Solutions Architect Associate (Page 28)

A company is developing a file-sharing application that will use an Amazon S3 bucket for storage.The company wants to serve all the files through an Amazon CloudFront distribution.The company does not want the files to be accessible through direct navigation to the S3 URL.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zonas.The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer.The application performs best when the CPU utilization of the EC2 instances is at or near 40%.What should a solutions architect do to maintain the desired performance across all instances in the group?Read More →

A company is running a multi-tier web application on premises.The web application is containerized and runs on a number of Linux hosts connected to a PostgreSQL database that contains user records.The operational overhead of maintaining the infrastructure and capacity planning is limiting the company’s growth.A solutions architect must improve the application’s infrastructure.Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to run applications in containers in the AWS Cloud.These applications are stateless and can tolerate disruptions within the underlying infrastructure.The company needs a solution that minimizes cost and operational overhead.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to reduce a company’s storage costs.All the company’s data is in the Amazon S3 Standard storage class.The company must keep all data for at least 25 years.Data from the most recent 2 years must be highly available and immediately retrievable.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a highly dynamic batch processing job that uses many Amazon EC2 instances to complete it.The job is stateless in nature, can be started and stopped at any given time with no negative impact, and typically takes upwards of 60 minutes total to complete.The company has asked a solutions architect to design a scalable and cost-effective solution that meets the requirements of the job.What should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company has a dynamic web application hosted on two Amazon EC2 instances.The company has its own SSL certificate, which is on each instance to perform SSL termination.There has been an increase in traffic recently, and the operations team determined that SSL encryption and decryption is causing the compute capacity of the web servers to reach their maximum limit.What should a solutions architect do to increase the application’s performance?Read More →

A company wants to build a scalable key management infrastructure to support developers who need to encrypt data in their applications.What should a solutions architect do to reduce the operational burden?Read More →

A company is running an online transaction processing (OLTP) workload on AWS.This workload uses an unencrypted Amazon RDS DB instance in a Multi-AZ deployment.Daily database snapshots are taken from this instance.What should a solutions architect do to ensure the database and snapshots are always encrypted moving forward?Read More →

A business application is hosted on Amazon EC2 and uses Amazon S3 for encrypted object storage.The chief information security officer has directed that no application traffic between the two services should traverse the public internet.Which capability should the solutions architect use to meet the compliance requirements?Read More →