What should a solutions architect do to reduce the impact on the database with the LEAST amount of effort?

2026-04-07
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A company’s web application uses an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL DB instance to store its application data.During the financial closing period at the start of every month, Accountants run large queries that impact the database’s performance due to high usage.The company wants to minimize the impact that the reporting activity has on the web application.What should a solutions architect do to reduce the impact on the database with the LEAST amount of effort?Read More →

How should they architect their solution?

2026-04-07
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A web company is looking to implement an external payment service into their highly available application deployed in a VPC Their application EC2 instances are behind a public facing ELB.Auto scaling is used to add additional instances as traffic increases under normal load the application runs 2 instances in the AutoScaling group but at peak it can scale 3x in size.The application instances need to communicate with the payment service over the Internet which requires whitelisting of all public IP addresses used to communicate with it.A maximum of 4 whitelisting IP addresses are allowed at a time and can be added through anAPI.How should they architect their solution?Read More →

What option securely provides the application with the needed credentials while requiring MINIMAL administrative overhead?

2026-04-07
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A web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and accesses external services.The external services require authentication credentials.The application is deployed using AWS CloudFormation to three separate environments: development, test, and production.Each environment requires unique credentials for external services.What option securely provides the application with the needed credentials while requiring MINIMAL administrative overhead?Read More →

Which combination of solutions should a solutions architect recommend to support the storage needs of the application?

2026-04-07
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A company wants to migrate a high performance computing (HPC) application and data from on-premises to the AWS Cloud.The company uses tiered storage on premises with hot high-performance parallel storage to support the application during periodic runs of the application, and more economical cold storage to hold the data when the application is not actively running.Which combination of solutions should a solutions architect recommend to support the storage needs of the application? (Choose two.)Read More →

What is the correct way to configure AWS Direct connect for access to services such as Amazon S3?

2026-04-07
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You are implementing AWS Direct Connect.You intend to use AWS public service end points such as Amazon S3, across the AWS Direct Connect link.You want other Internet traffic to use your existing link to an Internet Service Provider.What is the correct way to configure AWS Direct connect for access to services such as Amazon S3?Read More →

Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements?

2026-04-07
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A trucking company is deploying an application that will track the GPS coordinates of all the company’s trucks.The company needs a solution that will generate real-time statistics based on metadata lookups with high read throughput and microsecond latency.The database must be fault tolerant and must minimize operational overhead and development effort.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

Why?

2026-04-07
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Your application is using an ELB in front of an Auto Scaling group of web/application servers deployed across two AZs and a Multi-AZ RDS Instance for data persistence.The database CPU is often above 80% usage and 90% of I/O operations on the database are reads.To improve performance you recently added a single-nodeMemcached ElastiCache Cluster to cache frequent DB query results.In the next weeks the overall workload is expected to grow by 30%.Do you need to change anything in the architecture to maintain the high availability or the application with the anticipated additional load? Why?Read More →

Which policy or resource should the company use to meet these requirements?

2026-04-07
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A company serves its website by using an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region.The website does not require a database.The company is expanding, and the company’s engineering team deploys the website to a second Region.The company wants to distribute traffic across bothRegions to accommodate growth and for disaster recovery purposes.The solution should not serve traffic from a Region in which the website is unhealthy.Which policy or resource should the company use to meet these requirements?Read More →