Solutions Architect Associate (Page 67)

A company has an application that processes customer orders.The company hosts the application on an Amazon EC2 instance that saves the orders to an Amazon Aurora database.Occasionally when traffic is high the workload does not process orders fast enough.What should a solutions architect do to write the orders reliably to the database as quickly as possible?Read More →

A company has a custom application with embedded credentials that retrieves information from an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance.Management says the application must be made more secure with the least amount of programming effort.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has multiple AWS accounts for development work.Some staff consistently use oversized Amazon EC2 instances, which causes the company to exceed the yearly budget for the development accounts.The company wants to centrally restrict the creation of AWS resources in these accounts.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?Read More →

A company has a highly dynamic batch processing job that uses many Amazon EC2 instances to complete it.The job is stateless in nature, can be started and stopped at any given time with no negative impact, and typically takes upwards of 60 minutes total to complete.The company has asked a solutions architect to design a scalable and cost-effective solution that meets the requirements of the job.What should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

An ecommerce company has noticed performance degradation of its Amazon RDS based web application.The performance degradation is attributed to an increase in the number of read-only SQL queries triggered by business analysts.A solutions architect needs to solve the problem with minimal changes to the existing web application.What should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company is developing a new machine learning model solution in AWS. The models are developed as independent microservices that fetch about 1 GB of model data from Amazon S3 at startup and load the data into memory. Users access the models through an asynchronous API. Users can send a request or a batch of requests and specify where the results should be sent.The company provides models to hundreds of users. The usage patterns for the models are irregular Some models could be unused for days or weeks. Other models could receive batches of thousands of requests at a time.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company’s facility has badge readers at every entrance throughout the building.When badges are scanned, the readers send a message over HTTPS to indicate who attempted to access that particular entrance.A solutions architect must design a system to process these messages from the sensors.The solution must be highly available, and the results must be made available for the company’s security team to analyze.Which system architecture should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to ensure that all Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes restored from unencrypted EBC snapshots are encrypted.What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?Read More →

A rapidly growing ecommerce company is running its workloads in a single AWS Region.A solutions architect must create a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that includes a different AWS Region.The company wants its database to be up to date in the DR Region with the least possible latency.The remaining infrastructure in the DR Region needs to run at reduced capacity and must be able to scale up if necessary.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LOWEST recovery time objective (RTO)?Read More →

A company has multiple applications that use Amazon RDS for MySQL as is database.The company recently discovered that a new custom reporting application has increased the number of Queries on the database.This is slowing down performance.How should a solutions architect resolve this issue with the LEAST amount of application changes?Read More →