Solutions Architect Associate (Page 79)

A solutions architect is performing a security review of a recently migrated workload.The workload is a web application that consists of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer.The solutions architect must improve the security posture and minimize the impact of a DDoS attack on resources.Which solution is MOST effective?Read More →

An ecommerce company is running a multi-tier application on AWS.The front-end and backend tiers both run on Amazon EC2, and the database runs on Amazon RDS for MySQL.The backend tier communicates with the RDS instance.There are frequent calls to return identical datasets from the database that are causing performance slowdowns.Which action should be taken to improve the performance of the backend?Read More →

A company has multiple AWS accounts for various departments.One of the departments wants to share an Amazon S3 bucket with all other department.Which solution will require the LEAST amount of effort?Read More →

A company has an Amazon S3 data lake.The company needs a solution that transforms the data from the data lake and loads the data into a data warehouse every day.The data warehouse must have massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities.Data analysts then need to create and train machine learning (ML) models by using SQL commands on the data.The solution must use serverless AWS services wherever possible.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company needs to share an Amazon S3 bucket with an external vendor.The bucket owner must be able to access all objects.Which action should be taken to share the S3 bucket?Read More →

A company is building an application on AWS that connects to an Amazon RDS database.The company wants to manage the application configuration and to securely store and retrieve credentials for the database and other services.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?Read More →

A company is developing a real-time multiplier game that uses UDP for communications between client and servers in an Auto Scaling group.Spikes in demand are anticipated during the day, so the game server platform must adapt accordingly.Developers want to store gamer scores and other non-relational data in a database solution that will scale without intervention.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A hospital needs to store patient records in an Amazon S3 bucket.The hospital’s compliance team must ensure that all protected health information (PHI) is encrypted in transit and at rest.The compliance team must administer the encryption key for data at rest.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a custom application running on an Amazon EC instance that:* Reads a large amount of data from Amazon S3* Performs a multi-stage analysis* Writes the results to Amazon DynamoDBThe application writes a significant number of large, temporary files during the multi-stage analysis.The process performance depends on the temporary storage performance.What would be the fastest storage option for holding the temporary files?Read More →

A social media company runs its application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The ALB is the origin for an Amazon CloudFront distribution.The application has more than a billion images stored in an Amazon S3 bucket and processes thousands of images each second.The company wants to resize the images dynamically and serve appropriate formats to clients.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →