Solutions Architect Associate (Page 21)

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 wants to migrate its accounting system from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud in a single AWS Region.Data security and an immutable audit log are the top priorities.The company must monitor all AWS activities for compliance auditing.The company has enabled AWS CloudTrail but wants to make sure it meets these requirements.Which actions should a solutions architect take to protect and secure CloudTrail? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts for different departments.The management account has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains project reports.The company wants to limit access to this S3 bucket to only users of accounts within the organization in AWS Organizations.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances.Traffic to the workload increases substantially during business hours and decreases afterward.The CPU utilization of an EC2 instance is a strong indicator of end-user demand on the application.The company has configured an Auto Scaling group to have a minimum group size of 2 EC2 instances and a maximum group size of 10 EC2 instances.The company is concerned that the current scaling policy that is associated with the Auto Scaling group might not be correct.The company must avoid over- provisioning EC2 instances and incurring unnecessary costs.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

An online gaming company is designing a game that is expected to be popular all over the world.A solutions architect needs to define an AWS Cloud architecture that supports near-real-time recording and displaying of current game statistics for each player, along with the names of the top 25 players in the world, at any given time.Which AWS database solution and configuration should the solutions architect use to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is running an ASP.NET MVC application on a single Amazon EC2 instance.A recent increase in application traffic is causing slow response times for users during lunch hours.The company needs to resolve this concern with the least amount of configuration.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect must provide an automated solution for a company’s compliance policy that states security groups cannot include a rule that allows SSH from0.0.0.0/0.The company needs to be notified if there is any breach in the policy.A solution is needed as soon as possible.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A security team needs to enforce the rotation of all IAM users’ access keys every 90 days.If an access key is found to be older, the key must be made inactive and removed.A solutions architect must create a solution that will check for and remediate any keys older than 90 days.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?Read More →

A company has deployed a multiplayer game for mobile devices.The game requires live location tracking of players based on latitude and longitude.The data store for the game must support rapid updates and retrieval of locations.The game uses an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance with read replicas to store the location data.During peak usage periods, the database is unable to maintain the performance that is needed for reading and writing updates.The game’s user base is increasing rapidly.What should a solutions architect do to improve the performance of the data tier?Read More →

A company’s database is hosted on an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster in the us-east-1 Region.The database is 4 TB in size.The company needs to expand its disaster recovery strategy to the us-west-2 Region.The company must have the ability to fail over to us-west-2 with a recovery time objective (RTO) of 15 minutes.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →