Solutions Architect Associate (Page 17)

A company has created an isolated backup of its environment in another Region. The application is running in warm standby mode and is fronted by anApplication Load Balancer (ALB). The current failover process is manual and requires updating a DNS alias record to point to the secondary ALB in anotherRegion.What should a solutions architect do to automate the failover process?Read More →

A company has 15 employees.The company stores employee start dates in an Amazon DynamoDB table.The company wants to send an email message to each employee on the day of the employee’s work anniversary.Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?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 →

An ecommerce company is migrating its on-premises workload to the AWS Cloud.The workload currently consists of a web application and a backend Microsoft SQL database for storage.The company expects a high volume of customers during a promotional event.The new infrastructure in the AWS Cloud must be highly available and scalable.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?Read More →

A company hosts its website on Amazon S3.The website serves petabytes of outbound traffic monthly, which accounts for most of the company’s AWS costs.What should a solutions architect do to reduce costs?Read More →

A company previously migrated its data warehouse solution to AWS.The company also has an AWS Direct Connect connection.Corporate office users query the data warehouse using a visualization tool.The average size of a query returned by the data warehouse is 50 MB and each webpage sent by the visualization tool is approximately 500 KB.Result sets returned by the data warehouse are not cached.Which solution provides the LOWEST data transfer egress cost for the company?Read More →

A company runs a website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an ELB Application Load Balancer.Amazon Route 53 is used for the DNS.The company wants to set up a backup website with a message including a phone number and email address that users can reach if the primary website is down.How should the company deploy this solution?Read More →

An online learning company is migrating to the AWS Cloud.The company maintains its student records in a PostgreSQL database.The company needs a solution in which its data is available and online across multiple AWS Regions at all times.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

A company’s infrastructure consists of hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances that use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage.A solutions architect must ensure that every EC2 instance can be recovered after a disaster.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of effort?Read More →

A company hosts its web application on AWS using seven Amazon EC2 instances.The company requires that the IP addresses of all healthy EC2 instances be returned in response to DNS queries.Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?Read More →