Solutions Architect Professional (Page 74)

A company needs to run a software package that has a license that must be run on the same physical host for the duration of its use.The software package is only going to be used for 90 days.The company requires patching and restarting of all instances every 30 days.How can these requirements be met using AWS?Read More →

A company has multiple lines of business (LOBs) that roll up to the parent company.The company has asked its solutions architect to develop a solution with the following requirements:• Produce a single AWS invoice for all of the AWS accounts used by its LOBs.• The costs for each LOB account should be broken out on the invoice.• Provide the ability to restrict services and features in the LOB accounts, as defined by the company’s governance policy.• Each LOB account should be delegated full administrator permissions, regardless of the governance policy.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A financial services company logs personally identifiable information to its application logs stored in Amazon S3.Due to regulatory compliance requirements, the log files must be encrypted at rest.The security team has mandated that the company’s on-premises hardware security modules (HSMs) be used to generate theCMK material.Which steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts.The company hosts some applications in a VPC in the company’s shared services account.The company has attached a transit gateway to the VPC in the shared services account.The company is developing a new capability and has created a development environment that requires access to the applications that are in the shared services account.The company intends to delete and recreate resources frequently in the development account.The company also wants to give a development team the ability to recreate the team’s connection to the shared services account as required.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A large industrial company has two AWS accounts.One account is for production, and one account is for development.The company manages the production account under its corporate organization in AWS Organizations.The development account is an isolated environment that developers use for testing.The company stores all the application configuration information in an Amazon S3 bucket in the production account.All developers in the development account are members of a single IAM group.A solutions architect must ensure that the developers can update the application configuration information in real time.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?Read More →

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 runs for several hours.Which is the MOST cost-effective solution?Read More →

A company’s compliance audit reveals that some Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that were created in an AWS account were not encrypted.A solutions architect must implement a solution to encrypt all new EBS volumes at rest.Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST effort?Read More →

A company has a website that runs on four Amazon EC2 instances that are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).When the ALB detects that an EC2 instance is no longer available, an Amazon CloudWatch alarm enters the ALARM state.A member of the company’s operations team then manually adds a new EC2 instance behind the ALB.A solutions architect needs to design a highly available solution that automatically handles the replacement of EC2 instances.The company needs to minimize downtime during the switch to the new solution.Which set of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements?Read More →

A Solutions Architect is designing a multi-account structure that has 10 existing accounts.The design must meet the following requirements:✑ Consolidate all accounts into one organization.✑ Allow full access to the Amazon EC2 service from the master account and the secondary accounts.✑ Minimize the effort required to add additional secondary accounts.Which combination of steps should be included in the solution? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is collecting a large amount of data from a fleet of IoT devices.Data is stored as Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) files in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) on a persistent Amazon EMR cluster.The company’s data analytics team queries the data by using SQL in Apache Presto deployed on the same EMR cluster.Queries scan large amounts of data, always run for less than 15 minutes, and run only between 5 PM and 10 PM.The company is concerned about the high cost associated with the current solution.A solutions architect must propose the most cost-effective solution that will allow SQL data queries.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →