Solutions Architect Professional (Page 84)

A newspaper organization has an on-premises application which allows the public to search its back catalogue and retrieve individual newspaper pages via a website written in Java.They have scanned the old newspapers into JPEGs (approx 17TB) and used Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to populate a commercial search product.The hosting platform and software are now end of life and the organization wants to migrate its archive to AWS and produce a cost efficient architecture and still be designed for availability and durability.Which is the most appropriate?Read More →

A company has hundreds of AWS accounts.The company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage all the accounts.The company has turned on all features.A finance team has allocated a daily budget for AWS costs.The finance team must receive an email notification if the organization’s AWS costs exceed 80% of the allocated budget.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to track the costs and deliver the notifications.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

Your customer is willing to consolidate their log streams (access logs, application logs, security logs, etc.) in one single system.Once consolidated, the customer wants to analyze these logs in real time based on heuristics.From time to time, the customer needs to validate heuristics, which requires going back to data samples extracted from the last 12 hours.What is the best approach to meet your customer’s requirements?Read More →

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts.A solutions architect must design a solution in which only administrator roles are allowed to use IAM actions.However, the solutions architect does not have access to all the AWS accounts throughout the company.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company is migrating to the cloud.It wants to evaluate the configurations of virtual machines in its existing data center environment to ensure that it can size new Amazon EC2 instances accurately.The company wants to collect metrics, such as CPU, memory, and disk utilization, and it needs an inventory of what processes are running on each instance.The company would also like to monitor network connections to map communications between servers.Which would enable the collection of this data MOST cost effectively?Read More →

A company is planning to migrate its on-premises transaction-processing application to AWS.The application runs inside Docker containers that are hosted on VMs in the company’s data center.The Docker containers have shared storage where the application records transaction data.The transactions are time sensitive.The volume of transactions inside the application is unpredictable.The company must implement a low-latency storage solution that will automatically scale throughput to meet increased demand.The company cannot develop the application further and cannot continue to administer the Docker hosting environment.How should the company migrate the application to AWS to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is migrating mobile banking applications to run on Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC.Backend service applications run in an on-premises data center.The data center has an AWS Direct Connect connection into AWS.The applications that run in the VPC need to resolve DNS requests to an on-premises ActiveDirectory domain that runs in the data center.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?Read More →

A company is deploying a distributed in-memory database on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances.The fleet consists of a primary node and eight worker nodes.The primary node is responsible for monitoring cluster health, accepting user requests, distributing user requests to worker nodes, and sending an aggregate response back to a client.Worker nodes communicate with each other to replicate data partitions.The company requires the lowest possible networking latency to achieve maximum performance.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s application is increasingly popular and experiencing latency because of high volume reads on the database server.The service has the following properties:✑ A highly available REST API hosted in one region using Application Load Balancer (ALB) with auto scaling.✑ A MySQL database hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance in a single Availability Zone.The company wants to reduce latency, increase in-region database read performance, and have multi-region disaster recovery capabilities that can perform a live recovery automatically without any data or performance loss (HA/DR).Which deployment strategy will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company recently migrated a web application from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud.The web application infrastructure consists of an Amazon CloudFront distribution that routes to an Application Load Balancer (ALB), with Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) to process requests.A recent security audit revealed that the web application is accessible by using both CloudFront and ALB endpoints.However, the company requires that the web application must be accessible only by using the CloudFront endpoint.Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of effort?Read More →