Solutions Architect Associate (Page 118)

A company has deployed a serverless application that invokes an AWS Lambda function when new documents are uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket.The application uses the Lambda function to process the documents.After a recent marketing campaign, the company noticed that the application did not process many of the documents.What should a solutions architect do to improve the architecture of this application?Read More →

A company is implementing a shared storage solution for a gaming application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud.The company needs the ability to use Lustre clients to access data.The solution must be fully managed.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is storing petabytes of data in Amazon S3 Standard.The data is stored in multiple S3 buckets and is accessed with varying frequency.The company does not know access patterns for all the data.The company needs to implement a solution for each S3 bucket to optimize the cost of S3 usage.Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?Read More →

A company has a financial application that produces reports.The reports average 50 KB in size and are stored in Amazon S3.The reports are frequently accessed during the first week after production and must be stored for several years.The reports must be retrievable within 6 hours.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A solutions architect is reviewing the resilience of an application.The solutions architect notices that a database administrator recently failed over the application’s Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database writer instance as part of a scaling exercise.The failover resulted in 3 minutes of downtime for the application.Which solution will reduce the downtime for scaling exercises with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company is experiencing sudden increases in demand.The company needs to provision large Amazon EC2 instances from an Amazon Machine Image (AMI).The instances will run in an Auto Scaling group.The company needs a solution that provides minimum initialization latency to meet the demand.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company uses AWS to host its public ecommerce website.The website uses an AWS Global Accelerator accelerator for traffic from the internet.The Global Accelerator accelerator forwards the traffic to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that is the entry point for an Auto Scaling group.The company recently identified a DDoS attack on the website.The company needs a solution to mitigate future attacks.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort?Read More →

A company uses high block storage capacity to runs its workloads on premises.The company’s daily peak input and output transactions per second are not more than 15,000 IOPS.The company wants to migrate the workloads to Amazon EC2 and to provision disk performance independent of storage capacity.Which Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume type will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A global marketing company has applications that run in the ap-southeast-2 Region and the eu-west-1 Region.Applications that run in a VPC in eu-west-1 need to communicate securely with databases that run in a VPC in ap-southeast-2.Which network design will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing the architecture for a software demonstration environment.The environment will run on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The system will experience significant increases in traffic during working hours but is not required to operate on weekends.Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to ensure that the system can scale to meet demand? (Choose two.)Read More →