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A company is designing an internet-facing web application.The application runs on Amazon EC2 for Linux-based instances that store sensitive user data inAmazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instances.The EC2 instances are in public subnets, and the RDS DB instances are in private subnets.The security team has mandated that the DB instances be secured against web-based attacks.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company hosts historical weather records in Amazon S3.The records are downloaded from the company’s website by a way of a URL that resolves to a domain name.Users all over the world access this content through subscriptions.A third-party provider hosts the company’s root domain name, but the company recently migrated some of its services to Amazon Route 53.The company wants to consolidate contracts, reduce latency for users, and reduce costs related to serving the application to subscribers.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is running a database on Amazon Aurora.The database is idle every evening.An application that performs extensive reads on the database experiences performance issues during morning hours when user traffic spikes.During these peak periods, the application receives timeout errors when reading from the database.The company does not have a dedicated operations team and needs an automated solution to address the performance issues.Which actions should a solutions architect take to automatically adjust to the increased read load on the database? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company operates an ecommerce website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in an Auto Scaling group.The site is experiencing performance issues related to a high request rate from illegitimate external systems with changing IP addresses.The security team is worried about potential DDoS attacks against the website.The company must block the illegitimate incoming requests in a way that has a minimal impact on legitimate users.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company is running a media store across multiple Amazon EC2 instances distributed across multiple Availability Zones in a single VPC.The company wants a high-performing solution to share data between all the EC2 instances, and prefers to keep the data within the VPC only.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company is running a web-based game in two Availability Zones in the us-west-2 Region.The web servers use an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in public subnets.The ALB has an SSL certificate from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) with a custom domain name.The game is written in JavaScript and runs entirely in a user’s web browser.The game is increasing in popularity in many countries around the world.The company wants to update the application architecture and optimize costs without compromising performance.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is designing an application where users upload small files into Amazon S3.After a user uploads a file, the file requires one-time simple processing to transform the data and save the data in JSON format for later analysis.Each file must be processed as quickly as possible after it is uploaded.Demand will vary.On some days, users will upload a high number of files.On other days, users will upload a few files or no files.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

An application calls a service run by a vendor.The vendor charges based on the number of calls.The finance department needs to know the number of calls that are made to the service to validate the billing statements.How can a solutions architect design a system to durably store the number of calls without requiring changes to the application?Read More →

A company is migrating a Linux-based web server group to AWS.The web servers must access files in a shared file store for some content.To meet the migration date, minimal changes can be made.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing the architecture of a new application being deployed to the AWS Cloud.The application will run on Amazon EC2 On-DemandInstances and will automatically scale across multiple Availability Zones.The EC2 instances will scale up and down frequently throughout the day.An ApplicationLoad Balancer (ALB) will handle the load distribution.The architecture needs to support distributed session data management.The company is willing to make changes to code if needed.What should the solutions architect do to ensure that the architecture supports distributed session data management?Read More →