Solutions Architect Associate (Page 161)

Application developers have noticed that a production application is very slow when business reporting users run large production reports against the AmazonRDS instance backing the application.The CPU and memory utilization metrics for the RDS instance do not exceed 60% while the reporting queries are running.The business reporting users must be able to generate reports without affecting the application’s performance.Which action will accomplish this?Read More →

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances.The application is deployed in private subnets in three Availability Zones of the us-east-1 Region.The instances must be able to connect to the internet to download files.The company wants a design that is highly available across the Region.Which solution should be implemented to ensure that there are no disruptions to internet connectivity?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a hybrid application using the AWS cloud.The network between the on-premises data center and AWS will use an AWS DirectConnect (DX) connection.The application connectivity between AWS and the on-premises data center must be highly resilient.Which DX configuration should be implemented to meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is working on optimizing a legacy document management application running on Microsoft Windows Server in an on-premises data center.The application stores a large number of files on a network file share.The chief information officer wants to reduce the on-premises data center footprint and minimize storage costs by moving on-premises storage to AWS.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A monolithic application was recently migrated to AWS and is now running on a single Amazon EC2 instance.Due to application limitations, it is not possible to use automatic scaling to scale out the application.The chief technology officer (CTO) wants an automated solution to restore the EC2 instance in the unlikely event the underlying hardware fails.What would allow for automatic recovery of the EC2 instance as quickly as possible?Read More →

A company is migrating to the AWS Cloud.A file server is the first workload to migrate.Users must be able to access the file share using the Server MessageBlock (SMB) protocol.Which AWS managed service meets these requirements?Read More →