Solutions Architect Professional (Page 52)

A company manufactures smart vehicles.The company uses a custom application to collect vehicle data.The vehicles use the MQTT protocol to connect to the application.The company processes the data in 5-minute intervals.The company then copies vehicle telematics data to on-premises storage.Custom applications analyze this data to detect anomalies.The number of vehicles that send data grows constantly.Newer vehicles generate high volumes of data.The on-premises storage solution is not able to scale for peak traffic, which results in data loss.The company must modernize the solution and migrate the solution to AWS to resolve the scaling challenges.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

After your Lambda function has been running for some time, you need to look at some metrics to ascertain how your function is performing and decide to use theAWS CLI to do this.Which of the following commands must be used to access these metrics using the AWS CLI?Read More →

A company is developing a gene reporting device that will collect genomic information to assist researchers with collecting large samples of data from a diverse population.The device will push 8 KB of genomic data every second to a data platform that will need to process and analyze the data and provide information back to researchers.The data platform must meet the following requirements:• Provide near-real-time analytics of the inbound genomic data• Ensure the data is flexible, parallel, and durable• Deliver results of processing to a data warehouseWhich strategy should a solutions architect use to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to host a global web application on AWS.It has the following design requirements:* The access pattern must allow for fetching data from multiple data sources.* Minimize the cost of API calls.* Keep page load times to within 50 ms.* Provide user authentication and authorization and manage data access for different user personas (for example, administrator, manager, or engineer).* Use a serverless design.Which set of strategies should a solutions architect use?Read More →

A company is migrating its development and production workloads to a new organization in AWS Organizations.The company has created a separate member account for development and a separate member account for production.Consolidated billing is linked to the management account.In the management account, a solutions architect needs to create an IAM user that can stop or terminate resources in both member accounts.Which solution will meet this requirement?Read More →

A company wants to run a serverless application on AWS.The company plans to provision its application in Docker containers running in an Amazon ECS cluster.The application requires a MySQL database and the company plans to use Amazon RDS.The company has documents that need to be accessed frequently for the first 3 months, and rarely after that.The document must be retained for 7 years.What is the MOST cost-effective solution to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s CISO has asked a solutions architect to re-engineer the company’s current CI/CD practices to make sure patch deployments to its application can happen as quickly as possible with minimal downtime if vulnerabilities are discovered.The company must also be able to quickly roll back a change in case of errors.The web application is deployed in a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The company is currently using GitHub to host the application source code, and has configured an AWS CodeBuild project to build the application.The company also intends to use AWS CodePipeline to trigger builds from GitHub commits using the existing CodeBuild project.What CI/CD configuration meets all of the requirements?Read More →

A company has an application.Once a month, the application creates a compressed file that contains every object within an Amazon S3 bucket.The total size of the objects before compression is 1 TB.The application runs by using a scheduled cron job on an Amazon EC2 instance that has a 5 TB Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume attached.The application downloads all the files from the source S3 bucket to the EBS volume, compresses the file, and uploads the file to a target S3 bucket.Every invocation of the application takes 2 hours from start to finish.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to OPTIMIZE costs for this application? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is using AWS CloudFormation as its deployment tool for all applications.It stages all application binaries and templates within Amazon S3 buckets with versioning enabled.Developers have access to an Amazon EC2 instance that hosts the integrated development environment (IDE).The developers download the application binaries from Amazon S3 to the EC2 instance, make changes, and upload the binaries to an S3 bucket after running the unit tests locally.The developers want to improve the existing deployment mechanism and implement CI/CD using AWS CodePipeline.The developers have the following requirements:• Use AWS CodeCommit for source control.• Automate unit testing and security scanning.• Alert the developers when unit tests fail.• Turn application features on and off, and customize deployment dynamically as part of CI/CD.• Have the lead developer provide approval before deploying an application.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has 50 AWS accounts that are members of an organization in AWS Organizations.Each account contains multiple VPCs.The company wants to useAWS Transit Gateway to establish connectivity between the VPCs in each member account.Each time a new member account is created, the company wants to automate the process of creating a new VPC and a transit gateway attachment.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →