Solutions Architect Associate (Page 33)

A company is running an application on AWS to process weather sensor data that is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket.Three batch jobs run hourly to process the data in the S3 bucket for different purposes.The company wants to reduce the overall processing time by running the three applications in parallel using an event- based approach.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs a web-based portal that provides users with global breaking news, local alerts, and weather updates.The portal delivers each user a personalized view by using mixture of static and dynamic content.Content is served over HTTPS through an API server running on an Amazon EC2 instance behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The company wants the portal to provide this content to its users across the world as quickly as possible.How should a solutions architect design the application to ensure the LEAST amount of latency for all users?Read More →

A financial company hosts a web application on AWS.The application uses an Amazon API Gateway Regional API endpoint to give users the ability to retrieve current stock prices.The company’s security team has noticed an increase in the number of API requests.The security team is concerned that HTTP flood attacks might take the application offline.A solutions architect must design a solution to protect the application from this type of attack.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A gaming company is designing a highly available architecture.The application runs on a modified Linux kernel and supports only UDP-based traffic.The company needs the front-end tier to provide the best possible user experience.That tier must have low latency, route traffic to the nearest edge location, and provide static IP addresses for entry into the application endpoints.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is planning to build a high performance computing (HPC) workload as a service solution that is hosted on AWS.A group of 16 Amazon EC2 Linux instances requires the lowest possible latency for node-to-node communication.The instances also need a shared block device volume for high-performing storage.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to migrate its existing on-premises monolithic application to AWS.The company wants to keep as much of the front-end code and the backend code as possible.However, the company wants to break the application into smaller applications.A different team will manage each application.The company needs a highly scalable solution that minimizes operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a web application hosted over 10 Amazon EC2 instances with traffic directed by Amazon Route 53.The company occasionally experiences a timeout error when attempting to browse the application.The networking team finds that some DNS queries return IP addresses of unhealthy instances, resulting in the timeout error.What should a solutions architect implement to overcome these timeout errors?Read More →

A company recently started using Amazon Aurora as the data store for its global ecommerce application.When large reports are run, developers report that the ecommerce application is performing poorly.After reviewing metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, a solutions architect finds that the ReadIOPS and CPUUtilizalion metrics are spiking when monthly reports run.What is the MOST cost-effective solution?Read More →

A company has an AWS account used for software engineering.The AWS account has access to the company’s on-premises data center through a pair of AWSDirect Connect connections.All non-VPC traffic routes to the virtual private gateway.A development team recently created an AWS Lambda function through the console.The development team needs to allow the function to access a database that runs in a private subnet in the company’s data center.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company manages its own Amazon EC2 instances that run MySQL databases.The company is manually managing replication and scaling as demand increases or decreases.The company needs a new solution that simplifies the process of adding or removing compute capacity to or from its database tier as needed.The solution also must offer improved performance, scaling, and durability with minimal effort from operations.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →