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A company wants to use the AWS Cloud to make an existing application highly available and resilient.The current version of the application resides in the company’s data center.The application recently experienced data loss after a database server crashed because of an unexpected power outage.The company needs a solution that avoids any single points of failure.The solution must give the application the ability to scale to meet user demand.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs multiple Windows workloads on AWS.The company’s employees use Windows file shares that are hosted on two Amazon EC2 instances.The file shares synchronize data between themselves and maintain duplicate copies.The company wants a highly available and durable storage solution that preserves how users currently access the files.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a web application with sporadic usage patterns.There is heavy usage at the beginning of each month, moderate usage at the start of each week, and unpredictable usage during the week.The application consists of a web server and a MySQL database server running inside the data center.The company would like to move the application to the AWS Cloud, and needs to select a cost-effective database platform that will not require database modifications.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A news company that has reporters all over the world is hosting its broadcast system on AWS.The reporters send live broadcasts to the broadcast system.The reporters use software on their phones to send live streams through the Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP).A solutions architect must design a solution that gives the reporters the ability to send the highest quality streams.The solution must provide accelerated TCP connections back to the broadcast system.What should the solutions architect use to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a business system that generates hundreds of reports each day.The business system saves the reports to a network share in CSV format.The company needs to store this data in the AWS Cloud in near-real time for analysis.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?Read More →

A database is on an Amazon RDS MySQL 5.6 Multi-AZ DB instance that experiences highly dynamic reads.Application developers notice a significant slowdown when testing read performance from a secondary AWS Region.The developers want a solution that provides less than 1 second of read replication latency.What should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company has multiple Windows file servers on premises.The company wants to migrate and consolidate its files into an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system.File permissions must be preserved to ensure that access rights do not change.Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company uses a legacy on-premises analytics application that operates on gigabytes of .csv files and represents months of data.The legacy application cannot handle the growing size of .csv files.New .csv files are added daily from various data sources to a central on-premises storage location.The company wants to continue to support the legacy application while users learn AWS analytics services.To achieve this, a solutions architect wants to maintain two synchronized copies of all the .csv files on-premises and in Amazon S3.Which solution should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company seeks a storage solution for its application.The solution must be highly available and scalable.The solution also must function as a file system be mountable by multiple Linux instances in AWS and on premises through native protocols, and have no minimum size requirements.The company has set up a Site-to-Site VPN for access from its on-premises network to its VPC.Which storage solution meets these requirements?Read More →

An application is running on an Amazon EC2 instance and must have millisecond latency when running the workload.The application makes many small reads and writes to the file system, but the file system itself is small.Which Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume type should a solutions architect attach to their EC2 instance?Read More →