Solutions Architect Associate (Page 155)

A company is running an ecommerce application on Amazon EC2.The application consists of a stateless web tier that requires a minimum of 10 instances, and a peak of 250 instances to support the application’s usage.The application requires 50 instances 80% of the time.Which solution should be used to minimize costs?Read More →

A company is planning to use Amazon S3 to store images uploaded by its users.The images must be encrypted at rest in Amazon S3.The company does not want to spend time managing and rotating the keys, but it does want to control who can access those keys.What should a solutions architect use to accomplish this?Read More →

A company is hosting a web application on AWS using a single Amazon EC2 instance that stores user-uploaded documents in an Amazon Elastic Block Store(Amazon EBS) volume.For better scalability and availability, the company duplicated the architecture and created a second EC2 instance and EBS volume in another Availability Zone, placing both behind an Application Load Balancer.After completing this change, users reported that each time they refreshed the website, they could see one subset of their documents or the other, but never all of the documents at the same time.What should a solutions architect propose to ensure users see all of their documents at once?Read More →

A data science team requires storage for nightly log processing.The size and number of logs is unknown and will persist for 24 hours only.What is the MOST cost-effective solution?Read More →

A security team to limit access to specific services or actions in all of the team’s AWS accounts.All accounts belong to a large organization in AWS Organizations.The solution must be scalable and there must be a single point where permissions can be maintained.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?Read More →

A company runs an application in a branch office within a small data closet with no virtualized compute resources.The application data is stored on an NFS volume.Compliance standards require a daily offsite backup of the NFS volume.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A law firm needs to share information with the public.The information includes hundreds of files that must be publicly readable.Modifications or deletions of the files by anyone before a designated future date are prohibited.Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST secure way?Read More →

A company has developed a new video game as a web application.The application is in a three-tier architecture in a VPC with Amazon RDS for MySQL.In the database layer several players will compete concurrently online.The game’s developers want to display a top-10 scoreboard in near-real time and offer the ability to stop and restore the game while preserving the current scores.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has applications hosted on Amazon EC2 instances with IPv6 addresses.The applications must initiate communications with other external applications using the internet.However, the company’s security policy states that any external service cannot initiate a connection to the EC2 instances.What should a solutions architect recommend to resolve this issue?Read More →

A company needs to provide its employees with secure access to confidential and sensitive files.The company wants to ensure that the files can be accessed only by authorized users.The files must be downloaded securely to the employees’ devices.The files are stored in an on-premises Windows file server.However, due to an increase in remote usage, the file server is running out of capacity.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →