Solutions Architect Professional (Page 17)

A company has several AWS accounts.A development team is building an automation framework for cloud governance and remediation processes.The automation framework uses AWS Lambda functions in a centralized account.A solutions architect must implement a least privilege permissions policy that allows the Lambda functions to run in each of the company’s AWS accounts.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has its cloud infrastructure on AWS.A solutions architect needs to define the infrastructure as code.The infrastructure is currently deployed in one AWS Region.The company’s business expansion plan includes deployments in multiple Regions across multiple AWS accounts.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company provides AWS solutions to its users with AWS CloudFormation templates.Users launch the templates in their accounts to have different solutions provisioned for them.The users want to improve the deployment strategy for solutions while retaining the ability to do the following:✑ Add their own features to a solution for their specific deployments.✑ Run unit tests on their changes.✑ Turn features on and off for their deployments.✑ Automatically update with code changes.✑ Run security scanning tools for their deployments.Which strategies should the Solutions Architect use to meet the requirements?Read More →

A company uses Amazon S3 to store files and images in a variety of storage classes.The company’s S3 costs have increased substantially during the past year.A solutions architect needs to review data trends for the past 12 months and identity the appropriate storage class for the objects.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A Solutions Architect is working with a company that is extremely sensitive to its IT costs and wishes to implement controls that will result in a predictable AWS spend each month.Which combination of steps can help the company control and monitor its monthly AWS usage to achieve a cost that is as close as possible to the target amount?(Choose three.)Read More →

An adventure company has launched a new feature on its mobile app.Users can use the feature to upload their hiking and rafting photos and videos anytime.The photos and videos are stored in Amazon S3 Standard storage in an S3 bucket and are served through Amazon CloudFront.The company needs to optimize the cost of the storage.A solutions architect discovers that most of the uploaded photos and videos are accessed infrequently after 30 days.However, some of the uploaded photos and videos are accessed frequently after 30 days.The solutions architect needs to implement a solution that maintains millisecond retrieval availability of the photos and videos at the lowest possible cost.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

After launching an instance that you intend to serve as a NAT (Network Address Translation) device in a public subnet you modify your route tables to have theNAT device be the target of internet bound traffic of your private subnet.When you try and make an outbound connection to the internet from an instance in the private subnet, you are not successful.Which of the following steps could resolve the issue?Read More →

A company has a complex web application that leverages Amazon CloudFront for global scalability and performance.Over time, users report that the web application is slowing down.The company’s operations team reports that the CloudFront cache hit ratio has been dropping steadily.The cache metrics report indicates that query strings on some URLs are inconsistently ordered and are specified sometimes in mixed-case letters and sometimes in lowercase letters.Which set of actions should the solutions architect take to increase the cache hit ratio as quickly as possible?Read More →

How can an EBS volume that is currently attached to an EC2 instance be migrated from one Availability Zone to another?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to improve an application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud.The application uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB instance that is experiencing overloaded connections.Most of the application’s operations insert records into the database.The application currently stores credentials in a text-based configuration file.The solutions architect needs to implement a solution so that the application can handle the current connection load.The solution must keep the credentials secure and must provide the ability to rotate the credentials automatically on a regular basis.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →