Solutions Architect Associate (Page 10)

A company is planning to move its data to an Amazon S3 bucket.The data must be encrypted when it is stored in the S3 bucket.Additionally, the encryption key must be automatically rotated every year.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A development team runs monthly resource-intensive tests on its general purpose Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance with Performance Insights enabled.The testing lasts for 48 hours once a month and is the only process that uses the database.The team wants to reduce the cost of running the tests without reducing the compute and memory attributes of the DB instance.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A hospital is designing a new application that gathers symptoms from patients.The hospital has decided to use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) in the architecture.A solutions architect is reviewing the infrastructure design.Data must be encrypted at rest and in transit.Only authorized personnel of the hospital should be able to access the data.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect is designing the architecture for a software demonstration environment.The environment will run on Amazon EC2 instances in an AutoScaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The system will experience significant increases in traffic during working hours but is not required to operate on weekends.Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to ensure that the system can scale to meet demand? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect must secure a VPC network that hosts Amazon EC2 instances.The EC2 instances contain highly sensitive data and run in a private subnet.According to company policy, the EC2 instances that run in the VPC can access only approved third-party software repositories on the internet for software product updates that use the third party’s URL.Other internet traffic must be blocked.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a multi-tier application for a company.The application’s users upload images from a mobile device.The application generates a thumbnail of each image and returns a message to the user to confirm that the image was uploaded successfully.The thumbnail generation can take up to 60 seconds, but the company wants to provide a faster response time to its users to notify them that the original image was received.The solutions architect must design the application to asynchronously dispatch requests to the different application tiers.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is migrating a Linux-based web server group to AWS.The web servers must access files in a shared file store for some content.The company must not make any changes to the application.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is architecting a shared storage solution for a gaming application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud.The company needs the ability to use Lustre clients to access data.The solution must be fully managed.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is building a solution that will report Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling events across all the applications in an AWS account.The company needs to use a serverless solution to store the EC2 Auto Scaling status data in Amazon S3.The company then will use the data in Amazon S3 to provide near-real-time updates in a dashboard.The solution must not affect the speed of EC2 instance launches.How should the company move the data to Amazon S3 to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has more than 5 TB of file data on Windows file servers that run on premises.Users and applications interact with the data each day.The company is moving its Windows workloads to AWS.As the company continues this process, the company requires access to AWS and on-premises file storage with minimum latency.The company needs a solution that minimizes operational overhead and requires no significant changes to the existing file access patterns.The company uses an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection for connectivity to AWS.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →