Solutions Architect Associate (Page 55)

A company hosts its application in the AWS Cloud.The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group and with an Amazon DynamoDB table.The company wants to ensure the application can be made available in another AWS Region with minimal downtime.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of downtime?Read More →

A company recently performed a lift and shift migration of its on-premises Oracle database workload to run on an Amazon EC2 memory optimized Linux instance.The EC2 Linux instance uses a 1 TB Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) EBS volume with 64,000 IOPS.The database storage performance after the migration is slower than the performance of the on-premises database.Which solution will improve storage performance?Read More →

A company’s facility has badge readers at every entrance throughout the building.When badges are scanned, the readers send a message over HTTPS to indicate who attempted to access that particular entrance.A solutions architect must design a system to process these messages from the sensors.The solution must be highly available, and the results must be made available for the company’s security team to analyze.Which system architecture should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company hosts an application on Amazon EC2 instances that run in a single Availability Zone.The application is accessible by using the transport layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model.The company needs the application architecture to have high availability.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect needs to design the architecture for an application that a vendor provides as a Docker container image.The container needs 50 GB of storage available for temporary files.The infrastructure must be serverless.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company runs an internal browser-based application.The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones.The Auto Scaling group scales up to 20 instances during work hours, but scales down to 2 instances overnight.Staff are complaining that the application is very slow when the day begins, although it runs well by mid-morning.How should the scaling be changed to address the staff complaints and keep costs to a minimum?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new application that is being deployed on AWS.The application’s users will interactively download and upload files.Files that are more than 90 days old will be accessed less frequently than newer files, but all files need to be instantly available.The solutions architect must ensure that the application can scale to store petabytes of data with maximum durability.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company that hosts its web application on AWS wants to ensure all Amazon EC2 instances.Amazon RDS DB instances.and Amazon Redshift clusters are configured with tags.The company wants to minimize the effort of configuring and operating this check.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?Read More →

A company is deploying an application that processes large quantities of data in parallel.The company plans to use Amazon EC2 instances for the workload.The network architecture must be configurable to prevent groups of nodes from sharing the same underlying hardware.Which networking solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A development team needs to host a website that will be accessed by other teams.The website contents consist of HTML, CSS, client-side JavaScript, and images.Which method is the MOST cost-effective for hosting the website?Read More →