Solutions Architect Associate (Page 145)

A company is running a web-based game in two Availability Zones in the us-west-2 Region.The web servers use an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in public subnets.The ALB has an SSL certificate from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) with a custom domain name.The game is written in JavaScript and runs entirely in a user’s web browser.The game is increasing in popularity in many countries around the world.The company wants to update the application architecture and optimize costs without compromising performance.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is running a media store across multiple Amazon EC2 instances distributed across multiple Availability Zones in a single VPC.The company wants a high-performing solution to share data between all the EC2 instances, and prefers to keep the data within the VPC only.What should a solutions architect recommend?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 company is running a database on Amazon Aurora.The database is idle every evening.An application that performs extensive reads on the database experiences performance issues during morning hours when user traffic spikes.During these peak periods, the application receives timeout errors when reading from the database.The company does not have a dedicated operations team and needs an automated solution to address the performance issues.Which actions should a solutions architect take to automatically adjust to the increased read load on the database? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company hosts historical weather records in Amazon S3.The records are downloaded from the company’s website by a way of a URL that resolves to a domain name.Users all over the world access this content through subscriptions.A third-party provider hosts the company’s root domain name, but the company recently migrated some of its services to Amazon Route 53.The company wants to consolidate contracts, reduce latency for users, and reduce costs related to serving the application to subscribers.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is designing an internet-facing web application.The application runs on Amazon EC2 for Linux-based instances that store sensitive user data inAmazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instances.The EC2 instances are in public subnets, and the RDS DB instances are in private subnets.The security team has mandated that the DB instances be secured against web-based attacks.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company’s reporting system delivers hundreds of .csv files to an Amazon S3 bucket each day.The company must convert these files to Apache Parquet format and must store the files in a transformed data bucket.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?Read More →

A company hosts a three-tier ecommerce application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances.The instances run in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application LoadBalancer (ALB).All ecommerce data is stored in an Amazon RDS for MariaDB Multi-AZ DB instance.The company wants to optimize customer session management during transactions.The application must store session data durably.Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has a serverless website with millions of objects in an Amazon S3 bucket.The company uses the S3 bucket as the origin for an Amazon CloudFront distribution.The company did not set encryption on the S3 bucket before the objects were loaded.A solutions architect needs to enable encryption for all existing objects and for all objects that are added to the S3 bucket in the future.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort?Read More →

A company is running a critical business application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group and access an Amazon RDS DB instance.The design did not pass an operational review because the EC2 instances and the DB instance are all located in a single Availability Zone.A solutions architect must update the design to use a second Availability Zone.Which solution will make the application highly available?Read More →