Solutions Architect Professional (Page 49)

A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud.Recent application metrics show inconsistent response times and a significant increase in error rates.Calls to third-party services are causing the delays.Currently, the application calls third-party services synchronously by directly invoking an AWS Lambda function.A solutions architect needs to decouple the third-party service calls and ensure that all the calls are eventually completed.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

You need to develop and run some new applications on AWS and you know that Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation can both help as a deployment mechanism for a broad range of AWS resources.Which of the following is TRUE statements when describing the differences between Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation?Read More →

A company has an organization that has many AWS accounts in AWS Organizations.A solutions architect must improve how the company manages common security group rules for the AWS accounts in the organization.The company has a common set of IP CIDR ranges in an allow list in each AWS account to allow access to and from the company’s on-premises network.Developers within each account are responsible for adding new IP CIDR ranges to their security groups.The security team has its own AWS account.Currently, the security team notifies the owners of the other AWS accounts when changes are made to the allow list.The solutions architect must design a solution that distributes the common set of CIDR ranges across all accounts.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

In Amazon ElastiCache, the default cache port is:Read More →

A company has developed a web application.The company is hosting the application on a group of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The company wants to improve the security posture of the application and plans to use AWS WAF web ACLs.The solution must not adversely affect legitimate traffic to the application.How should a solutions architect configure the web ACLs to meet these requirements?Read More →

To abide by industry regulations, a Solutions Architect must design a solution that will store a company’s critical data in multiple public AWS Regions, including in the United States, where the company’s headquarters is located.The Solutions Architect is required to provide access to the data stored in AWS to the company’s global WAN network.The Security team mandates that no traffic accessing this data should traverse the public internet.How should the Solutions Architect design a highly available solution that meets the requirements and is cost-effective?Read More →

A company is refactoring its on-premises order-processing platform in the AWS Cloud.The platform includes a web front end that is hosted on a fleet of VMs, RabbitMQ to connect the front end to the backend, and a Kubernetes cluster to run a containerized backend system to process the orders.The company does not want to make any major changes to the application.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

Which system is used by Amazon Machine Images paravirtual (PV) virtualization during the boot process?Read More →

A company has migrated Its forms-processing application to AWS.When users interact with the application, they upload scanned forms as files through a web application.A database stores user metadata and references to files that are stored in Amazon S3.The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database.When forms are uploaded, the application sends notifications to a team through Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS).A team member then logs in and processes each form.The team member performs data validation on the form and extracts relevant data before entering the information into another system that uses an API.A solutions architect needs to automate the manual processing of the forms.The solution must provide accurate form extraction.minimize time to market, and minimize tong-term operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A user wants to configure AutoScaling which scales up when the CPU utilization is above 70% and scales down when the CPU utilization is below 30%.How can the user configure AutoScaling for the above mentioned condition?Read More →