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The user has provisioned the PIOPS volume with an EBS optimized instance.Generally speaking, in which I/O chunk should the bandwidth experienced by the user be measured by AWS?Read More →

A company wants to use a third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) application.The third-party SaaS application is consumed through several API calls.The third-party SaaS application also runs on AWS inside a VPC.The company will consume the third-party SaaS application from inside a VPC.The company has internal security policies that mandate the use of private connectivity that does not traverse the internet.No resources that run in the company VPC are allowed to be accessed from outside the company’s VPC.All permissions must conform to the principles of least privilege.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

An organization is planning to setup a management network on the AWS VPC.The organization is trying to secure the webserver on a single VPC instance such that it allows the internet traffic as well as the back-end management traffic.The organization wants to make so that the back end management network interface can receive the SSH traffic only from a selected IP range, while the internet facing webserver will have an IP address which can receive traffic from all the internetIPs.How can the organization achieve this by running web server on a single instance?Read More →

A finance company is running its business-critical application on current-generation Linux EC2 instances.The application includes a self-managed MySQL database performing heavy I/O operations.The application is working fine to handle a moderate amount of traffic during the month.However, it slows down during the final three days of each month due to month-end reporting, even though the company is using Elastic Load Balancers and Auto Scaling within its infrastructure to meet the increased demand.Which of the following actions would allow the database to handle the month-end load with the LEAST impact on performance?Read More →

A user is trying to create a vault in AWS Glacier.The user wants to enable notifications.In which of the below mentioned options can the user enable the notifications from the AWS console?Read More →

A company runs a Java application that has complex dependencies on VMs that are in the company’s data center.The application is stable.but the company wants to modernize the technology stack.The company wants to migrate the application to AWS and minimize the administrative overhead to maintain the servers.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST code changes?Read More →

An organization is purchasing licensed software.The software license can be registered only to a specific MAC Address.The organization is going to host the software in the AWS environment.How can the organization fulfil the license requirement as the MAC address changes every time an instance is started/stopped/terminated?Read More →

A company has an asynchronous HTTP application that is hosted as an AWS Lambda function.A public Amazon API Gateway endpoint invokes the Lambda function.The Lambda function and the API Gateway endpoint reside in the us-east-1 Region.A solutions architect needs to redesign the application to support failover to another AWS Region.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

ABC has three separate departments and each department has their own AWS accounts.The HR department has created a file sharing site where all the on roll employees’ data is uploaded.The Admin department uploads data about the employee presence in the office to their DB hosted in the VPC.The Finance department needs to access data from the HR department to know the on roll employees to calculate the salary based on the number of days that an employee is present in the office.How can ABC setup this scenario?Read More →

A retail company has structured its AWS accounts to be part of an organization in AWS Organizations.The company has set up consolidated billing and has mapped its departments to the following OUs: Finance, Sales, Human Resources (HR), Marketing, and Operations.Each OU has multiple AWS accounts, one for each environment within a department.These environments are development, test, pre-production, and production.The HR department is releasing a new system that will launch in 3 months.In preparation, the HR department has purchased several Reserved Instances (RIs) in its production AWS account.The HR department will install the new application on this account.The HR department wants to make sure that other departments cannot share the RI discounts.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →