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A company is migrating a three-tier application to AWS.The application requires a MySQL database.In the past, the application users reported poor application performance when creating new entries.These performance issues were caused by users generating different real-time reports from the application during working hours.Which solution will improve the performance of the application when it is moved to AWS?Read More →

A solutions architect is deploying a distributed database on multiple Amazon EC2 instances.The database stores all data on multiple instances so it can withstand the loss of an instance.The database requires block storage with latency and throughput to support several million transactions per second per server.Which storage solution should the solutions architect use?Read More →

Organizers for a global event want to put daily reports online as static HTML pages.The pages are expected to generate millions of views from users around the world.The files are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket.A solutions architect has been asked to design an efficient and effective solution.Which action should the solutions architect take to accomplish this?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a new service behind Amazon API Gateway.The request patterns for the service will be unpredictable and can change suddenly from 0 requests to over 500 per second.The total size of the data that needs to be persisted in a backend database is currently less than 1 GB with unpredictable future growth.Data can be queried using simple key-value requests.Which combination of AWS services would meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A start-up company has a web application based in the us-east-1 Region with multiple Amazon EC2 instances running behind an Application Load Balancer across multiple Availability Zones.As the company’s user base grows in the us-west-1 Region, it needs a solution with low latency and high availability.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a solution to access a catalog of images and provide users with the ability to submit requests to customize images.Image customization parameters will be in any request sent to an AWS API Gateway API.The customized image will be generated on demand, and users will receive a link they can click to view or download their customized image.The solution must be highly available for viewing and customizing images.What is the MOST cost-effective solution to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is planning to migrate a business-critical dataset to Amazon S3.The current solution design uses a single S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region with versioning enabled to store the dataset.The company’s disaster recovery policy states that all data multiple AWS Regions.How should a solutions architect design the S3 solution?Read More →

A company has application running on Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC.One of the applications needs to call an Amazon S3 API to store and read objects.The company’s security policies restrict any internet-bound traffic from the applications.Which action will fulfill these requirements and maintain security?Read More →

A company’s web application uses an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL DB instance to store its application data.During the financial closing period at the start of every month, Accountants run large queries that impact the database’s performance due to high usage.The company wants to minimize the impact that the reporting activity has on the web application.What should a solutions architect do to reduce the impact on the database with the LEAST amount of effort?Read More →

A company wants to migrate a high performance computing (HPC) application and data from on-premises to the AWS Cloud.The company uses tiered storage on premises with hot high-performance parallel storage to support the application during periodic runs of the application, and more economical cold storage to hold the data when the application is not actively running.Which combination of solutions should a solutions architect recommend to support the storage needs of the application? (Choose two.)Read More →