Solutions Architect Associate (Page 92)

A company is using a content management system that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance.The EC2 instance contains both the web server and the database software.The company must make its website platform highly available and must enable the website to scale to meet user demand.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is designing a distributed application to optimize its global supply chain and manufacturing process.The company has facilities near the us-east-1Region, the eu-west-1 Region, and the ap-south-1 Region.According to the application requirements, orders that are booked in one Region must be visible in the other two Regions in 1 second or less.The database must be able to support failover with a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 5 minutes.The application must avoid downtime so that the manufacturing process is not negatively affected.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A medical research lab produces data that is related to a new study.The lab wants to make the data available with minimum latency to clinics across the country for their on-premises, file-based applications.The data files are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket that has read-only permissions for each clinic.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is developing an internal application that uses a PostgreSQL database.The company decides to host the database on Amazon Aurora.The application does not need to be highly available, but data must be stored in multiple Availability Zones.Which database configuration meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company hosts its web application on AWS using seven Amazon EC2 instances.The company requires that the IP addresses of all healthy EC2 instances be returned in response to DNS queries.Which policy should be used to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company’s infrastructure consists of hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances that use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage.A solutions architect must ensure that every EC2 instance can be recovered after a disaster.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of effort?Read More →

An online learning company is migrating to the AWS Cloud.The company maintains its student records in a PostgreSQL database.The company needs a solution in which its data is available and online across multiple AWS Regions at all times.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

A company runs a website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an ELB Application Load Balancer.Amazon Route 53 is used for the DNS.The company wants to set up a backup website with a message including a phone number and email address that users can reach if the primary website is down.How should the company deploy this solution?Read More →

A company previously migrated its data warehouse solution to AWS.The company also has an AWS Direct Connect connection.Corporate office users query the data warehouse using a visualization tool.The average size of a query returned by the data warehouse is 50 MB and each webpage sent by the visualization tool is approximately 500 KB.Result sets returned by the data warehouse are not cached.Which solution provides the LOWEST data transfer egress cost for the company?Read More →

A company hosts its website on Amazon S3.The website serves petabytes of outbound traffic monthly, which accounts for most of the company’s AWS costs.What should a solutions architect do to reduce costs?Read More →