Solutions Architect Associate (Page 156)

A company is deploying an application that processes large quantities of data in parallel.The company plans to use Amazon EC2 instances for the workload.The network architecture must be configurable to prevent groups of nodes from sharing the same underlying hardware.Which networking solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company runs a stateful production application on Amazon EC2 instances.The application requires at least two EC2 instances to always be running.A solutions architect needs to design a highly available and fault-tolerant architecture for the application.The solutions architect creates an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances.Which set of additional steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs an application on AWS.The application receives inconsistent amounts of usage.The application uses AWS Direct Connect to connect to an on-premises MySQL-compatible database.The on-premises database consistently uses a minimum of 2 GiB of memory.The company wants to migrate the on-premises database to a managed AWS service.The company wants to use auto scaling capabilities to manage unexpected workload increases.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?Read More →

A company is creating a REST API.The company has strict requirements for the use of TLS.The company requires TLSv1.3 on the API endpoints.The company also requires a specific public third-party certificate authority (CA) to sign the TLS certificate.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has data collection sensors at different locations.The data collection sensors stream a high volume of data to the company.The company wants to design a platform on AWS to ingest and process high-volume streaming data.The solution must be scalable and support data collection in near real time.The company must store the data in Amazon S3 for future reporting.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has a multi-tier application deployed on several Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group.An Amazon RDS for Oracle instance is the application’ s data layer that uses Oracle-specific PL/SQL functions.Traffic to the application has been steadily increasing.This is causing the EC2 instances to become overloaded and the RDS instance to run out of storage.The Auto Scaling group does not have any scaling metrics and defines the minimum healthy instance count only.The company predicts that traffic will continue to increase at a steady but unpredictable rate before leveling off.What should a solutions architect do to ensure the system can automatically scale for the increased traffic? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company runs a web application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC.The application needs to write sensitive data to an Amazon S3 bucket.The data cannot be sent over the public internet.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A social media company wants to allow its users to upload images in an application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud.The company needs a solution that automatically resizes the images so that the images can be displayed on multiple device types.The application experiences unpredictable traffic patterns throughout the day.The company is seeking a highly available solution that maximizes scalability.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A global company runs its workloads on AWS.The company’s application uses Amazon S3 buckets across AWS Regions for sensitive data storage and analysis.The company stores millions of objects in multiple S3 buckets daily.The company wants to identify all S3 buckets that are not versioning-enabled.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has users all around the world accessing its HTTP-based application deployed on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple AWS Regions.The company wants to improve the availability and performance of the application.The company also wants to protect the application against common web exploits that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.Static IP addresses are required.What should a solutions architect recommend to accomplish this?Read More →