Which deployment option should the database engineer choose that involves the LEAST operational overhead?

2026-03-28
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An ecommerce company is planning to launch a custom customer relationship management (CRM) application on AWS.The development team selected Microsoft SQL Server as the database engine for this deployment.The CRM application will require operating system access because the application will manipulate files and packages on the server hosting the database.A senior database engineer must help the application team select a suitable deployment model for SQL Server.The deployment model should be optimized for the workload requirements.Which deployment option should the database engineer choose that involves the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

What must the developer do to capture the client public IP addresses in the log file?

2026-03-28
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In: DVA-C02
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A developer is writing an application to analyze the traffic to a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances.The EC2 instances run behind a public Application Load Balancer (ALB).An HTTP server runs on each of the EC2 instances, logging all requests to a log file.The developer wants to capture the client public IP addresses.The developer analyzes the log files and notices only the IP address of the ALB.What must the developer do to capture the client public IP addresses in the log file?Read More →

Which strategy will meet these requirements?

2026-03-28
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In: DOP-C02
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A company is using AWS CodePipeline to automate its release pipeline.AWS CodeDeploy is being used in the pipeline to deploy an application to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) using the blue/green deployment model.The company wants to implement scripts to test the green version of the application before shifting traffic.These scripts will complete in 5 minutes or less.If errors are discovered during these tests, the application must be rolled back.Which strategy will meet these requirements?Read More →

Which solution will meet the requirements with the fewest running instances possible?

2026-03-28
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In: SOA-C02
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A company’s web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region.The infrastructure must be designed so the application remains available with no performance degradation in the event of an Availability Zone (AZ) failure.To ensure optimal performance, the application must maintain a minimum of 12 instances at all times.Which solution will meet the requirements with the fewest running instances possible?Read More →

What should the Solutions Architect do to MOST quickly mitigate the risk of compliance deviations?

2026-03-28
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In: SAP-C01
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A company has a requirement that only allows specially hardened AMIs to be launched into public subnets in a VPC, and for the AMIs to be associated with a specific security group.Allowing non-compliant instances to launch into the public subnet could present a significant security risk if they are allowed to operate.A mapping of approved AMIs to subnets to security groups exists in an Amazon DynamoDB table in the same AWS account.The company created an AWSLambda function that, when invoked, will terminate a given Amazon EC2 instance if the combination of AMI, subnet, and security group are not approved in theDynamoDB table.What should the Solutions Architect do to MOST quickly mitigate the risk of compliance deviations?Read More →

Which solution should the security engineer recommend?

2026-03-28
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In: SCS-C01
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A company has two AWS accounts: Account A and Account B.Account A has an IAM role that IAM users in Account B assume when they need to upload sensitive documents to Amazon S3 buckets in Account A.A new requirement mandates that users can assume the role only if they are authenticated with multi-factor authentication (MFA).A security engineer must recommend a solution that meets this requirement with minimum risk and effort.Which solution should the security engineer recommend?Read More →

Which solution will meet these requirements?

2026-03-28
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A company owns a chain of travel agencies and is running an application in the AWS Cloud.Company employees use the application to search for information about travel destinations.Destination content is updated four times each year.Two fixed Amazon EC2 instances serve the application.The company uses an Amazon Route 53 public hosted zone with a multivalue record of travel.example.com that returns the Elastic IP addresses for the EC2 instances.The application uses Amazon DynamoDB as its primary data store.The company uses a self-hosted Redis instance as a caching solution.During content updates, the load on the EC2 instances and the caching solution increases drastically.This increased load has led to downtime on several occasions.A solutions architect must update the application so that the application is highly available and can handle the load that is generated by the content updates.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

2026-03-28
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A company created an application to consume and process data.The application uses Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) and AWS Lambda functions.The application is currently working as expected, but it occasionally receives several messages that it cannot process properly.The company needs to clear these messages to prevent the queue from becoming blocked.A developer must implement a solution that makes queue processing always operational.The solution must give the company the ability to defer the messages with errors and save these messages for further analysis.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?Read More →