Solutions Architect Associate (Page 47)

A company sells ringtones created from clips of popular songs.The files containing the ringtones are stored in Amazon S3 Standard and are at least 128 KB in size.The company has millions of files, but downloads are infrequent for ringtones older than 90 days.The company needs to save money on storage while keeping the most accessed files readily available for its users.Which action should the company take to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company uses a three-tier web application to provide training to new employees.The application is accessed for only 12 hours every day.The company is using an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance to store information and wants to minimize costs.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to migrate its on-premises data center to AWS.According to the company’s compliance requirements, the company can use only the ap-northeast-3 Region.Company administrators are not permitted to connect VPCs to the internet.Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is migrating an application from on-premises servers to Amazon EC2 instances.As part of the migration design requirements, a solutions architect must implement infrastructure metric alarms.The company does not need to take action if CPU utilization increases to more than 50% for a short burst of time.However, if the CPU utilization increases to more than 50% and read IOPS on the disk are high at the same time, the company needs to act as soon as possible.The solutions architect also must reduce false alarms.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a service that produces event data.The company wants to use AWS to process the event data as it is received.The data is written in a specific order that must be maintained throughout processing.The company wants to implement a solution that minimizes operational overhead.How should a solutions architect accomplish this?Read More →

A company has a data ingestion workflow that includes the following components:An Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic that receives notifications about new data deliveriesAn AWS Lambda function that processes and stores the dataThe ingestion workflow occasionally fails because of network connectivity issues.When failure occurs, the corresponding data is not ingested unless the company manually reruns the job.What should a solutions architect do to ensure that all notifications are eventually processed?Read More →

A company needs to retain application log files for a critical application for 10 years.The application team regularly accesses logs from the past month for troubleshooting, but logs older than 1 month are rarely accessed.The application generates more than 10 TB of logs per month.Which storage option meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company runs a stateless web application in production on a group of Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The application experiences heavy usage during an 8-hour period each business day.Application usage is moderate and steady overnight.Application usage is low during weekends.The company wants to minimize its EC2 costs without affecting the availability of the application.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts a website analytics application on a single Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instance.The analytics software is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database.The analytics software, the web server that provides PHP, and the database server are all hosted on the EC2 instance.The application is showing signs of performance degradation during busy times and is presenting 5xx errors.The company needs to make the application scale seamlessly.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company runs an application on a large fleet of Amazon EC2 instances.The application reads and writes entries into an Amazon DynamoDB table.The size of the DynamoDB table continuously grows, but the application needs only data from the last 30 days.The company needs a solution that minimizes cost and development effort.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →