Solutions Architect Associate (Page 159)

A company is migrating a large, mission-critical database to AWS.A solutions architect has decided to use an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance that is deployed with 80,000 Provisioned IOPS for storage.The solutions architect is using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to perform the data migration.The migration is taking longer than expected, and the company wants to speed up the process.The company’s network team has ruled out bandwidth as a limiting factor.Which actions should the solutions architect take to speed up the migration? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to host a web application on AWS that will communicate to a database within a VPC.The application should be highly available.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A disaster response team is using drones to collect images of recent storm damage.The response team’s laptops lack the storage and compute capacity to transfer the images and process the data.While the team has Amazon EC2 instances for processing and Amazon S3 buckets for storage, network connectivity is intermittent and unreliable.The images need to be processed to evaluate the damage.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company is designing a website that uses an Amazon S3 bucket to store static images.The company wants all future requests to have faster response times while reducing both latency and cost.Which service configuration should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company has a build server that is in an Auto Scaling group and often has multiple Linux instances running.The build server requires consistent and mountable shared NFS storage for jobs and configurations.Which storage option should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company is using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to present its application to the internet.The company finds abnormal traffic access patterns across the application.A solutions architect needs to improve visibility into the infrastructure to help the company understand these abnormalities better.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application that processes customer orders.The company hosts the application on an Amazon EC2 instance that saves the orders to anAmazon Aurora database.Occasionally when traffic is high, the workload does not process orders fast enough.What should a solutions architect do to write the orders reliably to the database as quickly as possible?Read More →

A company manages its own Amazon EC2 instances that run MySQL databases.The company is manually managing replication and scaling as demand increases or decreases.The company needs a new solution that simplifies the process of adding or removing compute capacity to or from its database tier as needed.The solution also must offer improved performance, scaling, and durability with minimal effort from operations.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is using Amazon Route 53 latency-based routing to route requests to its UDP-based application for users around the world.The application is hosted on redundant servers in the company’s on-premises data centers in the United States, Asia, and Europe.The company’s compliance requirements state that the application must be hosted on premises.The company wants to improve the performance and availability of the application.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a mobile game that reads most of its metadata from an Amazon RDS DB instance.As the game increased in popularity developers noticed slowdowns related to the game’s metadata load times.Performance metrics indicate that simply scaling the database will not help.A solutions architect must explore all options that include capabilities for snapshots replication and sub-millisecond response times.What should the solutions architect recommend to solve these issues?Read More →