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A company runs a public-facing application that uses a Java-based web service via a RESTful API.It is hosted on Apache Tomcat on a single server in a data center that runs consistently at 30% CPU utilization.Use of the API is expected to increase by 10 times with a new product launch.The business wants to migrate the application to AWS with no disruption, and needs it to scale to meet demand.The company has already decided to use Amazon Route 53 and CNAME records to redirect traffic.How can these requirements be met with the LEAST amount of effort?Read More →

A company currently runs a secure application on Amazon EC2 that takes files from on-premises locations through AWS Direct Connect, processes them, and uploads them to a single Amazon S3 bucket.The application uses HTTPS for encryption in transit to Amazon S3, and S3 server-side encryption to encrypt at rest.Which of the following changes should the Solutions Architect recommend to make this solution more secure without impeding application’s performance?Read More →

A company decided to purchase Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances.A solutions architect is tasked with implementing a solution where only the master account inAWS Organizations is able to purchase the Reserved Instances.Current and future member accounts should be blocked from purchasing Reserved Instances.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect has an operational workload deployed on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group.The VPC architecture spans two AvailabilityZones (AZ) with a subnet in each that the Auto Scaling group is targeting.The VPC is connected to an on-premises environment and connectivity cannot be interrupted.The maximum size of the Auto Scaling group is 20 instances in service.The VPC IPv4 addressing is as follows:VPC CIDR: 10.0.0.0/23 -AZ1 subnet CIDR: 10.0.0.0/24 -AZ2 subnet CIDR: 10.0.1.0/24 -Since deployment, a third AZ has become available in the Region.The solutions architect wants to adopt the new AZ without adding additional IPv4 address space and without service downtime.Which solution will meet 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 →

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 →

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 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 →

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 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 →