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A company must re-evaluate its need for the Amazon EC2 instances it currently has provisioned in an Auto Scaling group.At present, the Auto Scaling group is configured for a minimum of two instances and a maximum of four instances across two Availability Zones.A Solutions architect reviewed Amazon CloudWatch metrics and found that CPU utilization is consistently low for all the EC2 instances.What should the solutions architect recommend to maximize utilization while ensuring the application remains fault tolerant?Read More →

A startup company is hosting a website for its customers on an Amazon EC2 instance.The website consists of a stateless Python application and a MySQL database.The website serves only a small amount of traffic.The company is concerned about the reliability of the instance and needs to migrate to a highly available architecture.The company cannot modify the application code.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to achieve high availability for the website? (Choose two.)Read More →

An ecommerce company is creating an application that requires a connection to a third-party payment service to process payments.The payment service needs to explicitly allow the public IP address of the server that is making the payment request.However, the company’s security policies do not allow any server to be exposed directly to the public internet.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s website is used to sell products to the public.The site runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).There is also an Amazon CloudFront distribution, and AWS WAF is being used to protect against SQL injection attacks.The ALB is the origin for the CloudFront distribution.A recent review of security logs revealed an external malicious IP that needs to be blocked from accessing the website.What should a solutions architect do to protect the application?Read More →

A company is creating a prototype of an ecommerce website on AWS.The website consists of an Application Load Balancer, an Auto Scaling group of AmazonEC2 instances for web servers, and an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance that runs with the Single-AZ configuration.The website is slow to respond during searches of the product catalog.The product catalog is a group of tables in the MySQL database that the company does not update frequently.A solutions architect has determined that the CPU utilization on the DB instance is high when product catalog searches occur.What should the solutions architect recommend to improve the performance of the website during searches of the product catalog?Read More →

A data analytics company wants to migrate its batch processing system to AWS.The company receives thousands of small data files periodically during the day through FTP.An on-premises batch job processes the data files overnight.However, the batch job takes hours to finish running.The company wants the AWS solution to process incoming data files as soon as possible with minimal changes to the FTP clients that send the files.The solution must delete the incoming data files after the files have been processed successfully.Processing for each file needs to take 3-8 minutes.Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?Read More →

A company currently has 250 TB of backup files stored in Amazon S3 in a vendor’s proprietary format.Using a Linux-based software application provided by the vendor, the company wants to retrieve files from Amazon S3, transform the files to an industry-standard format, and re-upload them to Amazon S3.The company wants to minimize the data transfer charges associated with this conversation.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?Read More →

A company runs an application in a private subnet behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in a VPC.The VPC has a NAT gateway and an internet gateway.The application calls the Amazon S3 API to store objects.According to the company’s security policy, traffic from the application must not travel across the internet.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is designing a cloud communications platform that is driven by APIs.The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network LoadBalancer (NLB).The company uses Amazon API Gateway to provide external users with access to the application through APIs.The company wants to protect the platform against web exploits like SQL injection and also wants to detect and mitigate large, sophisticated DDoS attacks.Which combination of solutions provides the MOST protection? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company runs its media rendering application on premises.The company wants to reduce storage costs and has moved all data to Amazon S3.The on-premises rendering application needs low-latency access to storage.The company needs to design a storage solution for the application.The storage solution must maintain the desired application performance.Which storage solution will meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective way?Read More →