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An online gaming company needs to optimize the cost of its workloads on AWS.The company uses a dedicated account to host the production environment for its online gaming application and an analytics application.Amazon EC2 instances host the gaming application and must always be available.The EC2 instances run all year.The analytics application uses data that is stored in Amazon S3.The analytics application can be interrupted and resumed without issue.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has an application behind a load balancer with enough Amazon EC2 instances to satisfy peak demand.Scripts and third-party deployment solutions are used to configure EC2 instances when demand increases or an instance fails.The team must periodically evaluate the utilization of the instance types to ensure that the correct sizes are deployed.How can this workload be optimized to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is using AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts.Due to regulatory requirements, the company wants to restrict specific member accounts to certain AWS Regions, where they are permitted to deploy resources.The resources in the accounts must be tagged, enforced based on a group standard, and centrally managed with minimal configuration.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A Development team has created a series of AWS CloudFormation templates to help deploy services.They created a template for a network/virtual private cloud(VPC) stack, a database stack, a bastion host stack, and a web application-specific stack.Each service requires the deployment of at least:✑ A network/VPC stack✑ A bastion host stack✑ A web application stackEach template has multiple input parameters that make it difficult to deploy the services individually from the AWS CloudFormation console.The input parameters from one stack are typically outputs from other stacks.For example, the VPC ID, subnet IDs, and security groups from the network stack may need to be used in the application stack or database stack.Which actions will help reduce both the operational burden and the number of parameters passed into a service deployment? (Choose two.)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 →

A company operating a website on AWS requires high levels of scalability, availability, and performance. The company is running a Ruby on Rails application onAmazon EC2. It has a data tier on MySQL 5.6 on Amazon EC2 using 16 TB of Amazon EBS storage Amazon CloudFront is used to cache application content.The Operations team is reporting continuous and unexpected growth of EBS volumes assigned to the MySQL database. The Solutions Architect has been asked to design a highly scalable, highly available, and high-performing solution.Which solution is the MOST cost-effective at scale?Read More →

A company wants to migrate its data analytics environment from on premises to AWS.The environment consists of two simple Node.js applications.One of the applications collects sensor data and loads it into a MySQL database.The other application aggregates the data into reports.When the aggregation jobs run, some of the load jobs fail to run correctly.The company must resolve the data loading issue.The company also needs the migration to occur without interruptions or changes for the company’s customers.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A Solutions Architect is designing a network solution for a company that has applications running in a data center in Northern Virginia.The applications in the company’s data center require predictable performance to applications running in a virtual private cloud (VPC) located in us-east-1, and a secondary VPC in us- west-2 within the same account.The company data center is collocated in an AWS Direct Connect facility that serves the us-east-1 region.The company has already ordered an AWS Direct Connect connection and a cross-connect has been established.Which solution will meet the requirements at the LOWEST cost?Read More →

A health insurance company stores personally identifiable information (PII) in an Amazon S3 bucket.The company uses server-side encryption with S3 managed encryption keys (SSE-S3) to encrypt the objects.According to a new requirement, all current and future objects in the S3 bucket must be encrypted by keys that the company’s security team manages.The S3 bucket does not have versioning enabled.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A Solutions Architect is designing the storage layer for a data warehousing application.The data files are large, but they have statically placed metadata at the beginning of each file that describes the size and placement of the file’s index.The data files are read in by a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances that store the index size, index location, and other category information about the data file in a database.That database is used by Amazon EMR to group files together for deeper analysis.What would be the MOST cost-effective, high availability storage solution for this workflow?Read More →