Solutions Architect Associate (Page 109)

A company is running a multi-tier web application on premises.The web application is containerized and runs on a number of Linux hosts connected to aPostgreSQL database that contains user records.The operational overhead of maintaining the infrastructure and capacity planning is limiting the company’s growth.A solutions architect must improve the application’s infrastructure.Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Choose two.)Read More →

To meet security requirements, a company needs to encrypt all of its application data in transit while communicating with an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance.A recent security audit revealed that encryption at rest is enabled using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), but data in transit is not enabled.What should a solutions architect do to satisfy the security requirements?Read More →

A company wants to move its on-premises network attached storage (NAS) to AWS.The company wants to make the data available to any Linux instances within its VPC and ensure changes are automatically synchronized across all instances accessing the data store.The majority of the data is accessed very rarely, and some files are accessed by multiple users at the same time.Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) authorization model for a company’s AWS account.The company has designated five specific employees to have full access to AWS services and resources in the AWS account.The solutions architect has created an IAM user for each of the five designated employees and has created an IAM user group.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A meteorological startup company has a custom web application to sell weather data to its users online.The company uses Amazon DynamoDB to store its data and wants to build a new service that sends an alert to the managers of four internal teams every time a new weather event is recorded.The company does not want this new service to affect the performance of the current application.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

A company wants to build a web application on AWS.Client access requests to the website are not predictable and can be idle for a long time.Only customers who have paid a subscription fee can have the ability to sign in and use the web application.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company is creating a three-tier web application consisting of a web server, an application server, and a database server.The application will track GPS coordinates of packages as they are being delivered.The application will update the database every 0-5 seconds.The tracking will need to read a fast as possible for users to check the status of their packages.Only a few packages might be tracked on some days, whereas millions of package might be tracked on other days.Tracking will need to be searchable by tracking ID customer ID and order ID.Order than 1 month no longer read to be tracked.What should a solutions architect recommend to accomplish this with minimal cost of ownership?Read More →

A company is using an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster.The company must ensure that Kubernetes service accounts in the EKS cluster have secure and granular access to specific AWS resources by using IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA).Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company runs its customer-facing web application on containers.The workload uses Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate.The web application is resource intensive.The web application needs to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for customers.The company expects the application to experience short bursts of high traffic.The workload must be highly available.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is building a cloud-based application on AWS that will handle sensitive customer data.The application uses Amazon RDS for the database, Amazon S3 for object storage, and S3 Event Notifications that invoke AWS Lambda for serverless processing.The company uses AWS IAM Identity Center to manage user credentials.The development, testing, and operations teams need secure access to Amazon RDS and Amazon S3 while ensuring the confidentiality of sensitive customer data.The solution must comply with the principle of least privilege.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →