Solutions Architect Associate (Page 157)

A gaming company is moving its public scoreboard from a data center to the AWS Cloud.The company uses Amazon EC2 Windows Server instances behind an Application Load Balancer to host its dynamic application.The company needs a highly available storage solution for the application.The application consists of static files and dynamic server-side code.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company runs an application in the AWS Cloud that generates sensitive archival data files.The company wants to rearchitect the application’s data storage.The company wants to encrypt the data files and to ensure that third parties do not have access to the data before the data is encrypted and sent to AWS.The company has already created an Amazon S3 bucket.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is migrating a legacy application from an on-premises data center to AWS.The application relies on hundreds of cron jobs that run between 1 and 20 minutes on different recurring schedules throughout the day.The company wants a solution to schedule and run the cron jobs on AWS with minimal refactoring.The solution must support running the cron jobs in response to an event in the future.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

Use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with Amazon EC2 worker nodes.A company has deployed an application in an AWS account.The application consists of microservices that run on AWS Lambda and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).A separate team supports each microservice.The company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to give each team its own account for its microservices.A solutions architect needs to design a solution that will provide service-to-service communication over HTTPS (port 443).The solution also must provide a service registry for service discovery.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?Read More →

A company is building a microservices-based application that will be deployed on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).The microservices will interact with each other.The company wants to ensure that the application is observable to identify performance issues in the future.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company stores a large volume of image files in an Amazon S3 bucket.The images need to be readily available for the first 180 days.The images are infrequently accessed for the next 180 days.After 360 days, the images need to be archived but must be available instantly upon request.After 5 years, only auditors can access the images.The auditors must be able to retrieve the images within 12 hours.The images cannot be lost during this process.A developer will use S3 Standard storage for the first 180 days.The developer needs to configure an S3 Lifecycle rule.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is creating a prototype of an ecommerce website on AWS.The website consists of an Application Load Balancer, an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances for web servers, and an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance that runs with the Single-AZ configuration.The website is slow to respond during searches of the product catalog.The product catalog is a group of tables in the MySQL database that the company does not update frequently.A solutions architect has determined that the CPU utilization on the DB instance is high when product catalog searches occur.What should the solutions architect recommend to improve the performance of the website during searches of the product catalog?Read More →

A company hosts its core network services, including directory services and DNS, in its on-premises data center.The data center is connected to the AWS Cloud using AWS Direct Connect (DX).Additional AWS accounts are planned that will require quick, cost-effective, and consistent access to these network services.What should a solutions architect implement to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

A company recently launched a new application for its customers.The application runs on multiple Amazon EC2 instances across two Availability Zones.End users use TCP to communicate with the application.The application must be highly available and must automatically scale as the number of users increases.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company runs a website that uses a content management system (CMS) on Amazon EC2.The CMS runs on a single EC2 instance and uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance for the data tier.Website images are stored on an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume that is mounted inside the EC2 instance.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to improve the performance and resilience of the website? (Choose two.)Read More →