Solutions Architect Associate (Page 125)

A company hosts a data lake on Amazon S3.The data lake ingests data in Apache Parquet format from various data sources.The company uses multiple transformation steps to prepare the ingested data.The steps include filtering of anomalies, normalizing of data to standard date and time values, and generation of aggregates for analyses.The company must store the transformed data in S3 buckets that data analysts access.The company needs a prebuilt solution for data transformation that does not require code.The solution must provide data lineage and data profiling.The company needs to share the data transformation steps with employees throughout the company.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to present its application to the internet.The company finds abnormal traffic access patterns across the application.A solutions architect needs to improve visibility into the infrastructure to help the company understand these abnormalities better.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts a database that runs on an Amazon RDS instance that is deployed to multiple Availability Zones.The company periodically runs a script against the database to report new entries that are added to the database.The script that runs against the database negatively affects the performance of a critical application.The company needs to improve application performance with minimal costs.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has NFS servers in an on-premises data center that need to periodically back up small amounts of data to Amazon S3.Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?Read More →

A city has deployed a web application running on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The application’s users have reported sporadic performance, which appears to be related to DDoS attacks originating from random IP addresses.The city needs a solution that requires minimal configuration changes and provides an audit trail for the DDoS sources.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is building a data analysis platform on AWS by using AWS Lake Formation.The platform will ingest data from different sources such as Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS.The company needs a secure solution to prevent access to portions of the data that contain sensitive information.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company hosts an internal serverless application on AWS by using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda.The company’s employees report issues with high latency when they begin using the application each day.The company wants to reduce latency.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs an application that stores and shares photos.Users upload the photos to an Amazon S3 bucket.Every day, users upload approximately 150 photos.The company wants to design a solution that creates a thumbnail of each new photo and stores the thumbnail in a second S3 bucket.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company hosts its multi-tier, public web application in the AWS Cloud.The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances, and its database runs on Amazon RDS.The company is anticipating a large increase in sales during an upcoming holiday weekend.A solutions architect needs to build a solution to analyze the performance of the web application with a granularity of no more than 2 minutes.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company uses Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to run its applications in the us-east-1 Region.The company also uses machine learning (ML) models to forecast annual revenue based on near real-time reports.The reports are generated by using the same RDS for PostgreSQL database.The database performance slows during business hours.The company needs to improve database performance.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →