Solutions Architect Professional (Page 36)

A company used Amazon EC2 instances to deploy a web fleet to host a blog site.The EC2 instances are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and are configured in an Auto Scaling group.The web application stores all blog content on an Amazon EFS volume.The company recently added a feature for bloggers to add video to their posts, attracting 10 times the previous user traffic.At peak times of day, users report buffering and timeout issues while attempting to reach the site or watch videos.Which is the MOST cost-efficient and scalable deployment that will resolve the issues for users?Read More →

A company has multiple lines of business (LOBs) that roll up to the parent company.The company has asked its solutions architect to develop a solution with the following requirements:✑ Produce a single AWS invoice for all of the AWS accounts used by its LOBs.✑ The costs for each LOB account should be broken out on the invoice.✑ Provide the ability to restrict services and features in the LOB accounts, as defined by the company’s governance policy.✑ Each LOB account should be delegated full administrator permissions, regardless of the governance policy.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company with global offices has a single 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection to a single AWS Region.The company’s on-premises network uses the connection to communicate with the company’s resources in the AWS Cloud.The connection has a single private virtual interface that connects to a single VPC.A solutions architect must implement a solution that adds a redundant Direct Connect connection in the same Region.The solution also must provide connectivity to other Regions through the same pair of Direct Connect connections as the company expands into other Regions.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A video streaming company recently launched a mobile app for video sharing.The app uploads various files to an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region.The files range in size from 1 GB to 10 GB.Users who access the app from Australia have experienced uploads that take long periods of time.Sometimes the files fail to completely upload for these users.A solutions architect must improve the app’s performance for these uploads.Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has a web application that allows users to upload short videos.The videos are stored on Amazon EBS volumes and analyzed by custom recognition software for categorization.The website contains static content that has variable traffic with peaks in certain months.The architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances running in an Auto Scaling group for the web application and EC2 instances running in an Auto Scaling group to process an Amazon SQS queue.The company wants to re-architect the application to reduce operational overhead using AWS managed services where possible and remove dependencies on third-party software.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to launch an online shopping website in multiple countries and must ensure that customers are protected against potential `man-in-the-middle` attacks.Which architecture will provide the MOST secure site access?Read More →

A company has a serverless application comprised of Amazon CloudFront, Amazon API Gateway, and AWS Lambda functions.The current deployment process of the application code is to create a new version number of the Lambda function and run an AWS CLI script to update.If the new function version has errors, another CLI script reverts by deploying the previous working version of the function.The company would like to decrease the time to deploy new versions of the application logic provided by the Lambda functions, and also reduce the time to detect and revert when errors are identified.How can this be accomplished?Read More →

You have setup an Auto Scaling group.The cool down period for the Auto Scaling group is 7 minutes.The first scaling activity request for the Auto Scaling group is to launch two instances.It receives the activity question at time “t”, and the first instance is launched at t+3 minutes, while the second instance is launched at t+4 minutes.How many minutes after time “t” will Auto Scaling accept another scaling activity request?Read More →

A company is using an on-premises Active Directory service for user authentication.The company wants to use the same authentication service to sign in to the company’s AWS accounts, which are using AWS Organizations.AWS Site-to-Site VPN connectivity already exists between the on-premises environment and all the company’s AWS accounts.The company’s security policy requires conditional access to the accounts based on user groups and roles.User identities must be managed in a single location.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company needs to move its on-premises resources to AWS.The current environment consists of 100 virtual machines (VMs) with a total of 40 TB of storage.Most of the VMs can be taken offline because they support functions during business hours only, however, some are mission critical, so downtime must be minimized.The administrator of the on-premises network provisioned 10 Mbps of internet bandwidth for the migration.The on-premises network throughput has reached capacity and would be costly to increase.A solutions architect must design a migration solution that can be performed within the next 3 months.Which method would fulfill these requirements?Read More →