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A company collects data for temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure in cities across multiple continents.The average volume of data that the company collects from each site daily is 500 GB.Each site has a high-speed internet connection.The company wants to aggregate the data from all these global sites as quickly as possible in a single Amazon S3 bucket.The solution must minimize operational complexity.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is backing up on-premises databases to local file server shares using the SMB protocol.The company requires immediate access to 1 week of backup files to meet recovery objectives.Recovery after a week is less likely to occur, and the company can tolerate a delay in accessing those older backup files.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?Read More →

A company is running a photo hosting service in the us-east-1 Region.The service enables users across multiple countries to upload and view photos.Some photos are heavily viewed for months, and others are viewed for less than a week.The application allows uploads of up to 20 MB for each photo.The service uses the photo metadata to determine which photos to display to each user.Which solution provides the appropriate user access MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A gaming company wants to launch a new internet-facing application in multiple AWS Regions.The application will use the TCP and UDP protocols for communication.The company needs to provide high availability and minimum latency for global users.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is building a shopping application on AWS.The application offers a catalog that changes once each month and needs to scale with traffic volume.The company wants the lowest possible latency from the application.Data from each user’s shopping cart needs to be highly available.User session data must be available even if the user is disconnected and reconnects.What should a solutions architect do to ensure that the shopping cart data is preserved at all times?Read More →

A company is deploying an application in three AWS Regions using an Application Load Balancer Amazon Route 53 will be used to distribute traffic between theseRegions.Which Route 53 configuration should a solutions architect use to provide the MOST high-performing experience?Read More →

A company hosts a marketing website in an on-premises data center.The website consists of static documents and runs on a single server.An administrator updates the website content infrequently and uses an SFTP client to upload new documents.The company decides to host its website on AWS and to use Amazon CloudFront.The company’s solutions architect creates a CloudFront distribution.The solutions architect must design the most cost-effective and resilient architecture for website hosting to serve as the CloudFront origin.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A medical records company is hosting an application on Amazon EC2 instances.The application processes customer data files that are stored on Amazon S3.The EC2 instances are hosted in public subnets.The EC2 instances access Amazon S3 over the Internet, but they do not require any other network access.A new requirement mandates that the network traffic for file transfers take a private route and not be sent over the Internet.Which change to the network architecture should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company wants to reduce the cost of its existing three-tier web architecture.The web, application, and database servers are running on Amazon EC2 instances for the development, test, and production environments.The EC2 instances average 30% CPU utilization during peak hours and 10% CPU utilization during non- peak hours.The production EC2 instances run 24 hours a day.The development and test EC2 instances run for at least 8 hours each day.The company plans to implement automation to stop the development and test EC2 instances when they are not in use.Which EC2 instance purchasing solution will meet the company’s requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has a three-tier application on AWS that ingests sensor data from its users’ devices.The traffic flows through a Network Load Balancer (NLB), then toAmazon EC2 instances for the web tier, and finally to EC2 instances for the application tier.The application tier makes calls to a database.What should a solutions architect do to improve the security of the data in transit?Read More →