Solutions Architect Associate (Page 89)

A recent analysis of a company’s IT expenses highlights the need to reduce backup costs.The company’s chief information officer wants to simplify the on-premises backup infrastructure and reduce costs by eliminating the use of physical backup tapes.The company must preserve the existing investment in the on-premises backup applications and workflows.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company needs to store its accounting records in Amazon S3.The records must be immediately accessible for 1 year and then must be archived for an additional 9 years.No one at the company, including administrative users and root users, can be able to delete the records during the entire 10-year period.The records must be stored with maximum resiliency.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 solutions architect is developing a VPC architecture that includes multiple subnets.The architecture will host applications that use Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon RDS DB instances.The architecture consists of six subnets in two Availability Zones.Each Availability Zone includes a public subnet, a private subnet, and a dedicated subnet for databases.Only EC2 instances that run in the private subnets can have access to the RDS databases.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has registered its domain name with Amazon Route 53.The company uses Amazon API Gateway in the ca-central-1 Region as a public interface for its backend microservice APIs.Third-party services consume the APIs securely.The company wants to design its API Gateway URL with the company’s domain name and corresponding certificate so that the third-party services can use HTTPS.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is running a popular social media website.The website gives users the ability to upload images to share with other users.The company wants to make sure that the images do not contain inappropriate content.The company needs a solution that minimizes development effort.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to run its critical applications in containers to meet requirements for scalability and availability.The company prefers to focus on maintenance of the critical applications.The company does not want to be responsible for provisioning and managing the underlying infrastructure that runs the containerized workload.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts more than 300 global websites and applications.The company requires a platform to analyze more than 30 TB of clickstream data each day.What should a solutions architect do to transmit and process the clickstream data?Read More →

A company has a website hosted on AWS.The website is behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that is configured to handle HTTP and HTTPS separately.The company wants to forward all requests to the website so that the requests will use HTTPS.What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company is developing a two-tier web application on AWS.The company’s developers have deployed the application on an Amazon EC2 instance that connects directly to a backend Amazon RDS database.The company must not hardcode database credentials in the application.The company must also implement a solution to automatically rotate the database credentials on a regular basis.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →