Solutions Architect Associate (Page 10)

An application is running on Amazon EC2 instances.Sensitive information required for the application is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket.The bucket needs to be protected from internet access while only allowing services within the VPC access to the bucket.Which combination of actions should solutions archived take to accomplish this? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has two AWS accounts: Production and Development.The company needs to push code changes in the Development account to the Production account.In the alpha phase, only two senior developers on the development team need access to the Production account.In the beta phase, more developers will need access to perform testing.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The application allows users to create custom reports of historical weather data.Generating a report can take up to 5 minutes.These long-running requests use many of the available incoming connections, making the system unresponsive to other users.How can a solutions architect make the system more responsive?Read More →

A company uses an AWS Batch job to run its end-of-day sales process.The company needs a serverless solution that will invoke a third-party reporting application when the AWS Batch job is successful.The reporting application has an HTTP API interface that uses username and password authentication.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect must create a highly available bastion host architecture.The solution needs to be resilient within a single AWS Region and should require only minimal effort to maintain.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A pharmaceutical company is developing a new drug.The volume of data that the company generates has grown exponentially over the past few months.The company’s researchers regularly require a subset of the entire dataset to be immediately available with minimal lag.However, the entire dataset does not need to be accessed on a daily basis.All the data currently resides in on-premises storage arrays, and the company wants to reduce ongoing capital expenses.Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A three-tier web application processes orders from customers.The web tier consists of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer, a middle tier of three EC2 instances decoupled from the web tier using Amazon SQS, and an Amazon DynamoDB backend.At peak times, customers who submit orders using the site have to wait much longer than normal to receive confirmations due to lengthy processing times.A solutions architect needs to reduce these processing times.Which action will be MOST effective in accomplishing this?Read More →

A company has a web application hosted over 10 Amazon EC2 instances with traffic directed by Amazon Route 53.The company occasionally experiences a timeout error when attempting to browse the application.The networking team finds that some DNS queries return IP addresses of unhealthy instances, resulting in the timeout error.What should a solutions architect implement to overcome these timeout errors?Read More →

A solutions architect must design a solution for a persistent database that is being migrated from on-premises to AWS.The database requires 64,000 IOPS according to the database administrator.If possible, the database administrator wants to use a single Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume to host the database instance.Which solution effectively meets the database administrator’s criteria?Read More →

A company has customers located across the world.The company wants to use automation to secure its systems and network infrastructure.The company’s security team must be able to track and audit all incremental changes to the infrastructure.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →