Solutions Architect Associate (Page 142)

A media company stores video content in an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume.A certain video file has become popular and a large number of users across the world are accessing this content.This has resulted in a cost increase.Which action will DECREASE cost without compromising user accessibility?Read More →

A company is running a three-tier web application to process credit card payments.The front-end user interface consists of static webpages.The application tier can have long-running processes.The database tier uses MySQL.The application is currently running on a single, general purpose large Amazon EC2 instance.A solutions architect needs to decouple the services to make the web application highly available.Which solution would provide the HIGHEST availability?Read More →

A solutions architect is using Amazon S3 to design the storage architecture of a new digital media application.The media files must be resilient to the loss of anAvailability Zone.Some files are accessed frequently while other files are rarely accessed in an unpredictable pattern.The solutions architect must minimize the costs of storing and retrieving the media files.Which storage option meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is designing a web application using AWS that processes insurance quotes.Users will request quotes from the application.Quotes must be separated by quote type must be responded to within 24 hours, and must not be lost.The solution should be simple to set up and maintain.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is planning to build a new web application on AWS.The company expects predictable traffic most of the year and very high traffic on occasion.The web application needs to be highly available and fault tolerant with minimal latency.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is reviewing its AWS Cloud deployment to ensure its data is not accessed by anyone without appropriate authorization.A solutions architect is tasked with identifying all open Amazon S3 buckets and recording any S3 bucket configuration changes.What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?Read More →

An online shopping application accesses an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance.Database performance is slowing down the application.After upgrading to the next-generation instance type, there was no significant performance improvement.Analysis shows approximately 700 IOPS are sustained, common queries run for long durations and memory utilization is high.Which application change should a solutions architect recommend to resolve these issues?Read More →

A company recently started using Amazon Aurora as the data store for its global ecommerce application.When large reports are run, developers report that the ecommerce application is performing poorly.After reviewing metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, a solutions architect finds that the ReadIOPS and CPUUtilization metrics are spiking when monthly reports run.What is the MOST cost-effective solution?Read More →

A company’s order system sends requests from clients to Amazon EC2 instances.The EC2 instances process the orders and then store the orders in a database on Amazon RDS.Users report that they must reprocess orders when the system fails.The company wants a resilient solution that can process orders automatically if a system outage occurs.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is preparing a new data platform that will ingest real-time streaming data from multiple sources.The company needs to transform the data before writing the data to Amazon S3.The company needs the ability to use SQL to query the transformed data.Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →