Solutions Architect Professional (Page 89)

A video streaming company recently launched a mobile app for video sharing.The app uploads various files to an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region.The files range in size from 1 GB to 10 GB.Users who access the app from Australia have experienced uploads that take long periods of time.Sometimes the files fail to completely upload for these users.A solutions architect must improve the app’s performance for these uploads.Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company with global offices has a single 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection to a single AWS Region.The company’s on-premises network uses the connection to communicate with the company’s resources in the AWS Cloud.The connection has a single private virtual interface that connects to a single VPC.A solutions architect must implement a solution that adds a redundant Direct Connect connection in the same Region.The solution also must provide connectivity to other Regions through the same pair of Direct Connect connections as the company expands into other Regions.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has multiple lines of business (LOBs) that roll up to the parent company.The company has asked its solutions architect to develop a solution with the following requirements:✑ Produce a single AWS invoice for all of the AWS accounts used by its LOBs.✑ The costs for each LOB account should be broken out on the invoice.✑ Provide the ability to restrict services and features in the LOB accounts, as defined by the company’s governance policy.✑ Each LOB account should be delegated full administrator permissions, regardless of the governance policy.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company used Amazon EC2 instances to deploy a web fleet to host a blog site.The EC2 instances are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and are configured in an Auto Scaling group.The web application stores all blog content on an Amazon EFS volume.The company recently added a feature for bloggers to add video to their posts, attracting 10 times the previous user traffic.At peak times of day, users report buffering and timeout issues while attempting to reach the site or watch videos.Which is the MOST cost-efficient and scalable deployment that will resolve the issues for users?Read More →

An enterprise company wants to implement cost controls for all its accounts in AWS Organizations, which has full features enabled.The company has mapped organizational units (OUs) to its business units, and it wants to bill these business units for their individual AWS spending.There has been a recent spike in the company’s AWS bill, which is generating attention from the Finance team.A Solutions Architect needs to investigate the cause of the spike while designing a solution that will track AWS costs in Organizations and generate a notification to the required teams if costs from a business unit exceed a specific monetary threshold.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is using multiple AWS accounts.The DNS records are stored in a private hosted zone for Amazon Route 53 in Account A.The company’s applications and databases are running in Account B.A solutions architect will deploy a two-tier application in a new VPC.To simplify the configuration, the db.example.com CNAME record set for the Amazon RDS endpoint was created in a private hosted zone for Amazon Route 53.During deployment, the application failed to start.Troubleshooting revealed that db.example.com is not resolvable on the Amazon EC2 instance.The solutions architect confirmed that the record set was created correctly in Route 53.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is deploying a third-party firewall appliance solution from AWS Marketplace to monitor and protect traffic that leaves the company’s AWS environments. The company wants to deploy this appliance into a shared services VPC and route all outbound internet-bound traffic through the appliances.A solutions architect needs to recommend a deployment method that prioritizes reliability and minimizes failover time between firewall appliances within a singleAWS Region. The company has set up routing from the shared services VPC to other VPCs.Which steps should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company is running an application on several Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer.The load on the application varies throughout the day, and EC2 instances are scaled in and out on a regular basis.Log files from the EC2 instances are copied to a central Amazon S3 bucket every 15 minutes.The security team discovers that log files are missing from some of the terminated EC2 instances.Which set of actions will ensure that log files are copied to the central S3 bucket from the terminated EC2 instances?Read More →

A company runs an application on AWS.An AWS Lambda function uses credentials to authenticate to an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance.A security risk assessment identified that these credentials are not frequently rotated.Also, encryption at rest is not enabled for the DB instance.The security team requires that both of these issues be resolved.Which strategy should a solutions architect recommend to remediate these security risks?Read More →

A company needs to implement a patching process for its servers.The on-premises servers and Amazon EC2 instances use a variety of tools to perform patching.Management requires a single report showing the patch status of all the servers and instances.Which set of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements?Read More →