Solutions Architect Associate (Page 134)

A company has a highly dynamic batch processing job that uses many Amazon EC2 instances to complete it.The job is stateless in nature, can be started and stopped at any given time with no negative impact, and typically takes upwards of 60 minutes total to complete.The company has asked a solutions architect to design a scalable and cost-effective solution that meets the requirements of the job.What should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to reduce a company’s storage costs.All the company’s data is in the Amazon S3 Standard storage class.The company must keep all data for at least 25 years.Data from the most recent 2 years must be highly available and immediately retrievable.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to run applications in containers in the AWS Cloud.These applications are stateless and can tolerate disruptions within the underlying infrastructure.The company needs a solution that minimizes cost and operational overhead.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is running a multi-tier web application on premises.The web application is containerized and runs on a number of Linux hosts connected to a PostgreSQL database that contains user records.The operational overhead of maintaining the infrastructure and capacity planning is limiting the company’s growth.A solutions architect must improve the application’s infrastructure.Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Choose two.)Read More →

An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zonas.The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer.The application performs best when the CPU utilization of the EC2 instances is at or near 40%.What should a solutions architect do to maintain the desired performance across all instances in the group?Read More →

A company is developing a file-sharing application that will use an Amazon S3 bucket for storage.The company wants to serve all the files through an Amazon CloudFront distribution.The company does not want the files to be accessible through direct navigation to the S3 URL.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s website provides users with downloadable historical performance reports.The website needs a solution that will scale to meet the company’s website demands globally.The solution should be cost-effective, limit the provisioning of infrastructure resources, and provide the fastest possible response time.Which combination should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company manages an application that stores data on an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Multi-AZ DB instance.Increases in traffic are causing performance problems.The company determines that database queries are the primary reason for the slow performance.What should a solutions architect do to improve the application’s performance?Read More →

A global company runs its applications in multiple AWS accounts in AWS Organizations.The company’s applications use multipart uploads to upload data to multiple Amazon S3 buckets across AWS Regions.The company wants to report on incomplete multipart uploads for cost compliance purposes.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company uses Amazon API Gateway to manage its REST APIs that third-party service providers access.The company must protect the REST APIs from SQL injection and cross-site scripting attacks.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?Read More →