Solutions Architect Professional (Page 107)

An online retail company is migrating its legacy on-premises .NET application to AWS.The application runs on load-balanced frontend web servers, load-balanced application servers, and a Microsoft SQL Server database.The company wants to use AWS managed services where possible and does not want to rewrite the application.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to resolve scaling issues and minimize licensing costs as the application scales.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

You deployed your company website using Elastic Beanstalk and you enabled log file rotation to S3.An Elastic Map Reduce job is periodically analyzing the logs on S3 to build a usage dashboard that you share with your CIO.You recently improved overall performance of the website using Cloud Front for dynamic content delivery and your website as the origin.After this architectural change, the usage dashboard shows that the traffic on your website dropped by an order of magnitude.How do you fix your usage dashboard?Read More →

A company is designing a new website that hosts static content.The website will give users the ability to upload and download large files.According to company requirements, all data must be encrypted in transit and at rest.A solutions architect is building the solution by using Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront.Which combination of steps will meet the encryption requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

Select the correct set of options.These are the initial settings for the default security group:Read More →

A solutions architect needs to improve an application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud.The application uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB instance that is experiencing overloaded connections.Most of the application’s operations insert records into the database.The application currently stores credentials in a text-based configuration file.The solutions architect needs to implement a solution so that the application can handle the current connection load.The solution must keep the credentials secure and must provide the ability to rotate the credentials automatically on a regular basis.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

How can an EBS volume that is currently attached to an EC2 instance be migrated from one Availability Zone to another?Read More →

A company has a complex web application that leverages Amazon CloudFront for global scalability and performance.Over time, users report that the web application is slowing down.The company’s operations team reports that the CloudFront cache hit ratio has been dropping steadily.The cache metrics report indicates that query strings on some URLs are inconsistently ordered and are specified sometimes in mixed-case letters and sometimes in lowercase letters.Which set of actions should the solutions architect take to increase the cache hit ratio as quickly as possible?Read More →

After launching an instance that you intend to serve as a NAT (Network Address Translation) device in a public subnet you modify your route tables to have theNAT device be the target of internet bound traffic of your private subnet.When you try and make an outbound connection to the internet from an instance in the private subnet, you are not successful.Which of the following steps could resolve the issue?Read More →

An adventure company has launched a new feature on its mobile app.Users can use the feature to upload their hiking and rafting photos and videos anytime.The photos and videos are stored in Amazon S3 Standard storage in an S3 bucket and are served through Amazon CloudFront.The company needs to optimize the cost of the storage.A solutions architect discovers that most of the uploaded photos and videos are accessed infrequently after 30 days.However, some of the uploaded photos and videos are accessed frequently after 30 days.The solutions architect needs to implement a solution that maintains millisecond retrieval availability of the photos and videos at the lowest possible cost.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A Solutions Architect is working with a company that is extremely sensitive to its IT costs and wishes to implement controls that will result in a predictable AWS spend each month.Which combination of steps can help the company control and monitor its monthly AWS usage to achieve a cost that is as close as possible to the target amount?(Choose three.)Read More →