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A company needs to retain its AWS CloudTrail logs for 3 years.The company is enforcing CloudTrail across a set of AWS accounts by using AWS Organizations from the parent account.The CloudTrail target S3 bucket is configured with S3 Versioning enabled.An S3 Lifecycle policy is in place to delete current objects after 3 years.After the fourth year of use of the S3 bucket, the S3 bucket metrics show that the number of objects has continued to rise.However, the number of new CloudTrail logs that are delivered to the S3 bucket has remained consistent.Which solution will delete objects that are older than 3 years in the MOST cost-effective manner?Read More →

A company collects data from thousands of remote devices by using a RESTful web services application that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance.The EC2 instance receives the raw data, transforms the raw data, and stores all the data in an Amazon S3 bucket.The number of remote devices will increase into the millions soon.The company needs a highly scalable solution that minimizes operational overhead.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A media company collects and analyzes user activity data on premises.The company wants to migrate this capability to AWS.The user activity data store will continue to grow and will be petabytes in size.The company needs to build a highly available data ingestion solution that facilitates on-demand analytics of existing data and new data with SQL.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company recently migrated its web application to AWS by rehosting the application on Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region.The company wants to redesign its application architecture to be highly available and fault tolerant.Traffic must reach all running EC2 instances randomly.Which combination of steps should the company take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has deployed a Java Spring Boot application as a pod that runs on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in private subnets.The application needs to write data to an Amazon DynamoDB table.A solutions architect must ensure that the application can interact with the DynamoDB table without exposing traffic to the internet.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to accomplish this goal? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has hired an external vendor to perform work in the company’s AWS account.The vendor uses an automated tool that is hosted in an AWS account that the vendor owns.The vendor does not have IAM access to the company’s AWS account.How should a solutions architect grant this access to the vendor?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 be able to access all the files concurrently.Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a new API using Amazon API Gateway that will receive requests from users.The volume of requests is highly variable; several hours can pass without receiving a single request.The data processing will take place asynchronously, but should be completed within a few seconds after a request is made.Which compute service should the solutions architect have the API invoke to deliver the requirements at the lowest cost?Read More →

A company’s application is having performance issues.The application is stateful and needs to complete in-memory tasks on Amazon EC2 instances.The company used AWS CloudFormation to deploy infrastructure and used the M5 EC2 instance family.As traffic increased, the application performance degraded.Users are reporting delays when the users attempt to access the application.Which solution will resolve these issues in the MOST operationally efficient way?Read More →

A company needs to migrate a legacy application from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud because of hardware capacity constraints.The application runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.The application’s database storage continues to grow over time.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →