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A company runs analytics software on Amazon EC2 instances. The software accepts job requests from users to process data that has been uploaded to Amazon S3. Users report that some submitted data is not being processed Amazon CloudWatch reveals that the EC2 instances have a consistent CPU utilization at or near 100%. The company wants to improve system performance and scale the system based on user load.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has deployed a database in Amazon RDS for MySQL.Due to increased transactions, the database support team is reporting slow reads against the DB instance and recommends adding a read replica.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take before implementing this change? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company runs a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones.The EC2 instances are in private subnets.A solutions architect implements an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB) and specifies the EC2 instances as the target group.However, the internet traffic is not reaching the EC2 instances.How should the solutions architect reconfigure the architecture to resolve this issue?Read More →

A company is launching an application on AWS.The application uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to direct traffic to at least two Amazon EC2 instances in a single target group.The instances are in an Auto Scaling group for each environment.The company requires a development environment and a production environment.The production environment will have periods of high traffic.Which solution will configure the development environment MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is using a content management system that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance.The EC2 instance contains both the web server and the database software.The company must make its website platform highly available and must enable the website to scale to meet user demand.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A medical research lab produces data that is related to a new study.The lab wants to make the data available with minimum latency to clinics across the country for their on-premises, file-based applications.The data files are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket that has read-only permissions for each clinic.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts its web application on AWS using seven Amazon EC2 instances.The company requires that the IP addresses of all healthy EC2 instances be returned in response to DNS queries.Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?Read More →

An online learning company is migrating to the AWS Cloud.The company maintains its student records in a PostgreSQL database.The company needs a solution in which its data is available and online across multiple AWS Regions at all times.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

A company previously migrated its data warehouse solution to AWS.The company also has an AWS Direct Connect connection.Corporate office users query the data warehouse using a visualization tool.The average size of a query returned by the data warehouse is 50 MB and each webpage sent by the visualization tool is approximately 500 KB.Result sets returned by the data warehouse are not cached.Which solution provides the LOWEST data transfer egress cost for the company?Read More →

An ecommerce company is migrating its on-premises workload to the AWS Cloud.The workload currently consists of a web application and a backend Microsoft SQL database for storage.The company expects a high volume of customers during a promotional event.The new infrastructure in the AWS Cloud must be highly available and scalable.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?Read More →