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A company is migrating mobile banking applications to run on Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC.Backend service applications run in an on-premises data center.The data center has an AWS Direct Connect connection into AWS.The applications that run in the VPC need to resolve DNS requests to an on-premises ActiveDirectory domain that runs in the data center.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?Read More →

A company is migrating to the cloud.It wants to evaluate the configurations of virtual machines in its existing data center environment to ensure that it can size new Amazon EC2 instances accurately.The company wants to collect metrics, such as CPU, memory, and disk utilization, and it needs an inventory of what processes are running on each instance.The company would also like to monitor network connections to map communications between servers.Which would enable the collection of this data MOST cost effectively?Read More →

Your customer is willing to consolidate their log streams (access logs, application logs, security logs, etc.) in one single system.Once consolidated, the customer wants to analyze these logs in real time based on heuristics.From time to time, the customer needs to validate heuristics, which requires going back to data samples extracted from the last 12 hours.What is the best approach to meet your customer’s requirements?Read More →

A newspaper organization has an on-premises application which allows the public to search its back catalogue and retrieve individual newspaper pages via a website written in Java.They have scanned the old newspapers into JPEGs (approx 17TB) and used Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to populate a commercial search product.The hosting platform and software are now end of life and the organization wants to migrate its archive to AWS and produce a cost efficient architecture and still be designed for availability and durability.Which is the most appropriate?Read More →

A company has a complex web application that leverages Amazon CloudFront for global scalability and performance.Over time, users report that the web application is slowing down.The company’s operations team reports that the CloudFront cache hit ratio has been dropping steadily.The cache metrics report indicates that query strings on some URLs are inconsistently ordered and are specified sometimes in mixed-case letters and sometimes in lowercase letters.Which set of actions should the solutions architect take to increase the cache hit ratio as quickly possible?Read More →

You are looking to migrate your Development (Dev) and Test environments to AWS.You have decided to use separate AWS accounts to host each environment.You plan to link each accounts bill to a Master AWS account using Consolidated Billing.To make sure you keep within budget you would like to implement a way for administrators in the Master account to have access to stop, delete and/or terminate resources in both the Dev and Test accounts.Identify which option will allow you to achieve this goal.Read More →

To serve Web traffic for a popular product your chief financial officer and IT director have purchased 10 m1.large heavy utilization Reserved Instances (RIs), evenly spread across two availability zones; Route 53 is used to deliver the traffic to an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB).After several months, the product grows even more popular and you need additional capacity.As a result, your company purchases two C3.2xlarge medium utilization Ris.You register the two c3.2xlarge instances with your ELB and quickly find that the m1.large instances are at 100% of capacity and the c3.2xlarge instances have significant capacity that’s unused.Which option is the most cost effective and uses EC2 capacity most effectively?Read More →

Your department creates regular analytics reports from your company’s log files All log data is collected in Amazon S3 and processed by daily Amazon ElasticMapReduce (EMR) jobs that generate daily PDF reports and aggregated tables in CSV format for an Amazon Redshift data warehouse.Your CFO requests that you optimize the cost structure for this system.Which of the following alternatives will lower costs without compromising average performance of the system or data integrity for the raw data?Read More →

An AWS customer is deploying an application mat is composed of an AutoScaling group of EC2 Instances.The customers security policy requires that every outbound connection from these instances to any other service within the customers Virtual Private Cloud must be authenticated using a unique x 509 certificate that contains the specific instance-id.In addition, an x 509 certificates must Designed by the customer’s Key management service in order to be trusted for authentication.Which of the following configurations will support these requirements?Read More →

Your company runs a customer facing event registration site This site is built with a 3-tier architecture with web and application tier servers and a MySQL database The application requires 6 web tier servers and 6 application tier servers for normal operation, but can run on a minimum of 65% server capacity and a single MySQL database.When deploying this application in a region with three availability zones (AZs) which architecture provides high availability?Read More →