Solutions Architect Professional (Page 109)

A Solutions Architect must establish a patching plan for a large mixed fleet of Windows and Linux servers.The patching plan must be implemented securely, be audit-ready, and comply with the company’s business requirements.Which option will meet these requirements with MINIMAL effort?Read More →

A Solutions Architect must design a highly available, stateless, REST service.The service will require multiple persistent storage layers for service object meta information and the delivery of content.Each request needs to be authenticated and securely processed.There is a requirement to keep costs as low as possible.How can these requirements be met?Read More →

A company has multiple AWS accounts hosting IT applications.An Amazon CloudWatch Logs agent is installed on all Amazon EC2 instances.The company wants to aggregate all security events in a centralized AWS account dedicated to log storage.Security Administrators need to perform near-real-time gathering and correlating of events across multiple AWS accounts.Which solution satisfies these requirements?Read More →

A company has developed a web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances in one AWS Region.The company has taken on new business in other countries and must deploy its application into other regions to meet low-latency requirements for its users.The regions can be segregated, and an application running in one region does not need to communicate with instances in other regions.How should the company’s Solutions Architect automate the deployment of the application so that it can be MOST efficiently deployed into multiple regions?Read More →

A media company has a 30-TB repository of digital news videos.These videos are stored on tape in an on-premises tape library and referenced by a Media AssetManagement (MAM) system.The company wants to enrich the metadata for these videos in an automated fashion and put them into a searchable catalog by using a MAM feature.The company must be able to search based on information in the video, such as objects, scenery items, or people’s faces.A catalog is available that contains faces of people who have appeared in the videos that include an image of each person.The company would like to migrate these videos toAWS.The company has a high-speed AWS Direct Connect connection with AWS and would like to move the MAM solution video content directly from its current file system.How can these requirements be met by using the LEAST amount of ongoing management overhead and causing MINIMAL disruption to the existing system?Read More →

A company is implementing a multi-account strategy; however, the Management team has expressed concerns that services like DNS may become overly complex.The company needs a solution that allows private DNS to be shared among virtual private clouds (VPCs) in different accounts.The company will have approximately 50 accounts in total.What solution would create the LEAST complex DNS architecture and ensure that each VPC can resolve all AWS resources?Read More →

A software as a service (SaaS) company offers a cloud solution for document management to private law firms and the public sector.A local government client recently mandated that highly confidential documents cannot be stored outside the country.The company CIO asks a Solutions Architect to ensure the application can adapt to this new requirement.The CIO also wants to have a proper backup plan for these documents, as backups are not currently performed.What solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company developed a Java application and deployed it to an Apache Tomcat server that runs on Amazon EC2 instances.The company’s Engineering team has implemented AWS CloudFormation and Chef Automate to automate the provisioning of and updates to the infrastructure and configuration of the application in the development, test, and production environments.These implementations have led to significantly improves reliability in releasing changes.The Engineering team reports there are frequent service disruptions due to unexpected errors when updating the application of the Apache Tomcat server.Which solution will increase the reliability of all releases?Read More →

A Solutions Architect needs to design a highly available application that will allow authenticated users to stay connected to the application even when there are underlying failures.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is running a web application with On-Demand Amazon EC2 instances in Auto Scaling groups that scale dynamically based on custom metrics.After extensive testing, the company determines that the m5.2xlarge instance size is optimal for the workload.Application data is stored in db.r4.4xlarge Amazon RDS instances that are confirmed to be optimal.The traffic to the web application spikes randomly during the day.What other cost-optimization methods should the company implement to further reduce costs without impacting the reliability of the application?Read More →