Solutions Architect Associate (Page 76)

A company has an application that is running on Amazon EC2 instances.A solutions architect has standardized the company on a particular instance family and various instance sizes based on the current needs of the company.The company wants to maximize cost savings for the application over the next 3 years.The company needs to be able to change the instance family and sizes in the next 6 months based on application popularity and usage.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company wants a storage option that enables its data science team to analyze its data on premises and in the AWS Cloud.The team needs to be able to run statistical analyses by using the data on premises and by using a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is developing a new machine learning (ML) model solution on AWS.The models are developed as independent microservices that fetch approximately 1 GB of model data from Amazon S3 at startup and load the data into memory.Users access the models through an asynchronous API.Users can send a request or a batch of requests and specify where the results should be sent.The company provides models to hundreds of users.The usage patterns for the models are irregular.Some models could be unused for days or weeks.Other models could receive batches of thousands of requests at a time.Which design should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs a stateless web application in production on a group of Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The application experiences heavy usage during an 8-hour period each business day.Application usage is moderate and steady overnight.Application usage is low during weekends.The company wants to minimize its EC2 costs without affecting the availability of the application.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to ingest customer payment data into the company’s data lake in Amazon S3.The company receives payment data every minute on average.The company wants to analyze the payment data in real time.Then the company wants to ingest the data into the data lake.Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?Read More →

A company needs to move data from an Amazon EC2 instance to an Amazon S3 bucket.The company must ensure that no API calls and no data are routed through public internet routes.Only the EC2 instance can have access to upload data to the S3 bucket.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to move its application to a serverless solution.The serverless solution needs to analyze existing data and new data by using SQL.The company stores the data in an Amazon S3 bucket.The data must be encrypted at rest and replicated to a different AWS Region.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company runs a photo processing application that needs to frequently upload and download pictures from Amazon S3 buckets that are located in the sameAWS Region.A solutions architect has noticed an increased cost in data transfer fees and needs to implement a solution to reduce these costs.How can the solutions architect meet this requirement?Read More →

A company needs to implement a new data retention policy for regulatory compliance.As part of this policy, sensitive documents that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket must be protected from deletion or modification for a fixed period of time.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has hired an external vendor to perform work in the company’s AWS account.The vendor uses an automated tool that is hosted in an AWS account that the vendor owns.The vendor does not have IAM access to the company’s AWS account.How should a solutions architect grant this access to the vendor?Read More →