Solutions Architect Associate (Page 54)

An ecommerce website is deploying its web application as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) container instances behind an Application LoadBalancer (ALB).During periods of high activity, the website slows down and availability is reduced.A solutions architect uses Amazon CloudWatch alarms to receive notifications whenever there is an availability issue so they can scale out resources.Company management wants a solution that automatically responds to such events.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to deploy its containerized application workloads to a VPC across three Availability Zones.The company needs a solution that is highly available across Availability Zones.The solution must require minimal changes to the application.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

The financial application at a company stores monthly reports in an Amazon S3 bucket.The vice president of finance has mandated that all access to these reports be logged and that any modifications to the log files be detected.Which actions can a solutions architect take to meet these requirements?Read More →

An ecommerce company is preparing to deploy a web application on AWS to ensure continuous service for customers.The architecture includes a web application that the company hosts on Amazon EC2 instances, a relational database in Amazon RDS, and static assets that the company stores in Amazon S3.The company wants to design a robust and resilient architecture for the application.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is using a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances to ingest data from on-premises data sources.The data is in JSON format and ingestion rates can be as high as 1 MB/s.When an EC2 instance is rebooted, the data in-flight is lost.The company’s data science team wants to query ingested data in near-real time.Which solution provides near-real-time data querying that is scalable with minimal data loss?Read More →

A company has multiple Microsoft Windows SMB file servers and Linux NFS file servers for file sharing in an on-premises environment.As part of the company’s AWS migration plan, the company wants to consolidate the file servers in the AWS Cloud.The company needs a managed AWS storage service that supports both NFS and SMB access.The solution must be able to share between protocols.The solution must have redundancy at the Availability Zone level.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to migrate its MySQL database from on premises to AWS.The company recently experienced a database outage that significantly impacted the business.To ensure this does not happen again, the company wants a reliable database solution on AWS that minimizes data loss and stores every transaction on at least two nodes.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts a video streaming web application in a VPC.The company uses a Network Load Balancer (NLB) to handle TCP traffic for real-time data processing.There have been unauthorized attempts to access the application.The company wants to improve application security with minimal architectural change to prevent unauthorized attempts to access the application.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to design a solution that retrieves data every 2 minutes from a third-party web service that is accessible through the internet.A Python script runs the data retrieval in less than 100 milliseconds for each retrieval.The response is a JSON object that contains sensor data that is less than 1 KB in size.The solutions architect needs to store the JSON object along with the timestamp.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is designing an application on AWS that processes sensitive data.The application stores and processes financial data for multiple customers.To meet compliance requirements, the data for each customer must be encrypted separately at rest by using a secure, centralized key management solution.The company wants to use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to implement encryption.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →