Solutions Architect Professional (Page 78)

MapMySite is setting up a web application in the AWS VPC.The organization has decided to use an AWS RDS instead of using its own DB instance for HA andDR requirements.The organization also wants to secure RDS access.How should the web application be setup with RDS?Read More →

A telecommunications company is running an application on AWS.The company has set up an AWS Direct Connect connection between the company’s on-premises data center and AWS.The company deployed the application on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones behind an internal Application Load Balancer (ALB).The company’s clients connect from the on-premises network by using HTTPS.The TLS terminates in the ALB.The company has multiple target groups and uses path-based routing to forward requests based on the URL path.The company is planning to deploy an on-premises firewall appliance with an allow list that is based on IP address.A solutions architect must develop a solution to allow traffic flow to AWS from the on-premises network so that the clients can continue to access the application.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A Solutions Architect is building a solution for updating user metadata that is initiated by web servers.The solution needs to rapidly scale from hundreds to tens of thousands of jobs in less than 30 seconds.The solution must be asynchronous always avertable and minimize costs.Which strategies should the Solutions Architect use to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has many separate AWS accounts and uses no central billing or management.Each AWS account hosts services for different departments in the company.The company has a Microsoft Azure Active Directory that is deployed.A solutions architect needs to centralize billing and management of the company’s AWS accounts.The company wants to start using identity federation instead of manual user management.The company also wants to use temporary credentials instead of long-lived access keys.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company is using a single AWS Region for its ecommerce website.The website includes a web application that runs on several Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The website also includes an Amazon DynamoDB table.A custom domain name in Amazon Route 53 is linked to the ALB.The company created an SSL/TLS certificate in AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and attached the certificate to the ALB.The company is not using a content delivery network as part of its design.The company wants to replicate its entire application stack in a second Region to provide disaster recovery, plan for future growth, and provide improved access time to users.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that achieves these goals and minimizes administrative overhead.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company deploys a new web application.As part of the setup, the company configures AWS WAF to log to Amazon S3 through Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose.The company develops an Amazon Athena query that runs once daily to return AWS WAF log data from the previous 24 hours.The volume of daily logs is constant.However, over time, the same query is taking more time to run.A solutions architect needs to design a solution to prevent the query time from continuing to increase.The solution must minimize operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has IoT sensors that monitor traffic patterns throughout a large city.The company wants to read and collect data from the sensors and perform aggregations on the data.A solutions architect designs a solution in which the IoT devices are streaming to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.Several applications are reading from the stream.However, several consumers are experiencing throttling and are periodically encountering a ReadProvisionedThroughputExceeded error.Which actions should the solutions architect take to resolve this issue? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud.The core business logic is running on a set of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group.An Application Load Balancer (ALB) distributes traffic to the EC2 instances.Amazon Route 53 record api.example.com is pointing to the ALB.The company’s development team makes major updates to the business logic.The company has a rule that when changes are deployed, only 10% of customers can receive the new logic during a testing window.A customer must use the same version of the business logic during the testing window.How should the company deploy the updates to meet these requirements?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 →

A global manufacturing company plans to migrate the majority of its applications to AWS.However, the company is concerned about applications that need to remain within a specific country or in the company’s central on-premises data center because of data regulatory requirements or requirements for latency of single-digit milliseconds.The company also is concerned about the applications that it hosts in some of its factory sites, where limited network infrastructure exists.The company wants a consistent developer experience so that its developers can build applications once and deploy on premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid architecture.The developers must be able to use the same tools, APIs, and services that are familiar to them.Which solution will provide a consistent hybrid experience to meet these requirements?Read More →