EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: 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?

Question3: 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?

Question4: 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?

Question5: A company hosts its web applications in the AWS Cloud. The company configures Elastic Load Balancers to use certificate that are imported into AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). The company's security team must be notified 30 days before the expiration of each certificate.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet the requirement?

Question6: 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?

Question7: 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?

Question8: 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?

Question9: 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 )

Question10: 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?

Question11: A company uses a simple state website and wants to host it on AWS. The company already has a domain that it uses for email. The company needs a hosting solution that supports HTTPS. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question12: A company's application is running on Amazon EC2 instances within an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancer Based on the application's history the company anticipates a spike in traffic during a holiday each year A solutions architect must design a strategy to ensure that the Auto Scaling group proactively increases capacity to minimize any performance impact on application users.
Which solution will meet these requirements'?

Question13: 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?

Question14: 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?

Question15: 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?

Question16: 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?

Question17: A company runs analytics software on Amazon EC2 instances. The software accepts job requests from users to process data that has been uploaded to Amazon S3 Users report that some submitted data is not being processed Amazon CloudWatch reveals that the EC2 instances have a consistent CPU utilization at of near 100%. The company wants to improve system performance and scale the system based on user load.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question18: 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?

Question19: A company runs multiple Windows workloads on AWS. The company's employees use Windows the file shares that are hosted on two Amazon EC2 instances. The file shares synchronize data between themselves and maintain duplicate copies. The company wants a highly available and durable storage solution that preserves how users currently access the files.

Question20: 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'?

Question21: 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.)

Question22: A company wants to move a multi-tiered application from on premises to the AWS Cloud to improve the application's performance. The application consists of application tiers that communicate with each other by way of Which solution moots these and is the MOST operationally efficient?

Question23: 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?

Question24: A company is creating an architecture for a mobile app that requires minimal latency for its users. The company's architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer running in an Auto Seating group The EC2 instances connect to Amazon RDS Application beta testing showed there was a slowdown when reading the data However, the metrics indicate that the EC2 instances do not cross any CPU utilization thresholds How can this issue be addressed?

Question25: A company has an application that processes customer of tiers. The company hosts the application on an Amazon EC2 instance that saves the orders to an Amazon Aurora database. Occasionally when traffic Is high, the workload does not process orders fast enough.
What should a solutions architect do to write the orders reliably to the database as quickly as possible?

Question26: A web application must send order data to Amazon S3 to support near-time processing. A solutions architect needs to create an architecture that is scalable and fault tolerant.
Which solutions meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
Write the order event to an Amazon DynamoDB table DynamoDB table. Use Amazon DynamoDB

Question27: 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''

Question28: 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?

Question29: A company previously migrated its data warehouse solution to AWS The company also has an AWS Direct Conned connection Corporate office users query the data warehouse using a visualization tool The average size of a query returned by the data warehouse is 50 MB and each webpage sent by the visualization tool is approximately 500 KB Result sets returned by the data warehouse are not cached Which solution provides the LOWEST data transfer egress cost for the company?

Question30: 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.)

Question31: A company hosts its website on AWS To address the highly variable demand the company has implemented Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Management is concerned that the company Is over-prows toning its infrastructure, especially at the front end of the three-tier application. A solutions architect needs to ensure costs are optimized without impacting performance.
What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question32: 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/?

Question33: 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.)

Question34: 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?

Question35: 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.)

Question36: 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?

Question37: A company uses Amazon EC2 instances to host its internal systems As pan of a deployment operation, an administrator tries to use the AWS CLI to terminate an EC2 instance However, the administrator receives a 403 (Access Dented) error message The administrator is using an IAM role that has the following 1AM policy attached:

What is the cause of the unsuccessful request?

Question38: Which AWS service can a company use to store and manage Docker images?

Question39: A company wants to deploy a new public web application on AWS The application includes a web server tier that uses Amazon EC2 instances The application also includes a database tier that uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance The application must be secure and accessible for global customers that have dynamic IP addresses How should a solutions architect configure the security groups to meet these requirements'?

Question40: A company has an ecommerce application that stores data in an on-premises SQL database. The company has decided to migrate this database to AWS. However, as part of the migration, the company wants to find a way to attain sub-millisecond responses to common read requests A solutions architect knows that the increase in speed is paramount and that a small percentage of stale data returned in the database reads is acceptable.
What should the solutions architect recommend'?

Question41: 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"?

Question42: An entertainment company is using Amazon DynamoDB to store media metadat a. The application Is read intensive and experience delays The company does not have staff to handle additional operational overhead and needs to Improve the performance efficiency of DynamoDB without reconfiguring the application What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?

Question43: 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?

Question44: A company hosts a web application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group that scales in response to user demand The company wants to optimize cost savings without making a long-term commitment Which EC2 instance purchasing option should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements'?

Question45: 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?

Question46: 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?

Question47: A company needs to retain its AWS CloudTrail logs (or 3 years. The company is enforcing CloudTrail across a set of AWS accounts by using AWS Organizations from the parent account. The CloudTrail target S3 bucket is configured with S3 Versioning enabled An S3 Lifecycle policy is in place to delete current objects after 3 years.
After the fourth year of use of the S3 bucket, the S3 bucket metrics show that the number of objects has continued to rise. However, the number of new CloudTrail logs that are delivered to the S3 bucket has remained consistent.
Which solution will delete objects that are older than 3 years in the MOST cost-effective manner?

Question48: 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.)

Question49: 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?

Question50: A company is building a website that relies on reading and writing to an Amazon DynamoDB database The website experiences high traffic during normal business hours, but the traffic declines drastically overnight and during weekends The company is concerned about operating costs Which solution will meet the website's traffic demands MOST cost-effectively?

Question51: 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'?

Question52: 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?

Question53: 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?

Question54: A company runs an application on an Amazon EC2 instance. The application frequently writes and reads tens of thousands of intermediate computation results to disk To finish within the allowed duration, the application must be able to complete all intermediate computations with sustained low latency.
Which Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume type should a solutions architect attach to the EC2 instance to meet these requirements?

Question55: A company captures ordered clickstream data from multiple websites and uses batch processing to analyze the dat a. The company receives 100 million event records, all approximately 1 KB in size, each day. The company loads the data into Amazon Redshift each night, and business analysts consume the data.
The company wants to move toward near-real-time data processing for timely insights. The solution should process the streaming data while requiring the least possible operational overhead.
Which combination of AWS services will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select TWO.)

Question56: 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 )

Question57: A solution architect has configured the following IAM policy.

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

Question58: 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?

Question59: 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?

Question60: 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?

Question61: 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?

Question62: 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?

Question63: 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?

Question64: A company has chosen to rehost its application on Amazon EC2 instances The application occasionally experiences errors that affect parts of its functionality The company was unaware of this issue until users reported the errors The company wants to address this problem during the migration and reduce the time it takes to detect issues with the application Log files for the application are stored on the local disk.
A solutions architect needs to design a solution that will alert staff if there are errors in the application after the application is migrated to AWS. The solution must not require additional changes to the application code.
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

Question65: 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^

Question66: 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.)

Question67: 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?

Question68: A company has a Windows-based application that must be migrated to AWS. The application requires the use of a shared Windows Me system attached to multiple Amazon EC2 Windows instances that are deployed across multiple Availability Zones What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Question69: A company wants its public web application to run on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application must use a publicly trusted SSL certificate.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question70: An application that is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances needs to access an Amazon S3 bucket Traffic must not traverse the internet How should a solutions architect configure access to meet these requirements?

Question71: 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?

Question72: 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'?

Question73: 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?

Question74: A group requires permissions to list an Amazon S3 bucket and delete objects from that bucket An administrator has created the following IAK1 policy to provide access to the bucket and applied that policy to the group. The group is not able to delete objects in the bucket. The company follows least-privilege access rules.

Which statement should a solutions architect add to the policy to correct bucket access?
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Question75: A trucking company is deploying an application that will track the GPS coordinates of all the company's trucks The company needs a solution that will generate real-time statistics based on metadata lookups with high read throughput and microsecond latency The database must be fault tolerant and must minimize operational overhead and development effort.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question76: 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?

Question77: 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?

Question78: 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

Question79: 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?

Question80: 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?

Question81: 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?

Question82: A company is designing a message-driven order processing application on AWS The application consists of many services and needs to communicate the results of its processing to multiple consuming services Each of the consuming services may take up to 5 days to receive the messages Which process will meet these requirements?

Question83: 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?

Question84: 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?

Question85: 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?

Question86: 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?

Question87: An ecommerce company has noticed performance degradation of its Amazon RDS based web application The performance degradation is attributed to an increase in the number of read-only SQL queries triggered by business analysts A solutions architect needs to solve the problem with minimal changes to the existing web application What should the solutions architect recommend''

Question88: A company has an API-based inventory reporting application running on Amazon EC2 instances The application stores information in an Amazon DynamoDB table The company's distribution centers have an on-premises shipping application that calls an API to update the inventory before printing shipping labels The company has been experiencing application interruptions several times each day. resulting in lost transactions What should a solutions architect recommend to improve application resiliency?

Question89: 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?

Question90: 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?

Question91: 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?

Question92: A company wants to run a hybrid workload for data processing. The data needs to be accessed by on-premises applications for local data processing using an NFS protocol and must also be accessible from the AWS Cloud for further analytics and batch processing Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question93: 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''

Question94: A company is building an ecommerce application and needs to store sensitive customer information. The company needs to give customers the ability to complete purchase transactions on the website. The company also needs to ensure that sensitive customer data is protected, even from database administrators.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question95: 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.)

Question96: 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?

Question97: 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?

Question98: 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?

Question99: A news company that has reporters ail over the world is hosting its broadcast system on AWS The reporters send live broadcasts to the broadcast system The reporters use software on their phones to send live streams through the Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP).
A solutions architect must design a solution that gives the reporters the ability to send the highest quality streams. The solution must provide accelerated TCP connections back to the broadcast system.
What should the solutions a use to meet these requirements?

Question100: 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 )

Question101: 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?

Question102: 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?

Question103: 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?

Question104: 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?

Question105: A solution architect at a company is designing the architecture for a two-tiered web application. The web application is composed of an internet facing application load balancer that forwards traffic to an auto scaling group of amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances must be able to access a database that runs on Amazon RDS.
The company has requested a defence-in-depth approach to the network layout. The company does not want to rely solely on security groups or network ACLs. Only the minimum resources that are necessary should be routable from the internet.
Which network design should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question106: A company hosts its static website content from an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region Content is made available through an Amazon CloudFront origin pointing to that bucket Cross-Region replication is set up to create a second copy of the bucket in the ap-southeast-1 Region Management wants a solution that provides greater availability for the website Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to increase availability'? (Select TWO.

Question107: A company runs a multi-tier web application that hosts news content. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones and use an Amazon Aurora database A solutions architect needs to make the application more resilient to periodic increases in request rates.
Which architecture should the solutions architect implement? (Select TWO.)

Question108: 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 )

Question109: 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?

Question110: A company that operates a web application on premises is preparing to launch a newer version of the application on AWS The company needs to route requests to either the AWS-hosted or the on-premises-hosted application based on the URL query string The on-premises application Is not available from the Internet, and a VPN connection Is established between Amazon VPC and the company's data center. The company wants to use an Application Load Balancer (ALB) for this launch Which solution meets these requirements''

Question111: A company runs a critical customer -lacing application on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) The application has a microservices architecture The company needs to implement a solution that collects, aggregates and summarizes metrics and logs from the application in a centralized location Which solution meets these requirements?

Question112: A company runs an application In a branch office within a small data closet with no vitalized compute resources. The application data is stored on an NFS volume Compliance standards require a daily offsite backup of the NFS volume.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question113: 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?

Question114: A company needs to store 160TB of data for an indefinite of time. The company must be able to use standard SQL and business intelligence tools to query all of the dat a. The data will be queried no more than twice each month.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution that meets these requirements?

Question115: A company has a remote factory that has unreliable connectivity. The factory needs to gather and process machine data and sensor data so that it can sense products on its conveyor belts and initiate a robotic movement to direct the products to the right location Predictable low-latency compute processing is essential for the on-premises control systems Which solution should the factory use to process the data?

Question116: A company is designing a new web service that will run on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer. However many of the web service clients can only reach IP addresses whitelisted on their firewalls.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet the clients' needs?

Question117: 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.)

Question118: 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?

Question119: 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?

Question120: A company is running an application in a private subnet in a VPC win an attached internet gateway The company needs to provide the application access to the internet while restricting public access to the application The company does not want to manage additional infrastructure and wants a solution that is highly available and scalable Which solution meets these requirements?

Question121: 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'?'

Question122: A solutions architect must migrate a Windows Internet Information Services (IIS) web application to AWS The application currently relies on a file share hosted in the user's on-premises network-attached storage (NAS) The solutions architect has proposed migrating the MS web servers to Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones that are connected to the storage solution, and configuring an Elastic Load Balancer attached to the instances Which replacement to the on-premises file share is MOST resilient and durable?

Question123: A company wants to automate the security assessment of its Amazon EC2 instances The company needs to validate and demonstrate that it is meeting security and compliance standards throughout the development process.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question124: A social media company wants to allow its users to upload images in an application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud. The company needs a solution that automatically resizes the images so that the images can be displayed on multiple device types. The application experiences unpredictable traffic patterns throughout the day The company is seeking a highly available solution that maximizes scalability.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question125: 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?

Question126: 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?

Question127: A company is rebelling its data canter and wants to securely transfer 50 TB of data lo AWS *ilhm 2 weeks. The existing data center has a Site-to-Site VPN connection to AWS that is 90 % utilized Which AWS service should a solutions architect use to meet these requirements?

Question128: 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?

Question129: A development learn is creating an event-based application that uses AWS Lambda functions. Events will be generated when files are added to an Amazon S3 bucket. The development team currently has Amazon Simple Notification Service {Amazon SNS) configured as the event target from Amazon S3.
What should a solutions architect do to process the events from Amazon S3 in a scalable way?

Question130: A computer is reviewing a recent migration of a three-tier application to a VPC. The security team discover that the principle of lest privilege is not being applied to Amazon EC2 security group ingress and egress rules between the application tiers.
What should a solution architect do to connect issue?

Question131: A company has thousands of edge devices that collectively generate 1 TB of status averts each day Each alert s approximately 2 KB in size. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to ingest and store the alerts for future analysis The company wants a highly available solution However the company needs to minimize costs and does not want to manage additional infrastructure Additionally, the company wants to keep 14 days of data available for immediate analysis and archive any data older than 14 days What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements^

Question132: 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?

Question133: 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?

Question134: 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?

Question135: A company is building an application that consists of several microservices. The company has decided to use container technologies to deploy its software on AWS The company needs a solution that minimizes the amount of ongoing effort for maintenance and scaling. The company cannot manage additional infrastructure Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? {Select TWO )

Question136: 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?

Question137: A company provides an online service for posting video content and transcoding it for use by any mobile platform. The application architecture uses Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Standard to collect and store the videos so that multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances can access the video content for processing As the popularity of the service has grown over time, the storage costs have become too expensive.
Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?

Question138: 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.)

Question139: A company hosts its enterprise content management platform in one AWS Region but needs to operate the platform across multiple Regions The company has an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster that runs its microservices The EKS cluster stores and retrieves objects from Amazon S3 The EKS cluster also stores and retrieves metadata from Amazon DynamoDB Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to deploy the platform across multiple Regions? (Select TWO.)

Question140: A company recently implemented hybrid cloud connectivity using AWS Direct Connect and is migrating data to Amazon S3. The company is looking for a fully managed solution that will automate and accelerate the replication of data between the on-premises storage systems and AWS storage services.
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to keep the data private?

Question141: A company is hosting a web application on AWS using a single Amazon EC2 instance that stores user-uploaded documents in an Amazon EBS volume. For better scalability and availability, the company duplicated the architecture and created a second EC2 instance and EBS volume in another Availability Zone placing both behind an Application Load Balancer After completing this change, users reported that, each time they refreshed the website, they could see one subset of their documents or the other, but never all of the documents at the same time.
What should a solutions architect propose to ensure users see all of their documents at once?

Question142: 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?

Question143: 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?

Question144: A company is designing a distributed application to optimize its global supply chain and manufacturing process. The company has facilities near the us east-1 Region, the eu-west-1 Region and the ap-south 1 Region.
According to the application requirements, orders that are booked in one Region must be visible in the other two Regions in 1 second or less. The database must be able to support failover with a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 5 minutes. The application must avoid downtime so that the manufacturing process is not negatively affected Which solution meets these requirements?

Question145: A company's web application uses an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL DB instance to store its application data During the financial closing period at the start of every month, Accountants run large queries that impact the database's performance due to high usage The company wants to minimize the impact that the reporting activity has on the web application What should a solutions architect do to reduce the impact on the database with the LEAST amount of effort?

Question146: A company recently migrated multiple applications and databases from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. Most of the applications run on AWS Fargate. and some of the applications run on Amazon EC2 instances Most of the databases run on Amazon RDS, and a small number of databases run on EC2 Instances.
All the applications and databases must be available 24 hours a day. 7 days a week. The company uses AWS Organizations to manage AWS accounts. A solutions architect must recommend how to minimize the cost of these workloads over the next 3 years Which solution meets these requirements?

Question147: A company has 150 TB of archived image data stored on-premises that needs to be moved to the AWS Cloud within the next month. The company's current network connection allows up to 100 Mbps uploads for this purpose during the night only.
What is the MOST cost-effective mechanism to move this data and meet the migration deadline?

Question148: 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?

Question149: A company must migrate 20 TB of data from a data centre to the AWS Cloud within 30 days. The company's network bandwidth is limited to 15 Mbps and cannot exceed 70% utilization.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question150: A company is planning on deploying a newly built application on AWS in a default VPC. The application will consist of a web layer and database layer. The web server was created in public subnets, and the MySQL database was created in private subnet. All subnets are created with the default network ACL settings, and the default security group in the VPC will be replaced with new custom security groups.

Question151: A company has deployed a database in Amazon RDS for MySQL. Due to increased transactions, the database support team is reporting slow reads against the DB instance and recommends adding a read replica.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take before implementing this change? {Select TWO.)

Question152: A company is launching a new application that will be hosted on Amazon EC2 instances. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that does not allow public IPv4 access that originates from the internet. However, the solution must allow the EC2 instances to make outbound IPv4 internet requests.
The initial design proposal shows that the EC2 instances would be located in two private subnets across two Availability Zones. The entire architecture must be highly available.
How should the solutions architect change the architecture to meet these requirements?

Question153: A company wants to run applications in container in the AWS Cloud. Those applications arc stateless and can tolerate disruptions. What should a solutions architect do to meet those requirements?
What should a solution architect do to meet these requirements?

Question154: 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?

Question155: 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''

Question156: A company has a customer relationship management (CRM) application that stores data in an Amazon RDS DB instance that runs Microsoft SQL Server. The company's IT staff has administrative access to the database. The database contains sensitive dat a. The company wants to ensure that the data is not accessible to the IT staff and that only authorized personnel can view the data.
What should a solutions architect do to secure the data?

Question157: A company runs us two-tier ecommerce website on AWS The web tier consists of a load balancer that sends traffic to Amazon EC2 instances The database tier uses an Amazon RDS D8 instance The EC2 instances and the ROS DB instance should not be exposed to the public internet The EC2 instances require internet access to complete payment processing of orders through a third-party web service The application must be highly available Which combination of configuration options will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question158: A company is experiencing sudden increases in demand. The company needs to provision large Amazon EC2 instances from an Amazon Machine image (AMI) The instances will run m an Auto Scaling group. The company needs a solution that provides minimum initialization latency to meet the demand.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question159: 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?

Question160: A company has implemented a self-managed DNS solution on three Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB) in the us-west-2 Region Most of the company's users are located in the United States and Europe The company wants to improve the performance and availability of the solution by using an AWS Region in Europe The company launches and configures three EC2 instances in the eu-west-1 Region and adds the EC2 instances as targets for a new NLB Which solutions will allow traffic to be routed to all the EC2 instances? (Select TWO )

Question161: 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?

Question162: A company is developing a video conversion application hosted on AWS The application will be available in two tiers: a free tier and a paid tier. Users in the paid tier will have their videos converted first and then the free tier users will have their videos converted Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?

Question163: 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?

Question164: 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?

Question165: A company needs to retain application logs files for a critical application for 10 years. The application team regularly accesses logs from the past month for troubleshooting, but logs older than 1 month are rarely accessed. The application generates more than 10 TB of logs per month.
Which storage option meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question166: 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.)

Question167: 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?

Question168: A social media company is building a feature tor its website. The feature will give users the ability to upload photos. The company expects significant increases in demand during large events and must ensure that the website can handle the upload traffic from users.
Which solution meets these requirements with the MOST scalability?

Question169: A company is designing an application that will run on an AWS Lambda function within a VPC Gateway API will invoke the Lambda function. A solution architect needs to recommend an Amazon CloudWatch solution that developers can use to identify the users who are generating the most network traffic.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question170: 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?

Question171: 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?

Question172: 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?

Question173: 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?

Question174: 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?

Question175: A company wants to move its on-premises network attached storage (NAS) to AWS The company wants to make the data available to any Linux instances within its VPC and ensure changes are automatically synchronized across all instances accessing the data store The majority of the data is accessed very rarely, and some files are accessed by multiple users at the same time Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?

Question176: A company is developing a file-sharing application that will use an Amazon S3 bucket for storage The company wants to serve all the files through an Amazon CloudFront distribution. The company does not want the files to be accessible through direct navigation to the S3 URL What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question177: A company operates a two-tier application for image processing. The application uses two Availability Zones, each with one public subnet and one private subnet. An Application Load Balancer (ALB) for the web tier uses the public subnets. Amazon EC2 instances for the application tier use the private subnets.
Users report that the application is running more slowly than expected. A security audit of the web server log files shows that the application is receiving millions of illegitimate requests from a small number of IP addresses. A solutions architect needs to resolve the immediate performance problem while the company investigates a more permanent solution.
What should the solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?

Question178: A company wants to track its daily AWS resource usage to avoid reaching service quotas unexpectedly The company needs to receive notifications when any service quota is exceeded Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)

Question179: A company has a web-based map application that provides status information about ongoing repairs. The application sometimes has millions of users. Repair teams have a mobile app that sends current location and status in a JSON message to a REST-based endpoint.
Few repairs occur on most days. The company wants the application to be highly available and to scale when large numbers of repairs occur after nature disasters. Customer use the application most often during these times. The company does not want to pay for idle capacity.

Question180: A company has hundreds of Amazon EC2 Linux-based instances in the AWS Cloud. Systems administrators have used shared SSH keys to manage the instances After a recent audit, the company's security team is mandating the removal of all shared keys. A solutions architect must design a solution that provides secure access to the EC2 instances.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of administrative overhead?

Question181: A company runs a web-based portal that provides users with global breaking news local alerts, and weather updates The portal delivers each user a personalized view by using a mixture of static and dynamic content Content is served over HTTPS through an API server running on an Amazon EC2 instance behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The company wants the portal to provide this content to its users across the world as quickly as possible How should a solutions architect design the application to ensure the LEAST amount of latency for all users?

Question182: A company is using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer master keys (CMKs) to encrypt AWS Lambda environment variables A solutions architect needs to ensure that the required permissions are in place to decrypt and use the environment variables.
Which steps must the solutions architect take to implement the correct permissions? (Select TWO.)

Question183: A company has a popular gaming platform running on AWS. The application is sensitive to latency because latency can impact the user experience and Introduce unfair advantages to some prayers. The application la deployed In a very AWS Region. It runs on Amazon FC2 Instances Vial are part of Auto Scaling groups configured behind Application Load Balancers (ALBs) A solutions architect needs to implement a mechanism to monitor the hearth of the application and redirect traffic to healthy endpoints.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question184: 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?

Question185: A company wants to relocate its on-premises MySQL database to AWS The database accepts regular imports from a client-facing application when causes a high volume of write operations. The company is concerned that the amount of traffic might be causing performance issues within the application.
How should a solutions architect design the architecture on AWS?

Question186: A company runs multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances in a VPC across two Availability Zones The instances host applications that use a hierarchical directory structure The applications need to read and write rapidly and concurrently to shared storage What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question187: 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?

Question188: 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 )

Question189: A company uses an Amazon S3 bucket as its data lake storage platform. The S3 bucket contains a massive amount of data that is accessed randomly by multiple teams and hundreds of applications The company wants to reduce me S3 storage costs and provide immediate availability for frequently accessed objects What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

Question190: 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?

Question191: 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.)

Question192: A bicycle sharing company is developing a multi-tier architecture to track the location of its bicycles during peak operating hours The company wants to use these data points in its existing analytics platform A solutions architect must determine the most viable multi-tier option to support this architecture The data points must be accessible from the REST API.
Which action meets these requirements for storing and retrieving location data?

Question193: 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?

Question194: 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?

Question195: 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?

Question196: 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'?

Question197: 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?

Question198: 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 )

Question199: The DNS provider that hosts a company's domain name records is experiencing outages that cause service disruption for a website running on AWS The company needs to migrate to a more resilient managed DNS service and wants the service to run on AWS.
What should a solutions architect do to rapidly migrate the DNS hosting service?

Question200: 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?

Question201: 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?

Question202: 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?

Question203: 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?

Question204: A company hosts a multi-tier web application that uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster for storage. The application tier is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances The company's IT security guidelines mandate that the database credentials be encrypted and rotated every 14 days What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement with the LEAST operational effort?

Question205: A solutions architect is deploying a distributed database on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The database stores all data on multiple instances so it can withstand the loss of an instance. The database requires block storage with latency and throughput to support several million transactions per second per server.
Which storage solution should the solutions architect use?

Question206: A company hosts an application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances The application processes messages from an Amazon SQS queue writes to an Amazon RDS table and deletes the message from the queue Occasional duplicate records are found in the RDS table. The SQS queue does not contain any duplicate messages.
What should a solutions architect do to ensure messages are being processed once only?

Question207: A company has a web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. The company wants end users to authenticate themselves before they use the web application. The web application accesses AWS resources, such as Amazon S3 buckets, on behalf of users who are logged on.
Which combination of actions must a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO).

Question208: A company has a serverless website with millions of objects in an Amazon S3 bucket The company uses tie S3 bucket as the origin tor an Amazon CloudFront distribution The company did not set encryption on the S3 bucket before the objects were loaded A solutions architect needs to enable encryption for all existing objects and for all objects that are added to the S3 bucket in the future Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort?

Question209: A company has developed a microservices application. It uses a client-facing API with Amazon API Gateway and multiple internal services hosted on Amazon EC2 instances to process user requests The API is designed to support unpredictable surges in traffic, but internal services may become overwhelmed and unresponsive for a period of time during surges A solutions architect needs to design a more reliable solution that reduces errors when internal services become unresponsive or unavailable Which solution meets these requirements?

Question210: 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?

Question211: A company has developed a new content-sharing application that runs on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The application runs on Amazon Linux Docker tasks that use the Amazon EC2 launch type. The application requires a storage solution that has the following characteristics:
* Accessibility (or multiple ECS tasks through bind mounts
* Resiliency across Availability Zones
* Burstable throughput of up to 3 Gbps
* Ability to be scaled up over time
Which storage solution meets these requirements?

Question212: A solution architect has created two IAM policies. Policy1 and Policy2 . Both policies are attached to an IAM group.

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

Question213: A company is hosting its website on Amazon S3 and is using Amazon CloudFront to cache content The company has an upcoming product launch An employee accidentally published marketing content to the website before the official release of the product The company needs to remove the marketing content from the website as quickly as possible Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question214: A pharmaceutical company is developing a new drug. The volume of data that the company generates has grown exponentially over the past few months. The company's researchers regularly require a subset of the entire dataset to be immediately available with minimal lag. However, the entire dataset does not need to be accessed on a daily basis. All the data currently resides in on-premises storage arrays, and the company wants to reduce ongoing capital expenses.
Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?