Solutions Architect Professional (Page 16)

A software development company has multiple engineers who are working remotely.The company is running Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on an Amazon EC2 instance.The company’s security policy states that all internal, nonpublic services that are deployed in a VPC must be accessible through a VPN.Multi-factor authentication (MFA) must be used for access to a VPN.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

In DynamoDB, “The data is eventually consistent” means that__________.Read More →

A company is deploying a new API to AWS. The API uses Amazon API Gateway with a Regional API endpoint and an AWS Lambda function for hosting. The API retrieves data from an external vendor API, stores data in an Amazon DynamoDB global table, and retrieves data from the DynamoDB global table The API key for the vendor’s API is stored in AWS Secrets Manager and is encrypted with a customer managed key in AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). The company has deployed its own API into a single AWS Region.A solutions architect needs to change the API components of the company’s API to ensure that the components can run across multiple Regions in an active-active configuration.Which combination of changes will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead? (Choose three.)Read More →

Mike is appointed as Cloud Consultant in ABC.com. ABC has the following VPCs set- up in the US East Region:A VPC with CIDR block 10.10.0.0/16, a subnet in that VPC with CIDR block 10.10.1.0/24 A VPC with CIDR block 10.40.0.0/16, a subnet in that VPC with CIDR block 10.40.1.0/24 ABC.com is trying to establish network connection between two subnets, a subnet with CIDR block 10.10.1.0/24 and another subnet with CIDR block 10.40.1.0/24.Which one of the following solutions should Mike recommend to ABC.com?Read More →

A company runs a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application on AWS.The application consists of AWS Lambda functions and an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ database.During market events, the application has a much higher workload than normal.Users notice slow response times during the peak periods because of many database connections.The company needs to improve the scalable performance and availability of the database.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is processing financial records in the AWS Cloud.Throughout the day, records are uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket for processing.Every night at midnight, an application processes the records.The application runs on a set of Amazon EC2 instances and is invoked by a cron job on each instance.The application processes all the records in a total of approximately 60 minutes and stores the result in a second S3 bucket.A solutions architect needs to modernize the application by implementing a solution that processes the records with the least possible operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has developed an application that is running Windows Server on VMware vSphere VMs that the company hosts on premises.The application data is stored in a proprietary format that must be read through the application.The company manually provisioned the servers and the application.As part of its disaster recovery plan, the company wants the ability to host its application on AWS temporarily if the company’s on-premises environment becomes unavailable.The company wants the application to return to on-premises hosting after a disaster recovery event is complete.The RPO is 5 minutes.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

You’re trying to delete an SSL certificate from the IAM certificate store, and you’re getting the message “Certificate: is being used by CloudFront.”Which of the following statements is probably the reason why you are getting this error?Read More →

A company has an application that has a web frontend.The application runs in the company’s on-premises data center and requires access to file storage for critical data.The application runs on three Linux VMs for redundancy.The architecture includes a load balancer with HTTP request-based routing.The company needs to migrate the application to AWS as quickly as possible.The architecture on AWS must be highly available.Which solution will meet these requirements with the FEWEST changes to the architecture?Read More →

A company stores sales transaction data in Amazon DynamoDB tables.To detect anomalous behaviors and respond quickly, all changes to the items stored in the DynamoDB tables must be logged within 30 minutes.Which solution meets the requirements?Read More →