Solutions Architect Associate (Page 59)

A development team runs monthly resource-intensive tests on its general purpose Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance with Performance Insights enabled.The testing lasts for 48 hours once a month and is the only process that uses the database.The team wants to reduce the cost of running the tests without reducing the compute and memory attributes of the DB instance.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has a large Microsoft SharePoint deployment running on-premises that requires Microsoft Windows shared file storage.The company wants to migrate this workload to the AWS Cloud and is considering various storage options.The storage solution must be highly available and integrated with ActiveDirectory for access control.Which solution will satisfy these requirements?Read More →

A company provides a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service that uses UDP connections.The service consists of Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group.The company has deployments across multiple AWS Regions.The company needs to route users to the Region with the lowest latency.The company also needs automated failover between Regions.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is hosting an election reporting website on AWS for users around the world.The website uses Amazon EC2 instances for the web and application tiers in an Auto Scaling group with Application Load Balancers.The database tier uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL database.The website is updated with election results once an hour and has historically observed hundreds of users accessing the reports.The company is expecting a significant increase in demand because of upcoming elections in different countries.A solutions architect must improve the website’s ability to handle additional demand while minimizing the need for additional EC2 instances.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is migrating applications to AWS.The applications are deployed in different accounts.The company manages the accounts centrally by using AWS Organizations.The company’s security team needs a single sign-on (SSO) solution across all the company’s accounts.The company must continue managing the users and groups in its on-premises self-managed Microsoft Active Directory.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is building an application on Amazon EC2 instances that generates temporary transactional data.The application requires access to data storage that can provide configurable and consistent IOPS.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company is launching a new application and will display application metrics on an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard.The company’s product manager needs to access this dashboard periodically.The product manager does not have an AWS account.A solutions architect must provide access to the product manager by following the principle of least privilege.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is launching an ecommerce website on AWS.This website is built with a three-tier architecture that includes a MySQL database in a Multi-AZ deployment of Amazon Aurora MySQL.The website application must be highly available and will initially be launched in an AWS Region with three AvailabilityZones.The application produces a metric that describes the load the application experiences.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company needs to review its AWS Cloud deployment to ensure that its Amazon S3 buckets do not have unauthorized configuration changes.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?Read More →

A company stores 200 GB of data each month in Amazon S3.The company needs to perform analytics on this data at the end of each month to determine the number of items sold in each sales region for the previous month.Which analytics strategy is MOST cost-effective for the company to use?Read More →