Solutions Architect Professional (Page 103)

A company maintains information on premises in approximately 1 million.csv files that are hosted on a VM.The data initially is 10 TB in size and grows at a rate of 1 TB each week.The company needs to automate backups of the data to the AWS Cloud.Backups of the data must occur daily.The company needs a solution that applies custom filters to back up only a subset of the data that is located in designated source directories.The company has set up an AWS Direct Connect connection.Which solution will meet the backup requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A large company is migrating its entire IT portfolio to AWS.Each business unit in the company has a standalone AWS account that supports both development and test environments.New accounts to support production workloads will be needed soon.The Finance department requires a centralized method for payment but must maintain visibility into each group’s spending to allocate costs.The Security team requires a centralized mechanism to control IAM usage in all the company’s accounts.What combination of the following options meet the company’s needs with the LEAST effort? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect has launched multiple Amazon EC2 instances in a placement group within a single Availability Zone.Because of additional load on the system, the solutions architect attempts to add new instances to the placement group.However, the solutions architect receives an insufficient capacity error.What should the solutions architect do to troubleshoot this issue?Read More →

A company wants to replace its call centersystem with a solution built using AWS managed services.The company call center would like the solution to receive calls, create contact flows, and scale to handle growth projections.The call center would also like the solution to use deep learning capabilities to recognize the intent of the callers and handle basic tasks, reducing the need to speak to an agent.The solution should also be able to query business applications and provide relevant information back to callers as requested.Which services should the Solutions Architect use to build this solution? (Choose three.)Read More →

A solutions architect must provide a secure way for a team of cloud engineers to use the AWS CLI to upload objects into an Amazon S3 bucket.Each cloud engineer has an IAM user, IAM access keys, and a virtual multi-factor authentication (MFA) device.The IAM users for the cloud engineers are in a group that is named S3-access.The cloud engineers must use MFA to perform any actions in Amazon S3.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company needs to migrate two individual applications from on premises to AWS:• The first application is a legacy custom application that is hosted on a physical Windows server.The application source code is no longer available.The application has little documentation, has hardcoded operating system configuration settings, and is used by an external third party.• The second application is an IBM Db2 database that is hosted on a single Linux VM that uses network-attached storage (NAS) to store the database data.The company uses this database internally for employee records.The applications are hosted in a data center that the company plans to decommission in 90 days.Where possible, the company must use managed AWS services.Which actions for migration should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company needs to modernize an application and migrate the application to AWS.The application stores user profile data as text in a single table in an on-premises MySQL database.After the modernization, users will use the application to upload video files that are up to 4 GB in size.Other users must be able to download the video files from the application.The company needs a video storage solution that provides rapid scaling.The solution must not affect application performance.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A large global financial services company has multiple business units.The company wants to allow Developers to try new services, but there are multiple compliance requirements for different workloads.The Security team is concerned about the access strategy for on-premises and AWS implementations.They would like to enforce governance for AWS services used by business teams for regulatory workloads, including Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirements.Which solution will address the Security team’s concerns and allow the Developers to try new services?Read More →

A company has application services that have been containerized and deployed on multiple Amazon EC2 instances with public IPs.An Apache Kafka cluster has been deployed to the EC2 instances.A PostgreSQL database has been migrated to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.The company expects a significant increase of orders on its platform when a new version of its flagship product is released.What changes to the current architecture will reduce operational overhead and support the product release?Read More →

A company’s CISO has asked a Solutions Architect to re-engineer the company’s current CI/CD practices to make sure patch deployments to its applications can happen as quickly as possible with minimal downtime if vulnerabilities are discovered.The company must also be able to quickly roll back a change in case of errors.The web application is deployed in a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The company is currently using GitHub to host the application source code, and has configured an AWS CodeBuild project to build the application.The company also intends to use AWS CodePipeline to trigger builds from GitHub commits using the existing CodeBuild project.What CI/CD configuration meets all of the requirements?Read More →