Solutions Architect Associate (Page 39)

A company is running a multi-tier web application on AWS.The application runs its database tier on Amazon Aurora MySQL.The application and database tiers are in the us-east-1 Region.A database administrator who regularly monitors the Aurora DB cluster finds that an intermittent increase in read traffic is creating high CPUutilization on the read replica and causing increased read latency of the application.What should a solutions architect do to improve read scalability?Read More →

A company is expecting rapid growth in the near future.A solutions architect needs to configure existing users and grant permissions to new users on AWS.The solutions architect has decided to create IAM groups.The solutions architect will add the new users to IAM groups based on department.Which additional action is the MOST secure way to grant permissions to the new users?Read More →

A company has two VPCs that are located in the us-west-2 Region within the same AWS account.The company needs to allow network traffic between theseVPCs.Approximately 500 GB of data transfer will occur between the VPCs each month.What is the MOST cost-effective solution to connect these VPCs?Read More →

A company has applications hosted on Amazon EC2 instances with IPv6 addresses.The applications must initiate communications with other external applications using the internet.However the company’s security policy states that any external service cannot initiate a connection to the EC2 instances.What should a solutions architect recommend to resolve this issue?Read More →

A company operates a two-tier application for image processing.The application uses two Availability Zones, each with one public subnet and one private subnet.An Application Load Balancer (ALB) for the web tier uses the public subnets.Amazon EC2 instances for the application tier use the private subnets.Users report that the application is running more slowly than expected.A security audit of the web server log files shows that the application is receiving millions of illegitimate requests from a small number of IP addresses.A solutions architect needs to resolve the immediate performance problem while the company investigates a more permanent solution.What should the solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company is developing a microservices application that will provide a search catalog for customers.The company must use REST APIs to present the frontend of the application to users.The REST APIs must access the backend services that the company hosts in containers in private VPC subnets.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company uses Amazon S3 to store its confidential audit documents.The S3 bucket uses bucket policies to restrict access to audit team IAM user credentials according to the principle of least privilege.Company managers are worried about accidental deletion of documents in the S3 bucket and want a more secure solution.What should a solutions architect do to secure the audit documents?Read More →

A company has a stateless web application that runs on AWS Lambda functions that are invoked by Amazon API Gateway.The company wants to deploy the application across multiple AWS Regions to provide Regional failover capabilities.What should a solutions architect do to route traffic to multiple Regions?Read More →

An ecommerce company needs to run a scheduled daily job to aggregate and filter sales records for analytics.The company stores the sales records in anAmazon S3 bucket.Each object can be up to 10 GB in size.Based on the number of sales events, the job can take up to an hour to complete.The CPU and memory usage of the job are constant and are known in advance.A solutions architect needs to minimize the amount of operational effort that is needed for the job to run.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company runs multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances in a VPC across two Availability Zones.The instances host applications that use a hierarchical directory structure.The applications need to read and write rapidly and concurrently to shared storage.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →