Solutions Architect Professional (Page 32)

A company wants to refactor its retail ordering web application that currently has a load-balanced Amazon EC2 instance fleet for web hosting, database API services, and business logic.The company needs to create a decoupled, scalable architecture with a mechanism for retaining failed orders while also minimizing operational costs.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect wants to make sure that only AWS users or roles with suitable permissions can access a new Amazon API Gateway endpoint.The solutions architect wants an end-to-end view of each request to analyze the latency of the request and create service maps.How can the solutions architect design the API Gateway access control and perform request inspections?Read More →

A company’s AWS architecture currently uses access keys and secret access keys stored on each instance to access AWS services.Database credentials are hard-coded on each instance.SSH keys for command-line remote access are stored in a secured Amazon S3 bucket.The company has asked its solutions architect to improve the security posture of the architecture without adding operational complexity.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company runs a processing engine in the AWS Cloud.The engine processes environmental data from logistics centers to calculate a sustainability index.The company has millions of devices in logistics centers that are spread across Europe.The devices send information to the processing engine through a RESTful API.The API experiences unpredictable bursts of traffic.The company must implement a solution to process all data that the devices send to the processing engine.Data loss is unacceptable.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is collecting a large amount of data from a fleet of IoT devices.Data is stored as Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) files in the Hadoop Distributed FileSystem (HDFS) on a persistent Amazon EMR cluster.The company’s data analytics team queries the data by using SQL in Apache Presto deployed on the sameEMR cluster.Queries scan large amounts of data, always run for less than 15 minutes, and run only between 5 PM and 10 PM.The company is concerned about the high cost associated with the current solution.A solutions architect must propose the most cost-effective solution that will allow SQL data queries.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs applications in hundreds of production AWS accounts.The company uses AWS Organizations with all features enabled and has a centralized backup operation that uses AWS Backup.The company is concerned about ransomware attacks.To address this concern, the company has created a new policy that all backups must be resilient to breaches of privileged-user credentials in any production account.Which combination of steps will meet this new requirement? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company is building dozens of new workloads by using a variety of AWS services.Each workload will belong to a separate business unit.The company needs to minimize costs as each business unit experiments with ways to innovate.The company also needs to maximize scalability for its security team so that the security team can identify and respond to threats as quickly as possible for all the workloads.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company needs to establish a connection from its on-premises data center to AWS.The company needs to connect all of its VPCs that are located in different AWS Regions with transitive routing capabilities between VPC networks.The company also must reduce network outbound traffic costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a consistent network experience for end users.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is migrating its development and production workloads to a new organization in AWS Organizations.The company has created a separate member account for development and a separate member account for production.Consolidated billing is inked to the management account.In the management account, a solutions architect needs to create an IAM user that can stop or terminate resources in both member accounts.Which solution will meet this requirement?Read More →

A company needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) plan for a web application.The application runs in a single AWS Region.The application uses microservices that run in containers.The containers are hosted on AWS Fargate in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).The application has an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance as its data layer and uses Amazon Route 53 for DNS resolution.An Amazon CloudWatch alarm invokes an Amazon EventBridge rule if the application experiences a failure.A solutions architect must design a DR solution to provide application recovery to a separate Region.The solution must minimize the time that is necessary to recover from a failure.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →