Solutions Architect Associate (Page 130)

A company uses on-premises servers to host its applications.The company is running out of storage capacity.The applications use both block storage and NFS storage.The company needs a high-performing solution that supports local caching without re-architecting its existing applications.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a shared storage solution for a web application that is deployed across multiple Availability Zones.The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group.The company plans to make frequent changes to the content.The solution must have strong consistency in returning the new content as soon as the changes occur.Which solutions meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company regularly uploads GB-sized files to Amazon S3.After the company uploads the files, the company uses a fleet of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to transcode the file format.The company needs to scale throughput when the company uploads data from the on-premises data center to Amazon S3 and when the company downloads data from Amazon S3 to the EC2 instances.Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has deployed its application on Amazon EC2 instances with an Amazon RDS database.The company used the principle of least privilege to configure the database access credentials.The company’s security team wants to protect the application and the database from SQL injection and other web-based attacks.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company needs to migrate a MySQL database from its on-premises data center to AWS within 2 weeks.The database is 20 TB in size.The company wants to complete the migration with minimal downtime.Which solution will migrate the database MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company experienced a breach that affected several applications in its on-premises data center.The attacker took advantage of vulnerabilities in the custom applications that were running on the servers.The company is now migrating its applications to run on Amazon EC2 instances.The company wants to implement a solution that actively scans for vulnerabilities on the EC2 instances and sends a report that details the findings.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is designing a containerized application that will use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).The application needs to access a shared file system that is highly durable and can recover data to another AWS Region with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 8 hours.The file system needs to provide a mount target m each Availability Zone within a Region.A solutions architect wants to use AWS Backup to manage the replication to another Region.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a large Microsoft SharePoint deployment running on-premises that requires Microsoft Windows shared file storage.The company wants to migrate this workload to the AWS Cloud and is considering various storage options.The storage solution must be highly available and integrated with Active Directory for access control.Which solution will satisfy these requirements?Read More →

An image-processing company has a web application that users use to upload images.The application uploads the images into an Amazon S3 bucket.The company has set up S3 event notifications to publish the object creation events to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) standard queue.The SQS queue serves as the event source for an AWS Lambda function that processes the images and sends the results to users through email.Users report that they are receiving multiple email messages for every uploaded image.A solutions architect determines that SQS messages are invoking the Lambda function more than once, resulting in multiple email messages.What should the solutions architect do to resolve this issue with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company is implementing a shared storage solution for a gaming application that is hosted in an on-premises data center.The company needs the ability to use Lustre clients to access data.The solution must be fully managed.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →