Solutions Architect Professional (Page 71)

Which of the following does Amazon DynamoDB perform?Read More →

A financial services company sells its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for application compliance to large global banks.The SaaS platform runs on AWS and uses multiple AWS accounts that are managed in an organization in AWS Organizations.The SaaS platform uses many AWS resources globally.For regulatory compliance, all API calls to AWS resources must be audited, tracked for changes, and stored in a durable and secure data store.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

Which of the following statements is correct about AWS Direct Connect?Read More →

A financial services company has an asset management product that thousands of customers use around the world.The customers provide feedback about the product through surveys.The company is building a new analytical solution that runs on Amazon EMR to analyze the data from these surveys.The following user personas need to access the analytical solution to perform different actions:• Administrator: Provisions the EMR cluster for the analytics team based on the team’s requirements• Data engineer: Runs ETL scripts to process, transform, and enrich the datasets• Data analyst: Runs SQL and Hive queries on the dataA solutions architect must ensure that all the user personas have least privilege access to only the resources that they need.The user personas must be able to launch only applications that are approved and authorized.The solution also must ensure tagging for all resources that the user personas create.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts a game player-matching service on a public facing, physical, on-premises instance that all users are able to access over the internet.All traffic to the instance uses UDP.The company wants to migrate the service to AWS and provide a high level of security.A solutions architect needs to design a solution for the player-matching service using AWS.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company migrated to AWS and uses AWS Business Support.The company wants to monitor the cost-effectiveness of Amazon EC2 instances across AWS accounts.The EC2 instances have tags for department, business unit, and environment.Development EC2 instances have high cost but low utilization.The company needs to detect and stop any underutilized development EC2 instances.Instances are underutilized if they had 10% or less average daily CPU utilization and 5 MB or less network I/O for at least 4 of the past 14 days.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company recently transformed its legacy infrastructure provisioning scripts to AWS CloudFormation templates.The newly developed templates are hosted in the company’s private GitHub repository.Since adopting CloudFormation, the company has encountered several issues with updates to the CloudFormation templates, causing execution or creating environment.Management is concerned by the increase in errors and has asked a Solutions Architect to design the automated testing of CloudFormation template updates.What should the Solution Architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A travel company built a web application that uses Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to send email notifications to users.The company needs to enable logging to help troubleshoot email delivery issues.The company also needs the ability to do searches that are based on recipient, subject, and time sent.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company that runs applications on AWS recently subscribed to a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) data vendor.The vendor provides the data by way of aREST API that the vendor hosts in its AWS environment.The vendor offers multiple options for connectivity to the API and is working with the company to find the best way to connect.The company’s AWS account does not allow outbound internet access from its AWS environment.The vendor’s services run on AWS in the same Region as the company’s applications.A solutions architect must implement connectivity to the vendor’s API so that the API is highly available in the company’s VPC.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to run a custom network analysis software package to inspect traffic as traffic leaves and enters a VPC.The company has deployed the solution by using AWS CloudFormation on three Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group.All network routing has been established to direct traffic to the EC2 instances.Whenever the analysis software stops working, the Auto Scaling group replaces an instance.The network routes are not updated when the instance replacement occurs.Which combination of steps will resolve this issue? (Choose three.)Read More →