Solutions Architect Associate (Page 124)

A company is making a prototype of the infrastructure for its new website by manually provisioning the necessary infrastructure.This infrastructure includes an Auto Scaling group, an Application Load Balancer and an Amazon RDS database.After the configuration has been thoroughly validated, the company wants the capability to immediately deploy the infrastructure for development and production use in two Availability Zones in an automated fashion.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to monitor its AWS costs for financial review.The cloud operations team is designing an architecture in the AWS Organizations management account to query AWS Cost and Usage Reports for all member accounts.The team must run this query once a month and provide a detailed analysis of the bill.Which solution is the MOST scalable and cost-effective way to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to move from many standalone AWS accounts to a consolidated, multi-account architecture.The company plans to create many new AWS accounts for different business units.The company needs to authenticate access to these AWS accounts by using a centralized corporate directory service.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect wants all new users to have specific complexity requirements and mandatory rotation periods for IAM user passwords.What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?Read More →

A company is migrating from a monolithic architecture for a web application that is hosted on Amazon EC2 to a serverless microservices architecture.The company wants to use AWS services that support an event-driven, loosely coupled architecture.The company wants to use the publish/subscribe (pub/sub) pattern.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is developing a serverless web application that gives users the ability to interact with real-time analytics from online games.The data from the games must be streamed in real life.The company needs a durable, low-latency database option for user data.The company does not know how many users will use the application.Any design considerations must provide response times of single-digit milliseconds as the application scales.Which combination of AWS services will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company designed a stateless two-tier application that uses Amazon EC2 in a single Availability Zone and an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance.New company management wants to ensure the application is highly available.What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company wants to move from many standalone AWS accounts to a consolidated, multi-account architecture.The company plans to create many new AWS accounts for different business units.The company needs to authenticate access to these AWS accounts by using a centralized corporate directory service.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to build a logging solution for its multiple AWS accounts.The company currently stores the logs from all accounts in a centralized account.The company has created an Amazon S3 bucket in the centralized account to store the VPC flow logs and AWS CloudTrail logs.All logs must be highly available for 30 days for frequent analysis, retained for an additional 60 days for backup purposes, and deleted 90 days after creation.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company sells datasets to customers who do research in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML).The datasets are large, formatted files that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region.The company hosts a web application that the customers use to purchase access to a given dataset.The web application is deployed on multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.After a purchase is made, customers receive an S3 signedURL that allows access to the files.The customers are distributed across North America and Europe.The company wants to reduce the cost that is associated with data transfers and wants to maintain or improve performance.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →