What should a solutions architect recommend?

2026-03-25
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A recent analysis of a company’s IT expenses highlights the need to reduce backup costs.The company’s chief information officer wants to simplify the on- premises backup infrastructure and reduce costs by eliminating the use of physical backup tapes.The company must preserve the existing investment in the on- premises backup applications and workflows.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

Which solution meets these requirements?

2026-03-25
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A pharmaceutical company’s drug search API is using an Amazon Neptune DB cluster.A bulk uploader process automatically updates the information in the database a few times each week.A few weeks ago during a bulk upload, a database specialist noticed that the database started to respond frequently with aThrottlingException error.The problem also occurred with subsequent uploads.The database specialist must create a solution to prevent ThrottlingException errors for the database.The solution must minimize the downtime of the cluster.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

Which solution will meet these requirements?

2026-03-25
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A company is building a serverless application that uses AWS Lambda functions.The company needs to create a set of test events to test Lambda functions in a development environment.The test events will be created once and then will be used by all the developers in an IAM developer group.The test events must be editable by any of the IAM users in the IAM developer group.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

Which solution will meet these requirements in accordance with AWS best practices?

2026-03-25
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A company runs applications in AWS accounts that are in an organization in AWS Organizations.The applications use Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon S3.The company wants to detect potentially compromised EC2 instances, suspicious network activity, and unusual API activity in its existing AWS accounts and in any AWS accounts that the company creates in the future.When the company detects one of these events, the company wants to use an existing Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to send a notification to its operational support team for investigation and remediation.Which solution will meet these requirements in accordance with AWS best practices?Read More →

The backup strategy must meet the following retention requirements:• Daily backups: must be kept for 6 days• Weekly backups: must be kept for 4 weeks:• Monthly backups: must be kept for 11 months• Yearly backups: must be kept for 7 yearsWhich backup strategy will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative effort?

2026-03-25
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A SysOps administrator needs to implement a backup strategy for Amazon EC2 resources and Amazon RDS resources.The backup strategy must meet the following retention requirements:• Daily backups: must be kept for 6 days• Weekly backups: must be kept for 4 weeks:• Monthly backups: must be kept for 11 months• Yearly backups: must be kept for 7 yearsWhich backup strategy will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative effort?Read More →

Which solution will remediate the errors MOST cost-effectively?

2026-03-25
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A greeting card company recently advertised that customers could send cards to their favorite celebrities through the company’s platform.Since the advertisement was published, the platform has received constant traffic from 10,000 unique users each second.The platform runs on m5.xlarge Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The instances run in an Auto Scaling group and use a customAMI that is based on Amazon Linux.The platform uses a highly available Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster that uses primary and reader endpoints.The platform also uses an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis cluster that uses its cluster endpoint.The platform generates a new process for each customer and holds open database connections to MySQL for the duration of each customer’s session.However, resource usage for the platform is low.Many customers are reporting errors when they connect to the platform.Logs show that connections to the Aurora database are failing.Amazon CloudWatch metrics show that the CPU load is low across the platform and that connections to the platform are successful through the ALB.Which solution will remediate the errors MOST cost-effectively?Read More →