Solutions Architect Associate (Page 57)

A company wants to ingest customer payment data into the company’s data lake in Amazon S3.The company receives payment data every minute on average.The company wants to analyze the payment data in real time.Then the company wants to ingest the data into the data lake.Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?Read More →

A company runs a stateless web application in production on a group of Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The application experiences heavy usage during an 8-hour period each business day.Application usage is moderate and steady overnight.Application usage is low during weekends.The company wants to minimize its EC2 costs without affecting the availability of the application.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is developing a new machine learning (ML) model solution on AWS.The models are developed as independent microservices that fetch approximately 1 GB of model data from Amazon S3 at startup and load the data into memory.Users access the models through an asynchronous API.Users can send a request or a batch of requests and specify where the results should be sent.The company provides models to hundreds of users.The usage patterns for the models are irregular.Some models could be unused for days or weeks.Other models could receive batches of thousands of requests at a time.Which design should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants a storage option that enables its data science team to analyze its data on premises and in the AWS Cloud.The team needs to be able to run statistical analyses by using the data on premises and by using a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application that is running on Amazon EC2 instances.A solutions architect has standardized the company on a particular instance family and various instance sizes based on the current needs of the company.The company wants to maximize cost savings for the application over the next 3 years.The company needs to be able to change the instance family and sizes in the next 6 months based on application popularity and usage.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

An image-processing company has a web application that users use to upload images.The application uploads the images into an Amazon S3 bucket.The company has set up S3 event notifications to publish the object creation events to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) standard queue.The SQS queue serves as the event source for an AWS Lambda function that processes the images and sends the results to users through email.Users report that they are receiving multiple email messages for every uploaded image.A solutions architect determines that SQS messages are invoking theLambda function more than once, resulting in multiple email messages.What should the solutions architect do to resolve this issue with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A solutions architect wants all new users to have specific complexity requirements and mandatory rotation periods for IAM user passwords.What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?Read More →

A solutions architect is planning the deployment of a new static website.The solution must minimize costs and provide at least 99% availability.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company stores several petabytes of data across multiple AWS accounts.The company uses AWS Lake Formation to manage its data lake.The company’s data science team wants to securely share selective data from its accounts with the company’s engineering team for analytical purposes.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has primary and secondary data centers that are 500 miles (804.7 km) apart and interconnected with high-speed fiber-optic cable.The company needs a highly available and secure network connection between its data centers and a VPC on AWS for a mission-critical workload.A solutions architect must choose a connection solution that provides maximum resiliency.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →