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A company runs a three-tier application in AWS.Users report that the application performance can vary greatly depending on the time of day and functionality being accessed.The application includes the following components:✑ Eight t2.large front-end web servers that serve static content and proxy dynamic content from the application tier.✑ Four t2.large application servers.✑ One db.m4.large Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance.Operations has determined that the web and application tiers are network constrained.Which of the following is a cost effective way to improve application performance? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company has a web application that securely uploads pictures and videos to an Amazon S3 bucket.The company requires that only authenticated users are allowed to post content.The application generates a presigned URL that is used to upload objects through a browser interface.Most users are reporting slow upload times for objects larger than 100 MB.What can a solutions architect do to improve the performance of these uploads while ensuring only authenticated users are allowed to post content?Read More →

An online retailer needs to regularly process large product catalogs, which are handled in batches.These are sent out to be processed by people using theAmazon Mechanical Turk service, but the retailer has asked its Solutions Architect to design a workflow orchestration system that allows it to handle multiple concurrent Mechanical Turk operations, deal with the result assessment process, and reprocess failures.Which of the following options gives the retailer the ability to interrogate the state of every workflow with the LEAST amount of implementation effort?Read More →

An enterprise company is building an infrastructure services platform for its users.The company has the following requirements:• Provide least privilege access to users when launching AWS infrastructure so users cannot provision unapproved services.• Use a central account to manage the creation of infrastructure services.• Provide the ability to distribute infrastructure services to multiple accounts in AWS Organizations.• Provide the ability to enforce tags on any infrastructure that is started by users.Which combination of actions using AWS services will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company needs to cost-effectively persist small data records (up to 1 KiB) for up to 30 days.The data is read rarely.When reading the data, a 5-minute delay is acceptable.Which of the following solutions achieve this goal? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is planning to migrate its on-premises VMware cluster of 120 VMs to AWS.The VMs have many different operating systems and many custom software packages installed.The company also has an on-premises NFS server that is 10 TB in size.The company has set up a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection to AWS for the migration.Which solution will complete the migration to AWS in the LEAST amount of time?Read More →

A Development team is deploying new APIs as serverless applications within a company.The team is currently using the AWS Management Console to provisionAmazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB resources.A Solutions Architect has been tasked with automating the future deployments of these serverless APIs.How can this be accomplished?Read More →

A data analytics company has an Amazon Redshift cluster that consists of several reserved nodes.The cluster is experiencing unexpected bursts of usage because a team of employees is compiling a deep audit analysis report.The queries to generate the report are complex read queries and are CPU intensive.Business requirements dictate that the cluster must be able to service read and write queries at all times.A solutions architect must devise a solution that accommodates the bursts of usage.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

The company Security team requires that all data uploaded into an Amazon S3 bucket must be encrypted.The encryption keys must be highly available and the company must be able to control access on a per-user basis, with different users having access to different encryption keys.Which of the following architectures will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A software company needs to create short-lived test environments to test pull requests as part of its development process.Each test environment consists of a single Amazon EC2 instance that is in an Auto Scaling group.The test environments must be able to communicate with a central server to report test results.The central server is located in an on-premises data center.A solutions architect must implement a solution so that the company can create and delete test environments without any manual intervention.The company has created a transit gateway with a VPN attachment to the on-premises network.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →