Solutions Architect Associate (Page 143)

A company is concerned about the security of its public web application due to recent web attacks.The application uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB).A solutions architect must reduce the risk of DDoS attacks against the application.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company’s web application is running on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The company recently changed its policy, which now requires the application to be accessed from one specific country only.Which configuration will meet this requirement?Read More →

A company provides an API to its users that automates inquiries for tax computations based on item prices.The company experiences a larger number of inquiries during the holiday season only that cause slower response times.A solutions architect needs to design a solution that is scalable and elastic.What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?Read More →

A solutions architect is creating a new Amazon CloudFront distribution for an application.Some of the information submitted by users is sensitive.The application uses HTTPS but needs another layer of security.The sensitive information should.be protected throughout the entire application stack, and access to the information should be restricted to certain applications.Which action should the solutions architect take?Read More →

A gaming company hosts a browser-based application on AWS.The users of the application consume a large number of videos and images that are stored in Amazon S3.This content is the same for all users.The application has increased in popularity, and millions of users worldwide accessing these media files.The company wants to provide the files to the users while reducing the load on the origin.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has a multi-tier application that runs six front-end web servers in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group in a single Availability Zone behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).A solutions architect needs to modify the infrastructure to be highly available without modifying the application.Which architecture should the solutions architect choose that provides high availability?Read More →

An ecommerce company has an order-processing application that uses Amazon API Gateway and an AWS Lambda function.The application stores data in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database.During a recent sales event, a sudden surge in customer orders occurred.Some customers experienced timeouts, and the application did not process the orders of those customers.A solutions architect determined that the CPU utilization and memory utilization were high on the database because of a large number of open connections.The solutions architect needs to prevent the timeout errors while making the least possible changes to the application.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company uses AWS Cost Explorer to monitor its AWS costs.The company notices that Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage and snapshot costs increase every month.However, the company does not purchase additional EBS storage every month.The company wants to optimize monthly costs for its current storage usage.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company is relocating its data center and wants to securely transfer 50 TB of data to AWS within 2 weeks.The existing data center has a Site-to-Site VPN connection to AWS that is 90% utilized.Which AWS service should a solutions architect use to meet these requirements?Read More →

A weather forecasting company needs to process hundreds of gigabytes of data with sub-millisecond latency.The company has a high performance computing (HPC) environment in its data center and wants to expand its forecasting capabilities.A solutions architect must identify a highly available cloud storage solution that can handle large amounts of sustained throughput.Files that are stored in the solution should be accessible to thousands of compute instances that will simultaneously access and process the entire dataset.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →