Solutions Architect Associate (Page 43)

A company is building a shopping application on AWS.The application offers a catalog that changes once each month and needs to scale with traffic volume.The company wants the lowest possible latency from the application.Data from each user’s shopping cart needs to be highly available.User session data must be available even if the user is disconnected and reconnects.What should a solutions architect do to ensure that the shopping cart data is preserved at all times?Read More →

A company is building a new dynamic ordering website.The company wants to minimize server maintenance and patching.The website must be highly available and must scale read and write capacity as quickly as possible to meet changes in user demand.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is deploying an application in three AWS Regions using an Application Load Balancer Amazon Route 53 will be used to distribute traffic between theseRegions.Which Route 53 configuration should a solutions architect use to provide the MOST high-performing experience?Read More →

A company has an AWS account used for software engineering.The AWS account has access to the company’s on-premises data center through a pair of AWS Direct Connect connections.All non-VPC traffic routes to the virtual private gateway.A development team recently created an AWS Lambda function through the console.The development team needs to allow the function to access a database that runs in a private subnet in the company’s data center.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts a marketing website in an on-premises data center.The website consists of static documents and runs on a single server.An administrator updates the website content infrequently and uses an SFTP client to upload new documents.The company decides to host its website on AWS and to use Amazon CloudFront.The company’s solutions architect creates a CloudFront distribution.The solutions architect must design the most cost-effective and resilient architecture for website hosting to serve as the CloudFront origin.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs an application using Amazon ECS.The application creates resized versions of an original image and then makes Amazon S3 API calls to store the resized images in Amazon S3.How can a solutions architect ensure that the application has permission to access Amazon S3?Read More →

A medical records company is hosting an application on Amazon EC2 instances.The application processes customer data files that are stored on Amazon S3.The EC2 instances are hosted in public subnets.The EC2 instances access Amazon S3 over the Internet, but they do not require any other network access.A new requirement mandates that the network traffic for file transfers take a private route and not be sent over the Internet.Which change to the network architecture should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company has developed a non-production application that is composed of multiple microservices for each of the company’s business units.A single development team maintains all the microservices.The current architecture uses a static web frontend and a Java-based backend that contains the application logic.The architecture also uses a MySQL database that the company hosts on an Amazon EC2 instance.The company needs to ensure that the application is secure and available globally.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company wants to reduce the cost of its existing three-tier web architecture.The web, application, and database servers are running on Amazon EC2 instances for the development, test, and production environments.The EC2 instances average 30% CPU utilization during peak hours and 10% CPU utilization during non- peak hours.The production EC2 instances run 24 hours a day.The development and test EC2 instances run for at least 8 hours each day.The company plans to implement automation to stop the development and test EC2 instances when they are not in use.Which EC2 instance purchasing solution will meet the company’s requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company runs a highly available SFTP service.The SFTP service uses two Amazon EC2 Linux instances that run with elastic IP addresses to accept traffic from trusted IP sources on the internet.The SFTP service is backed by shared storage that is attached to the instances.User accounts are created and managed as Linux users in the SFTP servers.The company wants a serverless option that provides high IOPS performance and highly configurable security.The company also wants to maintain control over user permissions.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →