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A company is creating a sequel for a popular online game.A large number of users from all over the world will play the game within the first week after launch.Currently, the game consists of the following components deployed in a single AWS Region:✑ Amazon S3 bucket that stores game assets✑ Amazon DynamoDB table that stores player scoresA solutions architect needs to design a multi-Region solution that will reduce latency, improve reliability, and require the least effort to implement.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs a proprietary stateless ETL application on an Amazon EC2 Linux instances.The application is a Linux binary, and the source code cannot be modified.The application is single-threaded, uses 2 GB of RAM, and is highly CPU intensive.The application is scheduled to run every 4 hours and runs for up to20 minutes.A solutions architect wants to revise the architecture for the solution.Which strategy should the solutions architect use?Read More →

A company is running a two-tier web-based application in an on-premises data center.The application user consists of a single server running a stateful application.The application connects to a PostgreSQL database running on a separate server.The application’s user base is expected to grow significantly, so the company is migrating the application and database to AWS.The solution will use Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, and Elastic LoadBalancing.Which solution will provide a consistent user experience that will allow the application and database tiers to scale?Read More →

A team collects and routes behavioral data for an entire company.The company runs a Multi-AZ VPC environment with public subnets, private subnets, and in internet gateway.Each public subnet also contains a NAT gateway.Most of the company’s applications read from and write to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.Most of the workloads run in private subnets.A solutions architect must review the infrastructure.The solution architect needs to reduce costs and maintain the function of the applications.The solutions architect uses Cost Explorer and notices that the cost in the EC2-Other category is consistently high.A further review shows that NatGateway-Bytes charges are increasing the cost in the EC2-Other category.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A finance company is running its business-critical application on current-generation Linux EC2 instances.The application includes a self-managed MySQL database performing heavy I/O operations.The application is working fine to handle a moderate amount of traffic during the month.However, it slows down during the final three days of each month due to month-end reporting, even though the company is using Elastic Load Balancers and Auto Scaling within its infrastructure to meet the increased demand.Which of the following actions would allow the database to handle the month-end load with the LEAST impact on performance?Read More →

A company has introduced a new policy that allows employees to work remotely from their homes if they connect by using a VPN.The company is hosting internal applications with VPCs in multiple AWS accounts.Currently, the applications are accessible from the company’s on-premises office network through an AWS Site- to-Site VPN connection.The VPC in the company’s main AWS account has peering connections established with VPCs in other AWS accounts.A solutions architect must design a scalable AWS Client VPN solution for employees to use while they work from home.What is the MOST cost-effective solution that meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has an organization that has many AWS accounts in AWS Organizations.A solutions architect must improve how the company manages common security group rules for the AWS accounts in the organization.The company has a common set of IP CIDR ranges in an allow list in each AWS account to allow access to and from the company’s on-premises network.Developers within each account are responsible for adding new IP CIDR ranges to their security groups.The security team has its own AWS account.Currently, the security team notifies the owners of the other AWS accounts when changes are made to the allow list.The solutions architect must design a solution that distributes the common set of CIDR ranges across all accounts.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

A company is refactoring its on-premises order-processing platform in the AWS Cloud.The platform includes a web front end that is hosted on a fleet of VMs.RabbitMQ to connect the front end to the backend, and a Kubernetes cluster to run a containerized backend system to process the orders.The company does not want to make any major changes to the application.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

An online magazine will launch its latest edition this month.This edition will be the first to be distributed globally.The magazine’s dynamic website currently uses an Application Load Balancer in front of the web tier, a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances for web and application servers, and Amazon Aurora MySQL.Portions of the website include static content and almost all traffic is read-only.The magazine is expecting a significant spike in internet traffic when the new edition is launched.Optimal performance is a top priority for the week following the launch.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to reduce system response times for a global audience? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud.The application uses AWS Lambda functions and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) containers that run with AWS Fargate technology as its primary compute.The load on the application is irregular.The application experiences long periods of no usage, followed by sudden and significant increases and decreases in traffic.The application is write-heavy and stores data in an Amazon Aurora MySQL database.The database runs on an Amazon RDS memory optimized DB instance that is not able to handle the load.What is the MOST cost-effective way for the company to handle the sudden and significant changes in traffic?Read More →