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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 →

A company has an on-premises business application that generates hundreds of files each day.These files are stored on an SMB file share and require a low- latency connection to the application servers.A new company policy states all application-generated files must be copied to AWS.There is already a VPN connection to AWS.The application development team does not have time to make the necessary code modifications to move the application to AWS.Which service should a solutions architect recommend to allow the application to copy files to AWS?Read More →

A company’s application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in multiple Availability Zones.The application needs to ingest real-time data from third-party applications.The company needs a data ingestion solution that places the ingested raw data in an Amazon S3 bucket.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company that operates a web application on premises is preparing to launch a newer version of the application on AWS.The company needs to route requests to either the AWS-hosted or the on-premises-hosted application based on the URL query string.The on-premises application is not available from the internet, and a VPN connection is established between Amazon VPC and the company’s data center.The company wants to use an Application Load Balancer (ALB) for this launch.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect runs a web application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances that are in individual target groups behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).Users can reach the application through a public website.The solutions architect wants to allow engineers to use a development version of the website to access one specific development EC2 instance to test new features for the application.The solutions architect wants to use an Amazon Route 53 hosted zone to give the engineers access to the development instance.The solution must automatically route to the development instance even if the development instance is replaced.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A media company has an application that tracks user clicks on its websites and performs analytics to provide near-real time recommendations. The application has a Heel of Amazon EC2 instances that receive data from the websites and send the data to an Amazon RDS DB instance. Another fleet of EC2 instances hosts the portion of the application that is continuously checking changes in the database and executing SQL queries to provide recommendations. Management has requested a redesign to decouple the infrastructure. The solution must ensure that data analysts are writing SQL to analyze the data only No data can the lost during the deployment.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company has a web application for travel ticketing.The application is based on a database that runs in a single data center in North America.The company wants to expand the application to serve a global user base.The company needs to deploy the application to multiple AWS Regions.Average latency must be less than 1 second on updates to the reservation database.The company wants to have separate deployments of its web platform across multiple Regions.However, the company must maintain a single primary reservation database that is globally consistent.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is preparing to store confidential data in Amazon S3.For compliance reasons, the data must be encrypted at rest.Encryption key usage must be logged for auditing purposes.Keys must be rotated every year.Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally efficient?Read More →