Solutions Architect Professional (Page 24)

A company is running a serverless application that consists of several AWS Lambda functions and Amazon DynamoDB tables.The company has created new functionality that requires the Lambda functions to access an Amazon Neptune DB cluster.The Neptune DB cluster is located in three subnets in a VPC.Which of the possible solutions will allow the Lambda functions to access the Neptune DB cluster and DynamoDB tables? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company had a tight deadline to migrate its on-premises environment to AWS.It moved over Microsoft SQL Servers and Microsoft Windows Servers using the virtual machine import/export service and rebuild other applications native to the cloud.The team created both Amazon EC2 databases and used Amazon RDS.Each team in the company was responsible for migrating their applications, and they have created individual accounts for isolation of resources.The company did not have much time to consider costs, but now it would like suggestions on reducing its AWS spend.Which steps should a Solutions Architect take to reduce costs?Read More →

A company is migrating an application from on-premises infrastructure to the AWS Cloud.During migration design meetings, the company expressed concerns about the availability and recovery options for its legacy Windows file server.The file server contains sensitive business-critical data that cannot be recreated in the event of data corruption or data loss.According to compliance requirements, the data must not travel across the public internet.The company wants to move to AWS managed services where possible.The company decides to store the data in an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system.A solutions architect must design a solution that copies the data to another AWS Region for disaster recovery (DR) purposes.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to host its website on AWS using serverless architecture design patterns for global customers.The company has outlined its requirements as follow:✑ The website should be responsive.✑ The website should offer minimal latency.✑ The website should be highly available.✑ Users should be able to authenticate through social identity providers such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon.✑ There should be baseline DDoS protections for spikes in traffic.How can the design requirements be met?Read More →

A research center is migrating to the AWS Cloud and has moved its on-premises 1 PB object storage to an Amazon S3 bucket.One hundred scientists are using this object storage to store their work-related documents.Each scientist has a personal folder on the object store.All the scientists are members of a single IAM user group.The research center’s compliance officer is worried that scientists will be able to access each other’s work.The research center has a strict obligation to report on which scientist accesses which documents.The team that is responsible for these reports has little AWS experience and wants a ready-to-use solution that minimizes operational overhead.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

The CISO of a large enterprise with multiple IT departments, each with its own AWS account, wants one central place where AWS permissions for users can be managed and users authentication credentials can be synchronized with the company’s existing on-premises solution.Which solution will meet the CISO’s requirements?Read More →

An e-commerce company is revamping its IT infrastructure and is planning to use AWS services.The company’s CIO has asked a solutions architect to design a simple, highly available, and loosely coupled order processing application.The application is responsible for receiving and processing orders before storing them in an Amazon DynamoDB table.The application has a sporadic traffic pattern and should be able to scale during marketing campaigns to process the orders with minimal delays.Which of the following is the MOST reliable approach to meet the requirements?Read More →

A company is running a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in a production AWS account.The company requires all logs generated from the web application to be copied to a central AWS account for analysis and archiving.The company’s AWS accounts are currently managed independently.Logging agents are configured on the EC2 instances to upload the log files to an Amazon S3 bucket in the central AWS account.A solutions architect needs to provide access for a solution that will allow the production account to store log files in the central account.The central account also needs to have read access to the log files.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to record key performance indicators (KPIs) from its application as part of a strategy to convert to a user-based licensing schema.The application is a multi-tier application with a web-based UI.The company saves all log files to Amazon CloudWatch by using the CloudWatch agent.All logins to the application are saved in a log file.As part of the new license schema, the company needs to find out how many unique users each client has on a daily basis, weekly basis, and monthly basis.Which solution will provide this information with the LEAST change to the application?Read More →

A solutions architect has developed a web application that uses an Amazon API Gateway Regional endpoint and an AWS Lambda function.The consumers of the web application are all close to the AWS Region where the application will be deployed.The Lambda function only queries an Amazon Aurora MySQL database.The solutions architect has configured the database to have three read replicas.During testing, the application does not meet performance requirements.Under high load, the application opens a large number of database connections.The solutions architect must improve the application’s performance.Which actions should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →