Solutions Architect Associate (Page 149)

A company has a document management application that contains PDF documents.The company hosts the application on Amazon EC2 instances.According to regulations, the instances must not have access to the internet.The application must be able to read and write to a persistent storage system that provides native versioning capabilities.A solutions architect needs to design secure storage that maximizes resiliency and facilitates data sharing across instances.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company runs several websites on AWS for its different brands.Each website generates tens of gigabytes of web traffic logs each day.A solutions architect needs to design a scalable solution to give the company’s developers the ability to analyze traffic patterns across all the company’s websites.This analysis by the developers will occur on demand once a week over the course of several months.The solution must support queries with standard SQL.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

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 has an application that serves clients that are deployed in more than 20,000 retail storefront locations around the world.The application consists of backend web services that are exposed over HTTPS on port 443.The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer(ALB).The retail locations communicate with the web application over the public internet.The company allows each retail location to register the IP address that the retail location has been allocated by its local ISP.The company’s security team recommends to increase the security of the application endpoint by restricting access to only the IP addresses registered by the retail locations.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a two-tiered architecture that includes a public subnet and a database subnet.The web servers in the public subnet must be open to the internet on port 443.The Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in the database subnet must be accessible only to the web servers on port 3306.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company runs a latency-sensitive gaming service in the AWS Cloud.The gaming service runs on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application LoadBalancer (ALB).An Amazon DynamoDB table stores the gaming data.All the infrastructure is in a single AWS Region.The main user base is in that same Region.A solutions architect needs to update the architecture to support a global expansion of the gaming service.The gaming service must operate with the least possible latency.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s production application runs online transaction processing (OLTP) transactions on an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance.The company is launching a new reporting tool that will access the same data.The reporting tool must be highly available and not impact the performance of the production application.How can this be achieved?Read More →

A company hosts a static website within an Amazon S3 bucket.A solutions architect needs to ensure that data can be recovered in case of accidental deletion.Which action will accomplish this?Read More →

A company is performing an AWS Well-Architected Framework review of an existing workload deployed on AWS.The review identified a public-facing website running on the same Amazon EC2 instance as a Microsoft Active Directory domain controller that was install recently to support other AWS services.A solutions architect needs to recommend a new design that would improve the security of the architecture and minimize the administrative demand on IT staff.What should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing storage for a high performance computing (HPC) environment based on Amazon Linux.The workload stores and processes a large amount of engineering drawings that require shared storage and heavy computing.Which storage option would be the optimal solution?Read More →