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A research company uses on-premises devices to generate data for analysis.The company wants to use the AWS Cloud to analyze the data.The devices generate .csv files and support writing the data to an SMB file share.Company analysts must be able to use SQL commands to query the data.The analysts will run queries periodically throughout the day.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company has migrated a two-tier application from its on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud.The data tier is a Multi-AZ deployment of Amazon RDS for Oracle with 12 TB of General Purpose SSD Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage.The application is designed to process and store documents in the database as binary large objects (blobs) with an average document size of 6 MB.The database size has grown over time, reducing the performance and increasing the cost of storage.The company must improve the database performance and needs a solution that is highly available and resilient.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has an application with a REST-based interface that allows data to be received in near-real time from a third-party vendor.Once received, the application processes and stores the data for further analysis.The application is running on Amazon EC2 instances.The third-party vendor has received many 503 Service Unavailable Errors when sending data to the application.When the data volume spikes, the compute capacity reaches its maximum limit and the application is unable to process all requests.Which design should a solutions architect recommend to provide a more scalable solution?Read More →

A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet.The application needs to process sensitive information from an Amazon S3 bucket.The application must not use the internet to connect to the S3 bucket.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a security solution for a company that wants to provide developers with individual AWS accounts through AWS Organizations, while also maintaining standard security controls.Because the individual developers will have AWS account root user-level access to their own accounts, the solutions architect wants to ensure that the mandatory AWS CloudTrail configuration that is applied to new developer accounts is not modified.Which action meets these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts multiple applications on AWS for different product lines.The applications use different compute resources, including Amazon EC2 instances and Application Load Balancers.The applications run in different AWS accounts under the same organization in AWS Organizations across multiple AWS Regions.Teams for each product line have tagged each compute resource in the individual accounts.The company wants more details about the cost for each product line from the consolidated billing feature in Organizations.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to migrate two DNS servers to AWS.The servers host a total of approximately 200 zones and receive 1 million requests each day on average.The company wants to maximize availability while minimizing the operational overhead that is related to the management of the two servers.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company recently migrated its web application to the AWS Cloud.The company uses an Amazon EC2 instance to run multiple processes to host the application.The processes include an Apache web server that serves static content.The Apache web server makes requests to a PHP application that uses a local Redis server for user sessions.The company wants to redesign the architecture to be highly available and to use AWS managed solutions.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group that has a target group.The company designed the application to work with session affinity (sticky sessions) for a better user experience.The application must be available publicly over the internet as an endpoint.A WAF must be applied to the endpoint for additional security.Session affinity (sticky sessions) must be configured on the endpoint.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

An application allows users at a company’s headquarters to access product data.The product data is stored in an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance.The operations team has isolated an application performance slowdown and wants to separate read traffic from write traffic.A solutions architect needs to optimize the application’s performance quickly.What should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →