Solutions Architect Associate (Page 72)

A company wants to rearchitect a large-scale web application to a serverless microservices architecture.The application uses Amazon EC2 instances and is written in Python.The company selected one component of the web application to test as a microservice.The component supports hundreds of requests each second.The company wants to create and test the microservice on an AWS solution that supports Python.The solution must also scale automatically and require minimal infrastructure and minimal operational support.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A healthcare company stores highly sensitive patient records.Compliance requires that multiple copies be stored in different locations.Each record must be stored for 7 years.The company has a service level agreement (SLA) to provide records to government agencies immediately for the first 30 days and then within 4 hours of a request thereafter.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company has an AWS Direct Connect connection from its on-premises location to an AWS account.The AWS account has 30 different VPCs in the same AWS Region.The VPCs use private virtual interfaces (VIFs).Each VPC has a CIDR block that does not overlap with other networks under the company’s control.The company wants to centrally manage the networking architecture while still allowing each VPC to communicate with all other VPCs and on-premises networks.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

A company has created a VPC with multiple private subnets in multiple Availability Zones (AZs) and one public subnet in one of the AZs.The public subnet is used to launch a NAT gateway.There are instances in the private subnets that use a NAT gateway to connect to the internet.In case of an AZ failure, the company wants to ensure that the instances are not all experiencing internet connectivity issues and that there is a backup plan ready.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend that is MOST highly available?Read More →

A company runs container applications by using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler.The workload is not consistent throughout the day.A solutions architect notices that the number of nodes does not automatically scale out when the existing nodes have reached maximum capacity in the cluster, which causes performance issues.Which solution will resolve this issue with the LEAST administrative overhead?Read More →

A company built an application that lets users check in to places they visit, rank the places, and add reviews about their experiences.The application is successful with a rapid increase in the number of users every month.The chief technology officer fears the database supporting the current Infrastructure may not handle the new load the following month because the single AmazonRDS for MySQL instance has triggered alarms related to resource exhaustion due to read requests.What can a solutions architect recommend to prevent service Interruptions at the database layer with minimal changes to code?Read More →

A company maintains about 300 TB in Amazon S3 Standard storage month after month.The S3 objects are each typically around 50 GB in size and are frequently replaced with multipart uploads by their global application.The number and size of S3 objects remain constant, but the company’s S3 storage costs are increasing each month.How should a solutions architect reduce costs in this situation?Read More →

A space shuttle company that hosts its services on AWS must log performance data for each launch attempt.Each launch produces millions of small pieces of data every second.The total amount of data is terabytes in size.When the data is produced, the company must process the data and make the data available forSQL queries.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has deployed a multiplayer game for mobile devices.The game requires live location tracking of players based on latitude and longitude.The data store for the game must support rapid updates and retrieval of locations.The game uses an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance with read replicas to store the location data.During peak usage periods, the database is unable to maintain the performance that is needed for reading and writing updates.The game’s user base is increasing rapidly.What should a solutions architect do to improve the performance of the data tier?Read More →

An ecommerce company stores terabytes of customer data in the AWS Cloud.The data contains personally identifiable information (PII).The company wants to use the data in three applications.Only one of the applications needs to process the PII.The PII must be removed before the other two applications process the data.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →