Solutions Architect Associate (Page 128)

A company runs demonstration environments for its customers on Amazon EC2 instances.Each environment is isolated in its own VPC.The company’s operations team needs to be notified when RDP or SSH access to an environment has been established.Read More →

A large media company hosts a web application on AWS.The company wants to start caching confidential media files so that users around the world will have reliable access to the files.The content is stored in Amazon S3 buckets.The company must deliver the content quickly, regardless of where the requests originate geographically.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

An application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance that has an Elastic IP address in VPC A.The application requires access to a database in VPC B.Both VPCs are in the same AWS account.Which solution will provide the required access MOST securely?Read More →

A company plans to host a survey website on AWS.The company anticipates an unpredictable amount of traffic.This traffic results in asynchronous updates to the database.The company wants to ensure that writes to the database hosted on AWS do not get dropped.How should the company write its application to handle these database requests?Read More →

A company is concerned that two NAT instances in use will no longer be able to support the traffic needed for the company’s application.A solutions architect wants to implement a solution that is highly available, fault tolerant, and automatically scalable.What should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company hosts a serverless application on AWS.The application uses Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database.The company notices an increase in application errors that result from database connection timeouts during times of peak traffic or unpredictable traffic.The company needs a solution that reduces the application failures with the least amount of change to the code.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company manages its own Amazon EC2 instances that run MySQL databases.The company is manually managing replication and scaling as demand increases or decreases.The company needs a new solution that simplifies the process of adding or removing compute capacity to or from its database tier as needed.The solution also must offer improved performance, scaling, and durability with minimal effort from operations.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has an AWS account used for software engineering.The AWS account has access to the company’s on-premises data center through a pair of AWSDirect Connect connections.All non-VPC traffic routes to the virtual private gateway.A development team recently created an AWS Lambda function through the console.The development team needs to allow the function to access a database that runs in a private subnet in the company’s data center.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company recently started using Amazon Aurora as the data store for its global ecommerce application.When large reports are run, developers report that the ecommerce application is performing poorly.After reviewing metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, a solutions architect finds that the ReadIOPS and CPUUtilizalion metrics are spiking when monthly reports run.What is the MOST cost-effective solution?Read More →

A company has a web application hosted over 10 Amazon EC2 instances with traffic directed by Amazon Route 53.The company occasionally experiences a timeout error when attempting to browse the application.The networking team finds that some DNS queries return IP addresses of unhealthy instances, resulting in the timeout error.What should a solutions architect implement to overcome these timeout errors?Read More →