Solutions Architect Professional (Page 52)

A finance company hosts a data lake in Amazon S3.The company receives financial data records over SFTP each night from several third parties.The company runs its own SFTP server on an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subnet of a VPC.After the files are uploaded, they are moved to the data lake by a cron job that runs on the same instance.The SFTP server is reachable on DNS sftp.example.com through the use of Amazon Route 53.What should a solutions architect do to improve the reliability and scalability of the SFTP solution?Read More →

A web company is looking to implement an intrusion detection and prevention system into their deployed VPC.This platform should have the ability to scale to thousands of instances running inside of the VPC.How should they architect their solution to achieve these goals?Read More →

Accompany runs an application on Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda.The application stores temporary data in Amazon S3.The S3 objects are deleted after 24 hours.The company deploys new versions of the application by launching AWS CloudFormation stacks.The stacks create the required resources.After validating a new version, the company deletes the old stack.The deletion of an old development stack recently failed.A solutions architect needs to resolve this issue without major architecture changes.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

You have recently joined a startup company building sensors to measure street noise and air quality in urban areas.The company has been running a pilot deployment of around 100 sensors for 3 months each sensor uploads 1KB of sensor data every minute to a backend hosted on AWS.During the pilot, you measured a peak or 10 IOPS on the database, and you stored an average of 3GB of sensor data per month in the database.The current deployment consists of a load-balanced auto scaled Ingestion layer using EC2 instances and a PostgreSQL RDS database with 500GB standard storage.The pilot is considered a success and your CEO has managed to get the attention or some potential investors.The business plan requires a deployment of at least 100K sensors which needs to be supported by the backend.You also need to store sensor data for at least two years to be able to compare year over yearImprovements.To secure funding, you have to make sure that the platform meets these requirements and leaves room for further scaling.Which setup win meet the requirements?Read More →

A company has an application that stores user-uploaded videos in an Amazon S3 bucket that uses S3 Standard storage.Users access the videos frequently in the first 180 days after the videos are uploaded.Access after 180 days is rare.Named users and anonymous users access the videos.Most of the videos are more than 100 MB in size.Users often have poor internet connectivity when they upload videos, resulting in failed uploads.The company uses multipart uploads for the videos.A solutions architect needs to optimize the S3 costs of the application.Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A customer is deploying an SSL enabled web application to AWS and would like to implement a separation of roles between the EC2 service administrators that are entitled to login to instances as well as making API calls and the security officers who will maintain and have exclusive access to the application’s X.509 certificate that contains the private key.Read More →

A company runs an ecommerce web application on AWS. The web application is hosted as a static website on Amazon S3 with Amazon CloudFront for content delivery. An Amazon APIGateway API invokes AWS Lambda functions to handle user requests and order processing for the web application The Lambda functions store data in an Amazon ROS for MySQL DB cluster that uses On-Demand instances. The DB cluster usage has been consistent in the past 12 months.Recently, the website has experienced SQL injection and web exploit attempts. Customers also report that order processing time has increased during periods of peak usage. During these periods, the Lambda functions often have cold starts. As the company grows, the company needs to ensure scalability and low-latency access during traffic peaks. The company also must optimize the database costs and add protection against the SQL injection and web exploit attempts.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

Your company policies require encryption of sensitive data at rest.You are considering the possible options for protecting data while storing it at rest on an EBS data volume, attached to an EC2 instance.Which of these options would allow you to encrypt your data at rest? (Choose three.)Read More →

A media company has a 30-T8 repository of digital news videos.These videos are stored on tape in an on-premises tape library and referenced by a Media Asset Management (MAM) system.The company wants to enrich the metadata for these videos in an automated fashion and put them into a searchable catalog by using a MAM feature.The company must be able to search based on information in the video, such as objects, scenery items, or people’s faces.A catalog is available that contains faces of people who have appeared in the videos that include an image of each person.The company would like to migrate these videos to AWS.The company has a high-speed AWS Direct Connect connection with AWS and would like to move the MAM solution video content directly from its current file system.How can these requirements be met by using the LEAST amount of ongoing management overhead and causing MINIMAL disruption to the existing system?Read More →

A company has developed a custom tool used in its workflow that runs within a Docker container.The company must perform manual steps each time the container code is updated to make the container image available to new workflow executions.The company wants to automate this process to eliminate manual effort and ensure a new container image is generated every time the tool code is updated.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →