Solutions Architect Professional (Page 96)

A user has created an AWS AMI.The user wants the AMI to be available only to his friend and not anyone else.How can the user manage this?Read More →

A company uses AWS CloudFormation to deploy applications within multiple VPCs that are all attached to a transit gateway.Each VPC that sends traffic to the public internet must send the traffic through a shared services VPC.Each subnet within a VPC uses the default VPC route table, and the traffic is routed to the transit gateway.The transit gateway uses its default route table for any VPC attachment.A security audit reveals that an Amazon EC2 instance that is deployed within a VPC can communicate with an EC2 instance that is deployed in any of the company’s other VPCs.A solutions architect needs to limit the traffic between the VPCs.Each VPC must be able to communicate only with a predefined, limited set of authorized VPCs.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A user is planning to launch multiple EC2 instance same as current running instance.Which of the below mentioned parameters is not copied by Amazon EC2 in the launch wizard when the user has selected the option “Launch more like this”?Read More →

An online retail company hosts its stateful web-based application and MySQL database in an on-premises data center on a single server.The company wants to increase its customer base by conducting more marketing campaigns and promotions.In preparation, the company wants to migrate its application and database to AWS to increase the reliability of its architecture.Which solution should provide the HIGHEST level of reliability?Read More →

A Solutions Architect has been asked to look at a company’s Amazon Redshift cluster, which has quickly become an integral part of its technology and supports key business process. The Solutions Architect is to increase the reliability and availability of the cluster and provide options to ensure that if an issue arises, the cluster can either operate or be restored within four hours.Which of the following solution options BEST addresses the business need in the most cost-effective manner?Read More →

A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud.The application is using a MongoDB database with a replica set as its data tier.The MongoDB database is installed on systems in the company’s on-premises data center and is accessible through an AWS Direct Connect connection to the data center environment.A solutions architect must migrate the on-premises MongoDB database to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility).Which strategy should the solutions architect choose to perform this migration?Read More →

A company has a web application that allows users to upload short videos.The videos are stored on Amazon EBS volumes and analyzed by custom recognition software for categorization.The website contains static content that has variable traffic with peaks in certain months.The architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances running in an AutoScaling group for the web application and EC2 instances running in an Auto Scaling group to process an Amazon SQS-queue.The company wants to re-architect the application to reduce operational overhead using AWS managed services where possible and remove dependencies on third-party software.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts a community forum site using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and a Docker application hosted in an Amazon ECS cluster.The site data is stored in Amazon RDS for MySQL and the container image is stored in ECR.The company needs to provide their customers with a disaster recovery SLA with an RTO of no more than 24 hours and RPO of no more than 8 hours.Which of the following solutions is the MOST cost-effective way to meet the requirements?Read More →

A company that tracks medical devices in hospitals wants to migrate its existing storage solution to the AWS Cloud.The company equips all of its devices with sensors that collect location and usage information.This sensor data is sent in unpredictable patterns with large spikes.The data is stored in a MySQL database running on premises at each hospital.The company wants the cloud storage solution to scale with usage.The company’s analytics team uses the sensor data to calculate usage by device type and hospital.The team needs to keep analysis tools running locally while fetching data from the cloud.The team also needs to use existing Java application and SQL queries with as few changes as possible.How should a solutions architect meet these requirements while ensuring the sensor data is secure?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 AWS Organizations.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 →