Solutions Architect Associate (Page 9)

An online photo-sharing company stores its photos in an Amazon S3 bucket that exists in the us-west-1 Region.The company needs to store a copy of all new photos in the us-east-1 Region.Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational effort?Read More →

A company is running a multi-tier ecommerce web application in the AWS Cloud.The web application is running on Amazon EC2 instances.The database tier is on a provisioned Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster with a writer and a reader in a Multi-AZ environment.The new requirement for the database tier is to serve the application to achieve continuous write availability through an instance failover.What should a solutions architect do to meet this new requirement?Read More →

A company has a mobile game that reads most of its metadata from an Amazon RDS DB instance.As the game increased in popularity, developers noticed slowdowns related to the game’s metadata load times.Performance metrics indicate that simply scaling the database will not help.A solutions architect must explore all options that include capabilities for snapshots, replication, and sub-millisecond response times.What should the solutions architect recommend to solve these issues?Read More →

A company has users all around the world accessing its HTTP-based application deployed on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple AWS Regions.The company wants to improve the availability and performance of the application.The company also wants to protect the application against common web exploits that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.Static IP addresses are required.What should a solutions architect recommend to accomplish this?Read More →

A company plans to rehost an application to Amazon EC2 instances that use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) as the attached storage.A solutions architect must design a solution to ensure that all newly created Amazon EBS volumes are encrypted by default.The solution must also prevent the creation of unencrypted EBS volumes.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company uses Amazon S3 as its object storage solution.The company has thousands of S3 buckets it uses to store data.Some of the S3 buckets have data that is accessed less frequently than others.A solutions architect found that lifecycle policies are not consistently implemented or are implemented partially, resulting in data being stored in high-cost storage.Which solution will lower costs without compromising the availability of objects?Read More →

A company has an application that is backed by an Amazon DynamoDB table.The company’s compliance requirements specify that database backups must be taken every month, must be available for 6 months, and must be retained for 7 years.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

An application is running on Amazon EC2 instances.Sensitive information required for the application is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket.The bucket needs to be protected from internet access while only allowing services within the VPC access to the bucket.Which combination of actions should solutions archived take to accomplish this? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has two AWS accounts: Production and Development.The company needs to push code changes in the Development account to the Production account.In the alpha phase, only two senior developers on the development team need access to the Production account.In the beta phase, more developers will need access to perform testing.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The application allows users to create custom reports of historical weather data.Generating a report can take up to 5 minutes.These long-running requests use many of the available incoming connections, making the system unresponsive to other users.How can a solutions architect make the system more responsive?Read More →