Solutions Architect Professional (Page 87)

A company is planning a large event where a promotional offer will be introduced.The company’s website is hosted on AWS and backed by an Amazon RDS forPostgreSQL DB instance.The website explains the promotion and includes a sign-up page that collects user information and preferences.Management expects large and unpredictable volumes of traffic periodically, which will create many database writes.A solutions architect needs to build a solution that does not change the underlying data model and ensures that submissions are not dropped before they are committed to the database.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application that uses Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group.The quality assurance (QA) department needs to launch a large number of short-lived environments to test the application.The application environments are currently launched by the manager of the department using an AWS CloudFormation template.To launch the stack, the manager uses a role with permission to use CloudFormation, EC2, and Auto Scaling APIs.The manager wants to allow testers to launch their own environments, but does not want to grant broad permissions to each user.Which set up would achieve these goals?Read More →

An education company is running a web application used by college students around the world.The application runs in an Amazon Elastic Container Service(Amazon ECS) cluster in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).A system administrator detects a weekly spike in the number of failed login attempts, which overwhelm the application’s authentication service.All the failed login attempts originate from about 500 different IP addresses that change each week.A solutions architect must prevent the failed login attempts from overwhelming the authentication service.Which solution meets these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?Read More →

A company wants to create a single Amazon S3 bucket for its data scientists to store work-related documents.The company uses AWS IAM Identity Center to authenticate all users.A group for the data scientists was created.The company wants to give the data scientists access to only their own work.The company also wants to create monthly reports that show which documents each user accessed.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company runs an application that gives users the ability to search for videos and related information by using keywords that are curated from content providers.The application data is stored in an on-premises Oracle database that is 800 GB in size.The company wants to migrate the data to an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB instance.A solutions architect plans to use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool andAWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) for the migration.During the migration, the existing database must serve ongoing requests.The migration must be completed with minimum downtime.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is planning to migrate an application from on premises to the AWS Cloud.The company will begin the migration by moving the application’s underlying data storage to AWS.The application data is stored on a shared file system on premises, and the application servers connect to the shared file system through SMB.A solutions architect must implement a solution that uses an Amazon S3 bucket for shared storage.Until the application is fully migrated and code is rewritten to use native Amazon S3 APIs, the application must continue to have access to the data through SMB.The solutions architect must migrate the application data to AWS to its new location while still allowing the on-premises application to access the data.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to migrate its data analytics environment from on premises to AWS.The environment consists of two simple Node.js applications.One of the applications collects sensor data and loads it into a MySQL database.The other application aggregates the data into reports.When the aggregation jobs run, some of the load jobs fail to run correctly.The company must resolve the data loading issue.The company also needs the migration to occur without interruptions or changes for the company’s customers.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A live-events company is designing a scaling solution for its ticket application on AWS.The application has high peaks of utilization during sale events.Each sale event is a one-time event that is scheduled.The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group.The application uses PostgreSQL for the database layer.The company needs a scaling solution to maximize availability during the sale events.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect at a large company needs to set up network security for outbound traffic to the internet from all AWS accounts within an organization in AWSOrganizations.The organization has more than 100 AWS accounts, and the accounts route to each other by using a centralized AWS Transit Gateway.Each account has both an internet gateway and a NAT gateway for outbound traffic to the internet.The company deploys resources only into a single AWS Region.The company needs the ability to add centrally managed rule-based filtering on all outbound traffic to the internet for all AWS accounts in the organization.The peak load of outbound traffic will not exceed 25 Gbps in each Availability Zone.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company plans to migrate a legacy on-premises application to AWS.The application is a Java web application that runs on Apache Tomcat with a PostgreSQL database.The company does not have access to the source code but can deploy the application Java Archive (JAR) files.The application has increased traffic at the end of each month.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →