Solutions Architect Associate (Page 38)

A solutions architect needs to design a highly available application consisting of web, application, and database tiers.HTTPS content delivery should be as close to the edge as possible, with the least delivery time.Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST secure?Read More →

A company has an application that collects data from IoT sensors on automobiles.The data is streamed and stored in Amazon S3 through Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose.The data produces trillions of S3 objects each year.Each morning, the company uses the data from the previous 30 days to retrain a suite of machine learning (ML) models.Four times each year, the company uses the data from the previous 12 months to perform analysis and train other ML models.The data must be available with minimal delay for up to 1 year.After 1 year, the data must be retained for archival purposes.Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is creating a new application that will store a large amount of data.The data will be analyzed hourly and will be modified by several Amazon EC2 Linux instances that are deployed across multiple Availability Zones.The needed amount of storage space will continue to grow for the next 6 months.Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company stores critical data in Amazon DynamoDB tables in the company’s AWS account.An IT administrator accidentally deleted a DynamoDB table.The deletion caused a significant loss of data and disrupted the company’s operations.The company wants to prevent this type of disruption in the future.Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company needs to provide its employees with secure access to confidential and sensitive files.The company wants to ensure that the files can be accessed only by authorized users.The files must be downloaded securely to the employees’ devices.The files are stored in an on-premises Windows file server.However, due to an increase in remote usage, the file server is running out of capacity..Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s data platform uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL database.The database has multiple read replicas and multiple DB instances across different Availability Zones.Users have recently reported errors from the database that indicate that there are too many connections.The company wants to reduce the failover time by 20% when a read replica is promoted to primary writer.Which solution will meet this requirement?Read More →

A company sets up an organization in AWS Organizations that contains 10 AWS accounts.A solutions architect must design a solution to provide access to the accounts for several thousand employees.The company has an existing identity provider (IdP).The company wants to use the existing IdP for authentication to AWS.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs a three-tier web application in the AWS Cloud that operates across three Availability Zones.The application architecture has an Application Load Balancer, an Amazon EC2 web server that hosts user session states, and a MySQL database that runs on an EC2 instance.The company expects sudden increases in application traffic.The company wants to be able to scale to meet future application capacity demands and to ensure high availability across all three Availability Zones.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to monitor its AWS costs for financial review.The cloud operations team is designing an architecture in the AWS Organizations management account to query AWS Cost and Usage Reports for all member accounts.The team must run this query once a month and provide a detailed analysis of the bill.Which solution is the MOST scalable and cost-effective way to meet these requirements?Read More →

An ecommerce company is building a distributed application that involves several serverless functions and AWS services to complete order-processing tasks.These tasks require manual approvals as part of the workflow.A solutions architect needs to design an architecture for the order-processing application.The solution must be able to combine multiple AWS Lambda functions into responsive serverless applications.The solution also must orchestrate data and services that run on Amazon EC2 instances, containers, or on-premises servers.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →