Solutions Architect Associate (Page 134)

A company’s infrastructure consists of hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances that use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage.A solutions architect must ensure that every EC2 instance can be recovered after a disaster.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of effort?Read More →

A company’s legacy application is currently relying on a single-instance Amazon RDS MySQL database without encryption.Due to new compliance requirements, all existing and new data in this database must be encrypted.How should this be accomplished?Read More →

A company wants to migrate its on-premises Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise edition database to AWS.The company’s online application uses the database to process transactions.The data analysis team uses the same production database to run reports for analytical processing.The company wants to reduce operational overhead by moving to managed services wherever possible.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company’s application is running on Amazon EC2 instances in a single Region.In the event of a disaster, a solutions architect needs to ensure that the resources can also be deployed to a second Region.Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Choose two.)Read More →

A consulting company provides professional services to customers worldwide.The company provides solutions and tools for customers to expedite gathering and analyzing data on AWS.The company needs to centrally manage and deploy a common set of solutions and tools for customers to use for self-service purposes.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is hosting 60 TB of production-level data in an Amazon S3 bucket.A solutions architect needs to bring that data on premises for quarterly audit requirements.This export of data must be encrypted while in transit.The company has low network bandwidth in place between AWS and its on-premises data center.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is launching a new application deployed on an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster and is using the Fargate launch type for ECS tasks.The company is monitoring CPU and memory usage because it is expecting high traffic to the application upon its launch.However, the company wants to reduce costs when utilization decreases.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company owns an asynchronous API that is used to ingest user requests and, based on the request type, dispatch requests to the appropriate microservice for processing.The company is using Amazon API Gateway to deploy the API front end, and an AWS Lambda function that invokes Amazon DynamoDB to store user requests before dispatching them to the processing microservices.The company provisioned as much DynamoDB throughput as its budget allows, but the company is still experiencing availability issues and is losing user requests.What should a solutions architect do to address this issue without impacting existing users?Read More →

A company has developed a new video game as a web application.The application is in a three-tier architecture in a VPC with Amazon RDS for MySQL in the database layer.Several players will compete concurrently online.The game’s developers want to display a top-10 scoreboard in near-real time and offer the ability to stop and restore the game while preserving the current scores.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to design a resilient solution for Windows users’ home directories.The solution must provide fault tolerance, file-level backup and recovery, and access control, based upon the company’s Active Directory.Which storage solution meets these requirements?Read More →