receive events in an ordered manner for each machinery asset and ensure that data is saved for further processing at a later time Which solution would be MOST efficient^

Question169: 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?

Question170: A company is running a media store across multiple Amazon EC2 instances distnbuted across multiple Availability Zones in a single VPC. The company wants a high-performing solution to share data between all the EC2 instances, and prefers to keep the data within the VPC only What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question171: 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?

Question172: 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?

Question173: 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?

Question174: 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?

Question175: 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?

Question176: A law firm needs to share information with the public. The information includes hundreds of files that must be publicly readable. Modifications or deletions of the files by anyone before a designated future date are prohibited.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST secure way?

Question177: 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?

Question178: 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?