Solutions Architect Associate (Page 22)

A company sells datasets to customers who do research in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML).The datasets are large, formatted files that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region.The company hosts a web application that the customers use to purchase access to a given dataset.The web application is deployed on multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.After a purchase is made, customers receive an S3 signed URL that allows access to the files.The customers are distributed across North America and Europe.The company wants to reduce the cost that is associated with data transfers and wants to maintain or improve performance.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application that runs on several Amazon EC2 instances.Each EC2 instance has multiple Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) data volumes attached to it.The application’s EC2 instance configuration and data need to be backed up nightly.The application also needs to be recoverable in a different AWS Region.Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?Read More →

A company has an on-premises MySQL database used by the global sales team with infrequent access patterns.The sales team requires the database to have minimal downtime.A database administrator wants to migrate this database to AWS without selecting a particular instance type in anticipation of more users in the future.Which service should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company uses a legacy application to produce data in CSV format.The legacy application stores the output data in Amazon S3.The company is deploying a new commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) application that can perform complex SQL queries to analyze data that is stored in Amazon Redshift and Amazon S3 only.However, the COTS application cannot process the .csv files that the legacy application produces.The company cannot update the legacy application to produce data in another format.The company needs to implement a solution so that the COTS application can use the data that the legacy application produces.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company uses a 100 GB Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server Single-AZ DB instance in the us-east-1 Region to store customer transactions.The company needs high availability and automatic recovery for the DB instance.The company must also run reports on the RDS database several times a year.The report process causes transactions to take longer than usual to post to the customers’ accounts.The company needs a solution that will improve the performance of the report process.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to give a customer the ability to use on-premises Microsoft Active Directory to download files that are stored in Amazon S3.The customer’s application uses an SFTP client to download the files.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead and no changes to the customer’s application?Read More →

A company recently migrated its entire IT environment to the AWS Cloud.The company discovers that users are provisioning oversized Amazon EC2 instances and modifying security group rules without using the appropriate change control process.A solutions architect must devise a strategy to track and audit these inventory and configuration changes.Which actions should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A media company hosts its website on AWS.The website application’s architecture includes a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and a database that is hosted on Amazon Aurora.The company’s cybersecurity team reports that the application is vulnerable to SQL injection.How should the company resolve this issue?Read More →

A company is planning to store data on Amazon RDS DB instances.The company must encrypt the data at rest.What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

An image-hosting company stores its objects in Amazon S3 buckets.The company wants to avoid accidental exposure of the objects in the S3 buckets to the public.All S3 objects in the entire AWS account need to remain private.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →