Solutions Architect Professional (Page 68)

A company wants to change its internal cloud billing strategy for each of its business units.Currently, the cloud governance team shares reports for overall cloud spending with the head of each business unit.The company uses AWS Organizations to manage the separate AWS accounts for each business unit.The existing tagging standard in Organizations includes the application, environment, and owner.The cloud governance team wants a centralized solution so each business unit receives monthly reports on its cloud spending.The solution should also send notifications for any cloud spending that exceeds a set threshold.Which solution is the MOST cost-effective way to meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect has deployed a web application that serves users across two AWS Regions under a custom domain.The application uses Amazon Route 53 latency-based routing.The solutions architect has associated weighted record sets with a pair of web servers in separate Availability Zones for each Region.The solutions architect runs a disaster recovery scenario.When all the web servers in one Region are stopped, Route 53 does not automatically redirect users to the other Region.Which of the following are possible root causes of this issue? (Choose two.)Read More →

A video processing company wants to build a machine learning (ML) model by using 600 TB of compressed data that is stored as thousands of files in the company’s on-premises network attached storage system.The company does not have the necessary compute resources on premises for ML experiments and wants to use AWS.The company needs to complete the data transfer to AWS within 3 weeks.The data transfer will be a one-time transfer.The data must be encrypted in transit.The measured upload speed of the company’s internet connection is 100 Mbps, and multiple departments share the connection.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A solutions architect must implement a multi-Region architecture for an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database that supports a web application.The database launches from an AWS CloudFormation template that includes AWS services and features that are present in both the primary and secondary Regions.The database is configured for automated backups, and it has an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of 2 hours.The web application is configured to use an Amazon Route 53 record to route traffic to the database.Which combination of steps will result in a highly available architecture that meets all the requirements? (Choose two.)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 →

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 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 →

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 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 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 →