Solutions Architect Associate (Page 153)

A company needs to create an AWS Lambda function that will run in a VPC in the company’s primary AWS account.The Lambda function needs to access files that the company stores in an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system.The EFS file system is located in a secondary AWS account.As the company adds files to the file system, the solution must scale to meet the demand.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company needs to extract the names of ingredients from recipe records that are stored as text files in an Amazon S3 bucket.A web application will use the ingredient names to query an Amazon DynamoDB table and determine a nutrition score.The application can handle non-food records and errors.The company does not have any employees who have machine learning knowledge to develop this solution.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A social media company is creating a rewards program website for its users.The company gives users points when users create and upload videos to the website.Users redeem their points for gifts or discounts from the company’s affiliated partners.A unique ID identifies users.The partners refer to this ID to verify user eligibility for rewards.The partners want to receive notification of user IDs through an HTTP endpoint when the company gives users points.Hundreds of vendors are interested in becoming affiliated partners every day.The company wants to design an architecture that gives the website the ability to add partners rapidly in a scalable way.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort?Read More →

A company uses AWS to run its ecommerce platform.The platform is critical to the company’s operations and has a high volume of traffic and transactions.The company configures a multi-factor authentication (MFA) device to secure its AWS account root user credentials.The company wants to ensure that it will not lose access to the root user account if the MFA device is lost.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company needs to provide customers with secure access to its data.The company processes customer data and stores the results in an Amazon S3 bucket.All the data is subject to strong regulations and security requirements.The data must be encrypted at rest.Each customer must be able to access only their data from their AWS account.Company employees must not be able to access the data.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company serves a dynamic website from a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The website needs to support multiple languages to serve customers around the world.The website’s architecture is running in the us-west-1 Region and is exhibiting high request latency for users that are located in other parts of the world.The website needs to serve requests quickly and efficiently regardless of a user’s location.However, the company does not want to recreate the existing architecture across multiple Regions.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A financial company hosts a web application on AWS.The application uses an Amazon API Gateway Regional API endpoint to give users the ability to retrieve current stock prices.The company’s security team has noticed an increase in the number of API requests.The security team is concerned that HTTP flood attacks might take the application offline.A solutions architect must design a solution to protect the application from this type of attack.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has deployed a serverless application that invokes an AWS Lambda function when new documents are uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket.The application uses the Lambda function to process the documents.After a recent marketing campaign, the company noticed that the application did not process many of the documents.What should a solutions architect do to improve the architecture of this application?Read More →

A company is implementing a shared storage solution for a gaming application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud.The company needs the ability to use Lustre clients to access data.The solution must be fully managed.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is storing petabytes of data in Amazon S3 Standard.The data is stored in multiple S3 buckets and is accessed with varying frequency.The company does not know access patterns for all the data.The company needs to implement a solution for each S3 bucket to optimize the cost of S3 usage.Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?Read More →