Solutions Architect Associate (Page 57)

A company copies 200 TB of data from a recent ocean survey onto AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices.The company has a high performance computing (HPC) cluster that is hosted on AWS to look for oil and gas deposits.A solutions architect must provide the cluster with consistent sub-millisecond latency and high-throughput access to the data on the Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices.The company is sending the devices back to AWS.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has several Amazon EC2 instances set up in a private subnet for security reasons.These instances host applications that read and write large amounts of data to and from Amazon S3 regularly.Currently, subnet routing directs all the traffic destined for the internet through a NAT gateway.The company wants to optimize the overall cost without impacting the ability of the application to communicate with Amazon S3 or the outside internet.What should a solutions architect do to optimize costs?Read More →

A company has an application that uses Docker containers in its local data center.The application runs on a container host that stores persistent data in a volume on the host.The container instances use the stored persistent data.The company wants to move the application to a fully managed service because the company does not want to manage any servers or storage infrastructure.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is planning to run a group of Amazon EC2 instances that connect to an Amazon Aurora database.The company has built an AWS CloudFormation template to deploy the EC2 instances and the Aurora DB cluster.The company wants to allow the instances to authenticate to the database in a secure way.The company does not want to maintain static database credentials.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?Read More →

An application that is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances needs to access an Amazon S3 bucket.Traffic must not traverse the internet.How should a solutions architect configure access to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s web application consists of multiple Amazon EC2 instances that run behind an Application Load Balancer in a VPC.An Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance contains the data.The company needs the ability to automatically detect and respond to suspicious or unexpected behavior in its AWS environment.The company already has added AWS WAF to its architecture.What should a solutions architect do next to protect against threats?Read More →

A company has a web application that includes an embedded NoSQL database.The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group in a single Availability Zone.A recent increase in traffic requires the application to be highly available and for the database to be eventually consistent.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a two-tiered architecture that has separate private subnets for compute resources and the database.An AWS Lambda function that is deployed in the compute subnets needs connectivity to the database.Which solution will provide this connectivity in the MOST secure way?Read More →

A company has an on-premises volume backup solution that has reached its end of life.The company wants to use AWS as part of a new backup solution and wants to maintain local access to all the data while it is backed up on AWS.The company wants to ensure that the data backed up on AWS is automatically and securely transferred.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a workload that will store hourly energy consumption by business tenants in a building.The sensors will feed a database throughHTTP requests that will add up usage for each tenant.The solutions architect must use managed services when possible.The workload will receive more features in the future as the solutions architect adds independent components.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →