Solutions Architect Professional (Page 56)

A company has a Windows-based desktop application that is packaged and deployed to the users’ Windows machines.The company recently acquired another company that has employees who primarily use machines with a Linux operating system.The acquiring company has decided to migrate and rehost the Windows-based desktop application to AWS.All employees must be authenticated before they use the application.The acquiring company uses Active Directory on premises but wants a simplified way to manage access to the application on AWS for all the employees.Which solution will rehost the application on AWS with the LEAST development effort?Read More →

A company has developed an application that is running Windows Server on VMware vSphere VMs that the company hosts on premises.The application data is stored in a proprietary format that must be read through the application.The company manually provisioned the servers and the application.As part of its disaster recovery plan, the company wants the ability to host its application on AWS temporarily if the company’s on-premises environment becomes unavailable.The company wants the application to return to on-premises hosting after a disaster recovery event is complete.The RPO is 5 minutes.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

A company provides auction services for artwork and has users across North America and Europe.The company hosts its application in Amazon EC2 instances in the us-east-1 Region.Artists upload photos of their work as large-size.high-resolution image files from their mobile phones to a centralized Amazon S3 bucket created in the us-east-1 Region.The users in Europe are reporting slow performance for their image uploads.How can a solutions architect improve the performance of the image upload process?Read More →

A company wants to retire its Oracle Solaris NFS storage arrays.The company requires rapid data migration over its internet network connection to a combination of destinations for Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server.The company also requires a full initial copy, as well as incremental transfers of changes until the retirement of the storage arrays.All data must be encrypted and checked for integrity.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is processing videos in the AWS Cloud by Using Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group.It takes 30 minutes to process a video Several EC2 instances scale in and out depending on the number of videos in an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue.The company has configured the SQS queue with a redrive policy that specifies a target dead-letter queue and a maxReceiveCount of 1.The company has set the visibility timeout for the SQS queue to 1 hour.The company has set up an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to notify the development team when there are messages in the dead-letter queue.Several times during the day.the development team receives notification that messages are in the dead-letter queue and that videos have not been processed property.An investigation finds no errors m the application logs.How can the company solve this problem?Read More →

A company wants to establish a dedicated connection between its on-premises infrastructure and AWS.The company is setting up a 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection to its account VPC.The architecture includes a transit gateway and a Direct Connect gateway to connect multiple VPCs and the on-premises infrastructure.The company must connect to VPC resources over a transit VIF by using the Direct Connect connection.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company wants to refactor its retail ordering web application that currently has a load-balanced Amazon EC2 instance fleet for web hosting, database API services, and business logic.The company needs to create a decoupled, scalable architecture with a mechanism for retaining failed orders while also minimizing operational costs.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company that uses AWS Organizations is creating several new AWS accounts.The company is setting up controls to properly allocate AWS costs to business units.The company must implement a solution to ensure that all resources include a tag that has a key of costcenter and a value from a predefined list of business units.The solution must send a notification each time a resource tag does not meet these criteria.The solution must not prevent the creation of resources.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

An online gaming company needs to rehost its gaming platform on AWS.The company’s gaming application requires high performance computing (HPC) processing and has a leaderboard that changes frequently.An Ubuntu instance that is optimized for compute generation hosts a Node.js application for game display.Game state is tracked in an on-premises Redis instance.The company needs a migration strategy that optimizes application performance.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts.The company needs a list of all its Amazon EC2 instances that have underutilized CPU or memory usage.The company also needs recommendations for how to downsize these underutilized instances.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?Read More →