Solutions Architect Associate (Page 158)

A company has a 143 TB MySQL database that it wants to migrate to AWS.The plan is to use Amazon Aurora MySQL as the platform going forward.The company has a 100 Mbps AWS Direct Connect connection to Amazon VPC.Which solution meets the company’s needs and takes the LEAST amount of time?Read More →

A company wants to run a gaming application on Amazon EC2 instances that are part of an Auto Seating group in the AWS Cloud.The application will transmit data by using UDP packets.The company wants to ensure that the application can scale out and in as traffic increases and decreases.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?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 solutions architect is designing a solution that requires frequent updates to a website that is hosted on Amazon S3 with versioning enabled.For compliance reasons, the older versions of the objects will not be accessed frequently and will need to be deleted after 2 years.What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements at the LOWEST cost?Read More →

A company runs an application on an Amazon EC2 instance backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).The instance needs to be available for 12 hours daily.The company wants to save costs by making the instance unavailable outside the window required for the application.However, the contents of the instance’s memory must be preserved whenever the instance is unavailable.What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company has a Microsoft .NET application that runs on an on-premises Windows Server.The application stores data by using an Oracle Database StandardEdition server.The company is planning a migration to AWS and wants to minimize development changes while moving the application.The AWS application environment should be highly available.Which combination of actions should the company take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is using an Amazon S3 bucket to store data uploaded by different departments from multiple locations.During an AWS Well-Architected review, the financial manager notices that 10 TB of S3 Standard storage data has been charged each month.However, in the AWS Management Console for Amazon S3, using the command to select all files and folders shows a total size of 5 TB.What are the possible causes for this difference? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to relocate its on-premises MySQL database to AWS.The database accepts regular imports from a client-facing application, which causes a high volume of write operations.The company is concerned that the amount of traffic might be causing performance issues within the application.How should a solutions architect design the architecture on AWS?Read More →

A company is migrating its applications to AWS.Currently, applications that run on premises generate hundreds of terabytes of data that is stored on a shared file system.The company is running an analytics application in the cloud that runs hourly to generate insights from this data.The company needs a solution to handle the ongoing data transfer between the on-premises shared file system and Amazon S3.The solution also must be able to handle occasional interruptions in internet connectivity.Which solutions should the company use for the data transfer to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has hired a solutions architect to design a reliable architecture for its application.The application consists of one Amazon RDS DB instance and two manually provisioned Amazon EC2 instances that run web servers.The EC2 instances are located in a single Availability Zone.An employee recently deleted the DB instance, and the application was unavailable for 24 hours as a result.The company is concerned with the overall reliability of its environment.What should the solutions architect do to maximize reliability of the application’s infrastructure?Read More →