Solutions Architect Professional (Page 6)

A company hosts a VPN in an on-premises data center.Employees currently connect to the VPN to access files in their Windows home directories.Recently, there has been a large growth in the number of employees who work remotely.As a result, bandwidth usage for connections into the data center has begun to reach 100% during business hours.The company must design a solution on AWS that will support the growth of the company’s remote workforce, reduce the bandwidth usage for connections into the data center, and reduce operational overhead.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is running a data-intensive application on AWS.The application runs on a cluster of hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances.A shared file system also runs on several EC2 instances that store 200 TB of data.The application reads and modifies the data on the shared file system and generates a report.The job runs once monthly, reads a subset of the files from the shared file system, and takes about 72 hours to complete.The compute instances scale in an Auto Scaling group, but the instances that host the shared the system run continuously.The compute and storage instances are all in the same AWS Region.A solutions architect needs to reduce costs by replacing the shared file system instances.The file system must provide high performance access to the needed data for the duration of the 72-hour run.Which solution will provide the LARGEST overall cost reduction while meeting these requirements?Read More →

A company is changing the way that it handles patching of Amazon EC2 instances in its application account.The company currently patches instances over the internet by using a NAT gateway in a VPC in the application account.The company has EC2 instances set up as a patch source repository in a dedicated private VPC in a core account.The company wants to use AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager and the patch source repository in the core account to patch the EC2 instances in the application account.The company must prevent all EC2 instances in the application account from accessing the internet.The EC2 instances in the application account need to access Amazon S3, where the application data is stored.These EC2 instances need connectivity to Systems Manager and to the patch source repository in the private VPC in the core account.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A multimedia company needs to deliver its video-on-demand (VOD) content to its subscribers in a cost-effective way.The video files range in size from 1-15 GB and are typically viewed frequently for the first 6 months after creation, and then access decreases considerably.The company requires all video files to remain immediately available for subscribers.There are now roughly 30,000 files, and the company anticipates doubling that number over time.What is the MOST cost-effective solution for delivering the company’s VOD content?Read More →

A company is using AWS to develop and manage its production web application.The application includes an Amazon API Gateway HTTP API that invokes an AWS Lambda function.The Lambda function processes and then stores data in a database.The company wants to implement user authorization for the web application in an integrated way.The company already uses a third-party identity provider that issues OAuth tokens for the company’s other applications.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is developing a gene reporting device that will collect genomic information to assist researchers will 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 has multiple AWS accounts that are in an organization in AWS Organizations.The company needs to store AWS account activity and query the data from a central location by using SQL.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is migrating its on-premises build artifact server to an AWS solution.The current system consists of an Apache HTTP server that serves artifacts to clients on the local network, restricted by the perimeter firewall.The artifact consumers are largely build automation scripts that download artifacts via anonymousHTTP, which the company will be unable to modify within its migration timetable.The company decides to move the solution to Amazon S3 static website hosting.The artifact consumers will be migrated to Amazon EC2 instances located within both public and private subnets in a virtual private cloud (VPC).Which solution will permit the artifact consumers to download artifacts without modifying the existing automation scripts?Read More →

A company needs to optimize the cost of an AWS environment that contains multiple accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations.The company conducted cost optimization activities 3 years ago and purchased Amazon EC2 Standard Reserved Instances that recently expired.The company needs EC2 instances for 3 more years.Additionally, the company has deployed a new serverless workload.Which strategy will provide the company with the MOST cost savings?Read More →

A company prefers to limit running Amazon EC2 instances to those that were launched from AMIs pre-approved by the Information Security department.TheDevelopment team has an agile continuous integration and deployment process that cannot be stalled by the solution.Which method enforces the required controls with the LEAST impact on the development process? (Choose two.)Read More →