Solutions Architect Professional (Page 98)

A solutions architect is building a web application that uses an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance.The DB instance is expected to receive many more reads than writes.The solutions architect needs to ensure that the large amount of read traffic can be accommodated and that the DB instance is highly available.Which steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company wants to use Amazon WorkSpaces in combination with thin client devices to replace aging desktops.Employees use the desktops to access applications that work with Clinical trial data.Corporate security policy states that access to the applications must be restricted to only company branch office locations.The company is considering adding an additional branch office in the next 6 months.Which solution meets these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to deploy an application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 Instances.The EC2 instances run in private subnets in an Auto Scaling group.The application is expected to generate logs at a rate of 100 MB each second on each of the EC2 instances.The logs must be stored in an Amazon S3 bucket so that an Amazon EMR cluster can consume them for further processing.The logs must be quickly accessible for the first 90 days and should be retrievable within 48 hours thereafter.What is the MOST cost-effective solution that meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is running a critical stateful web application on two Linux Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) with an Amazon RDS for MySQL database.The company hosts the DNS records for the application in Amazon Route 53.A solutions architect must recommend a solution to improve the resiliency of the application.The solution must meet the following objectives:• Application tier: RPO of 2 minutes.RTO of 30 minutes• Database tier: RPO of 5 minutes.RTO of 30 minutesThe company does not want to make significant changes to the existing application architecture.The company must ensure optimal latency after a failover.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

In the context of IAM roles for Amazon EC2, which of the following NOT true about delegating permission to make API requests?Read More →

A company has multiple business units that each have separate accounts on AWS.Each business unit manages its own network with several VPCs that have CIDR ranges that overlap.The company’s marketing team has created a new internal application and wants to make the application accessible to all the other business units.The solution must use private IP addresses only.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

Out of the striping options available for the EBS volumes, which one has the following disadvantage:’Doubles the amount of I/O required from the instance to EBS compared to RAID 0, because you’re mirroring all writes to a pair of volumes, limiting how much you can stripe.’?Read More →

A solutions architect needs to assess a newly acquired company’s portfolio of applications and databases.The solutions architect must create a business case to migrate the portfolio to AWS.The newly acquired company runs applications in an on-premises data center.The data center is not well documented.The solutions architect cannot immediately determine how many applications and databases exist.Traffic for the applications is variable.Some applications are batch processes that run at the end of each month.The solutions architect must gain a better understanding of the portfolio before a migration to AWS can begin.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

In Amazon Redshift, how many slices does a dw2.8xlarge node have?Read More →

A company hosts an application on AWS.The application reads and writes objects that are stored in a single Amazon S3 bucket.The company must modify the application to deploy the application in two AWS Regions.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →