Solutions Architect Professional (Page 63)

A company is storing data on premises on a Windows file server.The company produces 5 GB of new data daily.The company migrated part of its Windows-based workload to AWS and needs the data to be available on a file system in the cloud.The company already has established an AWS Direct Connect connection between the on-premises network and AWS.Which data migration strategy should the company use?Read More →

A company has a VPC with two domain controllers running Active Directory in the default configuration.The VPC DHCP options set is configured to use the IP addresses of the two domain controllers.There is a VPC interface endpoint defined; but instances within the VPC are not able to resolve the private endpoint addresses.Which strategies would resolve this issue? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company’s solutions architect is reviewing a web application that runs on AWS.The application references static assets in an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region.The company needs resiliency across multiple AWS Regions.The company already has created an S3 bucket in a second Region.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A manufacturing company is growing exponentially and has secured funding to improve its IT infrastructure and ecommerce presence.The company’s ecommerce platform consists of:✑ Static assets primarily comprised of product images stored in Amazon S3.✑ Amazon DynamoDB tables that store product information, user information, and order information.✑ Web servers containing the application’s front-end behind Elastic Load Balancers.The company wants to set up a disaster recovery site in a separate Region.Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to implement the new design while meeting all the requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company has automated the nightly retraining of its machine learning models by using AWS Step Functions.The workflow consists of multiple steps that use AWS Lambda.Each step can fail for various reasons, and any failure causes a failure of the overall workflow.A review reveals that the retraining has failed multiple nights in a row without the company noticing the failure.A solutions architect needs to improve the workflow so that notifications are sent for all types of failures in the retraining process.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

An e-commerce company is revamping its IT infrastructure and is planning to use AWS services.The company’s CIO has asked a Solutions Architect to design a simple, highly available, and loosely coupled order processing application.The application is responsible for receiving and processing orders before storing them in an Amazon DynamoDB table.The application has a sporadic traffic pattern and should be able to scale during marketing campaigns to process the orders with minimal delays.Which of the following is the MOST reliable approach to meet the requirements?Read More →

During an audit, a security team discovered that a development team was putting IAM user secret access keys in their code and then committing it to an AWS CodeCommit repository.The security team wants to automatically find and remediate instances of this security vulnerability.Which solution will ensure that the credentials are appropriately secured automatically?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a solution to connect a company’s on-premises network with all the company’s current and future VPCs on AWS.The company is running VPCs in five different AWS Regions and has at least 15 VPCs in each Region.The company’s AWS usage is constantly increasing and will continue to grow.Additionally, all the VPCs throughout all five Regions must be able to communicate with each other.The solution must maximize scalability and ease of management.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has a few AWS accounts for development and wants to move its production application to AWS.The company needs to enforce Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) encryption at rest current production accounts and future production accounts only.The company needs a solution that includes built-in blueprints and guardrails.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

A greeting card company recently advertised that customers could send cards to their favorite celebrities through the company’s platform.Since the advertisement was published, the platform has received constant traffic from 10,000 unique users each second.The platform runs on m5.xlarge Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The instances run in an Auto Scaling group and use a customAMI that is based on Amazon Linux.The platform uses a highly available Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster that uses primary and reader endpoints.The platform also uses an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis cluster that uses its cluster endpoint.The platform generates a new process for each customer and holds open database connections to MySQL for the duration of each customer’s session.However, resource usage for the platform is low.Many customers are reporting errors when they connect to the platform.Logs show that connections to the Aurora database are failing.Amazon CloudWatch metrics show that the CPU load is low across the platform and that connections to the platform are successful through the ALB.Which solution will remediate the errors MOST cost-effectively?Read More →