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A company uses Amazon S3 to store its confidential audit documents.The S3 bucket uses bucket policies to restrict access to audit team IAM user credentials according to the principle of least privilege.Company managers are worried about accidental deletion of documents in the S3 bucket and want a more secure solution.What should a solutions architect do to secure the audit documents?Read More →

A company is using a SQL database to store movie data that is publicly accessible.The database runs on an Amazon RDS Single-AZ DB instance.A script runs queries at random intervals each day to record the number of new movies that have been added to the database.The script must report a final total during business hours.The company’s development team notices that the database performance is inadequate for development tasks when the script is running.A solutions architect must recommend a solution to resolve this issue.Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has applications that run on Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC.One of the applications needs to call the Amazon S3 API to store and read objects.According to the company’s security regulations, no traffic from the applications is allowed to travel across the internet.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is storing sensitive user information in an Amazon S3 bucket.The company wants to provide secure access to this bucket from the application tier running on Amazon EC2 instances inside a VPC.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company runs an on-premises application that is powered by a MySQL database.The company is migrating the application to AWS to increase the application’s elasticity and availability.The current architecture shows heavy read activity on the database during times of normal operation.Every 4 hours, the company’s development team pulls a full export of the production database to populate a database in the staging environment.During this period, users experience unacceptable application latency.The development team is unable to use the staging environment until the procedure completes.A solutions architect must recommend replacement architecture that alleviates the application latency issue.The replacement architecture also must give the development team the ability to continue using the staging environment without delay.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is designing an application where users upload small files into Amazon S3.After a user uploads a file, the file requires one-time simple processing to transform the data and save the data in JSON format for later analysis.Each file must be processed as quickly as possible after it is uploaded.Demand will vary.On some days, users will upload a high number of files.On other days, users will upload a few files or no files.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

An application allows users at a company’s headquarters to access product data.The product data is stored in an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance.The operations team has isolated an application performance slowdown and wants to separate read traffic from write traffic.A solutions architect needs to optimize the application’s performance quickly.What should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company runs a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group that has a target group.The company designed the application to work with session affinity (sticky sessions) for a better user experience.The application must be available publicly over the internet as an endpoint.A WAF must be applied to the endpoint for additional security.Session affinity (sticky sessions) must be configured on the endpoint.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company recently migrated its web application to the AWS Cloud.The company uses an Amazon EC2 instance to run multiple processes to host the application.The processes include an Apache web server that serves static content.The Apache web server makes requests to a PHP application that uses a local Redis server for user sessions.The company wants to redesign the architecture to be highly available and to use AWS managed solutions.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to migrate two DNS servers to AWS.The servers host a total of approximately 200 zones and receive 1 million requests each day on average.The company wants to maximize availability while minimizing the operational overhead that is related to the management of the two servers.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →