Solutions Architect Associate (Page 97)

A company has multiple AWS accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations that different business units use.The company has multiple offices around the world.The company needs to update security group rules to allow new office CIDR ranges or to remove old CIDR ranges across the organization.The company wants to centralize the management of security group rules to minimize the administrative overhead that updating CIDR ranges requires.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company recently deployed a two-tier application in two Availability Zones in the us-east-1 Region.The databases are deployed in a private subnet while the web servers are deployed in a public subnet.An internet gateway is attached to the VPC.The application and database run on Amazon EC2 instances.The database servers are unable to access patches on the internet.A solutions architect needs to design a solution that maintains database security with the least operational overhead.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has a web application that runs on premises.The application experiences latency issues during peak hours.The latency issues occur twice each month.At the start of a latency issue, the application’s CPU utilization immediately increases to 10 times its normal amount.The company wants to migrate the application to AWS to improve latency.The company also wants to scale the application automatically when application demand increases.The company will use AWS Elastic Beanstalk for application deployment.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has global users accessing an application deployed in different AWS Regions, exposing public static IP addresses.The users are experiencing poor performance when accessing the application over the internet.What should a solutions architect recommend to reduce internet latency?Read More →

A company has customers located across the world.The company wants to use automation to secure its systems and network infrastructure.The company’s security team must be able to track and audit all incremental changes to the infrastructure.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect must design a solution for a persistent database that is being migrated from on-premises to AWS.The database requires 64,000 IOPS according to the database administrator.If possible, the database administrator wants to use a single Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume to host the database instance.Which solution effectively meets the database administrator’s criteria?Read More →

A company has a web application hosted over 10 Amazon EC2 instances with traffic directed by Amazon Route 53.The company occasionally experiences a timeout error when attempting to browse the application.The networking team finds that some DNS queries return IP addresses of unhealthy instances, resulting in the timeout error.What should a solutions architect implement to overcome these timeout errors?Read More →

A three-tier web application processes orders from customers.The web tier consists of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer, a middle tier of three EC2 instances decoupled from the web tier using Amazon SQS, and an Amazon DynamoDB backend.At peak times, customers who submit orders using the site have to wait much longer than normal to receive confirmations due to lengthy processing times.A solutions architect needs to reduce these processing times.Which action will be MOST effective in accomplishing this?Read More →

A pharmaceutical company is developing a new drug.The volume of data that the company generates has grown exponentially over the past few months.The company’s researchers regularly require a subset of the entire dataset to be immediately available with minimal lag.However, the entire dataset does not need to be accessed on a daily basis.All the data currently resides in on-premises storage arrays, and the company wants to reduce ongoing capital expenses.Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect must create a highly available bastion host architecture.The solution needs to be resilient within a single AWS Region and should require only minimal effort to maintain.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →