Solutions Architect Associate (Page 16)

A company is developing a real-time multiplayer game that uses UDP for communications between the client and servers in an Auto Scaling group.Spikes in demand are anticipated during the day, so the game server platform must adapt accordingly.Developers want to store gamer scores and other non-relational data in a database solution that will scale without intervention.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company deploys its applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) behind an Application Load Balancer in an AWS Region.The application needs to store data in a PostgreSQL database engine.The company wants the data in the database to be highly available.The company also needs increased capacity for read workloads.Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?Read More →

A solutions architect observes that a nightly batch processing job is automatically scaled up for 1 hour before the desired Amazon EC2 capacity is reached.The peak capacity is the ‘same every night and the batch jobs always start at 1 AM.The solutions architect needs to find a cost-effective solution that will allow for the desired EC2 capacity to be reached quickly and allow the Auto Scaling group to scale down after the batch jobs are complete.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company deployed a serverless application that uses Amazon DynamoDB as a database layer.The application has experienced a large increase in users.The company wants to improve database response time from milliseconds to microseconds and to cache requests to the database.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company is designing a solution to capture customer activity in different web applications to process analytics and make predictions.Customer activity in the web applications is unpredictable and can increase suddenly.The company requires a solution that integrates with other web applications.The solution must include an authorization step for security purposes.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

An ecommerce company wants a disaster recovery solution for its Amazon RDS DB instances that run Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition.The company’s current recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) are 24 hours.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing an application that will allow business users to upload objects to Amazon S3.The solution needs to maximize object durability.Objects also must be readily available at any time and for any length of time.Users will access objects frequently within the first 30 days after the objects are uploaded, but users are much less likely to access objects that are older than 30 days.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company deploys Amazon EC2 instances that run in a VPC.The EC2 instances load source data into Amazon S3 buckets so that the data can be processed in the future.According to compliance laws, the data must not be transmitted over the public internet.Servers in the company’s on-premises data center will consume the output from an application that runs on the EC2 instances.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has deployed its newest product on AWS.The product runs in an Auto Scaling group behind a Network Load Balancer.The company stores the product’s objects in an Amazon S3 bucket.The company recently experienced malicious attacks against its systems.The company needs a solution that continuously monitors for malicious activity in the AWS account, workloads, and access patterns to the S3 bucket.The solution must also report suspicious activity and display the information on a dashboard.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is creating an application that will handle batch processing of large amounts of data.The input data will be held in Amazon S3 and the output data will be stored in a different S3 bucket.For processing, the application will transfer the data over the network between multiple Amazon EC2 instances.What should the solutions architect do to reduce the overall data transfer costs?Read More →