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You have setup an Auto Scaling group.The cool down period for the Auto Scaling group is 7 minutes.The first scaling activity request for the Auto Scaling group is to launch two instances.It receives the activity question at time “t”, and the first instance is launched at t+3 minutes, while the second instance is launched at t+4 minutes.How many minutes after time “t” will Auto Scaling accept another scaling activity request?Read More →

A company needs to move its on-premises resources to AWS.The current environment consists of 100 virtual machines (VMs) with a total of 40 TB of storage.Most of the VMs can be taken offline because they support functions during business hours only, however, some are mission critical, so downtime must be minimized.The administrator of the on-premises network provisioned 10 Mbps of internet bandwidth for the migration.The on-premises network throughput has reached capacity and would be costly to increase.A solutions architect must design a migration solution that can be performed within the next 3 months.Which method would fulfill these requirements?Read More →

A company maintains a restaurant review website.The website is a single-page application where files are stored in Amazon S3 and delivered using AmazonCloudFront.The company receives several fake postings every day that are manually removed.The security team has identified that most of the fake posts are from bots with IP addresses that have a bad reputation within the same global region.The team needs to create a solution to help restrict the bots from accessing the website.Which strategy should a solutions architect use?Read More →

A company is serving files to its customer through an SFTP server that is accessible over the Internet.The SFTP server is running on a single Amazon EC2 instance with an Elastic IP address attached.Customers connect to the SFTP server through its Elastic IP address and use SSH for authentication.The EC2 instance also has an attached security group that allows access from all customer IP addresses.A solutions architect must implement a solution to improve availability, minimize the complexity of infrastructure management, and minimize the disruption to customers who access files.The solution must not change the way customers connect.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect at a large company needs to set up network security for outbound traffic to the internet from all AWS accounts within an organization in AWSOrganizations.The organization has more than 100 AWS accounts, and the accounts route to each other by using a centralized AWS Transit Gateway.Each account has both an internet gateway and a NAT gateway for outbound traffic to the internet.The company deploys resources only into a single AWS Region.The company needs the ability to add centrally managed rule-based filtering on all outbound traffic to the internet for all AWS accounts in the organization.The peak load of outbound traffic will not exceed 25 Gbps in each Availability Zone.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to migrate its data analytics environment from on premises to AWS.The environment consists of two simple Node.js applications.One of the applications collects sensor data and loads it into a MySQL database.The other application aggregates the data into reports.When the aggregation jobs run, some of the load jobs fail to run correctly.The company must resolve the data loading issue.The company also needs the migration to occur without interruptions or changes for the company’s customers.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs an application that gives users the ability to search for videos and related information by using keywords that are curated from content providers.The application data is stored in an on-premises Oracle database that is 800 GB in size.The company wants to migrate the data to an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB instance.A solutions architect plans to use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool andAWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) for the migration.During the migration, the existing database must serve ongoing requests.The migration must be completed with minimum downtime.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

An education company is running a web application used by college students around the world.The application runs in an Amazon Elastic Container Service(Amazon ECS) cluster in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).A system administrator detects a weekly spike in the number of failed login attempts, which overwhelm the application’s authentication service.All the failed login attempts originate from about 500 different IP addresses that change each week.A solutions architect must prevent the failed login attempts from overwhelming the authentication service.Which solution meets these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?Read More →

A company is planning a large event where a promotional offer will be introduced.The company’s website is hosted on AWS and backed by an Amazon RDS forPostgreSQL DB instance.The website explains the promotion and includes a sign-up page that collects user information and preferences.Management expects large and unpredictable volumes of traffic periodically, which will create many database writes.A solutions architect needs to build a solution that does not change the underlying data model and ensures that submissions are not dropped before they are committed to the database.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect works for a government agency that has strict disaster recovery requirements.All Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots are required to be saved in at least two additional AWS Regions.The agency also is required to maintain the lowest possible operational overhead.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →