Solutions Architect Associate

A company has an application running on Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet.The application needs to store and retrieve data in Amazon S3.To reduce costs, the company wants to configure its AWS resources in a cost-effective manner.How should the company accomplish this?Read More →

A company’s application integrates with multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) sources for data collection.The company runs Amazon EC2 instances to receive the data and to upload the data to an Amazon S3 bucket for analysis.The same EC2 instance that receives and uploads the data also sends a notification to the user when an upload is complete.The company has noticed slow application performance and wants to improve the performance as much as possible.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company is deploying a web portal.The company wants to ensure that only the web portion of the application is publicly accessible.To accomplish this, theVPC was designed with two public subnets and two private subnets.The application will run on several Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group.SSL termination must be offloaded from the EC2 instances.What should a solutions architect do to ensure these requirements are met?Read More →

A company collects and processes data from a vendor.The vendor stores its data in an Amazon RDS for MySQL database in the vendor’s own AWS account.The company’s VPC does not have an internet gateway, an AWS Direct Connect connection, or an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection.The company needs to access the data that is in the vendor database.Which solution will meet this requirement?Read More →

A solutions architect must design a solution that uses Amazon CloudFront with an Amazon S3 origin to store a static website.The company’s security policy requires that all website traffic be inspected by AWS WAF.How should the solutions architect comply with these requirements?Read More →

A company has a new mobile app.Anywhere in the world, users can see local news on topics they choose.Users also can post photos and videos from inside the app.Users access content often in the first minutes after the content is posted.New content quickly replaces older content, and then the older content disappears.The local nature of the news means that users consume 90% of the content within the AWS Region where it is uploaded.Which solution will optimize the user experience by providing the LOWEST latency for content uploads?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a solution where users will be directed to a backup static error page if the primary website is unavailable.The primary website’s DNS records are hosted in Amazon Route 53 where their domain is pointing to an Application Load Balancer (ALB).Which configuration should the solutions architect use to meet the company’s needs while minimizing changes and infrastructure overhead?Read More →

A company has an on-premises SFTP file transfer solution.The company is migrating to the AWS Cloud to scale the file transfer solution and to optimize costs by using Amazon S3.The company’s employees will use their credentials for the on-premises Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to access the new solution.The company wants to keep the current authentication and file access mechanisms.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a high performance computing (HPC) workload on Amazon EC2.The EC2 instances need to communicate to each other frequently and require network performance with low latency and high throughput.Which EC2 configuration meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is using AWS to design a web application that will process insurance quotes.Users will request quotes from the application.Quotes must be separated by quote type, must be responded to within 24 hours, and must not get lost.The solution must maximize operational efficiency and must minimize maintenance.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →