Solutions Architect Professional (Page 111)

An education company is running a web application used by college students around the world.The application runs in an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).A system administrator detects a weekly spike in the number of failed login attempts, which overwhelm the application’s authentication service.All the failed login attempts originate from about 500 different IP addresses that change each week.A solutions architect must prevent the failed login attempts from overwhelming the authentication service.Which solution meets these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?Read More →

A large mobile gaming company has successfully migrated all of its on-premises infrastructure to the AWS Cloud.A solutions architect is reviewing the environment to ensure that it was built according to the design and that it is running in alignment with the Well-Architected Framework.While reviewing previous monthly costs in Cost Explorer, the solutions architect notices that the creation and subsequent termination of several large instance types account for a high proportion of the costs.The solutions architect finds out that the company’s developers are launching new Amazon EC2 instances as part of their testing and that the developers are not using the appropriate instance types.The solutions architect must implement a control mechanism to limit the instance types that only the developers can launch.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company needs to audit the security posture of a newly acquired AWS account.The company’s data security team requires a notification only when an Amazon S3 bucket becomes publicly exposed.The company has already established an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic that has the data security team’s email address subscribed.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is planning to migrate an Amazon RDS for Oracle database to an RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance in another AWS account.A solutions architect needs to design a migration strategy that will require no downtime and that will minimize the amount of time necessary to complete the migration.The migration strategy must replicate all existing data and any new data that is created during the migration.The target database must be identical to the source database at completion of the migration process.All applications currently use an Amazon Route 53 CNAME record as their endpoint for communication with the RDS for Oracle DB instance.The RDS for Oracle DB instance is in a private subnet.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company is building an image service on the web that will allow users to upload and search random photos.At peak usage, up to 10,000 users worldwide will upload their images.The will then overlay text on the uploaded images, which will then be published on the company website.Which design should a solutions architect implement?Read More →

A company has an application that runs on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances and stores 70 GB of device data for each instance in Amazon S3.Recently, some of the S3 uploads have been failing.At the same time, the company is seeing an unexpected increase in storage data costs.The application code cannot be modified.What is the MOST efficient way to upload the device data to Amazon S3 while managing storage costs?Read More →

A financial company needs to create a separate AWS account for a new digital wallet application.The company uses AWS Organizations to manage its accounts.A solutions architect uses the IAM user Support1 from the management account to create a new member account with [email protected] as the email address.What should the solutions architect do to create IAM users in the new member account?Read More →

A hedge fund company is developing a new web application to handle trades.Traders around the world will use the application.The application will handle hundreds of thousands of transactions, especially during overlapping work hours between Europe and the United States.According to the company’s disaster recovery plan, the data that is generated must be replicated to a second AWS Region.Each transaction item will be less than100 KB in size.The company wants to simplify the CI/CD pipeline as much as possible.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to migrate its on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud.This includes thousands of virtualized Linux and Microsoft Windows servers, SAN storage, Java and PHP applications with MySQL, and Oracle databases.There are many dependent services hosted either in the same data center or externally.The technical documentation is incomplete and outdated.A solutions architect needs to understand the current environment and estimate the cloud resource costs after the migration.Which tools or services should the solutions architect use to plan the cloud migration? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company is planning a migration from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud.The company plans to use multiple AWS accounts that are managed in an organization in AWS Organizations.The company will create a small number of accounts initially and will add accounts as needed.A solutions architect must design a solution that turns on AWS CloudTrail in all AWS accounts.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?Read More →