Solutions Architect Associate (Page 146)

An ecommerce company wants a disaster recovery solution for its Amazon RDS DB instances that run Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition.The company’s current recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) are 24 hours.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is designing a solution to capture customer activity in different web applications to process analytics and make predictions.Customer activity in the web applications is unpredictable and can increase suddenly.The company requires a solution that integrates with other web applications.The solution must include an authorization step for security purposes.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company deployed a serverless application that uses Amazon DynamoDB as a database layer.The application has experienced a large increase in users.The company wants to improve database response time from milliseconds to microseconds and to cache requests to the database.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A solutions architect observes that a nightly batch processing job is automatically scaled up for 1 hour before the desired Amazon EC2 capacity is reached.The peak capacity is the ‘same every night and the batch jobs always start at 1 AM.The solutions architect needs to find a cost-effective solution that will allow for the desired EC2 capacity to be reached quickly and allow the Auto Scaling group to scale down after the batch jobs are complete.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company deploys its applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) behind an Application Load Balancer in an AWS Region.The application needs to store data in a PostgreSQL database engine.The company wants the data in the database to be highly available.The company also needs increased capacity for read workloads.Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?Read More →

A company is developing a real-time multiplayer game that uses UDP for communications between the client and servers in an Auto Scaling group.Spikes in demand are anticipated during the day, so the game server platform must adapt accordingly.Developers want to store gamer scores and other non-relational data in a database solution that will scale without intervention.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company needs to transfer 600 TB of data from its on-premises network-attached storage (NAS) system to the AWS Cloud.The data transfer must be complete within 2 weeks.The data is sensitive and must be encrypted in transit.The company’s internet connection can support an upload speed of 100 Mbps.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company wants to deploy an internal web application on AWS.The web application must be accessible only from the company’s office.The company needs to download security patches for the web application from the internet.The company has created a VPC and has configured an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection to the company’s office.A solutions architect must design a secure architecture for the web application.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system that contains a reference dataset.The company has applications on Amazon EC2 instances that need to read the dataset.However, the applications must not be able to change the dataset.The company wants to use IAM access control to prevent the applications from being able to modify or delete the dataset.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A data analytics company has 80 offices that are distributed globally.Each office hosts 1 PB of data and has between 1 and 2 Gbps of internet bandwidth.The company needs to perform a one-time migration of a large amount of data from its offices to Amazon S3.The company must complete the migration within 4 weeks.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →