EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: 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?

Question3: A company has created a multi-tier application for its ecommerce website The website uses an Application Load Balancer that resides in the public subnets, a web tier in the public subnets, and a MySQL cluster hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in the private subnets. The MySQL database needs to retrieve product catalog and pricing information that is hosted on the internet by a third-party provider A solutions architect must devise a strategy that maximizes security without increasing operational overhead What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question4: 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?

Question5: 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?

Question6: 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?

Question7: A company is designing a new web application that the company will deploy into a single AWS Region. The application requires a two-tier architecture that will include Amazon EC2 instances and an Amazon RDS DB instance. A solutions architect needs to design the application so that all components are highly available.

Question8: 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?

Question9: A company is designing a shared storage solution for a gaming application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud The company needs the ability to use SMB clients to access data solution must be fully managed.
Which AWS solution meets these requirements?

Question10: A company's website runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The website has a mix of dynamic and static content. Users around the globe are reporting that the website is slow Which set of actions will improve website performance for users worldwide?

Question11: A company operates an ecommerce website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in an Auto Scaling group The site is experiencing performance issues related to a high request rate from illegitimate external systems with changing IP addresses The security team is worried about potential DDoS attacks against the website The company must block the illegitimate incoming requests in a way that has a minimal impact on legitimate users.
What should a solutions architect recommend1?

Question12: 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.)

Question13: A company built an application with Docker containers and needs to run the application in the AWS Cloud. The company wants to use a managed service to host the application.
The solution must scale in and out appropriately according to demand on the individual container services. The solution also must not result in additional operational overhead or infrastructure to manage. Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question14: 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?

Question15: A company has a stateless web application that runs on AWS Lambda functions that are invoked by Amazon API Gateway. The company wants to deploy the application across multiple AWS Regions to provide Regional failover capabilities.
What should a solutions architect do to route traffic to multiple Regions?

Question16: 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?

Question17: 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?

Question18: 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?

Question19: 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?

Question20: A company has enabled AWS CloudTrail logs to deliver log files to an Amazon S3 bucket for each of its developer accounts. The company has created a central AWS account for streamlining management and audit reviews An internal auditor needs to access the CloudTrail logs yet access needs to be restricted for all developer account users The solution must be secure and optimized How should a solutions architect meet these requirements?

Question21: A company recently announced the deployment of its retail website to a global audience. The website runs on multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones.
The company wants to provide its customers with different versions of content based on the devices that the customers use to access the website.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements7 (Select TWO.)

Question22: A company is building a new furniture inventory application The company has deployed the application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones The EC2 instances run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in their VPC A solutions architect has observed that incoming traffic seems to favor one EC2 instance resulting in latency for some requests What should the solutions architect do to resolve this issue?

Question23: A company has three VPCs named Development, Testing and Production in the us-east-1 Region. The three VPCs need to be connected to an on-premises data center and are designed to be separate to maintain security and prevent any resource sharing A solutions architect needs to find a scalable and secure solution What should the solutions architect recommend?

Question24: A company wants to improve the availability and performance of its hybrid application. The application consists of a stateful TCP-based workload hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in different AWS Regions and a stateless UDP-based workload hosted on premises.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to improve availability and performance? (Select TWO.)

Question25: A company has deployed a business-critical application in the AWS Good The application uses Amazon EC2 instances that run in the us-east-1 Region The application uses Amazon S3 for storage of all critical data To meet compliance requirements the company must create a disaster recovery (DR) plan that provides the capability of a full failover to another AWS Region What should a solutions architect recommend for this DR plan?

Question26: 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?

Question27: 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?

Question28: A company uses Amazon S3 as its object storage solution The company has thousands of S3 buckets it uses to store data Some of the S3 buckets have data that is accessed less frequently than others. A solutions architect found that lifecycle policies are not consistently implemented or are implemented partially: resulting in data being stored in high-cost storage Which solution will lower costs without compromising the availability of objects?

Question29: 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?

Question30: 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?

Question31: 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?

Question32: A solutions architect is designing a multi-tier application for a company. The application's users upload images from a mobile device. The application generates a thumbnail of each image and returns a message to the user to confirm that the image was uploaded successfully.
The thumbnail generation can take up to 60 seconds, but the company wants to provide a faster response time to its users to notify them that the original image was received. The solutions architect must design the application to asynchronously dispatch requests to the different application tiers.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question33: 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?

Question34: A company is building a new data analysis application that will ingest large volumes of data into an Amazon S3 bucket. The company is concerned that sensitive information, such as personally identifiable information (Pll). might be included in some of the data that is ingested. The company needs a solution that will scan for sensitive data and log the findings.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question35: 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?

Question36: A company has migrated a fleet of hundreds of on-premises virtual machines (VMs) to Amazon EC2 instances. The instances run a diverse fleet of Windows Server versions along with several Linux distributions. The company wants a solution that will automate inventory and updates of the operating systems. The company also needs a summary of common vulnerabilities of each instance for regular monthly reviews.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question37: 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?

Question38: A company's web application consists of multiple Amazon EC2 instances that run behind an Application Load Balancer in a VPC. An Amazon ROS for MySQL DB instance contains the dat a. The company needs the ability to automatically detect and respond to suspicious or unexpected behaviour in its AWS environment the company already has added AWS WAF to its architecture.
What should a solutions architect do next lo protect against threats?

Question39: A company recently started using Amazon Aurora as the data store for its global ecommerce application When large reports are run developers report that the ecommerce application is performing poorly After reviewing metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, a solutions architect finds that the ReadlOPS and CPUUtilization metrics are spiking when monthly reports run.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Question40: 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?

Question41: 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?

Question42: 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?

Question43: 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?

Question44: A solutions architect needs to design a resilient solution for Windows users' home directories. The solution must provide fault tolerance, file-level backup and recovery, and access control, based upon the company's Active Directory.
Which storage solution meets these requirements?

Question45: A company is developing an Internal application that uses a PostgreSQL database. The company has decided to host the database on Amazon Aurora The application does not need to be highly available but data must be stored in multiple Availability Zones to maximize durability.
Which database configuration meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question46: A company has created an isolated backup of its environment in another Region The application is running in warm standby mode and is fronted by an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The current failover process is manual and requires updating a DNS alias record to point to the secondary ALB in another Region What should a solutions architect do to automate the failover process?

Question47: A company is using Amazon CloudFront with lis website. The company has enabled logging on the CloudFront distribution, and togs are saved in one of the company's Amazon S3 buckets The company needs to perform advanced analyses on the logs and build visualizations What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements'?

Question48: 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?

Question49: A company is running a three-tier web application to process credit card payments The front-end user interface consists of static webpages The application tier can have long-runmng processes The database tier uses MySQL The application is currently running on a single general purpose large Amazon EC2 instance A solutions architect needs to decouple the services to make the web application highly available Which solution would provide the HIGHEST availability

Question50: A solutions architect must provide a fully managed replacement for an on-premises solution that allows employees and partners to exchange files The solution must be easily accessible to employees connecting from on-premises systems, remote employees, and external partners Which solution meets these requirements?

Question51: 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?

Question52: 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?

Question53: A company has deployed a server less application that invokes an AWS Lambda function when new documents are uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket The application uses the Lambda function to process the documents After a recent marketing campaign the company noticed that the application did not process many of The documents What should a solutions architect do to improve the architecture of this application?

Question54: A company is deploying an application that processes large quantities of data in parallel The company plans to use Amazon EC2 instances for the workload The network architecture must be configurable to prevent groups of nodes from sharing the same underlying hardware Which networking solution meets these requirements?

Question55: 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?

Question56: A media company is using video conversion tools that run on Amazon EC2 instances The video conversion tools run on a combination of Windows EC? instances and Linux EC? instances Each video file is tens of gigabytes in size The video conversion tools must process the video files in the shortest possible amount of time The company needs a single, centralized file storage solution that can be mounted on all the EC2 Instances that host the video conversion tools.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question57: A company has an application that calls AWS Lambda functions. A recent code review found database credentials stored in the source code. The database credentials needs to be removed from the Lambda source code. The credentials must then be securely stored and rotated on a on-going basis to meet security policy requirements.
What should a solutions architect recommend meet these requirements?

Question58: A company has a mutt-tier application deployed on several Amazon EC2 instances m an Auto Scaling group. An Amazon RDS for Oracle instance is the application's data layer that uses Oracle-specific PL/'SQL functions. Traffic to the application has been steadily Increasing. This is causing the EC2 instances to become overloaded and the RDS instance to run out of storage. The Auto Scaling group does not have any scaling metrics and defines the minimum healthy instance count only. The company predicts that traffic will continue to increase at a steady but unpredictable rate before levelling off.
What should a solutions architect do to ensure the system can automatically scale for the increased traffic? (Select TWO.)

Question59: 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?

Question60: A large international university has deployed all of its compute services in the AWS Cloud. These services include Amazon EC2. Amazon RDS. and Amazon DynamoDB. The university currently relies on many custom scripts to back up its infrastructure. However, the university wants to centralize management and automate data backups as much as possible by using AWS native options.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question61: A company is implementing a new business application The application runs on two Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon S3 bucket for document storage A solutions architect needs to ensure that the EC? instances can access the S3 bucket What should the solutions architect do to moot this requirement?

Question62: A company runs an online marketplace web application on AWS. The application serves hundreds of thousands of users during peak hours. The company needs a scalable, near-real-time solution to share the details of millions of financial transactions with several other internal applications Transactions also need to be processed to remove sensitive data before being stored in a document database for low-latency retrieval.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question63: A company is hosting a website from an Amazon S3 bucket that is configured for public hosting. The company's security team mandates the usage of secure connections for access to the website. However; HTTP-based URLS and HTTPS-based URLS mist be functional.
What should a solution architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question64: A company needs to ingested and handle large amounts of streaming data that its application generates. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and sends data to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. which is contained wild default settings. Every other day the application consumes the data and writes the data to an Amazon S3 bucket for business intelligence (BI) processing the company observes that Amazon S3 is not receiving all the data that trio application sends to Kinesis Data Streams.
What should a solutions architect do to resolve this issue?

Question65: 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?

Question66: A solutions architect is creating a new VPC design There are two public subnets for the load balancer, two private subnets for web servers and two private subnets for MySQL The web servers use only HTTPS The solutions architect has already created a security group tor the load balancer allowing port 443 from 0 0 0 0/0 Company policy requires that each resource has the teas! access required to still be able to perform its tasks Which additional configuration strategy should the solutions architect use to meet these requirements?

Question67: A company stores 200 GB of data each month in Amazon S3. The company needs to perform analytics on this data at the end of each month to determine the number of items sold m each sates region for the previous month Which analytics strategy is MOST cost-effective for the company to use?

Question68: A company's order system sends requests from clients to Amazon EC2 instances The EC2 instances process the orders and then store the orders in a database on Amazon RDS. Users report that they must reprocess orders when the system fails. The company wants a resilient solution that can process orders automatically if a system outage occurs.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question69: 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?

Question70: A solutions architect creates a VPC that includes two public subnets and two private subnets A corporate security mandate requires the solutions architect to launch all Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet However when the solutions architect launches an EC2 instance that runs a web server on ports 80 and 443 in a private subnet, no external internet traffic can connect to the server What should the solutions architect do to resolve this issue?

Question71: A company is running a database on am Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The company must maintain a near-real-time replica of the database on premises. The company needs to encrypt the data in transit and is using a 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question72: 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?

Question73: A company has been running a web application with an Oracle relational database in an on-premises data center for the past 15 years. The company must migrate the database to AWS. The company needs to reduce operational overhead without having to modify the application's code.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question74: A company is hosting a static website on Amazon S3 and is using Amazon Route 53 for DNS. The website is experiencing increased demand from around the world. The company must decrease latency for users who access the website.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question75: 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.)

Question76: 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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Question77: A company's facility has badge readers at every entrance throughout the building. When badges are scanned, the readers send a message over HTTPS to indicate who attempted to access that particular entrance.
A solutions architect must design a system to process these messages from the sensors. The solution must be highly available, and the results must be made available for the company's security team to analyze.
Which system architecture should the solutions architect recommend?

Question78: A company is running a multi-tier web application on AWS. The application runs its database on Amazon Aurora MySQL. The application and database tiers are in the us-easily Region.
A database administrator who monitors the Aurora DB cluster finds that an intermittent increase in read traffic is creating high CPU utilization on the read replic a. The result is increased read latency for the application. The memory and disk utilization of the DB instance are stable throughout the event of increased latency.
What should a solutions architect do to improve the read scalability?

Question79: A company is migrating its application to an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The disaster recovery (DR) requirements for the application include the ability to fail over to another AWS Region with minimal downtime.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)

Question80: 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?

Question81: 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?

Question82: 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?

Question83: A company wants to migrate a Windows-based application from on premises to the AWS Cloud. The application has three tiers, a business tier, and a database tier with Microsoft SQL Server. The company wants to use specific features of SQL Server such as native backups and Data Quality Services. The company also needs to share files for process between the tiers.
How should a solution architect design the architecture to meet these requirements?

Question84: 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.

Question85: A company is adopting serverless architecture The company's solutions architect wants to modernize an application that has source data in csv format A large team of developers needs to use the application to run SQL queries and reports on demand by joining data across multiple tables Which combination of actions will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select TWO )

Question86: A company has applications hosted on Amazon EC2 instances with IPv6 addresses. The applications must initiate communications with other external applications using the internet However the company's security policy states that any external service cannot initiate a connection to the EC2 instances What should a solutions architect recommend to resolve this issue?

Question87: 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

Question88: 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

Question89: A company is designing an internet-facing web application. The application runs on Amazon EC2 for Linux-based instances that store sensitive user data in Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instances The EC2 instances are in public subnets, and the RDS DB instances are in private subnets. The security team has mandated that the DB instances be secured against web-based attacks.
What should a solutions architect recommend?

Question90: A company runs an application using Amazon ECS. The application creates resized versions of an original Image and then makes Amazon S3 API calls to store the resized images in Amazon S3 How can a solutions architect ensure that the application has permission to access Amazon S3?

Question91: 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?

Question92: A company has a stateless asynchronous application that runs in an Apache Hadoop cluster The application is invoked on demand to run extract, transform and load (ETL) jobs several limes a day A solutions architect needs to migrate this application to the AWS Cloud by designing an Amazon EMR cluster for the workload. The cluster must be available immediately to process jobs.
Which implementation meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question93: A company runs its production workload on an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster that includes six Aurora Replicas The company wants near-real-time reporting queries from one of its departments to be automatically distributed across three of the Aurora Replicas Those three replicas have a different compute and memory specification from the rest of the DB cluster Which solution meets these requirements?

Question94: What should a solutions architect do to ensure that all objects uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket are encrypted?

Question95: A three-tier web application processes orders from customers. The web tier consists of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer, a middle tier of three EC2 instances decoupled from the web tier using Amazon SQS. and an Amazon DynamoDB backend At peak times customers who submit orders using the site have to wait much longer than normal to receive confirmations due to lengthy processing times A solutions architect needs to reduce these processing times Which action will be MOST effective in accomplishing this?

Question96: A company wants to design its cloud architecture so that its workloads are resilient, can consistently perform their intended functions correctly, and can recover from failure quickly Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework does this architecture represent?

Question97: 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?

Question98: A company develops web applications. As part of its development process, the company constantly launches and deletes Application Load Balancers (ALBs) in multiple AWS Regions.
The company wants to create an allow list on its firewall device. The allow list will contain the IP addresses of an the load balancers. A solutions architect needs a one-line, highly available solution that will accomplish that goal and will help reduce the number of IP addresses that the firewall needs to allow.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Question99: 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"?

Question100: A company uses on-premises servers to host Its application. The company is running out of storage capacity. The applications use both block storage and NFS storage. The company needs a high-performing solution that supports local caching without re-architecting its existing applications Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements'? (Select TWO.)

Question101: A company has a web application for travel ticketing. The application is based on a database that runs in a single data center in North Americ a. The company wants to expand the application to serve a global user base The company needs to deploy the application to multiple AWS Regions Average latency must be less than 1 second on updates to the reservation database The company wants to have separate deployments of its web platform across multiple Regions. However, the company must maintain a single primary reservation database that is globally consistent Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements''

Question102: 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?

Question103: A solutions architect is using Amazon S3 to design the storage architecture of a new digital media application. The media files must be resilient to the loss of an Availability Zone Some files are accessed frequently while other files are rarely accessed in an unpredictable pattern. The solutions architect must minimize the costs of storing and retrieving the media files.
Which storage option meets these requirements?

Question104: A company is planning to host its compute-intensive applications on Amazon EC2 instances. The majority of the network traffic will be between these applications The company needs a solution that minimizes latency and maximizes network throughput The underlying hardware for the EC2 instances must not be shared with any other company Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question105: A solutions architect is designing a new hybrid architecture to extend a company s on-premises infrastructure to AWS The company requires a highly available connection with consistent low latency to an AWS Region. The company needs to minimize costs and is willing to accept slower traffic if the primary connection fails.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question106: 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.)

Question107: A company has an on-premises data center that is running out of storage capacity. The company wants to migrate its storage infrastructure to AWS while minimizing bandwidth costs. The solution must allow for immediate retrieval of data at no additional cost.
How can these requirements be met?

Question108: A company observes an increase in Amazon EC2 costs in its most recent bill The billing team notices unwanted vertical scaling of instance types for a couple of EC2 instances A solutions architect needs to create a graph comparing the last 2 months of EC2 costs and perform an in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of the vertical scaling How should the solutions architect generate the information with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question109: 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?

Question110: A company is managing health records on-peruses. The company must keep these records Indefinitely, disable any modifications to the records once they are stored, and granularly audit access at all levels. The chief technology officer (CTO) is concerned because there are already millions of record not being used by any application, and the current infrastructure is running out of space. The CTO has requested solutions architect design a solution to move easting data and support future records.
Which services can the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question111: A company wants to run its critical applications in containers to meet requirements tor scalability and availability The company prefers to focus on maintenance of the critical applications The company does not want to be responsible for provisioning and managing the underlying infrastructure that runs the containerized workload What should a solutions architect do to meet those requirements?

Question112: 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?

Question113: A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new application that is being deployed on AWS. The application's users will interactively download and upload files. Files that are more than 90 days old will be accessed less frequently than newer files, but all files need to be instantly available. The solutions architect must ensure that the application can scale to store petabytes of data with maximum durability.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question114: 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?

Question115: 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?

Question116: A company wants to build an online marketplace application on AWS as a set of loosely coupled microservices For this application, when a customer submits a new order two microservices should handle the event simultaneously The Email microservice will send a confirmation email and the OrderProcessing microservice will start the order delivery process If a customer cancels an order, the OrderCancellation and Email microservices should handle the event simultaneously.
A solutions architect wants to use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to design the messaging between the microservices.
How should the solutions architect design the solution?

Question117: A medical company is designing a new application that gathers symptoms from patients The company has decided to use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) in the architecture A solutions architect is reviewing the infrastructure design Data must be encrypted while at rest and in transit Only authorized personnel of the company can access the data Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements'? (Select TWO )

Question118: A company has a document management application that contains PDF documents The company hosts the application on Amazon EC2 instances According to regulations, the instances must not have access to the internet The application must be able to read and write to a persistent storage system that provides native versioning capabilities A solutions architect needs to design secure storage that maximizes resiliency and facilitates data sharing across instances Which solution meets these requirements?

Question119: 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?

Question120: A company is upgrading its critical web-based application. The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances that are part of an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company wants to test the new configurations with a specific amount of traffic before the company begins to route all traffic to the upgraded application.
How should a solutions architect design the architecture to meet these requirements?

Question121: 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?

Question122: A solutions architect It designing a VPC with public and private subnets. The VPC and subnets use IPv4 CIDR blocks. There is one public subnet and one private subnet in each of three Availability Zones (AZs) for high availability An internet gateways used to provide internet access for the public subnets. The private subnets require access to the internet to allow Amazon BC2 Instances to download software updates.
What should the solutions architect do to enable internet access for the private subnets?

Question123: 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?

Question124: 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.)

Question125: 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?

Question126: A solutions architect needs to ensure that API calls to Amazon DynamoDB from Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC do not traverse the internet What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this? (Select TWO.)

Question127: 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?

Question128: A global company plans to track and store information about local allergens in aj Amazon DynamoDB table and query this data from its website The website traffic will fluctuate The combined read capacity units (RCUs) and write capacity units (WCUs) will range from 10 per second to 10.000 per second, depending on the severity of the conditions for the given day A solutions architect must design a solution that avoids throttling issues and manages capacity efficiently The solution also must provide the ability to set a maximum number of capacity units What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question129: 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?

Question130: 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?

Question131: 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?

Question132: 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?

Question133: A company is using a VPC peering strategy to connect its VPCs in a single Region to allow for cross-communication. A recent increase in account creations and VPCs has made it difficult to maintain the VPC peering strategy, and the company expects to grow to hundreds of VPCs. There are also new requests to create site-to-site VPNs some of the VPCs. A solution architect has been tasked with creating a centrally managed networking setup for multiple account, VPCs and VPNs.
Which networking solution these requirements?

Question134: 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?

Question135: A company uses Amazon API Gateway to manage its REST APIs that third-party service providers access. The company must protect the REST APIs from SQL injection and cross site scripting attacks What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

Question136: A company has an application that uses an Amazon OynamoDB table lew storage. A solutions architect discovers that many requests to the table are not returning the latest dat a. The company's users have not reported any other issues with database performance Latency is in an acceptable range.
Which design change should the solutions architect recommend?

Question137: Organizers for a global event want to put daily reports online as static HTML pages. The pages are expected to generate millions of views from users around the work. The files are stored in an Amazon S3 Ducket A solutions architect has been asked to design an efficient and effective solution Which action should the solutions architect take to accomplish this?

Question138: 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?

Question139: 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?

Question140: 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?

Question141: A mobile gaming company runs application servers on Amazon EC2 instances. The servers receive updates from players every 15 minutes. The mobile game creates a JSON object of the progress made in the game since the last update and sends the JSON object to an Application Load Balancer As the mobile game is played game updates are being lost. The company wants to create a durable way to get the updates in order What should a solutions architect recommend to decouple the system?

Question142: 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?

Question143: 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?

Question144: 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.)

Question145: 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''

Question146: 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?

Question147: A company needs a storage solution for an application that runs on a high performance computing (HPC) cluster. The cluster is hosted on AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) The company needs a mountable file system that provides concurrent access to files while delivering hundreds of GBps of throughput at sub-millisecond latencies Which solution meets these requirements?

Question148: 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?

Question149: An application uses an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance The RDS database is becoming low on disk space A solutions architect wants to increase the disk space without downtime Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort?

Question150: A company is deploying a new application lo Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with an AWS Fargate duster The application needs a storage solution for data persistence The solution must be highly available and fault tolerant The solution also must be shared between multiple application containers Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question151: 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?

Question152: 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 )

Question153: A company is concerned about the security of its public web application due to recent web attacks. The application uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB). A solutions architect must reduce the risk of DDoS attacks against the application What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Question154: A company hosts an online shopping application that stores all orders in an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Single-AZ DB instance Management wants to eliminate single points of failure and has asked a solutions architect to recommend an approach to minimize database downtime without requiring any changes to the application code Which solution meets these requirements?

Question155: A company is launching a new application and will display application metrics on an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard. The company's product manager needs to access this dashboard periodically. The product manager does not have an AWS account. A solution architect must provide access to the product manager by following the principle of least privilege.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question156: A company's production application runs online transaction processing (OLTP) transactions on an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance The company is launching a new reporting tool that will access the same data The reporting tool must be highly available and not impact the performance of the production application How can this be achieved'?

Question157: 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?

Question158: 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?

Question159: A solutions architect is designing the architecture for a software demonstration environment The environment will run on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The system will experience significant increases in traffic during working hours but Is not required to operate on weekends.
Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to ensure that the system can scale to meet demand? (Select TWO)

Question160: 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?

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 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 )

Question163: A company has a corporate network on premises and has three VPCs in the AWS Cloud. The company has one VPC each for development, test, and, production. The company wants its system administrators to security gain remote command-line access from the corporate network to Amazon EC2 instances in the VPCs.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question164: A company needs to save the results from a medical trial to an Amazon S3 repository. The repository must allow a few scientists to add new dies and must restrict all other users to read-only access No users can have the ability to modify or delete any files in the repository. The company must heap every lie in the repository for a minimum of 1 year after its creation date.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question165: A company runs an on-premises application that is powered by a MySQL database The company is migrating the application to AWS to Increase the application's elasticity and availability The current architecture shows heavy read activity on the database during times of normal operation Every 4 hours the company's development team pulls a full export of the production database to populate a database in the staging environment During this period, users experience unacceptable application latency The development team is unable to use the staging environment until the procedure completes A solutions architect must recommend replacement architecture that alleviates the application latency issue The replacement architecture also must give the development team the ability to continue using the staging environment without delay Which solution meets these requirements?

Question166: 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?

Question167: A marketing company is storing CSV files in an Amazon S3 bucket for statistical analysis An application on an Amazon EC2 instance needs permission to efficiently process the CSV data stored in the S3 bucket.

Question168: A solutions architect observes that a nightly batch processing job is automatically scaled up for 1 hour before the desired Amazon EC2 capacity is reached The peak capacity is the same every night and the batch jobs always start at 1 AM The solutions architect needs to find a cost-effective solution that will allow for the desired EC2 capacity to be reached quickly and allow the Auto Scaling group to scale down after the batch jobs are complete What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements^

Question169: 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?

Question170: 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?

Question171: A company runs batch processes on Amazon EC2 instances that are needed only during business hours These processes must preserve the data at alt times but the speed of processing is not important The company needs to run these processes in the MOST cost-effective manner Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question172: 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.)

Question173: 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?

Question174: A company is hosting a high-traffic static website on Amazon S3 with an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has a default TTL of 0 seconds The company wants to implement caching to improve performance for the website However the company also wants to ensure that stale content is not served for more than a few minutes after a deployment Which combination of caching methods should a solutions architect implement to meet these requirements? (Select TWO )

Question175: 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?

Question176: 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?

Question177: A company hosts a popular website in the AWS Cloud, A solutions architect needs to provide reports about user click behaviour in near-real time as users navigate the website.
Which solution will meet this requirement

Question178: 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?

Question179: A solution architect is using an AWS CloudFormation template to deploy a three-tier web application. The web application consist of a web tier and an application that stores and retrieves user data in Amazon DynamoDB tables. The web and application tiers are hosted on Amazon EC2 instances, and the database tier is not publicly accessible. The application EC2 instances need to access the Dynamo tables Without exposing API credentials in the template.
What should the solution architect do to meet the requirements?

Question180: 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.)

Question181: 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.)

Question182: 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'?

Question183: 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?

Question184: A company is using a content management system that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 instance contains both the web server and the database software. The company must make its website platform highly available and must enable the website to scale to meet user demand What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question185: A company has primary and secondary data canters that are 500 miles (804.7 km) apart and Interconnected with high-speed fiber.optic cable. The company needs a highly available and secure network connection between its data centers and a VPC on AWS for a mission-critical workload A solutions architect must choose a connection solution that provides maximum resiliency. Which solution meets these requirements?

Question186: A company wants an AWS Lambda function to call a third-party API and save the response to a private Amazon ROS DB instance in the same private subnet What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question187: 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?

Question188: To meet security requirements, a company needs to encrypt all of its application data in transit while communicating with an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance A recent security audit revealed that encryption al rest is enabled using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). but data in transit Is not enabled What should a solutions architect do to satisfy the security requirements?

Question189: A solutions architect at an ecommerce company wants to back up application log data to Amazon S3. The solutions architect is unsure how frequently the logs will be accessed of which logs will be accessed the most. The company wants to keep costs as low as possible by using the appropriate S3 storage class Which S3 storage class should be implemented to meet these requirements?

Question190: 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?

Question191: A company wants to migrate its accounting system from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud m a single AWS Region. Data security and an immutable audit log are the top priorities. The company must monitor all AWS activities for compliance auditing. The company that enabled AWS CloudTrail but wants to make sure it meets meat requirements Which actions should a solutions architect take lo protect and secure CloudTrail? (Select TWO.)

Question192: 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?

Question193: 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?

Question194: 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?

Question195: 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?

Question196: 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.)

Question197: A solutions architect wants all new users to have specific complexity requirements and mandatory rotation periods tor IAM user passwords What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Question198: 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?

Question199: 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?

Question200: 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?

Question201: A company uses an Amazon Auroia PostgreSQL DB cluster 10 store its critical data m tne us-east-l Region The company wants to develop a disaster recovery plan to recover the database m the us west 1 Region The company has a recovery time objective (RTO) of S minutes and has a recovery point objective (RPO) of 1 minute What should a solutions architect do to moot these requirements?

Question202: 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?

Question203: 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?

Question204: A company has two applications: a sender application that sends messages with payloads to be processed and a processing application intended to receive the messages with payloads The company wants to implement an AWS service to handle messages between the two applications The sender application can send about 1,000 messages each hour The messages may take up to 2 days to be processed If the messages fail to process, they must be retained so that they do not impact the processing of any remaining messages.
Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally efficient?

Question205: A solutions architect needs to design a managed storage solution for a company's application that includes high-performance machine learning This application runs on AWS Fargate, and the connected storage needs to have concurrent access to files and deliver high performance Which storage option should the solutions architect recommend?

Question206: A company's security team requests that network traffic be captured in VPC Flow Logs The logs will be frequently accessed for 90 days and then accessed intermittently What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements when configuring the logs?

Question207: 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?

Question208: 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?

Question209: A company runs a stateless web application in production on a group of Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application experiences heavy usage during an 8-hour period each business day. Application usage is moderate and steady overnight Application usage is low during weekends.
The company wants to minimize its EC2 costs without affecting the availability of the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question210: Which AWS service or feature can be used find availability status information on all AWS services?

Question211: 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''

Question212: 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''