Solutions Architect Associate (Page 58)

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 migrated an application to Amazon EC2 Linux instances.One of these EC2 instances runs several 1-hour tasks on a schedule.These tasks were written by different teams and have no common programming language.The company is concerned about performance and scalability while these tasks run on a single instance.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to resolve these concerns.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?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 →

A company wants to analyze and troubleshoot Access Denied errors and Unauthorized errors that are related to IAM permissions.The company has AWSCloudTrail turned on.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?Read More →

A company creates operations data and stores the data in an Amazon S3 bucket.For the company’s annual audit, an external consultant needs to access an annual report that is stored in the S3 bucket.The external consultant needs to access the report for 7 days.The company must implement a solution to allow the external consultant access to only the report.Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?Read More →

The customers of a finance company request appointments with financial advisors by sending text messages.A web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances accepts the appointment requests.The text messages are published to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue through the web application.Another application that runs on EC2 instances then sends meeting invitations and meeting confirmation email messages to the customers.After successful scheduling, this application stores the meeting information in an Amazon DynamoDB database.As the company expands, customers report that their meeting invitations are taking longer to arrive.What should a solutions architect recommend to resolve this issue?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 →

A company runs an application on a large fleet of Amazon EC2 instances.The application reads and write entries into an Amazon DynamoDB table.The size of the DynamoDB table continuously grows, but the application needs only data from the last 30 days.The company needs a solution that minimizes cost and development effort.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company’s compliance team needs to move its file shares to AWS.The shares run on a Windows Server SMB file share.A self-managed on-premises Active Directory controls access to the files and folders.The company wants to use Amazon FSx for Windows File Server as part of the solution.The company must ensure that the on-premises Active Directory groups restrict access to the FSx for Windows File Server SMB compliance shares, folders, and files after the move to AWS.The company has created an FSx for Windows File Server file system.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is planning to use an Amazon DynamoDB table for data storage.The company is concerned about cost optimization.The table will not be used on most mornings in the evenings, the read and write traffic will often be unpredictable.When traffic spikes occur they will happen very quickly.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →