Solutions Architect Professional (Page 74)

Your company is in the process of developing a next generation pet collar that collects biometric information to assist families with promoting healthy lifestyles for their pets.Each collar will push 30kb of biometric data in JSON format every 2 seconds to a collection platform that will process and analyze the data providing health trending information back to the pet owners and veterinarians via a web portal.Management has tasked you to architect the collection platform ensuring the following requirements are met.✑ Provide the ability for real-time analytics of the inbound biometric data✑ Ensure processing of the biometric data is highly durable.Elastic and parallel✑ The results of the analytic processing should be persisted for data miningWhich architecture outlined below win meet the initial requirements for the collection platform?Read More →

A startup company hosts a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets using the latest Amazon Linux 2 AMI.The company’s engineers rely heavily on SSH access to the instances for troubleshooting.The company’s existing architecture includes the following:• A VPC with private and public subnets, and a NAT gateway.• Site-to-Site VPN for connectivity with the on-premises environment.• EC2 security groups with direct SSH access from the on-premises environment.The company needs to increase security controls around SSH access and provide auditing of commands run by the engineers.Which strategy should a solutions architect use?Read More →

Your team has a tomcat-based Java application you need to deploy into development, test and production environments.After some research, you opt to useElastic Beanstalk due to its tight integration with your developer tools and RDS due to its ease of management.Your QA team lead points out that you need to roll a sanitized set of production data into your environment on a nightly basis.Similarly, other software teams in your org want access to that same restored data via their EC2 instances in your VPC.The optimal setup for persistence and security that meets the above requirements would be the following.Read More →

A company that uses AWS Organizations allows developers to experiment on AWS.As part of the landing zone that the company has deployed, developers use their company email address to request an account.The company wants to ensure that developers are not launching costly services or running services unnecessarily.The company must give developers a fixed monthly budget to limit their AWS costs.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

Your company has an on-premises multi-tier PHP web application, which recently experienced downtime due to a large burst in web traffic due to a company announcement   Over the coming days, you are expecting similar announcements to drive similar unpredictable bursts, and are looking to find ways to quickly improve your infrastructures ability to handle unexpected increases in traffic.The application currently consists of 2 tiers a web tier which consists of a load balancer and several Linux Apache web servers as well as a database tier which hosts a Linux server hosting a MySQL database.Which scenario below will provide full site functionality, while helping to improve the ability of your application in the short timeframe required?Read More →

A company has applications in an AWS account that is named Source.The account is in an organization in AWS Organizations.One of the applications uses AWS Lambda functions and stores inventory data in an Amazon Aurora database.The application deploys the Lambda functions by using a deployment package.The company has configured automated backups for Aurora.The company wants to migrate the Lambda functions and the Aurora database to a new AWS account that is named Target.The application processes critical data, so the company must minimize downtime.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

When I/O performance is more important than fault tolerance, which of the following configurations should be used?Read More →

A company runs a Python script on an Amazon EC2 instance to process data. The script runs every 10 minutes. The script ingests files from an Amazon S3 bucket and processes the files. On average, the script takes approximately 5 minutes to process each file The script will not reprocess a file that the script has already processed.The company reviewed Amazon CloudWatch metrics and noticed that the EC2 instance is idle for approximately 40% of the time because of the file processing speed. The company wants to make the workload highly available and scalable. The company also wants to reduce long-term management overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A software company hosts an application on AWS with resources in multiple AWS accounts and Regions.The application runs on a group of Amazon EC2 instances in an application VPC located in the us-east-1 Region with an IPv4 CIDR block of 10.10.0.0/16.In a different AWS account, a shared services VPC is located in the us-east-2 Region with an IPv4 CIDR block of 10.10.10.0/24.When a cloud engineer uses AWS CloudFormation to attempt to peer the applicationVPC with the shared services VPC, an error message indicates a peering failure.Which factors could cause this error? (Choose two.)Read More →

A financial services company in North America plans to release a new online web application to its customers on AWS.The company will launch the application in the us-east-1 Region on Amazon EC2 instances.The application must be highly available and must dynamically scale to meet user traffic.The company also wants to implement a disaster recovery environment for the application in the us-west-1 Region by using active-passive failover.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →