Solutions Architect Associate (Page 106)

A company has hired an external vendor to perform work in the company’s AWS account.The vendor uses an automated tool that is hosted in an AWS account that the vendor owns.The vendor does not have IAM access to the company’s AWS account.How should a solutions architect grant this access to the vendor?Read More →

A company has a large data workload that runs for 6 hours each day.The company cannot lose any data while the process is running.A solutions architect is designing an Amazon EMR cluster configuration to support this critical data workload.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is expecting rapid growth in the near future.A solutions architect needs to configure existing users and grant permissions to new users on AWS.The solutions architect has decided to create IAM groups.The solutions architect will add the new users to IAM groups based on department.Which additional action is the MOST secure way to grant permissions to the new users?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a workload that will store hourly energy consumption by business tenants in a building.The sensors will feed a database through HTTP requests that will add up usage for each tenant.The solutions architect must use managed services when possible.The workload will receive more features in the future as the solutions architect adds independent components.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A photo-sharing company makes a personalized collage of each user’s photographs available online.The company’s custom software builds each collage by using 10-20 available images for each user.The application stores the original images and the collages in Amazon S3 Standard storage.After a collage is created, the original files are needed only if the company must recreate the collage.The company has thousands of users and wants to reduce storage costs as much as possible.A solutions architect must recommend which S3 storage classes the company should use to store the original images and the collages.What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs applications on Amazon EC2 instances in one AWS Region.The company wants to back up the EC2 instances to a second Region.The company also wants to provision EC2 resources in the second Region and manage the EC2 instances centrally from one AWS account.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has deployed a business-critical application in the AWS Cloud.The application uses Amazon EC2 instances that run in the us-east-1 Region.The application uses Amazon S3 for storage of all critical data.To meet compliance requirements, the company must create a disaster recovery (DR) plan that provides the capability of a full failover to another AWS Region.What should a solutions architect recommend for this DR plan?Read More →

A developer has an application that uses an AWS Lambda function to upload files to Amazon S3 and needs the required permissions to perform the task.The developer already has an IAM user with valid IAM credentials required for Amazon S3.What should a solutions architect do to grant the permissions?Read More →

A company develops applications in separate AWS accounts that are all part of an organization in AWS Organizations.An operations team creates an IAM user for each developer for a given application.As the company has grown, the number of applications has increased.Developers now work on several applications and need to view and access all their project accounts.A solutions architect must design a solution that minimizes the operational overhead for the operations team.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

An ecommerce company stores terabytes of customer data in the AWS Cloud.The data contains personally identifiable information (PII).The company wants to use the data in three applications.Only one of the applications needs to process the PII.The PII must be removed before the other two applications process the data.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →