Solutions Architect Associate (Page 91)

A company is implementing a shared storage solution for a media application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud.The company needs the ability to use SMB clients to access data.The solution must be fully managed.Which AWS solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is implementing a complex Java application with a MySQL database.The Java application must be deployed on Apache Tomcat and must be highly available.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs analytics software on Amazon EC2 instances. The software accepts job requests from users to process data that has been uploaded to Amazon S3. Users report that some submitted data is not being processed Amazon CloudWatch reveals that the EC2 instances have a consistent CPU utilization at or near 100%. The company wants to improve system performance and scale the system based on user load.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts a web-based application on AWS in a departmental level VPC.The company has used AWS CloudFormation stacks to provision all the required resources in the AWS Cloud.The company needs to migrate this application to the company level VPC.The application and network components need to be managed as separate entities.Before the company implements changes, the company wants to understand how the changes will affect resources that are already running.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has deployed a database in Amazon RDS for MySQL.Due to increased transactions, the database support team is reporting slow reads against the DB instance and recommends adding a read replica.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take before implementing this change? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company hosts a website analytics application on a single Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instance.The analytics software is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database.The analytics software, the web server that provides PHP, and the database server are all hosted on the EC2 instance.The application is showing signs of performance degradation during busy times and is presenting 5xx errors.The company needs to make the application scale seamlessly.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company runs a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones.The EC2 instances are in private subnets.A solutions architect implements an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB) and specifies the EC2 instances as the target group.However, the internet traffic is not reaching the EC2 instances.How should the solutions architect reconfigure the architecture to resolve this issue?Read More →

A company hosts its web applications in the AWS Cloud.The company configures Elastic Load Balancers to use certificates that are imported into AWS CertificateManager (ACM).The company’s security team must be notified 30 days before the expiration of each certificate.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company is launching an application on AWS.The application uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to direct traffic to at least two Amazon EC2 instances in a single target group.The instances are in an Auto Scaling group for each environment.The company requires a development environment and a production environment.The production environment will have periods of high traffic.Which solution will configure the development environment MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has a customer relationship management (CRM) application that stores data in an Amazon RDS DB instance that runs Microsoft SQL Server.The company’s IT staff has administrative access to the database.The database contains sensitive data.The company wants to ensure that the data is not accessible to the IT staff and that only authorized personnel can view the data.What should a solutions architect do to secure the data?Read More →