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A solutions architect is designing a two-tier web application.The application consists of a public-facing web tier hosted on Amazon EC2 in public subnets.The database tier consists of Microsoft SQL Server running on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet.Security is a high priority for the company.How should security groups be configured in this situation? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company allows its developers to attach existing IAM policies to existing IAM roles to enable faster experimentation and agility.However, the security operations team is concerned that the developers could attach the existing administrator policy, which would allow the developers to circumvent any other security policies.How should a solutions architect address this issue?Read More →

A company runs an application on a group of Amazon Linux EC2 instances.For compliance reasons, the company must retain all application log files for 7 years.The log files will be analyzed by a reporting tool that must access all files concurrently.Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A media streaming company collects real-time data and stores it in a disk-optimized database system.The company is not getting the expected throughput and wants an in-memory database storage solution that performs faster and provides high availability using data replication.Which database should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company hosts its product information webpages on AWS.The existing solution uses multiple Amazon C2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer in anAuto Scaling group.The website also uses a custom DNS name and communicates with HTTPS only using a dedicated SSL certificate.The company is planning a new product launch and wants to be sure that users from around the world have the best possible experience on the new website.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new application being deployed on AWS.The process should run in parallel while adding and removing application nodes as needed based on the number of jobs to be processed.The processor application is stateless.The solutions architect must ensure that the application is loosely coupled and the job items are durably stored.Which design should the solutions architect use?Read More →

A marketing company is storing CSV files in an Amazon S3 bucket for statistical analysis.An application on an Amazon EC2 instance needs permission to efficiently process the CSV data stored in the S3 bucket.Which action will MOST securely grant the EC2 instance access to the S3 bucket?Read More →

A company has on-premises servers that run a relational database.The database serves high-read traffic for users in different locations.The company wants to migrate the database to AWS with the least amount of effort.The database solution must support high availability and must not affect the company’s current traffic flow.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company’s application is running on Amazon EC2 instances within an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancer.Based on the application’s history, the company anticipates a spike in traffic during a holiday each year.A solutions architect must design a strategy to ensure that the Auto Scaling group proactively increases capacity to minimize any performance impact on application users.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts an application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances.The application processes messages from an Amazon SQS queue, writes for an AmazonRDS table, and deletes -the message from the queue.Occasional duplicate records are found in the RDS table.The SQS queue does not contain any duplicate messages.What should a solutions architect do to ensure messages are being processed once only?Read More →