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A company is designing an application to run in a VPC on AWS.The application consists of Amazon EC2 instances that run in private subnets as part of an AutoScaling group.The application also includes a Network Load Balancer that extends across public subnets.The application stores data in an Amazon RDS DB instance.The company has attached a security group that is named `web-servers` to the EC2 instances.The company has attached a security group that is named`database` to the DB instance.How should a solutions architect configure the communication between the EC2 instances and the DB instance?Read More →

An online gaming company is transitioning user data storage to Amazon DynamoDB to support the company’s growing user base.The current architecture includes DynamoDB tables that contain user profiles, achievements, and in-game transactions.The company needs to design a robust, continuously available, and resilient DynamoDB architecture to maintain a seamless gaming experience for users.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?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 servers 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?Read More →

A company currently stores 5 TB of data in on-premises block storage systems.The company’s current storage solution provides limited space for additional data.The company runs applications on premises that must be able to retrieve frequently accessed data with low latency.The company requires a cloud-based storage solution.Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?Read More →

An application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in a VPC.The application processes logs that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket.The EC2 instance needs to access the S3 bucket without connectivity to the internet.Which solution will provide private network connectivity to Amazon S3?Read More →

A company operates a food delivery service.Because of recent growth, the company’s order processing system is experiencing scaling problems during peak traffic hours.The current architecture includes Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group that collect orders from an application.A second group of EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group fulfills the orders.The order collection process occurs quickly, but the order fulfillment process can take longer.Data must not be lost because of a scaling event.A solutions architect must ensure that the order collection process and the order fulfillment process can both scale adequately during peak traffic hours.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a business-critical application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances.The application stores data in an Amazon DynamoDB table.The company must be able to revert the table to any point within the last 24 hours.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has a three-tier web application that processes orders from customers.The web tier consists of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The processing tier consists of EC2 instances.The company decoupled the web tier and processing tier by using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS).The storage layer uses Amazon DynamoDB.At peak times, some users report order processing delays and halls.The company has noticed that during these delays, the EC2 instances are running at 100% CPU usage, and the SQS queue fills up.The peak times are variable and unpredictable.The company needs to improve the performance of the application.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is using an AWS CloudFormation template to deploy a three-tier web application.The web application consists of a web tier and an application tier that stores and retrieves user data in Amazon DynamoDB tables.The web and application tiers are hosted on Amazon EC2 instances, and the database tier is not publicly accessible.The application EC2 instances need to access the DynamoDB tables without exposing API credentials in the template.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A digital image processing company wants to migrate its on-premises monolithic application to the AWS Cloud.The company processes thousands of images and generates large files as part of the processing workflow.The company needs a solution to manage the growing number of image processing jobs.The solution must also reduce the manual tasks in the image processing workflow.The company does not want to manage the underlying infrastructure of the solution.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →