Solutions Architect Professional (Page 7)

A company wants to manage the costs associated with a group of 20 applications that are infrequently used, but are still business-critical, by migrating to AWS.The applications are a mix of Java and Node.js spread across different instance clusters.The company wants to minimize costs while standardizing by using a single deployment methodology.Most of the applications are part of month-end processing routines with a small number of concurrent users, but they are occasionally run at other times.Average application memory consumption is less than 1 GB, though some applications use as much as 2.5 GB of memory during peak processing.The most important application in the group is a billing report written in Java that accesses multiple data sources and often for several hours.Which is the MOST cost-effective solution?Read More →

A company is planning to migrate to the AWS Cloud.The company hosts many applications on Windows servers and Linux servers.Some of the servers are physical, and some of the servers are virtual.The company uses several types of databases in its on-premises environment.The company does not have an accurate inventory of its on-premises servers and applications.The company wants to rightsize its resources during migration.A solutions architect needs to obtain information about the network connections and the application relationships.The solutions architect must assess the company’s current environment and develop a migration plan.Which solution will provide the solutions architect with the required information to develop the migration plan?Read More →

A gaming company created a game leaderboard by using a Multi-AZ deployment of an Amazon RDS database.The number of users is growing, and the queries to get individual player rankings are getting slower over time.The company expects a surge in users for an upcoming version and wants to optimize the design for scalability and performance.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to use AWS for disaster recovery for an on-premises application.The company has hundreds of Windows-based servers that run the application.All the servers mount a common share.The company has an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of 5 minutes.The solution must support native failover and fallback capabilities.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company provides specialized analytics services to customers.The analytics run on Amazon EC2 instances that need to be launched and terminated in response to requests from customers.A solutions architect is creating automation to manage the EC2 instances that handle customer requests.However, when the automation scripts attempt to launch many EC2 instances at the same time, a RequestLimitExceeded error frequently occurs.What should the solutions architect do to handle this error?Read More →

A company recently started hosting new application workloads in the AWS Cloud.The company is using Amazon EC2 instances.Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems, and Amazon RDS DB instances.To meet regulatory and business requirements, the company must make the following changes for data backups:• Backups must be retained based on custom daily, weekly, and monthly requirements.• Backups must be replicated to at least one other AWS Region immediately after capture.• The backup solution must provide a single source of backup status across the AWS environment.• The backup solution must send immediate notifications upon failure of any resource backup.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead? (Choose three.)Read More →

When configuring your customer gateway to connect to your VPC, the________Association is established first between the virtual private gateway and customer gateway using the Pre-Shared Key as the authenticator.Read More →

A company is migrating its blog platform to AWS.The company’s on-premises servers connect to AWS through an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection.The blog content is updated several times a day by multiple authors and is served from a file share on a network-attached storage (NAS) server.The company needs to migrate the blog platform without delaying the content updates.The company has deployed Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones to run the blog platform behind an Application Load Balancer.The company also needs to move 200 TB of archival data from its on-premises servers to Amazon S3 as soon as possible.Which combination of stops will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

An organization is trying to setup a VPC with Auto Scaling.Which configuration steps below is not required to setup AWS VPC with Auto Scaling?Read More →

A company provides a centralized Amazon EC2 application hosted in a single shared VPC.The centralized application must be accessible from client applications running in the VPCs of other business units.The centralized application front end is configured with a Network Load Balancer (NLB) for scalability.Up to 10 business unit VPCs will need to be connected to the shared VPC.Some of the business unit VPC CIDR blocks overlap with the shared VPC, and some overlap with each other Network connectivity to the centralized application in the shared VPC should be allowed from authorized business unit VPCs only.Which network configuration should a solutions architect use to provide connectivity from the client applications in the business unit VPCs to the centralized application in the shared VPC?Read More →