Solutions Architect Professional (Page 108)

A company uses Amazon S3 to store files and images in a variety of storage classes.The company’s S3 costs have increased substantially during the past year.A solutions architect needs to review data trends for the past 12 months and identity the appropriate storage class for the objects.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company provides AWS solutions to its users with AWS CloudFormation templates.Users launch the templates in their accounts to have different solutions provisioned for them.The users want to improve the deployment strategy for solutions while retaining the ability to do the following:✑ Add their own features to a solution for their specific deployments.✑ Run unit tests on their changes.✑ Turn features on and off for their deployments.✑ Automatically update with code changes.✑ Run security scanning tools for their deployments.Which strategies should the Solutions Architect use to meet the requirements?Read More →

A company has its cloud infrastructure on AWS.A solutions architect needs to define the infrastructure as code.The infrastructure is currently deployed in one AWS Region.The company’s business expansion plan includes deployments in multiple Regions across multiple AWS accounts.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has several AWS accounts.A development team is building an automation framework for cloud governance and remediation processes.The automation framework uses AWS Lambda functions in a centralized account.A solutions architect must implement a least privilege permissions policy that allows the Lambda functions to run in each of the company’s AWS accounts.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company plans to refactor a monolithic application into a modern application design deployed on AWS.The CI/CD pipeline needs to be upgraded to support the modern design for the application with the following requirements:• It should allow changes to be released several times every hour.• It should be able to roll back the changes as quickly as possible.Which design will meet these requirements?Read More →

An enterprise company wants to allow its developers to purchase third-party software through AWS Marketplace.The company uses an AWS Organizations account structure with full features enabled, and has a shared services account in each organizational unit (OU) that will be used by procurement managers.The procurement team’s policy indicates that developers should be able to obtain third-party software from an approved list only and use Private Marketplace in AWSMarketplace to achieve this requirement.The procurement team wants administration of Private Marketplace to be restricted to a role named procurement- manager-role, which could be assumed by procurement managers.Other IAM users, groups, roles, and account administrators in the company should be deniedPrivate Marketplace administrative access.What is the MOST efficient way to design an architecture to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances.A solutions architect is designing VPC infrastructure in an AWS Region where the application needs to access an Amazon Aurora DB Cluster.The EC2 instances are all associated with the same security group.The DB cluster is associated with its own security group.The solutions architect needs to add rules to the security groups to provide the application with least privilege access to the DB Cluster.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A research company is running daily simulations in the AWS Cloud to meet high demand.The simulations run on several hundred Amazon EC2 instances that are based on Amazon Linux 2.Occasionally, a simulation gets stuck and requires a cloud operations engineer to solve the problem by connecting to an EC2 instance through SSH.Company policy states that no EC2 instance can use the same SSH key and that all connections must be logged in AWS CloudTrail.How can a solutions architect meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to change its internal cloud billing strategy for each of its business units.Currently, the cloud governance team shares reports for overall cloud spending with the head of each business unit.The company uses AWS Organizations to manage the separate AWS accounts for each business unit.The existing tagging standard in Organizations includes the application, environment, and owner.The cloud governance team wants a centralized solution so each business unit receives monthly reports on its cloud spending.The solution should also send notifications for any cloud spending that exceeds a set threshold.Which solution is the MOST cost-effective way to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has its cloud infrastructure on AWS.A solutions architect needs to define the infrastructure as code.The infrastructure is currently deployed in oneAWS Region.The company’s business expansion plan includes deployments in multiple Regions across multiple AWS accounts.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →