Solutions Architect Professional (Page 102)

A company runs a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application on AWS.The application consists of AWS Lambda functions and an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ database.During market events, the application has a much higher workload than normal.Users notice slow response times during the peak periods because of many database connections.The company needs to improve the scalable performance and availability of the database.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is processing financial records in the AWS Cloud.Throughout the day, records are uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket for processing.Every night at midnight, an application processes the records.The application runs on a set of Amazon EC2 instances and is invoked by a cron job on each instance.The application processes all the records in a total of approximately 60 minutes and stores the result in a second S3 bucket.A solutions architect needs to modernize the application by implementing a solution that processes the records with the least possible operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has developed an application that is running Windows Server on VMware vSphere VMs that the company hosts on premises.The application data is stored in a proprietary format that must be read through the application.The company manually provisioned the servers and the application.As part of its disaster recovery plan, the company wants the ability to host its application on AWS temporarily if the company’s on-premises environment becomes unavailable.The company wants the application to return to on-premises hosting after a disaster recovery event is complete.The RPO is 5 minutes.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

You’re trying to delete an SSL certificate from the IAM certificate store, and you’re getting the message “Certificate: is being used by CloudFront.”Which of the following statements is probably the reason why you are getting this error?Read More →

A company has an application that has a web frontend.The application runs in the company’s on-premises data center and requires access to file storage for critical data.The application runs on three Linux VMs for redundancy.The architecture includes a load balancer with HTTP request-based routing.The company needs to migrate the application to AWS as quickly as possible.The architecture on AWS must be highly available.Which solution will meet these requirements with the FEWEST changes to the architecture?Read More →

A company stores sales transaction data in Amazon DynamoDB tables.To detect anomalous behaviors and respond quickly, all changes to the items stored in the DynamoDB tables must be logged within 30 minutes.Which solution meets the requirements?Read More →

A company that develops consumer electronics with offices in Europe and Asia has 60 TB of software images stored on premises in Europe.The company wants to transfer the images to an Amazon S3 bucket in the ap-northeast-1 Region.New software images are created daily and must be encrypted in transit.The company needs a solution that does not require custom development to automatically transfer all existing and new software images to Amazon S3.What is the next step in the transfer process?Read More →

An internal security audit of AWS resources within a company found that a number of Amazon EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows workloads were missing several important operating system-level patches.A Solutions Architect has been asked to fix existing patch deficiencies, and to develop a workflow to ensure that future patching requirements are identified and taken care of quickly.The Solutions Architect has decided to use AWS Systems Manager.It is important that EC2 instance reboots do not occur at the same time on all Windows workloads to meet organizational uptime requirements.Which workflow will meet these requirements in an automated manner?Read More →

A company creates an AWS Control Tower landing zone to manage and govern a multi-account AWS environment.The company’s security team will deploy preventive controls and detective controls to monitor AWS services across all the accounts.The security team needs a centralized view of the security state of all the accounts.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is moving a business-critical application onto AWS.It is a traditional three-tier web application using an Oracle database.Data must be encrypted in transit and at rest.The database hosts 12 TB of data.Network connectivity to the source Oracle database over the internal is allowed, and the company wants to reduce operational costs by using AWS Managed Services where possible.All resources within the web and application tiers have been migrated.The database has a few tables and a simple schema using primary keys only; however, it contains many Binary Large Object (BLOB) fields.It was not possible to use the database’s native replication tools because of licensing restrictions.Which database migration solution will result in the LEAST amount of impact to the application’s availability?Read More →