Solutions Architect Professional (Page 48)

A company runs a serverless application in a single AWS Region.The application accesses external URLs and extracts metadata from those sites.The company uses an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to publish URLs to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue.An AWS Lambda function uses the queue as an event source and processes the URLs from the queue.Results are saved to an Amazon S3 bucket.The company wants to process each URL in other Regions to compare possible differences in site localization.URLs must be published from the existing Region.Results must be written to the existing S3 bucket in the current Region.Which combination of changes will produce multi-Region deployment that meets these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company plans to refactor a monolithic application into a modern application design deployed on AWS.The CI/CD pipeline needs to be upgraded to support the modern design for the application with the following requirements:✑ It should allow changes to be released several times every hour.✑ It should be able to roll back the changes as quickly as possible.Which design will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a legacy application that runs on multiple NET Framework components.The components share the same Microsoft SQL Server database and communicate with each other asynchronously by using Microsoft Message Queueing (MSMQ).The company is starting a migration to containerized .NET Core components and wants to refactor the application to run on AWS.The .NET Core components require complex orchestration.The company must have full control over networking and host configuration.The application’s database model is strongly relational.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is using AWS CodePipeline for the CI/CD of an application to an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group.All AWS resources are defined in AWSCloudFormation templates.The application artifacts are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket and deployed to the Auto Scaling group using instance user data scripts.As the application has become more complex, recent resource changes in the CloudFormation templates have caused unplanned downtime.How should a solutions architect improve the CI/CD pipeline to reduce the likelihood that changes in the templates will cause downtime?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 to 20 minutes.A solutions architect wants to revise the architecture for the solution.Which strategy should the solutions architect use?Read More →

A company is operating a large customer service call center, and stores and processes call recordings with a custom application.Approximately 2% of the call recordings are transcribed by an offshore team for quality assurance purposes.These recordings take up to 72 hours to be transcribed.The recordings are stored on an NFS share before they are archived to an offsite location after 90 days.The company uses Linux servers for processing the call recordings and managing the transcription queue.There is also a web application for the quality assurance staff to review and score call recordings.The company plans to migrate the system to AWS to reduce storage costs and the time required to transcribe calls.Which set of actions should be taken to meet the company’s objectives?Read More →

A company runs many workloads on AWS and uses AWS Organizations to manage its accounts.The workloads are hosted on Amazon EC2.AWS Fargate.and AWS Lambda.Some of the workloads have unpredictable demand.Accounts record high usage in some months and low usage in other months.The company wants to optimize its compute costs over the next 3 years.A solutions architect obtains a 6-month average for each of the accounts across the organization to calculate usage.Which solution will provide the MOST cost savings for all the organization’s compute usage?Read More →

An online e-commerce business is running a workload on AWS.The application architecture includes a web tier, an application tier for business logic, and a database tier for user and transactional data management.The database server has a 100 GB memory requirement.The business requires cost-efficient disaster recovery for the application with an RTO of 5 minutes and an RPO of 1 hour.The business also has a regulatory for out-of-region disaster recovery with a minimum distance between the primary and alternate sites of 250 miles.Which of the following options can the Solutions Architect design to create a comprehensive solution for this customer that meets the disaster recovery requirements?Read More →

A company needs to migrate its website from an on-premises data center to AWS.The website consists of a load balancer, a content management system (CMS) that runs on a Linux operating system, and a MySQL database.The CMS requires persistent NFS-compatible storage for a file system.The new solution on AWS must be able to scale from 2 Amazon EC2 instances to 30 EC2 instances in response to unpredictable traffic increases.The new solution also must require no changes to the website and must prevent data loss.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

What combination of steps could a Solutions Architect take to protect a web workload running on Amazon EC2 from DDoS and application layer attacks? (Choose two.)Read More →