Solutions Architect Associate (Page 31)

A company has an Amazon S3 data lake.The company needs a solution that transforms the data from the data lake and loads the data into a data warehouse every day.The data warehouse must have massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities.Data analysts then need to create and train machine learning (ML) models by using SQL commands on the data.The solution must use serverless AWS services wherever possible.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company needs to share an Amazon S3 bucket with an external vendor.The bucket owner must be able to access all objects.Which action should be taken to share the S3 bucket?Read More →

A company is building an application on AWS that connects to an Amazon RDS database.The company wants to manage the application configuration and to securely store and retrieve credentials for the database and other services.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?Read More →

A company is developing a real-time multiplier game that uses UDP for communications between client and servers in an Auto Scaling group.Spikes in demand are anticipated during the day, so the game server platform must adapt accordingly.Developers want to store gamer scores and other non-relational data in a database solution that will scale without intervention.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A hospital needs to store patient records in an Amazon S3 bucket.The hospital’s compliance team must ensure that all protected health information (PHI) is encrypted in transit and at rest.The compliance team must administer the encryption key for data at rest.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a custom application running on an Amazon EC instance that:* Reads a large amount of data from Amazon S3* Performs a multi-stage analysis* Writes the results to Amazon DynamoDBThe application writes a significant number of large, temporary files during the multi-stage analysis.The process performance depends on the temporary storage performance.What would be the fastest storage option for holding the temporary files?Read More →

A social media company runs its application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The ALB is the origin for an Amazon CloudFront distribution.The application has more than a billion images stored in an Amazon S3 bucket and processes thousands of images each second.The company wants to resize the images dynamically and serve appropriate formats to clients.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company wants to automate the security assessment of its Amazon EC2 instances.The company needs to validate and demonstrate that security and compliance standards are being followed throughout the development process.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has an aging network-attached storage (NAS) array in its data center.The NAS array presents SMB shares and NFS shares to client workstations.The company does not want to purchase a new NAS array.The company also does not want to incur the cost of renewing the NAS array’s support contract.Some of the data is accessed frequently, but much of the data is inactive.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that migrates the data to Amazon S3, uses S3 Lifecycle policies, and maintains the same look and feel for the client workstations.The solutions architect has identified AWS Storage Gateway as part of the solution.Which type of storage gateway should the solutions architect provision to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company previously migrated its data warehouse solution to AWS.The company also has an AWS Direct Connect connection.Corporate office users query the data warehouse using a visualization tool.The average size of a query returned by the data warehouse is 50 MB and each webpage sent by the visualization tool is approximately 500 KB.Result sets returned by the data warehouse are not cached.Which solution provides the LOWEST data transfer egress cost for the company?Read More →