Solutions Architect Associate (Page 72)

A company runs an on-premises application that is powered by a MySQL database.The company is migrating the application to AWS to increase the application’s elasticity and availability.The current architecture shows heavy read activity on the database during times of normal operation.Every 4 hours, the company’s development team pulls a full export of the production database to populate a database in the staging environment.During this period, users experience unacceptable application latency.The development team is unable to use the staging environment until the procedure completes.A solutions architect must recommend replacement architecture that alleviates the application latency issue.The replacement architecture also must give the development team the ability to continue using the staging environment without delay.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company observes an increase in Amazon EC2 costs in its most recent bill.The billing team notices unwanted vertical scaling of instance types for a couple of EC2 instances.A solutions architect needs to create a graph comparing the last 2 months of EC2 costs and perform an in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of the vertical scaling.How should the solutions architect generate the information with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has 700 TB of backup data stored in network attached storage (NAS) in its data center This backup data need to be accessible for infrequent regulatory requests and must be retained 7 years. The company has decided to migrate this backup data from its data center to AWS. The migration must be complete within 1 month. The company has 500 Mbps of dedicated bandwidth on its public internet connection available for data transfer.What should a solutions architect do to migrate and store the data at the LOWEST cost?Read More →

A company is designing an application.The application uses an AWS Lambda function to receive information through Amazon API Gateway and to store the information in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database.During the proof-of-concept stage, the company has to increase the Lambda quotas significantly to handle the high volumes of data that the company needs to load into the database.A solutions architect must recommend a new design to improve scalability and minimize the configuration effort.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company stores 200 GB of data each month in Amazon S3.The company needs to perform analytics on this data at the end of each month to determine the number of items sold in each sales region for the previous month.Which analytics strategy is MOST cost-effective for the company to use?Read More →

A company needs to review its AWS Cloud deployment to ensure that its Amazon S3 buckets do not have unauthorized configuration changes.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?Read More →

A company is launching an ecommerce website on AWS.This website is built with a three-tier architecture that includes a MySQL database in a Multi-AZ deployment of Amazon Aurora MySQL.The website application must be highly available and will initially be launched in an AWS Region with three AvailabilityZones.The application produces a metric that describes the load the application experiences.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is launching a new application and will display application metrics on an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard.The company’s product manager needs to access this dashboard periodically.The product manager does not have an AWS account.A solutions architect must provide access to the product manager by following the principle of least privilege.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is building an application on Amazon EC2 instances that generates temporary transactional data.The application requires access to data storage that can provide configurable and consistent IOPS.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company is migrating applications to AWS.The applications are deployed in different accounts.The company manages the accounts centrally by using AWS Organizations.The company’s security team needs a single sign-on (SSO) solution across all the company’s accounts.The company must continue managing the users and groups in its on-premises self-managed Microsoft Active Directory.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →