EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: 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 data.
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?

Question3: 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?

Question4: A company runs an application on a group of Amazon Linux EC2 instances. For compliance reasons, the company must retain all application log files for 7 years. The log files will be analyzed by a reporting tool that must be able to access all the files concurrently.
Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question5: 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?

Question6: 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.)

Question7: 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?

Question8: 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?

Question9: A company needs to create an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster to host a digital media streaming application. The EKS cluster will use a managed node group that is backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes for storage. The company must encrypt all data at rest by using a customer managed key that is stored in AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) Which combination of actions will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select TWO.)

Question10: 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?

Question11: 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?

Question12: 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?

Question13: 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?

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 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?

Question16: 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?

Question17: A company has a custom application running on an Amazon EC2 instance that
* Reads a large amount of data from Amazon S3
* Performs a multi-stage analysis.
Writes the results to Amazon DynamoDB
The application writes a significant number of large, temporary files during the multi-stage analysis. The process performance depends on the temporary storage performance. What would be the fastest storage option for holding the temporary files?

Question18: 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?

Question19: 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?

Question20: A company has a website running on Amazon EC2 Instances across two Availability Zones The company is expecting spikes in traffic on specific holidays and wants to provide a consistent user experience.
How can a solutions architect meet this requirement?

Question21: 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?

Question22: A company needs to store data in Amazon S3 and must prevent the data from being changed. The company wants new objects that are uploaded to Amazon S3 to remain unchangeable for a nonspecific amount of time until the company decides to modify the objects. Only specific users in the company's AWS account can have the ability to delete the objects. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question23: 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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Question24: 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.)

Question25: 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?

Question26: 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?

Question27: A research company runs experiments that are powered by a simulation application and a visualization application. The simulation application runs on Linux and outputs intermediate data to an NFS share every 5 minutes. The visualization application is a Windows desktop application that displays the simulation output and requires an SMB file system.
The company maintains two synchronized tile systems. This strategy is causing data duplication and inefficient resource usage. The company needs to migrate the applications to AWS without making code changes to either application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question28: A company is planning to migrate a legacy application to AWS. The application currently uses NFS to communicate to an on-premises storage solution to store application data. The application cannot be modified to use any other communication protocols other than NFS for this purpose Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend for use after the migration?

Question29: 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?

Question30: 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?

Question31: 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?

Question32: 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?

Question33: A company runs demonstration environments for its customers on Amazon EC2 instances. Each environment is isolated in its own VPC. The company's operations team needs to be notified when RDP or SSH access to an environment has been established.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question34: A company is migrating to the AWS Cloud. A file server is the first workload to migrate Users must be able to access the file share using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.
Which AWS managed service meets these requirements?

Question35: A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a company that needs to host hundreds of machine learning models for its users Dunng startup, the models need to load up to 10 GB of data from Amazon S3 into memory, out they do not need disk access Most of the models are used sporadically but the users expect all of them to be highly available and accessible with low latency.
Which solution meets the requirements and is MOST cost-effective1?

Question36: 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?

Question37: A company collects data from thousands of remote devices by using a RESTful web services application that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 instance receives the raw data, transforms the raw data, and stores all the data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The number of remote devices will increase into the millions soon. The company needs a highly scalable solution that minimizes operational overhead.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements9 (Select TWO.)

Question38: A company is preparing to store confidential data in Amazon S3 For compliance reasons the data must be encrypted at rest Encryption key usage must be logged tor auditing purposes. Keys must be rotated every year.
Which solution meets these requirements and the MOST operationally efferent?

Question39: A gaming company wants to launch a new internet-facing application in multiple AWS Regions. The application will use the TCP and UDP protocols for communication. The company needs to provide high availability and minimum latency for global users.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question40: A company maintains about 300 TB in Amazon S3 Standard storage month after month The S3 objects are each typically around 50 GB in size and are frequently replaced with multipart uploads by their global application The number and size of S3 objects remain constant but the company's S3 storage costs are increasing each month How should a solutions architect reduce costs in this situation?

Question41: 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?

Question42: A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application is deployed in private subnets in three Availability Zones of the us-east-1 Region. The instances must be able to connect to the internet to download files The company wants a design that is highly available across the Region.
Which solution should be implemented to ensure that there are no disruptions to internet connectivity?

Question43: A company has an ordering application that stores customer information in Amazon RDS for MySQL. During regular business hours, employees run one-time queries for reporting purposes. Timeouts are occurring during order processing because the reporting queries are taking a long time to run. The company needs to eliminate the timeouts without preventing employees from performing queries.
What should a solutions architect do to meet those requirements?

Question44: A company wants to establish connectivity between its on-premlses data center and AWS (or an existing workload. The workload runs on Amazon EC2 Instances in two VPCs In different AWS Regions. The VPCs need to communicate with each other. The company needs to provide connectivity from Its data center to both VPCs. The solution must support a bandwidth of 600 Mbps to the data center.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question45: A company's website is used to sell products to the public The site runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) There is also an Amazon CloudFront distribution and AWS WAF Is being used to protect against SQL injection attacks The ALB is the origin for the CloudFront distribution A recent review of security logs revealed an external malicious IP that needs to be blocked from accessing the website What should a solutions architect do to protect the application?

Question46: 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?

Question47: A company is using AWS Organizations with two AWS accounts Logistics and Sales. The Logistics account operates an Amazon Redshift cluster The Sates account includes Amazon EC2 instances The Sales account needs to access the Logistics account's Amazon Redshift cluster What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement MOST cost-effectively'?

Question48: An airline that is based in the United States provides services for routes in North America and Europe. The airline is developing a new read-intensive application that customers can use to find flights on either continent.
The application requires strong read consistency and needs scalable database capacity to accommodate changes in user demand. The airline needs the database service to synchronize with the least possible latency between the two continents and to provide a simple failover mechanism to a second AWS Region.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question49: A company is developing a mobile game that streams score updates to a backend processor and then posts results on a leaderboard A solutions architect needs to design a solution that can handle large traffic spikes process the mobile game updates in order of receipt and store the processed updates in a highly available database The company also wants to minimize the management overhead required to maintain the solution What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question50: A company wants to migrate its existing on-premises monolithic application to AWS.
The company wants to keep as much of the front- end code and the backend code as possible. However, the company wants to break the application into smaller applications. A different team will manage each application. The company needs a highly scalable solution that minimizes operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question51: A company needs to move data from an Amazon EC2 instance to an Amazon S3 bucket. The company mutt ensure that no API calls and no data aim routed through public internet routes Only the EC2 instance can have access to upload data to the S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question52: 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?

Question53: A company is designing a cloud communications platform trial is driven by APIs. The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). The company uses Amazon API Gateway to provide external users with access to the application through APIs. The company wants to protect the platform against web exploits like SQL Injection and also wants to detect and mitigate large, sophisticated DDoS attacks Which combination of solutions provides the MOST protection? (Select TWO.)

Question54: 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?

Question55: A solutions architect is performing a security review of a recently migrated workload. The workload is a web application that consists of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer. The solutions architect must improve the security posture and minimize the impact of a DDoS attack on resources Which solution is MOST effective?

Question56: 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?

Question57: 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.

Question58: A company that primarily runs its application servers on premises has decided to migrate to AWS. The company wants to minimize its need to scale its Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) storage on premises. The company wants only its recently accessed data to remain stored locally.
Which AWS solution should the company use to meet these requirements?

Question59: 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?

Question60: A company has a Microsoft NET application that runs on an on-premises Windows Server. The application stores data by using an Oracle Database Standard Edition server. The company is planning a migration to AWS and wants to minimize development changes while moving the application. The AWS application environment should be highly available.
Which combination of actions should the company take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question61: 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?

Question62: 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?

Question63: A company has hired an external vendor to perform work in the company's AWS account The vendor uses an automated tool that is hosted in an AWS account that the vendor owns The vendor does not have IAM access to the company's AWS account How should a solutions architect grant this access to the vendor?

Question64: A company has a web application that includes an embedded NoSQL database The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group in a single Availability Zone.
A recent increase in traffic requires the application to be highly available and for the database to be eventually consistent Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead*?

Question65: 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?

Question66: A company wants to implement a disaster recovery plan for its primary on-premises file storage volume. The file storage volume is mounted from an Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) device on a local storage server. The file storage volume holds hundreds of terabytes (TB) of data.
The company wants to ensure that end users retain immediate access to all file types from the on-premises systems without experiencing latency.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of change to the company's existing infrastructure?

Question67: A company hosts its product information webpages on AWS The existing solution uses multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group. The website also uses a custom DNS name and communicates with HTTPS only using a dedicated SSL certificate The company is planning a new product launch and wants to be sure that users from around the world have the best possible experience on the new website What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question68: 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.)

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

Question70: A 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?

Question71: 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?

Question72: 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'?'

Question73: A company needs to migrate a large amount of data from an on-premises storage area network (SAN) to Amazon S3 The SAN currently has 200 TB of data and is receiving an additional 20 TB of data each month The company has a 500 Mbps connection to the internet What should the company do to migrate the data to Amazon S3 in the LEAST amount of time?

Question74: A company runs an online ticketing application with backend services that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances belong to an Auto Scaling group and run behind an Application Load Balancer. The application experiences periods of high user traffic when a popular event is posted online. The company wants a solution that will be able to handle increases in user traffic without affecting the user experience.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question75: 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?

Question76: A company is deploying an application that processes large quantities of data in batches as needed. The company plans to use Amazon EC2 instances for the workload. The network architecture must support a highly scalable solution and prevent groups of nodes from sharing the same underlying hardware.
Which combination of network solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question77: 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?

Question78: A company uses an application to present metrics from sporting events to the public. The application must scale quickly during live events and must store these metrics for log-term reporting purposes. The company's architecture includes the following:
* Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group in private subnets
* A network Load Balancer That runs in public subnets
* A MongoDB database cluster that runs across multiple EC2 instances
A solutions architect must implement a solution that minimizes operational overhead The solution alto must be able to Kale automatically. What should the solutions architect set up to meet these requirements?

Question79: A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon Aurora database. The EC2 instances connect to the database by using user names and passwords that are stored locally in a file. The company wants to minimize the operational overhead of credential management.
What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?

Question80: A company has recently updated its internal security standards The company must now ensure all Amazon S3 buckets and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes are encrypted with keys created and periodically rotated by internal security specialists The company is looking for a native, software-based AWS service to accomplish this goal What should a solutions architect recommend as a solution?

Question81: A company uses 50 TB of data for reporting. The company wants to move this data from on premises to AWS A custom application in the company's data center runs a weekly data transformation job. The company plans to pause the application until the data transfer is complete and needs to begin the transfer process as soon as possible.
The data center does not have any available network bandwidth for additional workloads A solutions architect must transfer the data and must configure the transformation job to continue to run in the AWS Cloud Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question82: A company is running a critical business application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group and access an Amazon RDS DB instance The design did not pass an operational review because the EC2 instances and the DB instance are all located in a single Availability Zone A solutions architect must update the design to use a second Availability Zone Which solution will make the application highly available?

Question83: A company has a service that produces event data. The company wants to use AWS to process the event data as it is received. The data is written in a specific order that must be maintained throughout processing The company wants to implement a solution that minimizes operational overhead.
How should a solutions architect accomplish this?

Question84: A company is implementing a shared storage solution for a media application that is hosted m the AWS Cloud The company needs the ability to use SMB clients to access data The solution must he fully managed.
Which AWS solution meets these requirements?

Question85: A company is planning to run a group of Amazon EC2 instances that connect to an Amazon Aurora database.
The company has built an AWS CloudFormation template to deploy the EC2 instances and the Aurora DB cluster. The company wants to allow the instances to authenticate to the database in a secure way. The company does not want to maintain static database credentials.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?

Question86: A development team is collaborating with another company to create an integrate product. The other company needs to access an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) queue that is contained in the development team's account. The other company wants to poll the queue without giving up its own account permissions to do so.
How should a solutions architect provide access to the 303 queue?

Question87: An application allows users at a company's headquarters to access product data. 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?

Question88: 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?

Question89: A company asks a solutions architect to design a new network architecture for its on-premises applications.
The company has five application VPCs Each application VPC supports a different application. All the application VPCs need to reach a shared services VPC for enterprise services. The application VPCs need to communicate with each other.
The number of VPCs will increase as the company grows The company needs a solution that minimizes operational overhead during setup and maintenance Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question90: 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?

Question91: 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?

Question92: 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?

Question93: A company runs an application on a large fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The application reads and write entries into an Amazon DynamoDB table The size of the OynamoDB table continuously grows but the application needs only data from the last 30 days The company needs a solution that minimizes cost and development effort Which solution meets these requirements'?

Question94: A medical research lab produces data that is related to a new study. The lab wants to make the data available with minimum latency to clinics across the country for their on-premises file-based applications. The data files are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket that has read-only permissions for each clinic.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question95: 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?

Question96: A company stores confidential data in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database in the ap-southeast-3 Region The database is encrypted with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key The company was recently acquired and must securely share a backup of the database with the acquiring company's AWS account in ap-southeast-3.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question97: A company with multiple accounts and teams wants to set up a new multi-account AWS environment.
Which AWS service supports this requirement?

Question98: A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances within a private subnet in a VPC The instances access data in an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region The VPC contains a NAT gateway in a public subnet to access the S3 bucket The company wants to reduce costs by replacing the NAT gateway without compromising security or redundancy Which solution meets these requirements?

Question99: A company stores data in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster. The company must store all the data for
5 years and must delete all the data after 5 years. The company also must indefinitely keep audit logs of actions that are performed within the database. Currently, the company has automated backups configured for Aurora.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question100: A company is creating a prototype of an ecommerce website on AWS. The website consists of an Application Load Balancer an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances for web servers and an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance that runs with the Single-AZ configuration The website is slow to respond during searches of the product catalog. The product catalog is a group of tables in the MySQL database that the company does not update frequently A solutions architect has determined that the CPU utilization on the DB instance is high when product catalog searches occur What should the solutions architect recommend to improve the performance of the website during searches of the product catalog?

Question101: A solutions architect needs to design a system to store client case files. The tiles are core company assets and are important. The number of tiles will grow over time. The files must be simultaneously accessible from multiple application servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The solution must have built-in redundancy.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question102: 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?

Question103: A company is migrating Us applications to AWS Currently applications that run on premises generate hundreds of terabytes of data that is stored on a shared file system The company Is running an analytics application in the cloud that runs hourly to generate Insights from this data The company needs a solution to handle the ongoing data transfer between the on-premises shared file system and Amazon S3 The solution also must be able to handle occasional interruptions m internet connectivity Which solution should the company use for the data transfer to meet these requirements?

Question104: An online gaming company is designing a game that is expected to be popular all over the world A solutions architect needs to define an AWS Cloud architecture that supports near-real-time recording and displaying of current game statistics for each player along with the names of the top 25 players in the world at any given time Which AWS database solution and configuration should the solutions architect use to meet these requirements?

Question105: 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?

Question106: A company is using a centralized AWS account to store log data in various Amazon S3 buckets A solutions architect needs to ensure that the data is encrypted at rest before the data is uploaded to the S3 buckets. The data also must be encrypted in transit.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question107: 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?

Question108: A leasing company generates and emails PDF statements every month for all its customers. Each statement is about 400 KB in size Customers can download their statements from the website for up to 30 days from when the statements were generated At the end of their 3-year lease, the customers are emailed a ZIP file that contains all the statements What is the MOST cost-effective storage solution for this situation?

Question109: A company is running a popular social media website. The website gives users the ability to upload images to share with other users. The company wants to make sure that the images do not contain inappropriate content.
The company needs a solution that minimizes development effort.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question110: A company has an application that loads documents into an Amazon 53 bucket and converts the documents into another format. The application stores the converted documents m another S3 bucket and saves the document name and URLs in an Amazon DynamoOB table The DynamoOB entries are used during subsequent days to access the documents The company uses a DynamoOB Accelerator (DAX) cluster in front of the table Recently, traffic to the application has increased. Document processing tasks are timing out during the scheduled DAX maintenance window. A solutions architect must ensure that the documents continue to load during the maintenance window What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?

Question111: A solutions architect needs to design a network that will allow multiple Amazon EC2 instances to access a common data source used for mission-critical data that can be accessed by all the EC2 instances simultaneously. The solution must be highly scalable, easy to implement, and support the NFS protocol Which solution meets these requirements?

Question112: 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?

Question113: 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?

Question114: 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?

Question115: A company manages its own Amazon EC2 instances that run MySQL databases The company is manually managing replication and scaling as demand increases or decreases The company needs a new solution that simplifies the process of adding or removing compute capacity to or from its database tier as needed The solution also must offer improved performance, scaling, and durability with minimal effort from operations Which solution meets these requirements'?

Question116: 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?

Question117: 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?

Question118: 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?

Question119: 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?

Question120: 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^

Question121: 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?

Question122: 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'?

Question123: An Amazon EC2 administrator created the following policy associated with an IAM group containing several users

What is the effect of this policy?

Question124: 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?

Question125: A company wants to migrate its on-premises application to AWS. The application produces output files that vary in size from tens of gigabytes to hundreds of terabytes The application data must be stored in a standard file system structure The company wants a solution that scales automatically, is highly available, and requires minimum operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question126: A solutions architect needs to design the architecture for an application that a vendor provides as a Docker container image. The container needs 50 GB of storage.
available for temporary files. The infrastructure must be serverless.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question127: 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.)

Question128: A company is designing a new application that runs in a VPC on Amazon EC2 instances. The application stores data in Amazon S3 and uses Amazon DynamoDB as its database For compliance reasons, the company prohibits all traffic between the EC2 instances and other AWS services from passing over the public internet What can a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Question129: A solutions architect is designing a solution to access a catalog of images and provide users with the ability to submit requests to customize images Image customization parameters wilt be in every request that is sent to an Amazon API Gateway API. The solution will generate tie customized images on demand. Users will receive a link that they can use to view or download their customized images. The solution must be highly available for viewing and customizing images What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements MOST cost effectively?

Question130: A company provides an API to its users trial automates inquires for tax computations based on item prices.
The company experiences a larger number of inquiries during the holiday season only that cause slower response times. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that is scalable and elastic.
What should the solution architect do lo accompli this?

Question131: 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?

Question132: 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?

Question133: 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?

Question134: 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?

Question135: A company is deploying a web portal. The company wants to ensure that only the web portion of the application is publicly accessible. To accomplish this, the VPC was designed with two public subnets and two private subnets. The application will run on several Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. SSL termination must be offloaded from the EC2 instances.
What should a solutions architect do to ensure these requirements are met? Configure a Network Load Balancer in the public subnets. Configure the Auto Scaling

Question136: A company has a web application that is based ornavaan^PH^Tnecompan^lanstomove the application from on premises to AWS The company needs the ability to test new site features frequently The company also needs a highly available and managed solution that requires minimum operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question137: 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^

Question138: A company runs a public three-Tier web application in a VPC The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances that run in private subnets need to communicate with a license server over the internet The company needs a managed solution that minimizes operational maintenance Which solution meets these requirements''

Question139: A company runs a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances are in private subnets. A solutions architect implements an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB) and specifies the EC2 instances as the target group. However, the internet traffic is not reaching the EC2 instances.
How should the solutions architect reconfigure the architecture to resolve this issue9

Question140: A company is building applications in containers The company wants to migrate its on-premises development and operations services from its on-premises data center to AWS Management states that production systems must be cloud agnostic and use the same configuration and administrative tools across all production systems A solutions architect needs to design a managed solution that will align with open-source software Which solution meets these requirements?

Question141: 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.)

Question142: 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?

Question143: An ecommerce company wants to launch a one-deal-a-day website on AWS. Each day will feature exactly one product on sale (or a period of 24 hours. The company wants to be able to handle millions of requests each hour with millisecond latency during peak hours.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question144: A large media company hosts a web application on AWS. The company wants to start caching confidential media files so that users around the 'world will have reliable access to the files. The content is stored in Amazon S3 buckets. The company must deliver the content quickly, regardless of where the requests originate geographically Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question145: 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 )

Question146: 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?

Question147: A company recently migrated a legacy application from an on-premises data center to AWS The application is running on an Amazon EC2 instance The EC2 instance is deployed in a private subnet in a VPC without inbound internet access The application support team requires SSH access to the operating system to perform periodic maintenance Which solution provides secure access with the LEAST operational effort?

Question148: 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?

Question149: A company has a dynamic web application hosted on two Amazon EC2 instances The company has its own SSL certificate which is on each instance to perform SSL termination.
There has been an increase in traffic recently, and the operations team determined that SSL encryption and decryption is causing the compute capacity of the web servers to reach their maximum limit.
What should a solutions architect do to increase the application's performance^

Question150: A company has an application that scans millions of connected devices for security threats and pushes the scan logs to an Amazon S3 bucket. A total of 70 GB of data is generated each week, and the company needs to store 3 years of data for historical reporting. The company must process aggregate, and enrich the data from Amazon S3 by performing complex analytical queries and joins in the least amount of time The aggregated dataset is visualized on an Amazon QuickSight dashboard.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Question151: 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?

Question152: 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?

Question153: A company has deployed an internal API in a VPC behind an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB). An application that consumes the API as a client is deployed in a VPC in a second account The application is deployed in private subnets behind a NAT gateway. When requests to the client application increase, the NAT gateway costs are higher than expected.
Which combination of architectural changes will reduce the NAT gateway costs? (Select TWO.)

Question154: A company has an event-driven application that invokes AWS Lambda functions up to 800 times each minute with varying runtimes. The Lambda functions access data that is stored in an Amazon Aurora MySQL OB cluster. The company is noticing connection timeouts as user activity increases The database shows no signs of being overloaded. CPU. memory, and disk access metrics are all low.
Which solution will resolve this issue with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question155: A company needs to implement a relational database with a multi-Region disaster recovery Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 second and an Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 minute Which AWS solution can achieve this?

Question156: A solutions architect is creating an application. The application will run on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets across multiple Availability Zones in a VPC. The EC2 instances will frequently access large files that contain confidential information. These files are stored in Amazon S3 buckets for processing. The solutions architect must optimize the network architecture to minimize data transfer costs.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question157: A company runs an application in the AWS Cloud and uses Amazon DynamoDB as the database. The company deploys Amazon EC2 instances to a private network to process data horn the database. The company uses two NAT instances to provide connectivity lo DynamoDB The company wants to retire the NAT instances. A solutions architect must implement a solution that provides connectivity to DynamoDB and that does not require ongoing management What Is the MOST cost-effective solution that meets these requirements?

Question158: A company is planning to build a high performance computing (HPC) workload as a service solution that Is hosted on AWS A group of 16 AmazonEC2Ltnux Instances requires the lowest possible latency for node-to-node communication. The instances also need a shared block device volume for high-performing storage.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question159: 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?

Question160: 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?

Question161: A company has a three-tier environment on AWS that ingests sensor data from its users' devices The traffic flows through a Network Load Balancer (NIB) then to Amazon EC2 instances for the web tier and finally to EC2 instances for the application tier that makes database calls What should a solutions architect do to improve the security of data in transit to the web tier?

Question162: 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?

Question163: A company is designing a new multi-tier web application that consists of the following components:
* Web and application servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances as part of Auto Scaling groups
* An Amazon RDS DB instance for data storage
A solutions architect needs to limit access to the application servers so that only the web servers can access them Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question164: A company wants to measure the effectiveness of its recent marketing campaigns. The company performs batch processing on csv files of sales data and stores the results an Amazon S3 bucket once every hour. The S3 bi petabytes of objects. The company runs one-time queries in Amazon Athena to determine which products are most popular on a particular date for a particular region Queries sometimes fail or take longer than expected to finish.
Which actions should a solutions architect take to improve the query performance and reliability? (Select TWO.)

Question165: 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?

Question166: 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?

Question167: 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?

Question168: 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?

Question169: An ecommerce company hosts its analytics application in the AWS Cloud. The application generates about
300 MB of data each month. The data is stored in JSON format The company is evaluating a disaster recovery solution to back up the data. The data must be accessible in milliseconds if it is needed, and the data must be kept for 30 days.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question170: A company has an application that uses Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to store data. The files are
1 GB in size or larger and are accessed often only for the first few days after creation The application data is shared across a cluster of Linux servers The company wants to reduce storage costs for the application.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question171: A hospital recently deployed a RESTful API with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda The hospital uses API Gateway and Lambda to upload reports that are in PDF format and JPEG format The hospital needs to modify the Lambda code to identify protected health information (PHI) in the reports Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question172: 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?

Question173: A company runs a highly available image-processing application on Amazon EC2 instances in a single VPC The EC2 instances run inside several subnets across multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances do not communicate with each other However, the EC2 instances download images from Amazon S3 and upload images to Amazon S3 through a single NAT gateway The company is concerned about data transfer charges What is the MOST cost-effective way for the company to avoid Regional data transfer charges?

Question174: A solutions architect plans to convert a company's monolithic web application into a multi-tier application The company wants to avoid managing its own Infrastructure The minimum requirements for the web application are high availability, scalability, and regional low latency during peak hours The solution should also store and retrieve data with millisecond latency using the application's API.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question175: 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?

Question176: 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?

Question177: 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)

Question178: 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 )

Question179: Which AWS service can a company use to store and manage Docker images?

Question180: 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?

Question181: A company maintains a searchable repository of items on its website. The data is stored in an Amazon RDS for MySQL database table that contains more than 10 million rows The database has 2 TB of General Purpose SSD storage There are millions of updates against this data every day through the company's website The company has noticed that some insert operations are taking 10 seconds or longer The company has determined that the database storage performance is the problem Which solution addresses this performance issue?

Question182: 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?

Question183: A company hosts its web application on AWS using seven Amazon EC2 instances. The company requires that the IP addresses of all healthy EC2 instances be returned in response to DNS queries.
Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?

Question184: 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?

Question185: A solutions architect is designing a two-tier web application The application consists of a public-facing web tier hosted on Amazon EC2 in public subnets The database tier consists of Microsoft SQL Server running on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet Security is a high priority for the company How should security groups be configured in this situation? (Select TWO )

Question186: 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?

Question187: A company uses GPS trackers to document the migration patterns of thousands of sea turtles The trackers check every 5 minutes to see if a turtle has moved more than 100 yards (91 4 meters) If a turtle has moved its tracker sends the new coordinates to a web application running on three Amazon EC2 instances that are in multiple Availability Zones in one AWS Region Recently, the web application was overwhelmed while processing an unexpected volume of tracker data Data was lost with no way to replay the events A solutions architect must prevent this problem from happening again and needs a solution with the least operationa overhead What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements''

Question188: An online retail company has more than 50 million active customers and receives more than 25,000 orders each day. The company collects purchase data for customers and stores this data in Amazon S3. Additional customer data is stored in Amazon RDS.
The company wants to make all the data available to various teams so that the teams can perform analytics.
The solution must provide the ability to manage fine-grained permissions for the data and must minimize operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question189: A company collects 10 GB of telemetry data dairy from various machines. The company stores the data in an Amazon S3 bucket in a source data account.
The company has hired several consuming agencies to use this data for analysis. Each agency needs read access to the data for its analysis. The company must share the data from tie source data account by choosing a solution that maximizes security and operational efficiency. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question190: 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?

Question191: A customer is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances hosted in a private subnet of a VPC. The EC2 instances are configured in an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). The EC2 instances use a NAT gateway outbound internet access However, the EC2 instances are not able to connect to the public internet to download software updates.

Question192: A company runs a website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an ELB Application Load Balancer Amazon Route 53 Is used for the DNS The company wants to set up a backup website with a message including a phone number and email address that users can reach if the primary website is down.
How should the company deploy this solution?

Question193: 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.

Question194: 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.)

Question195: A company is creating an application that runs on containers in a VPC. The application stores and accesses data m an Amazon S3 bucket. During the development phase the application will store and access 1 TB of data in Amazon S3 each day. The company wants to minimize costs and wants to prevent traffic from traversing the internet whenever possible Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question196: 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.)

Question197: An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets. The application needs to access an Amazon DynamoDB table. What is me MOST secure way to access the table while ensuring that the traffic does not leave the AWS network?

Question198: 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?

Question199: 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

Question200: 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''

Question201: 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?

Question202: 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?

Question203: 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?

Question204: 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?

Question205: 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?

Question206: A company is building a web application that serves a content management system The content management system runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones Users are constantly adding and updating files blogs and other website assets in the content management system A solutions architect must implement a solution in which all the EC2 instances share up-to-date website content with the least possible lag time.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question207: 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.

Question208: 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?

Question209: A company has two AWS accounts in the same AWS Region. One account is a publisher account, and the other account is a subscriber account Each account has its own Amazon S3 bucket.
An application puts media objects into the publisher account's S3 bucket The objects are encrypted with server-side encryption with customer-provided encryption keys (SSE-C). The company needs a solution that will automatically copy the objects to the subscriber's account's S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question210: 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?

Question211: 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?

Question212: 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?

Question213: 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?

Question214: 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''

Question215: 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?

Question216: A company recently launched its website to servo content to its global user base. The company wants to store and accelerate the delivery of static content to its users by leveraging Amazon CloudFront with an Amazon EC2 instance attached as its origin How should a solutions architect optimize high availability tor the application?

Question217: 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'?

Question218: A company hosts a data lake on AWS. The data lake consists of data in Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The company needs a reporting solution that provides data visualization and includes all the data sources within the data lake. Only the company's management team should have full access to all the visualizations. The rest of the company should have only limited access.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question219: 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?

Question220: 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?

Question221: 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?

Question222: 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?

Question223: A company has an AWS Glue extract. transform, and load (ETL) job that runs every day at the same time. The job processes XML data that is in an Amazon S3 bucket.
New data is added to the S3 bucket every day. A solutions architect notices that AWS Glue is processing all the data during each run.
What should the solutions architect do to prevent AWS Glue from reprocessing old data?

Question224: 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?

Question225: A security learn needs to enforce the rotation of all IAM users' access keys every 90 days If an access key Is found to be older, the key must be made inactive and removed A solutions architect must create a solution that will check for and remediate any keys older than 90 days Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?

Question226: 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?

Question227: A company has an application that collects data from loT sensors on automobiles. The data is streamed and stored in Amazon S3 through Amazon Kinesis Date Firehose The data produces trillions of S3 objects each year. Each morning, the company uses the data from the previous 30 days to retrain a suite of machine learning (ML) models.
Four times each year, the company uses the data from the previous 12 months to perform analysis and train other ML models The data must be available with minimal delay for up to 1 year. After 1 year, the data must be retained for archival purposes.
Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question228: A company wants to manage Amazon Machine Images (AMls). The company currently copies AMls to the same AWS Region where the AMls were created. The company needs to design an application that captures AWS API calls and sends alerts whenever the Amazon EC2 Createlmage API operation is called within the company's account Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question229: A company is running several business applications in three separate VPCs within the us-east-1 Region. The applications must be able to communicate between VPCs. The applications also must be able to consistently send hundreds of gigabytes of data each day to a latency-sensitive application that runs in a single on-premises data center.
A solutions architect needs to design a network connectivity solution that maximizes cost-effectiveness.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question230: A company recently launched a variety of new workloads on Amazon EC2 instances in its AWS account. The company needs to create a strategy to access and administer the instances remotely and securely. The company needs to implement a repeatable process that works with native AWS services and follows the AWS WellArchitected Framework.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Question231: 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 )

Question232: A company is using Amazon Route 53 latency-based routing to route requests to its UDP-based application for users around the world. The application is hosted on redundant servers in the company's on-premises data centers in the United States. Asia, and Europe. The company's compliance requirements state that the application must be hosted on premises The company wants to improve the performance and availability of the application What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Question233: A company uses a popular content management system (CMS) tot its corporate website. However, the required patching and maintenance are burdensome. The company is redesigning its website and wants a new solution. The website will be updated tour times a year and does not need to have any dynamic content available The solution must provide high scalability and enhanced security Which combination of changes will meet those requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select TWO)

Question234: 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?

Question235: 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/?

Question236: 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?

Question237: A company is running a publicly accessible serverless application that uses Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The application's traffic recently spiked due to fraudulent requests from botnets.
Which steps should a solutions architect take to block requests from unauthorized users? (Select TWO.)