Solutions Architect Associate (Page 105)

A company’s application integrates with multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) sources for data collection.The company runs Amazon EC2 instances to receive the data and to upload the data to an Amazon S3 bucket for analysis.The same EC2 instance that receives and uploads the data also sends a notification to the user when an upload is complete.The company has noticed slow application performance and wants to improve the performance as much as possible.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has an application running on Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet.The application needs to store and retrieve data in Amazon S3.To reduce costs, the company wants to configure its AWS resources in a cost-effective manner.How should the company accomplish this?Read More →

A company has thousands of edge devices that collectively generate 1 TB of status alerts each day.Each alert is approximately 2 KB in size.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to ingest and store the alerts for future analysis.The company wants a highly available solution.However, the company needs to minimize costs and does not want to manage additional infrastructure.Additionally, the company wants to keep 14 days of data available for immediate analysis and archive any data older than 14 days.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?Read More →

A company’s workload is running in an on-premises data center and on AWS in the ap-south-1 Region.The company wants to use the ap-southeast-1 Region as its secondary site for disaster recovery.The company needs to have a single, dedicated connection with 4 Gbps of bandwidth throughput from its data center to both AWS Regions.What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company maintains a searchable repository of items on its website.The data is stored in an Amazon RDS for MySQL database table that contains more than 10 million rows.The database has 2 TB of General Purpose SSD storage.There are millions of updates against this data every day through the company’s website.The company has noticed that some insert operations are taking 10 seconds or longer.The company has determined that the database storage performance is the problem.Which solution addresses this performance issue?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a solution that involves orchestrating a series of Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) task types running onAmazon EC2 instances that are part of an ECS cluster.The output and state data for all tasks needs to be stored.The amount of data output by each task is approximately 10 MB, and there could be hundreds of tasks running at a time.The system should be optimized for high-frequency reading and writing.As old outputs are archived and deleted, the storage size is not expected to exceed 1 TB.Which storage solution should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company is hosting a static website on Amazon S3 and is using Amazon Route 53 for DNS.The website is experiencing increased demand from around the world.The company must decrease latency for users who access the website.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has created a multi-tier application for its ecommerce website.The website uses an Application Load Balancer that resides in the public subnets, a web tier in the public subnets, and a MySQL cluster hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in the private subnets.The MySQL database needs to retrieve product catalog and pricing information that is hosted on the internet by a third-party provider.A solutions architect must devise a strategy that maximizes security without increasing operational overhead.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company recently launched a variety of new workloads on Amazon EC2 instances in its AWS account.The company needs to create a strategy to access and administer the instances remotely and securely.The company needs to implement a repeatable process that works with native AWS services and follows the AWS Well-Architected Framework.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company is developing a mobile game that streams score updates to a backend processor and then posts results on a leaderboard.A solutions architect needs to design a solution that can handle large traffic spikes, process the mobile game updates in order of receipt, and store the processed updates in a highly available database.The company also wants to minimize the management overhead required to maintain the solution.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →