Solutions Architect Associate (Page 160)

A company runs a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group.The application uses a database that runs on an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance.The application performs slowly when traffic increases.The database experiences a heavy read load during periods of high traffic.Which actions should a solutions architect take to resolve these performance issues? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company stores multiple Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in an AWS account to launch its Amazon EC2 instances.The AMIs contain critical data and configurations that are necessary for the company’s operations.The company wants to implement a solution that will recover accidentally deleted AMIs quickly and efficiently.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has an application that uses an Amazon DynamoDB table for storage.A solutions architect discovers that many requests to the table are not returning the latest data.The company’s users have not reported any other issues with database performance.Latency is in an acceptable range.Which design change should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company is moving its data management application to AWS.The company wants to transition to an event-driven architecture.The architecture needs to be more distributed and to use serverless concepts while performing the different aspects of the workflow.The company also wants to minimize operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has an organization in AWS Organizations that has all features enabled.The company requires that all API calls and logins in any existing or new AWS account must be audited.The company needs a managed solution to prevent additional work and to minimize costs.The company also needs to know when any AWS account is not compliant with the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices (FSBP) standard.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company wants to use NAT gateways in its AWS environment.The company’s Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets must be able to connect to the public internet through the NAT gateways.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a mobile chat application with a data store based in Amazon DynamoDB.Users would like new messages to be read with as little latency as possible.A solutions architect needs to design an optimal solution that requires minimal application changes.Which method should the solutions architect select?Read More →

A company’s website handles millions of requests each day, and the number of requests continues to increase.A solutions architect needs to improve the response time of the web application.The solutions architect determines that the application needs to decrease latency when retrieving product details from the Amazon DynamoDB table.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

An IAM user made several configuration changes to AWS resources in their company’s account during a production deployment last week.A solutions architect learned that a couple of security group rules are not configured as desired.The solutions architect wants to confirm which IAM user was responsible for making changes.Which service should the solutions architect use to find the desired information?Read More →

A company has Amazon EC2 instances that run nightly batch jobs to process data.The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group that uses On-Demand billing.If a job fails on one instance, another instance will reprocess the job.The batch jobs run between 12:00 AM and 06:00 AM local time every day.Which solution will provide EC2 instances to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →