Solutions Architect Associate (Page 5)

A company is investigating potential solutions that would collect, process, and store users’ service usage data.The business objective is to create an analytics capability that will enable the company to gather operational insights quickly using standard SQL queries.The solution should be highly available and ensureAtomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (ACID) compliance in the data tier.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company has a large dataset for its online advertising business stored in an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in a single Availability Zone.The company wants business reporting queries to run without impacting the write operations to the production DB instance.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company recently launched its website to serve content to its global user base.The company wants to store and accelerate the delivery of static content to its users by leveraging Amazon CloudFront with an Amazon EC2 instance attached as its origin.How should a solutions architect optimize high availability for the application?Read More →

A company must migrate 20 TB of data from a data center to the AWS Cloud within 30 days.The company’s network bandwidth is limited to 15 Mbps and cannot exceed 70% utilization.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

An application running on an Amazon EC2 instance in VPC-A needs to access files in another EC2 instance in VPC-B.Both are in separate AWS accounts.The network administrator needs to design a solution to configure secure access to EC2 instance in VPC-B from VPC-A.The connectivity should not have a single point of failure or bandwidth concerns.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A security audit reveals that Amazon EC2 instances are not being patched regularly.A solutions architect needs to provide a solution that will run regular security scans across a large fleet of EC2 instances.The solution should also patch the EC2 instances on a regular schedule and provide a report of each instance’s patch status.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company currently stores symmetric encryption keys in a hardware security module (HSM).A solutions architect must design a solution to migrate key management to AWS.The solution should allow for key rotation and support the use of customer provided keys.Where should the key material be stored to 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 recent analysis of a company’s IT expenses highlights the need to reduce backup costs.The company’s chief information officer wants to simplify the on- premises backup infrastructure and reduce costs by eliminating the use of physical backup tapes.The company must preserve the existing investment in the on- premises backup applications and workflows.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company is migrating its multi-tier on-premises application to AWS.The application consists of a single-node MySQL database and a multi-node web tier.The company must minimize changes to the application during the migration.The company wants to improve application resiliency after the migration.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →