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A software company has deployed an application that consumes a REST API by using Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda functions, and an AmazonDynamoDB table.The application is showing an increase in the number of errors during PUT requests.Most of the PUT calls come from a small number of clients that are authenticated with specific API keys.A solutions architect has identified that a large number of the PUT requests originate from one client.The API is noncritical, and clients can tolerate retries of unsuccessful calls.However, the errors are displayed to customers and are causing damage to the API’s reputation.What should the solutions architect recommend to improve the customer experience?Read More →

An external audit of a company’s serverless application reveals IAM policies that grant too many permissions.These policies are attached to the company’s AWS Lambda execution roles.Hundreds of the company’s Lambda functions have broad access permissions, such as full access to Amazon S3 buckets and Amazon DynamoDB tables.The company wants each function to have only the minimum permissions that the function needs to complete its task.A solutions architect must determine which permissions each Lambda function needs.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of effort?Read More →

A company’s solutions architect needs to provide secure Remote Desktop connectivity to users for Amazon EC2 Windows instances that are hosted in a VPC.The solution must integrate centralized user management with the company’s on-premises Active Directory.Connectivity to the VPC is through the internet.The company has hardware that can be used to establish an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is hosting a three-tier web application in an on-premises environment.Due to a recent surge in traffic that resulted in downtime and a significant financial impact, company management has ordered that the application be moved to AWS.The application is written in .NET and has a dependency on a MySQL database.A solutions architect must design a scalable and highly available solution to meet the demand of 200,000 daily users.Which steps should the solutions architect take to design an appropriate solution?Read More →

A company is running a web application with On-Demand Amazon EC2 instances in Auto Scaling groups that scale dynamically based on custom metrics.After extensive testing, the company determines that the m5.2xlarge instance size is optimal for the workload.Application data is stored in db.r4.4xlarge Amazon RDS instances that are confirmed to be optimal.The traffic to the web application spikes randomly during the day.What other cost-optimization methods should the company implement to further reduce costs without impacting the reliability of the application?Read More →

A Solutions Architect needs to design a highly available application that will allow authenticated users to stay connected to the application even when there are underlying failures.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company developed a Java application and deployed it to an Apache Tomcat server that runs on Amazon EC2 instances.The company’s Engineering team has implemented AWS CloudFormation and Chef Automate to automate the provisioning of and updates to the infrastructure and configuration of the application in the development, test, and production environments.These implementations have led to significantly improves reliability in releasing changes.The Engineering team reports there are frequent service disruptions due to unexpected errors when updating the application of the Apache Tomcat server.Which solution will increase the reliability of all releases?Read More →

A software as a service (SaaS) company offers a cloud solution for document management to private law firms and the public sector.A local government client recently mandated that highly confidential documents cannot be stored outside the country.The company CIO asks a Solutions Architect to ensure the application can adapt to this new requirement.The CIO also wants to have a proper backup plan for these documents, as backups are not currently performed.What solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is implementing a multi-account strategy; however, the Management team has expressed concerns that services like DNS may become overly complex.The company needs a solution that allows private DNS to be shared among virtual private clouds (VPCs) in different accounts.The company will have approximately 50 accounts in total.What solution would create the LEAST complex DNS architecture and ensure that each VPC can resolve all AWS resources?Read More →

A media company has a 30-TB repository of digital news videos.These videos are stored on tape in an on-premises tape library and referenced by a Media AssetManagement (MAM) system.The company wants to enrich the metadata for these videos in an automated fashion and put them into a searchable catalog by using a MAM feature.The company must be able to search based on information in the video, such as objects, scenery items, or people’s faces.A catalog is available that contains faces of people who have appeared in the videos that include an image of each person.The company would like to migrate these videos toAWS.The company has a high-speed AWS Direct Connect connection with AWS and would like to move the MAM solution video content directly from its current file system.How can these requirements be met by using the LEAST amount of ongoing management overhead and causing MINIMAL disruption to the existing system?Read More →