Solutions Architect Associate (Page 113)

A company has hired an external vendor to perform work in the company’s AWS account.The vendor uses an automated tool that is hosted in an AWS account that the vendor owns.The vendor does not have IAM access to the company’s AWS account.How should a solutions architect grant this access to the vendor?Read More →

A company has deployed a Java Spring Boot application as a pod that runs on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in private subnets.The application needs to write data to an Amazon DynamoDB table.A solutions architect must ensure that the application can interact with the DynamoDB table without exposing traffic to the internet.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to accomplish this goal? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company recently migrated its web application to AWS by rehosting the application on Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region.The company wants to redesign its application architecture to be highly available and fault tolerant.Traffic must reach all running EC2 instances randomly.Which combination of steps should the company take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A media company collects and analyzes user activity data on premises.The company wants to migrate this capability to AWS.The user activity data store will continue to grow and will be petabytes in size.The company needs to build a highly available data ingestion solution that facilitates on-demand analytics of existing data and new data with SQL.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company collects data from thousands of remote devices by using a RESTful web services application that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance.The EC2 instance receives the raw data, transforms the raw data, and stores all the data in an Amazon S3 bucket.The number of remote devices will increase into the millions soon.The company needs a highly scalable solution that minimizes operational overhead.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company needs to retain its AWS CloudTrail logs for 3 years.The company is enforcing CloudTrail across a set of AWS accounts by using AWS Organizations from the parent account.The CloudTrail target S3 bucket is configured with S3 Versioning enabled.An S3 Lifecycle policy is in place to delete current objects after 3 years.After the fourth year of use of the S3 bucket, the S3 bucket metrics show that the number of objects has continued to rise.However, the number of new CloudTrail logs that are delivered to the S3 bucket has remained consistent.Which solution will delete objects that are older than 3 years in the MOST cost-effective manner?Read More →

A company has an API that receives real-time data from a fleet of monitoring devices.The API stores this data in an Amazon RDS DB instance for later analysis.The amount of data that the monitoring devices send to the API fluctuates.During periods of heavy traffic, the API often returns timeout errors.After an inspection of the logs, the company determines that the database is not capable of processing the volume of write traffic that comes from the API.A solutions architect must minimize the number of connections to the database and must ensure that data is not lost during periods of heavy traffic.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a Windows-based application that must be migrated to AWS.The application requires the use of a shared Windows file system attached to multiple Amazon EC2 Windows instances that are deployed across multiple Availability Zone:What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company is developing an ecommerce application that will consist of a load-balanced front end, a container-based application, and a relational database.A solutions architect needs to create a highly available solution that operates with as little manual intervention as possible.Which solutions meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company uses Amazon S3 as its data lake.The company has a new partner that must use SFTP to upload data files.A solutions architect needs to implement a highly available SFTP solution that minimizes operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →