Solutions Architect Associate (Page 108)

A company wants to share forensic accounting data that is stored in an Amazon RDS DB instance with an external auditor.The auditor has its own AWS account and requires its own copy of the database.How should the company securely share the database with the auditor?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 →

An application that is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances needs to access an Amazon S3 bucket.Traffic must not traverse the internet.How should a solutions architect configure access to meet these requirements?Read More →

An ecommerce company runs applications in AWS accounts that are part of an organization in AWS Organizations.The applications run on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL databases across all the accounts.The company needs to prevent malicious activity and must identify abnormal failed and incomplete login attempts to the databases.Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?Read More →

A company wants to use AWS Systems Manager to manage a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances.According to the company’s security requirements, no EC2 instances can have internet access.A solutions architect needs to design network connectivity from the EC2 instances to Systems Manager while fulfilling this security obligation.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs an AWS Lambda function in private subnets in a VPC.The subnets have a default route to the internet through an Amazon EC2 NAT instance.The Lambda function processes input data and saves its output as an object to Amazon S3.Intermittently, the Lambda function times out while trying to upload the object because of saturated traffic on the NAT instance’s network.The company wants to access Amazon S3 without traversing the internet.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company provides an online service for posting video content and transcoding it for use by any mobile platform.The application architecture uses AmazonElastic File System (Amazon EFS) Standard to collect and store the videos so that multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances can access the video content for processing.As the popularity of the service has grown over time, the storage costs have become too expensive.Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?Read More →

A financial services company wants to shut down two data centers and migrate more than 100 TB of data to AWS.The data has an intricate directory structure with millions of small files stored in deep hierarchies of subfolders.Most of the data is unstructured, and the company’s file storage consists of SMB-based storage types from multiple vendors.The company does not want to change its applications to access the data after migration.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

An administrator of a large company wants to monitor for and prevent any cryptocurrency-related attacks on the company’s AWS accounts.Which AWS service can the administrator use to protect the company against attacks?Read More →

A company is designing a new web service that will run on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) load balancer.However, many of the web service clients can only reach IP addresses authorized on their firewalls.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet the clients’ needs?Read More →