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A company has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains sensitive data files.The company has an application that runs on virtual machines in an on-premises data center.The company currently uses AWS IAM Identity Center.The application requires temporary access to files in the S3 bucket.The company wants to grant the application secure access to the files in the S3 bucket.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company recently launched Linux-based application instances on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet and launched a Linux-based bastion host on an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subnet of a VPC.A solutions architect needs to connect from the on-premises network, through the company’s internet connection, to the bastion host, and to the application servers.The solutions architect must make sure that the security groups of all the EC2 instances will allow that access.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a two-tier web application.The application consists of a public-facing web tier hosted on Amazon EC2 in public subnets.The database tier consists of Microsoft SQL Server running on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet.Security is a high priority for the company.How should security groups be configured in this situation? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to move a multi-tiered application from on premises to the AWS Cloud to improve the application’s performance.The application consists of application tiers that communicate with each other by way of RESTful services.Transactions are dropped when one tier becomes overloaded.A solutions architect must design a solution that resolves these issues and modernizes the application.Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally efficient?Read More →

A company receives 10 TB of instrumentation data each day from several machines located at a single factory.The data consists of JSON files stored on a storage area network (SAN) in an on-premises data center located within the factory.The company wants to send this data to Amazon S3 where it can be accessed by several additional systems that provide critical near-real-time analytics.A secure transfer is important because the data is considered sensitive.Which solution offers the MOST reliable data transfer?Read More →

A company needs to configure a real-time data ingestion architecture for its application.The company needs an API, a process that transforms data as the data is streamed, and a storage solution for the data.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company needs to keep user transaction data in an Amazon DynamoDB table.The company must retain the data for 7 years.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is planning to use an Amazon DynamoDB table for data storage.The company is concerned about cost optimization.The table will not be used on most mornings.In the evenings, the read and write traffic will often be unpredictable.When traffic spikes occur, they will happen very quickly.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company recently signed a contract with an AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner for help with an application migration initiative.A solutions architect needs ta share an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from an existing AWS account with the MSP Partner’s AWS account.The AMI is backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and uses an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key to encrypt EBS volume snapshots.What is the MOST secure way for the solutions architect to share the AMI with the MSP Partner’s AWS account?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new application being deployed on AWS.The process should run in parallel while adding and removing application nodes as needed based on the number of jobs to be processed.The processor application is stateless.The solutions architect must ensure that the application is loosely coupled and the job items are durably stored.Which design should the solutions architect use?Read More →