Solutions Architect Associate (Page 96)

A video game company is deploying a new gaming application to its global users.The company requires a solution that will provide near real-time reviews and rankings of the players.A solutions architect must design a solution to provide fast access to the data.The solution must also ensure the data persists on disks in the event that the company restarts the application.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company built a food ordering application that captures user data and stores it for future analysis.The application’s static front end is deployed on an AmazonEC2 instance.The front-end application sends the requests to the backend application running on separate EC2 instance.The backend application then stores the data in Amazon RDS.What should a solutions architect do to decouple the architecture and make it scalable?Read More →

A company needs to grant a team of developers access to the company’s AWS resources.The company must maintain a high level of security for the resources.The company requires an access control solution that will prevent unauthorized access to the sensitive data.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a three-tier image-sharing application.It uses an Amazon EC2 instance for the front-end layer, another for the backend tier, and a third for theMySQL database.A solutions architect has been tasked with designing a solution that is highly available, and requires the least amount of changes to the applicationWhich solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has an employee web portal.Employees log in to the portal to view payroll details.The company is developing a new system to give employees the ability to upload scanned documents for reimbursement.The company runs a program to extract text-based data from the documents and attach the extracted information to each employee’s reimbursement IDs for processing.The employee web portal requires 100% uptime.The document extract program runs infrequently throughout the day on an on-demand basis.The company wants to build a scalable and cost-effective new system that will require minimal changes to the existing web portal.The company does not want to make any code changes.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort?Read More →

A solutions architect is optimizing a website for an upcoming musical event.Videos of the performances will be streamed in real time and then will be available on demand.The event is expected to attract a global online audience.Which service will improve the performance of both the real-time and on-demand steaming?Read More →

A company is running a custom application on Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances.The application has frontend nodes that need to run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and backend nodes that need to run only for a short time based on workload.The number of backend nodes varies during the day.The company needs to scale out and scale in more instances based on workload.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to design a low-latency solution for a static single-page application accessed by users utilizing a custom domain name.The solution must be serverless, encrypted in transit, and cost-effective.Which combination of AWS services and features should the solutions architect use? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company runs its application by using Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Lambda functions.The EC2 instances run in private subnets of a VPC.The Lambda functions need direct network access to the EC2 instances for the application to work.The application will run for 1 year.The number of Lambda functions that the application uses will increase during the 1-year period.The company must minimize costs on all application resources.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application with a REST-based interface that allows data to be received in near-real time from a third-party vendor.Once received, the application processes and stores the data for further analysis.The application is running on Amazon EC2 instances.The third-party vendor has received many 503 Service Unavailable Errors when sending data to the application.When the data volume spikes, the compute capacity reaches its maximum limit and the application is unable to process all requests.Which design should a solutions architect recommend to provide a more scalable solution?Read More →