Solutions Architect Associate (Page 153)

A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances hosted in a private subnet of a VPC.The EC2 instances are configured in an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB).The EC2 instances use a NAT gateway for outbound internet access.However, the EC2 instances are not able to connect to the public internet to download software updates.What are the possible root causes of this issue? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to share data that is collected from self-driving cars with the automobile community.The data will be made available from within an Amazon S3 bucket.The company wants to minimize its cost of making this data available to other AWS accounts.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?Read More →

A company used an AWS Direct Connect connection to copy 1 PB of data from a colocation facility to an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region.The company now wants to copy the data to another S3 bucket in the us-west-2 Region.Which solution will meet this requirement?Read More →

A company recently announced the deployment of its retail website to a global audience.The website runs on multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an ElasticLoad Balancer.The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones.The company wants to provide its customers with different versions of content based on the devices that the customers use to access the website.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company serves its website by using an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region.The website does not require a database.The company is expanding, and the company’s engineering team deploys the website to a second Region.The company wants to distribute traffic across bothRegions to accommodate growth and for disaster recovery purposes.The solution should not serve traffic from a Region in which the website is unhealthy.Which policy or resource should the company use to meet these requirements?Read More →

A trucking company is deploying an application that will track the GPS coordinates of all the company’s trucks.The company needs a solution that will generate real-time statistics based on metadata lookups with high read throughput and microsecond latency.The database must be fault tolerant and must minimize operational overhead and development effort.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to migrate a high performance computing (HPC) application and data from on-premises to the AWS Cloud.The company uses tiered storage on premises with hot high-performance parallel storage to support the application during periodic runs of the application, and more economical cold storage to hold the data when the application is not actively running.Which combination of solutions should a solutions architect recommend to support the storage needs of the application? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company’s web application uses an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL DB instance to store its application data.During the financial closing period at the start of every month, Accountants run large queries that impact the database’s performance due to high usage.The company wants to minimize the impact that the reporting activity has on the web application.What should a solutions architect do to reduce the impact on the database with the LEAST amount of effort?Read More →

A company has application running on Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC.One of the applications needs to call an Amazon S3 API to store and read objects.The company’s security policies restrict any internet-bound traffic from the applications.Which action will fulfill these requirements and maintain security?Read More →

A company is planning to migrate a business-critical dataset to Amazon S3.The current solution design uses a single S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region with versioning enabled to store the dataset.The company’s disaster recovery policy states that all data multiple AWS Regions.How should a solutions architect design the S3 solution?Read More →