Solutions Architect Associate (Page 65)

A solutions architect must design a solution for a persistent database that is being migrated from on-premises to AWS.The database requires 64,000 IOPS according to the database administrator.If possible, the database administrator wants to use a single Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume to host the database instance.Which solution effectively meets the database administrator’s criteria?Read More →

A company has customers located across the world.The company wants to use automation to secure its systems and network infrastructure.The company’s security team must be able to track and audit all incremental changes to the infrastructure.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has global users accessing an application deployed in different AWS Regions, exposing public static IP addresses.The users are experiencing poor performance when accessing the application over the internet.What should a solutions architect recommend to reduce internet latency?Read More →

A company has a web application that runs on premises.The application experiences latency issues during peak hours.The latency issues occur twice each month.At the start of a latency issue, the application’s CPU utilization immediately increases to 10 times its normal amount.The company wants to migrate the application to AWS to improve latency.The company also wants to scale the application automatically when application demand increases.The company will use AWS Elastic Beanstalk for application deployment.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company recently deployed a two-tier application in two Availability Zones in the us-east-1 Region.The databases are deployed in a private subnet while the web servers are deployed in a public subnet.An internet gateway is attached to the VPC.The application and database run on Amazon EC2 instances.The database servers are unable to access patches on the internet.A solutions architect needs to design a solution that maintains database security with the least operational overhead.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has multiple AWS accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations that different business units use.The company has multiple offices around the world.The company needs to update security group rules to allow new office CIDR ranges or to remove old CIDR ranges across the organization.The company wants to centralize the management of security group rules to minimize the administrative overhead that updating CIDR ranges requires.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has an application with a REST-based interface that allows data to be received in near-real time from a third-party vendor.Once received, the application processes and stores the data for further analysis.The application is running on Amazon EC2 instances.The third-party vendor has received many 503 Service Unavailable Errors when sending data to the application.When the data volume spikes, the compute capacity reaches its maximum limit and the application is unable to process all requests.Which design should a solutions architect recommend to provide a more scalable solution?Read More →

A company runs its application by using Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Lambda functions.The EC2 instances run in private subnets of a VPC.The Lambda functions need direct network access to the EC2 instances for the application to work.The application will run for 1 year.The number of Lambda functions that the application uses will increase during the 1-year period.The company must minimize costs on all application resources.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to design a low-latency solution for a static single-page application accessed by users utilizing a custom domain name.The solution must be serverless, encrypted in transit, and cost-effective.Which combination of AWS services and features should the solutions architect use? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is running a custom application on Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances.The application has frontend nodes that need to run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and backend nodes that need to run only for a short time based on workload.The number of backend nodes varies during the day.The company needs to scale out and scale in more instances based on workload.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →