Solutions Architect Associate (Page 35)

A company recently migrated its entire IT environment to the AWS Cloud.The company discovers that users are provisioning oversized Amazon EC2 instances and modifying security group rules without using the appropriate change control process.A solutions architect must devise a strategy to track and audit these inventory and configuration changes.Which actions should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is running a publicly accessible serverless application that uses Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda.The application’s traffic recently spiked due to fraudulent requests from botnets.Which steps should a solutions architect take to block requests from unauthorized users? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to build a data lake on AWS from data that is stored in an on-premises Oracle relational database.The data lake must receive ongoing updates from the on-premises database.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

An ecommerce company hosts its analytics application in the AWS Cloud.The application generates about 300 MB of data each month.The data is stored in JSON format.The company is evaluating a disaster recovery solution to back up the data.The data must be accessible in milliseconds if it is needed, and the data must be kept for 30 days.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is running a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group.The application uses a database that runs on an Amazon RDS forPostgreSQL DB instance.The application performs slowly as traffic increases, and the database experiences a heavy read load during periods of high traffic.Which actions should a solutions architect take to resolve these performance issues? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has a small Python application that processes JSON documents and outputs the results to an on-premises SQL database.The application runs thousands of times each day.The company wants to move the application to the AWS Cloud.The company needs a highly available solution that maximizes scalability and minimizes operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect must design a highly available infrastructure for a website.The website is powered by Windows web servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances.The solutions architect must implement a solution that can mitigate a large-scale DDoS attack that originates from thousands of IP addresses.Downtime is not acceptable for the website.Which actions should the solutions architect take to protect the website from such an attack? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to use high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure on AWS for financial risk modeling.The company’s HPC workloads run on Linux.Each HPC workflow runs on hundreds of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, is short-lived, and generates thousands of output files that are ultimately stored in persistent storage for analytics and long-term future use.The company seeks a cloud storage solution that permits the copying of on-premises data to long-term persistent storage to make data available for processing by all EC2 instances.The solution should also be a high performance file system that is integrated with persistent storage to read and write datasets and output files.Which combination of AWS services meets these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is investigating AWS file storage solutions that can be used with a company’s on-premises Linux servers and applications.The company has an existing VPN connection set up between the company’s VPC and its on-premises network.Which AWS services should the solutions architect use? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is building a containerized application on premises and decides to move the application to AWS.The application will have thousands of users soon after it is deployed.The company is unsure how to manage the deployment of containers at scale.The company needs to deploy the containerized application in a highly available architecture that minimizes operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →