Solutions Architect Associate (Page 114)

A company recently migrated to AWS and wants to implement a solution to protect the traffic that flows in and out of the production VPC.The company had an inspection server in its on-premises data center.The inspection server performed specific operations such as traffic flow inspection and traffic filtering.The company wants to have the same functionalities in the AWS Cloud.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs a fleet of web servers using an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance.After a routine compliance check, the company sets a standard that requires a recovery point objective (RPO) of less than 1 second for all its production databases.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company runs an ecommerce application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones.The Auto Scaling group scales based on CPU utilization metrics.The ecommerce application stores the transaction data in a MySQL 8.0 database that is hosted on a large EC2 instance.The database’s performance degrades quickly as application load increases.The application handles more read requests than write transactions.The company wants a solution that will automatically scale the database to meet the demand of unpredictable read workloads while maintaining high availability.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to migrate a Windows-based application from on premises to the AWS Cloud.The application has three tiers: an application tier, a business tier, and a database tier with Microsoft SQL Server.The company wants to use specific features of SQL Server such as native backups and Data Quality Services.The company also needs to share files for processing between the tiers.How should a solutions architect design the architecture to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company performs monthly maintenance on its AWS infrastructure.During these maintenance activities, the company needs to rotate the credentials for its Amazon RDS for MySQL databases across multiple AWS Regions.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company hosts an application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances.The application processes messages from an Amazon SQS queue, writes for an AmazonRDS table, and deletes -the message from the queue.Occasional duplicate records are found in the RDS table.The SQS queue does not contain any duplicate messages.What should a solutions architect do to ensure messages are being processed once only?Read More →

A global company hosts its web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The web application has static data and dynamic data.The company stores its static data in an Amazon S3 bucket.The company wants to improve performance and reduce latency for the static data and dynamic data.The company is using its own domain name registered with Amazon Route 53.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s application is running on Amazon EC2 instances within an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancer.Based on the application’s history, the company anticipates a spike in traffic during a holiday each year.A solutions architect must design a strategy to ensure that the Auto Scaling group proactively increases capacity to minimize any performance impact on application users.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon Aurora database.The EC2 instances connect to the database by using user names and passwords that are stored locally in a file.The company wants to minimize the operational overhead of credential management.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?Read More →

A company has on-premises servers that run a relational database.The database serves high-read traffic for users in different locations.The company wants to migrate the database to AWS with the least amount of effort.The database solution must support high availability and must not affect the company’s current traffic flow.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →