Solutions Architect Associate (Page 94)

A company is hosting a static website on Amazon S3 and is using Amazon Route 53 for DNS.The website is experiencing increased demand from around the world.The company must decrease latency for users who access the website.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company’s application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones.On the first day of every month at midnight, the application becomes much slower when the month-end financial calculation batch runs.This causes the CPU utilization of the EC2 instances to immediately peak to 100%, which disrupts the application.What should a solutions architect recommend to ensure the application is able to handle the workload and avoid downtime?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 hosts its static website by using Amazon S3.The company wants to add a contact form to its webpage.The contact form will have dynamic server-side components for users to input their name, email address, phone number, and user message.The company anticipates that there will be fewer than 100 site visits each month.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A solutions architect is developing a multiple-subnet VPC architecture.The solution will consist of six subnets in two Availability Zones.The subnets are defined as public, private and dedicated for databases.Only the Amazon EC2 instances running in the private subnets should be able to access a database.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A research company runs experiments that are powered by a simulation application and a visualization application.The simulation application runs on Linux and outputs intermediate data to an NFS share every 5 minutes.The visualization application is a Windows desktop application that displays the simulation output and requires an SMB file system.The company maintains two synchronized file systems.This strategy is causing data duplication and inefficient resource usage.The company needs to migrate the applications to AWS without making code changes to either application.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has multiple applications that use Amazon RDS for MySQL as is database.The company recently discovered that a new custom reporting application has increased the number of Queries on the database.This is slowing down performance.How should a solutions architect resolve this issue with the LEAST amount of application changes?Read More →

A rapidly growing ecommerce company is running its workloads in a single AWS Region.A solutions architect must create a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that includes a different AWS Region.The company wants its database to be up to date in the DR Region with the least possible latency.The remaining infrastructure in the DR Region needs to run at reduced capacity and must be able to scale up if necessary.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LOWEST recovery time objective (RTO)?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to ensure that all Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes restored from unencrypted EBC snapshots are encrypted.What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?Read More →

A company’s facility has badge readers at every entrance throughout the building.When badges are scanned, the readers send a message over HTTPS to indicate who attempted to access that particular entrance.A solutions architect must design a system to process these messages from the sensors.The solution must be highly available, and the results must be made available for the company’s security team to analyze.Which system architecture should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →