Solutions Architect Associate (Page 68)

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 has migrated a fleet of hundreds of on-premises virtual machines (VMs) to Amazon EC2 instances.The instances run a diverse fleet of Windows Server versions along with several Linux distributions.The company wants a solution that will automate inventory and updates of the operating systems.The company also needs a summary of common vulnerabilities of each instance for regular monthly reviews.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is running a highly sensitive application on Amazon EC2 backed by an Amazon RDS database.Compliance regulations mandate that all personally identifiable information (PII) be encrypted at rest.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of changes to the infrastructure?Read More →

A company wants to restrict access to the content of its web application.The company needs to protect the content by using authorization techniques that are available on AWS.The company also wants to implement a serverless architecture for authorization and authentication that has low login latency.The solution must integrate with the web application and serve web content globally.The application currently has a small user base, but the company expects the application’s user base to increase.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company running an on-premises application is migrating the application to AWS to increase its elasticity and availability.The current architecture uses aMicrosoft SQL Server database with heavy read activity.The company wants to explore alternate database options and migrate database engines, if needed.Every 4 hours, the development team does a full copy of the production database to populate a test database.During this period, users experience latency.What should a solutions architect recommend as replacement database?Read More →

A company runs its production workload on Amazon EC2 instances with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes.A solutions architect needs to analyze the current EBS volume cost and to recommend optimizations.The recommendations need to include estimated monthly saving opportunities.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has enabled AWS CloudTrail logs to deliver log files to an Amazon S3 bucket for each of its developer accounts.The company has created a centralAWS account for streamlining management and audit reviews.An internal auditor needs to access the CloudTrail logs, yet access needs to be restricted for all developer account users.The solution must be secure and optimized.How should a solutions architect meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to relocate its on-premises MySQL database to AWS.The database accepts regular imports from a client-facing application, which causes a high volume of write operations.The company is concerned that the amount of traffic might be causing performance issues within the application.How should a solutions architect design the architecture on AWS?Read More →

A company has several business systems that require access to data stored in a file share.The business systems will access the file share using the ServerMessage Block (SMB) protocol.The file share solution should be accessible from both of the company’s legacy on-premises environments and with AWS.Which services meet the business requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to configure its Amazon CloudFront distribution to use SSL/TLS certificates.The company does not want to use the default domain name for the distribution.Instead, the company wants to use a different domain name for the distribution.Which solution will deploy the certificate without incurring any additional costs?Read More →