Solutions Architect Associate (Page 151)

A company is developing a marketing communications service that targets mobile app users.The company needs to send confirmation messages with Short Message Service (SMS) to its users.The users must be able to reply to the SMS messages.The company must store the responses for a year for analysis.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

The customers of a finance company request appointments with financial advisors by sending text messages.A web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances accepts the appointment requests.The text messages are published to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue through the web application.Another application that runs on EC2 instances then sends meeting invitations and meeting confirmation email messages to the customers.After successful scheduling, this application stores the meeting information in an Amazon DynamoDB database.As the company expands, customers report that their meeting invitations are taking longer to arrive.What should a solutions architect recommend to resolve this issue?Read More →

An online retail company has more than 50 million active customers and receives more than 25,000 orders each day.The company collects purchase data for customers and stores this data in Amazon S3.Additional customer data is stored in Amazon RDS.The company wants to make all the data available to various teams so that the teams can perform analytics.The solution must provide the ability to manage fine-grained permissions for the data and must minimize operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts a marketing website in an on-premises data center.The website consists of static documents and runs on a single server.An administrator updates the website content infrequently and uses an SFTP client to upload new documents.The company decides to host its website on AWS and to use Amazon CloudFront.The company’s solutions architect creates a CloudFront distribution.The solutions architect must design the most cost-effective and resilient architecture for website hosting to serve as the CloudFront origin.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to manage Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).The company currently copies AMIs to the same AWS Region where the AMIs were created.The company needs to design an application that captures AWS API calls and sends alerts whenever the Amazon EC2 CreateImage API operation is called within the company’s account.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company owns an asynchronous API that is used to ingest user requests and, based on the request type, dispatch requests to the appropriate microservice for processing.The company is using Amazon API Gateway to deploy the API front end, and an AWS Lambda function that invokes Amazon DynamoDB to store user requests before dispatching them to the processing microservices.The company provisioned as much DynamoDB throughput as its budget allows, but the company is still experiencing availability issues and is losing user requests.What should a solutions architect do to address this issue without impacting existing users?Read More →

A company maintains its accounting records in a custom application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances.The company needs to migrate the data to an AWS managed service for development and maintenance of the application data.The solution must require minimal operational support and provide immutable, cryptographically verifiable logs of data changes.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company plans to run a high performance computing (HPC) workload on Amazon EC2 Instances.The workload requires low-latency network performance and high network throughput with tightly coupled node-to-node communication.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to design the architecture for an application that a vendor provides as a Docker container image.The container needs 50 GB of storage available for temporary files.The infrastructure must be serverless.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company wants to share accounting data with an external auditor.The data is stored in an Amazon RDS DB instance that resides in a private subnet.The auditor has its own AWS account and requires its own copy of the database.What is the MOST secure way for the company to share the database with the auditor?Read More →