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A company has on-premises application that generates a large amount of time-sensitive data that is backed up to Amazon S3.The application has grown and there are user complaints about internet bandwidth limitations.A solutions architect needs to design a long-term solution that allows for both timely backups toAmazon S3 and with minimal impact on internet connectivity for internal users.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company’s infrastructure consists of Amazon EC2 instances and an Amazon RDS DB instance in a single AWS Region.The company wants to back up its data in a separate Region.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company collects data for temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure in cities across multiple continents.The average volume of data that the company collects from each site daily is 500 GB.Each site has a high-speed internet connection.The company wants to aggregate the data from all these global sites as quickly as possible in a single Amazon S3 bucket.The solution must minimize operational complexity.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to securely store a database user name and password that an application uses to access an Amazon RDS DB instance.The application that accesses the database runs on an Amazon EC2 instance.The solutions architect wants to create a secure parameter in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company is backing up on-premises databases to local file server shares using the SMB protocol.The company requires immediate access to 1 week of backup files to meet recovery objectives.Recovery after a week is less likely to occur, and the company can tolerate a delay in accessing those older backup files.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?Read More →

A company is designing a cloud communications platform that is driven by APIs.The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB).The company uses Amazon API Gateway to provide external users with access to the application through APIs.The company wants to protect the platform against web exploits like SQL injection and also wants to detect and mitigate large, sophisticated DDoS attacks.Which combination of solutions provides the MOST protection? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is running a photo hosting service in the us-east-1 Region.The service enables users across multiple countries to upload and view photos.Some photos are heavily viewed for months, and others are viewed for less than a week.The application allows uploads of up to 20 MB for each photo.The service uses the photo metadata to determine which photos to display to each user.Which solution provides the appropriate user access MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has a legacy data processing application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances.Data is processed sequentially, but the order of results does not matter.The application uses a monolithic architecture.The only way that the company can scale the application to meet increased demand is to increase the size of the instances.The company’s developers have decided to rewrite the application to use a microservices architecture on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).What should a solutions architect recommend for communication between the microservices?Read More →

A gaming company wants to launch a new internet-facing application in multiple AWS Regions.The application will use the TCP and UDP protocols for communication.The company needs to provide high availability and minimum latency for global users.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to migrate its MySQL database from on premises to AWS.The company recently experienced a database outage that significantly impacted the business.To ensure this does not happen again, the company wants a reliable database solution on AWS that minimizes data loss and stores every transaction on at least two nodes.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →