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A data analytics company wants to migrate its batch processing system to AWS.The company receives thousands of small data files periodically during the day through FTP.An on-premises batch job processes the data files overnight.However, the batch job takes hours to finish running.The company wants the AWS solution to process incoming data files as soon as possible with minimal changes to the FTP clients that send the files.The solution must delete the incoming data files after the files have been processed successfully.Processing for each file needs to take 3-8 minutes.Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?Read More →

A company is creating a prototype of an ecommerce website on AWS.The website consists of an Application Load Balancer, an Auto Scaling group of AmazonEC2 instances for web servers, and an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance that runs with the Single-AZ configuration.The website is slow to respond during searches of the product catalog.The product catalog is a group of tables in the MySQL database that the company does not update frequently.A solutions architect has determined that the CPU utilization on the DB instance is high when product catalog searches occur.What should the solutions architect recommend to improve the performance of the website during searches of the product catalog?Read More →

A company’s website is used to sell products to the public.The site runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).There is also an Amazon CloudFront distribution, and AWS WAF is being used to protect against SQL injection attacks.The ALB is the origin for the CloudFront distribution.A recent review of security logs revealed an external malicious IP that needs to be blocked from accessing the website.What should a solutions architect do to protect the application?Read More →

An ecommerce company is creating an application that requires a connection to a third-party payment service to process payments.The payment service needs to explicitly allow the public IP address of the server that is making the payment request.However, the company’s security policies do not allow any server to be exposed directly to the public internet.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A startup company is hosting a website for its customers on an Amazon EC2 instance.The website consists of a stateless Python application and a MySQL database.The website serves only a small amount of traffic.The company is concerned about the reliability of the instance and needs to migrate to a highly available architecture.The company cannot modify the application code.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to achieve high availability for the website? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company must re-evaluate its need for the Amazon EC2 instances it currently has provisioned in an Auto Scaling group.At present, the Auto Scaling group is configured for a minimum of two instances and a maximum of four instances across two Availability Zones.A Solutions architect reviewed Amazon CloudWatch metrics and found that CPU utilization is consistently low for all the EC2 instances.What should the solutions architect recommend to maximize utilization while ensuring the application remains fault tolerant?Read More →

A company is using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys to encrypt AWS Lambda environment variables.A solutions architect needs to ensure that the required permissions are in place to decrypt and use the environment variables.Which steps must the solutions architect take to implement the correct permissions? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has a web server running on an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subnet with an Elastic IP address.The default security group is assigned to the EC2 instance.The default network ACL has been modified to block all traffic.A solutions architect needs to make the web server accessible from everywhere on port443.Which combination of steps will accomplish this task? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a RESTAPI in Amazon API Gateway for a cash payback service.The application requires 1 GB of memory and 2 GB of storage for its computation resources.The application will require that the data is in a relational format.Which additional combination ofAWS services will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative effort? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company operates a website on Amazon EC2 Linux instances.Some of the instances are failing.Troubleshooting points to insufficient swap space on the failed instances.The operations team lead needs a solution to monitor this.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →