Solutions Architect Associate (Page 101)

A company has two VPCs that are located in the us-west-2 Region within the same AWS account.The company needs to allow network traffic between these VPCs.Approximately 500 GB of data transfer will occur between the VPCs each month.What is the MOST cost-effective solution to connect these VPCs?Read More →

A company’s SAP application has a backend SQL Server database in an on-premises environment.The company wants to migrate its on-premises application and database server to AWS.The company needs an instance type that meets the high demands of its SAP database.On-premises performance data shows that both the SAP application and the database have high memory utilization.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company needs to optimize the cost of its Amazon EC2 instances.The company also needs to change the type and family of its EC2 instances every 2-3 months.What should the company do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is using Amazon CloudFront with its website.The company has enabled logging on the CloudFront distribution, and logs are saved in one of the company’s Amazon S3 buckets.The company needs to perform advanced analyses on the logs and build visualizations.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company recently created a disaster recovery site in a different AWS Region.The company needs to transfer large amounts of data back and forth between NFS file systems in the two Regions on a periodic basis.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has one million users that use its mobile app.The company must analyze the data usage in near-real time.The company also must encrypt the data in near-real time and must store the data in a centralized location in Apache Parquet format for further processing.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company hosts a website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The website serves static content.Website traffic is increasing.The company wants to minimize the website hosting costs.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs a self-managed Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).Daily snapshots are taken of the EBS volumes.Recently, all the company’s EBS snapshots were accidentally deleted while running a snapshot cleaning script that deletes all expired EBS snapshots.A solutions architect needs to update the architecture to prevent data loss without retaining EBS snapshots indefinitely.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?Read More →

A company is building an application in the AWS Cloud.The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The company uses Amazon Route 53 for the DNS.The company needs a managed solution with proactive engagement to detect against DDoS attacks.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company recently migrated a monolithic application to an Amazon EC2 instance and Amazon RDS.The application has tightly coupled modules.The existing design of the application gives the application the ability to run on only a single EC2 instance.The company has noticed high CPU utilization on the EC2 instance during peak usage times.The high CPU utilization corresponds to degraded performance on Amazon RDS for read requests.The company wants to reduce the high CPU utilization and improve read request performance.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →