Solutions Architect Professional (Page 82)

A company runs a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application on AWS.The application consists of AWS Lambda functions and an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ database.During market events, the application has a much higher workload than normal.Users notice slow response times during the peak periods because of many database connections.The company needs to improve the scalable performance and availability of the database.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is preparing to deploy an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster for a workload.The company expects the cluster to support an unpredictable number of stateless pods.Many of the pods will be created during a short time period as the workload automatically scales the number of replicas that the workload uses.Which solution will MAXIMIZE node resilience?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 is deploying AWS Lambda functions that access an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database.The company needs to launch the Lambda functions in a QA environment and in a production environment.The company must not expose credentials within application code and must rotate passwords automatically.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A web design company currently runs several FTP servers that their 250 customers use to upload and download large graphic files They wish to move this system to AWS to make it more scalable, but they wish to maintain customer privacy and Keep costs to a minimum.What AWS architecture would you recommend?Read More →

A company is deploying a third-party web application on AWS.The application is packaged as a Docker image.The company has deployed the Docker image as an AWS Fargate service in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).An Application Load Balancer (ALB) directs traffic to the application.The company needs to give only a specific list of users the ability to access the application from the internet.The company cannot change the application and cannot integrate the application with an identity provider.All users must be authenticated through multi-factor authentication (MFA).Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

Your customer wishes to deploy an enterprise application to AWS, which will consist of several web servers, several application servers and a small (50GB)Oracle database.Information is stored, both in the database and the file systems of the various servers.The backup system must support database recovery whole server and whole disk restores, and individual file restores with a recovery time of no more than two hours.They have chosen to use RDS Oracle as the database.Which backup architecture will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is preparing to deploy a new security tool into several previously unused AWS Regions.The solutions architect will deploy the tool by using an AWS CloudFormation stack set.The stack set’s template contains an IAM role that has a custom name.Upon creation of the stack set, no stack instances are created successfully.What should the solutions architect do to deploy the stacks successfully?Read More →

Your company runs a customer facing event registration site This site is built with a 3-tier architecture with web and application tier servers and a MySQL database The application requires 6 web tier servers and 6 application tier servers for normal operation, but can run on a minimum of 65% server capacity and a single MySQL database.When deploying this application in a region with three availability zones (AZs) which architecture provides high availability?Read More →

A company has an application that uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster for the application’s database.The DB cluster contains one small primary instance and three larger replica instances.The application runs on an AWS Lambda function.The application makes many short-lived connections to the database’s replica instances to perform read-only operations.During periods of high traffic, the application becomes unreliable and the database reports that too many connections are being established.The frequency of high-traffic periods is unpredictable.Which solution will improve the reliability of the application?Read More →