Solutions Architect Associate (Page 107)

A company runs an internal browser-based application.The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones.The Auto Scaling group scales up to 20 instances during work hours, but scales down to 2 instances overnight.Staff are complaining that the application is very slow when the day begins, although it runs well by mid-morning.How should the scaling be changed to address the staff complaints and keep costs to a minimum?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to design the architecture for an application that a vendor provides as a Docker container image.The container needs 50 GB of storage available for temporary files.The infrastructure must be serverless.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company hosts an application on Amazon EC2 instances that run in a single Availability Zone.The application is accessible by using the transport layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model.The company needs the application architecture to have high availability.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company’s facility has badge readers at every entrance throughout the building.When badges are scanned, the readers send a message over HTTPS to indicate who attempted to access that particular entrance.A solutions architect must design a system to process these messages from the sensors.The solution must be highly available, and the results must be made available for the company’s security team to analyze.Which system architecture should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company recently performed a lift and shift migration of its on-premises Oracle database workload to run on an Amazon EC2 memory optimized Linux instance.The EC2 Linux instance uses a 1 TB Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) EBS volume with 64,000 IOPS.The database storage performance after the migration is slower than the performance of the on-premises database.Which solution will improve storage performance?Read More →

A company hosts its application in the AWS Cloud.The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group and with an Amazon DynamoDB table.The company wants to ensure the application can be made available in another AWS Region with minimal downtime.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of downtime?Read More →

A company is designing an application on AWS that processes sensitive data.The application stores and processes financial data for multiple customers.To meet compliance requirements, the data for each customer must be encrypted separately at rest by using a secure, centralized key management solution.The company wants to use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to implement encryption.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to design a solution that retrieves data every 2 minutes from a third-party web service that is accessible through the internet.A Python script runs the data retrieval in less than 100 milliseconds for each retrieval.The response is a JSON object that contains sensor data that is less than 1 KB in size.The solutions architect needs to store the JSON object along with the timestamp.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company hosts a video streaming web application in a VPC.The company uses a Network Load Balancer (NLB) to handle TCP traffic for real-time data processing.There have been unauthorized attempts to access the application.The company wants to improve application security with minimal architectural change to prevent unauthorized attempts to access the application.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to migrate its MySQL database from on premises to AWS.The company recently experienced a database outage that significantly impacted the business.To ensure this does not happen again, the company wants a reliable database solution on AWS that minimizes data loss and stores every transaction on at least two nodes.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →