Solutions Architect Associate (Page 71)

A company is designing a web application on AWS.The application will use a VPN connection between the company’s existing data centers and the company’s VPCs.The company uses Amazon Route 53 as its DNS service.The application must use private DNS records to communicate with the on-premises services from a VPC.Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST secure manner?Read More →

A company is seeing access requests by some suspicious IP addresses.The security team discovers the requests are from different IP addresses under the same CIDR range.What should a solutions architect recommend to the team?Read More →

A company uses Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda to run multiple workloads in the company’s AWS account.The company wants to fully make use of its Compute Savings Plans.The company wants to receive notification when coverage of the Compute Savings Plans drops.Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?Read More →

A public-facing web application queries a database hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance in a private subnet.A large number of queries involve multiple table joins, and the application performance has been degrading due to an increase in complex queries.The application team will be performing updates to improve performance.What should a solutions architect recommend to the application team? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company runs a real-time data ingestion solution on AWS.The solution consists of the most recent version of Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK).The solution is deployed in a VPC in private subnets across three Availability Zones.A solutions architect needs to redesign the data ingestion solution to be publicly available over the internet.The data in transit must also be encrypted.Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?Read More →

A company has 150 TB of archived image data stored on-premises that needs to be moved to the AWS Cloud within the next month.The company’s current network connection allows up to 100 Mbps uploads for this purpose during the night only.What is the MOST cost-effective mechanism to move this data and meet the migration deadline?Read More →

A company is migrating a large amount of data from on-premises storage to AWS.Windows, Mac, and Linux based Amazon EC2 instances in the same AWS Region will access the data by using SMB and NFS storage protocols.The company will access a portion of the data routinely.The company will access the remaining data infrequently.The company needs to design a solution to host the data.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company recently implemented hybrid cloud connectivity using AWS Direct Connect and is migrating data to Amazon S3.The company is looking for a fully managed solution that will automate and accelerate the replication of data between the on-premises storage systems and AWS storage services.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to keep the data private?Read More →

A manufacturing company runs its report generation application on AWS.The application generates each report in about 20 minutes.The application is built as a monolith that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance.The application requires frequent updates to its tightly coupled modules.The application becomes complex to maintain as the company adds new features.Each time the company patches a software module, the application experiences downtime.Report generation must restart from the beginning after any interruptions.The company wants to redesign the application so that the application can be flexible, scalable, and gradually improved.The company wants to minimize application downtime.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company recently deployed a new auditing system to centralize information about operating system versions, patching, and installed software for Amazon EC2 instances.A solutions architect must ensure all instances provisioned through EC2 Auto Scaling groups successfully send reports to the auditing system as soon as they are launched and terminated.Which solution achieves these goals MOST efficiently?Read More →