Solutions Architect Professional (Page 69)

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 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 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 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 software development company has multiple engineers who are working remotely.The company is running Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on an Amazon EC2 instance.The company’s security policy states that all internal, nonpublic services that are deployed in a VPC must be accessible through a VPN.Multi-factor authentication (MFA) must be used for access to a VPN.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is migrating mobile banking applications to run on Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC.Backend service applications run in an on-premises data center.The data center has an AWS Direct Connect connection into AWS.The applications that run in the VPC need to resolve DNS requests to an on-premises Active Directory domain that runs in the data center.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?Read More →

A company is migrating an application from on-premises infrastructure to the AWS Cloud.During migration design meetings, the company expressed concerns about the availability and recovery options for its legacy Windows file server.The file server contains sensitive business-critical data that cannot be recreated in the event of data corruption or data loss.According to compliance requirements, the data must not travel across the public internet.The company wants to move to AWS managed services where possible.The company decides to store the data in an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system.A solutions architect must design a solution that copies the data to another AWS Region for disaster recovery (DR) purposes.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is migrating its infrastructure to the AWS Cloud.The company must comply with a variety of regulatory standards for different projects.The company needs a multi-account environment.A solutions architect needs to prepare the baseline infrastructure.The solution must provide a consistent baseline of management and security, but it must allow flexibility for different compliance requirements within various AWS accounts.The solution also needs to integrate with the existing on-premises Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) server.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

A company has millions of objects in an Amazon S3 bucket.The objects are in the S3 Standard storage class.All the S3 objects are accessed frequently.The number of users and applications that access the objects is increasing rapidly.The objects are encrypted with server-side encryption with AWS KMS keys (SSE-KMS).A solutions architect reviews the company’s monthly AWS invoice and notices that AWS KMS costs are increasing because of the high number of requests from Amazon S3.The solutions architect needs to optimize costs with minimal changes to the application.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A medical company is running a REST API on a set of Amazon EC2 instances.The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The ALB runs in three public subnets, and the EC2 instances run in three private subnets.The company has deployed an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the ALB as the only origin.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to enhance the origin security?Read More →