Solutions Architect Associate (Page 59)

A company runs a multi-tier web application that hosts news content.The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones and use an Amazon Aurora database.A solutions architect needs to make the application more resilient to periodic increases in request rates.Which architecture should the solutions architect implement? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company hosts its application in the AWS Cloud.The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) load balancer.The application connects to an Amazon DynamoDB table.For disaster recovery (DR) purposes, the company wants to ensure that the application is available from another AWS Region with minimal downtime.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST downtime?Read More →

An application running on AWS uses an Amazon Aurora Multi-AZ deployment for its database.When evaluating performance metrics, a solutions architect discovered that the database reads are causing high I/O and adding latency to the write requests against the database.What should the solutions architect do to separate the read requests from the write requests?Read More →

A company wants to use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) to run its on-premises application in a hybrid environment.The application currently runs on containers on premises.The company needs a single container solution that can scale in an on-premises, hybrid, or cloud environment.The company must run new application containers in the AWS Cloud and must use a load balancer for HTTP traffic.Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A recently acquired company is required to build its own infrastructure on AWS and migrate multiple applications to the cloud within a month.Each application has approximately 50 TB of data to be transferred.After the migration is complete, this company and its parent company will both require secure network connectivity with consistent throughput from their data centers to the applications.A solutions architect must ensure one-time data migration and ongoing network connectivity.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is migrating five on-premises applications to VPCs in the AWS Cloud.Each application is currently deployed in isolated virtual networks on premises and should be deployed similarly in the AWS Cloud.The applications need to reach a shared services VPC.All the applications must be able to communicate with each other.If the migration is successful, the company will repeat the migration process for more than 100 applications.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?Read More →

A company serves content to its subscribers across the world using an application running on AWS.The application has several Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).Due to a recent change in copyright restrictions, the chief information officer (CIO) wants to block access for certain countries.Which action will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company collects data from a large number of participants who use wearable devices.The company stores the data in an Amazon DynamoDB table and uses applications to analyze the data.The data workload is constant and predictable.The company wants to stay at or below its forecasted budget for DynamoDB.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is creating a new application that will store a large amount of data.The data will be analyzed hourly and modified by several Amazon EC2 Linux instances that are deployed across multiple Availability Zones.The application team believes the amount of space needed will continue to grow for the next 6 months.Which set of actions should a solutions architect take to support these needs?Read More →

A company wants to migrate a Windows-based application from on premises to the AWS Cloud.The application has three tiers: an application tier, a business tier, and a database tier with Microsoft SQL Server.The company wants to use specific features of SQL Server such as native backups and Data Quality Services.The company also needs to share files for processing between the tiers.How should a solutions architect design the architecture to meet these requirements?Read More →