Solutions Architect Associate (Page 112)

A company runs a Java-based job on an Amazon EC2 instance.The job runs every hour and takes 10 seconds to run.The job runs on a scheduled interval and consumes 1 GB of memory.The CPU utilization of the instance is low except for short surges during which the job uses the maximum CPU available.The company wants to optimize the costs to run the job.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A media company uses Amazon CloudFront for its publicly available streaming video content.The company wants to secure the video content that is hosted in Amazon S3 by controlling who has access.Some of the company’s users are using a custom HTTP client that does not support cookies.Some of the company’s users are unable to change the hardcoded URLs that they are using for access.Which services or methods will meet these requirements with the LEAST impact to the users? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has a three-tier web application that is in a single server.The company wants to migrate the application to the AWS Cloud.The company also wants the application to align with the AWS Well-Architected Framework and to be consistent with AWS recommended best practices for security, scalability, and resiliency.Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

A solutions architect needs to copy files from an Amazon S3 bucket to an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system and another S3 bucket.The files must be copied continuously.New files are added to the original S3 bucket consistently.The copied files should be overwritten only if the source file changes.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?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 Amazon Elastic 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 social media company is building a feature for its website.The feature will give users the ability to upload photos.The company expects significant increases in demand during large events and must ensure that the website can handle the upload traffic from users.Which solution meets these requirements with the MOST scalability?Read More →

A company needs to migrate a legacy application from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud because of hardware capacity constraints.The application runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.The application’s database storage continues to grow over time.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company’s application is having performance issues.The application is stateful and needs to complete in-memory tasks on Amazon EC2 instances.The company used AWS CloudFormation to deploy infrastructure and used the M5 EC2 instance family.As traffic increased, the application performance degraded.Users are reporting delays when the users attempt to access the application.Which solution will resolve these issues in the MOST operationally efficient way?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a new API using Amazon API Gateway that will receive requests from users.The volume of requests is highly variable; several hours can pass without receiving a single request.The data processing will take place asynchronously, but should be completed within a few seconds after a request is made.Which compute service should the solutions architect have the API invoke to deliver the requirements at the lowest cost?Read More →

A company runs an application on a group of Amazon Linux EC2 instances.For compliance reasons, the company must retain all application log files for 7 years.The log files will be analyzed by a reporting tool that must be able to access all the files concurrently.Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →