Solutions Architect Associate (Page 104)

The customers of a finance company request appointments with financial advisors by sending text messages.A web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances accepts the appointment requests.The text messages are published to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue through the web application.Another application that runs on EC2 instances then sends meeting invitations and meeting confirmation email messages to the customers.After successful scheduling, this application stores the meeting information in an Amazon DynamoDB database.As the company expands, customers report that their meeting invitations are taking longer to arrive.What should a solutions architect recommend to resolve this issue?Read More →

A company creates operations data and stores the data in an Amazon S3 bucket.For the company’s annual audit, an external consultant needs to access an annual report that is stored in the S3 bucket.The external consultant needs to access the report for 7 days.The company must implement a solution to allow the external consultant access to only the report.Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?Read More →

A company wants to analyze and troubleshoot Access Denied errors and Unauthorized errors that are related to IAM permissions.The company has AWSCloudTrail turned on.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?Read More →

A company is planning to run a group of Amazon EC2 instances that connect to an Amazon Aurora database.The company has built an AWS CloudFormation template to deploy the EC2 instances and the Aurora DB cluster.The company wants to allow the instances to authenticate to the database in a secure way.The company does not want to maintain static database credentials.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?Read More →

A company has migrated an application to Amazon EC2 Linux instances.One of these EC2 instances runs several 1-hour tasks on a schedule.These tasks were written by different teams and have no common programming language.The company is concerned about performance and scalability while these tasks run on a single instance.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to resolve these concerns.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company’s web application consists of multiple Amazon EC2 instances that run behind an Application Load Balancer in a VPC.An Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance contains the data.The company needs the ability to automatically detect and respond to suspicious or unexpected behavior in its AWS environment.The company already has added AWS WAF to its architecture.What should a solutions architect do next to protect against threats?Read More →

A company has primary and secondary data centers that are 500 miles (804.7 km) apart and interconnected with high-speed fiber-optic cable.The company needs a highly available and secure network connection between its data centers and a VPC on AWS for a mission-critical workload.A solutions architect must choose a connection solution that provides maximum resiliency.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company stores several petabytes of data across multiple AWS accounts.The company uses AWS Lake Formation to manage its data lake.The company’s data science team wants to securely share selective data from its accounts with the company’s engineering team for analytical purposes.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A solutions architect is planning the deployment of a new static website.The solution must minimize costs and provide at least 99% availability.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect wants all new users to have specific complexity requirements and mandatory rotation periods for IAM user passwords.What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?Read More →