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Your application provides data transformation services.Files containing data to be transformed are first uploaded to Amazon S3 and then transformed by a fleet of spot EC2 instances.Files submitted by your premium customers must be transformed with the highest priority.How should you implement such a system?Read More →

A company has developed a new billing application that will be released in two weeks.Developers are testing the application running on 10 EC2 instances managed by an Auto Scaling group in subnet 172.31.0.0/24 within VPC A with CIDR block 172.31.0.0/16.The Developers noticed connection timeout errors in the application logs while connecting to an Oracle database running on an Amazon EC2 instance in the same region within VPC B with CIDR block 172.50.0.0/16.The IP of the database instance is hard-coded in the application instances.Which recommendations should a Solutions Architect present to the Developers to solve the problem in a secure way with minimal maintenance and overhead?Read More →

A mobile gaming company is expanding into the global market.The company’s game servers run in the us-east-1 Region.The game’s client application uses UDP to communicate with the game servers and needs to be able to connect to a set of static IP addresses.The company wants its game to be accessible on multiple continents.The company also wants the game to maintain its network performance and global availability.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has an organization in AWS Organizations that has a large number of AWS accounts.One of the AWS accounts is designated as a transit account and has a transit gateway that is shared with all of the other AWS accounts.AWS Site-to-Site VPN connections are configured between all of the company’s global offices and the transit account.The company has AWS Config enabled on all of its accounts.The company’s networking team needs to centrally manage a list of internal IP address ranges that belong to the global offices.Developers will reference this list to gain access to their applications securely.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

An AWS account owner has setup multiple IAM users.One of these IAM users, named John, has CloudWatch access, but no access to EC2 services.John has setup an alarm action which stops EC2 instances when their CPU utilization is below the threshold limit.When an EC2 instance’s CPU Utilization rate drops below the threshold John has set, what will happen and why?Read More →

A greeting card company recently advertised that customers could send cards to their favorite celebrities through the company’s platform.Since the advertisement was published, the platform has received constant traffic from 10,000 unique users each second.The platform runs on m5.xlarge Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The instances run in an Auto Scaling group and use a customAMI that is based on Amazon Linux.The platform uses a highly available Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster that uses primary and reader endpoints.The platform also uses an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis cluster that uses its cluster endpoint.The platform generates a new process for each customer and holds open database connections to MySQL for the duration of each customer’s session.However, resource usage for the platform is low.Many customers are reporting errors when they connect to the platform.Logs show that connections to the Aurora database are failing.Amazon CloudWatch metrics show that the CPU load is low across the platform and that connections to the platform are successful through the ALB.Which solution will remediate the errors MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a solution to connect a company’s on-premises network with all the company’s current and future VPCs on AWS.The company is running VPCs in five different AWS Regions and has at least 15 VPCs in each Region.The company’s AWS usage is constantly increasing and will continue to grow.Additionally, all the VPCs throughout all five Regions must be able to communicate with each other.The solution must maximize scalability and ease of management.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

An e-commerce company is revamping its IT infrastructure and is planning to use AWS services.The company’s CIO has asked a Solutions Architect to design a simple, highly available, and loosely coupled order processing application.The application is responsible for receiving and processing orders before storing them in an Amazon DynamoDB table.The application has a sporadic traffic pattern and should be able to scale during marketing campaigns to process the orders with minimal delays.Which of the following is the MOST reliable approach to meet the requirements?Read More →

A manufacturing company is growing exponentially and has secured funding to improve its IT infrastructure and ecommerce presence.The company’s ecommerce platform consists of:✑ Static assets primarily comprised of product images stored in Amazon S3.✑ Amazon DynamoDB tables that store product information, user information, and order information.✑ Web servers containing the application’s front-end behind Elastic Load Balancers.The company wants to set up a disaster recovery site in a separate Region.Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to implement the new design while meeting all the requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company has a VPC with two domain controllers running Active Directory in the default configuration.The VPC DHCP options set is configured to use the IP addresses of the two domain controllers.There is a VPC interface endpoint defined; but instances within the VPC are not able to resolve the private endpoint addresses.Which strategies would resolve this issue? (Choose two.)Read More →