Solutions Architect Associate (Page 157)

A company is creating an application that runs on containers in a VPC.The application stores and accesses data in an Amazon S3 bucket.During the development phase, the application will store and access 1 TB of data in Amazon S3 each day.The company wants to minimize costs and wants to prevent traffic from traversing the internet whenever possible.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a three-tier web application that is deployed on AWS.The web servers are deployed in a public subnet in a VPC.The application servers and database servers are deployed in private subnets in the same VPC.The company has deployed a third-party virtual firewall appliance from AWS Marketplace in an inspection VPC.The appliance is configured with an IP interface that can accept IP packets.A solutions architect needs to integrate the web application with the appliance to inspect all traffic to the application before the traffic reaches the web server.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has an API that receives real-time data from a fleet of monitoring devices.The API stores this data in an Amazon RDS DB instance for later analysis.The amount of data that the monitoring devices send to the API fluctuates.During periods of heavy traffic, the API often returns timeout errors.After an inspection of the logs, the company determines that the database is not capable of processing the volume of write traffic that comes from the API.A solutions architect must minimize the number of connections to the database and must ensure that data is not lost during periods of heavy traffic.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is building an application on Amazon EC2 instances.The application generates temporary transactional data.The application requires access toAmazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) data storage that can provide configurable and consistent IOPS.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is preparing to migrate its on-premises application to AWS. The application consists of application servers and a Microsoft SQL Server database The database cannot be migrated to a different engine because SQL Server features are used in the application’s NET code. The company wants to attain the greatest availability possible while minimizing operational and management overhead.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?Read More →

A company wants to run an in-memory database for a latency-sensitive application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances.The application processes more than100,000 transactions each minute and requires high network throughput.A solutions architect needs to provide a cost-effective network design that minimizes data transfer charges.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts its multi-tier, public web application in the AWS Cloud.The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances, and its database runs on AmazonRDS.The company is anticipating a large increase in sales during an upcoming holiday weekend.A solutions architect needs to build a solution to analyze the performance of the web application with a granularity of no more than 2 minutes.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company is deploying a two-tier web application in a VPC.The web tier is using an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with public subnets that span multipleAvailability Zones.The database tier consists of Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in separate private subnets.The web tier requires access to the database to retrieve product information.The web application is not working as intended.The web application reports that it cannot connect to the database.The database is confirmed to be up and running.All configurations for the network ACLs, security groups, and route tables are still in their default states.What should a solutions architect recommend to fix the application?Read More →

A company wants to improve the availability and performance of its stateless UDP-based workload.The workload is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple AWS Regions.What should a solutions architect recommend to accomplish this?Read More →

A company is planning to transfer multiple terabytes of data to AWS.The data is collected offline from ships.The company want to run complex transformation before transferring the data.Which AWS service should a solutions architect recommend for this migration?Read More →