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A company’s main intranet page has experienced degraded response times as its user base has increased although there are no reports of users seeing error pages. The application uses Amazon DynamoDB in read-only mode.Amazon DynamoDB latency metrics for successful requests have been in a steady state even during times when users have reported degradation. TheDevelopment team has correlated the issue to ProvisionedThrough put Exceeded exceptions in the application logs when doing Scan and read operations The team also identified an access pattern of steady spikes of read activity on a distributed set of individual data items.The Chief Technology Officer wants to improve the user experience.Which solutions will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of changes to the application? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect needs to advise a company on how to migrate its on-premises data processing application to the AWS Cloud.Currently, users upload input files through a web portal.The web server then stores the uploaded files on NAS and messages the processing server over a message queue.Each media file can take up to 1 hour to process.The company has determined that the number of media files awaiting processing is significantly higher during business hours, with the number of files rapidly declining after business hours.What is the MOST cost-effective migration recommendation?Read More →

A company has many AWS accounts and uses AWS Organizations to manage all of them.A solutions architect must implement a solution that the company can use to share a common network across multiple accounts.The company’s infrastructure team has a dedicated infrastructure account that has a VPC.The infrastructure team must use this account to manage the network.Individual accounts cannot have the ability to manage their own networks.However, individual accounts must be able to create AWS resources within subnets.Which combination of actions should the solutions architect perform to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is hosting an image-processing service on AWS in a VPC.The VPC extends across two Availability Zones.Each Availability Zone contains one public subnet and one private subnet.The service runs on Amazon EC2 instances in the private subnets.An Application Load Balancer in the public subnets is in front of the service.The service needs to communicate with the internet and does so through two NAT gateways.The service uses Amazon S3 for image storage.The EC2 instances retrieve approximately 1 ТВ of data from an S3 bucket each day.The company has promoted the service as highly secure.A solutions architect must reduce cloud expenditures as much as possible without compromising the service’s security posture or increasing the time spent on ongoing operations.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A user is sending a custom metric to CloudWatch.If the call to the CloudWatch APIs has different dimensions, but the same metric name, how will CloudWatch treat all the requests?Read More →

A company wants to migrate its workloads from on premises to AWS.The workloads run on Linux and Windows.The company has a large on-premises infrastructure that consists of physical machines and VMs that host numerous applications.The company must capture details about the system configuration, system performance, running processes, and network connections of its on-premises workloads.The company also must divide the on-premises applications into groups for AWS migrations.The company needs recommendations for Amazon EC2 instance types so that the company can run its workloads on AWS in the most cost-effective manner.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company requires that all internal application connectivity use private IP addresses.To facilitate this policy, a solutions architect has created interface endpoints to connect to AWS public services.Upon testing, the solutions architect notices that the service names are resolving to public IP addresses, and that internal services cannot connect to the interface endpoints.Which step should the solutions architect take to resolve this issue?Read More →

A company is using AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts.For security purposes, the company requires the creation of an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic that enables integration with a third-party alerting system in all the Organizations member accounts.A solutions architect used an AWS CloudFormation template to create the SNS topic and stack sets to automate the deployment of CloudFormation stacks.Trusted access has been enabled in Organizations.What should the solutions architect do to deploy the CloudFormation StackSets in all AWS accounts?Read More →

A company hosts a large on-premises MySQL database at its main office that supports an issue tracking system used by employees around the world.The company already uses AWS for some workloads and has created an Amazon Route 53 entry for the database endpoint that points to the on-premises database.Management is concerned about the database being a single point of failure and wants a solutions architect to migrate the database to AWS without any data loss or downtime.Which set of actions should the solutions architect implement?Read More →

A company is hosting a three-tier web application in an on-premises environment.Due to a recent surge in traffic that resulted in downtime and a significant financial impact, company management has ordered that the application be moved to AWS.The application is written in .NET and has a dependency on a MySQL database.A solutions architect must design a scalable and highly available solution to meet the demand of 200,000 daily users.Which steps should the solutions architect take to design an appropriate solution?Read More →