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A company has an on-premises application that collects data and stores it to an on-premises NFS server.The company recently set up a 10 Gbps AWS DirectConnect connection.The company is running out of storage capacity on premises.The company needs to migrate the application data from on premises to theAWS Cloud while maintaining low-latency access to the data from the on-premises application.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts a website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The website serves static content.Website traffic is increasing, and the company is concerned about a potential increase in cost.Read More →

A company uses on-premises servers to host its applications.The company is running out of storage capacity.The applications use both block storage and NFS storage.The company needs a high-performing solution that supports local caching without re-architecting its existing applications.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company uses AWS Organizations to run workloads within multiple AWS accounts.A tagging policy adds department tags to AWS resources when the company creates tags.An accounting team needs to determine spending on Amazon EC2 consumption.The accounting team must determine which departments are responsible for the costs regardless ofAWS account.The accounting team has access to AWS Cost Explorer for all AWS accounts within the organization and needs to access all reports from Cost Explorer.Which solution meets these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?Read More →

A company wants to build an online marketplace application on AWS as a set of loosely coupled microservices.For this application, when a customer submits a new order, two microservices should handle the event simultaneously.The Email microservice will send a confirmation email, and the OrderProcessing microservice will start the order delivery process.If a customer cancels an order, the OrderCancellation and Email microservices should handle the event simultaneously.A solutions architect wants to use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to design the messaging between the microservices.How should the solutions architect design the solution?Read More →

A company runs its application on an Oracle database.The company plans to quickly migrate to AWS because of limited resources for the database, backup administration, and data center maintenance.The application uses third-party database features that require privileged access.Which solution will help the company migrate the database to AWS MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is creating a web application that will store a large number of images in Amazon S3.The images will be accessed by users over variable periods of time.The company wants to:✑ Retain all the images✑ Incur no cost for retrieval.✑ Have minimal management overhead.✑ Have the images available with no impact on retrieval time.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts a multi-tier web application on Amazon Linux Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones.The company observes that the Auto Scaling group launches more On-Demand Instances when the application’s end users access high volumes of static web content.The company wants to optimize cost.What should a solutions architect do to redesign the application MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing an architecture to run a third-party database server.The database software is memory intensive and has a CPU-based licensing model where the cost increases with the number of vCPU cores within the operating system.The solutions architect must select an Amazon EC2 instance with sufficient memory to run the database software, but the selected instance has a large number of vCPUs.The solutions architect must ensure that the vCPUs will not be underutilized and must minimize costs.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company operates an ecommerce website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in an Auto Scaling group.The site is experiencing performance issues related to a high request rate from illegitimate external systems with changing IP addresses.The security team is worried about potential DDoS attacks against the website.The company must block the illegitimate incoming requests in a way that has a minimal impact on legitimate users.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →