Solutions Architect Associate (Page 6)

A company is running an application in a private subnet in a VPC with an attached internet gateway.The company needs to provide the application access to the internet while restricting public access to the application.The company does not want to manage additional infrastructure and wants a solution that is highly available and scalable.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application that provides marketing services to stores.The services based on previous purchases by store customers.The stores upload transaction data to the company through SFTP, and the data is processed and analyzed to generate new marketing offers.Some of the files can exceed 200 GB in size.Recently, the company discovered that some of the stores have uploaded files that contain personally identifiable information (PII) that should not have been included.The company wants administrators to be alerted if PII is shared again.The company also wants to automate remediation.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?Read More →

A company uses AWS to run all components of its three-tier application.The company wants to automatically detect any potential security breaches within the environment.The company wants to track any findings and notify administrators if a potential breach occurs.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company provides an API to its users that automates inquiries for tax computations based on item prices.The company experiences a larger number of inquiries during the holiday season only that cause slower response times.A solutions architect needs to design a solution that is scalable and elastic.What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?Read More →

A company runs its two-tier ecommerce website on AWS.The web tier consists of a load balancer that sends traffic to Amazon EC2 instances.The database tier uses an Amazon RDS DB instance.The EC2 instances and the RDS DB instance should not be exposed to the public internet.The EC2 instances require internet access to complete payment processing of orders through a third-party web service.The application must be highly available.Which combination of configuration options will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company hosts a multi-tier web application that uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster for storage.The application tier is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances.The company’s IT security guidelines mandate that the database credentials be encrypted and rotated every 14 days.What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement with the LEAST operational effort?Read More →

A company needs to provide its employees with secure access to confidential and sensitive files.The company wants to ensure that the files can be accessed only by authorized users.The files must be downloaded securely to the employees’ devices.The files are stored in an on-premises Windows file server.However, due to an increase in remote usage, the file server is running out of capacity.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has applications hosted on Amazon EC2 instances with IPv6 addresses.The applications must initiate communications with other external applications using the internet.However, the company’s security policy states that any external service cannot initiate a connection to the EC2 instances.What should a solutions architect recommend to resolve this issue?Read More →

A company has developed a new video game as a web application.The application is in a three-tier architecture in a VPC with Amazon RDS for MySQL.In the database layer several players will compete concurrently online.The game’s developers want to display a top-10 scoreboard in near-real time and offer the ability to stop and restore the game while preserving the current scores.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A law firm needs to share information with the public.The information includes hundreds of files that must be publicly readable.Modifications or deletions of the files by anyone before a designated future date are prohibited.Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST secure way?Read More →