EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Your company has an on-premises multi-tier PHP web application, which recently experienced downtime due to a large burst in web traffic due to a company announcement. Over the coming days, you are expecting similar announcements to drive similar unpredictable bursts, and are looking to find ways to quickly improve your infrastructures ability to handle unexpected increases in traffic.
The application currently consists of 2 tiers a web tier which consists of a load balancer and several Linux Apache web servers as well as a database tier which hosts a Linux server hosting a MySQL database.
Which scenario below will provide full site functionality, while helping to improve the ability of your application in the short timeframe required?

Question2: A company has a data center that must be migrated to AWS as quickly as possible. The data center has a 500 Mbps AWS Direct Connect link and a separate, fully available 1 Gbps ISP connection. A Solutions Architect must transfer 20 TB of data from the data center to an Amazon S3 bucket.
What is the FASTEST way transfer the data?

Question3: How can you check the operational validity of your AWS CloudFormation template?

Question4: Your system recently experienced down time during the troubleshooting process. You found that a new administrator mistakenly terminated several production EC2 instances.
Which of the following strategies will help prevent a similar situation in the future?
The administrator still must be able to:
* launch, start stop, and terminate development resources.
* launch and start production instances.

Question5: You want to mount an Amazon EFS file system on an Amazon EC2 instance using DNS names. Which of the following generic form of a mount target's DNS name must you use to mount the file system?

Question6: You've been brought in as solutions architect to assist an enterprise customer with their migration of an e-commerce platform to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) The previous architect has already deployed a
3-tier VPC.
The configuration is as follows:
VPC: vpc-2f8bc447
IGW: igw-2d8bc445
NACL: ad-208bc448
Subnets and Route Tables:
Web servers: subnet-258bc44d
Application servers: subnet-248bc44c
Database servers: subnet-9189c6f9
Route Tables:
rrb-218bc449
rtb-238bc44b
Associations:
subnet-258bc44d : rtb-218bc449
subnet-248bc44c : rtb-238bc44b
subnet-9189c6f9 : rtb-238bc44b
You are now ready to begin deploying EC2 instances into the VPC Web servers must have direct access to the internet Application and database servers cannot have direct access to the internet.
Which configuration below will allow you the ability to remotely administer your application and database servers, as well as allow these servers to retrieve updates from the Internet?

Question7: Which of the following is the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) condition operator that can be used within an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy to check the case-insensitive matching of the ARN?

Question8: An organization is setting up a highly scalable application using Elastic Beanstalk. The organization is using ELB and RDS with VPC. The organization has public and private subnets within the cloud.
Which of the below mentioned configurations will not work in this scenario?

Question9: A user has launched two EBS backed EC2 instances in the US-East-1a region. The user wants to change the zone of one of the instances. How can the user change it?

Question10: By default, Amazon Cognito maintains the last-written version of the data. You can override this behavior and resolve data conflicts programmatically.
In addition, push synchronization allows you to use Amazon Cognito to send a silent notification to all devices associated with an identity to notify them that new data is available.

Question11: When I/O performance is more important than fault tolerance, which of the following configurations should be used?

Question12: Which of the following rules must be added to a mount target security group to access Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) from an on-premises server?

Question13: How many metrics are supported by CloudWatch for Auto Scaling?

Question14: In the context of policies and permissions in AWS IAM, the Condition element is ____________.

Question15: You have subscribed to the AWS Business and Enterprise support plan.
Your business has a backlog of problems, and you need about 20 of your IAM users to open technical support cases.
How many users can open technical support cases under the AWS Business and Enterprise support plan?

Question16: DynamoDB usesonly as a transport protocol, not as a storage format.

Question17: True or false: In a CloudFormation template, you can reuse the same logical ID several times to reference the resources in other parts of the template.

Question18: How does in-memory caching improve the performance of applications in ElastiCache?

Question19: A user has created a launch configuration for Auto Scaling where CloudWatch detailed monitoring is disabled.
The user wants to now enable detailed monitoring.
How can the user achieve this?

Question20: A customer is deploying an SSL enabled web application to AWS and would like to implement a separation of roles between the EC2 service administrators that are entitled to login to instances as well as making API calls and the security officers who will maintain and have exclusive access to the application's X.509 certificate that contains the private key.

Question21: Who is responsible for modifying the routing tables and networking ACLs in a VPC to ensure that a DB instance is reachable from other instances in the VPC?

Question22: A company has a requirement that only allows specially hardened AMIs to be launched into public subnets in a VPC, and for the AMIs to be associated with a specific security group. Allowing non-compliant instances to launch into the public subnet could present a significant security risk if they are allowed to operate.
A mapping of approved AMIs to subnets to security groups exists in an Amazon DynamoDB table in the same AWS account. The company created an AWS Lambda function that, when invoked, will terminate a given Amazon EC2 instance if the combination of AMI, subnet, and security group are not approved in the DynamoDB table.
What should the Solutions Architect do to MOST quickly mitigate the risk of compliance deviations?

Question23: A company is migrating its on-premises build artifact server to an AWS solution. The current system consists of an Apache HTTP server that serves artifacts to clients on the local network, restricted by the perimeter firewall. The artifact consumers are largely build automation scripts that download artifacts via anonymous HTTP, which the company will be unable to modify within its migration timetable.
The company decides to move the solution to Amazon S3 static website hosting. The artifact consumers will be migrated to Amazon EC2 instances located within both public and private subnets in a virtual private cloud (VPC).
Which solution will permit the artifact consumers to download artifacts without modifying the existing automation scripts?

Question24: A Solutions Architect must design a highly available, stateless, REST service. The service will require multiple persistent storage layers for service object meta information and the delivery of content. Each request needs to be authenticated and securely processed. There is a requirement to keep costs as low as possible?
How can these requirements be met?

Question25: Which of the following does Amazon DynamoDB perform?

Question26: A company has an application that runs a web service on Amazon EC2 instances and stores .jpg images in Amazon S3. The web traffic has a predictable baseline, but often demand spikes unpredictably for short periods of time. The application is loosely coupled and stateless. The .jpg images stored in Amazon S3 are accessed frequently for the first 15 to 20 days, they are seldom accessed thereafter but always need to be immediately available. The CIO has asked to find ways to reduce costs.
Which of the following options will reduce costs? (Choose two.)

Question27: A Solutions Architect is migrating a 10 TB PostgreSQL database to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The company's internet link is 50 MB with a VPN in the Amazon VPC, and the Solutions Architect needs to migrate the data and synchronize the changes before the cutover. The cutover must take place within an 8-day period.
What is the LEAST complex method of migrating the database securely and reliably?

Question28: In the context of AWS IAM, identify a true statement about user passwords (login profiles).

Question29: In the context of IAM roles for Amazon EC2, which of the following NOT true about delegating permission to make API requests?

Question30: Attempts, one of the three types of items associated with the schedule pipeline in the AWS Data Pipeline, provides robust data management.
Which of the following statements is NOT true about Attempts?

Question31: You have been asked to design the storage layer for an application. The application requires disk performance of at least 100,000 IOPS. In addition, the storage layer must be able to survive the loss of an individual disk, EC2 instance, or Availability Zone without any data loss. The volume you provide must have a capacity of at least 3 TB.
Which of the following designs will meet these objectives?

Question32: An organization has created multiple components of a single application for compartmentalization. Currently all the components are hosted on a single EC2 instance. Due to security reasons the organization wants to implement two separate SSLs for the separate modules although it is already using VPC.
How can the organization achieve this with a single instance?

Question33: You want to use AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to Amazon EC2 instances running within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
What criterion must be met for this to be possible?

Question34: Identify a benefit of using Auto Scaling for your application.

Question35: A user has set the IAM policy where it denies all requests if a request is not from IP 10.10.10.1/32. The other policy says allow all requests between 5 PM to 7 PM.
What will happen when a user is requesting access from IP 55.109.10.12/32 at 6 PM?

Question36: For AWS CloudFormation, which stack state refuses UpdateStack calls?

Question37: A user has created a VPC with CIDR 20.0.0.0/16 using the wizard. The user has created a public subnet CIDR (20.0.0.0/24) and VPN only subnets CIDR (20.0.1.0/24) along with the VPN gateway (vgw-123456) to connect to the user's data center. The user's data center has CIDR 172.28.0.0/12. The user has also setup a NAT instance (i-123456) to allow traffic to the internet from the VPN subnet.
Which of the below mentioned options is not a valid entry for the main route table in this scenario?

Question38: You require the ability to analyze a customer's clickstream data on a website so they can do behavioral analysis. Your customer needs to know what sequence of pages and ads their customer clicked on. This data will be used in real time to modify the page layouts as customers click through the site to increase stickiness and advertising click-through.
Which option meets the requirements for captioning and analyzing this data?

Question39: True or false: In CloudFormation, you cannot create an Amazon RDS DB instance from a snapshot.

Question40: A company has implemented AWS Organizations. It has recently set up a number of new accounts and wants to deny access to a specific set of AWS services in these new accounts.
How can this be controlled MOST efficiently?

Question41: Your startup wants to implement an order fulfillment process for selling a personalized gadget that needs an average of 3-4 days to produce with some orders taking up to 6 months you expect 10 orders per day on your first day. 1000 orders per day after 6 months and 10,000 orders after 12 months.
Orders coming in are checked for consistency men dispatched to your manufacturing plant for production quality control packaging shipment and payment processing If the product does not meet the quality standards at any stage of the process employees may force the process to repeat a step Customers are notified via email about order status and any critical issues with their orders such as payment failure.
Your base architecture includes AWS Elastic Beanstalk for your website with an RDS MySQL instance for customer data and orders.
How can you implement the order fulfillment process while making sure that the emails are delivered reliably?

Question42: With Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) you can analyze and process vast amounts of data. The cluster is managed using an open-source framework called Hadoop. You have set up an application to run Hadoop jobs. The application reads data from DynamoDB and generates a temporary file of 100 TBs.
The whole process runs for 30 minutes and the output of the job is stored to S3.
Which of the below mentioned options is the most cost effective solution in this case?

Question43: A user is running a critical batch process which runs for 1 hour and 50 mins every day at a fixed time. Which of the below mentioned options is the right instance type and costing model in this case if the user performs the same task for the whole year?

Question44: In Amazon Cognito, your mobile app authenticates with the Identity Provider (IdP) using the provider's SDK.
Once the end user is authenticated with the IdP, the OAuth or OpenID Connect token returned from the IdP is passed by your app to Amazon Cognito, which returns a new _____ for the user and a set of temporary, limited-privilege AWS credentials.

Question45: A company receives clickstream data files to Amazon S3 every five minutes. A Python script runs as a cron job once a day on an Amazon EC2 instance to process each file and load it into a database hosted on Amazon RDS. The cron job takes 15 to 30 minutes to process 24 hours of data. The data consumers ask for the data be available as soon as possible.
Which solution would accomplish the desired outcome?

Question46: A company runs a dynamic mission-critical web application that has an SLA of 99.99%. Global application users access the application 24/7. The application is currently hosted on premises and routinely fails to meet its SLA, especially when millions of users access the application concurrently. Remote users complain of latency.
How should this application be redesigned to be scalable and allow for automatic failover at the lowest cost?

Question47: Your company hosts a social media website for storing and sharing documents. The web application allows user to upload large files while resuming and pausing the upload as needed. Currently, files are uploaded to your PHP front end backed by Elastic Load Balancing and an autoscaling fleet of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances that scale upon average of bytes received (NetworkIn). After a file has been uploaded, it is copied to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Amazon EC2 instances use an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that allows Amazon S3 uploads. Over the last six months, your user base and scale have increased significantly, forcing you to increase the Auto Scaling group's Max parameter a few times.
Your CFO is concerned about rising costs and has asked you to adjust the architecture where needed to better optimize costs.
Which architecture change could you introduce to reduce costs and still keep your web application secure and scalable?

Question48: A user is configuring MySQL RDS with PIOPS. What should be the minimum size of DB storage provided by the user?

Question49: A user has created a VPC with public and private subnets using the VPC Wizard. The VPC has CIDR
20.0.0.0/16. The private subnet uses CIDR 20.0.0.0/24.
Which of the below mentioned entries are required in the main route table to allow the instances in VPC to communicate with each other?

Question50: A company wants to follow its website on AWS using serverless architecture design patterns for global customers. The company has outlined its requirements as follow:
* The website should be responsive.
* The website should offer minimal latency.
* The website should be highly available.
* Users should be able to authenticate through social identity providers such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
* There should be baseline DDoS protections for spikes in traffic.
How can the design requirements be met?

Question51: ABC has three separate departments and each department has their own AWS accounts. The HR department has created a file sharing site where all the on roll employees' data is uploaded. The Admin department uploads data about the employee presence in the office to their DB hosted in the VPC. The Finance department needs to access data from the HR department to know the on roll employees to calculate the salary based on the number of days that an employee is present in the office.
How can ABC setup this scenario?

Question52: What types of identities do Amazon Cognito identity pools support?

Question53: A company is running a high-user-volume media-sharing application on premises. It currently hosts about 400 TB of data with millions of video files. The company is migrating this application to AWS to improve reliability and reduce costs.
The Solutions Architecture team plans to store the videos in an Amazon S3 bucket and use Amazon CloudFront to distribute videos to users. The company needs to migrate this application to AWS 10 days with the least amount of downtime possible. The company currently has 1 Gbps connectivity to the Internet with 30 percent free capacity.
Which of the following solutions would enable the company to migrate the workload to AWS and meet all of the requirements?

Question54: A bank is designing an online customer service portal where customers can chat with customer service agents.
The portal is required to maintain a 15-minute RPO or RTO in case of a regional disaster. Banking regulations require that all customer service chat transcripts must be preserved on durable storage for at least 7 years, chat conversations must be encrypted in-flight, and transcripts must be encrypted at rest. The Data Lost Prevention team requires that data at rest must be encrypted using a key that the team controls, rotates, and revokes.
Which design meets these requirements?

Question55: A user is creating a snapshot of an EBS volume. Which of the below statements is incorrect in relation to the creation of an EBS snapshot?

Question56: A company had a tight deadline to migrate its on-premises environment to AWS. It moved over Microsoft SQL Servers and Microsoft Windows Servers using the virtual machine import/export service and rebuild other applications native to the cloud. The team created both Amazon EC2 databases and used Amazon RDS.
Each team in the company was responsible for migrating their applications, and they have created individual accounts for isolation of resources. The company did not have much time to consider costs, but now it would like suggestions on reducing its AWS spend.
Which steps should a Solutions Architect take to reduce costs?

Question57: A company is building an AWS landing zone and has asked a Solutions Architect to design a multi-account access strategy that will allow hundreds of users to use corporate credentials to access the AWS Console. The company is running a Microsoft Active Directory and users will use an AWS Direct Connect connection to connect to AWS. The company also wants to be able to federate to third-party services and providers, including custom applications.
Which solution meets the requirements by using the LEAST amount of management overhead?

Question58: A company needs to cost-effectively persist small data records (up to 1 KiB) for up to 30 days. The data is read rarely. When reading the data, a 5-minute delay is acceptable.
Which of the following solutions achieve this goal? (Choose two.)

Question59: What RAID method is used on the Cloud Block Storage back-end to implement a very high level of reliability and performance?

Question60: A company is currently using AWS CodeCommit for its source control and AWS CodePipeline for continuous integration. The pipeline has a build stage for building the artifacts which is then staged in an Amazon S3 bucket.
The company has identified various improvement opportunities in the existing process, and a Solutions Architect has been given the following requirement:
* Create a new pipeline to support feature development
* Support feature development without impacting production applications
* Incorporate continuous testing with unit tests
* Isolate development and production artifacts
* Support the capability to merge tested code into production code.
How should the Solutions Architect achieve these requirements?

Question61: A user is planning to launch multiple EC2 instance same as current running instance.
Which of the below mentioned parameters is not copied by Amazon EC2 in the launch wizard when the user has selected the option "Launch more like this"?

Question62: Your customer wishes to deploy an enterprise application to AWS, which will consist of several web servers, several application servers and a small (50GB) Oracle database. Information is stored, both in the database and the file systems of the various servers. The backup system must support database recovery whole server and whole disk restores, and individual file restores with a recovery time of no more than two hours. They have chosen to use RDS Oracle as the database.
Which backup architecture will meet these requirements?

Question63: A bucket owner has allowed another account's IAM users to upload or access objects in his bucket. The IAM user of Account A is trying to access an object created by the IAM user of account
B. What
will happen in this scenario?

Question64: Which of the following is the final step that should be completed to start using AWS Direct Connect?

Question65: One of the components that is part of ec2-net-utils used with ENI's is ec2ifscan.
Which of the following is not correct about ec2-net-utils?

Question66: You are the new IT architect in a company that operates a mobile sleep tracking application.
When activated at night, the mobile app is sending collected data points of 1 kilobyte every 5 minutes to your backend.
The backend takes care of authenticating the user and writing the data points into an Amazon DynamoDB table.
Every morning, you scan the table to extract and aggregate last night's data on a per user basis, and store the results in Amazon S3. Users are notified via Amazon SNS mobile push notifications that new data is available, which is parsed and visualized by the mobile app.
Currently you have around 100k users who are mostly based out of North America.
You have been tasked to optimize the architecture of the backend system to lower cost.
What would you recommend? (Choose 2)

Question67: An AWS account owner has setup multiple IAM users. One of these IAM users, named John, has CloudWatch access, but no access to EC2 services. John has setup an alarm action which stops EC2 instances when their CPU utilization is below the threshold limit.
When an EC2 instance's CPU Utilization rate drops below the threshold John has set, what will happen and why?

Question68: A large multinational company runs a timesheet application on AWS that is used by staff across the world.
The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) load balancer, and stores in an Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ database instance.
The CFO is concerned about the impact on the business if the application is not available. The application must not be down for more than two hours, but the solution must be as cost-effective as possible.
How should the Solutions Architect meet the CFO's requirements while minimizing data loss?

Question69: Dave is the main administrator in Example Corp., and he decides to use paths to help delineate the users in the company and set up a separate administrator group for each path-based division. Following is a subset of the full list of paths he plans to use:
* /marketing
* /sales
* /legal
Dave creates an administrator group for the marketing part of the company and calls it Marketing_Admin.
He assigns it the /marketing path. The group's ARN is
arn:aws:iam::123456789012:group/marketing/Marketing_Admin.
Dave assigns the following policy to the Marketing_Admin group that gives the group permission to use all IAM actions with all groups and users in the /marketing path. The policy also gives the Marketing_Admin group permission to perform any AWS S3 actions on the objects in the portion of the corporate bucket.
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Deny",
"Action": "iam:*",
"Resource": [
"arn:aws:iam::123456789012:group/marketing/*",
"arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/marketing/*"
]
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": "s3:*",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::example_bucket/marketing/*"
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": "s3:ListBucket*",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::example_bucket",
"Condition":{"StringLike":{"s3:prefix": "marketing/*"}}
}
]
}

Question70: A company needs to run a software package that has a license that must be run on the same physical host for the duration of its use. The software package is only going to be used for 90 days. The company requires patching and restarting of all instances every 30 days.
How can these requirements be met using AWS?

Question71: ABC has created a multi-tenant Learning Management System (LMS). The application is hosted for five different tenants (clients) in the VPCs of the respective AWS accounts of the tenant. ABC wants to setup a centralized server which can connect with the LMS of each tenant upgrade if required. ABC also wants to ensure that one tenant VPC should not be able to connect to the other tenant VPC for security reasons.
How can ABC setup this scenario?

Question72: A company runs a legacy system on a single m4.2xlarge Amazon EC2 instance with Amazon EBS2 storage.
The EC2 instance runs both the web server and a self-managed Oracle database. A snapshot is made of the EBS volume every 12 hours, and an AMI was created from the fully configured EC2 instance.
A recent event that terminated the EC2 instance led to several hours of downtime. The application was successfully launched from the AMI, but the age of the EBS snapshot and the repair of the database resulted in the loss of 8 hours of data. The system was also down for 4 hours while the Systems Operators manually performed these processes.
What architectural changes will minimize downtime and reduce the chance of lost data?

Question73: You have recently joined a startup company building sensors to measure street noise and air quality in urban areas. The company has been running a pilot deployment of around 100 sensors for 3 months each sensor uploads 1KB of sensor data every minute to a backend hosted on AWS.
During the pilot, you measured a peak or 10 IOPS on the database, and you stored an average of 3GB of sensor data per month in the database.
The current deployment consists of a load-balanced auto scaled Ingestion layer using EC2 instances and a PostgreSQL RDS database with 500GB standard storage.
The pilot is considered a success and your CEO has managed to get the attention or some potential investors.
The business plan requires a deployment of at least 100K sensors which needs to be supported by the backend.
You also need to store sensor data for at least two years to be able to compare year over year Improvements.
To secure funding, you have to make sure that the platform meets these requirements and leaves room for further scaling.
Which setup win meet the requirements?

Question74: A user has configured EBS volume with PIOPS. The user is not experiencing the optimal throughput.
Which of the following could not be factor affecting I/O performance of that EBS volume?

Question75: A user has created a VPC with CIDR 20.0.0.0/16. The user has created one subnet with CIDR 20.0.0.0/16 by mistake. The user is trying to create another subnet of CIDR 20.0.1.0/24.
How can the user create the second subnet?

Question76: An administrator is using Amazon CloudFormation to deploy a three tier web application that consists of a web tier and application tier that will utilize Amazon DynamoDB for storage when creating the CloudFormation template.
Which of the following would allow the application instance access to the DynamoDB tables without exposing API credentials?

Question77: A company is adding a new approved external vendor that only supports IPv6 connectivity. The company's backend systems sit in the private subnet of an Amazon VPC. The company uses a NAT gateway to allow these systems to communicate with external vendors over IPv4. Company policy requires systems that communicate with external vendors use a security group that limits access to only approved external vendors.
The virtual private cloud (VPC) uses the default network ACL.
The Systems Operator successfully assigns IPv6 addresses to each of the backend systems. The Systems Operator also updates the outbound security group to include the IPv6 CIDR of the external vendor (destination). The systems within the VPC are able to ping one another successfully over IPv6. However, these systems are unable to communicate with the external vendor.
What changes are required to enable communication with the external vendor?

Question78: A group of Amazon EC2 instances have been configured as high performance computing (HPC) cluster. The instances are running in a placement group, and are able to communicate with each other at network of up to
20 Gbps.
The cluster needs to communicate with a control EC2 instance outside of the placement group. The control instance has the same instance type and AMI as the other instances, and is configured with a public IP address.
How can the Solutions Architect improve the network speeds between the control instance and the instances in the placement group?

Question79: Out of the striping options available for the EBS volumes, which one has the following disadvantage:
'Doubles the amount of I/O required from the instance to EBS compared to RAID 0, because you're mirroring all writes to a pair of volumes, limiting how much you can stripe.'?

Question80: An e-commerce company is revamping its IT infrastructure and is planning to use AWS services. The company's CIO has asked a Solutions Architect to design a simple, highly available, and loosely coupled order processing application. The application is responsible for receiving and processing orders before storing them in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The application has a sporadic traffic pattern and should be able to scale during marketing campaigns to process the orders with minimal delays.
Which of the following is the MOST reliable approach to meet the requirements?

Question81: In Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, you can provision up to 3TB storage and 30,000 IOPS per database instance.
For a workload with 50% writes and 50% reads running on a cr1.8xlarge instance, you can realize over 25,000 IOPS for PostgreSQL. However, by provisioning more than this limit, you may be able to achieve:

Question82: A user is accessing an EC2 instance on the SSH port for IP 10.20.30.40/32.
Which one is a secure way to configure that the instance can be accessed only from this IP?

Question83: In Amazon VPC, what is the default maximum number of BGP advertised routes allowed per route table?

Question84: A company used Amazon EC2 instances to deploy a web fleet to host a blog site. The EC2 instances are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and are configured in an Auto Scaling group. The web application stores all blog content on an Amazon EFS volume.
The company recently added a feature for bloggers to add video to their posts, attracting 10 times the previous user traffic. At peak times of day, users report buffering and timeout issues while attempting to reach the site or watch videos.
Which is the MOST cost-efficient and scalable deployment that will resolve the issues for users?

Question85: Which of the following is NOT an advantage of using AWS Direct Connect?

Question86: What is the name of licensing model in which I can use your existing Oracle Database licenses to run Oracle deployments on Amazon RDS?

Question87: In AWS IAM, which of the following predefined policy condition keys checks how long ago (in seconds) the MFA-validated security credentials making the request were issued using multi- factor authentication (MFA)?

Question88: IAM users do not have permission to create Temporary Security Credentials for federated users and roles by default. In contrast, IAM users can call __________ without the need of any special permissions

Question89: You have just added a new instance to your Auto Scaling group, which receives ELB health checks. An ELB heath check says the new instance's state is out of Service.
What does Auto Scaling do in this particular scenario?

Question90: An organization has setup RDS with VPC. The organization wants RDS to be accessible from the internet.
Which of the below mentioned configurations is not required in this scenario?

Question91: A large global financial services company has multiple business units. The company wants to allow Developers to try new services, but there are multiple compliance requirements for different workloads. The Security team is concerned about the access strategy for on-premises and AWS implementations. They would like to enforce governance for AWS services used by business team for regulatory workloads, including Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirements.
Which solution will address the Security team's concerns and allow the Developers to try new services?

Question92: The ________ service is targeted at organizations with multiple users or systems that use AWS products such as Amazon EC2, Amazon SimpleDB, and the AWS Management Console.

Question93: A company has a legacy application running on servers on premises. To increase the application's reliability, the company wants to gain actionable insights using application logs. A Solutions Architect has been given following requirements for the solution:
* Aggregate logs using AWS.
* Automate log analysis for errors.
* Notify the Operations team when errors go beyond a specified threshold.
What solution meets the requirements?

Question94: A three-tier web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances. Cron daemons are used to trigger scripts that collect the web server, application, and database logs and send them to a centralized location every hour.
Occasionally, scaling events or unplanned outages have caused the instances to stop before the latest logs were collected, and the log files were lost.
Which of the following options is the MOST reliable way of collecting and preserving the log files?

Question95: An auction website enables users to bid on collectible items. The auction rules require that each bid is processed only once and in the order it was received. The current implementation is based on a fleet of Amazon EC2 web servers that write bid records into Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. A single t2.large instance has a cron job that runs the bid processor, which reads incoming bids from Kinesis Data Streams and processes each bid. The auction site is growing in popularity, but users are complaining that some bids are not registering.
Troubleshooting indicates that the bid processor is too slow during peak demand hours, sometimes crashes while processing, and occasionally loses track of which records is being processed.
What changes should make the bid processing more reliable?

Question96: A company runs a Windows Server host in a public subnet that is configured to allow a team of administrators to connect over RDP to troubleshoot issues with hosts in a private subnet. The host must be available at all times outside of a scheduled maintenance window, and needs to receive the latest operating system updates within 3 days of release.
What should be done to manage the host with the LEAST amount of administrative effort?

Question97: You are developing a new mobile application and are considering storing user preferences in AWS.2w This would provide a more uniform cross-device experience to users using multiple mobile devices to access the application. The preference data for each user is estimated to be 50KB in size Additionally 5 million customers are expected to use the application on a regular basis.
The solution needs to be cost-effective, highly available, scalable and secure, how would you design a solution to meet the above requirements?

Question98: Which of the following should be followed before connecting to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) using AWS Direct Connect?

Question99: A user is using CloudFormation to launch an EC2 instance and then configure an application after the instance is launched. The user wants the stack creation of ELB and AutoScaling to wait until the EC2 instance is launched and configured properly.
How can the user configure this?

Question100: Auto Scaling requests are signed with a _________ signature calculated from the request and the user's private key.

Question101: A user has created a VPC with public and private subnets. The VPC has CIDR 20.0.0.0/16. The private subnet uses CIDR 20.0.1.0/24 and the public subnet uses CIDR 20.0.0.0/24. The user is planning to host a web server in the public subnet (port 80) and a DB server in the private subnet (port 3306). The user is configuring a security group of the NAT instance.
Which of the below mentioned entries is not required in NAT's security group for the database servers to connect to the Internet for software updates?

Question102: A company is using an Amazon CloudFront distribution to distribute both static and dynamic content from a web application running behind an Application Load Balancer. The web application requires user authorization and session tracking for dynamic content. The CloudFront distribution has a single cache behavior configured to forward the Authorization, Host, and User-Agent HTTP whitelist headers and a session cookie to the origin. All other cache behavior settings are set to their default value.
A valid ACM certificate is applied to the CloudFront distribution with a matching CNAME in the distribution settings. The ACM certificate is also applied to the HTTPS listener for the Application Load Balancer. The CloudFront origin protocol policy is set to HTTPS only. Analysis of the cache statistics report shows that the miss rate for this distribution is very high.
What can the Solutions Architect do to improve the cache hit rate for this distribution without causing the SSL/TLS handshake between CloudFront and the Application Load Balancer to fail?

Question103: A photo-sharing and publishing company receives 10,000 to 150,000 images daily. The company receives the images from multiple suppliers and users registered with the service. The company is moving to AWS and wants to enrich the existing metadata by adding data using Amazon Rekognition.
The following is an example of the additional data:

As part of the cloud migration program, the company uploaded existing image data to Amazon S3 and told users to upload images directly to Amazon S3.
What should the Solutions Architect do to support these requirements?

Question104: A company is planning the migration of several lab environments used for software testing. An assortment of custom tooling is used to manage the test runs for each lab. The labs use immutable infrastructure for the software test runs, and the results are stored in a highly available SQL database cluster. Although completely rewriting the custom tooling is out of scope for the migration project, the company would like to optimize workloads during the migration.
Which application migration strategy meets this requirement?

Question105: You're running an application on-premises due to its dependency on non-x86 hardware and want to use AWS for data backup. Your backup application is only able to write to POSIX-compatible block-based storage. You have 140TB of data and would like to mount it as a single folder on your file server. Users must be able to access portions of this data while the backups are taking place.
What backup solution would be most appropriate for this use case?

Question106: You have been asked to set up a public website on AWS with the following criteria:
You want the database and the application server running on an Amazon VPC. You want the database to be able to connect to the Internet so that it can be automatically updated to the correct patch level.
You do not want to receive any incoming traffic from the Internet to the database.
Which solutions would be the best to satisfy all the above requirements for your planned public website on AWS? (Choose 2 answers)

Question107: A Solutions Architect has created an AWS CloudFormation template for a three-tier application that contains an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances running a custom AMI.
The Solutions Architect wants to ensure that future updates to the custom AMI can be deployed to a running stack by first updating the template to refer to the new AMI, and then invoking UpdateStack to replace the EC2 instances with instances launched from the new AMI.
How can updates to the AMI be deployed to meet these requirements?

Question108: Which of the following components of AWS Data Pipeline specifies the business logic of your data management?

Question109: A company's CISO has asked a Solutions Architect to re-engineer the company's current CI/CD practices to make sure patch deployments to its applications can happen as quickly as possible with minimal downtime if vulnerabilities are discovered. The company must also be able to quickly roll back a change in case of errors.
The web application is deployed in a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.
The company is currently using GitHub to host the application source code and has configured an AWS CodeBuild project to build the application. The company also intends to use AWS CodePipeLine to trigger builds form GitHub commits using the existing CodeBuild project. What CI/CD configuration meets all of the requirements?

Question110: A company would like to implement a serverless application by using Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB. They deployed a proof of concept and stated that the average response time is greater than what their upstream services can accept Amazon CloudWatch metrics did not indicate any issues with DynamoDB but showed that some Lambda functions were hitting their timeout.
Which of the following actions should the Solutions Architect consider to improve performance? (Choose two.)

Question111: A user has launched a dedicated EBS backed instance with EC2. You are curious where the EBS volume for this instance will be created.
Which statement is correct about the EBS volume's creation?

Question112: A Solutions Architect must create a cost-effective backup solution for a company's 500MB source code repository of proprietary and sensitive applications. The repository runs on Linux and backs up daily to tape.
Tape backups are stored for 1 year.
The current solutions are not meeting the company's needs because it is a manual process that is prone to error, expensive to maintain, and does not meet the need for a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 hour or Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. The new disaster recovery requirement is for backups to be stored offsite and to be able to restore a single file if needed.
Which solution meets the customer's needs for RTO, RPO, and disaster recovery with the LEAST effort and expense?

Question113: A company CFO recently analyzed the company's AWS monthly bill and identified an opportunity to reduce the cost for AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments in use. The CFO has asked a Solutions Architect to design a highly available solution that will spin up an Elastic Beanstalk environment in the morning and terminate it at the end of the day.
The solution should be designed with minimal operational overhead and to minimize costs. It should also be able to handle the increased use of Elastic Beanstalk environments among different teams, and must provide a one-stop scheduler solution for all teams to keep the operational costs low.
What design will meet these requirements?

Question114: A company runs its containerized batch jobs on Amazon ECS. The jobs are scheduled by submitting a container image, a task definition, and the relevant data to an Amazon S3 bucket. Container images may be unique per job. Running the jobs as quickly as possible is of utmost importance, so submitting jobs artifacts to the S3 bucket triggers the job to run immediately. Sometimes there may no jobs running at all. However, jobs of any size can be submitted with no prior warning to the IT Operations team. Job definitions include CPU and memory resource requirements.
What solution will allow the batch jobs to complete as quickly as possible after being scheduled?

Question115: IAM Secure and Scalable is an organization which provides scalable and secure SAAS to its clients. They are planning to host a web server and App server on AWS VPC as separate tiers. The organization wants to implement the scalability by configuring Auto Scaling and load balancer with their app servers (middle tier) too.
Which of the below mentioned options suits their requirements?

Question116: A web design company currently runs several FTP servers that their 250 customers use to upload and download large graphic files They wish to move this system to AWS to make it more scalable, but they wish to maintain customer privacy and Keep costs to a minimum.
What AWS architecture would you recommend?

Question117: You need to develop and run some new applications on AWS and you know that Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation can both help as a deployment mechanism for a broad range of AWS resources.
Which of the following is TRUE statements when describing the differences between Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation?