What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?

2026-03-29
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A company has an application that provides marketing services to stores.The services are based on previous purchases by store customers.The stores upload transaction data to the company through SFTP, and the data is processed and analyzed to generate new marketing offers.Some of the files can exceed 200 GB in size.Recently, the company discovered that some of the stores have uploaded files that contain personally identifiable information (PII) that should not have been included.The company wants administrators to be alerted if PII is shared again.The company also wants to automate remediation.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?Read More →

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

2026-03-29
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In: SAP-C02
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A company is using GitHub Actions to run a CI/CD pipeline that accesses resources on AWS.The company has an IAM user that uses a secret key in the pipeline to authenticate to AWS.An existing IAM role with an attached policy grants the required permissions to deploy resources.The company’s security team implements a new requirement that pipelines can no longer use long-lived secret keys.A solutions architect must replace the secret key with a short-lived solution.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

What is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

2026-03-29
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In: DVA-C01
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A developer has created an AWS Lambda function that is written in Python.The Lambda function reads data from objects in Amazon S3 and writes data to an Amazon DynamoDB table.The function is successfully invoked from an S3 event notification when an object is created.However, the function fails when it attempts to write to the DynamoDB table.What is the MOST likely cause of this issue?Read More →

What is the BEST way to grant the developers privileges in the development account while still complying with corporate policies?

2026-03-29
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A company has created a separate AWS account for all development work to protect the production environment.In this development account, developers have permission to manipulate IAM policies and roles.Corporate policies require that developers are blocked from accessing some services.What is the BEST way to grant the developers privileges in the development account while still complying with corporate policies?Read More →

Which additional data preparation steps should the company take before uploading the files to Amazon S3?

2026-03-29
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In: MLS-C01
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A social media company wants to develop a machine learning (ML) model to detect inappropriate or offensive content in images.The company has collected a large dataset of labeled images and plans to use the built-in Amazon SageMaker image classification algorithm to train the model.The company also intends to use SageMaker pipe mode to speed up the training.The company splits the dataset into training, validation, and testing datasets.The company stores the training and validation images in folders that are named Training and Validation, respectively.The folders contain subfolders that correspond to the names of the dataset classes.The company resizes the images to the same size and generates two input manifest files named training.lst and validation.lst, for the training dataset and the validation dataset, respectively.Finally, the company creates two separate Amazon S3 buckets for uploads of the training dataset and the validation dataset.Which additional data preparation steps should the company take before uploading the files to Amazon S3?Read More →

How should a database specialist recover the database to the most recent point before corruption?

2026-03-29
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A financial company is hosting its web application on AWS.The application’s database is hosted on Amazon RDS for MySQL with automated backups enabled.The application has caused a logical corruption of the database, which is causing the application to become unresponsive.The specific time of the corruption has been identified, and it was within the backup retention period.How should a database specialist recover the database to the most recent point before corruption?Read More →