Solutions Architect Associate (Page 70)

A company’s infrastructure consists of hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances that use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage.A solutions architect must ensure that every EC2 instance can be recovered after a disaster.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of effort?Read More →

A company hosts its web application on AWS using seven Amazon EC2 instances.The company requires that the IP addresses of all healthy EC2 instances be returned in response to DNS queries.Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company is developing an internal application that uses a PostgreSQL database.The company decides to host the database on Amazon Aurora.The application does not need to be highly available, but data must be stored in multiple Availability Zones.Which database configuration meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A medical research lab produces data that is related to a new study.The lab wants to make the data available with minimum latency to clinics across the country for their on-premises, file-based applications.The data files are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket that has read-only permissions for each clinic.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is designing a distributed application to optimize its global supply chain and manufacturing process.The company has facilities near the us-east-1Region, the eu-west-1 Region, and the ap-south-1 Region.According to the application requirements, orders that are booked in one Region must be visible in the other two Regions in 1 second or less.The database must be able to support failover with a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 5 minutes.The application must avoid downtime so that the manufacturing process is not negatively affected.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is using a content management system that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance.The EC2 instance contains both the web server and the database software.The company must make its website platform highly available and must enable the website to scale to meet user demand.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a customer relationship management (CRM) application that stores data in an Amazon RDS DB instance that runs Microsoft SQL Server.The company’s IT staff has administrative access to the database.The database contains sensitive data.The company wants to ensure that the data is not accessible to the IT staff and that only authorized personnel can view the data.What should a solutions architect do to secure the data?Read More →

A company is launching an application on AWS.The application uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to direct traffic to at least two Amazon EC2 instances in a single target group.The instances are in an Auto Scaling group for each environment.The company requires a development environment and a production environment.The production environment will have periods of high traffic.Which solution will configure the development environment MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company hosts its web applications in the AWS Cloud.The company configures Elastic Load Balancers to use certificates that are imported into AWS CertificateManager (ACM).The company’s security team must be notified 30 days before the expiration of each certificate.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company runs a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones.The EC2 instances are in private subnets.A solutions architect implements an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB) and specifies the EC2 instances as the target group.However, the internet traffic is not reaching the EC2 instances.How should the solutions architect reconfigure the architecture to resolve this issue?Read More →