Solutions Architect Associate (Page 44)

A company has released a new version of its production application.The company’s workload uses Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, and Amazon SageMaker.The company wants to cost optimize the workload now that usage is at a steady state.The company wants to cover the most services with the fewest savings plans.Which combination of savings plans will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A rapidly growing global ecommerce company is hosting its web application on AWS.The web application includes static content and dynamic content.The website stores online transaction processing (OLTP) data in an Amazon RDS database.The website’s users are experiencing slow page loads.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has deployed a web application on AWS.The company hosts the backend database on Amazon RDS for MySQL with a primary DB instance and five read replicas to support scaling needs.The read replicas must lag no more than 1 second behind the primary DB instance.The database routinely runs scheduled stored procedures.As traffic on the website increases, the replicas experience additional lag during periods of peak load.A solutions architect must reduce the replication lag as much as possible.The solutions architect must minimize changes to the application code and must minimize ongoing operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s application integrates with multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) sources for data collection.The company runs Amazon EC2 instances to receive the data and to upload the data to an Amazon S3 bucket for analysis.The same EC2 instance that receives and uploads the data also sends a notification to the user when an upload is complete.The company has noticed slow application performance and wants to improve the performance as much as possible.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?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 these Regions.Which Route 53 configuration should a solutions architect use to provide the MOST high-performing experience?Read More →

An ecommerce company stores terabytes of customer data in the AWS Cloud.The data contains personally identifiable information (PII).The company wants to use the data in three applications.Only one of the applications needs to process the PII.The PII must be removed before the other two applications process the data.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has deployed a multiplayer game for mobile devices.The game requires live location tracking of players based on latitude and longitude.The data store for the game must support rapid updates and retrieval of locations.The game uses an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance with read replicas to store the location data.During peak usage periods, the database is unable to maintain the performance that is needed for reading and writing updates.The game’s user base is increasing rapidly.What should a solutions architect do to improve the performance of the data tier?Read More →

A space shuttle company that hosts its services on AWS must log performance data for each launch attempt.Each launch produces millions of small pieces of data every second.The total amount of data is terabytes in size.When the data is produced, the company must process the data and make the data available forSQL queries.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company maintains about 300 TB in Amazon S3 Standard storage month after month.The S3 objects are each typically around 50 GB in size and are frequently replaced with multipart uploads by their global application.The number and size of S3 objects remain constant, but the company’s S3 storage costs are increasing each month.How should a solutions architect reduce costs in this situation?Read More →

A company built an application that lets users check in to places they visit, rank the places, and add reviews about their experiences.The application is successful with a rapid increase in the number of users every month.The chief technology officer fears the database supporting the current Infrastructure may not handle the new load the following month because the single AmazonRDS for MySQL instance has triggered alarms related to resource exhaustion due to read requests.What can a solutions architect recommend to prevent service Interruptions at the database layer with minimal changes to code?Read More →