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A company runs a web service on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones.The company needs a minimum of four instances at all times to meet the required service level agreement (SLA) while keeping costs low.If an Availability Zone fails, how can the company remain compliant with the SLA?Read More →

A company has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains critical data.The company must protect the data from accidental deletion.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a two-tier web application.The application consists of a public-facing web tier hosted on Amazon EC2 in public subnets.The database tier consists of Microsoft SQL Server running on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet.Security is a high priority for the company.How should security groups be configured in this situation? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has a data ingestion workflow that consists of the following:• An Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for notifications about new data deliveries• An AWS Lambda function to process the data and record metadataThe company observes that the ingestion workflow fails occasionally because of network connectivity issues.When such a failure occurs, the Lambda function does not ingest the corresponding data unless the company manually reruns the job.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to ensure that the Lambda function ingests all data in the future? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company allows its developers to attach existing IAM policies to existing IAM roles to enable faster experimentation and agility.However, the security operations team is concerned that the developers could attach the existing administrator policy, which would allow the developers to circumvent any other security policies.How should a solutions architect address this issue?Read More →

A company has an application that provides marketing services to stores.The services are based on previous purchases by store customers.The stores upload transaction data to the company through SFTP, and the data is processed and analyzed to generate new marketing offers.Some of the files can exceed 200 GB in size.Recently, the company discovered that some of the stores have uploaded files that contain personally identifiable information (PII) that should not have been included.The company wants administrators to be alerted if PII is shared again.The company also wants to automate remediation.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?Read More →

A company runs an application on a group of Amazon Linux EC2 instances.For compliance reasons, the company must retain all application log files for 7 years.The log files will be analyzed by a reporting tool that must access all files concurrently.Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company needs guaranteed Amazon EC2 capacity in three specific Availability Zones in a specific AWS Region for an upcoming event that will last 1 week.What should the company do to guarantee the EC2 capacity?Read More →

A media streaming company collects real-time data and stores it in a disk-optimized database system.The company is not getting the expected throughput and wants an in-memory database storage solution that performs faster and provides high availability using data replication.Which database should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company’s website uses an Amazon EC2 instance store for its catalog of items.The company wants to make sure that the catalog is highly available and that the catalog is stored in a durable location.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →