Solutions Architect Associate (Page 123)

A company is developing a microservices application that will provide a search catalog for customers.The company must use REST APIs to present the frontend of the application to users.The REST APIs must access the backend services that the company hosts in containers in private VPC subnets.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company operates a two-tier application for image processing.The application uses two Availability Zones, each with one public subnet and one private subnet.An Application Load Balancer (ALB) for the web tier uses the public subnets.Amazon EC2 instances for the application tier use the private subnets.Users report that the application is running more slowly than expected.A security audit of the web server log files shows that the application is receiving millions of illegitimate requests from a small number of IP addresses.A solutions architect needs to resolve the immediate performance problem while the company investigates a more permanent solution.What should the solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company has applications hosted on Amazon EC2 instances with IPv6 addresses.The applications must initiate communications with other external applications using the internet.However the company’s security policy states that any external service cannot initiate a connection to the EC2 instances.What should a solutions architect recommend to resolve this issue?Read More →

A company has two VPCs that are located in the us-west-2 Region within the same AWS account.The company needs to allow network traffic between theseVPCs.Approximately 500 GB of data transfer will occur between the VPCs each month.What is the MOST cost-effective solution to connect these VPCs?Read More →

A company is expecting rapid growth in the near future.A solutions architect needs to configure existing users and grant permissions to new users on AWS.The solutions architect has decided to create IAM groups.The solutions architect will add the new users to IAM groups based on department.Which additional action is the MOST secure way to grant permissions to the new users?Read More →

A company is running a multi-tier web application on AWS.The application runs its database tier on Amazon Aurora MySQL.The application and database tiers are in the us-east-1 Region.A database administrator who regularly monitors the Aurora DB cluster finds that an intermittent increase in read traffic is creating high CPUutilization on the read replica and causing increased read latency of the application.What should a solutions architect do to improve read scalability?Read More →

A law firm needs to share information with the public.The information includes hundreds of files that must be publicly readable.Modifications or deletions of the files by anyone before a designated future date are prohibited.Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST secure way?Read More →

A company has an ecommerce application running in a single VPC.The application stack has a single web server and an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance.The company launches new products twice a month.This increases website traffic by approximately 400% for a minimum of 72 hours.During product launches, users experience slow response times and frequent timeout errors in their browsers.What should a solutions architect do to mitigate the slow response times and timeout errors while minimizing operational overhead?Read More →

A company is building an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster for its workloads.All secrets that are stored in Amazon EKS must be encrypted in the Kubernetes etcd key-value store.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

An ecommerce company is experiencing an increase in user traffic.The company’s store is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances as a two-tier two application consisting of a web tier and a separate database tier.As traffic increases, the company notices that the architecture is causing significant delays in sending timely marketing and order confirmation email to users.The company wants to reduce the time it spends resolving complex email delivery issues and minimize operational overhead.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →