Solutions Architect Professional (Page 42)

A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud.The application runs on containers m an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster.The ECS tasks use the Fargate launch type.The application’s data is relational and is stored in Amazon Aurora MySQL.To meet regulatory requirements, the application must be able to recover to a separate AWS Region in the event of an application failure.In case of a failure, no data can be lost.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

You are designing a data leak prevention solution for your VPC environment.You want your VPC Instances to be able to access software depots and distributions on the Internet for product updates.The depots and distributions are accessible via third party CDNs by their URLs.You want to explicitly deny any other outbound connections from your VPC instances to hosts on the internet.Which of the following options would you consider?Read More →

A company has an on-premises monitoring solution using a PostgreSQL database for persistence of events.The database is unable to scale due to heavy ingestion and it frequently runs out of storage.The company wants to create a hybrid solution and has already set up a VPN connection between its network and AWS.The solution should include the following attributes:• Managed AWS services to minimize operational complexity.• A buffer that automatically scales to match the throughput of data and requires no ongoing administration.• A visualization tool to create dashboards to observe events in near-real time.• Support for semi-structured JSON data and dynamic schemas.Which combination of components will enable the company to create a monitoring solution that will satisfy these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

You are running a successful multitier web application on AWS and your marketing department has asked you to add a reporting tier to the application.The reporting tier will aggregate and publish status reports every 30 minutes from user-generated information that is being stored in your web application s database.You are currently running a Multi-AZ RDS MySQL instance for the database tier.You also have implemented Elasticache as a database caching layer between the application tier and database tier.Please select the answer that will allow you to successfully implement the reporting tier with as little impact as possible to your database.Read More →

A company is developing and hosting several projects in the AWS Cloud.The projects are developed across multiple AWS accounts under the same organization in AWS Organizations.The company requires the cost for cloud infrastructure to be allocated to the owning project.The team responsible for all of the AWS accounts has discovered that several Amazon EC2 instances are lacking the Project tag used for cost allocation.Which actions should a solutions architect lake to resolve the problem and prevent it from happening in the future? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company is running a batch analysis every hour on their main transactional DB, running on an RDS MySQL instance, to populate their central Data Warehouse running on Redshift.During the execution of the batch, their transactional applications are very slow.When the batch completes they need to update the top management dashboard with the new data.The dashboard is produced by another system running on-premises that is currently started when a manually-sent email notifies that an update is required.The on-premises system cannot be modified because is managed by another team.How would you optimize this scenario to solve performance issues and automate the process as much as possible?Read More →

A large mobile gaming company has successfully migrated all of its on-premises infrastructure to the AWS Cloud.A solutions architect is reviewing the environment to ensure that it was built according to the design and that it is running in alignment with the Well-Architected Framework.While reviewing previous monthly costs in Cost Explorer, the solutions architect notices that the creation and subsequent termination of several large instance types account for a high proportion of the costs.The solutions architect finds out that the company’s developers are launching new Amazon EC2 instances as part of their testing and that the developers are not using the appropriate instance types.The solutions architect must implement a control mechanism to limit the instance types that only the developers can launch.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

Your fortune 500 company has under taken a TCO analysis evaluating the use of Amazon S3 versus acquiring more hardware The outcome was that ail employees would be granted access to use Amazon S3 for storage of their personal documents.Which of the following will you need to consider so you can set up a solution that incorporates single sign-on from your corporate AD or LDAP directory and restricts access for each user to a designated user folder in a bucket? (Choose three.)Read More →

A solutions architect is auditing the security setup or an AWS Lambda function for a company.The Lambda function retrieves, the latest changes from an Amazon Aurora database.The Lambda function and the database run in the same VPC.Lambda environment variables are providing the database credentials to the Lambda function.The Lambda function aggregates data and makes the data available in an Amazon S3 bucket that is configured for server-side encryption with AWS KMS managed encryption keys (SSE-KMS).The data must not travel across the Internet.If any database credentials become compromised, the company needs a solution that minimizes the impact of the compromise.What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

Which is a valid Amazon Resource name (ARN) for IAM?Read More →