Solutions Architect Associate (Page 53)

A user owns a MySQL database that is accessed by various clients who expect, at most, 100 ms latency on requests.Once a record is stored in the database, it is rarely changed.Clients only access one record at a time.Database access has been increasing exponentially due to increased client demand.The resultant load will soon exceed the capacity of the most expensive hardware available for purchase.The user wants to migrate to AWS, and is willing to change database systems.Which service would alleviate the database load issue and offer virtually unlimited scalability for the future?Read More →

A company stores user data in AWS.The data is used continuously with peak usage during business hours.Access patterns vary, with some data not being used for months at a time.A solutions architect must choose a cost-effective solution that maintains the highest level of durability while maintaining high availability.Which storage solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is building a web-based application running on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones.The web application will provide access to a repository of text documents totaling about 900 TB in size.The company anticipates that the web application will experience periods of high demand.A solutions architect must ensure that the storage component for the text documents can scale to meet the demand of the application at all times.The company is concerned about the overall cost of the solution.Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is developing machine learning (ML) models on AWS.The company is developing the ML models as independent microservices.The microservices fetch approximately 1 GB of model data from Amazon S3 at startup and load the data into memory.Users access the ML models through an asynchronous API.Users can send a request or a batch of requests.The company provides the ML models to hundreds of users.The usage patterns for the models are irregular.Some models are not used for days or weeks.Other models receive batches of thousands of requests at a time.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has three AWS accounts: Management, Development, and Production.These accounts use AWS services only in the us-east-1 Region.All accounts have a VPC with VPC Flow Logs configured to publish data to an Amazon S3 bucket in each separate account.For compliance reasons, the company needs an ongoing method to aggregate all the VPC flow logs across all accounts into one destination S3 bucket in the Management account.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company wants to analyze and generate reports to track the usage of its mobile app. The app is popular and has a global user base. The company uses a custom report building program to analyze application usage.The program generates multiple reports during the last week of each month. The program takes less than 10 minutes to produce each report. The company rarely uses the program to generate reports outside of the last week of each month The company wants to generate reports in the least amount of time when the reports are requested.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has multiple Windows file servers on premises.The company wants to migrate and consolidate its files into an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system.File permissions must be preserved to ensure that access rights do not change.Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect needs to optimize storage costs.The solutions architect must identify any Amazon S3 buckets that are no longer being accessed or are rarely accessed.Which solution will accomplish this goal with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has an application workflow that uses an AWS Lambda function to download and decrypt files from Amazon S3.These files are encrypted using AWSKey Management Service (AWS KMS) keys.A solutions architect needs to design a solution that will ensure the required permissions are set correctly.Which combination of actions accomplish this? (Choose two.)Read More →

A university research laboratory needs to migrate 30 TB of data from an on-premises Windows file server to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server.The laboratory has a 1 Gbps network link that many other departments in the university share.The laboratory wants to implement a data migration service that will maximize the performance of the data transfer.However, the laboratory needs to be able to control the amount of bandwidth that the service uses to minimize the impact on other departments.The data migration must take place within the next 5 days.Which AWS solution will meet these requirements?Read More →