Solutions Architect Professional (Page 118)

A company wants to use AWS for disaster recovery for an on-premises application.The company has hundreds of Windows-based servers that run the application.All the servers mount a common share.The company has an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of 5 minutes.The solution must support native failover and fallback capabilities.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A gaming company created a game leaderboard by using a Multi-AZ deployment of an Amazon RDS database.The number of users is growing, and the queries to get individual player rankings are getting slower over time.The company expects a surge in users for an upcoming version and wants to optimize the design for scalability and performance.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is planning to migrate to the AWS Cloud.The company hosts many applications on Windows servers and Linux servers.Some of the servers are physical, and some of the servers are virtual.The company uses several types of databases in its on-premises environment.The company does not have an accurate inventory of its on-premises servers and applications.The company wants to rightsize its resources during migration.A solutions architect needs to obtain information about the network connections and the application relationships.The solutions architect must assess the company’s current environment and develop a migration plan.Which solution will provide the solutions architect with the required information to develop the migration plan?Read More →

A company wants to manage the costs associated with a group of 20 applications that are infrequently used, but are still business-critical, by migrating to AWS.The applications are a mix of Java and Node.js spread across different instance clusters.The company wants to minimize costs while standardizing by using a single deployment methodology.Most of the applications are part of month-end processing routines with a small number of concurrent users, but they are occasionally run at other times.Average application memory consumption is less than 1 GB, though some applications use as much as 2.5 GB of memory during peak processing.The most important application in the group is a billing report written in Java that accesses multiple data sources and often for several hours.Which is the MOST cost-effective solution?Read More →

A company has developed a hybrid solution between its data center and AWS.The company uses Amazon VPC and Amazon EC2 instances that send application logs to Amazon CloudWatch.The EC2 instances read data from multiple relational databases that are hosted on premises.The company wants to monitor which EC2 instances are connected to the databases in near-real time.The company already has a monitoring solution that uses Splunk on premises.A solutions architect needs to determine how to send networking traffic to Splunk.How should the solutions architect meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has been using a third-party provider for its content delivery network and recently decided to switch to Amazon CloudFront.The development team wants to maximize performance for the global user base.The company uses a content management system (CMS) that serves both static and dynamic content.The CMS is behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) which is set as the default origin for the distribution.Static assets are served from an Amazon S3 bucket.The Origin Access Identity (OAI) was created properly and the S3 bucket policy has been updated to allow the GetObject action from the OAI, but static assets are receiving a 404 error.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to fix the error? (Choose two.)Read More →

A financial services company runs a complex, multi-tier application on Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Lambda functions.The application stores temporary data in Amazon S3.The S3 objects are valid for only 45 minutes and are deleted after 24 hours.The company deploys each version of the application by launching an AWS CloudFormation stack.The stack creates all resources that are required to run the application.When the company deploys and validates a new application version, the company deletes the CloudFormation stack of the old version.The company recently tried to delete the CloudFormation stack of an old application version, but the operation failed.An analysis shows that CloudFormation failed to delete an existing S3 bucket.A solutions architect needs to resolve this issue without making major changes to the application’s architecture.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application that generates reports and stores them in an Amazon bucket Amazon S3 bucket.When a user accesses their report, the application generates a signed URL to allow the user to download the report.The company’s security team has discovered that the files are public and that anyone can download them without authentication.The company has suspended the generation of new reports until the problem is resolved.Which set of action will immediately remediate the security issue without impacting the application’s normal workflow?Read More →

A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group.The company uses AWS CodePipeline to deploy the application.The instances that run in the Auto Scaling group are constantly changing because of scaling events.When the company deploys new application code versions, the company installs the AWS CodeDeploy agent on any new target EC2 instances and associates the instances with the CodeDeploy deployment group.The application is set to go live within the next 24 hours.What should a solutions architect recommend to automate the application deployment process with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

A hybrid network architecture must be used during a company’s multi-year data center migration from multiple private data centers to AWS.The current data centers are linked together with private fiber.Due to unique legacy applications, NAT cannot be used.During the migration period, many applications will need access to other applications in both the data centers and AWS.Which option offers a hybrid network architecture that is secure and highly available, that allows for high bandwidth and a multi-region deployment post-migration?Read More →