Solutions Architect Associate (Page 48)

A company hosts an application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances.The application processes messages from an Amazon SQS queue, writes for an AmazonRDS table, and deletes -the message from the queue.Occasional duplicate records are found in the RDS table.The SQS queue does not contain any duplicate messages.What should a solutions architect do to ensure messages are being processed once only?Read More →

A company performs monthly maintenance on its AWS infrastructure.During these maintenance activities, the company needs to rotate the credentials for its Amazon RDS for MySQL databases across multiple AWS Regions.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company wants to migrate a Windows-based application from on premises to the AWS Cloud.The application has three tiers: an application tier, a business tier, and a database tier with Microsoft SQL Server.The company wants to use specific features of SQL Server such as native backups and Data Quality Services.The company also needs to share files for processing between the tiers.How should a solutions architect design the architecture to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs an ecommerce application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones.The Auto Scaling group scales based on CPU utilization metrics.The ecommerce application stores the transaction data in a MySQL 8.0 database that is hosted on a large EC2 instance.The database’s performance degrades quickly as application load increases.The application handles more read requests than write transactions.The company wants a solution that will automatically scale the database to meet the demand of unpredictable read workloads while maintaining high availability.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs a fleet of web servers using an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance.After a routine compliance check, the company sets a standard that requires a recovery point objective (RPO) of less than 1 second for all its production databases.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company recently migrated to AWS and wants to implement a solution to protect the traffic that flows in and out of the production VPC.The company had an inspection server in its on-premises data center.The inspection server performed specific operations such as traffic flow inspection and traffic filtering.The company wants to have the same functionalities in the AWS Cloud.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts its web application on AWS using seven Amazon EC2 instances.The company requires that the IP addresses of all healthy EC2 instances be returned in response to DNS queries.Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company hosts a data lake on AWS.The data lake consists of data in Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.The company needs a reporting solution that provides data visualization and includes all the data sources within the data lake.Only the company’s management team should have full access to all the visualizations.The rest of the company should have only limited access.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

What should a solutions architect do to ensure that all objects uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket are encrypted?Read More →

A company is implementing a new business application.The application runs on two Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon S3 bucket for document storage.A solutions architect needs to ensure that the EC2 instances can access the S3 bucket.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →