Solutions Architect Associate (Page 56)

A solutions architect is helping a company design storage for a high performance computing (HPC) environment that is based on Amazon Linux.The workload stores and processes a large number of engineering drawings that require shared storage.The company needs a solution that can support hundreds of AmazonEC2 instances.The solution also must provide sub-millisecond latencies.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company runs an online marketplace web application on AWS.The application serves hundreds of thousands of users during peak hours.The company needs a scalable, near-real-time solution to share the details of millions of financial transactions with several other internal applications.Transactions also need to be processed to remove sensitive data before being stored in a document database for low-latency retrieval.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a popular gaming platform running on AWS.The application is sensitive to latency because latency can impact the user experience and introduce unfair advantages to some players.The application is deployed in every AWS Region.It runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are part of Auto Scaling groups configured behind Application Load Balancers (ALBs).A solutions architect needs to implement a mechanism to monitor the health of the application and redirect traffic to healthy endpoints.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts its multi-tier applications on AWS.For compliance, governance, auditing, and security, the company must track configuration changes on its AWS resources and record a history of API calls made to these resources.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is implementing a shared storage solution for a media application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud.The company needs to ability to use SMB clients to access data.The solution must be fully managed.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is preparing to launch a public-facing web application in the AWS Cloud.The architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances within a VPC behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB).A third-party service is used for the DNS.The company’s solutions architect must recommend a solution to detect and protect against large-scale DDoS attacks.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is developing a mobile game that streams score updates to a backend processor and then posts results on a leaderboard.A solutions architect needs to design a solution that can handle large traffic spikes, process the mobile game updates in order of receipt, and store the processed updates in a highly available database.The company also wants to minimize the management overhead required to maintain the solution.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company recently launched a variety of new workloads on Amazon EC2 instances in its AWS account.The company needs to create a strategy to access and administer the instances remotely and securely.The company needs to implement a repeatable process that works with native AWS services and follows the AWS Well-Architected Framework.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has created a multi-tier application for its ecommerce website.The website uses an Application Load Balancer that resides in the public subnets, a web tier in the public subnets, and a MySQL cluster hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in the private subnets.The MySQL database needs to retrieve product catalog and pricing information that is hosted on the internet by a third-party provider.A solutions architect must devise a strategy that maximizes security without increasing operational overhead.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is hosting a static website on Amazon S3 and is using Amazon Route 53 for DNS.The website is experiencing increased demand from around the world.The company must decrease latency for users who access the website.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →