Solutions Architect Associate (Page 11)

A solutions architect needs to design a highly available application consisting of web, application, and database tiers.HTTPS content delivery should be as close to the edge as possible, with the least delivery time.Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST secure?Read More →

A company is running a multi-tier ecommerce web application in the AWS Cloud.The application runs on Amazon EC2 Instances with an Amazon RDS MySQLMulti-AZ DB instance.Amazon RDS is configured with the latest generation instance with 2,000 GB of storage in an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)General Purpose SSD (gp2) volume.The database performance impacts the application during periods of high demand.After analyzing the logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs, a database administrator finds that the application performance always degrades when the number of read and write IOPS is higher than 6.000.What should a solutions architect do to improve the application performance?Read More →

A development team stores its Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance user name and password credentials in a configuration file.The configuration file is stored as plaintext on the root device volume of the team’s Amazon EC2 instance.When the team’s application needs to reach the database, it reads the file and loads the credentials into the code.The team has modified the permissions of the configuration file so that only the application can read its content.A solutions architect must design a more secure solution.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company has an image processing workload running on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) in two private subnets.Each private subnet uses aNAT instance for internet access.All images are stored in Amazon S3 buckets.The company is concerned about the data transfer costs between Amazon ECS and Amazon S3.What should a solutions architect do to reduce costs?Read More →

A new employee has joined a company as a deployment engineer.The deployment engineer will be using AWS CloudFormation templates to create multiple AWS resources.A solutions architect wants the deployment engineer to perform job activities while following the principle of least privilege.Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this goal? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect is migrating a document management workload to AWS.The workload keeps 7 TiB of contract documents on a shared storage file system and tracks them on an external database.Most of the documents are stored and retrieved eventually for reference in the future.The application cannot be modified during the migration, and the storage solution must be highly available.Documents are retrieved and stored by web servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group.The Auto Scaling group can have up to 12 instances.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is creating a new web application for its subscribers.The application will consist of a static single page and a persistent database layer.The application will have millions of users for 4 hours in the morning, but the application will have only a few thousand users during the rest of the day.The company’s data architects have requested the ability to rapidly evolve their schema.Which solutions will meet these requirements and provide the MOST scalability? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect launches an Amazon EC2 instance inside a new VPC.The solutions architect configures network ACL rules and security group rules that allow the appropriate traffic to flow to and from the instance.An Elastic IP address is associated with the instance.The solutions architect needs to be able to access the instance from the internet.Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this goal? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances that are part of an Auto Scaling group.Traffic to the application increases substantially during business hours.A solutions architect needs to implement an Auto Scaling policy that addresses user latency concerns during periods of high traffic.The company does not want to provisions more compute than is necessary.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application that uses overnight digital images of products on store shelves to analyze inventory data.The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and obtains the images from an Amazon S3 bucket for its metadata to be processed by worker nodes for analysis.A solutions architect needs to ensure that every image is processed by the worker nodes.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement in the MOST cost-efficient way?Read More →