Solutions Architect Professional (Page 34)

A solutions architect works for a government agency that has strict disaster recovery requirements.All Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots are required to be saved in at least two additional AWS Regions.The agency also is required to maintain the lowest possible operational overhead.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is using Amazon API Gateway to deploy a private REST API that will provide access to sensitive data.The API must be accessible only from an application that is deployed in a VPC.The company deploys the API successfully.However, the API is not accessible from an Amazon EC2 instance that is deployed in the VPC.Which solution will provide connectivity between the EC2 instance and the API?Read More →

A company is running a critical application that uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL database to store data.The RDS DB instance is deployed in Multi-AZ mode.A recent RDS database failover test caused a 40-second outage to the application.A solutions architect needs to design a solution to reduce the outage time to less than 20 seconds.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

A solutions architect needs to review the design of an Amazon EMR cluster that is using the EMR File System (EMRFS).The cluster performs tasks that are critical to business needs.The cluster is running Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances at all times for all task, master, and core nodes.The EMR tasks run each morning, starting at 1:00 AM.and take 6 hours to finish running.The amount of time to complete the processing is not a priority because the data is not referenced until late in the day.The solutions architect must review the architecture and suggest a solution to minimize the compute costs.Which solution should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has hundreds of AWS accounts.The company recently implemented a centralized internal process for purchasing new Reserved Instances and modifying existing Reserved Instances.This process requires all business units that want to purchase or modify Reserved Instances to submit requests to a dedicated team for procurement.Previously, business units directly purchased or modified Reserved Instances in their own respective AWS accounts autonomously.A solutions architect needs to enforce the new process in the most secure way possible.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A developer reports receiving an Error 403: Access Denied message when they try to download an object from an Amazon S3 bucket.The S3 bucket is accessed using an S3 endpoint inside a VPC, and is encrypted with an AWS KMS key.A solutions architect has verified that the developer is assuming the correct IAM role in the account that allows the object to be downloaded.The S3 bucket policy and the NACL are also valid.Which additional step should the solutions architect take to troubleshoot this issue?Read More →

A company is migrating some of its applications to AWS.The company wants to migrate and modernize the applications quickly after it finalizes networking and security strategies.The company has set up an AWS Direct Connect connection in a central network account.The company expects to have hundreds of AWS accounts and VPCs in the near future.The corporate network must be able to access the resources on AWS seamlessly and also must be able to communicate with all the VPCs.The company also wants to route its cloud resources to the internet through its on-premises data center.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

A solutions architect has launched multiple Amazon EC2 instances in a placement group within a single Availability Zone.Because of additional load on the system, the solutions architect attempts to add new instances to the placement group.However, the solutions architect receives an insufficient capacity error.What should the solutions architect do to troubleshoot this issue?Read More →

A company has purchased appliances from different vendors.The appliances all have IoT sensors.The sensors send status information in the vendors’ proprietary formats to a legacy application that parses the information into JSON.The parsing is simple, but each vendor has a unique format.Once daily, the application parses all the JSON records and stores the records in a relational database for analysis.The company needs to design a new data analysis solution that can deliver faster and optimize costs.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A medical company is running a REST API on a set of Amazon EC2 instances.The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application LoadBalancer (ALB).The ALB runs in three public subnets, and the EC2 instances run in three private subnets.The company has deployed an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the ALB as the only origin.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to enhance the origin security?Read More →