Solutions Architect Associate (Page 90)

A company built an application that lets users check in to places they visit, rank the places, and add reviews about their experiences.The application is successful with a rapid increase in the number of users every month.The chief technology officer fears the database supporting the current Infrastructure may not handle the new load the following month because the single AmazonRDS for MySQL instance has triggered alarms related to resource exhaustion due to read requests.What can a solutions architect recommend to prevent service Interruptions at the database layer with minimal changes to code?Read More →

A company runs container applications by using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler.The workload is not consistent throughout the day.A solutions architect notices that the number of nodes does not automatically scale out when the existing nodes have reached maximum capacity in the cluster, which causes performance issues.Which solution will resolve this issue with the LEAST administrative overhead?Read More →

A company has created a VPC with multiple private subnets in multiple Availability Zones (AZs) and one public subnet in one of the AZs.The public subnet is used to launch a NAT gateway.There are instances in the private subnets that use a NAT gateway to connect to the internet.In case of an AZ failure, the company wants to ensure that the instances are not all experiencing internet connectivity issues and that there is a backup plan ready.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend that is MOST highly available?Read More →

A company has an AWS Direct Connect connection from its on-premises location to an AWS account.The AWS account has 30 different VPCs in the same AWS Region.The VPCs use private virtual interfaces (VIFs).Each VPC has a CIDR block that does not overlap with other networks under the company’s control.The company wants to centrally manage the networking architecture while still allowing each VPC to communicate with all other VPCs and on-premises networks.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

A healthcare company stores highly sensitive patient records.Compliance requires that multiple copies be stored in different locations.Each record must be stored for 7 years.The company has a service level agreement (SLA) to provide records to government agencies immediately for the first 30 days and then within 4 hours of a request thereafter.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company wants to rearchitect a large-scale web application to a serverless microservices architecture.The application uses Amazon EC2 instances and is written in Python.The company selected one component of the web application to test as a microservice.The component supports hundreds of requests each second.The company wants to create and test the microservice on an AWS solution that supports Python.The solution must also scale automatically and require minimal infrastructure and minimal operational support.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company recently deployed a new auditing system to centralize information about operating system versions, patching, and installed software for Amazon EC2 instances.A solutions architect must ensure all instances provisioned through EC2 Auto Scaling groups successfully send reports to the auditing system as soon as they are launched and terminated.Which solution achieves these goals MOST efficiently?Read More →

A manufacturing company runs its report generation application on AWS.The application generates each report in about 20 minutes.The application is built as a monolith that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance.The application requires frequent updates to its tightly coupled modules.The application becomes complex to maintain as the company adds new features.Each time the company patches a software module, the application experiences downtime.Report generation must restart from the beginning after any interruptions.The company wants to redesign the application so that the application can be flexible, scalable, and gradually improved.The company wants to minimize application downtime.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company recently implemented hybrid cloud connectivity using AWS Direct Connect and is migrating data to Amazon S3.The company is looking for a fully managed solution that will automate and accelerate the replication of data between the on-premises storage systems and AWS storage services.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to keep the data private?Read More →

A company is migrating a large amount of data from on-premises storage to AWS.Windows, Mac, and Linux based Amazon EC2 instances in the same AWS Region will access the data by using SMB and NFS storage protocols.The company will access a portion of the data routinely.The company will access the remaining data infrequently.The company needs to design a solution to host the data.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →