Solutions Architect Associate (Page 135)

A company is running its production and nonproduction environment workloads in multiple AWS accounts.The accounts are in an organization in AWS Organizations.The company needs to design a solution that will prevent the modification of cost usage tags.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s website hosted on Amazon EC2 instances processes classified data stored in Amazon S3.Due to security concerns, the company requires a private and secure connection between its EC2 resources and Amazon S3.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company moved its on-premises PostgreSQL database to an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance.The company successfully launched a new product.The workload on the database has increased.The company wants to accommodate the larger workload without adding infrastructure.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is moving its on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The database has several applications that write to the same tables. The applications need to be migrated one by one with a month in between each migration Management has expressed concerns that the database has a high number of reads and writes. The data must be kept in sync across both databases throughout tie migration.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company manages AWS accounts in AWS Organizations.AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On) and AWS Control Tower are configured for the accounts.The company wants to manage multiple user permissions across all the accounts.The permissions will be used by multiple IAM users and must be split between the developer and administrator teams.Each team requires different permissions.The company wants a solution that includes new users that are hired on both teams.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company wants to improve the availability and performance of its hybrid application.The application consists of a stateful TCP-based workload hosted onAmazon EC2 instances in different AWS Regions and a stateless UOP-based workload hosted on premises.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to improve availability and performance? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company operates an ecommerce website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in an Auto Scaling group.The site is experiencing performance issues related to a high request rate from illegitimate external systems with changing IP addresses.The security team is worried about potential DDoS attacks against the website.The company must block the illegitimate incoming requests in a way that has a minimal impact on legitimate users.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing an architecture to run a third-party database server.The database software is memory intensive and has a CPU-based licensing model where the cost increases with the number of vCPU cores within the operating system.The solutions architect must select an Amazon EC2 instance with sufficient memory to run the database software, but the selected instance has a large number of vCPUs.The solutions architect must ensure that the vCPUs will not be underutilized and must minimize costs.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts a multi-tier web application on Amazon Linux Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones.The company observes that the Auto Scaling group launches more On-Demand Instances when the application’s end users access high volumes of static web content.The company wants to optimize cost.What should a solutions architect do to redesign the application MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is creating a web application that will store a large number of images in Amazon S3.The images will be accessed by users over variable periods of time.The company wants to:✑ Retain all the images✑ Incur no cost for retrieval.✑ Have minimal management overhead.✑ Have the images available with no impact on retrieval time.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →