Solutions Architect Associate (Page 125)

A company uses an Amazon EC2 instance to run a script to poll for and process messages in an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue.The company wants to reduce operational costs while maintaining its ability to process a growing number of messages that are added to the queue.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs a three-tier web application in a VPC across multiple Availability Zones.Amazon EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group for the application tier.The company needs to make an automated scaling plan that will analyze each resource’s daily and weekly historical workload trends.The configuration must scale resources appropriately according to both the forecast and live changes in utilization.Which scaling strategy should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company stores text files in Amazon S3.The text files include customer chat messages, date and time information, and customer personally identifiable information (PII).The company needs a solution to provide samples of the conversations to an external service provider for quality control.The external service provider needs to randomly pick sample conversations up to the most recent conversation.The company must not share the customer PII with the external service provider.The solution must scale when the number of customer conversations increases.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company receives data from millions of users totaling about 1 ׀¢׀’ each day.The company provides its users with usage reports going back 12 months.All usage data must be stored for at least 5 years to comply with regulatory and auditing requirements.Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?Read More →

A company has a business-critical application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances.The application stores data in an Amazon DynamoDB table.The company must be able to revert the table to any point within the last 24 hours.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company hosts its enterprise content management platform in one AWS Region but needs to operate the platform across multiple Regions.The company has an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster that runs its microservices.The EKS cluster stores and retrieves objects from Amazon S3.The EKS cluster also stores and retrieves metadata from Amazon DynamoDB.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to deploy the platform across multiple Regions? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is building a shopping application on AWS.The application offers a catalog that changes once each month and needs to scale with traffic volume.The company wants the lowest possible latency from the application.Data from each user’s shopping cart needs to be highly available.User session data must be available even if the user is disconnected and reconnects.What should a solutions architect do to ensure that the shopping cart data is preserved at all times?Read More →

A company is building an ecommerce application and needs to store sensitive customer information.The company needs to give customers the ability to complete purchase transactions on the website.The company also needs to ensure that sensitive customer data is protected, even from database administrators.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has a custom application with embedded credentials that retrieves information from an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance.Management says the application must be made more secure with the least amount of programming effort.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is deploying an application that processes streaming data in near-real time.The company plans to use Amazon EC2 instances for the workload.The network architecture must be configurable to provide the lowest possible latency between nodes.Which combination of network solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →