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A company runs an on-premises application that is powered by a MySQL database.The company is migrating the application to AWS to increase the application’s elasticity and availability.The current architecture shows heavy read activity on the database during times of normal operation.Every 4 hours, the company’s development team pulls a full export of the production database to populate a database in the staging environment.During this period, users experience unacceptable application latency.The development team is unable to use the staging environment until the procedure completes.A solutions architect must recommend replacement architecture that alleviates the application latency issue.The replacement architecture also must give the development team the ability to continue using the staging environment without delay.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has 700 TB of backup data stored in network attached storage (NAS) in its data center This backup data need to be accessible for infrequent regulatory requests and must be retained 7 years. The company has decided to migrate this backup data from its data center to AWS. The migration must be complete within 1 month. The company has 500 Mbps of dedicated bandwidth on its public internet connection available for data transfer.What should a solutions architect do to migrate and store the data at the LOWEST cost?Read More →

A company stores 200 GB of data each month in Amazon S3.The company needs to perform analytics on this data at the end of each month to determine the number of items sold in each sales region for the previous month.Which analytics strategy is MOST cost-effective for the company to use?Read More →

A company is launching an ecommerce website on AWS.This website is built with a three-tier architecture that includes a MySQL database in a Multi-AZ deployment of Amazon Aurora MySQL.The website application must be highly available and will initially be launched in an AWS Region with three AvailabilityZones.The application produces a metric that describes the load the application experiences.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is building an application on Amazon EC2 instances that generates temporary transactional data.The application requires access to data storage that can provide configurable and consistent IOPS.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company is hosting an election reporting website on AWS for users around the world.The website uses Amazon EC2 instances for the web and application tiers in an Auto Scaling group with Application Load Balancers.The database tier uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL database.The website is updated with election results once an hour and has historically observed hundreds of users accessing the reports.The company is expecting a significant increase in demand because of upcoming elections in different countries.A solutions architect must improve the website’s ability to handle additional demand while minimizing the need for additional EC2 instances.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a large Microsoft SharePoint deployment running on-premises that requires Microsoft Windows shared file storage.The company wants to migrate this workload to the AWS Cloud and is considering various storage options.The storage solution must be highly available and integrated with ActiveDirectory for access control.Which solution will satisfy these requirements?Read More →

A company is planning to use an Amazon DynamoDB table for data storage.The company is concerned about cost optimization.The table will not be used on most mornings in the evenings, the read and write traffic will often be unpredictable.When traffic spikes occur they will happen very quickly.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company runs an application on a large fleet of Amazon EC2 instances.The application reads and write entries into an Amazon DynamoDB table.The size of the DynamoDB table continuously grows, but the application needs only data from the last 30 days.The company needs a solution that minimizes cost and development effort.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

The customers of a finance company request appointments with financial advisors by sending text messages.A web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances accepts the appointment requests.The text messages are published to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue through the web application.Another application that runs on EC2 instances then sends meeting invitations and meeting confirmation email messages to the customers.After successful scheduling, this application stores the meeting information in an Amazon DynamoDB database.As the company expands, customers report that their meeting invitations are taking longer to arrive.What should a solutions architect recommend to resolve this issue?Read More →