Solutions Architect Associate (Page 44)

A company has a three-tier application on AWS that ingests sensor data from its users’ devices.The traffic flows through a Network Load Balancer (NLB), then toAmazon EC2 instances for the web tier, and finally to EC2 instances for the application tier.The application tier makes calls to a database.What should a solutions architect do to improve the security of the data in transit?Read More →

A company will migrate 10 PB of data to Amazon S3 in 6 weeks.The current data center has a 500 Mbps uplink to the internet.Other on-premises applications share the uplink.The company can use 80% of the internet bandwidth for this one-time migration task.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is planning to migrate its virtual server-based workloads to AWS.The company has internet-facing load balancers backed by application servers.The application servers rely on patches from an internet-hosted repository.Which services should a solutions architect recommend be hosted on the public subnet? (Choose two.)Read More →

A global ecommerce company runs its critical workloads on AWS.The workloads use an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance that is configured for a Multi-AZ deployment.Customers have reported application timeouts when the company undergoes database failovers.The company needs a resilient solution to reduce failover time.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has established a new AWS account.The account is newly provisioned and no changed have been made to the default settings.The company is concerned about the security of the AWS account root user.What should be done to secure the root user?Read More →

A company needs to design a hybrid network architecture.The company’s workloads are currently stored in the AWS Cloud and in on-premises data centers.The workloads require single-digit latencies to communicate.The company uses an AWS Transit Gateway transit gateway to connect multiple VPCs.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is using a tape backup solution to store its key application data offsite.The daily data volume is around 50 TB.The company needs to retain the backups for 7 years for regulatory purposes.The backups are rarely accessed, and a week’s notice is typically given if a backup needs to be restored.The company is now considering a cloud-based option to reduce the storage costs and operational burden of managing tapes.The company also wants to make sure that the transition from tape backups to the cloud minimizes disruptions.Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?Read More →

A company wants to replicate existing and ongoing data changes from an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle.The amount of data to replicate varies throughout each day.The company wants to use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) for data replication.The solution must allocate only the capacity that the replication instance requires.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company requires a durable backup storage solution for its on-premises database servers while ensuring on-premises applications maintain access to these backups for quick recovery.The company will use AWS storage services as the destination for these backups.A solutions architect is designing a solution with minimal operational overhead.Which solution should the solutions architect implement?Read More →

A retail company uses a regional Amazon API Gateway API for its public REST APIs.The API Gateway endpoint is a custom domain name that points to an Amazon Route 53 alias record.A solutions architect needs to create a solution that has minimal effects on customers and minimal data loss to release the new version of APIs.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →