Solutions Architect Associate (Page 4)

A company has a Microsoft .NET application that runs on an on-premises Windows Server.The application stores data by using an Oracle Database StandardEdition server.The company is planning a migration to AWS and wants to minimize development changes while moving the application.The AWS application environment should be highly available.Which combination of actions should the company take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company runs an application on an Amazon EC2 instance backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).The instance needs to be available for 12 hours daily.The company wants to save costs by making the instance unavailable outside the window required for the application.However, the contents of the instance’s memory must be preserved whenever the instance is unavailable.What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a solution that requires frequent updates to a website that is hosted on Amazon S3 with versioning enabled.For compliance reasons, the older versions of the objects will not be accessed frequently and will need to be deleted after 2 years.What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements at the LOWEST cost?Read More →

A company has a multi-tier application deployed on several Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group.An Amazon RDS for Oracle instance is the application’s data layer that uses Oracle-specific PL/SQL functions.Traffic to the application has been steadily increasing.This is causing the EC2 instances to become overloaded and the RDS instance to run out of storage.The Auto Scaling group does not have any scaling metrics and defines the minimum healthy instance count only.The company predicts that traffic will continue to increase at a steady but unpredictable rate before leveling off.What should a solutions architect do to ensure the system can automatically scale for the increased traffic? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to run a gaming application on Amazon EC2 instances that are part of an Auto Seating group in the AWS Cloud.The application will transmit data by using UDP packets.The company wants to ensure that the application can scale out and in as traffic increases and decreases.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a 143 TB MySQL database that it wants to migrate to AWS.The plan is to use Amazon Aurora MySQL as the platform going forward.The company has a 100 Mbps AWS Direct Connect connection to Amazon VPC.Which solution meets the company’s needs and takes the LEAST amount of time?Read More →

A company is planning to transfer multiple terabytes of data to AWS.The data is collected offline from ships.The company want to run complex transformation before transferring the data.Which AWS service should a solutions architect recommend for this migration?Read More →

A company wants to improve the availability and performance of its stateless UDP-based workload.The workload is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple AWS Regions.What should a solutions architect recommend to accomplish this?Read More →

A company is deploying a two-tier web application in a VPC.The web tier is using an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with public subnets that span multipleAvailability Zones.The database tier consists of Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in separate private subnets.The web tier requires access to the database to retrieve product information.The web application is not working as intended.The web application reports that it cannot connect to the database.The database is confirmed to be up and running.All configurations for the network ACLs, security groups, and route tables are still in their default states.What should a solutions architect recommend to fix the application?Read More →

A company hosts its multi-tier, public web application in the AWS Cloud.The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances, and its database runs on AmazonRDS.The company is anticipating a large increase in sales during an upcoming holiday weekend.A solutions architect needs to build a solution to analyze the performance of the web application with a granularity of no more than 2 minutes.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →