Solutions Architect Associate (Page 62)

A company is launching a new application deployed on an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster and is using the Fargate launch type for ECS tasks.The company is monitoring CPU and memory usage because it is expecting high traffic to the application upon its launch.However, the company wants to reduce costs when utilization decreases.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company is creating an application.The company stores data from tests of the application in multiple on-premises locations.The company needs to connect the on-premises locations to VPCs in an AWS Region in the AWS Cloud.The number of accounts and VPCs will increase during the next year.The network architecture must simplify the administration of new connections and must provide the ability to scale.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing the architecture for a new web application.The application will run on AWS Fargate containers with an Application LoadBalancer (ALB) and an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database.The web application will perform primarily read queries against the database.What should the solutions architect do to ensure that the website can scale with increasing traffic? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has two VPCs named Management and Production.The Management VPC uses VPNs through a customer gateway to connect to a single device in the data center.The Production VPC uses a virtual private gateway with two attached AWS Direct Connect connections.The Management and Production VPCs both use a single VPC peering connection to allow communication between the applications.What should a solutions architect do to mitigate any single point of failure in this architecture?Read More →

A company has a live chat application running on its on-premises servers that use WebSockets.The company wants to migrate the application to AWS.Application traffic is inconsistent, and the company expects there to be more traffic with sharp spikes in the future.The company wants a highly scalable solution with no server maintenance nor advanced capacity planning.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company stores sensitive data in Amazon S3.A solutions architect needs to create an encryption solution.The company needs to fully control the ability of users to create, rotate, and disable encryption keys with minimal effort for any data that must be encrypted.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A software vendor is deploying a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that will be utilized by many AWS users.The service is hosted in a VPC behind aNetwork Load Balancer.The software vendor wants to provide access to this service to users with the least amount of administrative overhead and without exposing the service to the public internet.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?Read More →

A company is building an application that consists of several microservices.The company has decided to use container technologies to deploy its software on AWS.The company needs a solution that minimizes the amount of ongoing effort for maintenance and scaling.The company cannot manage additional infrastructure.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is building a document storage application on AWS.The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones.The company requires the document store to be highly available.The documents need to be returned immediately when requested.The lead engineer has configured the application to use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) to store the documents, but is willing to consider other options to meet the availability requirement.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company uses an on-premises network-attached storage (NAS) system to provide file shares to its high performance computing (HPC) workloads.The company wants to migrate its latency-sensitive HPC workloads and its storage to the AWS Cloud.The company must be able to provide NFS and SMB multi-protocol access from the file system.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST latency? (Choose two.)Read More →