Solutions Architect Associate (Page 24)

A company observes an increase in Amazon EC2 costs in its most recent bill.The billing team notices unwanted vertical scaling of instance types for a couple ofEC2 instances.A solutions architect needs to create a graph comparing the last 2 months of EC2 costs and perform an in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of the vertical scaling.How should the solutions architect generate the information with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company is developing an ecommerce application that will consist of a load-balanced front end, a container-based application, and a relational database.A solutions architect needs to create a highly available solution that operates with as little manual intervention as possible.Which solutions meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a shared storage solution for a web application that is deployed across multiple Availability Zones.The web application runs onAmazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group.The company plans to make frequent changes to the content.The solution must have strong consistency in returning the new content as soon as the changes occur.Which solutions meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company designed a stateless two-tier application that uses Amazon EC2 in a single Availability Zone and an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance.New company management wants to ensure the application is highly available.What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company is planning on deploying a newly built application on AWS in a default VPC.The application will consist of a web layer and database layer.The web server was created in public subnets, and the MySQL database was created in private subnets.All subnets are created with the default network ACL settings, and the default security group in the VPC will be replaced with new custom security groups.The following are the key requirements:✑ The web servers must be accessible only to users on an SSL connection.✑ The database should be accessible to the web layer, which is created in a public subnet only.✑ All traffic to and from the IP range 182.20.0.0/16 subnet should be blocked.Which combination of steps meets these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is building an application that consists of several microservices.The company has decided to use container technologies to deploy its software onAWS.The company needs a solution that minimizes the amount of ongoing effort for maintenance and scaling.The company cannot manage additional infrastructure.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A user wants to list the IAM role that is attached to their Amazon EC2 instance.The user has login access to the EC2 instance but does not have IAM permissions.What should a solutions architect do to retrieve this information?Read More →

A company runs a high performance computing (HPC) workload on AWS.The workload required low-latency network performance and high network throughput with tightly coupled node-to-node communication.The Amazon EC2 instances are properly sized for compute and storage capacity, and are launched using default options.What should a solutions architect propose to improve the performance of the workload?Read More →

A solutions architect at a company is designing the architecture for a two-tiered web application.The web application is composed of an internet-facing ApplicationLoad Balancer (ALB) that forwards traffic to an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances.The EC2 instances must be able to access a database that runs onAmazon RDS.The company has requested a defense-in-depth approach to the network layout.The company does not want to rely solely on security groups or network ACLs.Only the minimum resources that are necessary should be routable from the internet.Which network design should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs an application that receives data from thousands of geographically dispersed remote devices that use UDP.The application processes the data immediately and sends a message back to the device if necessary.No data is stored.The company needs a solution that minimizes latency for the data transmission from the devices.The solution also must provide rapid failover to another AWSRegion.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →