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A company needs to store contract documents.A contract lasts for 5 years.During the 5-year period, the company must ensure that the documents cannot be overwritten or deleted.The company needs to encrypt the documents at rest and rotate the encryption keys automatically every year.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has a web application that is based on Java and PHP.The company plans to move the application from on premises to AWS.The company needs the ability to test new site features frequently.The company also needs a highly available and managed solution that requires minimum operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has an ordering application that stores customer information in Amazon RDS for MySQL.During regular business hours, employees run one-time queries for reporting purposes.Timeouts are occurring during order processing because the reporting queries are taking a long time to run.The company needs to eliminate the timeouts without preventing employees from performing queries.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A hospital wants to create digital copies for its large collection of historical written records.The hospital will continue to add hundreds of new documents each day.The hospital’s data team will scan the documents and will upload the documents to the AWS Cloud.A solutions architect must implement a solution to analyze the documents, extract the medical information, and store the documents so that an application can run SQL queries on the data.The solution must maximize scalability and operational efficiency.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company needs to run a critical application on AWS.The company needs to use Amazon EC2 for the application’s database.The database must be highly available and must fail over automatically if a disruptive event occurs.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s order system sends requests from clients to Amazon EC2 instances.The EC2 instances process the orders and then store the orders in a database on Amazon RDS.Users report that they must reprocess orders when the system fails.The company wants a resilient solution that can process orders automatically if a system outage occurs.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs an application on a large fleet of Amazon EC2 instances.The application reads and writes entries into an Amazon DynamoDB table.The size of the DynamoDB table continuously grows, but the application needs only data from the last 30 days.The company needs a solution that minimizes cost and development effort.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts a website analytics application on a single Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instance.The analytics software is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database.The analytics software, the web server that provides PHP, and the database server are all hosted on the EC2 instance.The application is showing signs of performance degradation during busy times and is presenting 5xx errors.The company needs to make the application scale seamlessly.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company runs a stateless web application in production on a group of Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The application experiences heavy usage during an 8-hour period each business day.Application usage is moderate and steady overnight.Application usage is low during weekends.The company wants to minimize its EC2 costs without affecting the availability of the application.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company needs to retain application log files for a critical application for 10 years.The application team regularly accesses logs from the past month for troubleshooting, but logs older than 1 month are rarely accessed.The application generates more than 10 TB of logs per month.Which storage option meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →