Solutions Architect Associate (Page 102)

A company has a large dataset for its online advertising business stored in an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in a single Availability Zone.The company wants business reporting queries to run without impacting the write operations to the production DB instance.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is investigating potential solutions that would collect, process, and store users’ service usage data.The business objective is to create an analytics capability that will enable the company to gather operational insights quickly using standard SQL queries.The solution should be highly available and ensureAtomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (ACID) compliance in the data tier.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

An ecommerce company needs to run a scheduled daily job to aggregate and filter sales records for analytics.The company stores the sales records in an Amazon S3 bucket.Each object can be up to 10 GB in size.Based on the number of sales events, the job can take up to an hour to complete.The CPU and memory usage of the job are constant and are known in advance.A solutions architect needs to minimize the amount of operational effort that is needed for the job to run.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is moving the static content from a public website hosted on Amazon EC2 instances to an Amazon S3 bucket.An Amazon CloudFront distribution will be used to deliver the static assets.The security group used by the EC2 instances restricts access to a limited set of IP ranges.Access to the static content should be similarly restricted.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect must migrate a Windows Internet Information Services (IIS) web application to AWS.The application currently relies on a file share hosted in the user’s on-premises network-attached storage (NAS).The solutions architect has proposed migrating the IIS web servers to Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones that are connected to the storage solution, and configuring an Elastic Load Balancer attached to the instances.Which replacement to the on-premises file share is MOST resilient and durable?Read More →

A company plans to store sensitive user data on Amazon S3.Internal security compliance requirement mandate encryption of data before sending it to AmazonS3.What should a solutions architect recommend to satisfy these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to migrate a Windows-based application from on premises to the AWS Cloud.The application has three tiers: an application tier, a business tier, and a database tier with Microsoft SQL Server.The company wants to use specific features of SQL Server such as native backups and Data Quality Services.The company also needs to share files for processing between the tiers.How should a solutions architect design the architecture to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is creating a new application that will store a large amount of data.The data will be analyzed hourly and modified by several Amazon EC2 Linux instances that are deployed across multiple Availability Zones.The application team believes the amount of space needed will continue to grow for the next 6 months.Which set of actions should a solutions architect take to support these needs?Read More →

A company collects data from a large number of participants who use wearable devices.The company stores the data in an Amazon DynamoDB table and uses applications to analyze the data.The data workload is constant and predictable.The company wants to stay at or below its forecasted budget for DynamoDB.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company serves content to its subscribers across the world using an application running on AWS.The application has several Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).Due to a recent change in copyright restrictions, the chief information officer (CIO) wants to block access for certain countries.Which action will meet these requirements?Read More →