Solutions Architect Professional (Page 45)

A company is planning to migrate 1,000 on-premises servers to AWS.The servers run on several VMware clusters in the company’s data center.As part of the migration plan, the company wants to gather server metrics such as CPU details, RAM usage, operating system information, and running processes.The company then wants to query and analyze the data.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is running multiple workloads in the AWS Cloud.The company has separate units for software development.The company uses AWS Organizations and federation with SAML to give permissions to developers to manage resources in their AWS accounts.The development units each deploy their production workloads into a common production account.Recently, an incident occurred in the production account in which members of a development unit terminated an EC2 instance that belonged to a different development unit.A solutions architect must create a solution that prevents a similar incident from happening in the future.The solution also must allow developers the possibility to manage the instances used for their workloads.Which strategy will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is building a serverless application that runs on an AWS Lambda function that is attached to a VPC.The company needs to integrate the application with a new service from an external provider.The external provider supports only requests that come from public IPv4 addresses that are in an allow list.The company must provide a single public IP address to the external provider before the application can start using the new service.Which solution will give the application the ability to access the new service?Read More →

A company is running a serverless application that consists of several AWS Lambda functions and Amazon DynamoDB tables.The company has created new functionality that requires the Lambda functions to access an Amazon Neptune DB cluster.The Neptune DB cluster is located in three subnets in a VPC.Which of the possible solutions will allow the Lambda functions to access the Neptune DB cluster and DynamoDB tables? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company runs an application on AWS.The company curates data from several different sources.The company uses proprietary algorithms to perform data transformations and aggregations.After the company performs ETL processes, the company stores the results in Amazon Redshift tables.The company sells this data to other companies.The company downloads the data as files from the Amazon Redshift tables and transmits the files to several data customers by using FTP.The number of data customers has grown significantly.Management of the data customers has become difficult.The company will use AWS Data Exchange to create a data product that the company can use to share data with customers.The company wants to confirm the identities of the customers before the company shares data.The customers also need access to the most recent data when the company publishes the data.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A large company is running a popular web application.The application runs on several Amazon EC2 Linux instances in an Auto Scaling group in a private subnet.An Application Load Balancer is targeting the instances in the Auto Scaling group in the private subnet.AWS Systems Manager Session Manager is configured, and AWS Systems Manager Agent is running on all the EC2 instances.The company recently released a new version of the application.Some EC2 instances are now being marked as unhealthy and are being terminated.As a result, the application is running at reduced capacity.A solutions architect tries to determine the root cause by analyzing Amazon CloudWatch logs that are collected from the application, but the logs are inconclusive.How should the solutions architect gain access to an EC2 instance to troubleshoot the issue?Read More →

A company’s solutions architect is evaluating an AWS workload that was deployed several years ago.The application tier is stateless and runs on a single large Amazon EC2 instance that was launched from an AMI.The application stores data in a MySQL database that runs on a single EC2 instance.The CPU utilization on the application server EC2 instance often reaches 100% and causes the application to stop responding.The company manually installs patches on the instances.Patching has caused downtime in the past.The company needs to make the application highly available.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development me?Read More →

A company is refactoring an existing web service that provides read and write access to structured data.The service must respond to short but significant spikes in the system load.The service must be fault tolerant across multiple AWS Regions.Which actions should be taken to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is launching a new online game on Amazon EC2 instances.The game must be available globally.The company plans to run the game in three AWS Regions us-east-1, eu-west-1, and ap-southeast-1.The game’s leaderboards, player inventory and event status must be available across Regions.A solutions architect must design a solution that will give any Region the ability to scale to handle the load of all Regions.Additionally, users must automatically connect to the Region that provides the least latency.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

AnyCompany has acquired numerous companies over the past few years.The CIO for AnyCompany would like to keep the resources for each acquired company separate.The CIO also would like to enforce a chargeback model where each company pays for the AWS services it uses.The Solutions Architect is tasked with designing an AWS architecture that allows AnyCompany to achieve the following:✑ Implementing a detailed chargeback mechanism to ensure that each company pays for the resources it uses.✑ AnyCompany can pay for AWS services for all its companies through a single invoice.✑ Developers in each acquired company have access to resources in their company only.✑ Developers in an acquired company should not be able to affect resources in their company only.✑ A single identity store is used to authenticate Developers across all companies.Which of the following approaches would meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →