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Accompany is deploying a new cluster for big data analytics on AWS.The cluster will run across many Linux Amazon EC2 instances that are spread across multiple Availability Zones.All of the nodes in the cluster must have read and write access to common underlying file storage.The file storage must be highly available, must be resilient, must be compatible with the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), and must accommodate high levels of throughput.Which storage solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to migrate an on-premises legacy application to AWS. The application runs on two servers behind a load balancer. The application requires a license file that is associated with the MAC address of the server’s network adapter It takes the software vendor 12 hours to send new license files. The application also uses configuration files with a static IP address to access a database server, host names are not supported.Given these requirements, which combination of steps should be taken to implement highly available architecture for the application servers in AWS? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect has deployed a web application that serves users across two AWS Regions under a custom domain.The application uses Amazon Route 53 latency-based routing.The solutions architect has associated weighted record sets with a pair of web servers in separate Availability Zones for each Region.The solutions architect runs a disaster recovery scenario.When all the web servers in one Region are stopped, Route 53 does not automatically redirect users to the other Region.Which of the following are possible root causes of this issue? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect must implement a multi-Region architecture for an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database that supports a web application.The database launches from an AWS CloudFormation template that includes AWS services and features that are present in both the primary and secondary Regions.The database is configured for automated backups, and it has an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of 2 hours.The web application is configured to use an Amazon Route 53 record to route traffic to the database.Which combination of steps will result in a highly available architecture that meets all the requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

An online gaming company needs to rehost its gaming platform on AWS.The company’s gaming application requires high performance computing (HPC) processing and has a leaderboard that changes frequently.An Ubuntu instance that is optimized for compute generation hosts a Node.js application for game display.Game state is tracked in an on-premises Redis instance.The company needs a migration strategy that optimizes application performance.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to refactor its retail ordering web application that currently has a load-balanced Amazon EC2 instance fleet for web hosting, database API services, and business logic.The company needs to create a decoupled, scalable architecture with a mechanism for retaining failed orders while also minimizing operational costs.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is processing videos in the AWS Cloud by Using Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group.It takes 30 minutes to process a video Several EC2 instances scale in and out depending on the number of videos in an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue.The company has configured the SQS queue with a redrive policy that specifies a target dead-letter queue and a maxReceiveCount of 1.The company has set the visibility timeout for the SQS queue to 1 hour.The company has set up an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to notify the development team when there are messages in the dead-letter queue.Several times during the day.the development team receives notification that messages are in the dead-letter queue and that videos have not been processed property.An investigation finds no errors m the application logs.How can the company solve this problem?Read More →

A company provides auction services for artwork and has users across North America and Europe.The company hosts its application in Amazon EC2 instances in the us-east-1 Region.Artists upload photos of their work as large-size.high-resolution image files from their mobile phones to a centralized Amazon S3 bucket created in the us-east-1 Region.The users in Europe are reporting slow performance for their image uploads.How can a solutions architect improve the performance of the image upload process?Read More →

A company has a Windows-based desktop application that is packaged and deployed to the users’ Windows machines.The company recently acquired another company that has employees who primarily use machines with a Linux operating system.The acquiring company has decided to migrate and rehost the Windows-based desktop application to AWS.All employees must be authenticated before they use the application.The acquiring company uses Active Directory on premises but wants a simplified way to manage access to the application on AWS for all the employees.Which solution will rehost the application on AWS with the LEAST development effort?Read More →

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 Active Directory domain that runs in the data center.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?Read More →