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Question1: 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?
Question2: A company is preparing to launch a public-facing web application in the AWS Cloud. The architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances within a VPC behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). A third-party service is used for the DNS. The company's solutions architect must recommend a solution to detect and protect against large-scale DDoS attacks.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question3: A hospital wants to create digital copies for its large collection of historical written records. The hospital will continue to add hundreds of new documents each day. The hospital's data team will scan the documents and will upload the documents to the AWS Cloud.A solutions architect must implement a solution to analyze the documents, extract the medical information, and store the documents so that an application can run SQL queries on the dat a. The solution must maximize scalability and operational efficiency.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
Question4: A rapidly growing ecommerce company is running its workloads in a single AWS Region. A solutions architect must create a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that includes a dilferenl AWS Region The company wants its database to be up to date in the DR Region with the least possible latency The remaining infrastructure in the DR Region needs to run at reduced capecrty and must be able to scale up it necessary Which solution will meel these requirements with the LOWEST recovery time objective (RTO)?
Question5: A company is designing a cloud communications platform that 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.)
Question6: A company has a legacy data processing application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. Data is processed sequentially, but the order of results does not matter. The application uses a monolithic architecture. The only way that the company can scale the application to meet increased demand is to increase the size of the instances.The company's developers have decided to rewrite the application to use a microservices architecture on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).What should a solutions architect recommend for communication between the microservices?
Question7: A company is running several business applications in three separate VPCs within me us-east-1 Region. The applications must be able to communicate between VPCs. The applications also must be able to consistently send hundreds to 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 moots those requirements?
Question8: A solutions architect is designing the architecture of a new application being deployed to the AWS Cloud. The application will run on Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances and will automatically scale across multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances will scale up and down frequently throughout the day. An Application Load Balancer (ALB) will handle the load distribution. The architecture needs to support distributed session data management. The company is willing to make changes to code if needed.What should the solutions architect do to ensure that the architecture supports distributed session data management?
Question9: A company has an application that ingests incoming messages. These messages are then quickly consumed by dozens of other applications and microservices.The number of messages varies drastically and sometimes spikes as high as 100,000 each second. The company wants to decouple the solution and increase scalability.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question10: 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?
Question11: 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?
Question12: A company performs monthly maintenance on its AWS infrastructure. During these maintenance activities, the company needs to rotate the credentials tor its Amazon ROS tor MySQL databases across multiple AWS Regions Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
Question13: A company has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains critical data. The company must protect the data from accidental deletion.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
Question14: A company wants to build a scalable key management Infrastructure to support developers who need to encrypt data in their applications.What should a solutions architect do to reduce the operational burden?
Question15: A company is building a web-based application running on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones. The web application will provide access to a repository of text documents totaling about 900 TB in size. The company anticipates that the web application will experience periods of high demand. A solutions architect must ensure that the storage component for the text documents can scale to meet the demand of the application at all times. The company is concerned about the overall cost of the solution.Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
Question16: An application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in a VPC. The application processes logs that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. The EC2 instance needs to access the S3 bucket without connectivity to the internet.Which solution will provide private network connectivity to Amazon S3?
Question17: 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?
Question18: A company hosts a containerized web application on a fleet of on-premises servers that process incoming requests. The number of requests is growing quickly. The on-premises servers cannot handle the increased number of requests. The company wants to move the application to AWS with minimum code changes and minimum development effort.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
Question19: A company is developing a two-tier web application on AWS. The company's developers have deployed the application on an Amazon EC2 instance that connects directly to a backend Amazon RDS database. The company must not hardcode database credentials in the application. The company must also implement a solution to automatically rotate the database credentials on a regular basis.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
Question20: A company recently signed a contract with an AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner for help with an application migration initiative. A solutions architect needs to share an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from an existing AWS account with the MSP Partner's AWS account. The AMI is backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and uses a customer managed customer master key (CMK) to encrypt EBS volume snapshots.What is the MOST secure way for the solutions architect to share the AMI with the MSP Partner's AWS account?
Question21: A media company is evaluating the possibility ot moving rts systems to the AWS Cloud The company needs at least 10 TB of storage with the maximum possible I/O performance for video processing. 300 TB of very durable storage for storing media content, and 900 TB of storage to meet requirements for archival media that is not in use anymore Which set of services should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
Question22: A company runs a production application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The application reads the data from an Amazon SQS queue and processes the messages in parallel. The message volume is unpredictable and often has intermittent traffic. This application should continually process messages without any downtime.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
Question23: A company selves a dynamic website from a flee! of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The website needs to support multiple languages to serve customers around the world The website's architecture is running in the us-west-1 Region and is exhibiting high request lalency tor users that are located in other parts ot the world The website needs to serve requests quickly and efficiently regardless of a user's location However the company does not want to recreate the existing architecture across multiple Regions What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question24: A company runs a global web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The application stores data in Amazon Auror a. The company needs to create a disaster recovery solution and can tolerate up to 30 minutes of downtime and potential data loss. The solution does not need to handle the load when the primary infrastructure is healthy What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question25: 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-lime and on-demand streaming?
Question26: A company hosts a two-tier application on Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon RDS. The application's demand varies based on the time of day. The load is minimal after work hours and on weekends. The EC2 instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group that is configured with a minimum of two instances and a maximum of five instances. The application must be available at all times, but the company is concerned about overall cost.Which solution meets the availability requirement MOST cost-effectively?
Question27: An entertainment company is using Amazon DynamoDB to store media metadat a. The application is read intensive and experiencing delays. The company does not have staff to handle additional operational overhead and needs to improve the performance efficiency of DynamoDB without reconfiguring the application.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?
Question28: A company has a Windows-based application that must be migrated to AWS. The application requires the use of a shared Windows file 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?
Question29: 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?
Question30: A company uses a three-tier web application to provide training to new employees. The application is accessed for only 12 hours every day. The company is using an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance to store information and wants to minimize costs.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question31: A company provides an API to its users that automates inquiries 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 solutions architect do to accomplish this?
Question32: 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?
Question33: A company has several web servers that need to frequently access a common Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance The company wants a secure method for the web servers to connect to the database while meeting a security requirement to rotate user credentials frequently.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question34: 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?
Question35: 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?
Question36: A bicycle sharing company is developing a multi-tier architecture to track the location of its bicycles during peak operating hours The company wants to use these data points in its existing analytics platform A solutions architect must determine the most viable multi-tier option to support this architecture The data points must be accessible from the REST API.Which action meets these requirements for storing and retrieving location data?
Question37: A security team wants to limit access to specific services or actions in all of the team's AWS accounts. All accounts belong to a large organization in AWS Organizations. The solution must be scalable and there must be a single point where permissions can be maintained.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?
Question38: A company hosts its multi-tier applications on AWS. For compliance, governance, auditing, and security, the company must track configuration changes on its AWS resources and record a history of API calls made to these resources.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question39: A gaming company has a web application that displays scores. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application stores data in an Amazon RDS for MySQL database. Users are starting to experience long delays and interruptions that are caused by database read performance. The company wants to improve the user experience while minimizing changes to the application's architecture.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question40: 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?
Question41: A company is developing an application that provides order shipping statistics for retrieval by a REST API. The company wants to extract the shipping statistics, organize the data into an easy-to-read HTML format, and send the report to several email addresses at the same time every morning.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
Question42: A company wants to run a gaming application on Amazon EC2 instances that are part of an Auto Scaling group in the AWS Cloud. The application will transmit data by using UDP packets. The company wants to ensure that the application can scale out and in as traffic increases and decreases.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question43: A development team runs monthly resource-intensive tests on its general purpose Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance with Performance Insights enabled. The testing lasts for 48 hours once a month and is the only process that uses the database. The team wants to reduce the cost of running the tests without reducing the compute and memory attributes of the DB instance.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
Question44: A company wants to run applications in containers in the AWS Cloud. These applications are stateless and can tolerate disruptions within the underlying infrastructure. The company needs a solution that minimizes cost and operational overhead.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question45: A company runs an on-premises application that is powered by a MySQL database The company is migrating the application to AWS to Increase the application's elasticity and availability The current architecture shows heavy read activity on the database during times of normal operation Every 4 hours the company's development team pulls a full export of the production database to populate a database in the staging environment During this period, users experience unacceptable application latency The development team is unable to use the staging environment until the procedure completes A solutions architect must recommend replacement architecture that alleviates the application latency issue The replacement architecture also must give the development team the ability to continue using the staging environment without delay Which solution meets these requirements?
Question46: A company sells ringtones created from clips of popular songs. The files containing the ringtones are stored in Amazon S3 Standard and are at least 128 KB in size. The company has millions of files, but downloads are infrequent for ringtones older than 90 days. The company needs to save money on storage while keeping the most accessed files readily available for its users.Which action should the company take to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
Question47: A company has created an image analysis application in which users can upload photos and add photo frames to their images. The users upload images and metadata to indicate which photo frames they want to add to their images. The application uses a single Amazon EC2 instance and Amazon DynamoDB to store the metadata.The application is becoming more popular, and the number of users is increasing. The company expects the number of concurrent users to vary significantly depending on the time of day and day of week. The company must ensure that the application can scale to meet the needs of the growing user base.Which solution meats these requirements?
Question48: 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? (Choose two.)
Question49: A company runs an applcalion on a large Heel of Amazon EC2 ratances. The application leads and write entries into an Amazon DynamoDB (able The size of the DynamoDB table continuously grows but the application needs only data from the last 30 days. The company needs a solution that mmmizes cost and development effort.Which solution meets these requirements?
Question50: 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?
Question51: A solutions architect is designing the architecture of a new application being deployed to the AWS Cloud. The application will run on Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances and will automatically scale across multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances will scale up and down frequently throughout the day. An Application Load Balancer (ALB) will handle the load distribution. The architecture needs to support distributed session data management. The company is willing to make changes to code if needed.What should the solutions architect do to ensure that the architecture supports distributed session data management?
Question52: A company is running a batch applicalton on Amazon EC2 instances. The application consists of a backend with multiple Amazon RDS databases. The application is causing a htgh number of leads on the databases. A solutions architect must reduce the number of database reads while ensuring high availability.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
Question53: A company is building an ecommerce web application on AWS. The application sends information about new orders to an Amazon API Gateway REST API to process. The company wants to ensure that orders are processed in the order that they are received.Which solution will meet these requirements?
Question54: A company runs a stateless web application in production on a group of Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application experiences heavy usage during an 8-hour period each business day. Application usage is moderate and steady overnight Application usage is low during weekends.The company wants to minimize its EC2 costs without affecting the availability of the application.Which solution will meet these requirements?
Question55: A company has implemented a self-managed DNS solution on three Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB) in the us-west-2 Region. Most of the company's users are located in the United States and Europe. The company wants to improve the performance and availability of the solution. The company launches and configures three EC2 instances in the eu-west-1 Region and adds the EC2 instances as targets for a new NLB.Which solution can the company use to route traffic to all the EC2 instances?
Question56: A company needs guaranteed Amazon EC2 capacity in three specific Availability Zones in a specific AWS Region for an upcoming event that will last 1 week.What should the company do to guarantee the EC2 capacity?
Question57: A global company hosts its web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The web application has static data and dynamic dat a. The company stores its static data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company wants to improve performance and reduce latency for the static data and dynamic data. The company is using its own domain name registered with Amazon Route 53.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question58: A survey company has gathered data for several years from areas m\ the United States. The company hosts the data in an Amazon S3 bucket that is 3 TB m size and growing. The company has started to share the data with a European marketing firm that has S3 buckets The company wants to ensure that its data transfer costs remain as low as possible Which solution will meet these requirements?
Question59: A solutions architect must design a solution that uses Amazon CloudFront with an Amazon S3 origin to store a static website. The company's security policy requires that all website traffic be inspected by AWS WAR How should the solutions architect comply with these requirements?
Question60: A company is running a multi-tier web application on premises. The web application is containerized and runs on a number of Linux hosts connected to a PostgreSQL database that contains user records. The operational overhead of maintaining the infrastructure and capacity planning is limiting the company's growth. A solutions architect must improve the application's infrastructure.Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Choose two.)
Question61: A company has a web application lhat is based on Java and PHP The company plans to move the application from on premises to AWS The company needs the ability to test new site features trequenlty. The company also needs a highly available and managed solution that requires minimum operational overhead Which solution will meel these requirements?
Question62: A company runs workloads on AWS. The company needs to connect to a service from an external provider. The service is hosted in the provider's VPC. According to the company's security team, the connectivity must be private and must be restricted to the target service. The connection must be initiated only from the company's VPC.Which solution will mast these requirements?
Question63: A company's web application is running on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The company recently changed its policy, which now requires the application to be accessed from one specific country only.Which configuration will meet this requirement?
Question64: 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?
Question65: 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 Well-Architected Framework.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
Question66: 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?
Question67: A company's application integrates with multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) sources for data collection. The company runs Amazon EC2 instances to receive the data and to upload the data to an Amazon S3 bucket for analysis. The same EC2 instance that receives and uploads the data also sends a notification to the user when an upload is complete. The company has noticed slow application performance and wants to improve the performance as much as possible.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
Question68: A solutions architect needs to help a company optimize the cost of running an application on AWS. The application will use Amazon EC2 instances, AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda for compute within the architecture.The EC2 instances will run the data ingestion layer of the application. EC2 usage will be sporadic and unpredictable. Workloads that run on EC2 instances can be interrupted at any time. The application front end will run on Fargate, and Lambda will serve the API layer. The front-end utilization and API layer utilization will be predictable over the course of the next year.Which combination of purchasing options will provide the MOST cost-effective solution for hosting this application? (Choose two.)
Question69: A company hosts a marketing website in an on-premises data center. The website consists of static documents and runs on a single server. An administrator updates the website content infrequently and uses an SFTP client to upload new documents.The company decides to host its website on AWS and to use Amazon CloudFront. The company's solutions architect creates a CloudFront distribution. The solutions architect must design the most cost-effective and resilient architecture for website hosting to serve as the CloudFront origin.Which solution will meet these requirements?
Question70: A medical records company is hosting an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application processes customer data files that are stored on Amazon S3. The EC2 instances are hosted in public subnets. The EC2 instances access Amazon S3 over the internet, but they do not require any other network access.A new requirement mandates that the network traffic for file transfers take a private route and not be sent over the internet.Which change to the network architecture should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?
Question71: A company's application Is having performance issues The application staleful and needs to complete m-memory tasks on Amazon EC2 instances. The company used AWS CloudFormation to deploy infrastructure and used the M5 EC2 Instance family As traffic increased, the application performance degraded Users are reporting delays when the users attempt to access the application.Which solution will resolve these issues in the MOST operationally efficient way?