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A large company in Europe plans to migrate its applications to the AWS Cloud.The company uses multiple AWS accounts for various business groups.A data privacy law requires the company to restrict developers’ access to AWS European Regions only.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of management overhead?Read More →

A company is building a voting system for a popular TV show, viewers win watch the performances then visit the show’s website to vote for their favorite performer.It is expected that in a short period of time after the show has finished the site will receive millions of visitors.The visitors will first login to the site using their Amazon.com credentials and then submit their vote.After the voting is completed the page will display the vote totals.The company needs to build the site such that can handle the rapid influx of traffic while maintaining good performance but also wants to keep costs to a minimum.Which of the design patterns below should they use?Read More →

You are designing a personal document-archiving solution for your global enterprise with thousands of employees.Each employee has potentially gigabytes of data to be backed up in this archiving solution.The solution will be exposed to the employees as an application, where they can just drag and drop their files to the archiving system.Employees can retrieve their archives through a web interface.The corporate network has high bandwidth AWS Direct Connect connectivity toAWS.You have a regulatory requirement that all data needs to be encrypted before being uploaded to the cloud.How do you implement this in a highly available and cost-efficient way?Read More →

Your company produces customer commissioned one-of-a-kind skiing helmets combining nigh fashion with custom technical enhancements Customers can show off their Individuality on the ski slopes and have access to head-up-displays. GPS rear-view cams and any other technical innovation they wish to embed in the helmet.The current manufacturing process is data rich and complex including assessments to ensure that the custom electronics and materials used to assemble the helmets are to the highest standards Assessments are a mixture of human and automated assessments you need to add a new set of assessment to model the failure modes of the custom electronics using GPUs with CUDA, across a cluster of servers with low latency networking.What architecture would allow you to automate the existing process using a hybrid approach and ensure that the architecture can support the evolution of processes over time?Read More →

You require the ability to analyze a customer’s clickstream data on a website so they can do behavioral analysis.Your customer needs to know what sequence of pages and ads their customer clicked on.This data will be used in real time to modify the page layouts as customers click through the site to increase stickiness and advertising click-through.Which option meets the requirements for captioning and analyzing this data?Read More →

Your company hosts a social media website for storing and sharing documents.The web application allows user to upload large files while resuming and pausing the upload as needed.Currently, files are uploaded to your PHP front end backed by Elastic Load Balancing and an autoscaling fleet of Amazon Elastic ComputeCloud (EC2) instances that scale upon average of bytes received (NetworkIn).After a file has been uploaded, it is copied to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).Amazon EC2 instances use an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that allows Amazon S3 uploads.Over the last six months, your user base and scale have increased significantly, forcing you to increase the Auto Scaling group’s Max parameter a few times.Your CFO is concerned about rising costs and has asked you to adjust the architecture where needed to better optimize costs.Which architecture change could you introduce to reduce costs and still keep your web application secure and scalable?Read More →

Your company previously configured a heavily used, dynamically routed VPN connection between your on-premises data center and AWS.You recently provisioned a DirectConnect connection and would like to start using the new connection.After configuring DirectConnect settings in the AWS Console, which of the following options win provide the most seamless transition for your users?Read More →

A corporate web application is deployed within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and is connected to the corporate data center via an IPSec VPN.The application must authenticate against the on-premises LDAP server.After authentication, each logged-in user can only access an Amazon Simple Storage Space(S3) keyspace specific to that user.Which two approaches can satisfy these objectives? (Choose two.)Read More →

You are running a news website in the eu-west-1 region that updates every 15 minutes.The website has a world-wide audience.It uses an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancer and an Amazon RDS database.Static content resides on Amazon S3, and is distributed through Amazon CloudFront.Your AutoScaling group is set to trigger a scale up event at 60% CPU utilization.You use an Amazon RDS extra large DB instance with 10.000 Provisioned IOPS, its CPU utilization is around 80%, while freeable memory is in the 2 GB range.Web analytics reports show that the average load time of your web pages is around 1.5 to 2 seconds, but your SEO consultant wants to bring down the average load time to under 0.5 seconds.How would you improve page load times for your users? (Choose three.)Read More →

A customer has established an AWS Direct Connect connection to AWS.The link is up and routes are being advertised from the customer’s end, however the customer is unable to connect from EC2 instances inside its VPC to servers residing in its datacenter.Which of the following options provide a viable solution to remedy this situation? (Choose two.)Read More →