Solutions Architect Professional (Page 30)

A company is building a call center by using Amazon Connect.The company’s operations team is defining a disaster recovery (DR) strategy across AWS Regions.The contact center has dozens of contact flows, hundreds of users, and dozens of claimed phone numbers.Which solution will provide DR with the LOWEST RTO?Read More →

A company needs to create and manage multiple AWS accounts for a number of departments from a central location.The security team requires read-only access to all accounts from its own AWS account.The company is using AWS Organizations and created an account for the security team.How should a solutions architect meet these requirements?Read More →

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage a multi-account structure.The company has hundreds of AWS accounts and expects the number of accounts to increase.The company is building a new application that uses Docker images.The company will push the Docker images to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR).Only accounts that are within the company’s organization should have access to the images.The company has a CI/CD process that runs frequently.The company wants to retain all the tagged images.However, the company wants to retain only the five most recent untagged images.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

After moving an E-Commerce website for a client from a dedicated server to AWS you have also set up auto scaling to perform health checks on the instances in your group and replace instances that fail these checks.Your client has come to you with his own health check system that he wants you to use as it has proved to be very useful prior to his site running on AWS.What do you think would be an appropriate response to this given all that you know about auto scaling and CloudWatch?Read More →

A company wants to use AWS to create a business continuity solution in case the company’s main on-premises application fails.The application runs on physical servers that also run other applications.The on-premises application that the company is planning to migrate uses a MySQL database as a data store.All the company’s on-premises applications use operating systems that are compatible with Amazon EC2.Which solution will achieve the company’s goal with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

To scale out the AWS resources using manual AutoScaling, which of the below mentioned parameters should the user change?Read More →

A company ingests and processes streaming market data.The data rate is constant.A nightly process that calculates aggregate statistics takes 4 hours to complete.The statistical analysis is not critical to the business, and data points are processed during the next iteration if a particular run fails.The current architecture uses a pool of Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances with 1-year reservations.These EC2 instances run full time to ingest and store the streaming data in attached Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes.A scheduled script launches EC2 On-Demand Instances each night to perform the nightly processing.The instances access the stored data from NFS shares on the ingestion servers.The script terminates the instances when the processing is complete.The Reserved Instance reservations are expiring.The company needs to determine whether to purchase new reservations or implement a new design.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

You have set up Auto Scaling to automatically scale in.Consequently, you must decide which instances Auto Scaling should end first.What should you use to configure this?Read More →

A company hosts a blog post application on AWS using Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda.The application currently does not use API keys to authorize requests.The API model is as follows:GET /posts/{postId}: to get post detailsGET /users/{userId}: to get user detailsGET /comments/{commentId}: to get comments detailsThe company has noticed users are actively discussing topics in the comments section, and the company wants to increase user engagement by making the comments appear in real time.Which design should be used to reduce comment latency and improve user experience?Read More →

A user is hosting a public website on AWS.The user wants to have the database and the app server on the AWS VPC.The user wants to setup a database that can connect to the Internet for any patch upgrade but cannot receive any request from the internet.How can the user set this up?Read More →