Solutions Architect Associate (Page 49)

An ecommerce company has an order-processing application that uses Amazon API Gateway and an AWS Lambda function.The application stores data in anAmazon Aurora PostgreSQL database.During a recent sales event, a sudden surge in customer orders occurred.Some customers experienced timeouts, and the application did not process the orders of those customers.A solutions architect determined that the CPU utilization and memory utilization were high on the database because of a large number of open connections.The solutions architect needs to prevent the timeout errors while making the least possible changes to the application.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company needs a secure connection between its on-premises environment and AWS.This connection does not need high bandwidth and will handle a small amount of traffic.The connection should be set up quickly.What is the MOST cost-effective method to establish this type of connection?Read More →

A company is testing an application that runs on an Amazon EC2 Linux instance.The instance contains a data volume of 500 GB that consists of a single AmazonElastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) General Purpose SSD (gp2) volume.The application is now ready for production use and will be installed on multiple EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group.All instances need access to the data that was stored on the 500 GB volume.The company needs a highly available and fault-tolerant solution that does not introduce any significant changes to the application’s code.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A large international university has deployed all of its compute services in the AWS Cloud.These services include Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon DynamoDB.The university currently relies on many custom scripts to back up its infrastructure.However, the university wants to centralize management and automate data backups as much as possible by using AWS native options.Which solution will meet 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 runs its application on Oracle Database Enterprise Edition.The company needs to migrate the application and the database to AWS.The company can use the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model while migrating to AWS.The application uses third-party database features that require privileged access.A solutions architect must design a solution for the database migration.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A solutions architect is tasked with transferring 750 TB of data from a network-attached file system located at a branch office to Amazon S3 Glacier.The solution must avoid saturating the branch office’s low-bandwidth internet connection.What is the MOST cost-effective solution?Read More →

A company uses Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases for its data tier.The company must implement password rotation for the databases.Which solution meets this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company wants its public web application to run on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The application must use a publicly trusted SSL certificate.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A solutions architect is creating an application.The application will run on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets across multiple Availability Zones in a VPC.The EC2 instances will frequently access large files that contain confidential information.These files are stored in Amazon S3 buckets for processing.The solutions architect must optimize the network architecture to minimize data transfer costs.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →