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A company hosts multiple applications on AWS for different product lines.The applications use different compute resources, including Amazon EC2 instances and Application Load Balancers.The applications run in different AWS accounts under the same organization in AWS Organizations across multiple AWS Regions.Teams for each product line have tagged each compute resource in the individual accounts.The company wants more details about the cost for each product line from the consolidated billing feature in Organizations.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a security solution for a company that wants to provide developers with individual AWS accounts through AWS Organizations, while also maintaining standard security controls.Because the individual developers will have AWS account root user-level access to their own accounts, the solutions architect wants to ensure that the mandatory AWS CloudTrail configuration that is applied to new developer accounts is not modified.Which action meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet.The application needs to process sensitive information from an Amazon S3 bucket.The application must not use the internet to connect to the S3 bucket.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application with a REST-based interface that allows data to be received in near-real time from a third-party vendor.Once received, the application processes and stores the data for further analysis.The application is running on Amazon EC2 instances.The third-party vendor has received many 503 Service Unavailable Errors when sending data to the application.When the data volume spikes, the compute capacity reaches its maximum limit and the application is unable to process all requests.Which design should a solutions architect recommend to provide a more scalable solution?Read More →

A company has migrated a two-tier application from its on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud.The data tier is a Multi-AZ deployment of Amazon RDS for Oracle with 12 TB of General Purpose SSD Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage.The application is designed to process and store documents in the database as binary large objects (blobs) with an average document size of 6 MB.The database size has grown over time, reducing the performance and increasing the cost of storage.The company must improve the database performance and needs a solution that is highly available and resilient.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A research company uses on-premises devices to generate data for analysis.The company wants to use the AWS Cloud to analyze the data.The devices generate .csv files and support writing the data to an SMB file share.Company analysts must be able to use SQL commands to query the data.The analysts will run queries periodically throughout the day.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company’s applications run on Amazon EC2 instances in Auto Scaling groups.The company notices that its applications experience sudden traffic increases on random days of the week.The company wants to maintain application performance during sudden traffic increases.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A manufacturing company has machine sensors that upload .csv files to an Amazon S3 bucket.These .csv files must be converted into images and must be made available as soon as possible for the automatic generation of graphical reports.The images become irrelevant after 1 month, but the .csv files must be kept to train machine learning (ML) models twice a year.The ML trainings and audits are planned weeks in advance.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose two.)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 to Amazon 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 has implemented a self-managed DNS service on AWS.The solution consists of the following:• Amazon EC2 instances in different AWS Regions• Endpoints of a standard accelerator in AWS Global AcceleratorThe company wants to protect the solution against DDoS attacks.What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →