Solutions Architect Associate (Page 133)

A company migrated a MySQL database from the company’s on-premises data center to an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance.The company sized the RDS DB instance to meet the company’s average daily workload.Once a month, the database performs slowly when the company runs queries for a report.The company wants to have the ability to run reports and maintain the performance of the daily workloads.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company currently operates a web application backed by an Amazon RDS MySQL database.It has automated backups that are run daily and are not encrypted.A security audit requires future backups to be encrypted and the unencrypted backups to be destroyed.The company will make at least one encrypted backup before destroying the old backups.What should be done to enable encryption for future backups?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a multi-tier application for a company.The application’s users upload images from a mobile device.The application generates a thumbnail of each image and returns a message to the user to confirm that the image was uploaded successfully.The thumbnail generation can take up to 60 seconds, but the company wants to provide a faster response time to its users to notify them that the original image was received.The solutions architect must design the application to asynchronously dispatch requests to the different application tiers.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A gaming company has multiple Amazon EC2 instances in a single Availability Zone for its multiplayer game that communicates with users on Layer 4.The chief technology officer (CTO) wants to make the architecture highly available and cost-effective.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)?Read More →

A company uses AWS and sells access to copyrighted images.The company’s global customer base needs to be able to access these images quickly.The company must deny access to users from specific countries.The company wants to minimize costs as much as possible.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has been storing analytics data in an Amazon RDS instance for the past few years.The company asked a solutions architect to find a solution that allows users to access this data using an API.The expectation is that the application will experience periods of inactivity but could receive bursts of traffic within seconds.Which solution should the solutions architect suggest?Read More →

An IoT company is releasing a mattress that has sensors to collect data about a user’s sleep.The sensors will send data to an Amazon S3 bucket.The sensors collect approximately 2 MB of data every night for each mattress.The company must process and summarize the data for each mattress.The results need to be available as soon as possible.Data processing will require 1 GB of memory and will finish within 30 seconds.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company’s website runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The website has a mix of dynamic and static content.Users around the globe are reporting that the website is slow.Which set of actions will improve website performance for users worldwide?Read More →

An ecommerce company runs a PostgreSQL database on premises.The database stores data by using high IOPS Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) block storage.The daily peak I/O transactions per second do not exceed 15,000 IOPS.The company wants to migrate the database to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and provision disk IOPS performance independent of disk storage capacity.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A manufacturing company wants to implement predictive maintenance on its machinery equipment.The company will install thousands of IoT sensors that will send data to AWS in real time.A solutions architect is tasked with implementing a solution that will receive events in an ordered manner for each machinery asset and ensure that data is saved for further processing at a later time.Which solution would be MOST efficient?Read More →