Solutions Architect Associate (Page 138)

A company is building an application that consists of several microservices.The company has decided to use container technologies to deploy its software onAWS.The company needs a solution that minimizes the amount of ongoing effort for maintenance and scaling.The company cannot manage additional infrastructure.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is planning on deploying a newly built application on AWS in a default VPC.The application will consist of a web layer and database layer.The web server was created in public subnets, and the MySQL database was created in private subnets.All subnets are created with the default network ACL settings, and the default security group in the VPC will be replaced with new custom security groups.The following are the key requirements:✑ The web servers must be accessible only to users on an SSL connection.✑ The database should be accessible to the web layer, which is created in a public subnet only.✑ All traffic to and from the IP range 182.20.0.0/16 subnet should be blocked.Which combination of steps meets these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company designed a stateless two-tier application that uses Amazon EC2 in a single Availability Zone and an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance.New company management wants to ensure the application is highly available.What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?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 onAmazon 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 is developing an ecommerce application that will consist of a load-balanced front end, a container-based application, and a relational database.A solutions architect needs to create a highly available solution that operates with as little manual intervention as possible.Which solutions meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company observes an increase in Amazon EC2 costs in its most recent bill.The billing team notices unwanted vertical scaling of instance types for a couple ofEC2 instances.A solutions architect needs to create a graph comparing the last 2 months of EC2 costs and perform an in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of the vertical scaling.How should the solutions architect generate the information with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A solutions architect must design a database solution for a high-traffic ecommerce web application.The database stores customer profiles and shopping cart information.The database must support a peak load of several million requests each second and deliver responses in milliseconds.The operational overhead form an aging and scaling the database must be minimized.Which database solution should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company is preparing to deploy a new serverless workload.A solutions architect needs to configure permissions for invoking an AWS Lambda function.The function will be triggered by an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule.Permissions should be configured using the principle of least privilege.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is building its web application using containers on AWS.The company requires three instances of the web application to run at all times.The application must be able to scale to meet increases in demand.Management is extremely sensitive to cost but agrees that the application should be highly available.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company is Re-architecting a strongly coupled application to be loosely coupled.Previously the application used a request/response pattern to communicate between tiers.The company plans to use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to achieve decoupling requirements.The initial design contains one queue for requests and one for responses.However, this approach is not processing all the messages as the application scales.What should a solutions architect do to resolve this issue?Read More →