Solutions Architect Associate (Page 2)

A company is using a third-party vendor to manage its marketplace analytics.The vendor needs limited programmatic access to resources in the company’s account.All the needed policies have been created to grant appropriate access.Which additional component will provide the vendor with the MOST secure access to the account?Read More →

A company is building an application that gives users the ability to upload video files.The company needs to store the video files securely in Amazon S3 for future access.The total storage requirement for the video files will grow to many petabytes.Users will rarely access the stored video files, but the stored video files must be available within minutes when users request access.The company needs to minimize storage costs.Which S3 storage class should a solutions architect choose to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s security policy requires that all AWS API activity in its AWS accounts be recorded for periodic auditing.The company needs to ensure that AWSCloudTrail is enabled on all of its current and future AWS accounts using AWS Organizations.Which solution is MOST secure?Read More →

A company has thousands of edge devices that collectively generate 1 TB of status alerts each day.Each alert is approximately 2 KB in size.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to ingest and store the alerts for future analysis.The company wants a highly available solution.However, the company needs to minimize costs and does not want to manage additional infrastructure.Additionally, the company wants to keep 14 days of data available for immediate analysis and archive any data older than 14 days.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?Read More →

A company designs a mobile app for its customers to upload photos to a website.The app needs a secure login with multi-factor authentication (MFA).The company wants to limit the initial build time and the maintenance of the solution.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a website hosted on AWS.The website is behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that is configured to handle HTTP and HTTPS separately.The company wants to forward all requests to the website so that the requests will use HTTPS.What solution should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company has a mobile game that reads most of its metadata from an Amazon RDS DB instance.As the game increased in popularity developers noticed slowdowns related to the game’s metadata load times.Performance metrics indicate that simply scaling the database will not help.A solutions architect must explore all options that include capabilities for snapshots replication and sub-millisecond response times.What should the solutions architect recommend to solve these issues?Read More →

A company is using Amazon Route 53 latency-based routing to route requests to its UDP-based application for users around the world.The application is hosted on redundant servers in the company’s on-premises data centers in the United States, Asia, and Europe.The company’s compliance requirements state that the application must be hosted on premises.The company wants to improve the performance and availability of the application.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company manages its own Amazon EC2 instances that run MySQL databases.The company is manually managing replication and scaling as demand increases or decreases.The company needs a new solution that simplifies the process of adding or removing compute capacity to or from its database tier as needed.The solution also must offer improved performance, scaling, and durability with minimal effort from operations.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application that processes customer orders.The company hosts the application on an Amazon EC2 instance that saves the orders to anAmazon Aurora database.Occasionally when traffic is high, the workload does not process orders fast enough.What should a solutions architect do to write the orders reliably to the database as quickly as possible?Read More →