Solutions Architect Professional (Page 36)

A team collects and routes behavioral data for an entire company.The company runs a Multi-AZ VPC environment with public subnets, private subnets, and in internet gateway.Each public subnet also contains a NAT gateway.Most of the company’s applications read from and write to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.Most of the workloads run in private subnets.A solutions architect must review the infrastructure.The solution architect needs to reduce costs and maintain the function of the applications.The solutions architect uses Cost Explorer and notices that the cost in the EC2-Other category is consistently high.A further review shows that NatGateway-Bytes charges are increasing the cost in the EC2-Other category.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A finance company is running its business-critical application on current-generation Linux EC2 instances.The application includes a self-managed MySQL database performing heavy I/O operations.The application is working fine to handle a moderate amount of traffic during the month.However, it slows down during the final three days of each month due to month-end reporting, even though the company is using Elastic Load Balancers and Auto Scaling within its infrastructure to meet the increased demand.Which of the following actions would allow the database to handle the month-end load with the LEAST impact on performance?Read More →

A company is building an electronic document management system in which users upload their documents.The application stack is entirely serverless and runs on AWS in the eu-central-1 Region.The system includes a web application that uses an Amazon CloudFront distribution for delivery with Amazon S3 as the origin.The web application communicates with Amazon API Gateway Regional endpoints.The API Gateway APIs call AWS Lambda functions that store metadata in an Amazon Aurora Serverless database and put the documents into an S3 bucket.The company is growing steadily and has completed a proof of concept with its largest customer.The company must improve latency outside of Europe.Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A team collects and routes behavioral data for an entire company.The company runs a Multi-AZ VPC environment with public subnets, private subnets, and in internet gateway.Each public subnet also contains a NAT gateway.Most of the company’s applications read from and write to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.Most of the workloads run in private subnets.A solutions architect must review the infrastructure.The solution architect needs to reduce costs and maintain the function of the applications.The solutions architect uses Cost Explorer and notices that the cost in the EC2-Other category is consistently high.A further review shows that NatGateway-Bytes charges are increasing the cost in the EC2-Other category.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company recently acquired several other companies.Each company has a separate AWS account with a different billing and reporting method.The acquiring company has consolidated all the accounts into one organization in AWS Organizations.However, the acquiring company has found it difficult to generate a cost report that contains meaningful groups for all the teams.The acquiring company’s finance team needs a solution to report on costs for all the companies through a self-managed application.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is running a two-tier web-based application in an on-premises data center.The application user consists of a single server running a stateful application.The application connects to a PostgreSQL database running on a separate server.The application’s user base is expected to grow significantly, so the company is migrating the application and database to AWS.The solution will use Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, and Elastic LoadBalancing.Which solution will provide a consistent user experience that will allow the application and database tiers to scale?Read More →

A company recently completed the migration from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud by using a replatforming strategy.One of the migrated servers is running a legacy Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service that a critical application relies upon.The application sends outbound email messages to the company’s customers.The legacy SMTP server does not support TLS encryption and uses TCP port 25.The application can use SMTP only.The company decides to use Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) and to decommission the legacy SMTP server.The company has created and validated the SES domain.The company has lifted the SES limits.What should the company do to modify the application to send email messages from Amazon SES?Read More →

A company runs a proprietary stateless ETL application on an Amazon EC2 Linux instances.The application is a Linux binary, and the source code cannot be modified.The application is single-threaded, uses 2 GB of RAM, and is highly CPU intensive.The application is scheduled to run every 4 hours and runs for up to20 minutes.A solutions architect wants to revise the architecture for the solution.Which strategy should the solutions architect use?Read More →

Example Corp. has an on-premises data center and a VPC named VPC A in the Example Corp. AWS account. The on-premises network connects to VPC A through an AWS Site-To-Site VPN. The on-premises servers can properly access VPC A. Example Corp. just acquired AnyCompany, which has a VPC named VPC B. There is no IP address overlap among these networks. Example Corp. has peered VPC A and VPC B.Example Corp. wants to connect from its on-premise servers to VPC B. Example Corp. has properly set up the network ACL and security groups.Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational effort?Read More →

A company is creating a sequel for a popular online game.A large number of users from all over the world will play the game within the first week after launch.Currently, the game consists of the following components deployed in a single AWS Region:✑ Amazon S3 bucket that stores game assets✑ Amazon DynamoDB table that stores player scoresA solutions architect needs to design a multi-Region solution that will reduce latency, improve reliability, and require the least effort to implement.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →