Solutions Architect Associate (Page 113)

A company wants to improve its ability to clone large amounts of production data into a test environment in the same AWS Region.The data is stored in Amazon EC2 instances on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes.Modifications to the cloned data must not affect the production environment.The software that accesses this data requires consistently high I/O performance.A solutions architect needs to minimize the time that is required to clone the production data into the test environment.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a service that produces event data.The company wants to use AWS to process the event data as it is received.The data is written in a specific order that must be maintained throughout processing.The company wants to implement a solution that minimizes operational overhead.How should a solutions architect accomplish this?Read More →

A company has a three-tier web application that is deployed on AWS.The web servers are deployed in a public subnet in a VPC.The application servers and database servers are deployed in private subnets in the same VPC.The company has deployed a third-party virtual firewall appliance from AWS Marketplace in an inspection VPC.The appliance is configured with an IP interface that can accept IP packets.A solutions architect needs to integrate the web application with the appliance to inspect all traffic to the application before the traffic reaches the web server.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has a dynamic web application hosted on two Amazon EC2 instances.The company has its own SSL certificate, which is on each instance to performSSL termination.There has been an increase in traffic recently, and the operations team determined that SSL encryption and decryption is causing the compute capacity of the web servers to reach their maximum limit.What should a solutions architect do to increase the application’s performance?Read More →

An application development team is designing a microservice that will convert large images to smaller, compressed images.When a user uploads an image through the web interface, the microservice should store the image in an Amazon S3 bucket, process and compress the image with an AWS Lambda function, and store the image in its compressed form in a different S3 bucket.A solutions architect needs to design a solution that uses durable, stateless components to process the images automatically.Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company runs a web application that is backed by Amazon RDS.A new database administrator caused data loss by accidentally editing information in a database table.To help recover from this type of incident, the company wants the ability to restore the database to its state from 5 minutes before any change within the last 30 days.Which feature should the solutions architect include in the design to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company is implementing a new business application.The application runs on two Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon S3 bucket for document storage.A solutions architect needs to ensure that the EC2 instances can access the S3 bucket.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

What should a solutions architect do to ensure that all objects uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket are encrypted?Read More →

A company hosts a data lake on AWS.The data lake consists of data in Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.The company needs a reporting solution that provides data visualization and includes all the data sources within the data lake.Only the company’s management team should have full access to all the visualizations.The rest of the company should have only limited access.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts its web application on AWS using seven Amazon EC2 instances.The company requires that the IP addresses of all healthy EC2 instances be returned in response to DNS queries.Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?Read More →