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A company uses Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) to run its self-managed database.The company has 350 TB of data spread across all EBS volumes.The company takes daily EBS snapshots and keeps the snapshots for 1 month.The daily change rate is 5% of the EBS volumes.Because of new regulations, the company needs to keep the monthly snapshots for 7 years.The company needs to change its backup strategy to comply with the new regulations and to ensure that data is available with minimal administrative effort.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has a custom application with embedded credentials that retrieves information from a database in an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB cluster.The company needs to make the application more secure with minimal programming effort.The company has created credentials on the RDS for MySQL database for the application user.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has 5 PB of archived data on physical tapes.The company needs to preserve the data on the tapes for another 10 years for compliance purposes.The company wants to migrate to AWS in the next 6 months.The data center that stores the tapes has a 1 Gbps uplink internet connectivity.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has stored millions of objects across multiple prefixes in an Amazon S3 bucket by using the Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class.The company needs to delete all data older than 3 years except for a subset of data that must be retained.The company has identified the data that must be retained and wants to implement a serverless solution.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A healthcare company is developing an AWS Lambda function that publishes notifications to an encrypted Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic.The notifications contain protected health information (PHI).The SNS topic uses AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed keys for encryption.The company must ensure that the application has the necessary permissions to publish messages securely to the SNS topic.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company runs thousands of AWS Lambda functions.The company needs a solution to securely store sensitive information that all the Lambda functions use.The solution must also manage the automatic rotation of the sensitive information.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to migrate its three-tier application from on premises to AWS.The web tier and the application tier are running on third-party virtual machines (VMs).The database tier is running on MySQL.The company needs to migrate the application by making the fewest possible changes to the architecture.The company also needs a database solution that can restore data to a specific point in time.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing an application that helps users fill out and submit registration forms.The solutions architect plans to use a two-tier architecture that includes a web application server tier and a worker tier.The application needs to process submitted forms quickly.The application needs to process each form exactly once.The solution must ensure that no data is lost.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has migrated several applications to AWS in the past 3 months.The company wants to know the breakdown of costs for each of these applications.The company wants to receive a regular report that includes this information.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has implemented a self-managed DNS solution on three Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB) in the us-west-2 Region.Most of the company’s users are located in the United States and Europe.The company wants to improve the performance and availability of the solution.The company launches and configures three EC2 instances in the eu-west-1 Region and adds the EC2 instances as targets for a new NLB.Which solution can the company use to route traffic to all the EC2 instances?Read More →