Solutions Architect Professional (Page 119)

A company uses AWS Organizations for a multi-account setup in the AWS Cloud.The company uses AWS Control Tower for governance and uses AWS Transit Gateway for VPC connectivity across accounts.In an AWS application account, the company’s application team has deployed a web application that uses AWS Lambda and Amazon RDS.The company’s database administrators have a separate DBA account and use the account to centrally manage all the databases across the organization.The database administrators use an Amazon EC2 instance that is deployed in the DBA account to access an RDS database that is deployed m the application account.The application team has stored the database credentials as secrets in AWS Secrets Manager in the application account.The application team is manually sharing the secrets with the database administrators.The secrets are encrypted by the default AWS managed key for Secrets Manager in the application account.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that gives the database administrators access to the database and eliminates the need to manually share the secrets.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s lease of a colocated storage facility will expire in 90 days.The company wants to move to AWS to avoid signing a contract extension.The company’s environment consists of 200 virtual machines and a NAS with 40 TB of data.Most of the data is archival, yet instant access is required when data is requested.Leadership wants to ensure minimal downtime during the migration.Each virtual machine has a number of customized configurations.The company’s existing 1Gbps network connection is mostly idle, especially after business hours.Which combination of steps should the company take to migrate to AWS while minimizing downtime and operational impact? (Choose two.)Read More →

A large payroll company recently merged with a small staffing company.The unified company now has multiple business units, each with its own existing AWS account.A solutions architect must ensure that the company can centrally manage the billing and access policies for all the AWS accounts.The solutions architect configures AWS Organizations by sending an invitation to all member accounts of the company from a centralized management account.What should the solutions architect do next to meet these requirements?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 company runs an application in the cloud that consists of a database and a website.Users can post data to the website, have the data processed, and have the data sent back to them in an email.Data is stored in a MySQL database running on an Amazon EC2 instance.The database is running in a VPC with two private subnets.The website is running on Apache Tomcat in a single EC2 instance in a different VPC with one public subnet.There is a single VPC peering connection between the database and website VPC.The website has suffered several outages during the last month due to high traffic.Which actions should a solutions architect take to increase the reliability of the application? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company is running a containerized application in the AWS Cloud.The application is running by using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on a set of Amazon EC2 instances.The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group.The company uses Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) to store its container images.When a new image version is uploaded, the new image version receives a unique tag.The company needs a solution that inspects new image versions for common vulnerabilities and exposures.The solution must automatically delete new image tags that have Critical or High severity findings.The solution also must notify the development team when such a deletion occurs.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to use Amazon S3 to back up its on-premises file storage solution.The company’s on-premises file storage solution supports NFS, and the company wants its new solution to support NFS.The company wants to archive the backup files after 5 days.If the company needs archived files for disaster recovery, the company is willing to wait a few days for the retrieval of those files.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has multiple AWS accounts as part of an organization created with AWS Organizations.Each account has a VPC in the us-east-2 Region and is used for either production or development workloads.Amazon EC2 instances across production accounts need to communicate with each other, and EC2 instances across development accounts need to communicate with each other, but production and development instances should not be able to communicate with each other.To facilitate connectivity, the company created a common network account.The company used AWS Transit Gateway to create a transit gateway in the us-east-2Region in the network account and shared the transit gateway with the entire organization by using AWS Resource Access Manager.Network administrators then attached VPCs in each account to the transit gateway, after which the EC2 instances were able to communicate across accounts.However, production and development accounts were also able to communicate with one another.Which set of steps should a solutions architect take to ensure production traffic and development traffic are completely isolated?Read More →

A solutions architect must implement a multi-Region architecture for an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database that supports a web application.The database launches from an AWS CloudFormation template that includes AWS services and features that are present in both the primary and secondary Regions.The database is configured for automated backups, and it has an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of 2 hours.The web application is configured to use an AmazonRoute 53 record to route traffic to the database.Which combination of steps will result in a highly available architecture that meets all the requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A Solutions Architect is building a containerized .NET Core application that will run in AWS Fargate.The backend of the application requires Microsoft SQL Server with high availability.All tiers of the application must be highly available.The credentials used for the connection string to SQL Server should not be stored on disk within the .NET Core front-end containers.Which strategies should the Solutions Architect use to meet these requirements?Read More →