Solutions Architect Associate (Page 83)

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 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 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 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 →

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 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 →

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 Linux instances across multiple Availability Zones.The application needs a storage layer that is highly available and Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)-compliant.The storage layer must provide maximum data durability and must be shareable across the EC2 instances.The data in the storage layer will be accessed frequently for the first 30 days and will be accessed infrequently after that time.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company hosts its website on AWS.To address the highly variable demand, the company has implemented Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling.Management is concerned that the company is over-provisioning its infrastructure, especially at the front end of the three-tier application.A solutions architect needs to ensure costs are optimized without impacting performance.What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?Read More →

A company has resources across multiple AWS Regions and accounts.A newly hired solutions architect discovers a previous employee did not provide details about the resources inventory.The solutions architect needs to build and map the relationship details of the various workloads across all accounts.Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?Read More →

A company is building applications in containers.The company wants to migrate its on-premises development and operations services from its on-premises data center to AWS.Management states that production systems must be cloud agnostic and use the same configuration and administrator tools across production systems.A solutions architect needs to design a managed solution that will align open-source software.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →