Solutions Architect Associate (Page 44)

A solutions architect is designing a three-tier web application.The architecture consists of an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB) and a web tier that is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets.The application tier with the business logic runs on EC2 instances in private subnets.The database tier consists of Microsoft SQL Server that runs on EC2 instances in private subnets.Security is a high priority for the company.Which combination of security group configurations should the solutions architect use? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company uses a Microsoft SQL Server database.The company’s applications are connected to the database.The company wants to migrate to an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database with minimal changes to the application code.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company stores data in PDF format in an Amazon S3 bucket.The company must follow a legal requirement to retain all new and existing data in Amazon S3 for 7 years.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A retail company has several businesses.The IT team for each business manages its own AWS account.Each team account is part of an organization in AWS Organizations.Each team monitors its product inventory levels in an Amazon DynamoDB table in the team’s own AWS account.The company is deploying a central inventory reporting application into a shared AWS account.The application must be able to read items from all the teams’ DynamoDB tables.Which authentication option will meet these requirements MOST securely?Read More →

A company uses Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to run a container application.The EKS cluster stores sensitive information in the Kubernetes secrets object.The company wants to ensure that the information is encrypted.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company wants to use Amazon FSx for Windows File Server for its Amazon EC2 instances that have an SMB file share mounted as a volume in the us-east-1 Region.The company has a recovery point objective (RPO) of 5 minutes for planned system maintenance or unplanned service disruptions.The company needs to replicate the file system to the us-west-2 Region.The replicated data must not be deleted by any user for 5 years.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company stores its data on premises.The amount of data is growing beyond the company’s available capacity.The company wants to migrate its data from the on-premises location to an Amazon S3 bucket.The company needs a solution that will automatically validate the integrity of the data after the transfer.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is creating a data processing job that runs once daily and can take up to 2 hours to complete.If the job is interrupted, it has to restart from the beginning.How should the solutions architect address this issue in the MOST cost-effective manner?Read More →

A company uses Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP in its primary AWS Region for CIFS and NFS file shares.Applications that run on Amazon EC2 instances access the file shares.The company needs a storage disaster recovery (DR) solution in a secondary Region.The data that is replicated in the secondary Region needs to be accessed by using the same protocols as the primary Region.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company is deploying a new public web application to AWS.The application will run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The application needs to be encrypted at the edge with an SSL/TLS certificate that is issued by an external certificate authority (CA).The certificate must be rotated each year before the certificate expires.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →