Solutions Architect Associate (Page 55)

A company is hosting a three-tier ecommerce application in the AWS Cloud.The company hosts the website on Amazon S3 and integrates the website with anAPI that handles sales requests.The company hosts the API on three Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The API consists of static and dynamic front-end content along with backend workers that process sales requests asynchronously.The company is expecting a significant and sudden increase in the number of sales requests during events for the launch of new products.What should a solutions architect recommend to ensure that all the requests are processed successfully?Read More →

A company wants to migrate an on-premises legacy application to AWS.The application ingests customer order files from an on-premises enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.The application then uploads the files to an SFTP server.The application uses a scheduled job that checks for order files every hour.The company already has an AWS account that has connectivity to the on-premises network.The new application on AWS must support integration with the existing ERP system.The new application must be secure and resilient and must use the SFTP protocol to process orders from the ERP system immediately.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is running several business applications in three separate VPCs within the us-east-1 Region.The applications must be able to communicate betweenVPCs.The applications also must be able to consistently send hundreds of gigabytes of data each day to a latency-sensitive application that runs in a single on- premises data center.A solutions architect needs to design a network connectivity solution that maximizes cost-effectiveness.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company runs a highly available web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The company uses Amazon CloudWatch metrics.As the traffic to the web application increases, some EC2 instances become overloaded with many outstanding requests.The CloudWatch metrics show that the number of requests processed and the time to receive the responses from some EC2 instances are both higher compared to other EC2 instances.The company does not want new requests to be forwarded to the EC2 instances that are already overloaded.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has several web servers that need to frequently access a common Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance.The company wants a secure method for the web servers to connect to the database while meeting a security requirement to rotate user credentials frequently.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is running a photo hosting service in the us-east-1 Region.The service enables users across multiple countries to upload and view photos.Some photos are heavily viewed for months, and others are viewed for less than a week.The application allows uploads of up to 20 MB for each photo.The service uses the photo metadata to determine which photos to display to each user.Which solution provides the appropriate user access MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is developing a video conversion application hosted on AWS.The application will be available in two tiers: a free tier and a paid tier.Users in the paid tier will have their videos converted first, and then the tree tier users will have their videos converted.Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing the storage architecture for a new web application used for storing and viewing engineering drawings.All application components will be deployed on the AWS infrastructure.The application design must support caching to minimize the amount of time that users wait for the engineering drawings to load.The application must be able to store petabytes of data.Which combination of storage and caching should the solutions architect use?Read More →

A company has an application that uses Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to store data.The files are 1 GB in size or larger and are accessed often only for the first few days after creation.The application data is shared across a cluster of Linux servers.The company wants to reduce storage costs tor the application.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

An ecommerce company runs its application on AWS.The application uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL cluster in Multi-AZ mode for the underlying database.During a recent promotional campaign, the application experienced heavy read load and write load.Users experienced timeout issues when they attempted to access the application.A solutions architect needs to make the application architecture more scalable and highly available.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST downtime?Read More →