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A company is running a custom application on Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances.The application has frontend nodes that need to run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and backend nodes that need to run only for a short time based on workload.The number of backend nodes varies during the day.The company needs to scale out and scale in more instances based on workload.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has an employee web portal.Employees log in to the portal to view payroll details.The company is developing a new system to give employees the ability to upload scanned documents for reimbursement.The company runs a program to extract text-based data from the documents and attach the extracted information to each employee’s reimbursement IDs for processing.The employee web portal requires 100% uptime.The document extract program runs infrequently throughout the day on an on-demand basis.The company wants to build a scalable and cost-effective new system that will require minimal changes to the existing web portal.The company does not want to make any code changes.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort?Read More →

A company needs to grant a team of developers access to the company’s AWS resources.The company must maintain a high level of security for the resources.The company requires an access control solution that will prevent unauthorized access to the sensitive data.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A video game company is deploying a new gaming application to its global users.The company requires a solution that will provide near real-time reviews and rankings of the players.A solutions architect must design a solution to provide fast access to the data.The solution must also ensure the data persists on disks in the event that the company restarts the application.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A large company wants to provide its globally located developers separate, limited size, managed PostgreSQL databases for development purposes.The databases will be low volume.The developers need the databases only when they are actively working.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL instance.To prepare for end-of-year processing, the company added a read replica to accommodate extra read-only queries from the company’s reporting tool.The read replica CPU usage was 60% and the primary instance CPU usage was 60%.After end-of-year activities are complete, the read replica has a constant 25% CPU usage.The primary instance still has a constant 60% CPU usage.The company wants to rightsize the database and still provide enough performance for future growth.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A weather forecasting company collects temperature readings from various sensors on a continuous basis.An existing data ingestion process collects the readings and aggregates the readings into larger Apache Parquet files.Then the process encrypts the files by using client-side encryption with KMS managed keys (CSE-KMS).Finally, the process writes the files to an Amazon S3 bucket with separate prefixes for each calendar day.The company wants to run occasional SQL queries on the data to take sample moving averages for a specific calendar day.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company wants to isolate its workloads by creating an AWS account for each workload.The company needs a solution that centrally manages networking components for the workloads.The solution also must create accounts with automatic security controls (guardrails).Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company wants to create an Amazon EMR cluster that multiple teams will use.The company wants to ensure that each team’s big data workloads can access only the AWS services that each team needs to interact with.The company does not want the workloads to have access to Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) on the cluster’s underlying EC2 instances.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company uses Amazon S3 to host its static website.The company wants to add a contact form to the webpage.The contact form will have dynamic server-side components for users to input their name, email address, phone number, and user message.The company expects fewer than 100 site visits each month.The contact form must notify the company by email when a customer fills out the form.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →