Solutions Architect Associate (Page 80)

A company wants to automate the security assessment of its Amazon EC2 instances.The company needs to validate and demonstrate that security and compliance standards are being followed throughout the development process.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has an aging network-attached storage (NAS) array in its data center.The NAS array presents SMB shares and NFS shares to client workstations.The company does not want to purchase a new NAS array.The company also does not want to incur the cost of renewing the NAS array’s support contract.Some of the data is accessed frequently, but much of the data is inactive.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that migrates the data to Amazon S3, uses S3 Lifecycle policies, and maintains the same look and feel for the client workstations.The solutions architect has identified AWS Storage Gateway as part of the solution.Which type of storage gateway should the solutions architect provision to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company previously migrated its data warehouse solution to AWS.The company also has an AWS Direct Connect connection.Corporate office users query the data warehouse using a visualization tool.The average size of a query returned by the data warehouse is 50 MB and each webpage sent by the visualization tool is approximately 500 KB.Result sets returned by the data warehouse are not cached.Which solution provides the LOWEST data transfer egress cost for the company?Read More →

A company has hundreds of Amazon EC2 Linux-based instances in the AWS Cloud.Systems administrators have used shared SSH keys to manage the instances.After a recent audit, the company’s security team is mandating the removal of all shared keys.A solutions architect must design a solution that provides secure access to the EC2 instances.Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of administrative overhead?Read More →

A solutions architect is creating a data processing job that runs once daily and can take up to 2 hours to complete.If the job is interrupted, it has to restart from the beginning.How should the solutions architect address this issue in the MOST cost-effective manner?Read More →

A company deploys an application on five Amazon EC2 instances.An Application Load Balancer (ALB) distributes traffic to the instances by using a target group.The average CPU usage on each of the instances is below 10% most of the time, with occasional surges to 65%.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to automate the scalability of the application.The solution must optimize the cost of the architecture and must ensure that the application has enough CPU resources when surges occur.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company needs to ingest and handle large amounts of streaming data that its application generates.The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and sends data to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, which is configured with default settings.Every other day, the application consumes the data and writes the data to anAmazon S3 bucket for business intelligence (BI) processing.The company observes that Amazon S3 is not receiving all the data that the application sends toKinesis Data Streams.What should a solutions architect do to resolve this issue?Read More →

A company has a popular gaming platform running on AWS.The application is sensitive to latency because latency can impact the user experience and introduce unfair advantages to some players.The application is deployed in every AWS Region.It runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are part of Auto Scaling groups configured behind Application Load Balancers (ALBs).A solutions architect needs to implement a mechanism to monitor the health of the application and redirect traffic to healthy endpoints.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is developing a file-sharing application that will use an Amazon S3 bucket for storage.The company wants to serve all the files through an AmazonCloudFront distribution.The company does not want the files to be accessible through direct navigation to the S3 URL.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company recently announced the deployment of its retail website to a global audience.The website runs on multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer.The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones.The company wants to provide its customers with different versions of content based on the devices that the customers use to access the website.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →