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A company is planning to migrate a commercial off-the-shelf application from its on-premises data center to AWS.The software has a software licensing model using sockets and cores with predictable capacity and uptime requirements.The company wants to use its existing licenses, which were purchased earlier this year.Which Amazon EC2 pricing option is the MOST cost-effective?Read More →

A company hosts a training site on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances.The company anticipates that its new course, which consists of dozens of training videos on the site, will be extremely popular when it is released in 1 week.What should a solutions architect do to minimize the anticipated server load?Read More →

A company is designing a tightly coupled high performance computing (HPC) environment in the AWS Cloud.The company needs to include features that will optimize the HPC environment for networking and storage.Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company needs to store data in Amazon S3.A compliance requirement states that when any changes are made to objects the previous state of the object with any changes must be preserved.Additionally, files older than 5 years should not be accessed but need to be archived for auditing.What should a solutions architect recommend that is MOST cost-effective?Read More →

A company has an ecommerce checkout workflow that writes an order to a database and calls a service to process the payment.Users are experiencing timeouts during the checkout process.When users resubmit the checkout form, multiple unique orders are created for the same desired transaction.How should a solutions architect refactor this workflow to prevent the creation of multiple orders?Read More →

A company hosts its core network services, including directory services and DNS, in its on-premises data center.The data center is connected to the AWS Cloud using AWS Direct Connect (DX).Additional AWS accounts are planned that will require quick, cost-effective, and consistent access to these network services.What should a solutions architect implement to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?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 →

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 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 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 →