Solutions Architect Associate (Page 3)

A company is using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to present its application to the internet.The company finds abnormal traffic access patterns across the application.A solutions architect needs to improve visibility into the infrastructure to help the company understand these abnormalities better.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has a build server that is in an Auto Scaling group and often has multiple Linux instances running.The build server requires consistent and mountable shared NFS storage for jobs and configurations.Which storage option should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company is designing a website that uses an Amazon S3 bucket to store static images.The company wants all future requests to have faster response times while reducing both latency and cost.Which service configuration should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A disaster response team is using drones to collect images of recent storm damage.The response team’s laptops lack the storage and compute capacity to transfer the images and process the data.While the team has Amazon EC2 instances for processing and Amazon S3 buckets for storage, network connectivity is intermittent and unreliable.The images need to be processed to evaluate the damage.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company wants to host a web application on AWS that will communicate to a database within a VPC.The application should be highly available.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company is migrating a large, mission-critical database to AWS.A solutions architect has decided to use an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance that is deployed with 80,000 Provisioned IOPS for storage.The solutions architect is using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to perform the data migration.The migration is taking longer than expected, and the company wants to speed up the process.The company’s network team has ruled out bandwidth as a limiting factor.Which actions should the solutions architect take to speed up the migration? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has hired a solutions architect to design a reliable architecture for its application.The application consists of one Amazon RDS DB instance and two manually provisioned Amazon EC2 instances that run web servers.The EC2 instances are located in a single Availability Zone.An employee recently deleted the DB instance, and the application was unavailable for 24 hours as a result.The company is concerned with the overall reliability of its environment.What should the solutions architect do to maximize reliability of the application’s infrastructure?Read More →

A company is migrating its applications to AWS.Currently, applications that run on premises generate hundreds of terabytes of data that is stored on a shared file system.The company is running an analytics application in the cloud that runs hourly to generate insights from this data.The company needs a solution to handle the ongoing data transfer between the on-premises shared file system and Amazon S3.The solution also must be able to handle occasional interruptions in internet connectivity.Which solutions should the company use for the data transfer to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to relocate its on-premises MySQL database to AWS.The database accepts regular imports from a client-facing application, which causes a high volume of write operations.The company is concerned that the amount of traffic might be causing performance issues within the application.How should a solutions architect design the architecture on AWS?Read More →

A company is using an Amazon S3 bucket to store data uploaded by different departments from multiple locations.During an AWS Well-Architected review, the financial manager notices that 10 TB of S3 Standard storage data has been charged each month.However, in the AWS Management Console for Amazon S3, using the command to select all files and folders shows a total size of 5 TB.What are the possible causes for this difference? (Choose two.)Read More →