Solutions Architect Professional (Page 79)

A company wants to use Amazon S3 to back up its on-premises file storage solution.The company’s on-premises file storage solution supports NFS, and the company wants its new solution to support NFS.The company wants to archive the backup files after 5 days.If the company needs archived files for disaster recovery, the company is willing to wait a few days for the retrieval of those files.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is building an application on AWS.The application sends logs to an Amazon OpenSearch Service cluster for analysis.All data must be stored within a VPC.Some of the company’s developers work from home.Other developers work from three different company office locations.The developers need to access OpenSearch Service to analyze and visualize logs directly from their local development machines.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application written using an in-house software framework.The framework installation takes 30 minutes and is performed with a user data script.Company Developers deploy changes to the application frequently.The framework installation is becoming a bottleneck in this process.Which of the following would speed up this process?Read More →

A solutions architect is determining the DNS strategy for an existing VPC.The VPC is provisioned to use the 10.24.34.0/24 CIDR block.The VPC also uses Amazon Route 53 Resolver for DNS.New requirements mandate that DNS queries must use private hosted zones.Additionally instances that have public IP addresses must receive corresponding public hostnamesWhich solution will meet these requirements to ensure that the domain names are correctly resolved within the VPC?Read More →

AnyCompany has acquired numerous companies over the past few years.The CIO for AnyCompany would like to keep the resources for each acquired company separate.The CIO also would like to enforce a chargeback model where each company pays for the AWS services it uses.The Solutions Architect is tasked with designing an AWS architecture that allows AnyCompany to achieve the following:✑ Implementing a detailed chargeback mechanism to ensure that each company pays for the resources it uses.✑ AnyCompany can pay for AWS services for all its companies through a single invoice.✑ Developers in each acquired company have access to resources in their company only.✑ Developers in an acquired company should not be able to affect resources in their company only.✑ A single identity store is used to authenticate Developers across all companies.Which of the following approaches would meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is launching a new online game on Amazon EC2 instances.The game must be available globally.The company plans to run the game in three AWS Regions us-east-1, eu-west-1, and ap-southeast-1.The game’s leaderboards, player inventory and event status must be available across Regions.A solutions architect must design a solution that will give any Region the ability to scale to handle the load of all Regions.Additionally, users must automatically connect to the Region that provides the least latency.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company is refactoring an existing web service that provides read and write access to structured data.The service must respond to short but significant spikes in the system load.The service must be fault tolerant across multiple AWS Regions.Which actions should be taken to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s solutions architect is evaluating an AWS workload that was deployed several years ago.The application tier is stateless and runs on a single large Amazon EC2 instance that was launched from an AMI.The application stores data in a MySQL database that runs on a single EC2 instance.The CPU utilization on the application server EC2 instance often reaches 100% and causes the application to stop responding.The company manually installs patches on the instances.Patching has caused downtime in the past.The company needs to make the application highly available.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development me?Read More →

A large company is running a popular web application.The application runs on several Amazon EC2 Linux instances in an Auto Scaling group in a private subnet.An Application Load Balancer is targeting the instances in the Auto Scaling group in the private subnet.AWS Systems Manager Session Manager is configured, and AWS Systems Manager Agent is running on all the EC2 instances.The company recently released a new version of the application.Some EC2 instances are now being marked as unhealthy and are being terminated.As a result, the application is running at reduced capacity.A solutions architect tries to determine the root cause by analyzing Amazon CloudWatch logs that are collected from the application, but the logs are inconclusive.How should the solutions architect gain access to an EC2 instance to troubleshoot the issue?Read More →

A company runs an application on AWS.The company curates data from several different sources.The company uses proprietary algorithms to perform data transformations and aggregations.After the company performs ETL processes, the company stores the results in Amazon Redshift tables.The company sells this data to other companies.The company downloads the data as files from the Amazon Redshift tables and transmits the files to several data customers by using FTP.The number of data customers has grown significantly.Management of the data customers has become difficult.The company will use AWS Data Exchange to create a data product that the company can use to share data with customers.The company wants to confirm the identities of the customers before the company shares data.The customers also need access to the most recent data when the company publishes the data.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →