Solutions Architect Associate (Page 15)

A package delivery company has an application that uses Amazon EC2 instances and an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster.As the application becomes more popular, EC2 instance usage increases only slightly.DB cluster usage increases at a much faster rate.The company adds a read replica, which reduces the DB cluster usage for a short period of time.However, the load continues to increase.The operations that cause the increase in DB cluster usage are all repeated read statements that are related to delivery details.The company needs to alleviate the effect of repeated reads on the DB cluster.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is building a new application that uses serverless architecture.The architecture will consist of an Amazon API Gateway REST API and AWS Lambda functions to manage incoming requests.The company wants to add a service that can send messages received from the API Gateway REST API to multiple target Lambda functions for processing.The service must offer message filtering that gives the target Lambda functions the ability to receive only the messages the functions need.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage AWS accounts that contain applications.The company sets up a dedicated monitoring member account in the organization.The company wants to query and visualize observability data across the accounts by using Amazon CloudWatch.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a multi-tier payment processing application that is based on virtual machines (VMs).The communication between the tiers occurs asynchronously through a third-party middleware solution that guarantees exactly-once delivery.The company needs a solution that requires the least amount of infrastructure management.The solution must guarantee exactly-once delivery for application messaging.Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is running a legacy system on an Amazon EC2 instance.The application code cannot be modified, and the system cannot run on more than one instance.A solutions architect must design a resilient solution that can improve the recovery time for the system.What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s application is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances and uses AWS Lambda functions for an event-driven architecture.The company uses nonproduction development environments in a different AWS account to test new features before the company deploys the features to production.The production instances show constant usage because of customers in different time zones.The company uses nonproduction instances only during business hours on weekdays.The company does not use the nonproduction instances on the weekends.The company wants to optimize the costs to run its application on AWS.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?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 →

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 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 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 →