Solutions Architect Associate (Page 118)

A company needs to design a hybrid network architecture.The company’s workloads are currently stored in the AWS Cloud and in on-premises data centers.The workloads require single-digit latencies to communicate.The company uses an AWS Transit Gateway transit gateway to connect multiple VPCs.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has established a new AWS account.The account is newly provisioned and no changed have been made to the default settings.The company is concerned about the security of the AWS account root user.What should be done to secure the root user?Read More →

A global ecommerce company runs its critical workloads on AWS.The workloads use an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance that is configured for a Multi-AZ deployment.Customers have reported application timeouts when the company undergoes database failovers.The company needs a resilient solution to reduce failover time.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is planning to migrate its virtual server-based workloads to AWS.The company has internet-facing load balancers backed by application servers.The application servers rely on patches from an internet-hosted repository.Which services should a solutions architect recommend be hosted on the public subnet? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company will migrate 10 PB of data to Amazon S3 in 6 weeks.The current data center has a 500 Mbps uplink to the internet.Other on-premises applications share the uplink.The company can use 80% of the internet bandwidth for this one-time migration task.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a three-tier application on AWS that ingests sensor data from its users’ devices.The traffic flows through a Network Load Balancer (NLB), then toAmazon EC2 instances for the web tier, and finally to EC2 instances for the application tier.The application tier makes calls to a database.What should a solutions architect do to improve the security of the data in transit?Read More →

A company runs a highly available SFTP service.The SFTP service uses two Amazon EC2 Linux instances that run with elastic IP addresses to accept traffic from trusted IP sources on the internet.The SFTP service is backed by shared storage that is attached to the instances.User accounts are created and managed as Linux users in the SFTP servers.The company wants a serverless option that provides high IOPS performance and highly configurable security.The company also wants to maintain control over user permissions.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to reduce the cost of its existing three-tier web architecture.The web, application, and database servers are running on Amazon EC2 instances for the development, test, and production environments.The EC2 instances average 30% CPU utilization during peak hours and 10% CPU utilization during non- peak hours.The production EC2 instances run 24 hours a day.The development and test EC2 instances run for at least 8 hours each day.The company plans to implement automation to stop the development and test EC2 instances when they are not in use.Which EC2 instance purchasing solution will meet the company’s requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has developed a non-production application that is composed of multiple microservices for each of the company’s business units.A single development team maintains all the microservices.The current architecture uses a static web frontend and a Java-based backend that contains the application logic.The architecture also uses a MySQL database that the company hosts on an Amazon EC2 instance.The company needs to ensure that the application is secure and available globally.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A medical records company is hosting an application on Amazon EC2 instances.The application processes customer data files that are stored on Amazon S3.The EC2 instances are hosted in public subnets.The EC2 instances access Amazon S3 over the Internet, but they do not require any other network access.A new requirement mandates that the network traffic for file transfers take a private route and not be sent over the Internet.Which change to the network architecture should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?Read More →