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An entertainment company is using Amazon DynamoDB to store media metadata.The application is read intensive and experiencing delays.The company does not have staff to handle additional operational overhead and needs to improve the performance efficiency of DynamoDB without reconfiguring the application.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company’s infrastructure consists of Amazon EC2 instances and an Amazon RDS DB instance in a single AWS Region.The company wants to back up its data in a separate Region.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to securely store a database user name and password that an application uses to access an Amazon RDS DB instance.The application that accesses the database runs on an Amazon EC2 instance.The solutions architect wants to create a secure parameter in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company is designing a cloud communications platform that is driven by APIs.The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB).The company uses Amazon API Gateway to provide external users with access to the application through APIs.The company wants to protect the platform against web exploits like SQL injection and also wants to detect and mitigate large, sophisticated DDoS attacks.Which combination of solutions provides the MOST protection? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has a legacy data processing application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances.Data is processed sequentially, but the order of results does not matter.The application uses a monolithic architecture.The only way that the company can scale the application to meet increased demand is to increase the size of the instances.The company’s developers have decided to rewrite the application to use a microservices architecture on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).What should a solutions architect recommend for communication between the microservices?Read More →

A company wants to migrate its MySQL database from on premises to AWS.The company recently experienced a database outage that significantly impacted the business.To ensure this does not happen again, the company wants a reliable database solution on AWS that minimizes data loss and stores every transaction on at least two nodes.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is building a new dynamic ordering website.The company wants to minimize server maintenance and patching.The website must be highly available and must scale read and write capacity as quickly as possible to meet changes in user demand.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has an AWS account used for software engineering.The AWS account has access to the company’s on-premises data center through a pair of AWS Direct Connect connections.All non-VPC traffic routes to the virtual private gateway.A development team recently created an AWS Lambda function through the console.The development team needs to allow the function to access a database that runs in a private subnet in the company’s data center.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs an application using Amazon ECS.The application creates resized versions of an original image and then makes Amazon S3 API calls to store the resized images in Amazon S3.How can a solutions architect ensure that the application has permission to access Amazon S3?Read More →

A company has developed a non-production application that is composed of multiple microservices for each of the company’s business units.A single development team maintains all the microservices.The current architecture uses a static web frontend and a Java-based backend that contains the application logic.The architecture also uses a MySQL database that the company hosts on an Amazon EC2 instance.The company needs to ensure that the application is secure and available globally.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →