Solutions Architect Associate (Page 64)

A company has an application that uses Docker containers in its local data center.The application runs on a container host that stores persistent data in a volume on the host.The container instances use the stored persistent data.The company wants to move the application to a fully managed service because the company does not want to manage any servers or storage infrastructure.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has several Amazon EC2 instances set up in a private subnet for security reasons.These instances host applications that read and write large amounts of data to and from Amazon S3 regularly.Currently, subnet routing directs all the traffic destined for the internet through a NAT gateway.The company wants to optimize the overall cost without impacting the ability of the application to communicate with Amazon S3 or the outside internet.What should a solutions architect do to optimize costs?Read More →

A company copies 200 TB of data from a recent ocean survey onto AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices.The company has a high performance computing (HPC) cluster that is hosted on AWS to look for oil and gas deposits.A solutions architect must provide the cluster with consistent sub-millisecond latency and high-throughput access to the data on the Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices.The company is sending the devices back to AWS.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is creating an application.The application will run on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets across multiple Availability Zones in a VPC.The EC2 instances will frequently access large files that contain confidential information.These files are stored in Amazon S3 buckets for processing.The solutions architect must optimize the network architecture to minimize data transfer costs.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

An online video game company must maintain ultra-low latency for its game servers.The game servers run on Amazon EC2 instances.The company needs a solution that can handle millions of UDP internet traffic requests each second.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

An entertainment company is using Amazon DynamoDB to store media metadata.The application is read intensive and experiencing delays.The company does not have staff to handle additional operational overhead and needs to improve the performance efficiency of DynamoDB without reconfiguring the application.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company has an organization in AWS Organizations.The company runs Amazon EC2 instances across four AWS accounts in the root organizational unit (OU).There are three nonproduction accounts and one production account.The company wants to prohibit users from launching EC2 instances of a certain size in the nonproduction accounts.The company has created a service control policy (SCP) to deny access to launch instances that use the prohibited types.Which solutions to deploy the SCP will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is using a VPC that is provisioned with a 10.10.1.0/24 CIDR block.Because of continued growth, IP address space in this block might be depleted soon.A solutions architect must add more IP address capacity to the VPC.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

An ecommerce company runs its application on AWS.The application uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL cluster in Multi-AZ mode for the underlying database.During a recent promotional campaign, the application experienced heavy read load and write load.Users experienced timeout issues when they attempted to access the application.A solutions architect needs to make the application architecture more scalable and highly available.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST downtime?Read More →

A company has an application that uses Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to store data.The files are 1 GB in size or larger and are accessed often only for the first few days after creation.The application data is shared across a cluster of Linux servers.The company wants to reduce storage costs tor the application.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →