Solutions Architect Associate (Page 39)

An Amazon EC2 instance is located in a private subnet in a new VPC.This subnet does not have outbound internet access, but the EC2 instance needs the ability to download monthly security updates from an outside vendor.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is building a three-tier application on AWS. The presentation tier will serve a static website The logic tier is a containerized application. This application will store data in a relational database. The company wants to simplify deployment and to reduce operational costs.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company requires that all versions of objects in its Amazon S3 bucket be retained.Current object versions will be frequently accessed during the first 30 days, after which they will be rarely accessed and must be retrievable within 5 minutes.Previous object versions need to be kept forever, will be rarely accessed, and can be retrieved within 1 week.All storage solutions must be highly available and highly durable.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective manner?Read More →

A company uses an Amazon S3 bucket as its data lake storage platform.The S3 bucket contains a massive amount of data that is accessed randomly by multiple teams and hundreds of applications.The company wants to reduce the S3 storage costs and provide immediate availability for frequently accessed objects.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is building a web application that serves a content management system.The content management system runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind anApplication Load Balancer (ALB).The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones.Users are constantly adding and updating files, blogs, and other website assets in the content management system.A solutions architect must implement a solution in which all the EC2 instances share up-to-date website content with the least possible lag time.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance.The application uses a MySQL database that runs on the same EC2 instance.The company needs a highly available and automatically scalable solution to handle increased traffic.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is using Amazon Redshift for analytics and to generate customer reports.The company recently acquired 50 TB of additional customer demographic data.The data is stored in .csv files in Amazon S3.The company needs a solution that joins the data and visualizes the results with the least possible cost and effort.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company recently migrated its application to AWS.The application runs on Amazon EC2 Linux instances in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones.The application stores data in an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system that uses EFS Standard-Infrequent Access storage.The application indexes the company’s files.The index is stored in an Amazon RDS database.The company needs to optimize storage costs with some application and services changes.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company wants to reduce its Amazon S3 storage costs in its production environment without impacting durability or performance of the stored objects.What is the FIRST step the company should take to meet these objectives?Read More →

A company uses Salesforce.The company needs to load existing data and ongoing data changes from Salesforce to Amazon Redshift for analysis.The company does not want the data to travel over the public internet.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?Read More →