Solutions Architect Associate (Page 23)

A company is preparing to deploy a data lake on AWS.A solutions architect must define the encryption strategy tor data at rest m Amazon S3/ The company’s security policy states:✑ Keys must be rotated every 90 days.✑ Strict separation of duties between key users and key administrators must be implemented.✑ Auditing key usage must be possible.What should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A recently created startup built a three-tier web application.The front end has static content.The application layer is based on microservices.User data is stored as JSON documents that need to be accessed with low latency.The company expects regular traffic to be low during the first year, with peaks in traffic when it publicizes new features every month.The startup team needs to minimize operational overhead costs.What should a solutions architect recommend to accomplish this?Read More →

A company is using Amazon DynamoDB with provisioned throughput for the database tier of its ecommerce website.During flash sales, customers experience periods of time when the database cannot handle the high number of transactions taking place.This causes the company to lose transactions.During normal periods, the database performs appropriately.Which solution solves the performance problem the company faces?Read More →

A company runs its production workload on an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster that includes six Aurora Replicas.The company wants near-real-lime reporting queries from one of its departments to be automatically distributed across three of the Aurora Replicas.Those three replicas have a different compute and memory specification from the rest of the DB cluster.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has NFS servers in an on-premises data center that need to periodically back up small amounts of data to Amazon S3.Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?Read More →

A solutions architect is redesigning a monolithic application to be a loosely coupled application composed of two microservices: Microservice A and MicroserviceB.Microservice A places messages in a main Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue for Microservice B to consume.When Microservice B fails to process a message after four retries, the message needs to be removed from the queue and stored for further investigation.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is Re-architecting a strongly coupled application to be loosely coupled.Previously the application used a request/response pattern to communicate between tiers.The company plans to use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to achieve decoupling requirements.The initial design contains one queue for requests and one for responses.However, this approach is not processing all the messages as the application scales.What should a solutions architect do to resolve this issue?Read More →

A company is building its web application using containers on AWS.The company requires three instances of the web application to run at all times.The application must be able to scale to meet increases in demand.Management is extremely sensitive to cost but agrees that the application should be highly available.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company is preparing to deploy a new serverless workload.A solutions architect needs to configure permissions for invoking an AWS Lambda function.The function will be triggered by an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule.Permissions should be configured using the principle of least privilege.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect must design a database solution for a high-traffic ecommerce web application.The database stores customer profiles and shopping cart information.The database must support a peak load of several million requests each second and deliver responses in milliseconds.The operational overhead form an aging and scaling the database must be minimized.Which database solution should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →