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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 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 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 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 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 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 has two VPCs named Management and Production.The Management VPC uses VPNs through a customer gateway to connect to a single device in the data center.The Production VPC uses a virtual private gateway with two attached AWS Direct Connect connections.The Management and Production VPCs both use a single VPC peering connection to allow communication between the applications.What should a solutions architect do to mitigate any single point of failure in this architecture?Read More →

A large media company hosts a web application on AWS.The company wants to start caching confidential media files so that users around the world will have reliable access to the files.The content is stored in Amazon S3 buckets.The company must deliver the content quickly, regardless of where the requests originate geographically.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to design a system to store client case files.The files are core company assets and are important.The number of files will grow over time.The files must be simultaneously accessible from multiple application servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances.The solution must have built-in redundancy.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company produces batch data that comes from different databases.The company also produces live stream data from network sensors and application APIs.The company needs to consolidate all the data into one place for business analytics.The company needs to process the incoming data and then stage the data in different Amazon S3 buckets.Teams will later run one-time queries and import the data into a business intelligence tool to show key performance indicators (KPIs).Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Choose two.)Read More →