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A social media company runs its application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The ALB is the origin for an Amazon CloudFront distribution.The application has more than a billion images stored in an Amazon S3 bucket and processes thousands of images each second.The company wants to resize the images dynamically and serve appropriate formats to clients.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has an aging network-attached storage (NAS) array in its data center.The NAS array presents SMB shares and NFS shares to client workstations.The company does not want to purchase a new NAS array.The company also does not want to incur the cost of renewing the NAS array’s support contract.Some of the data is accessed frequently, but much of the data is inactive.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that migrates the data to Amazon S3, uses S3 Lifecycle policies, and maintains the same look and feel for the client workstations.The solutions architect has identified AWS Storage Gateway as part of the solution.Which type of storage gateway should the solutions architect provision to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has hundreds of Amazon EC2 Linux-based instances in the AWS Cloud.Systems administrators have used shared SSH keys to manage the instances.After a recent audit, the company’s security team is mandating the removal of all shared keys.A solutions architect must design a solution that provides secure access to the EC2 instances.Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of administrative overhead?Read More →

A company deploys an application on five Amazon EC2 instances.An Application Load Balancer (ALB) distributes traffic to the instances by using a target group.The average CPU usage on each of the instances is below 10% most of the time, with occasional surges to 65%.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to automate the scalability of the application.The solution must optimize the cost of the architecture and must ensure that the application has enough CPU resources when surges occur.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a popular gaming platform running on AWS.The application is sensitive to latency because latency can impact the user experience and introduce unfair advantages to some players.The application is deployed in every AWS Region.It runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are part of Auto Scaling groups configured behind Application Load Balancers (ALBs).A solutions architect needs to implement a mechanism to monitor the health of the application and redirect traffic to healthy endpoints.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company recently announced the deployment of its retail website to a global audience.The website runs on multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer.The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones.The company wants to provide its customers with different versions of content based on the devices that the customers use to access the website.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has an ecommerce checkout workflow that writes an order to a database and calls a service to process the payment.Users are experiencing timeouts during the checkout process.When users resubmit the checkout form, multiple unique orders are created for the same desired transaction.How should a solutions architect refactor this workflow to prevent the creation of multiple orders?Read More →

A company is designing a tightly coupled high performance computing (HPC) environment in the AWS Cloud.The company needs to include features that will optimize the HPC environment for networking and storage.Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is planning to migrate a commercial off-the-shelf application from its on-premises data center to AWS.The software has a software licensing model using sockets and cores with predictable capacity and uptime requirements.The company wants to use its existing licenses, which were purchased earlier this year.Which Amazon EC2 pricing option is the MOST cost-effective?Read More →

A large media company hosts a web application on AWS.The company wants to start caching confidential media files so that users around the world will have reliable access to the files.The content is stored in Amazon S3 buckets.The company must deliver the content quickly, regardless of where the requests originate geographically.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →