Solutions Architect Associate (Page 83)

A solutions architect must design a highly available infrastructure for a website.The website is powered by Windows web servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances.The solutions architect must implement a solution that can mitigate a large-scale DDoS attack that originates from thousands of IP addresses.Downtime is not acceptable for the website.Which actions should the solutions architect take to protect the website from such an attack? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to use high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure on AWS for financial risk modeling.The company’s HPC workloads run on Linux.Each HPC workflow runs on hundreds of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, is short-lived, and generates thousands of output files that are ultimately stored in persistent storage for analytics and long-term future use.The company seeks a cloud storage solution that permits the copying of on-premises data to long-term persistent storage to make data available for processing by all EC2 instances.The solution should also be a high performance file system that is integrated with persistent storage to read and write datasets and output files.Which combination of AWS services meets these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is investigating AWS file storage solutions that can be used with a company’s on-premises Linux servers and applications.The company has an existing VPN connection set up between the company’s VPC and its on-premises network.Which AWS services should the solutions architect use? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is building a containerized application on premises and decides to move the application to AWS.The application will have thousands of users soon after it is deployed.The company is unsure how to manage the deployment of containers at scale.The company needs to deploy the containerized application in a highly available architecture that minimizes operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A developer has an application that uses an AWS Lambda function to upload files to Amazon S3 and needs the required permissions to perform the task.The developer already has an IAM user with valid IAM credentials required for Amazon S3.What should a solutions architect do to grant the permissions?Read More →

A company has two applications: a sender application that sends messages with payloads to be processed and a processing application intended to receive the messages with payloads.The company wants to implement an AWS service to handle messages between the two applications.The sender application can send about 1,000 messages each hour.The messages may take up to 2 days to be processed: If the messages fail to process, they must be retained so that they do not impact the processing of any remaining messages.Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally efficient?Read More →

A company is making a prototype of the infrastructure for its new website by manually provisioning the necessary infrastructure.This infrastructure includes anAuto Scaling group, an Application Load Balancer, and an Amazon RDS database.After the configuration has been thoroughly validated, the company wants the capability to immediately deploy the infrastructure for development and production use in two Availability Zones in an automated fashion.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s ecommerce website has unpredictable traffic and uses AWS Lambda functions to directly access a private Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance.The company wants to maintain predictable database performance and ensure that the Lambda invocations do not overload the database with too many connections.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s application is having performance issues.The application is stateful and needs to complete in-memory tasks on Amazon EC2 instances.The company used AWS CloudFormation to deploy infrastructure and used the M5 EC2 instance family.As traffic increased, the application performance degraded.Users are reporting delays when the users attempt to access the application.Which solution will resolve these issues in the MOST operationally efficient way?Read More →

A financial services company launched a new application that uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL database.The company uses the application to track stock market trends.The company needs to operate the application for only 2 hours at the end of each week.The company needs to optimize the cost of running the database.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →