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A company hosts its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in the us-east-1 Region.The system runs on Amazon EC2 instances.Customers use a public API that is hosted on the EC2 instances to exchange information with the ERP system.International customers report slow API response times from their data centers.Which solution will improve response times for the international customers MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is running a high performance computing (HPC) workload on AWS across many Linux-based Amazon EC2 instances.The company needs a shared storage system that is capable of sub-millisecond latencies, hundreds of Gbps of throughput, and millions of IOPS.Users will store millions of small files.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company’s production environment consists of Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances that run constantly between Monday and Saturday.The instances must run for only 12 hours on Sunday and cannot tolerate interruptions.The company wants to cost-optimize the production environment.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has a production web application in which users upload documents through a web interface or a mobile app.According to a new regulatory requirement, new documents cannot be modified or deleted after they are stored.What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company’s image-hosting website gives users around the world the ability to up load, view, and download images from their mobile devices.The company currently hosts the static website in an Amazon S3 bucket.Because of the website’s growing popularity, the website’s performance has decreased.Users have reported latency issues when they upload and download images.The company must improve the performance of the website.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort?Read More →

A company is planning to store data on Amazon RDS DB instances.The company must encrypt the data at rest.What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A digital image processing company wants to migrate its on-premises monolithic application to the AWS Cloud.The company processes thousands of images and generates large files as part of the processing workflow.The company needs a solution to manage the growing number of image processing jobs.The solution must also reduce the manual tasks in the image processing workflow.The company does not want to manage the underlying infrastructure of the solution.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A solutions architect is using an AWS CloudFormation template to deploy a three-tier web application.The web application consists of a web tier and an application tier that stores and retrieves user data in Amazon DynamoDB tables.The web and application tiers are hosted on Amazon EC2 instances, and the database tier is not publicly accessible.The application EC2 instances need to access the DynamoDB tables without exposing API credentials in the template.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a three-tier web application that processes orders from customers.The web tier consists of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The processing tier consists of EC2 instances.The company decoupled the web tier and processing tier by using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS).The storage layer uses Amazon DynamoDB.At peak times, some users report order processing delays and halls.The company has noticed that during these delays, the EC2 instances are running at 100% CPU usage, and the SQS queue fills up.The peak times are variable and unpredictable.The company needs to improve the performance of the application.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a business-critical application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances.The application stores data in an Amazon DynamoDB table.The company must be able to revert the table to any point within the last 24 hours.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →