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 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?
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage a multi-account structure. The company has hundreds of AWS accounts and expects the number of accounts to increase. The company is building a new application that uses Docker images. The company will push the Docker images to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). Only accounts that are within the company's organization should have
access to the images.
The company has a CI/CD process that runs frequently. The company wants to retain all the tagged images. However, the company wants to retain only the five most recent untagged images.
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 hosts an intranet web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Currently, users authenticate to the application against an internal user database.
The company needs to authenticate users to the application by using an existing AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory directory. All users with accounts in the directory must have access to the application.
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 wants to migrate its workloads from on premises to AWS. The workloads run on Linuxand Windows. The company has a large on-premises intra structure that consists of physical machines and VMs that host numerous applications.
The company must capture details about the system configuration. system performance. running processure and network coi.net lions of its o. -premises ,on boards. The company also must divide the on-premises applications into groups for AWS migrations. The company needs recommendations for Amazon EC2 instance types so that the company can run its workloads on AWS in the most cost-effective manner.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
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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 preparing to deploy an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster for a workload. The company expects the cluster to support an
unpredictable number of stateless pods. Many of the pods will be created during a short time period as the workload automatically scales the number of replicas that the workload uses.
Which solution will MAXIMIZE node resilience?
A company needs to store and process image data that will be uploaded from mobile devices using a custom mobile app. Usage peaks between 8 AM and 5 PM on weekdays, with thousands of uploads per minute. The app is rarely used at any other time. A user is notified when image processing is complete.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to ensure image processing can scale to handle the load? (Select THREE.)
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?
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 media storage application uploads user photos to Amazon S3 for processing by AWS Lambda functions. Application state is stored in Amazon DynamoOB tables. Users are reporting that some uploaded photos are not being processed properly. The application developers trace the logs and find that Lambda is experiencing photo processing issues when thousands of users upload photos simultaneously. The issues are the result of Lambda concurrency limits and the performance of DynamoDB when data is saved.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to increase the performance and reliability of the application? (Select TWO.)
A telecommunications company is running an application on AWS. The company has set up an AWS Direct Connect connection between the company's on-premises data center and AWS. The company deployed the application on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones behind an internal Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company's clients connect from the on-premises network by using HTTPS. The TLS terminates in the ALB. The company has multiple target groups and uses path-based routing to forward requests based on the URL path.
The company is planning to deploy an on-premises firewall appliance with an allow list that is based on IP address. A solutions architect must develop a solution to allow traffic flow to AWS from the on-premises network so that the clients can continue to access the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A large company is migrating ils entire IT portfolio to AWS. Each business unit in the company has a standalone AWS account that supports both development and test environments. New accounts to support production workloads will be needed soon.
The finance department requires a centralized method for payment but must maintain visibility into each group's spending to allocate costs.
The security team requires a centralized mechanism to control 1AM usage in all the company's accounts.
What combination of the following options meet the company's needs with the LEAST effort? (Select TWO.)
A company runs its application on Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Lambda functions. The EC2 instances experience a continuous and stable load. The Lambda functions
experience a varied and unpredictable load. The application includes a caching layer that uses an Amazon MemoryDB for Redis cluster.
A solutions architect must recommend a solution to minimize the company's overall monthly costs.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is using AWS CloudFormation to deploy its infrastructure. The company is concerned that, if a production CloudFormation stack is deleted, important data stored in Amazon RDS databases or Amazon EBS volumes might also be deleted.
How can the company prevent users from accidentally deleting data in this way?
A company runs a content management application on a single Windows Amazon EC2 instance in a development environment. The application reads and writes static content to a 2 TB Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume that is attached to the instance as the root device. The company plans to deploy this application in production as a highly available and fault-tolerant solution that runs on at least three EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones.
A solutions architect must design a solution that joins all the instances that run the application to an Active Directory domain. The solution also must implement Windows ACLs to control access to file contents. The application always must maintain exactly the same content on all running instances at any given point in time.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST management overhead?
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’s web application uses an Amazon API Gateway API, AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon DynamoDB global tables to handle backend requests. The web application is deployed in two AWS Regions in an active-passive model. The company uses Amazon Route 53 for DNS. The web application requires a manual DNS update to fail over to the secondary Region. An analytics Lambda function runs in the same AWS account. The function has caused Lambda concurrency to reach 90% of the current quota on an average day. A recent surge in traffic for the analytics workload resulted in throttled Lambda requests and a poor user experience for the web application users. A solutions architect must increase the reliability of the web application. The solution must use an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to send an Amazon SNS notification when the Lambda concurrency reaches a specific utilization threshold. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
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 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 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 is building a serverless application that runs on an AWS Lambda function that is attached to a VPC. The company needs to integrate the application with a new service from an external provider. The external provider supports only requests that come from public IPv4 addresses that are in an allow list.
The company must provide a single public IP address to the external provider before the application can start using the new service.
Which solution will give the application the ability to access the new service?
A company has its cloud infrastructure on AWS A solutions architect needs to define the infrastructure as code. The infrastructure is currently deployed in one AWS Region. The company's business expansion plan includes deployments in multiple Regions across multiple AWS accounts
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
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?
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A company needs to copy backups of 40 RDS for MySQL databases from a production account to a central backup account within AWS Organizations. The databases usedefault AWS-managed KMS encryption keys. The backups must be stored in aWORM (Write Once Read Many)backup account.
What is the correct approach to enable cross-account backup?
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 has a data lake in Amazon S3 that needs to be accessed by hundreds of applications across many AWS accounts. The company's information security policy states that the S3 bucket must not be accessed over the public internet and that each application should have the minimum permissions necessary to function.
To meet these requirements, a solutions architect plans to use an S3 access point that is restricted to specific VPCs for each application.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to implement this solution? (Select TWO.)
A company is subject to regulatory audits of its financial information. External auditors who use a single AWS account need access to the company's AWS account. A solutions architect must provide the auditors with secure, read-only access to the company's AWS account. The solution must comply with AWS security best practices.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is running a traditional web application on Amazon EC2 instances. The company needsto refactor the application as microservices that run on containers. Separate versions of the application exist in two distinct environments: production and testing. Load for the application is variable, but the minimum load and the maximum load are known. A solutions architect needs to design the updated application with a serverless architecture that minimizes operational complexity.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is designing an AWS Organizations structure. The company wants to standardize a process to apply tags across the entire organization. The company will require tags with specific values when a user creates a new resource. Each of the company's OUs will have unique tag values.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 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 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.)
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A company is deploying a newbig data analytics clusteracross multiple Availability Zones. All nodes must haveread/write access to shared file storagethat ishighly available,POSIX-compatible, andhigh-throughput.
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 is running a data-intensive application on AWS. The application runs on a cluster of hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances. A shared file system also runs on several EC2 instances that store 200 TB of data. The application reads and modifies the data on the shared file system and generates a report. The job runs once monthly, reads a subset of the files from the shared file system, and takes about 72 hours to complete. The compute instances scale in an Auto Scaling group, but the instances that host the shared file system run continuously. The compute and storage instances are all in the same AWS Region.
A solutions architect needs to reduce costs by replacing the shared file system instances. The file system must provide high performance access to the needed data for the duration of the 72-hour run.
Which solution will provide the LARGEST overall cost reduction while meeting these requirements?
A company is building an electronic document management system in which users upload their documents. The application stack is entirely serverless and runs on AWS in the eu-central-1 Region. The system includes a web application that uses an Amazon CloudFront distribution for delivery with Amazon S3 as the origin. The web application communicates with Amazon API Gateway Regional endpoints. The API Gateway APIs call AWS Lambda functions that store metadata in an Amazon Aurora Serverless database and put the documents into an S3 bucket.
The company is growing steadily and has completed a proof of concept with its largest customer. The company must improve latency outside of Europe.
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company hosts a software as a service (SaaS) solution on AWS. The solution has an Amazon API Gateway API that serves an HTTPS endpoint. The API uses AWS Lambda functions for compute. The Lambda functions store data in an Amazon Aurora Serverless VI database.
The company used the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) to deploy the solution. The solution extends across multiple Availability Zones and has nodisaster recovery (DR) plan.
A solutions architect must design a DR strategy that can recover the solution in another AWS Region. The solution has an R TO of 5 minutes and an RPO of 1 minute.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company needs to implement disaster recovery for a critical application that runs in a single AWS Region. The application's users interact with a web frontend that is hosted on Amazon EC2 Instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application writes to an Amazon RD5 tor MySQL DB instance. The application also outputs processed documents that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket
The company's finance team directly queries the database to run reports. During busy periods, these queries consume resources and negatively affect application performance.
A solutions architect must design a solution that will provide resiliency during a disaster. The solution must minimize data loss and must resolve the performance problems that result from the finance team's queries.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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A company hosts an ecommerce site using EC2, ALB, and DynamoDB in one AWS Region. The site uses a custom domain in Route 53. The company wants toreplicate the stack to a second Regionfordisaster recoveryandfaster accessfor global customers.
What should the architect do?
A company is using a single AWS Region for its ecommerce website. The website includes a web application that runs on several Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The website also includes an Amazon DynamoDB table. A custom domain name in Amazon Route 53 is linked to the ALB. The company created an SSL/TLS certificate in AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and attached the certificate to the ALB. The company is not using a content delivery network as part of its design. The company wants to replicate its entire application stack in a second Region to provide disaster recovery, plan for future growth, and provide improved access time to users. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that achieves these goals and minimizes administrative overhead. Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A large company recently experienced an unexpected increase in Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB costs. The company needs to increase visibility into details of AWS Billing and Cost Management There are various accounts associated with AWS Organizations, including many development and production accounts There is no consistent tagging strategy across the organization, but there are guidelines in place that require all infrastructure to be deployed using AWS CloudFormation with consistent tagging. Management requires cost center numbers and project ID numbers for all existing and future DynamoDB tables and RDS instances.
Which strategy should the solutions architect provide to meet these requirements?
A solutions architect must provide a secure way for a team of cloud engineers to use the AWS CLI to upload objects into an Amazon S3 bucket Each cloud engineer has an IAM user. IAM access keys and a virtual multi-factor authentication (MFA) device The IAM users for the cloud engineers are in a group that is named S3-access The cloud engineers must use MFA to perform any actions in Amazon S3
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is planning to host a web application on AWS and works to load balance the traffic across a group of Amazon EC2 instances. One of the security requirements is to enable end-to-end encryption in transit between the client and the web server.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company has many AWS accounts and uses AWS Organizations to manage all of them. A solutions architect must implement a solution that the company can use to share a common network across multiple accounts.
The company's infrastructure team has a dedicated infrastructure account that has a VPC. The infrastructure team must use this account to manage the network. Individual accounts cannot have the ability to manage their own networks. However, individual accounts must be able to create AWS resources within subnets.
Which combination of actions should the solutions architect perform 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?
A company has developed a web application. The company is hosting the application on a group of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The company wants to improve the security posture of the application and plans to use AWS WAF web ACLs. The solution must not adversely affect legitimate traffic to the application.
How should a solutions architect configure the web ACLs to 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 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 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?
An international delivery company hosts a delivery management system on AWS. Drivers use the system to upload confirmation of delivery. Confirmation includes the recipient's signature or a photo of the package with the recipient. The driver's handheld device uploads signatures and photos through FTP to a single Amazon EC2 instance. Each handheld device saves a file in a directory based on the signed-in user, and the file name matches the delivery number. The EC2 instance then adds metadata to the file after querying a central database to pull delivery information. The file is then placed in Amazon S3 for archiving.
As the company expands, drivers report that the system is rejecting connections. The FTP server is having problems because of dropped connections and memory issues. In response to these problems, a system engineer schedules a cron task to reboot the EC2 instance every 30 minutes. The billing team reports that files are not always in the archive and that the central system is not always updated.
A solutions architect needs to design a solution that maximizes scalability to ensure that the archive always receives the files and that systems are always updated. The handheld devices cannot be modified, so the company cannot deploy a new application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs to build a disaster recovery (DR) solution for its ecommerce website. The web application is hosted on a fleet of t3.Iarge Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group that extends across multiple Availability Zones.
In the event of a disaster, the web application must fail over to the secondary environment with an RPO of 30 seconds and an R TO of 10 minutes.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A VPC spans three Availability Zones, each with public and private subnets. One NAT gateway and one internet gateway exist. Private EC2 instances must connect to the internet.
A company is running a workload that consists of thousands of Amazon EC2 instances. The workload is running in a VPC that contains several public subnets and private subnets. The public subnets have a route for 0.0.0.0/0 to an existing internet gateway. The private subnets have a route for 0.0.0.0/0 to an existing NAT gateway.
A solutions architect needs to migrate the entire fleet of EC2 instances to use IPv6. The EC2 instances that are in private subnets must not be accessible from the public internet.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company wants to manage the costs associated with a group of 20 applications that are infrequently used, but are still business-critical, by migrating to AWS. The applications are a mix of Java and Node.js spread across different instance clusters. The company wants to minimize costs while standardizing by using a single deployment methodology.
Most of the applications are part of month-end processing routines with a small number of concurrent users, but they are occasionally run at other times Average application memory consumption is less than 1 GB. though some applications use as much as 2.5 GB of memory during peak processing. The most important application in the group is a billing report written in Java that accesses multiple data sources and often runs for several hours.
Which is the MOST cost-effective solution?
A solutions architect is reviewing an application's resilience before launch. The application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance that is deployed in a private subnet of a VPC.
The EC2 instance is provisioned by an Auto Scaling group that has a minimum capacity of I and a maximum capacity of I. The application stores data on an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The VPC has subnets configured in three Availability Zones and is configured with a single NAT gateway.
The solutions architect needs to recommend a solution to ensure that the application will operate across multiple Availability Zones.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
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 has many AWS accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. The accounts contain many Amazon EC2 instances that run different types of workloads. The workloads have different usage patterns.
The company needs recommendations for how to rightsize the EC2 instances based on CPU and memory usage during the last 90 days.
Which combination of steps will provide these recommendations? (Select THREE.)
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage its development environment. Each development team at the company has its own AWS account Each account has a single VPC and CIDR blocks that do not overlap.
The company has an Amazon Aurora DB cluster in a shared services account All the development teams need to work with live data from the DB cluster
Which solution will provide the required connectivity to the DB cluster with the LEAST operational overhead?
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 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 wants to migrate its website to AWS. The website uses microservices and runs on containers that are deployed in an on-premises, self-managed Kubernetes cluster. All the manifests that define the deployments for the containers in the Kubernetes deployment are in source control.
All data for the website is stored in a PostgreSQL database. An open source container image repository runs alongside the on-premises environment.
A solutions architect needs to determine the architecture that the company will use for the website on AWS.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort to migrate?
A company has an application that uses an on-premises Oracle database. The company is migrating the database to the AWS Cloud. The database contains customer data and stored procedures.
The company needs to migrate the database as quickly as possible with minimum downtime. The solution on AWS must provide high availability and must use managed services for the database.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 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 wants to use AWS to create a business continuity solution in case the company's main on-premises application fails. The application runs on physical servers that also run other applications. The on-premises application that the company is planning to migrate uses a MySQL database as a data store. All the company's on-premises applications use operating systems that are compatible with Amazon EC2.
Which solution will achieve the company's goal with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is collecting a large amount of data from a fleet of loT devices Data is stored as Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) files in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) on a persistent Amazon EMR cluster. The company's data analytics team queries the data by using SQL in Apache Presto deployed on the same EMR cluster Queries scan large amounts of data, always run for less than 15 minutes, and run only between 5 PM and 10 PM.
The company is concerned about the high cost associated with the current solution A solutions architect must propose the most cost-effective solution that will allow SQL data queries
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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A company runs production workloads on EC2 On-Demand Instances and RDS for PostgreSQL. They want to reduce costs without compromising availability or capacity.
A public retail web application uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in front of Amazon EC2 instances running across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) in a Region backed by an Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ deployment. Target group health checks are configured to use HTTP and pointed at the product catalog page. Auto Scaling is configured to maintain the web fleet size based on the ALB health check.
Recently, the application experienced an outage. Auto Scaling continuously replaced the instances during the outage. A subsequent investigation determined that the web server metrics were within the normal range, but the database tier was experiencing high toad, resulting in severely elevated query response times.
Which of the following changes together would remediate these issues while improving monitoring capabilities for the availability and functionality of the entire application stack for future growth? (Select TWO.)
A company runs an application in an on-premises data center. The application gives users the ability to upload media files. The files persist in a file server. The web application has many users. The application server is overutilized, which causes data uploads to fail occasionally. The company frequently adds new storage to the file server. The company wants to resolve these challenges by migrating the application to AWS.
Users from across the United States and Canada access the application. Only authenticated usersshould have the ability to access the application to upload files. The company will consider a solution that refactors the application, and the company needs to accelerate application development.
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 operates a fleet of servers on premises and operates a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances in its organization in AWS Organizations. The company's AWS accounts contain hundreds of VPCs. The company wants to connect its AWS accounts to its on-premises network. AWS Site-to-Site VPN connections are already established to a single AWS account. The company wants to control which VPCs can communicate with other VPCs.
Which combination of steps will achieve this level of control with the LEAST operational effort? (Choose three.)
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 gives users the ability to upload images from a custom application. The upload process invokes an AWS Lambda function that processes and stores the image in an Amazon S3 bucket. The application invokes the Lambda function by using a specific function version ARN.
The Lambda function accepts image processing parameters by using environment variables. The company often adjusts the environment variables of the Lambda function to achieve optimal image processing output. The company tests different parameters and publishes a new function version with the updated environment variables after validating results. This update process also requires frequent changes to the custom application to invoke the new function version ARN. These changes cause interruptions for users.
A solutions architect needs to simplify this process to minimize disruption to users.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company with several AWS accounts is using AWS Organizations and service control policies (SCPs). An Administrator created the following SCP and has attached it to an organizational unit (OU) that contains AWS account 1111-1111-1111:
Developers working in account 1111-1111-1111 complain that they cannot create Amazon S3 buckets. How should the Administrator address this problem?
A global media company is planning a multi-Region deployment of an application. Amazon DynamoDB global tables will back the deployment to keep the user experience consistent across the two continents where users are concentrated. Each deployment will have a public Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company manages public DNS internally. The company wants to make the application available through an apex domain.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?
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 is migrating a legacy application from an on-premises data center to AWS. The application uses MongoDB as a key-value database According to the company's technical guidelines, all Amazon EC2 instances must be hosted in a private subnet without an internet connection. In addition, all connectivity between applications and databases must be encrypted. The database must be able to scale based on demand.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A software as a service (SaaS) company uses AWS to host a service that is powered by AWS PrivateLink. The service consists of proprietary software that runs on three Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NL B). The instances are in private subnets in multiple Availability Zones in the eu-west-2 Region. All the company's customers are in eu-west-2.
However, the company now acquires a new customer in the us-east-I Region. The company creates a new VPC and new subnets in us-east-I. The company establishes
inter-Region VPC peering between the VPCs in the two Regions.
The company wants to give the new customer access to the SaaS service, but the company does not want to immediately deploy new EC2 resources in us-east-I
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 financial services company sells its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for application compliance to large global banks. The SaaS platform runs on AWS and uses multiple AWS accounts that are managed in an organization in AWS Organizations. The SaaS platform uses many AWS resources globally.
For regulatory compliance, all API calls to AWS resources must be audited, tracked for changes, and stored in a durable and secure data store.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has introduced a new policy that allows employees to work remotely from their homes if they connect by using a VPN The company Is hosting Internal applications with VPCs in multiple AWS accounts Currently the applications are accessible from the company's on-premises office network through an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection The VPC in the company's main AWS account has peering connections established with VPCs in other AWS accounts.
A solutions architect must design a scalable AWS Client VPN solution for employees to use while they work from home
What is the MOST cost-effective solution that meets these requirements?
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?
A company is using AWS to develop and manage its production web application. The application includes an Amazon API Gateway HTTP API that invokes an AWS Lambda function. The Lambda function processes and then stores data in a database.
The company wants to implement user authorization for the web application in an integrated way. The company already uses a third-party identity provider that issues OAuth tokens for the company's other applications.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs a web application on a single Amazon EC2 instance. End users experience slow application performance during times of peak usage, when CPU utilization is consistently more than 95%.
A user data script installs required custom packages on the EC2 instance. The process of launchingthe instance takes several minutes.
The company is creating an Auto Scaling group that has mixed instance groups, varied CPUs, and a maximum capacity limit. The Auto Scaling group will use a launch template for various configuration options. The company needs to decrease application latency when new instances are launched during auto scaling.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. The application collects and stores a large amount of unstructured data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The S3 bucket contains several terabytes of data and uses the S3 Standard storage class. The data increases in size by several gigabytes every day.
The company needs to query and analyze the data. The company does not access data that is more than 1-year-old. However, the company must retain all the data indefinitely for compliance reasons.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company has an environment that has a single AWS account. A solutions architect is reviewing the environment to recommend what the company could improve specifically in terms of access to the AWS Management Console. The company's IT support workers currently access the console for administrative tasks, authenticating with named IAM users that have been mapped to their job role.
The IT support workers no longer want to maintain both their Active Directory and IAM user accounts. They want to be able to access the console by using their existing Active Directory credentials. The solutions architect is using AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) to implement this functionality.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A utility company collects usage data from smart meters every 5 minutes. Data is sent to API Gateway, processed by Lambda, and stored in DynamoDB. As usage increased, Lambda durations increased and DynamoDB PUTs failed with ProvisionedThroughputExceededException. Lambda also experiences TooManyRequestsException errors.
Which combination of changes will resolve these issues? (Select TWO.)
An external audit of a company's serverless application reveals IAM policies that grant too many permissions. These policies are attached to the company's AWS Lambda execution roles. Hundreds of the company's Lambda functions have broad access permissions, such as full access to Amazon S3 buckets and Amazon DynamoDB tables. The company wants each function to have only the minimum permissions that the function needs to complete its task.
A solutions architect must determine which permissions each Lambda function needs.
What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of effort?
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?
An application is using an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance in the us-east-1 Region. After a failover test, the application lost the connections to the database and could not re-establish the connections. After a restart of the application, the application re-established the connections.
A solutions architect must implement a solution so that the application can re-establish connections to the database without requiring a restart.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has mounted sensors to collect information about environmental parameters such as humidity and light throughout all the company's factories. The company needs to stream and analyze the data in the AWS Cloud in real time. If any of the parameters fall out of acceptable ranges, the factory operations team must receive a notification immediately.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company built an ecommerce website on AWS using a three-tier web architecture. The application is Java-based and composed of an Amazon CloudFront distribution, an Apache web server layer of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group, and a backend Amazon Aurora MySQL database.
Last month, during a promotional sales event, users reported errors and timeouts while adding items to their shopping carts. The operations team recovered the logs created by the web servers and reviewed Aurora DB cluster performance metrics. Some of the web servers were terminated before logs could be collected and the Aurora metrics were not sufficient for query performance analysis.
Which combination of steps must the solutions architect take to improve application performance visibility during peak traffic events? (Choose three.)
A weather service provides high-resolution weather maps from a web application hosted on AWS in the eu-west-1 Region. The weather maps are updated frequently and stored in Amazon S3 along with static HTML content. The web application is fronted by Amazon CloudFront.
The company recently expanded to serve users in the us-east-1 Region, and these new users report that viewing their respective weather maps is slow from time to time.
Which combination of steps will resolve the us-east-1 performance issues? (Choose two.)
A company is running multiple workloads in the AWS Cloud. The company has separate units for software development. The company uses AWS Organizations and federation with SAML to give permissions to developers to manage resources in their AWS accounts. The development units each deploy their production workloads into a common production account.
Recently, an incident occurred in the production account in which members of a development unitterminated an EC2 instance that belonged to a different development unit. A solutions architect must create a solution that prevents a similar incident from happening in the future. The solution also must allow developers the possibility to manage the instances used for their workloads.
Which strategy will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect is creating an AWS CloudFormation template from an existing manually created non-production AWS environment The CloudFormation template can be destroyed and recreated as needed The environment contains an Amazon EC2 instance The EC2 instance has an instance profile that the EC2 instance uses to assume a role in a parent account
The solutions architect recreates the role in a CloudFormation template and uses the same role name When the CloudFormation template is launched in the child account, the EC2 instance can no longer assume the role in the parent account because of insufficient permissions
What should the solutions architect do to resolve this issue?
A company plans to deploy a new private intranet service on Amazon EC2 instances inside a VPC. An AWS Site-to-Site VPN connects the VPC to the company's on-premises network. The new service must communicate with existing on-premises services The on-premises services are accessible through the use of hostnames that reside in the company example DNS zone This DNS zone is wholly hosted on premises and is available only on the company's private network.
A solutions architect must ensure that the new service can resolve hostnames on the company example domain to integrate with existing services.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A solutions architect is investigating an issue in which a company cannot establish new sessions in Amazon Workspaces. An initial analysis indicates that the issue involves user profiles. The AmazonWorkspaces environment is configured to use Amazon FSx for Windows File Server as the profile share storage. The FSx for Windows File Server file system is configured with 10 TB of storage.
The solutions architect discovers that the file system has reached its maximum capacity. The solutions architect must ensure that users can regain access. The solution also must prevent the problem from occurring again.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A retail company is mounting IoT sensors in all of its stores worldwide. During the manufacturing of each sensor, the company's private certificate authority (CA) issues an X.509 certificate that contains a unique serial number. The company then deploys each certificate to its respective sensor.
A solutions architect needs to give the sensors the ability to send data to AWS after they are installed. Sensors must not be able to send data to AWS until they are installed.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 is migrating a legacy application from an on-premises data center to AWS. The application consists of a single application server and a Microsoft SQL
Server database server. Each server is deployed on a VMware VM that consumes 500 TB of data across multiple attached volumes.
The company has established a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection from the closest AWS Region to its on-premises data center. The Direct Connect connection is not currently in use by other services.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to migrate the application with the LEAST amount of downtime? (Choose two.)
A company is serving files to its customers through an SFTP server that is accessible over the internet The SFTP server is running on a single Amazon EC2 instance with an Elastic IP address attached Customers connect to the SFTP server through its Elastic IP address and use SSH for authentication The EC2 instance also has an attached security group that allows access from all customer IP addresses.
A solutions architect must implement a solution to improve availability minimize the complexity of infrastructure management and minimize the disruption to customers who access files. The solution must not change the way customers connect
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is using AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts Due to regulatory requirements, the company wants to restrict specific member accounts to certain AWS Regions, where they are permitted to deploy resources The resources in the accounts must be tagged enforced based on a group standard and centrally managed with minimal configuration.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements'?
A digital marketing company has multiple AWS accounts that belong to various teams. The creative team uses an Amazon S3 bucket in its AWS account to securely store images and media files that are used as content for the company's marketing campaigns. The creative team wants to share the S3 bucket with the strategy team so that the strategy team can view the objects.
A solutions architect has created an IAM role that is named strategy_reviewer in the Strategy account. The solutions architect also has set up a custom AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the Creative account and has associated the key with the S3 bucket. However, when users from the Strategy account assume the IAM role and try to access objects in the S3 bucket, they receive an Account.
The solutions architect must ensure that users in the Strategy account can access the S3 bucket. The solution must provide these users with only the minimum permissions that they need.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
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 hosts a game player-matching service on a public-facing, physical, on-premises instance that all users are able to access over the instance uses UDP. The company wants to migrate the service to AWS and provide a high level of security. A solutions architect needs to de matching service using AWS.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company has an on-premises Microsoft SOL Server database that writes a nightly 200 GB export to a local drive. The company wants to move the backups to more robust cloud storage on Amazon S3. The company has set up a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection between the on-premises data center and AWS.
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A large company is running a popular web application. The application runs on several Amazon EC2 Linux Instances in an Auto Scaling group in a private subnet. An Application Load Balancer is targeting the Instances In the Auto Scaling group in the private subnet. AWS Systems Manager Session Manager Is configured, and AWS Systems Manager Agent is running on all the EC2 instances.
The company recently released a new version of the application Some EC2 instances are now being marked as unhealthy and are being terminated As a result, the application is running at reduced capacity A solutions architect tries to determine the root cause by analyzing Amazon CloudWatch logs that are collected from the application, but the logs are inconclusive
How should the solutions architect gain access to an EC2 instance to troubleshoot the issue1?
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?
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A company is running a large containerized workload in the AWS Cloud using Amazon ECS. The development team recently started usingAWS Fargateinstead of EC2 in the ECS cluster. The company is worried about reaching themaximum number of ECS tasksallowed in the account.
A solutions architect must implement a solution that notifies the development team when Fargate usage reaches80% of the quota.
What should the architect do?
A live-events company is designing a scaling solution for its ticket application on AWS. The application has high peaks of utilization during sale events. Each sale event is a one-time event that is scheduled.
The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The application uses PostgreSOL for the database layer.
The company needs a scaling solution to maximize availability during the sale events.
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 team collects and routes behavioral data for an entire company The company runs a Multi-AZ VPC environment with public subnets, private subnets, and in internet gateway Each public subnet also contains a NAT gateway Most of the company's applications read from and write to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Most of the workloads am in private subnets.
A solutions architect must review the infrastructure The solutions architect needs to reduce costs and maintain the function of the applications The solutions architect uses Cost Explorer and notices that the cost in the EC2-Other category is consistently high A further review shows that NatGateway-Bytes charges are increasing the cost in the EC2-Other category.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
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 global company has a mobile app that displays ticket barcodes. Customers use the tickets on the mobile app to attend live events. Event scanners read the ticket barcodes and call a backend API to validate the barcode data against data in a database. After the barcode is scanned, the backend logic writes to the database's single table to mark the barcode as used. The company needs to deploy the app on AWS with a DNS name of api.example.com. The company will host the database in three AWS Regions around the world. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LOWEST latency?
A company is creating a centralized logging service running on Amazon EC2 that will receive and analyze logs from hundreds of AWS accounts. AWS PrivateLink is being used to provide connectivity between the client services and the logging service.
In each AWS account with a client, an interface endpoint has been created for the logging service and is available. The logging service running on EC2 instances with a Network Load Balancer (NLB) are deployed in different subnets. The clients are unable to submit logs using the VPC endpoint.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to resolve this issue? (Select TWO.)
A company wants to use Amazon Workspaces in combination with thin client devices to replace aging desktops. Employees use the desktops to access applications that work with clinical trial data. Corporate security policy states that access to the applications must be restricted to only company branch office locations. The company is considering adding an additional branch office in the next 6 months.
Which solution meets these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company is building a call center by using Amazon Connect. The company’s operations team is defining a disaster recovery (DR) strategy across AWS Regions. The contact center has dozens of contact flows, hundreds of users, and dozens of claimed phone numbers.
Which solution will provide DR with the LOWEST RTO?
A company built an application based on AWS Lambda deployed in an AWS CloudFormation stack. The last production release of the web application introduced an issue that resulted in an outage lasting several minutes. A solutions architect must adjust the deployment process to support a canary release.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 rganizations. 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 than the average EC2 usage from the last 30 days.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 large company runs workloads in VPCs that are deployed across hundreds of AWS accounts. Each VPC consists to public subnets and private subnets that span across multiple Availability Zones. NAT gateways are deployed in the public subnets and allow outbound connectivity to the internet from the private subnets.
A solutions architect is working on a hub-and-spoke design. All private subnets in the spoke VPCs must route traffic to the internet through an egress VPC. The solutions architect already has deployed a NAT gateway in an egress VPC in a central AWS account.
Which set of additional steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements?
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's compliance audit reveals that some Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that were created in an AWS account were not encrypted. A solutions architect must Implement a solution to encrypt all new EBS volumes at rest
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST effort?
A manufacturing company is building an inspection solution for its factory. The company has IPcameras at the end of each assembly line. The company has used Amazon SageMaker to train a machine learning (ML) model to identify common defects from still images.
The company wants to provide local feedback to factory workers when a defect is detected. The company must be able to provide this feedback even if the factory’s internet connectivity is down. The company has a local Linux server that hosts an API that provides local feedback to the workers.
How should the company deploy the ML model to meet these requirements?
A company wants to use AWS for disaster recovery for an on-premises application. The company has hundreds of Windows-based servers that run the application. All the servers mount a common share.
The company has an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of 5 minutes. The solution must support native failover and fallback capabilities.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company has a web application that uses Amazon API Gateway. AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB A recent marketing campaign has increased demand Monitoring software reports that many requests have significantly longer response times than before the marketing campaign
A solutions architect enabled Amazon CloudWatch Logs for API Gateway and noticed that errors are occurring on 20% of the requests. In CloudWatch. the Lambda function. Throttles metric represents 1% of the requests and the Errors metric represents 10% of the requests Application logs indicate that, when errors occur there is a call to DynamoDB
What change should the solutions architect make to improve the current response times as the web application becomes more popular'?
A company manages multiple AWS accounts by using AWS Organizations. Under the root OU. the company has two OUs: Research and DataOps.
Because of regulatory requirements, all resources that the company deploys in the organizationmust reside in the ap-northeast-1 Region. Additionally. EC2 instances that the company deploys in the DataOps OU must use a predefined list of instance types
A solutions architect must implement a solution that applies these restrictions. The solution must maximize operational efficiency and must minimize ongoing maintenance
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO )
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How can a company patch EC2 instanceswithout internet access, using apatch source in another account, while accessing Systems Manager and S3?
A company needs to optimize the cost of backups for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). A solutions architect has already configured a backup plan in AWS Backup for the EFS backups. The backup plan contains a rule with a lifecycle configuration to transition EFS backups to cold storage after 7 days and to keep the backups for an additional 90 days.
After I month, the company reviews its EFS storage costs and notices an increase in the EFS backup costs. The EFS backup cold storage produces almost double the cost of the EFS warm backup storage.
What should the solutions architect do to optimize the cost?
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A company is migrating a large on-prem Oracle database (withstored procedures) to AWS. The solution must usemanaged services, behighly available, and enable afast migrationwithminimal downtime.
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 security engineer determined that an existing application retrieves credentials to an Amazon RDS for MySQL database from an encrypted file in Amazon S3. For the next version of the application, the security engineer wants to implement the following application design changes to improve security:
The database must use strong, randomly generated passwords stored in a secure AWS managed service.
The application resources must be deployed through AWS CloudFormation.
The application must rotate credentials for the database every 90 days.
A solutions architect will generate a CloudFormation template to deploy the application.
Which resources specified in the CloudFormation template will meet the security engineer's requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
A company is building an application on AWS. The application sends logs to an Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) cluster for analysis. All data must be stored within a VPC.
Some of the company's developers work from home. Other developers work from three different company office locations. The developers need to access
Amazon ES to analyze and visualize logs directly from their local development machines.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs a Python script on an Amazon EC2 instance to process data. The script runs every 10 minutes. The script ingests files from an Amazon S3 bucket and processes the files. On average, the script takes approximately 5 minutes to process each file The script will not reprocess a file that the script has already processed.
The company reviewed Amazon CloudWatch metrics and noticed that the EC2 instance is idle for approximately 40% of the time because of the file processing speed. The company wants to make the workload highly available and scalable. The company also wants to reduce long-term management overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company wants to change its internal cloud billing strategy for each of its business units. Currently, the cloud governance team shares reports for overall cloud spending with the head of each business unit. The company uses AWS Organizations lo manage the separate AWS accounts for each business unit. The existing tagging standard in Organizations includes the application, environment, and owner. The cloud governance team wants a centralized solution so each business unit receives monthly reports on its cloud spending. The solution should also send notifications for any cloud spending that exceeds a set threshold.
Which solution is the MOST cost-effective way to meet these requirements?
A company is using multiple AWS accounts The DNS records are stored in a private hosted zone for Amazon Route 53 in Account A The company's applications and databases are running in Account B.
A solutions architect win deploy a two-net application In a new VPC To simplify the configuration, the db.example com CNAME record set tor the Amazon RDS endpoint was created in a private hosted zone for Amazon Route 53.
During deployment, the application failed to start. Troubleshooting revealed that db.example com is not resolvable on the Amazon EC2 instance The solutions architect confirmed that the record set was created correctly in Route 53.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to resolve this issue? (Select TWO )
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 recently wanted a web application from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. The web application infrastructure consists of an Amazon CloudFront distribution that routes to an Application Load Balancer (ALB), with Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) to process requests. A recent security audit revealed that the web application is accessible by using both CloudFront and ALB endpoints. However. the company requires that the web application must be accessible only by using the CloudFront endpoint.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of effort?
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 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 wants to migrate an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster from an existing AWS account to a new AWS account in the same AWS Region. Both accounts are members of the same organization in AWS Organizations.
The company must minimize database service interruption before the company performs DNS cutover to the new database.
Which migration strategy will meet this requirement?
A finance company is running its business-critical application on current-generation Linux EC2 instances The application includes a self-managed MySQL database performing heavy I/O operations. The application is working fine to handle a moderate amount of traffic during the month. However, it slows down during the final three days of each month due to month-end reporting, even though the company is using Elastic Load Balancers and Auto Scaling within its infrastructure to meet the increased demand.
Which of the following actions would allow the database to handle the month-end load with the LEAST impact on performance?
A company is using AWS Organizations lo manage multiple AWS accounts For security purposes, the company requires the creation of an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic that enables integration with a third-party alerting system in all the Organizations member accounts
A solutions architect used an AWS CloudFormation template to create the SNS topic and stack sets to automate the deployment of CloudFormation stacks Trusted access has been enabled in Organizations
What should the solutions architect do to deploy the CloudFormation StackSets in all AWS accounts?
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?
A software as a service (SaaS) based company provides a case management solution to customers A3 part of the solution. The company uses a standalone Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server to send email messages from an application. The application also stores an email template for acknowledgement email messages that populate customer data before the application sends the email message to the customer.
The company plans to migrate this messaging functionality to the AWS Cloud and needs to minimize operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company has implemented a new security requirement According to the new requirement, the company must scan all traffic from corporate AWS instances in the company's VPC for violations of the company's security policies. As a result of these scans the company can block access to and from specific IP addresses.
To meet the new requirement, the company deploys a set of Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets to serve as transparent proxies The company installs approved proxy server software on these EC2 instances The company modifies the route tables on all subnets to use the corresponding EC2 instances with proxy software as the default route The company also creates security groupsthat are compliant with the security policies and assigns these security groups to the EC2 instances
Despite these configurations, the traffic of the EC2 instances in their private subnets is not being properly forwarded to the internet.
What should a solutions architect do to resolve this issue?
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 company needs to monitor a growing number of Amazon S3 buckets across two AWS Regions. The company also needs to track the percentage of objects that are
encrypted in Amazon S3. The company needs a dashboard to display this information for internal compliance teams.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is developing a web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind a public-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB). Only users from a specific country are allowed to access the application. The company needs the ability to log the access requests that have been blocked. The solution should require the least possible maintenance.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company needs to migrate its customer transactions database from on premises to AWS. The database resides on an Oracle DB instance that runs on a Linux server. According to a new security requirement, the company must rotate the database password each year.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is designing an AWS environment tor a manufacturing application. The application has been successful with customers, and the application's user base has increased. The company has connected the AWS environment to the company's on-premises data center through a 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection. The company has configured BGP for the connection.
The company must update the existing network connectivity solution to ensure that the solution is highly available, fault tolerant, and secure.
Which solution win meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is running a two-tier web-based application in an on-premises data center. The application layer consists of a single server running a stateful application. The application connects to a PostgreSQL database running on a separate server. The application’s user base is expected to grow significantly, so the company is migrating the application and database to AWS. The solution will use Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing.
Which solution will provide a consistent user experience that will allow the application and database tiers to scale?
A company has a legacy application that runs on multiple .NET Framework components. The components share the same Microsoft SQL Server database and
communicate with each other asynchronously by using Microsoft Message Queueing (MSMQ).
The company is starting a migration to containerized .NET Core components and wants to refactor the application to run on AWS. The .NET Core components require complex orchestration. The company must have full control over networking and host configuration. The application's database model is strongly relational.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is running a critical application that uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL database to store data. The RDS DB instance is deployed in Multi-AZ mode.
A recent RDS database failover test caused a 40-second outage to the application A solutions architect needs to design a solution to reduce the outage time to less than 20 seconds.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company has a web application that securely uploads pictures and videos to an Amazon S3 bucket. The company requires that only authenticated users are allowed to post content. The application generates a presigned URL that is used to upload objects through a browser interface. Most users are reporting slow upload times for objects larger than 100 MB.
What can a Solutions Architect do to improve the performance of these uploads while ensuring only authenticated users are allowed to post content?
A company needs to optimize the cost of its application on AWS. The application uses AWS Lambda functions and Amazon ECS containers that run on AWS Fargate. The application is write-heavy and stores data in an Amazon Aurora MySQL database.
The load on the application is not consistent. The application experiences long periods of no usage, followed by sudden and significant increases and decreases in traffic. The database runs on a memory optimized DB instance and has high utilization during peak times. A solutions architect must design a solution that can scale to handle the changes in traffic.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
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 runs an application on Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda. The application stores temporary data in Amazon 53. The 53 objects are deleted after 24 hours.
The company deploys new versions of the application by launching AWS CloudFormation stacks. The stacks create the required resources. After validating a new version, the company deletes the old stack. The deletion of an old development stack recently failed. A solutions architect needs to resolve this Issue without major architecture changes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 life sciences company is using a combination of open source tools to manage data analysis workflows and Docker containers running on servers in its on-premises data center to process genomics data Sequencing data is generated and stored on a local storage area network (SAN), and then the data is processed. The research and development teams are running into capacity issues and have decided to re-architect their genomics analysis platform on AWS to scale based on workload demands and reduce the turnaround time from weeks to days
The company has a high-speed AWS Direct Connect connection Sequencers will generate around 200 GB of data for each genome, and individual jobs can take several hours to process the data with ideal compute capacity. The end result will be stored in Amazon S3. The company is expecting 10-15 job requests each day
Which solution meets these requirements?
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 company is migrating to AWS and needs to inventory physical and virtual servers, apps, and database relationships to properly rightsize and plan migration.