Solutions Architect Associate (Page 4)

A company has a multi-tier web application.The application’s internal service components are deployed on Amazon EC2 instances.The internal service components need to access third-party software as a service (SaaS) APIs that are hosted on AWS.The company needs to provide secure and private connectivity from the application’s internal services to the third-party SaaS application.The company needs to ensure that there is minimal public internet exposure.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company uses an Amazon DynamoDB table to store data that the company receives from devices.The DynamoDB table supports a customer-facing website to display recent activity on customer devices.The company configured the table with provisioned throughput for writes and reads.The company wants to calculate performance metrics for customer device data on a daily basis.The solution must have minimal effect on the table’s provisioned read and write capacity.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is designing a new internal web application in the AWS Cloud.The new application must securely retrieve and store multiple employee usernames and passwords from an AWS managed service.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company is designing a web application with an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB).The company needs the ALB to receive HTTPS web traffic from the public internet.The ALB must send only HTTPS traffic to the web application servers hosted on the Amazon EC2 instances on port 443.The ALB must perform a health check of the web application servers over HTTPS on port 8443.Which combination of configurations of the security group that is associated with the ALB will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company is migrating its on-premises Oracle database to an Amazon RDS for Oracle database.The company needs to retain data for 90 days to meet regulatory requirements.The company must also be able to restore the database to a specific point in time for up to 14 days.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company runs an on-premises application on a Kubernetes cluster.The company recently added millions of new customers.The company’s existing on-premises infrastructure is unable to handle the large number of new customers.The company needs to migrate the on-premises application to the AWS Cloud.The company will migrate to an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster.The company does not want to manage the underlying compute infrastructure for the new architecture on AWS.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company runs a website that uses a content management system (CMS) on Amazon EC2.The CMS runs on a single EC2 instance and uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance for the data tier.Website images are stored on an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume that is mounted inside the EC2 instance.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to improve the performance and resilience of the website? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company recently launched a new application for its customers.The application runs on multiple Amazon EC2 instances across two Availability Zones.End users use TCP to communicate with the application.The application must be highly available and must automatically scale as the number of users increases.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company hosts its core network services, including directory services and DNS, in its on-premises data center.The data center is connected to the AWS Cloud using AWS Direct Connect (DX).Additional AWS accounts are planned that will require quick, cost-effective, and consistent access to these network services.What should a solutions architect implement to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

A company is creating a prototype of an ecommerce website on AWS.The website consists of an Application Load Balancer, an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances for web servers, and an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance that runs with the Single-AZ configuration.The website is slow to respond during searches of the product catalog.The product catalog is a group of tables in the MySQL database that the company does not update frequently.A solutions architect has determined that the CPU utilization on the DB instance is high when product catalog searches occur.What should the solutions architect recommend to improve the performance of the website during searches of the product catalog?Read More →