SAP-C02 AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Questions and Answers
A company is using an on-premises Active Directory service for user authentication. The company wants to use the same authentication service to sign in to the company's AWS accounts, which are using AWS Organizations. AWS Site-to-Site VPN connectivity already exists between the on-premises environment and all the company's AWS accounts.
The company's security policy requires conditional access to the accounts based on user groups and roles. User identities must be managed in a single location.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses an on-premises data analytics platform. The system is highly available in a fully redundant configuration across 12 servers in the company's data center.
The system runs scheduled jobs, both hourly and daily, in addition to one-time requests from users.Scheduled jobs can take between 20 minutes and 2 hours to finish running and have tight SLAs. The scheduled jobs account for 65% of the system usage. User jobs typically finish running in less than 5 minutes and have no SLA. The user jobs account for 35% of system usage. During system failures, scheduled jobs must continue to meet SLAs. However, user jobs can be delayed.
A solutions architect needs to move the system to Amazon EC2 instances and adopt a consumption-based model to reduce costs with no long-term commitments. The solution must maintain high availability and must not affect the SLAs.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A solutions architect is designing an AWS account structure for a company that consists of multiple teams. All the teams will work in the same AWS Region. The company needs a VPC that is connected to the on-premises network. The company expects less than 50 Mbps of total traffic to and from the on-premises network.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select TWO.)
A solutions architect is auditing the security setup of an AWS Lambda function for a company. The Lambda function retrieves the latest changes from an Amazon Aurora database. The Lambda function and the database run in the same VPC. Lambda environment variables are providing the database credentials to the Lambda function.
The Lambda function aggregates data and makes the data available in an Amazon S3 bucket that is configured for server-side encryption with AWS KMS managed encryption keys (SSE-KMS). The data must not travel across the internet. If any database credentials become compromised, the company needs a solution that minimizes the impact of the compromise.
What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company is running a web application in a VPC. The web application runs on a group of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The ALB is using AWS WAF.
An external customer needs to connect to the web application. The company must provide IP addresses to all external customers.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is planning a one-time migration of an on-premises MySQL database to Amazon Aurora MySQL in the us-east-1 Region. The company's current internet connection has limited bandwidth. The on-premises MySQL database is 60 TB in size The company estimates that it will take a month to transfer the data to AWS over the current internet connection.
The company needs a migration solution that will migrate the database more quickly
Which solution will migrate the database in the LEAST amount of time?
A company has a website that serves many visitors. The company deploys a backend service for the website in a primary AWS Region and a disaster recovery (DR) Region.
A single Amazon CloudFront distribution is deployed for the website. The company creates an Amazon Route 53 record set with health checks and a failover routing policy for the primary Region's backend service. The company configures the Route 53 record set as an origin for the CloudFront distribution. The company configures another record set that points to the backend service's endpoint in the DR Region as a secondary failover record type. The TTL for both record sets is 60 seconds.
Currently, failover takes more than 1 minute. A solutions architect must design a solution that will provide the fastest failover time.
Which solution will achieve this goal?
A company needs to migrate its on-premises database fleet to Amazon RDS. The company is currently using a mixture of Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle databases. Some of the databases have custom schemas and stored procedures.
Which combination of steps should the company take for the migration? (Select TWO.)
A solutions architect has created a single VPC on AWS. The VPC has one internet gateway and one NAT gateway. The VPC extends across three Availability Zones. Each Availability Zone includes one public subnet and one private subnet. The three private subnets contain Amazon EC2 instances that must be able to connect to the internet.
Which solution will increase the network resiliency of this architecture?
A company has purchased appliances from different vendors. The appliances all have loT sensors. The sensors send status information in the vendors' proprietary formats to a legacy application that parses the information into JSON. The parsing is simple, but each vendor has a unique format. Once daily, the application parses all the JSON records and stores the records in a relational database for analysis.
The company needs to design a new data analysis solution that can deliver faster and optimize costs.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect needs to assess a newly acquired company’s portfolio of applications and databases. The solutions architect must create a business case to migrate the portfolio to AWS. The newly acquired company runs applications in an on-premises data center. The data center is not well documented. The solutions architect cannot immediately determine how many applications and databases exist. Traffic for the applications is variable. Some applications are batch processes that run at the end of each month.
The solutions architect must gain a better understanding of the portfolio before a migration to AWS can begin.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company plans to migrate a legacy on-premises application to AWS. The application is a Java web application that runs on Apache Tomcat with a PostgreSQL database.
The company does not have access to the source code but can deploy the application Java Archive (JAR) files. The application has increased traffic at the end of each month.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company hosts a multi-tier data processing application that consists of a static web application frontend and APIs that are hosted on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The application stores search data on a single-node Amazon OpenSearch Service cluster that runs on an EC2 instance. The application stores additional data in a PostgreSQL database that runs on another EC2 instance. An NGINX server that is hosted on an EC2 instance serves the web application.
The company has experienced some support issues with the application and wants to modernize the application.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is developing a gene reporting device that will collect genomic information to assist researchers with collecting large samples of data from a diverse population. The device will push 8 KB of genomic data every second to a data platform that will need to process and analyze the data and provide information back to researchers. The data platform must meet the following requirements:
•Provide near-real-time analytics of the inbound genomic data
•Ensure the data is flexible, parallel, and durable
•Deliver results of processing to a data warehouse
Which strategy should a solutions architect use to meet these requirements?
A company is migrating to the cloud. It wants to evaluate the configurations of virtual machines in its existing data center environment to ensure that it can size new Amazon EC2 instances accurately. The company wants to collect metrics, such as CPU. memory, and disk utilization, and it needs an inventory of what processes are running on each instance. The company would also like to monitor network connections to map communications between servers.
Which would enable the collection of this data MOST cost effectively?
A company has built a high performance computing (HPC) cluster in AWS tor a tightly coupled workload that generates a large number of shared files stored in Amazon EFS. The cluster was performing well when the number of Amazon EC2 instances in the cluster was 100. However, when the company increased the cluster size to 1,000 EC2 instances, overall performance was well below expectations.
Which collection of design choices should a solutions architect make to achieve the maximum performance from the HPC cluster? (Select THREE.)
A mobile gaming company is expanding into the global market. The company's game servers run in the us-east-1 Region. The game's client application uses UDP to communicate with the game servers and needs to be able to connect to a set of static IP addresses.
The company wants its game to be accessible on multiple continents. The company also wants the game to maintain its network performance and global availability.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company runs a web-crawling process on a list of target URLs to obtain training documents for machine learning (ML) training algorithms. A fleet of Amazon EC2 t2.micro instances pulls the target URLs from an Amazon SQS queue. The instances write the result of the crawling algorithm as a CSV file to an Amazon EFS volume. The EFS volume is mounted on all instances in the fleet.
A second system occasionally adds the URLs to the SQS queue. The EC2 instances crawl each new URL in 10 seconds or less.
Metrics indicate that some instances are idle when no URLs are in the SQS queue. A solutions architect needs to redesign the architecture to optimize costs.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select TWO.)
A company needs to move some on-premises Oracle databases to AWS. The company has chosen to keep some of the databases on premises for business compliance reasons. The on-premises databases contain spatial data and run cron jobs for maintenance. The company needs to connect to the on-premises systems directly from AWS to query data as a foreign table. Which solution will meet these requirements?
An online retail company hosts its stateful web-based application and MySQL database in an on-premises data center on a single server. The company wants to increase its customer base by conducting more marketing campaigns and promotions. In preparation, the company wants to migrate its application and database to AWS to increase the reliability of its architecture.
Which solution should provide the HIGHEST level of reliability?
A company is planning to migrate its applications from an on-premises data center to AWS. The on-premises data center has an AWS Direct Connect connection. The company needs to test IPv6 connectivity in the VPC so that the applications can communicate with more customers worldwide.
A solutions architect has created a VPC with an IPv6 CIDR block.
Which networking configurations will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company runs a proprietary stateless ETL application on an Amazon EC2 Linux instance. The application is a Linux binary, and the source code cannot be modified. The application is single-threaded, uses 2 GB of RAM. and is highly CPU intensive The application is scheduled to run every 4 hours and runs for up to 20 minutes A solutions architect wants to revise the architecture for the solution.
Which strategy should the solutions architect use?
A company uses a Grafana data visualization solution that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance to monitor the health of the company's AWS workloads. The company has invested time and effort to create dashboards that the company wants to preserve. The dashboards need to be highly available and cannot be down for longer than 10 minutes. The company needs to minimize ongoing maintenance.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is planning to migrate an application from on premises to the AWS Cloud The company will begin the migration by moving the application underlying data storage to AWS The application data is stored on a shared tile system on premises and the application servers connect to the shared file system through SMB
A solutions architect must implement a solution that uses an Amazon S3 bucket for shared storage. Until the application is fully migrated and code is rewritten to use native Amazon S3 APIs the application must continue to have access to the data through SMB The solutions architect must migrate the application data to AWS (o its new location while still allowing the on-premises application to access the data
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A research company is running daily simul-ations in the AWS Cloud to meet high demand. The simu-lations run on several hundred Amazon EC2 instances that are based on Amazon Linux 2. Occasionally, a simu-lation gets stuck and requires a cloud operations engineer to solve the problem by connecting to an EC2 instance through SSH.
Company policy states that no EC2 instance can use the same SSH key and that all connections must be logged in AWS CloudTrail.
How can a solutions architect meet these requirements?
A company wants to run a custom network analysis software package to inspect traffic as traffic leaves and enters a VPC. The company has deployed the solution by using AWS Cloud Formation on three Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. All network routing has been established to direct traffic to the EC2 instances.
Whenever the analysis software stops working, the Auto Scaling group replaces an instance. The network routes are not updated when the instance replacement occurs.
Which combination of steps will resolve this issue? {Select THREE.)
A company migrated an application from on-premises VMs to Amazon EC2 instances in an AWS account 6 months ago. Now, the company needs to deploy the application to a second AWS Region. During the next 2 years, the company will redesign parts of the application to use AWS Lambda functions. The company is expecting stable usage patterns for the application for the next 3 years.
Which strategy will MAXIMIZE the cost savings for the company?
A company has dozens of AWS accounts for different teams, applications, and environments. The company has defined a custom set of controls that all accounts must have. The company is concerned that potential misconfigurations in the accounts could lead to security issues or noncompliance. A solutions architect must design a solution that deploys the custom controls by using infrastructure as code (IaC) in a repeatable way. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company runs an ecommerce web application on AWS. The static website is hosted on Amazon S3 and served via Amazon CloudFront. API Gateway invokes AWS Lambda for order processing, and Lambda stores data in an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB cluster (On-Demand Instances).
Recently, SQL injection attacks and latency during peak times (cold starts) have been reported. The company wants to ensure scalability, protect against web exploits, and reduce database costs.
A company runs an application in (he cloud that consists of a database and a website Users can post data to the website, have the data processed, and have the data sent back to them in an email Data is stored in a MySQL database running on an Amazon EC2 instance The database is running in a VPC with two private subnets The website is running on Apache Tomcat in a single EC2 instance in a different VPC with one public subnet There is a single VPC peering connection between the database and website VPC.
The website has suffered several outages during the last month due to high traffic
Which actions should a solutions architect take to increase the reliability of the application? (Select THREE.)
A company uses AWS Organizations with all features enabled to manage its accounts. The company has configured AWS Backup to run every 4 hours on several Amazon EFS mount points in the eu-west-2 Region. The backups are stored in the default vault. The company needs a disaster recovery (DR) plan that restores into the eu-west-1 Region and a specific recovery account. The backups must be encrypted at all times. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A data analytics company has an Amazon Redshift cluster that consists of several reserved nodes. The cluster is experiencing unexpected bursts of usage because a team of employees is compiling a deep audit analysis report. The queries to generate the report are complex read queries and are CPU intensive.
Business requirements dictate that the cluster must be able to service read and write queries at all times. A solutions architect must devise a solution that accommodates the bursts of usage.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company ingests and processes streaming market data. The data rate is constant. A nightly process that calculates aggregate statistics is run, and each execution takes about 4 hours to complete. The statistical analysis is not mission critical to the business, and previous data points are picked up on the next execution if a particular run fails.
The current architecture uses a pool of Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances with 1-year reservations running full time to ingest and store the streaming data in attached Amazon EBS volumes. On-Demand EC2 instances are launched each night to perform the nightly processing, accessing the stored data from NFS shares on the ingestion servers, and terminating the nightly processing servers when complete. The Reserved Instance reservations are expiring, and the company needs to determine whether to purchase new reservations or implement a new design.
Which is the most cost-effective design?
A company has developed a hybrid solution between its data center and AWS. The company uses Amazon VPC and Amazon EC2 instances that send application togs to Amazon CloudWatch. The EC2 instances read data from multiple relational databases that are hosted on premises.
The company wants to monitor which EC2 instances are connected to the databases in near-real time. The company already has a monitoring solution that uses Splunk on premises. A solutions architect needs to determine how to send networking traffic to Splunk.
How should the solutions architect meet these requirements?
A company is migrating mobile banking applications to run on Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC. Backend service applications run in an on-premises data center. The data center has an AWS Direct Connect connection into AWS. The applications that run in the VPC need to resolve DNS requests to an on-premises Active Directory domain that runs in the data center.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?
A company needs to migrate a 2 TB MySQL database from an on-premises data center to an Amazon Aurora cluster. The database receives hundreds of updates every minute. The on-premises database server is not accessible through the internet.
The migration solution must ensure that no data is lost between the start of migration and cutover. The migration must begin as soon as possible and must minimize downtime.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has a serverless application comprised of Amazon CloudFront, Amazon API Gateway, and AWS Lambda functions. The current deployment process of the application code is to create a new version number of the Lambda function and run an AWS CLI script to update. If the new function version has errors, another CLI script reverts by deploying the previous working version of the function. The company would like to decrease the time to deploy new versions of the application logic provided by the Lambda functions, and also reduce the time to detect and revert when errors are identified.
How can this be accomplished?
A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. The application uses AWS Lambda functions and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) containers that run with AWS Fargate technology as its primary compute. The load on the application is irregular. The application experiences long periods of no usage, followed by sudden and significant increases and decreases in traffic. The application is write-heavy and stores data in an Amazon Aurora MySQL database. The database runs on an Amazon RDS memory optimized DB instance that is not able to handle the load.
What is the MOST cost-effective way for the company to handle the sudden and significant changes in traffic?
A company's solutions architect needs to provide secure Remote Desktop connectivity to users for Amazon EC2 Windows instances that are hosted in a VPC. The solution must integrate centralized user management with the company's on-premises Active Directory. Connectivity to the VPC is through the internet. The company has hardware that can be used to establish an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is developing a new service that will be accessed using TCP on a static port A solutions architect must ensure that the service is highly available, has redundancy across Availability Zones, and is accessible using the DNS name myservice.com, which is publicly accessible The service must use fixed address assignments so other companies can add the addresses to their allow lists.
Assuming that resources are deployed in multiple Availability Zones in a single Region, which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has deployed its database on an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in the us-east-1 Region. The company needs to make its data available to customers in Europe. The customers in Europe must have access to the same data as customers in the United States (US) and will not tolerate high application latency or stale data. The customers in Europe and the customers in the USneed to write to the database. Both groups of customers need to see updates from the other group in real time.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has many services running in its on-premises data center. The data center is connected to AWS using AWS Direct Connect (DX)and an IPsec VPN. The service data is sensitive and connectivity cannot traverse the interne. The company wants to expand to a new market segment and begin offering Is services to other companies that are using AWS.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an asynchronous HTTP application that is hosted as an AWS Lambda function. A public Amazon API Gateway endpoint invokes the Lambda function. The Lambda function and the API Gateway endpoint reside in the us-east-1 Region. A solutions architect needs to redesign the application to support failover to another AWS Region.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs to improve the security of its web-based application on AWS. The application uses Amazon CloudFront with two custom origins. The first custom origin routes requests to an Amazon API Gateway HTTP API. The second custom origin routes traffic to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The application integrates with an OpenlD Connect (OIDC) identity provider (IdP) for user management.
A security audit shows that a JSON Web Token (JWT) authorizer provides access to the API The security audit also shows that the ALB accepts requests from unauthenticated users
A solutions architect must design a solution to ensure that all backend services respond to only authenticated users
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company wants to use Amazon S3 to back up its on-premises file storage solution. The company's on-premises file storage solution supports NFS, and the company wants its new solution to support NFS. The company wants to archive the backup files after 5 days. If the company needs archived files for disaster recovery, t he company is willing to wait a few days for the retrieval of those files.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company's solutions architect is reviewing a new internally developed application in a sandbox AWS account The application uses an AWS Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances that have an IAM instance profile attached Part of the application logic creates and accesses secrets from AWS Secrets Manager The company has an AWS Lambda function that calls the application API to test the functionality The company also has created an AWS CloudTrail trail in the account
The application's developer has attached the SecretsManagerReadWnte AWS managed IAM policy to an IAM role The IAM role is associated with the instance profile that is attached to the EC2 instances The solutions architect has invoked the Lambda function for testing
The solutions architect must replace the SecretsManagerReadWnte policy with a new policy that provides least privilege access to the Secrets Manager actions that the application requires
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?
A company needs to optimize the cost of an AWS environment that contains multiple accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company conducted cost optimization activities 3 years ago and purchased Amazon EC2 Standard Reserved Instances that recently expired.
The company needs EC2 instances for 3 more years. Additionally, the company has deployed a new serverless workload.
Which strategy will provide the company with the MOST cost savings?
A company runs a highly available data collection application on Amazon EC2 in the eu-north-1 Region. The application collects data from end-user devices and writes records to an Amazon Kinesis data stream and a set of AWS Lambda functions that process the records. The company persists the output of the record processing to an Amazon S3 bucket in eu-north-1. The company uses the data in the S3 bucket as a data source for Amazon Athena.
The company wants to increase its global presence. A solutions architect must launch the data collection capabilities in the sa-east-1 and ap-northeast-1 Regions. The solutions architect deploys the application, the Kinesis data stream, and the Lambda functions in the two new Regions. The solutions architect keeps the S3 bucket in eu-north-1 to meet a requirement to centralize the data analysis.
During testing of the new setup, the solutions architect notices a significant lag on the arrival of data from the new Regions to the S3 bucket.
Which solution will improve this lag time the MOST?
A company is planning a large event where a promotional offer will be introduced. The company's website is hosted on AWS and backed by an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance. The website explains the promotion and includes a sign-up page that collects user information andpreferences. Management expects large and unpredictable volumes of traffic periodically, which will create many database writes. A solutions architect needs to build a solution that does not change the underlying data model and ensures that submissions are not dropped before they are committed to the database.
Which solutions meets these requirements?
A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. The application runs on containers in an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster. The ECS tasks use the Fargate launch type. The application's data is relational and is stored in Amazon Aurora MySQL. To meet regulatory requirements, the application must be able to recover to a separate AWS Region in the event of an application failure. In case of a failure, no data can be lost. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
A company wants to retire its Oracle Solaris NFS storage arrays. The company requires rapid data migration over its internet network connection to a combination of destinations for Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. The company also requires a full initial copy, as well as incremental transfers of changes until the retirement of the storage arrays. All data must be encrypted and checked for integrity.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company has a new requirement to store all database backups in an isolated AWS account. The company is using AWS Organizations and has created a central write-once, read-many (WORM) account for the backups.
The company has 40 Amazon RDS for MySQL databases in its production account. The databases are encrypted with the default RDS AWS KMS key. RDS automated backups of the databases occur daily and have a retention period of 30 days.
Which solution will successfully copy the database backups to the central account?
A company hosts a VPN in an on-premises data center. Employees currently connect to the VPN to access files in their Windows home directories. Recently, there has been a large growth in the number of employees who work remotely. As a result, bandwidth usage for connections into the data center has begun to reach 100% during business hours.
The company must design a solution on AWS that will support the growth of the company's remote workforce, reduce the bandwidth usage for connections into the data center, and reduce operational overhead.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select TWO.)
A company has an loT platform that runs in an on-premises environment. The platform consists of a server that connects to loT devices by using the MQTT protocol. The platform collects telemetry data from the devices at least once every 5 minutes The platform also stores device metadata in a MongoDB cluster
An application that is installed on an on-premises machine runs periodic jobs to aggregate and transform the telemetry and device metadata The application creates reports that users view by using another web application that runs on the same on-premises machine The periodic jobs take 120-600 seconds to run However, the web application is always running.
The company is moving the platform to AWS and must reduce the operational overhead of the stack.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select THREE.)
A solutions architect is preparing to deploy a new security tool into several previously unused AWS Regions. The solutions architect will deploy the tool by using an AWS CloudFormation stack set. The stack set's template contains an 1AM role that has a custom name. Upon creation of the stack set. no stack instances are created successfully.
What should the solutions architect do to deploy the stacks successfully?
A solutions architect needs to define a reference architecture for a solution for three-tier applications with web. application, and NoSQL data layers. The reference architecture must meet the following requirements:
•High availability within an AWS Region
•Able to fail over in 1 minute to another AWS Region for disaster recovery
•Provide the most efficient solution while minimizing the impact on the user experience
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A financial services company in North America plans to release a new online web application to its customers on AWS . The company will launch the application in the us-east-1 Region on Amazon EC2 instances. The application must be highly available and must dynamically scale to meet user traffic. The company also wants to implement a disaster recovery environment for the application in the us-west-1 Region by using active-passive failover.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. The application is using a MongoDB database with a replica set as its data tier. The MongoDB database is installed on systems in the company's on-premises data center and is accessible through an AWS Direct Connect connection to the data center environment.
A solutions architect must migrate the on-premises MongoDB database to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility).
Which strategy should the solutions architect choose to perform this migration?
A company is expanding. The company plans to separate its resources into hundreds of different AWS accounts in multiple AWS Regions. A solutions architect must recommend a solution that denies access to any operations outside of specifically designated Regions.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs a latency-sensitive application that consumes messages from an Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) cluster. The MSK cluster runs across three Availability Zones.
The current MSK cluster uses Standard brokers with two standard large instances in each Availability Zone. The company wants to minimize latency between Apache Kafka clients that are deployed in the same Availability Zones as the brokers. The company wants to increase available bandwidth and to increase the scaling speed of the cluster. Clients currently use default settings. Some downtime is acceptable while the company implements a solution.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has millions of objects in an Amazon S3 bucket. The objects are in the S3 Standard storage class. All the S3 objects are accessed frequently. The number of users and applications that access the objects is increasing rapidly. The objects are encrypted with server-side encryption with AWS KMS Keys (SSE-KMS).
A solutions architect reviews the company's monthly AWS invoice and notices that AWS KMS costs are increasing because of the high number of requests from Amazon S3. The solutions architect needs to optimize costs with minimal changes to the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has a solution that analyzes weather data from thousands of weather stations. The weather stations send the data over an Amazon API Gateway REST API that has an AWS Lambda function integration. The Lambda function calls a third-party service for data pre-processing. The third-party service gets overloadedand fails the pre-processing, causing a loss of data.
A solutions architect must improve the resiliency of the solution. The solutions architect must ensure that no data is lost and that data can be processed later if failures occur.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A finance company hosts a data lake in Amazon S3. The company receives financial data records over SFTP each night from several third parties. The company runs its own SFTP server on an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subnet of a VPC. After the files ate uploaded, they are moved to the data lake by a cron job that runs on the same instance. The SFTP server is reachable on DNS sftp.examWe.com through the use of Amazon Route 53.
What should a solutions architect do to improve the reliability and scalability of the SFTP solution?
A company uses AWS Cloud Formation to deploy its infrastructure. The company is concerned that data stored in Amazon RDS databases or Amazon EBS volumes might be deleted if a production Cloud Formation stack is deleted.
How can the company prevent users from accidentally deleting data in this way?
An events company runs a ticketing platform on AWS. The company's customers configure and schedule their events on the platform The events result in large increases of traffic to the platform The company knows the date and time of each customer's events
The company runs the platform on an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster The ECS cluster consists of Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The Auto Scaling group uses a predictive scaling policy
The ECS cluster makes frequent requests to an Amazon S3 bucket to download ticket assets The ECS cluster and the S3 bucket are in the same AWS Region and the same AWS account Traffic between the ECS cluster and the S3 bucket flows across a NAT gateway
The company needs to optimize the cost of the platform without decreasing the platform's availability
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO)
A company is migrating internal business applications to Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS in a VPC. The migration requires connecting the cloud-based applications to the on-premises internal network. The company wants to set up an AWS 5ite-to-5ite VPN connection. The company has created two separate customer gateways. The gateways are configured for static routing and have been assigned distinct public IP addresses.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. The company's security team must approve the creation of all new IAM users. When a new IAM user is created, all access for the user must be removed automatically. The security team must then receive a notification to approve the user. The company has a multi-Region AWS CloudTrail trail In the AWS account.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A global ecommerce company has many data centers worldwide. The company needs scalable cloud storage for legacy file applications. Requirements:
Must support iSCSI access from on-premises servers.
Must support point-in-time snapshots via AWS Backup.
Must retain low-latency access to frequently accessed data.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs to use an AWS Transfer Family SFTP-enabled server with an Amazon S3 bucket to receive updates from a third-party data supplier. The data is encrypted with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption The company needs a solution that will automatically decrypt the data after the company receives the data
A solutions architect will use a Transfer Family managed workflow The company has created an 1AM service role by using an 1AM policy that allows access to AWS Secrets Manager and the S3 bucket The role's trust relationship allows the transfer amazonaws com service to assume the rote
What should the solutions architect do next to complete the solution for automatic decryption'?
A company needs to establish a connection from its on-premises data center to AWS. The company needs to connect all of its VPCs that are located in different AWS Regions with transitive routing capabilities between VPC networks. The company also must reduce network outbound traffic costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a consistent network experience for end users.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect at a large company needs to set up network security tor outbound traffic to the internet from all AWS accounts within an organization in AWS Organizations. The organization has more than 100 AWS accounts, and the accounts route to each other by using a centralized AWS Transit Gateway. Each account has both an internet gateway and a NAT gateway tor outbound traffic to the internet The company deploys resources only into a single AWS Region.
The company needs the ability to add centrally managed rule-based filtering on all outbound traffic to the internet for all AWS accounts in the organization. The peak load of outbound traffic will not exceed 25 Gbps in each Availability Zone.
Which solution meets these requirements?
Question:
A company is modernizing a legacy.NET Frameworkapplication backed by SQL Server. Requirements:
Containerize into microservices.
Control OS patches and storage.
Add load balancing.
Ensure high availability.Which solution meets all of these with minimal refactoring?
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage the company's AWS accounts. The company uses AWS CloudFormation to deploy all infrastructure. A finance team wants to buikJ a chargeback model The finance team asked each business unit to tag resources by using a predefined list of project values.
When the finance team used the AWS Cost and Usage Report in AWS Cost Explorer and filtered based on project, the team noticed noncompliant project values. The company wants to enforce the use of project tags for new resources.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?
A company's public API runs as tasks on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The tasks run on AWS Fargate behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and are configured with Service Auto Scaling for the tasks based on CPU utilization. This service has been running well for several months.
Recently, API performance slowed down and made the application unusable. The company discovered that a significant number of SQL injection attacks had occurred against the API and that the API service had scaled to its maximum amount.
A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that prevents SQL injection attacks from reaching the ECS API service. The solution must allow legitimate traffic through and must maximize operational efficiency.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A retail company has structured its AWS accounts to be part of an organization in AWS Organizations. The company has set up consolidated billing and has mapped its departments to the following OUs: Finance. Sales. Human Resources The HR department is releasing a new system thai will launch in 3 months. In preparation, the HR department has purchased several Reserved Instances (RIs) in its production AWS account. The HR department will install the new application on this account. The HR department wants to make sure that other departments cannot share the Rl discounts. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses an AWS CodeCommit repository The company must store a backup copy of the data that is in the repository in a second AWS Region
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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A company provisions short-lived AWS accounts for students. Each account needs access to ml.p2.xlarge SageMaker instances for training and inference. The default quotas are insufficient.
How should quota increases be automated during account provisioning?
A company is designing its network configuration in the AWS Cloud. The company uses AWS Organizations to manage a multi-account setup. The company has three OUs. Each OU contains more than 100 AWS accounts. Each account has a single VPC, and all the VPCs in each OU are in the same AWS Region.
The CIDR ranges for all the AWS accounts do not overlap. The company needs to implement a solution in which VPCs in the same OU can communicate with each other but cannot communicatewith VPCs in other OUs.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company generates approximately 20 GB of data multiple times each day. The company uses AWS DataSync to copy all data from on-premises storage to Amazon S3 every 6 hours for further processing.
The analytics team wants to modify the copy process to copy only data relevant to the analytics team and ignore the rest of the data. The team wants to copy data as soon as possible and receive a notification when the copy process is finished.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select THREE.)
A company hosts a metadata API on Amazon EC2 instances behind an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB). Only internal applications that run on EC2 instances in separate AWS accounts need to access the metadata API. All the internal EC2 instances use NAT gateways.
A new policy requires that traffic between internal applications must not travel across the public internet.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company needs to implement a patching process for its servers. The on-premises servers and Amazon EC2 instances use a variety of tools to perform patching. Management requires a single report showing the patch status of all the servers and instances.
Which set of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements?
A company with global offices has a single 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection to a single AWS Region. The company's on-premises network uses the connection to communicate with the company's resources in the AWS Cloud. The connection has a single private virtual interface that connects to a single VPC.
A solutions architect must implement a solution that adds a redundant Direct Connect connection in the same Region. The solution also must provide connectivity to other Regions through the same pair of Direct Connect connections as the company expands into other Regions.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company has developed a mobile game. The backend for the game runs on several virtual machines located in an on-premises data center. The business logic is exposed using a REST API with multiple functions. Player session data is stored in central file storage. Backend services use different API keys for throttling and to distinguish between live and test traffic.
The load on the game backend varies throughout the day. During peak hours, the server capacity is not sufficient. There are also latency issues when fetching player session data. Management has asked a solutions architect to present a cloud architecture that can handle the game's varying load and provide low-latency data access. The API model should not be changed.
Which solution meets these requirements?
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A company hosts an application that uses several Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). During the initial startup of the EC2 instances, the EC2 instances run user data scripts to download critical content for the application from an Amazon S3 bucket.
The EC2 instances are launching correctly. However, after a period of time, the EC2 instances are terminated with the following error message:
“An instance was taken out of service in response to an ELB system health check failure.”
The only recent change to the deployment is that the company added a large amount of critical content to the S3 bucket.
What should a solutions architect do so that the production environment can deploy successfully?
A solutions architect wants to cost-optimize and appropriately size Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS account. The solutions architect wants to ensure that the instances are optimized based on CPU, memory, and network metrics.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company is developing a new on-demand video application that is based on microservices. The application will have 5 million users at launch and will have 30 million users after 6 months. The company has deployed the application on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate. The company developed the application by using ECS services that use the HTTPS protocol.
A solutions architect needs to implement updates to the application by using blue/green deployments. The solution must distribute traffic to each ECS service through a load balancer. The application must automatically adjust the number of tasks in response to an Amazon CloudWatch alarm.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is developing and hosting several projects in the AWS Cloud. The projects are developed across multiple AWS accounts under the same organization in AWS Organizations. The company requires the cost lor cloud infrastructure to be allocated to the owning project. The team responsible for all of the AWS accounts has discovered that several Amazon EC2 instances are lacking the Project tag used for cost allocation.
Which actions should a solutions architect take to resolve the problem and prevent it from happening in the future? (Select THREE.)
A health insurance company stores personally identifiable information (PII) in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company uses server-side encryption with S3 managed encryption keys (SSE-S3) to encrypt the objects. According to a new requirement, all current and future objects in the S3 bucket must be encrypted by keys that the company’s security team manages. The S3 bucket does not have versioning enabled.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A financial company is planning to migrate its web application from on premises to AWS. The company uses a third-party security tool to monitor the inbound traffic to the application. The company has used the security tool for the last 15 years, and the tool has no cloud solutions available from its vendor. The company's security team is concerned about how to integrate the security tool with AWS technology.
The company plans to deploy the application migration to AWS on Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances will run in an Auto Scaling group in a dedicated VPC. The company needs to use the security tool to inspect all packets that come in and out of the VPC. This inspection must occur in real time and must not affect the application's performance. A solutions architect must design a target architecture on AWS that is highly available within an AWS Region.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A solutions architect must update an application environment within AWS Elastic Beanstalk using a blue/green deployment methodology The solutions architect creates an environment that is identical to the existing application environment and deploys the application to the new environment.
What should be done next to complete the update?
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A SaaS web app runs on EC2 Linux behind an ALB. It storesuser sessionsin an RDS Multi-AZ database. During high traffic, the app suffers latency due to session read/write.
What is the best way to reduce session latency?
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An online gaming company needs to optimize the cost of its workloads on AWS. The company uses a dedicated account to host the production environment for its online gaming application and an analytics application.
Amazon EC2 instances host the gaming application and must always be vailable. The EC2 instances run all year. The analytics application uses data that is stored in Amazon S3. The analytics application can be interrupted and resumed without issue.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company uses a load balancer to distribute traffic to Amazon EC2 instances in a single Availability Zone. The company is concerned about security and wants a solutions architect to re-architect the solution to meet the following requirements:
•Inbound requests must be filtered for common vulnerability attacks.
•Rejected requests must be sent to a third-party auditing application.
•All resources should be highly available.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company is migrating an application from on-premises infrastructure to the AWS Cloud. During migration design meetings, the company expressed concerns about the availability and recovery options for its legacy Windows file server. The file server contains sensitive business-critical data that cannot be recreated in the event of data corruption or data loss. According to compliance requirements, the data must not travel across the public internet. The company wants to move to AWS managed services where possible.
The company decides to store the data in an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system. A solutions architect must design a solution that copies the data to another AWS Region for disaster recovery (DR) purposes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants to migrate to AWS. The company wants to use a multi-account structure with centrally managed access to all accounts and applications. The company also wants to keep the traffic on a private network. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is required at login, and specific roles are assigned to user groups.
The company must create separate accounts for development. staging, production, and shared network. The production account and the shared network account must have connectivity to all accounts. The development account and the staging account must have access only to each other.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take 10 meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
A software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider exposes APIs through an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The ALB connects to an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster that is deployed in the us-east-I Region. The exposed APIs contain usage of a few non-standard REST methods: LINK, UNLINK, LOCK, and UNLOCK.
Users outside the United States are reporting long and inconsistent response times for these APIs. A solutions architect needs to resolve this problem with a solution that minimizes operational overhead.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage more than 1.000 AWS accounts. The company has created a new developer organization. There are 540 developer member accounts that must be moved to the new developer organization. All accounts are set up with all the required Information so that each account can be operated as a standalone account.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to move all of the developer accounts to the new developer organization? (Select THREE.)
A company operates an on-premises software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that ingests several files daily. The company provides multiple public SFTP endpoints to its customers to facilitate the file transfers. The customers add the SFTP endpoint IP addresses to their firewall allow list for outbound traffic. Changes to the SFTP endmost IP addresses are not permitted.
The company wants to migrate the SaaS solution to AWS and decrease the operational overhead of the file transfer service.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company runs AWS workloads that are integrated with software as a service (SaaS) applications. The company needs to analyze the SaaS applications to identify unused licenses. Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
During an audit, a security team discovered that a development team was putting IAM user secret access keys in their code and then committing it to an AWS CodeCommit repository. The security team wants to automatically find and remediate instances of this security vulnerability.
Which solution will ensure that the credentials are appropriately secured automatically7
A company creates an AWS Control Tower landing zone to manage and govern a multi-account AWS environment. The company's security team will deploy preventive controls and detective controls to monitor AWS services across all the accounts. The security team needs a centralized view of the security state of all the accounts.
Which solution will meet these requirements'?
A company is planning to migrate its business-critical applications from an on-premises data center to AWS. The company has an on-premises installation of a Microsoft SQL Server Always On cluster. The company wants to migrate to an AWS managed database service. A solutions architect must design a heterogeneous database migration on AWS.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A video processing company wants to build a machine learning (ML) model by using 600 TB of compressed data that is stored as thousands of files in the company's on-premises network attached storage system. The company does not have the necessary compute resources on premises for ML experiments and wants to use AWS.
The company needs to complete the data transfer to AWS within 3 weeks. The data transfer will be a one-time transfer. The data must be encrypted in transit. The measured upload speed of the company's internet connection is 100 Mbps, and multiple departments share the connection.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company has loT sensors that monitor traffic patterns throughout a large city. The company wants to read and collect data from the sensors and perform aggregations on the data.
A solutions architect designs a solution in which the loT devices are streaming to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Several applications are reading from the stream. However, several consumers are experiencing throttling and are periodically and are periodically encountering a RealProvisioned Throughput Exceeded error.
Which actions should the solution architect take to resolve this issue? (Select THREE.)
A company has an application that uses Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The quality assurance (QA) department needs to launch and test the application. The application environments are currently launched by the manager of the department using an AWS CloudFormation template. To launch the stack, the manager uses a role with permission to use CloudFormation, EC2, and Auto Scaling APIs. The manager wants to allow QA to launch environments, but does not want to grant broad permissions to each user.
Which set up would achieve these goals?
A company has multiple AWS accounts. The company recently had a security audit that revealed many unencrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes attached to Amazon EC2 instances.
A solutions architect must encrypt the unencrypted volumes and ensure that unencrypted volumes will be detected automatically in the future. Additionally, the company wants a solution that can centrally manage multiple AWS accounts with a focus on compliance and security.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
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How should a companyefficiently processinfrequently uploaded S3 data using a long-running (up to 25 minutes) custom application?
A company has an application that is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances are part of an Auto Scaling group.Theapplication has unpredictable workloads and frequently scales out and in. The company's development team wants to analyze application logs to find ways to improve the application's performance. However, the logs are no longer available after instances scale in.
Which solution will give the development team the ability to view the application logs after a scale-in event?
A company migrated an application to the AWS Cloud. The application runs on two Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Application data is stored in a MySQL database that runs on an additional EC2 instance. The application's use of the database is read-heavy.
The loads static content from Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that are attached to each EC2 instance. The static content is updated frequently and must be copied to each EBS volume.
The load on the application changes throughout the day. During peak hours, the application cannot handle all the incoming requests. Trace data shows that the database cannot handle the read load during peak hours.
Which solution will improve the reliability of the application?
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A company is migrating its on-premises file transfer solution to AWS Transfer Family. The current system includes an SFTP server, a transformation application, and a messaging server. Transformations run every 5 minutes and notify the messaging server when complete.
The company wants to simplify and reduce operational overhead.
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How can applications in multiple AWS accounts privately access aPostgreSQL RDS instancein a separate AWS account, while managing the number of connections?
A company is storing sensitive data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company must log all activities for objects in the S3 bucket and must keep the logs for 5 years. The company's security team also must receive an email notification every time there is an attempt to delete data in the S3 bucket.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select THREE.)
A company runs a website on Amazon ECS containers that use the AWS Fargate launch type. The company configures AWS Application Auto Scaling by using a target tracking scaling policy. The company sets the request count as the scaling metric. An Application Load Balancer (ALB) serves traffic to the ECS containers. The website serves images on request and resizes the images to a predefined size to match the viewers' screens. After the website resizes an image, the website caches the image locally in a container and serves subsequent requests from the cache.
During periods of high traffic, the company observed that images load slowly and with high latency. The company wants to minimize the latency to serve images.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company wants to deploy an AWS WAF solution to manage AWS WAF rules across multiple AWS accounts. The accounts are managed under different OUs in AWS Organizations.
Administrators must be able to add or remove accounts or OUs from managed AWS WAF rule sets as needed Administrators also must have the ability to automatically update and remediate noncompliant AWS WAF rules in all accounts
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
A company has several AWS accounts. A development team is building an automation framework for cloud governance and remediation processes. The automation framework uses AWS Lambda functions in a centralized account. A solutions architect must implement a least privilege permissions policy that allows the Lambda functions to run in each of the company's AWS accounts.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company is storing data in several Amazon DynamoDB tables. A solutions architect must use a serverless architecture to make the data accessible publicly through a simple API over HTTPS. The solution must scale automatically in response to demand.
Which solutions meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company is migrating its legacy .NET workload to AWS. The company has a containerized setup that includes a base container image. The base image is tens of
gigabytes in size because of legacy libraries and other dependencies. The company has images for custom developed components that are dependent on the base image.
The company will use Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) as part of its solution on AWS.
Which solution will provide the LOWEST container startup time on AWS?
A North American company with headquarters on the East Coast is deploying a new web application running on Amazon EC2 in the us-east-1 Region. The application should dynamically scale to meet user demand and maintain resiliency. Additionally, the application must have disaster recover capabilities in an active-passive configuration with the us-west-1 Region.
Which steps should a solutions architect take after creating a VPC in the us-east-1 Region?
A global ecommerce company has many data centers around the world. With the growth of its stored data, the company needs to set up a solution to provide scalable storage for legacy on-premises file applications. The company must be able to take point-in-time copies of volumes by using AWS Backup and must retain low-latency access to frequently accessed data. The company also needs to have storage volumes that can be mounted as Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) devices from the company's on-premises application servers.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants to migrate an application to Amazon EC2 from VMware Infrastructure that runs in an on-premises data center. A solutions architect must preserve the software and configuration settings during the migration.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company has hundreds of AWS accounts. The company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage all the accounts. The company has turned on all features.
A finance team has allocated a daily budget for AWS costs. The finance team must receive an email notification if the organization's AWS costs exceed 80% of the allocated budget. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to track the costs and deliver the notifications.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is in the process of implementing AWS Organizations to constrain its developers to use only Amazon EC2. Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB. The developers account resides In a dedicated organizational unit (OU). The solutions architect has implemented the following SCP on the developers account:
When this policy is deployed, IAM users in the developers account are still able to use AWS services that are not listed in the policy. What should the solutions architect do to eliminate the developers' ability to use services outside the scope of this policy?
A company wants to refactor its retail ordering web application that currently has a load-balanced Amazon EC2 instance fleet for web hosting, database API services, and business logic. The company needs to create a decoupled, scalable architecture with a mechanism for retaining failed orders while also minimizing operational costs.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company use an organization in AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. The company hosts some applications in a VPC in the company's snared services account. The company has attached a transit gateway to the VPC in the Shared services account.
The company is developing a new capability and has created a development environment that requires access to the applications that are in the snared services account. The company intends to delete and recreate resources frequently in the development account. The company also wants to give a development team the ability to recreate the team's connection to the shared services account as required.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company provides a centralized Amazon EC2 application hosted in a single shared VPC The centralized application must be accessible from client applications running in the VPCs of other business units The centralized application front end is configured with a Network Load Balancer (NLB) for scalability
Up to 10 business unit VPCs will need to be connected to the shared VPC Some ot the business unit VPC CIDR blocks overlap with the shared VPC and some overlap with each other Network connectivity to the centralized application in the shared VPC should be allowed from authorized business unit VPCs only
Which network configuration should a solutions architect use to provide connectivity from the client applications in the business unit VPCs to the centralized application in the shared VPC?
A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. Recent application metrics show inconsistent response times and a significant increase in error rates. Calls to third-party services are causing the delays. Currently, the application calls third-party services synchronously by directly invoking an AWS Lambda function.
A solutions architect needs to decouple the third-party service calls and ensure that all the calls are eventually completed.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an online learning platform that teaches data science. The platform uses the AWS Cloud to provision on-demand lab environments for its students. Each student receives a dedicated AWS account for a short time. Students need access to ml.p2.xlarge instances to run a single Amazon SageMaker machine learning training job and to deploy the inference endpoint. Account provisioning is automated. The accounts are members of an organization in AWS Organizations with all features enabled. The accounts must be provisioned in the ap-southeast-2 Region. The default resource usage quotas are not sufficient for the accounts. A solutions architect must enhance the account provisioning process to include automated quota increases. Which solution will meet these requirements?
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A solutions architect is importing a VM from an on-premises environment by using the Amazon EC2 VM Import feature. The imported instance has a public IP and runs in a public subnet in a VPC. However, the instance doesnot appearin the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) console as a managed instance.
Which combination of steps should the architect take to resolve the issue? (Select TWO.)
A company has multiple AWS accounts that are in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company needs to store AWS account activity and query the data from a central location by using SQL.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is using an organization in AWS organization to manage AWS accounts. For each new project the company creates a new linked account. After the creation of a new account, the root user signs in to the new account and creates a service request to increase the service quota for Amazon EC2 instances. A solutions architect needs to automate this process.
Which solution will meet these requirements with tie LEAST operational overhead?
A solutions architect needs to migrate an on-premises legacy application to AWS. The application runs on two servers behind a bad balancer. The application requires a license file that is associated with the MAC address of the server's network adapter. It takes the software vendor 12 hours to send new license files. The application also uses configuration files with a static IP address to access a database host names are not supported.
Given these requirements. which combination of steps should be taken to implement highly available architecture for the application servers in AWS? (Select TWO.)
A company is building a solution in the AWS Cloud. Thousands or devices will connect to the solution and send data. Each device needs to be able to send and receive data in real time over the MQTT protocol. Each device must authenticate by using a unique X.509 certificate.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has developed a hybrid solution between its data center and AWS. The company uses Amazon VPC and Amazon EC2 instances that send application logs to Amazon CloudWatch. The EC2 instances read data from multiple relational databases that are hosted on premises.
The company wants to monitor which EC2 instances are connected to the databases in near real time. The company already has a monitoring solution that uses Splunk on premises. A solutions architect needs to determine how to send networking traffic to Splunk.
How should the solutions architect meet these requirements?
A company is launching a new online game on Amazon EC2 instances. The game must be available globally. The company plans to run the game in three AWS Regions: us-east-1, eu-west-1, and ap-southeast-1. The game's leaderboards. player inventory, and event status must be available across Regions.
A solutions architect must design a solution that will give any Region the ability to scale to handle the load of all Regions. Additionally, users must automatically connect to the Region that provides the least latency.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company needs to architect a hybrid DNS solution. This solution will use an Amazon Route 53 private hosted zone for the domain cloud.example.com for the resources stored within VPCs.
The company has the following DNS resolution requirements:
• On-premises systems should be able to resolve and connect to cloud.example.com.
• All VPCs should be able to resolve cloud.example.com.
There is already an AWS Direct Connect connection between the on-premises corporate network and AWS Transit Gateway. Which architecture should the company use to meet these requirements with the HIGHEST performance?
A company uses AWS Organizations for a multi-account setup in the AWS Cloud. The company uses AWS Control Tower for governance and uses AWS Transit Gateway for VPC connectivityacross accounts.
In an AWS application account, the company's application team has deployed a web application that uses AWS Lambda and Amazon RDS. The company's database administrators have a separate DBA account and use the account to centrally manage all the databases across the organization. The database administrators use an Amazon EC2 instance that is deployed in the DBA account to access an RDS database that is deployed in the application account.
The application team has stored the database credentials as secrets in AWS Secrets Manager in the application account. The application team is manually sharing the secrets with the database administrators. The secrets are encrypted by the default AWS managed key for Secrets Manager in the application account. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that gives the database administrators access to the database and eliminates the need to manually share the secrets.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company provides a software as a service (SaaS) application that runs in the AWS Cloud. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network LoadBalancer (NLB). The instances are in an Auto Scaling group and are distributed across three Availability Zones in a single AWS Region.
The company is deploying the application into additional Regions. The company must provide static IP addresses for the application to customers so that the customers can add the IP addresses to allow lists.
The solution must automatically route customers to the Region that is geographically closest to them.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company that provides image storage services wants to deploy a customer-lacing solution to AWS. Millions of individual customers will use the solution. The solution will receive batches of large image files, resize the files, and store the files in an Amazon S3 bucket for up to 6 months.
The solution must handle significant variance in demand. The solution must also be reliable at enterprise scale and have the ability to rerun processing jobs in the event of failure.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company completed a successful Amazon Workspaces proof of concept. They now want to make Workspaceshighly available across two AWS Regions. Workspaces are deployed in the failover Region. A hosted zone is available in Amazon Route 53.
What should the solutions architect do?
A company runs a new application as a static website in Amazon S3. The company has deployed the application to a production AWS account and uses Amazon CloudFront to deliver the website. The website calls an Amazon API Gateway REST API. An AWS Lambda function backs each API method.
The company wants to create a CSV report every 2 weeks to show each API Lambda function’s recommended configured memory, recommended cost, and the price difference between current configurations and the recommendations. The company will store the reports in an S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development time?
A company hosts a web application on AWS in the us-east-1 Region The application servers are distributed across three Availability Zones behind an Application Load Balancer. The database is hosted in a MySQL database on an Amazon EC2 instance A solutions architect needs to design a Cross-Region data recovery solution using AWS services with an RTO of less than 5 minutes and an RPO of less than 1 minute. The solutions architect is deploying application servers in us-west-2, and has configured Amazon Route 53 hearth checks and DNS failover to us-west-2
Which additional step should the solutions architect take?
A company is building an application on Amazon EMR to analyze data. The following user groups need to perform different actions:
• Administrator: Provision EMR clusters from different configurations.
• Data engineer: Create an EMR cluster from a small set of available configurations. Run ETL scripts to process data.
• Data analyst: Create an EMR cluster with a specific configuration. Run SQL queries and Apache Hive queries on the data.
A solutions architect must design a solution that gives each group the ability to launch only its authorized EMR configurations. The solution must provide the groups with least privilege access to only the resources that they need. The solution also must provide tagging for all resources that the groups create.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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A company uses IAM Identity Center for data scientist access. Each user should be able to accessonly their own datain an S3 bucket. The company also needs to generatemonthly access reportsper user.
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A company is hosting a three-tier web application in an on-premises environment. Due to a recentsurge in traffic that resulted in downtime and a significant financial impact, company management has ordered that the application be moved to AWS. The application is written in .NET and has a dependency on a MySQL database A solutions architect must design a scalable and highly available solution to meet the demand of 200000 daily users.
Which steps should the solutions architect take to design an appropriate solution?
A company has an application that runs on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application is in an AWS account that has AWS CloudTrail enabled. The company restricts access to the application by adding the IP addresses of end users to a security group that is associated with the ALB.
The company is developing an AWS Lambda function to determine if the allowed IP addresses have accessed the application recently. If an allowed IP address has not accessed the application in the last 90 days, the Lambda function will remove the IP address from the security group.
The company needs to implement the functionality for the Lambda function to check the IPaddresses.
Which combination of steps will provide this functionality MOST cost-effectively? (Select TWO.)
A company manages hundreds of AWS accounts centrally in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company recently started to allow product teams to create and manage their own S3 access points in their accounts. The S3 access points can be accessed only within VPCs not on the internet.
What is the MOST operationally efficient way to enforce this requirement?
A company has Linux-based Amazon EC2 instances. Users must access the instances by using SSH with EC2 SSH Key pairs. Each machine requires a unique EC2 Key pair.
The company wants to implement a key rotation policy that will, upon request, automatically rotate all the EC2 key pairs and keep the key in a securely encrypted place. The company will accept less than 1 minute of downtime during key rotation.
Which solution will meet these requirement?
A company is deploying a new API to AWS. The API uses Amazon API Gateway with a Regional API endpoint and an AWS Lambda function for hosting. The API retrieves data from an external vendor API, stores data in an Amazon DynamoDB global table, and retrieves data from the DynamoDB global table. The API key for the vendor's API is stored in AWS Secrets Manager and is encrypted with a customer managed key in AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). The company has deployed its own API into a single AWS Region.
A solutions architect needs to change the API components of the company's API to ensure that the components can run across multiple Regions in an active-active configuration.
Which combination of changes will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead? (Choose three.)
A company is running an application on several Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer. The load on the application varies throughout the day, and EC2 instances are scaled in and out on a regular basis. Log files from the EC2 instances are copied to a central Amazon S3 bucket every 15 minutes. The security team discovers that log files are missing from some of the terminated EC2 instances.
Which set of actions will ensure that log files are copied to the central S3 bucket from the terminated EC2 instances?
A company is using Amazon SageMaker A1 Notebook Instances and SageMaker APIs to train machine learning (ML) models. The SageMaker A1 Notebook Instances are deployed in a VPC that does not have access to or from the internet. Datasets for ML model training are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. Interface VPC endpoints provide access to Amazon S3 and the SageMaker APIs.
Occasionally, data scientists require access to a private Git repository to update application packages that they use as part of their workflow. The company must provide access to the Git repository while ensuring that the SageMaker A1 Notebook Instances remain isolated from the internet.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
An AWS customer has a web application that runs on premises. The web application fetches data from a third-party API that is behind a firewall. The third party accepts only one public CIDR block in each client's allow list.
The customer wants to migrate their web application to the AWS Cloud. The application will be hosted on a set of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in a VPC. The ALB is located in public subnets. The EC2 instances are located in private subnets. NAT gateways provide internet access to the private subnets.
How should a solutions architect ensure that the web application can continue to call the third-parly API after the migration?
A company runs payment gateways in multiple AWS Regions. The company also operates on-premises data centers where the company manages hardware security modules (HSMs) to tokenize sensitive payment data to comply with security regulations.
To process payment transactions within the company's performance SLA, the company requires an automated and centrally managed solution that can provide dedicated private connectivity between the on-premises HSMs and AWS payment services.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company runs a processing engine in the AWS Cloud The engine processes environmental data from logistics centers to calculate a sustainability index The company has millions of devices in logistics centers that are spread across Europe The devices send information to the processing engine through a RESTful API
The API experiences unpredictable bursts of traffic The company must implement a solution to process all data that the devices send to the processing engine Data loss is unacceptable
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An EC2-based ticketing service pulls a frequently updated pricing file (stored in S3) on startup. Sometimes EC2s have stale pricing, causing charge issues.
A company is planning to migrate workloads from its on-premises data center to Amazon EC2 instances. The workloads run on physical servers and VMware virtual servers. The company has gathered details about each on-premises server and virtual server, including server specification, CPU utilization, and memory utilization. The company has stored these details in a .csv file named onprem.csv.
Before the migration, the company must estimate the cost of running the servers on AWS and must determine recommended EC2 instance types for the servers. The company must export this information to a different .csv file.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect is designing an application to accept timesheet entries from employees on their mobile devices. Timesheets will be submitted weekly, with most of the submissions occurring on Friday. The data must be stored in a format that allows payroll administrators to run monthly reports The infrastructure must be highly available and scale to match the rate of incoming data and reporting requests.
Which combination of steps meets these requirements while minimizing operational overhead? (Select TWO}
A software company has deployed an application that consumes a REST API by using Amazon API Gateway. AWS Lambda functions, and an Amazon DynamoDB table. The application is showing an increase in the number of errors during PUT requests. Most of the PUT calls come from a small number of clients that are authenticated with specific API keys.
A solutions architect has identified that a large number of the PUT requests originate from one client. The API is noncritical, and clients can tolerate retries of unsuccessful calls. However, the errors are displayed to customers and are causing damage to the API's reputation.
What should the solutions architect recommend to improve the customer experience?
An ecommerce company runs an application on AWS. The application has an Amazon API Gateway API that invokes an AWS Lambda function. The data is stored in an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance.
During the company's most recent flash sale, a sudden increase in API calls negatively affected the application's performance. A solutions architect reviewed the Amazon CloudWatch metrics during that time and noticed a significant increase in Lambda invocations and database connections. The CPU utilization also was high on the DB instance.
What should the solutions architect recommend to optimize the application's performance?
A company operates quick-service restaurants. The restaurants follow a predictable model with high sales traffic for 4 hours daily Sales traffic is lower outside of those peak hours.
The point of sale and management platform is deployed in the AWS Cloud and has a backend that is based on Amazon DynamoDB. The database table uses provisioned throughput mode with 100.000 RCUs and 80.000 WCUs to match known peak resource consumption.
The company wants to reduce its DynamoDB cost and minimize the operational overhead for the IT staff.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company wants to design a disaster recovery (DR) solution for an application that runs in the company's data center. The application writes to an SMB file share and creates a copy on a second file share. Both file shares are in the data center. The application uses two types of files: metadata files and image files.
The company wants to store the copy on AWS. The company needs the ability to use SMB to access the data from either the data center or AWS if a disaster occurs. The copy of the data is rarely accessed but must be available within 5 minutes.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company runs its sales reporting application in an AWS Region in the United States. The application uses an Amazon API Gateway Regional API and AWS Lambda functions to generate on-demand reports from data in an Amazon RDS for MySQL database. The frontend of the application is hosted on Amazon S3 and is accessed by users through an Amazon CloudFront distribution. The company is using Amazon Route 53 as the DNS service for the domain. Route 53 is configured with a simple routing policy to route traffic to the API Gateway API.
In the next 6 months, the company plans to expand operations to Europe. More than 90% of the database traffic is read-only traffic. The company has already deployed an API Gateway API and Lambda functions in the new Region.
A solutions architect must design a solution that minimizes latency for users who download reports.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has developed APIs that use Amazon API Gateway with Regional endpoints. The APIs call AWS Lambda functions that use API Gateway authentication mechanisms. After a design review, a solutions architect identifies a set of APIs that do not require public access.
The solutions architect must design a solution to make the set of APIs accessible only from a VPC. All APIs need to be called with an authenticated user.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort?
A company has a Windows-based desktop application that is packaged and deployed to the users' Windows machines. The company recently acquired another company that has employees who primarily use machines with a Linux operating system. The acquiring company has decided to migrate and rehost the Windows-based desktop application lo AWS.
All employees must be authenticated before they use the application. The acquiring company uses Active Directory on premises but wants a simplified way to manage access to the application on AWS (or all the employees.
Which solution will rehost the application on AWS with the LEAST development effort?
A company is using Amazon OpenSearch Service to analyze data. The company loads data into an OpenSearch Service cluster with 10 data nodes from an Amazon S3 bucket that uses S3 Standard storage. The data resides in the cluster for 1 month for read-only analysis. After 1 month, the company deletes the index that contains the data from the cluster. For compliance purposes, the company must retain a copy of all input data.
The company is concerned about ongoing costs and asks a solutions architect to recommend a new solution.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company hosts its primary API on AWS using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda functions. Internal applications and external customers use this API. Some customers also use a legacy API hosted on a standalone EC2 instance.
The company wants to increase security across all APIs to prevent denial of service (DoS) attacks, check for vulnerabilities, and guard against common exploits.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A solutions architect is planning to migrate critical Microsoft SOL Server databases to AWS. Because the databases are legacy systems, the solutions architect will move the databases to a modern data architecture. The solutions architect must migrate the databases with near-zero downtime.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A retail company is operating its ecommerce application on AWS. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company uses an Amazon RDS DB instance as the database backend. Amazon CloudFront is configured with one origin that points to the ALB. Static content is cached. Amazon Route 53 is used to host all public zones.
After an update of the application, the ALB occasionally returns a 502 status code (Bad Gateway) error. The root cause is malformed HTTP headers that are returned to the ALB. The webpage returns successfully when a solutions architect reloads the webpage immediately after the error occurs.
While the company is working on the problem, the solutions architect needs to provide a custom error page instead of the standard ALB error page to visitors.
Which combination of steps will meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of operational overhead? (Choose two.)
A company has application services that have been containerized and deployed on multiple Amazon EC2 instances with public IPs. An Apache Kafka cluster has been deployed to the EC2 instances. A PostgreSQL database has been migrated to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The company expects a significant increase of orders on its platform when a new version of its flagship product is released.
What changes to the current architecture will reduce operational overhead and support the product release?
A company's factory and automaton applications are running in a single VPC More than 23 applications run on a combination of Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), are Amazon RDS.
The company has software engineers spread across three teams. One of the three teams owns each application, and each team is responsible for the cost and performance of all of its applications.Team resources have tags that represent their application and team. The learns use IAH access for daily activities.
The company needs to determine which costs on the monthly AWS bill are attributable to each application or team. The company also must be able to create reports to compare costs item the last 12 months and to help forecast costs tor the next 12 months. A solution architect must recommend an AWS Billing and Cost Management solution that provides these cost reports.
Which combination of actions will meet these requirement? Select THREE.)
A financial services company runs a complex, multi-tier application on Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Lambda functions. The application stores temporary data in Amazon S3. The S3 objects are valid for only 45 minutes and are deleted after 24 hours.
The company deploys each version of the application by launching an AWS CloudFormation stack. The stack creates all resources that are required to run the application. When the company deploys and validates a new application version, the company deletes the CloudFormation stack of the old version.
The company recently tried to delete the CloudFormation stack of an old application version, but the operation failed. An analysis shows that CloudFormation failed to delete an existing S3 bucket. A solutions architect needs to resolve this issue without making major changes to the application's architecture.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company uses AWS Organizations for a multi-account setup in the AWS Cloud. The company's finance team has a data processing application that uses AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB. The company's marketing team wants to access the data that is stored in the DynamoDB table.
The DynamoDB table contains confidential data. The marketing team can have access to only specific attributes of data in the DynamoDB table. The fi-nance team and the marketing team have separate AWS accounts.
What should a solutions architect do to provide the marketing team with the appropriate access to the DynamoDB table?
A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. A solutions architect is designing VPC infrastructure in an AWS Region where the application needs to access an Amazon Aurora DB cluster. The EC2 instances are all associated with the same security group. The DB cluster is associated with its own security group.
The solutions architect needs to add rules to the security groups to provide the application with least privilege access to the DB cluster.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company wants to migrate its data analytics environment from on premises to AWS The environment consists of two simple Node js applications One of the applications collects sensor data and loads it into a MySQL database The other application aggregates the data into reports When the aggregation jobs run. some of the load jobs fail to run correctly
The company must resolve the data loading issue The company also needs the migration to occur without interruptions or changes for the company's customers
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A video processing company has an application that downloads images from an Amazon S3 bucket, processes the images, stores a transformed image in a second S3 bucket, and updates metadata about the image in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The application is written in Node.js and runs by using an AWS Lambda function. The Lambda function is invoked when a new image is uploaded to Amazon S3.
The application ran without incident for a while. However, the size of the images has grown significantly. The Lambda function is now failing frequently with timeout errors. The function timeout is set to its maximum value. A solutions architect needs to refactor the application’s architecture to prevent invocation failures. The company does not want to manage the underlying infrastructure.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company runs a simple Linux application on Amazon EKS by using nodes of the M6i (general purpose) instance type. The company has an EC2 Instance Savings Plan for the M6i family that will expire soon.
A solutions architect must minimize the EKS compute costs when the Savings Plan expires.
Which combination of steps will meet this requirement? (Select THREE.)
A company has multiple applications that run on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets in a VPC. The company has deployed multiple NAT gateways in multiple Availability Zones for internet access. The company wants to block certain websites from being accessed through the NAT gateways. The company also wants to identify the internet destinations that the EC2 instances access.
The company has already created VPC flow logs for the NAT gateways' elastic network interfaces. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. The application consists of microservices that run on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones behind an Application Load Balancer. The company recently added a new REST API that was implemented in Amazon API Gateway. Some of the older microservices that run on EC2 instances need to call this new API.
The company does not want the API to be accessible from the public internet and does not want proprietary data to traverse the public internet
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company needs to create and manage multiple AWS accounts for a number of departments from a central location. The security team requires read-only access to all accounts from its own AWS account. The company is using AWS Organizations and created an account for the security team.
How should a solutions architect meet these requirements?
A company developed a pilot application by using AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Java. To save costs during development, the company's development team deployed the application into a single-instance environment. Recent tests indicate that the application consumes more CPU than expected. CPU utilization is regularly greater than 85%, which causes some performance bottlenecks.
A solutions architect must mitigate the performance issues before the company launches the application to production.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A solutions architect has launched multiple Amazon EC2 instances in a placement group within a single Availability Zone. Because of additional load on the system, the solutions architect attempts to add new instances to the placement group. However, the solutions architect receives an insufficient capacity error.
What should the solutions architect do to troubleshoot this issue?
A company is deploying AWS Lambda functions that access an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database. The company needs to launch the Lambda functions in a QA
environment and in a production environment.
The company must not expose credentials within application code and must rotate passwords automatically.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has AWS accounts that are in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company wants to track Amazon EC2 usage as a metric. The company's architecture
team must receive a daily alert if the EC2 usage is more than 10% higher thanthe average EC2 usage from the last 30 days.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect has implemented a SAML 2 0 federated identity solution with their company's on-premises identity provider (IdP) to authenticate users' access to the AWS environment. When the solutions architect tests authentication through the federated identity web portal, access to the AWS environment is granted However when test users attempt to authenticate through the federated identity web portal, they are not able to access the AWS environment
Which items should the solutions architect check to ensure identity federation isproperly configured? (Select THREE)
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A company is migrating a containerized Kubernetes app with manifest files to AWS. What is the easiest migration path?
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