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A company recently started hosting new application workloads in the AWS Cloud.The company is using Amazon EC2 instances.Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems, and Amazon RDS DB instances.To meet regulatory and business requirements, the company must make the following changes for data backups:• Backups must be retained based on custom daily, weekly, and monthly requirements.• Backups must be replicated to at least one other AWS Region immediately after capture.• The backup solution must provide a single source of backup status across the AWS environment.• The backup solution must send immediate notifications upon failure of any resource backup.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company wants to use AWS for disaster recovery for an on-premises application.The company has hundreds of Windows-based servers that run the application.All the servers mount a common share.The company has an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of 5 minutes.The solution must support native failover and fallback capabilities.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is planning to migrate to the AWS Cloud.The company hosts many applications on Windows servers and Linux servers.Some of the servers are physical, and some of the servers are virtual.The company uses several types of databases in its on-premises environment.The company does not have an accurate inventory of its on-premises servers and applications.The company wants to rightsize its resources during migration.A solutions architect needs to obtain information about the network connections and the application relationships.The solutions architect must assess the company’s current environment and develop a migration plan.Which solution will provide the solutions architect with the required information to develop the migration plan?Read More →

A company has developed a hybrid solution between its data center and AWS.The company uses Amazon VPC and Amazon EC2 instances that send application logs to Amazon CloudWatch.The EC2 instances read data from multiple relational databases that are hosted on premises.The company wants to monitor which EC2 instances are connected to the databases in near-real time.The company already has a monitoring solution that uses Splunk on premises.A solutions architect needs to determine how to send networking traffic to Splunk.How should the solutions architect meet these requirements?Read More →

A financial services company runs a complex, multi-tier application on Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Lambda functions.The application stores temporary data in Amazon S3.The S3 objects are valid for only 45 minutes and are deleted after 24 hours.The company deploys each version of the application by launching an AWS CloudFormation stack.The stack creates all resources that are required to run the application.When the company deploys and validates a new application version, the company deletes the CloudFormation stack of the old version.The company recently tried to delete the CloudFormation stack of an old application version, but the operation failed.An analysis shows that CloudFormation failed to delete an existing S3 bucket.A solutions architect needs to resolve this issue without making major changes to the application’s architecture.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group.The company uses AWS CodePipeline to deploy the application.The instances that run in the Auto Scaling group are constantly changing because of scaling events.When the company deploys new application code versions, the company installs the AWS CodeDeploy agent on any new target EC2 instances and associates the instances with the CodeDeploy deployment group.The application is set to go live within the next 24 hours.What should a solutions architect recommend to automate the application deployment process with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

A company uses AWS Organizations for a multi-account setup in the AWS Cloud.The company uses AWS Control Tower for governance and uses AWS Transit Gateway for VPC connectivity across accounts.In an AWS application account, the company’s application team has deployed a web application that uses AWS Lambda and Amazon RDS.The company’s database administrators have a separate DBA account and use the account to centrally manage all the databases across the organization.The database administrators use an Amazon EC2 instance that is deployed in the DBA account to access an RDS database that is deployed m the application account.The application team has stored the database credentials as secrets in AWS Secrets Manager in the application account.The application team is manually sharing the secrets with the database administrators.The secrets are encrypted by the default AWS managed key for Secrets Manager in the application account.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that gives the database administrators access to the database and eliminates the need to manually share the secrets.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A large payroll company recently merged with a small staffing company.The unified company now has multiple business units, each with its own existing AWS account.A solutions architect must ensure that the company can centrally manage the billing and access policies for all the AWS accounts.The solutions architect configures AWS Organizations by sending an invitation to all member accounts of the company from a centralized management account.What should the solutions architect do next to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs an application in the cloud that consists of a database and a website.Users can post data to the website, have the data processed, and have the data sent back to them in an email.Data is stored in a MySQL database running on an Amazon EC2 instance.The database is running in a VPC with two private subnets.The website is running on Apache Tomcat in a single EC2 instance in a different VPC with one public subnet.There is a single VPC peering connection between the database and website VPC.The website has suffered several outages during the last month due to high traffic.Which actions should a solutions architect take to increase the reliability of the application? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company wants to use Amazon S3 to back up its on-premises file storage solution.The company’s on-premises file storage solution supports NFS, and the company wants its new solution to support NFS.The company wants to archive the backup files after 5 days.If the company needs archived files for disaster recovery, the company is willing to wait a few days for the retrieval of those files.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →