Solutions Architect Associate (Page 122)

A development team uses multiple AWS accounts for its development, staging, and production environments.Team members have been launching large Amazon EC2 instances that are underutilized.A solutions architect must prevent large instances from being launched in all accounts.How can the solutions architect meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A doctor’s office is moving all of its patient data to the AWS Cloud.The office needs to retain all the data indefinitely, but the data is rarely accessed after a year.The data must be immediately available during the first year.However, to minimize cost, the office is willing to wait a day for data that is more than 1 year old to become available.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company runs a website that stores images of historical events.Website users need the ability to search and view images based on the year that the event in the image occurred.On average, users request each image only once or twice a year.The company wants a highly available solution to store and deliver the images to users.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company serves a multilingual website from a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).This architecture is currently running in the us-west-1 Region but is exhibiting high request latency for users located in other parts of the world.The website needs to serve requests quickly and efficiently regardless of a user’s location.However, the company does not want to recreate the existing architecture across multiple Regions.How should a solutions architect accomplish this?Read More →

A company wants to migrate 100 GB of historical data from an on-premises location to an Amazon S3 bucket.The company has a 100 megabits per second (Mbps) internet connection on premises.The company needs to encrypt the data in transit to the S3 bucket.The company will store new data directly in Amazon S3.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company is planning to migrate a TCP-based application into the company’s VPC.The application is publicly accessible on a nonstandard TCP port through a hardware appliance in the company’s data center.This public endpoint can process up to 3 million requests per second with low latency.The company requires the same level of performance for the new public endpoint in AWS.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company runs multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances in a VPC across two Availability Zones.The instances host applications that use a hierarchical directory structure.The applications need to read and write rapidly and concurrently to shared storage.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

An ecommerce company needs to run a scheduled daily job to aggregate and filter sales records for analytics.The company stores the sales records in anAmazon S3 bucket.Each object can be up to 10 GB in size.Based on the number of sales events, the job can take up to an hour to complete.The CPU and memory usage of the job are constant and are known in advance.A solutions architect needs to minimize the amount of operational effort that is needed for the job to run.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has a stateless web application that runs on AWS Lambda functions that are invoked by Amazon API Gateway.The company wants to deploy the application across multiple AWS Regions to provide Regional failover capabilities.What should a solutions architect do to route traffic to multiple Regions?Read More →

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 →