Solutions Architect Associate (Page 7)

A company runs an application in a branch office within a small data closet with no virtualized compute resources.The application data is stored on an NFS volume.Compliance standards require a daily offsite backup of the NFS volume.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A security team to limit access to specific services or actions in all of the team’s AWS accounts.All accounts belong to a large organization in AWS Organizations.The solution must be scalable and there must be a single point where permissions can be maintained.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?Read More →

A data science team requires storage for nightly log processing.The size and number of logs is unknown and will persist for 24 hours only.What is the MOST cost-effective solution?Read More →

A company is hosting a web application on AWS using a single Amazon EC2 instance that stores user-uploaded documents in an Amazon Elastic Block Store(Amazon EBS) volume.For better scalability and availability, the company duplicated the architecture and created a second EC2 instance and EBS volume in another Availability Zone, placing both behind an Application Load Balancer.After completing this change, users reported that each time they refreshed the website, they could see one subset of their documents or the other, but never all of the documents at the same time.What should a solutions architect propose to ensure users see all of their documents at once?Read More →

A company is planning to use Amazon S3 to store images uploaded by its users.The images must be encrypted at rest in Amazon S3.The company does not want to spend time managing and rotating the keys, but it does want to control who can access those keys.What should a solutions architect use to accomplish this?Read More →

A company is running an ecommerce application on Amazon EC2.The application consists of a stateless web tier that requires a minimum of 10 instances, and a peak of 250 instances to support the application’s usage.The application requires 50 instances 80% of the time.Which solution should be used to minimize costs?Read More →

A company has deployed an API in a VPC behind an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB).An application that consumes the API as a client is deployed in a second account in private subnets behind a NAT gateway.When requests to the client application increase, the NAT gateway costs are higher than expected.A solutions architect has configured the ALB to be internal.Which combination of architectural changes will reduce the NAT gateway costs? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect is tasked with transferring 750 TB of data from an on-premises network-attached file system located at a branch office Amazon S3 Glacier.The migration must not saturate the on-premises 1 Mbps internet connection.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a two-tier application architecture that runs in public and private subnets.Amazon EC2 instances running the web application are in the public subnet and a database runs on the private subnet.The web application instances and the database are running in a single Availability Zone (AZ).Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to provide high availability for this architecture? (Choose two.)Read More →

An application hosted on AWS is experiencing performance problems, and the application vendor wants to perform an analysis of the log file to troubleshoot further.The log file is stored on Amazon S3 and is 10 GB in size.The application owner will make the log file available to the vendor for a limited time.What is the MOST secure way to do this?Read More →