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 detected a weekly spike in the number of failed logic 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?
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How can a company patch EC2 instanceswithout internet access, using apatch source in another account, while accessing Systems Manager and S3?
A company runs a Java application that has complex dependencies on VMs that are in the company ' s data center. The application is stable. but the company wants to modernize the technology stack. The company wants to migrate the application to AWS and minimize the administrative overhead to maintain the servers.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST code changes?
A global manufacturing company plans to migrate the majority of its applications to AWS. However, the company is concerned about applications that need to remain within a specific country or in the company ' s central on-premises data center because of data regulatory requirements or requirements for latency of single-digit milliseconds. The company also is concerned about the applications that it hosts in some of its factory sites, where limited network infrastructure exists.
The company wants a consistent developer experience so that its developers can build applications once and deploy on premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid architecture.
The developers must be able to use the same tools, APIs, and services that are familiar to them.
Which solution will provide a consistent hybrid experience to meet these requirements?
A company is running its solution on AWS in a manually created VPC. The company is using AWS CloudFormation to provision other parts of the infrastructure According to a new requirement the company must manage all infrastructure in an automatic way
What should the comp any do to meet this new requirement with the LEAST effort?
A company use an organization in AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. The company hosts some applications in a VPC in the company ' s snared services account. The company has attached a transit gateway to the VPC in the Shared services account.
The company is developing a new capability and has created a development environment that requires access to the applications that are in the snared services account. The company intends to delete and recreate resources frequently in the development account. The company also wants to give a development team the ability to recreate the team ' s connection to the shared services account as required.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is planning to migrate its on-premises transaction-processing application to AWS. The application runs inside Docker containers that are hosted on VMS in the company ' s data center. The Docker containers have shared storage where the application records transaction data.
The transactions are time sensitive. The volume of transactions inside the application is unpredictable. The company must implement a low-latency storage solution that will automatically scale throughput to meet increased demand. The company cannot develop the application further and cannot continue to administer the Docker hosting environment.
How should the company migrate the application to AWS to meet these requirements?
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 ' performance for these uploads
Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company needs a hybrid DNS architecture. The architecture must include the company’s on-premises network and a VPC. An AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection connects the VPC to the on-premises network. The company already hosts the onprem.mydc.com domain name on premises.
The company wants to host the myvpc.example.com domain name in the company’s AWS account and resolve it to the VPC. The company also needs the on-premises devices to resolve DNS queries to the myvpc.example.com domain.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? Select THREE.
A company creates an AWS Control Tower landing zone to manage and govern a multi-account AWS environment. The company ' s security team will deploy preventive controls and detective controls to monitor AWS services across all the accounts. The security team needs a centralized view of the security state of all the accounts.
Which solution will meet these requirements ' ?
A company is expanding. The company plans to separate its resources into hundreds of different AWS accounts in multiple AWS Regions. A solutions architect must recommend a solution that denies access to any operations outside of specifically designated Regions.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company plans to refactor a monolithic application into a modern application designed deployed or AWS. The CLCD pipeline needs to be upgraded to support the modem design for the application with the following requirements
• It should allow changes to be released several times every hour.
* It should be able to roll back the changes as quickly as possible.
Which design will meet these requirements?
A company recently deployed an application on AWS. The application uses Amazon DynamoDB.The company measured the application load and configured the RCUs and WCUs on the DynamoDB table to match the expected peak load. The peak load occurs once a week for a 4-hour period and is double the average load. The application load is close to the average load tor the rest of the week. The access pattern includes many more writes to the table than reads of the table.
A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to minimize the cost of the table.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has multiple AWS accounts and manages these accounts with AWS Organizations. A developer was given IAM user credentials to access AWS resources. The developer should have read-only access to all Amazon S3 buckets in the account. However, when the developer tries to access the S3 buckets from the console, they receive an access denied error message with no buckets listed.
A solutions architect reviews the permissions and finds that the developer ' s IAM user is listed as having read-only access to all S3 buckets in the account.
Which additional steps should the solutions architect take to troubleshoot the issue? (Select TWO.)
A company is processing videos in the AWS Cloud by using Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. It takes 30 minutes to process a video. Several EC2 instances scale in and out depending on the number of videos in an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue.
The company has configured the SQS queue with a redrive policy that specifies a target dead-letter queue and a maxReceiveCount of 1. The company has set the visibility timeout for the SQS queue to 1 hour. The company has set up an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to notify the development team when there are messages in the dead-letter queue.
Several times during the day, the development team receives notification that messages are in the dead-letter queue and that videos have not been processed properly. An investigation finds no errors in the application logs.
How can the company solve this problem?
A company wants to migrate to AWS. The company is running thousands of VMs in a VMware ESXi environment. The company has no configuration management database and has little Knowledge about the utilization of the VMware portfolio.
A solutions architect must provide the company with an accurate inventory so that the company can plan for a cost-effective migration.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company wants to use a third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. The third-party SaaS application is consumed through several API calls. The third-party SaaS application also runs on AWS inside a VPC.
The company will consume the third-party SaaS application from inside a VPC. The company has internal security policies that mandate the use of private connectivity that does not traverse the internet. No resources that run in the company VPC are allowed to be accessed from outside the company’s VPC. All permissions must conform to the principles of least privilege.
Which solution meets these requirements?
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A company has an application that uses AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt and decrypt data. The application stores data in an Amazon S3 bucket in an AWS Region. Company security policies require that the data is encryptedbeforebeing uploaded to S3, and decryptedwhen read. The S3 bucket isreplicated to other AWS Regions.
A solutions architect must design a solution so that the application canencrypt and decrypt data across Regionsusingthe same key.
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A company needs to store sensitive and crucial business data in an Amazon S3 bucket. Because of the criticality of the data, the data must be available in a second AWS Region within 15 minutes. If any object is not available within 15 minutes, an operations team must receive a notification. The company has already enabled S3 Versioning on the S3 bucket, and the company creates a second S3 bucket in the second Region.
Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company needs to optimize the cost of backups for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). A solutions architect has already configured a backup plan in AWS Backup for the EFS backups. The backup plan contains a rule with a lifecycle configuration to transition EFS backups to cold storage after 7 days and to keep the backups for an additional 90 days.
After I month, the company reviews its EFS storage costs and notices an increase in the EFS backup costs. The EFS backup cold storage produces almost double the cost of the EFS warm backup storage.
What should the solutions architect do to optimize the cost?
A company is in the process of implementing AWS Organizations to constrain its developers to use only Amazon EC2. Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB. The developers account resides In a dedicated organizational unit (OU). The solutions architect has implemented the following SCP on the developers account:
When this policy is deployed, IAM users in the developers account are still able to use AWS services that are not listed in the policy. What should the solutions architect do to eliminate the developers ' ability to use services outside the scope of this policy?
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A company mandates that all internal AWS communications useprivate IPs. A solutions architect createdinterface VPC endpointsfor public AWS services like S3. However, service names are still resolving topublic IP addresses, and the internal apps cannot connect.
What should the architect do to resolve this issue?
Company A recently acquired Company B. Company A requires that Company B use Amazon WorkSpaces in a separate member AWS account that Company A manages. Company A uses AWS Organizations with all features enabled. Company A also uses AWS IAM Identity Center with a SAML-based identity source for access to Company A’s AWS accounts. Company B has its own SAML-based identity provider IdP.
Company A requires that authentication to WorkSpaces use only Company B’s own IdP.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is migrating an application to the AWS Cloud. The application runs in an on-premises data center and writes thousands of images into a mounted NFS file system each night. After the company migrates the application, the company will host the application on an Amazon EC2 instance with a mounted Amazon
Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system.
The company has established an AWS Direct Connect connection to AWS. Before the migration cutover, a solutions architect must build a process that will replicate the newly created on-premises images to the EFS file system.
What is the MOST operationally efficient way to replicate the images?
A media storage application uploads user photos to Amazon S3 for processing by AWS Lambda functions. Application state is stored in Amazon DynamoOB tables. Users are reporting that some uploaded photos are not being processed properly. The application developers trace the logs and find that Lambda is experiencing photo processing issues when thousands of users upload photos simultaneously. The issues are the result of Lambda concurrency limits and the performance of DynamoDB when data is saved.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to increase the performance and reliability of the application? (Select TWO.)
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A company uses AWS Organizations and tags every resource with a BusinessUnit tag. They want toallocate cloud costsby business unit andvisualizethem.
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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 underlying data storage to AWS The application data is stored on a shared tile 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 (o its new location while still allowing the on-premises application to access the data
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is running several applications in the AWS Cloud. The applications are specific to separate business units in the company. The company is running the components of the applications in several AWS accounts that are in an organization in AWS Organizations. Every cloud resource in the company ' s organization has a tag that is named BusinessUnit. Every tag already has the appropriate value of the business unit name. The company needs to allocate its cloud costs to different business units. The company also needs to visualize the cloud costs for each business unit. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has more than 20 application development teams. All the teams use AWS CloudFormation to deploy application resources in the company ' s production AWS account. The production account is a member of an organization in AWS Organizations that has all features enabled.
The company must ensure that all resources that the development teams provision match a set of predefined rules. The company needs a solution to prevent users from provisioning noncompliant resources through CloudFormation.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is storing sensitive data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company must log all activities for objects in the S3 bucket and must keep the logs for 5 years. The company ' s security team also must receive an email notification every time there is an attempt to delete data in the S3 bucket.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select THREE.)
A company is using AWS Control Tower to manage AWS accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company has an OU that contains accounts. The company
must prevent any new or existing Amazon EC2 instances in the OUs accounts from gaining a public IP address.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company ' s compliance audit reveals that some Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that were created in an AWS account were not encrypted. A solutions architect must Implement a solution to encrypt all new EBS volumes at rest
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST effort?
A flood monitoring agency has deployed more than 10.000 water-level monitoring sensors. Sensors send continuous data updates, and each update is less than 1 MB in size. The agency has a fleet of on-premises application servers. These servers receive upda.es ' on the sensors, convert the raw data into a human readable format, and write the results loan on-premises relational database server. Data analysts then use simple SOL queries to monitor the data.
The agency wants to increase overall application availability and reduce the effort that is required to perform maintenance tasks These maintenance tasks, which include updates and patches to the application servers, cause downtime. While an application server is down, data is lost from sensors because the remaining servers cannot handle the entire workload.
The agency wants a solution that optimizes operational overhead and costs. A solutions architect recommends the use of AWS loT Core to collect the sensor data.
What else should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company is using AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts Due to regulatory requirements, the company wants to restrict specific member accounts to certain AWS Regions, where they are permitted to deploy resources The resources in the accounts must be tagged enforced based on a group standard and centrally managed with minimal configuration.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements ' ?
A company that provisions job boards for a seasonal workforce is seeing an increase in traffic and usage. The backend services run on a pair of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer with Amazon DynamoDB as the datastore. Application read and write traffic is slow during peak seasons.
Which option provides a scalable application architecture to handle peak seasons with the LEAST development effort?
A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. The application uses AWS Lambda functions and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) containers that run with AWS Fargate technology as its primary compute. The load on the application is irregular. The application experiences long periods of no usage, followed by sudden and significant increases and decreases in traffic. The application is write-heavy and stores data in an Amazon Aurora MySQL database. The database runs on an Amazon RDS memory optimized DB instance that is not able to handle the load.
What is the MOST cost-effective way for the company to handle the sudden and significant changes in traffic?
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 PostgreSOL for the database layer.
The company needs a scaling solution to maximize availability during the sale events.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company ' s CISO has asked a Solutions Architect to re-engineer the company ' s current CI/CD practices to make sure patch deployments to its applications can happen as quickly as possible with minimal downtime if vulnerabilities are discovered. The company must also be able to quickly roll back a change in case of errors.
The web application is deployed in a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The company is currently using GitHub to host the application source code, and has configured an AWS CodeBuild project to build the application. The company also intends to use AWS CodePipeline to trigger builds from GitHub commits using the existing CodeBuild project.
What CI/CD configuration meets all of the requirements?
A team of data scientists is using Amazon SageMaker instances and SageMaker APIs to train machine learning (ML) models. The SageMaker instances are deployed in a
VPC that does not have access to or from the internet. Datasets for ML model training are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. Interface VPC endpoints provide access to Amazon S3 and the SageMaker APIs.
Occasionally, the data scientists require access to the Python Package Index (PyPl) repository to update Python packages that they use as part of their workflow. A solutions architect must provide access to the PyPI repository while ensuring that the SageMaker instances remain isolated from the internet.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
IoT sensors are manufactured with certificates from a private CA. They must only connect to AWS after physical installation.
A company manufactures smart vehicles. The company uses a custom application to collect vehicle data. The vehicles use the MQTT protocol to connect to the application.
The company processes the data in 5-minute intervals. The company then copies vehicle telematics data to on-premises storage. Custom applications analyze this data to detect anomalies.
The number of vehicles that send data grows constantly. Newer vehicles generate high volumes of data. The on-premises storage solution is not able to scale for peak traffic, which results in data loss. The company must modernize the solution and migrate the solution to AWS to resolve the scaling challenges.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company’s solutions architect is evaluating an AWS workload that was deployed several years ago. The application tier is stateless and runs on a single large Amazon EC2 instance that was launched from an AMI. The application stores data in a MySOL database that runs on a single EC2 instance.
The CPU utilization on the application server EC2 instance often reaches 100% and causes the application to stop responding. The company manually installs patches on the instances. Patching has caused
downtime in the past. The company needs to make the application highly available.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development time?
A company is running an event ticketing platform on AWS and wants to optimize the platform ' s cost-effectiveness. The platform is deployed on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with Amazon EC2 and is backed by an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The company is developing new application features to run on Amazon EKS with AWS Fargate.
The platform experiences infrequent high peaks in demand. The surges in demand depend on event dates.
Which solution will provide the MOST cost-effective setup for the platform?
A company ' s solutions architect is reviewing a new internally developed application in a sandbox AWS account The application uses an AWS Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances that have an IAM instance profile attached Part of the application logic creates and accesses secrets from AWS Secrets Manager The company has an AWS Lambda function that calls the application API to test the functionality The company also has created an AWS CloudTrail trail in the account
The application ' s developer has attached the SecretsManagerReadWnte AWS managed IAM policy to an IAM role The IAM role is associated with the instance profile that is attached to the EC2 instances The solutions architect has invoked the Lambda function for testing
The solutions architect must replace the SecretsManagerReadWnte policy with a new policy that provides least privilege access to the Secrets Manager actions that the application requires
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?
A company runs a Python script on an Amazon EC2 instance to process data. The script runs every 10 minutes. The script ingests files from an Amazon S3 bucket and processes the files. On average, the script takes approximately 5 minutes to process each file The script will not reprocess a file that the script has already processed.
The company reviewed Amazon CloudWatch metrics and noticed that the EC2 instance is idle for approximately 40% of the time because of the file processing speed. The company wants to make the workload highly available and scalable. The company also wants to reduce long-term management overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company wants to back up its on-premises intranet application to the AWS Cloud. The company wants to use AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery for the backup solution.
The company requires that replication traffic must travel across a private dedicated connection. The application must not be accessible from the public internet. The solution cannot consume more than 75% of the available bandwidth between the on-premises network and AWS.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company that provides image storage services wants to deploy a customer-lacing solution to AWS. Millions of individual customers will use the solution. The solution will receive batches of large image files, resize the files, and store the files in an Amazon S3 bucket for up to 6 months.
The solution must handle significant variance in demand. The solution must also be reliable at enterprise scale and have the ability to rerun processing jobs in the event of failure.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company wants to migrate its website to AWS. The website uses containers that are deployed in an on-premises, self-managed Kubernetes cluster. All data for the website is stored in an on-premises PostgreSQL database.
The company has decided to migrate the on-premises Kubernetes cluster to an Amazon EKS cluster. The EKS cluster will use EKS managed node groups with a static number of nodes. The company will also migrate the on-premises database to an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database.
A solutions architect needs to estimate the total cost of ownership (TCO) for this workload before the migration.
Which solution will provide the required TCO information?
An ecommerce company runs an application on AWS. The application has an Amazon API Gateway API that invokes an AWS Lambda function. The data is stored in an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance.
During the company ' s most recent flash sale, a sudden increase in API calls negatively affected the application ' s performance. A solutions architect reviewed the Amazon CloudWatch metrics during that time and noticed a significant increase in Lambda invocations and database connections. The CPU utilization also was high on the DB instance.
What should the solutions architect recommend to optimize the application ' s performance?
A research company conducts mathematical simulations in the AWS Cloud. The simulations run on several hundred Amazon EC2 Linux instances. If a simulation encounters an issue, an engineer establishes an SSH connection to the affected EC2 instance.
Company policy requires that each EC2 instance session is established with a unique SSH key and that all SSH connections are logged in AWS CloudTrail. CloudTrail is enabled for the company’s account and the AWS Regions that the company uses.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company ' s interactive web application uses an Amazon CloudFront distribution to serve images from an Amazon S3 bucket. Occasionally, third-party tools ingest corrupted images into the S3 bucket. This image corruption causes a poor user experience in the application later. The company has successfully implemented and tested Python logic to detect corrupt images.
A solutions architect must recommend a solution to integrate the detection logic with minimal latency between the ingestion and serving.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs to apply consistent custom security audit rules across its organization in AWS Organizations. Accounts in the organization use a single AWS Region.
The company uses AWS Config in each account with four custom rules and five managed rules. The rules must be deployed to all accounts and must not be editable by member accounts. The company wants to easily update rules in the future. All required permissions are already in place.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational effort? (Select TWO.)
A company uses a Grafana data visualization solution that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance to monitor the health of the company ' s AWS workloads. The company has invested time and effort to create dashboards that the company wants to preserve. The dashboards need to be highly available and cannot be down for longer than 10 minutes. The company needs to minimize ongoing maintenance.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company needs to gather data from an experiment in a remote location that does not have internet connectivity. During the experiment, sensors that are connected to a total network will generate 6 TB of data in a preprimary formal over the course of 1 week. The sensors can be configured to upload their data files to an FTP server periodically, but the sensors do not have their own FTP server. The sensors also do not support other protocols. The company needs to collect the data centrally and move lie data to object storage in the AWS Cloud as soon. as possible after the experiment.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is using Amazon SageMaker AI Notebook Instances and SageMaker APIs to train machine learning models. The SageMaker AI Notebook Instances are deployed in a VPC that does not have access to or from the internet. Datasets for model training are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. Interface VPC endpoints provide access to Amazon S3 and the SageMaker APIs.
Occasionally, data scientists require access to a private Git repository to update application packages that they use as part of their workflow. The company must provide access to the Git repository while ensuring that the SageMaker AI Notebook Instances remain isolated from the internet.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company recently completed the migration from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud by using a replatforming strategy. One of the migrated servers is running a legacy Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service that a critical application relies upon. The application sends outbound email messages to the company’s customers. The legacy SMTP server does not support TLS encryption and uses TCP port 25. The application can use SMTP only.
The company decides to use Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) and to decommission the legacy SMTP server. The company has created and validated the SES domain. The company has lifted the SES limits.
What should the company do to modify the application to send email messages from Amazon SES?
A telecommunications company is running an application on AWS. The company has set up an AWS Direct Connect connection between the company ' s on-premises data center and AWS. The company deployed the application on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones behind an internal Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company ' s clients connect from the on-premises network by using HTTPS. The TLS terminates in the ALB. The company has multiple target groups and uses path-based routing to forward requests based on the URL path.
The company is planning to deploy an on-premises firewall appliance with an allow list that is based on IP address. A solutions architect must develop a solution to allow traffic flow to AWS from the on-premises network so that the clients can continue to access the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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How should a companyefficiently processinfrequently uploaded S3 data using a long-running (up to 25 minutes) custom application?
A solutions architect needs to migrate an on-premises legacy application to AWS. The application runs on two servers behind a bad balancer. The application requires a license file that is associated with the MAC address of the server ' s network adapter. It takes the software vendor 12 hours to send new license files. The application also uses configuration files with a static IP address to access a database host names are not supported.
Given these requirements. which combination of steps should be taken to implement highly available architecture for the application servers in AWS? (Select TWO.)
A company collects air quality data from sensors. The company plans to use the MQTT protocol to send the data to AWS IoT Core. The company will process the data and then will store the data in an Amazon Aurora database.
During periods of low air quality, sensors will send data more frequently. The company must buffer the data during these periods to make sure that no data is lost before the data is processed and stored.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An enterprise company wants to allow its developers to purchase third-party software through AWS Marketplace. The company uses an AWS Organizations account structure with full features enabled, and has a shared services account in each organizational unit (OU) that will be used by procurement managers. The procurement team ' s policy indicates that developers should be able to obtain third-party software from an approved list only and use Private Marketplace in AWS Marketplace to achieve this requirement . The procurement team wants administration of Private Marketplace to be restricted to a role named procurement-manager-role, which could be assumed by procurement managers Other IAM users groups, roles, and account administrators in the company should be denied Private Marketplace administrative access
What is the MOST efficient way to design an architecture to meet these requirements?
A company runs a new application as a static website in Amazon S3. The company has deployed the application to a production AWS account and uses Amazon CloudFront to deliver the website. The website calls an Amazon API Gateway REST API. An AWS Lambda function backs each API method.
The company wants to create a CSV report every 2 weeks to show each API Lambda function’s recommended configured memory, recommended cost, and the price difference between current configurations and the recommendations. The company will store the reports in an S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development time?
A company needs to aggregate Amazon CloudWatch logs from its AWS accounts into one central logging account. The collected logs must remain in the AWS Region of
creation. The central logging account will then process the logs, normalize the logs into standard output format, and stream the output logs to a security tool for more processing.
A solutions architect must design a solution that can handle a large volume of logging data that needs to be ingested. Less logging will occur outside normal business hours than during normal business hours. The logging solution must scale with the anticipated load. The solutions architect has decided to use an AWS Control Tower design to handle the multi-account logging process.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet the requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company has deployed applications to thousands of Amazon EC2 instances in an AWS account. A security audit discovers that several unencrypted Amazon EBS volumes are attached to the EC2 instances. The company ' s security policy requires the EBS volumes to be encrypted.
The company needs to implement an automated solution to encrypt the EBS volumes. The solution also must prevent development teams from creating unencrypted EBS volumes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is building a hybrid environment that includes servers in an on-premises data center and in the AWS Cloud. The company has deployed Amazon EC2 instances in three VPCs. Each VPC is in a different AWS Region. The company has established an AWS Direct Connect connection to the data center from the Region that is closest to the data center.
The company needs the servers in the on-premises data center to have access to the EC2 instances in all three VPCs. The servers in the on-premises data center also must have access to AWS public services.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST cost? (Select TWO.)
A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. The application consists of microservices that run on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones behind an Application Load Balancer. The company recently added a new REST API that was implemented in Amazon API Gateway. Some of the older microservices that run on EC2 instances need to call this new API.
The company does not want the API to be accessible from the public internet and does not want proprietary data to traverse the public internet
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company hosts a software as a service (SaaS) solution on AWS. The solution has an Amazon API Gateway API that serves an HTTPS endpoint. The API uses AWS Lambda functions for compute. The Lambda functions store data in an Amazon Aurora Serverless VI database.
The company used the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) to deploy the solution. The solution extends across multiple Availability Zones and has nodisaster recovery (DR) plan.
A solutions architect must design a DR strategy that can recover the solution in another AWS Region. The solution has an R TO of 5 minutes and an RPO of 1 minute.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company has deployed production workloads on Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instances in multiple environments. The company has the AWS Business Support plan. A solutions architect must optimize the cost of the workloads without negatively affecting the availability or compute capacity of the workloads. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A video processing company uses an AWS Lambda function to handle image processing tasks. An Amazon EventBridge rule that matches the event pattern when a new image is uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket invokes the Lambda function. The processing task initially operated without errors.
The Lambda function now encounters frequent timeout errors. The Lambda function is configured with the maximum timeout value. A solutions architect must refactor the application’s architecture to mitigate invocation failures.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? Select TWO.
A company has an application that uses an on-premises Oracle database. The company is migrating the database to the AWS Cloud. The database contains customer data and stored procedures.
The company needs to migrate the database as quickly as possible with minimum downtime. The solution on AWS must provide high availability and must use managed services for the database.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An events company runs a ticketing platform on AWS. The company ' s customers configure and schedule their events on the platform The events result in large increases of traffic to the platform The company knows the date and time of each customer ' s events
The company runs the platform on an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster The ECS cluster consists of Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The Auto Scaling group uses a predictive scaling policy
The ECS cluster makes frequent requests to an Amazon S3 bucket to download ticket assets The ECS cluster and the S3 bucket are in the same AWS Region and the same AWS account Traffic between the ECS cluster and the S3 bucket flows across a NAT gateway
The company needs to optimize the cost of the platform without decreasing the platform ' s availability
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO)
A company needs to audit the security posture of a newly acquired AWS account. The company’s data security team requires a notification only when an Amazon S3 bucket becomes publicly exposed. The company has already established an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic that has the data security team ' s email address subscribed.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A retail company wants to improve its application architecture. The company ' s applications register new orders, handle returns of merchandise, and provide analytics. The applications store retail data in a MySQL database and an Oracle OLAP analytics database. All the applications and databases are hosted on Amazon EC2 instances.
Each application consists of several components that handle different parts of the order process. These components use incoming data from different sources. A separate ETL job runs every week and copies data from each application to the analytics database.
A solutions architect must redesign the architecture into an event-driven solution that uses serverless services. The solution must provide updated analytics in near real time.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs to optimize the infrastructure for an application that uploads data to Amazon S3. The uploads average 64 KB in size. When the data is uploaded, Amazon S3 sends an event to Amazon EventBridge. EventBridge then invokes an Amazon ECS application task.
The ECS task processes the data and stores the results in an Amazon DynamoDB table. Processing takes an average of 15 minutes. The company must keep the S3 data for 5 years and must keep the DynamoDB data for 15 days.
The application is gaining more users and is handling millions of S3 uploads every hour.
Which set of changes will provide the MOST cost-effective solution for the application?
A company is collecting a large amount of data from a fleet of loT devices Data is stored as Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) files in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) on a persistent Amazon EMR cluster. The company ' s data analytics team queries the data by using SQL in Apache Presto deployed on the same EMR cluster Queries scan large amounts of data, always run for less than 15 minutes, and run only between 5 PM and 10 PM.
The company is concerned about the high cost associated with the current solution A solutions architect must propose the most cost-effective solution that will allow SQL data queries
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs a test application on an Amazon EC2 instance. Testing clients across the United States send data to the application by using a REST API. As traffic increases, application response times increase. The company wants to migrate to a serverless architecture and stream data to clients through WebSockets.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A financial company is planning to migrate its web application from on premises to AWS. The company uses a third-party security tool to monitor the inbound traffic to the application. The company has used the security tool for the last 15 years, and the tool has no cloud solutions available from its vendor. The company ' s security team is concerned about how to integrate the security tool with AWS technology.
The company plans to deploy the application migration to AWS on Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances will run in an Auto Scaling group in a dedicated VPC. The company needs to use the security tool to inspect all packets that come in and out of the VPC. This inspection must occur in real time and must not affect the application ' s performance. A solutions architect must design a target architecture on AWS that is highly available within an AWS Region.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company wants to retire its Oracle Solaris NFS storage arrays. The company requires rapid data migration over its internet network connection to a combination of destinations for Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. The company also requires a full initial copy, as well as incremental transfers of changes until the retirement of the storage arrays. All data must be encrypted and checked for integrity.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company runs a serverless ecommerce application on AWS. The application uses API Gateway to invoke Java Lambda functions that connect to an Amazon RDS for MySQL database. During a sale event, traffic spikes caused slow performance and DB connection failures.
Which solution will improve performance with the LEAST application change?
A company has a critical application in which the data tier is deployed in a single AWS Region. The data tier uses an Amazon DynamoDB table and an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster. The current Aurora MySQL engine version supports a global database. The application tier is already deployed in two Regions.
Company policy states that critical applications must have application tier components and data tier components deployed across two Regions. The RTO and RPO must be no more than a few minutes each. A solutions architect must recommend a solution to make the data tier compliant with company policy.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company has its cloud infrastructure on AWS A solutions architect needs to define the infrastructure as code. The infrastructure is currently deployed in one AWS Region. The company ' s business expansion plan includes deployments in multiple Regions across multiple AWS accounts
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Example Corp uses an organization in AWS Organizations with all features enabled to manage multiple AWS accounts. Example Corp acquires AnyCompany, which currently hosts its AWS environment in a single AWS account. Example Corp wants to add AnyCompany’s AWS account to Example Corp’s existing organization.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A large company recently experienced an unexpected increase in Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB costs. The company needs to increase visibility into details of AWS Billing and Cost Management There are various accounts associated with AWS Organizations, including many development and production accounts There is no consistent tagging strategy across the organization, but there are guidelines in place that require all infrastructure to be deployed using AWS CloudFormation with consistent tagging. Management requires cost center numbers and project ID numbers for all existing and future DynamoDB tables and RDS instances.
Which strategy should the solutions architect provide to meet these requirements?
A company runs a content management application on a single Windows Amazon EC2 instance in a development environment. The application reads and writes static content to a 2 TB Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume that is attached to the instance as the root device. The company plans to deploy this application in production as a highly available and fault-tolerant solution that runs on at least three EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones.
A solutions architect must design a solution that joins all the instances that run the application to an Active Directory domain. The solution also must implement Windows ACLs to control access to file contents. The application always must maintain exactly the same content on all running instances at any given point in time.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST management overhead?
A company runs a highly available data collection application on Amazon EC2 in the eu-north-1 Region. The application collects data from end-user devices and writes records to an Amazon Kinesis data stream and a set of AWS Lambda functions that process the records. The company persists the output of the record processing to an Amazon S3 bucket in eu-north-1. The company uses the data in the S3 bucket as a data source for Amazon Athena.
The company wants to increase its global presence. A solutions architect must launch the data collection capabilities in the sa-east-1 and ap-northeast-1 Regions. The solutions architect deploys the application, the Kinesis data stream, and the Lambda functions in the two new Regions. The solutions architect keeps the S3 bucket in eu-north-1 to meet a requirement to centralize the data analysis.
During testing of the new setup, the solutions architect notices a significant lag on the arrival of data from the new Regions to the S3 bucket.
Which solution will improve this lag time the MOST?
A company is moving a business-critical, multi-tier application to AWS. The architecture consists of a desktop client application and server infrastructure. The server infrastructure resides in an on-premises data center that frequently fails to maintain the application uptime SLA of 99.95%. A solutions architect must re-architect the application to ensure that it can meet or exceed the SLA.
The application contains a PostgreSQL database running on a single virtual machine. The business logic and presentation layers are load balanced between multiple virtual machines. Remote users complain about slow load times while using this latency-sensitive application.
Which of the following will meet the availability requirements with little change to the application while improving user experience and minimizing costs?
A financial company uses AWS Control Tower to govern multiple AWS accounts. The company must comply with data residency regulations. The regulations require customer data and backups to remain only in specific approved AWS Regions. Additionally, the company must retain control of the cryptographic root of trust. The company must use encryption keys in hardware security modules (HSMs) that the company operates in-country. The company needs a preventive control that blocks resource creation outside the approved Regions.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A video processing company has an application that downloads images from an Amazon S3 bucket, processes the images, stores a transformed image in a second S3 bucket, and updates metadata about the image in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The application is written in Node.js and runs by using an AWS Lambda function. The Lambda function is invoked when a new image is uploaded to Amazon S3.
The application ran without incident for a while. However, the size of the images has grown significantly. The Lambda function is now failing frequently with timeout errors. The function timeout is set to its maximum value. A solutions architect needs to refactor the application’s architecture to prevent invocation failures. The company does not want to manage the underlying infrastructure.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
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A company is migrating its on-premises file transfer solution to AWS Transfer Family. The current system includes an SFTP server, a transformation application, and a messaging server. Transformations run every 5 minutes and notify the messaging server when complete.
The company wants to simplify and reduce operational overhead.
A company is rearchitecting its applications to run on AWS. The company ' s infrastructure includes multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The company ' s development team needs different levels of access. The company wants to implement a policy that requires all Windows EC2 instances to be joined to an Active Directory domain on AWS. The company also wants to Implement enhanced security processes such as multi-factor authentication (MFA). The company wants to use managed AWS services wherever possible.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company ' s inventory application stores data in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster in a single AWS Region. The company wants to improve resiliency by extending the database infrastructure to a secondary Region. The company wants an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of 5 minutes. The solution must not run Aurora DB instances in the secondary Region when the application is operational in the primary Region. Which solution meets these requirements?
A company is refactoring its on-premises order-processing platform in the AWS Cloud. The platform includes a web front end that is hosted on a fleet of VMs RabbitMQ to connect the front end to the backend, and a Kubernetes cluster to run a containerized backend system to process the orders. The company does not want to make any major changes to the application
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. A solutions architect is designing VPC infrastructure in an AWS Region where the application needs to access an Amazon Aurora DB cluster. The EC2 instances are all associated with the same security group. The DB cluster is associated with its own security group.
The solutions architect needs to add rules to the security groups to provide the application with least privilege access to the DB cluster.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company manages multiple AWS accounts by using AWS Organizations. Under the root OU. the company has two OUs: Research and DataOps.
Because of regulatory requirements, all resources that the company deploys in the organizationmust reside in the ap-northeast-1 Region. Additionally. EC2 instances that the company deploys in the DataOps OU must use a predefined list of instance types
A solutions architect must implement a solution that applies these restrictions. The solution must maximize operational efficiency and must minimize ongoing maintenance
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO )
A digital marketing company has multiple AWS accounts that belong to various teams. The creative team uses an Amazon S3 bucket in its AWS account to securely store images and media files that are used as content for the company ' s marketing campaigns. The creative team wants to share the S3 bucket with the strategy team so that the strategy team can view the objects.
A solutions architect has created an IAM role that is named strategy_reviewer in the Strategy account. The solutions architect also has set up a custom AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the Creative account and has associated the key with the S3 bucket. However, when users from the Strategy account assume the IAM role and try to access objects in the S3 bucket, they receive an Account.
The solutions architect must ensure that users in the Strategy account can access the S3 bucket. The solution must provide these users with only the minimum permissions that they need.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A global company operates a platform that serves customers across multiple AWS Regions. The platform stores customer behavioral data.
For data residency compliance, the company must ensure that personally identifiable information (PII) data remains within the Region where the data is collected. Additionally, the company must ensure that cross-Region data analysis uses only anonymized datasets.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company ingests and processes streaming market data. The data rate is constant. A nightly process that calculates aggregate statistics is run, and each execution takes about 4 hours to complete. The statistical analysis is not mission critical to the business, and previous data points are picked up on the next execution if a particular run fails.
The current architecture uses a pool of Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances with 1-year reservations running full time to ingest and store the streaming data in attached Amazon EBS volumes. On-Demand EC2 instances are launched each night to perform the nightly processing, accessing the stored data from NFS shares on the ingestion servers, and terminating the nightly processing servers when complete. The Reserved Instance reservations are expiring, and the company needs to determine whether to purchase new reservations or implement a new design.
Which is the most cost-effective design?
A multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) customer support platform serves thousands of enterprise clients. The platform must deploy more than 5,000 customized models that use the same ML framework to classify tickets, optimize inference infrastructure costs, and maintain sub-200 ms latency. The platform must operate in a multiaccount AWS architecture that includes separate accounts for development, staging, and production environments.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
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.)
A company has many separate AWS accounts and uses no central billing or management. Each AWS account hosts services for different departments in the company. The company has a Microsoft Azure Active Directory that is deployed.
A solution architect needs to centralize billing and management of the company’s AWS accounts. The company wants to start using identify federation instead of manual user management. The company also wants to use temporary credentials instead of long-lived access keys.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE)
A company hosts a blog post application on AWS using Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda. The application currently does not use
API keys to authorize requests. The API model is as follows:
GET/posts/[postid] to get post details
GET/users[userid] to get user details
GET/comments/[commentid] to get comments details
The company has noticed users are actively discussing topics in the comments section, and the company wants to increase user engagement by marking the comments appears in real time.
Which design should be used to reduce comment latency and improve user experience?
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 GbpsAWS Direct Connect connection to AWS for the migration
Which solution will complete the migration to AWS in the LEAST amount of time?
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?
A company runs AWS workloads that are integrated with software as a service (SaaS) applications. The company needs to analyze the SaaS applications to identify unused licenses. Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company stores a static website on Amazon S3. AWS Lambda functions retrieve content from an S3 bucket and serve the content as a website. An Application Load Balancer (ALB) directs incoming traffic to the Lambda functions. An Amazon CloudFront distribution routes requests to the ALB.
The company has set up an AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) certificate on the HTTPS listener of the ALB. The company needs all users to communicate with the website through HTTPS. HTTP users must not receive an error.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company has a platform that consists of an on-premises single-node Kubernetes cluster. The cluster uses Windows-based and Linux-based file storage as shared storage. The company wants to migrate its platform to AWS.
The cluster has multiple containerized applications that are continuously scanned for operating system vulnerabilities and programming language package vulnerabilities. The company needs a highly available solution that supports monitoring, logging, and multiprotocol shared storage.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select TWO.)
A company is deploying a third-party web application to an AWS account. The company wants to deploy the application across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The company must have the ability to scale horizontally when necessary. The application uses browser cookies for session state management. The application requires session affinity.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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?
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 for PostgreSQL DB instance. The website explains the promotion and includes a sign-up page that collects user information andpreferences. 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 solutions meets these requirements?
An environmental company is deploying sensors in major cities throughout a country to measure air quality The sensors connect to AWS loT Core to ingest timesheets data readings. The company stores the data in Amazon DynamoDB
For business continuity the company must have the ability to ingest and store data in two AWS Regions
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A manufacturing company is building an inspection solution for its factory. The company has IPcameras at the end of each assembly line. The company has used Amazon SageMaker to train a machine learning (ML) model to identify common defects from still images.
The company wants to provide local feedback to factory workers when a defect is detected. The company must be able to provide this feedback even if the factory’s internet connectivity is down. The company has a local Linux server that hosts an API that provides local feedback to the workers.
How should the company deploy the ML model to meet these requirements?
A team collects and routes behavioral data for an entire company The company runs a Multi-AZ VPC environment with public subnets, private subnets, and in internet gateway Each public subnet also contains a NAT gateway Most of the company ' s applications read from and write to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Most of the workloads am in private subnets.
A solutions architect must review the infrastructure The solutions architect needs to reduce costs and maintain the function of the applications The solutions architect uses Cost Explorer and notices that the cost in the EC2-Other category is consistently high A further review shows that NatGateway-Bytes charges are increasing the cost in the EC2-Other category.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
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 stat c content that has variable traffic with peaks in certain months. The architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances running in an Auto Scaling 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?
A company is running a containerized workload on AWS. The workload consists of several data-processing services that run on a group of Amazon EC2 instances.
The company uploads new data to an Amazon S3 bucket every night. A cron job on each EC2 instance starts the data processing every night. The amount of uploaded data varies. The data-processing tasks can take hours to finish running. After the data is processed, the services remain idle until the next processing window occurs the next night. The company needs a solution to modernize the architecture and reduce the operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect is reviewing a company ' s process for taking snapshots of Amazon RDS DB instances. The company takes automatic snapshots every day and retains the snapshots for 7 days.
The solutions architect needs to recommend a solution that takes snapshots every 6 hours and retains the snapshots for 30 days. The company uses AWS Organizations to manage all of its AWS accounts. The company needs a consolidated view of the health of the RDS snapshots.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company needs to build a disaster recovery (DR) solution for its ecommerce website. The web application is hosted on a fleet of t3.Iarge Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group that extends across multiple Availability Zones.
In the event of a disaster, the web application must fail over to the secondary environment with an RPO of 30 seconds and an R TO of 10 minutes.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company has a web application that uses Amazon API Gateway. AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB A recent marketing campaign has increased demand Monitoring software reports that many requests have significantly longer response times than before the marketing campaign
A solutions architect enabled Amazon CloudWatch Logs for API Gateway and noticed that errors are occurring on 20% of the requests. In CloudWatch. the Lambda function. Throttles metric represents 1% of the requests and the Errors metric represents 10% of the requests Application logs indicate that, when errors occur there is a call to DynamoDB
What change should the solutions architect make to improve the current response times as the web application becomes more popular ' ?
A company wants to send data from its on-premises systems to Amazon S3 buckets. The company created the S3 buckets in three different accounts. The company must send the data privately without the data traveling across the internet The company has no existing dedicated connectivity to AWS
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company operates a fleet of servers on premises and operates a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances in its organization in AWS Organizations. The company ' s AWS accounts contain hundreds of VPCs. The company wants to connect its AWS accounts to its on-premises network. AWS Site-to-Site VPN connections are already established to a single AWS account. The company wants to control which VPCs can communicate with other VPCs.
Which combination of steps will achieve this level of control with the LEAST operational effort? (Choose three.)
A global ecommerce company has many data centers around the world. With the growth of its stored data, the company needs to set up a solution to provide scalable storage for legacy on-premises file applications. The company must be able to take point-in-time copies of volumes by using AWS Backup and must retain low-latency access to frequently accessed data. The company also needs to have storage volumes that can be mounted as Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) devices from the company ' s on-premises application servers.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is using Amazon OpenSearch Service to analyze data. The company loads data into an OpenSearch Service cluster with 10 data nodes from an Amazon S3 bucket that uses S3 Standard storage. The data resides in the cluster for 1 month for read-only analysis. After 1 month, the company deletes the index that contains the data from the cluster. For compliance purposes, the company must retain a copy of all input data.
The company is concerned about ongoing costs and asks a solutions architect to recommend a new solution.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A solutions architect is preparing to deploy a new security tool into several previously unused AWS Regions. The solutions architect will deploy the tool by using an AWS CloudFormation stack set. The stack set ' s template contains an 1AM role that has a custom name. Upon creation of the stack set. no stack instances are created successfully.
What should the solutions architect do to deploy the stacks successfully?
A company is hosting a three-tier web application in an on-premises environment. Due to a recentsurge in traffic that resulted in downtime and a significant financial impact, company management has ordered that the application be moved to AWS. The application is written in .NET and has a dependency on a MySQL database A solutions architect must design a scalable and highly available solution to meet the demand of 200000 daily users.
Which steps should the solutions architect take to design an appropriate solution?
A company has built a high performance computing (HPC) cluster in AWS tor a tightly coupled workload that generates a large number of shared files stored in Amazon EFS. The cluster was performing well when the number of Amazon EC2 instances in the cluster was 100. However, when the company increased the cluster size to 1,000 EC2 instances, overall performance was well below expectations.
Which collection of design choices should a solutions architect make to achieve the maximum performance from the HPC cluster? (Select THREE.)
A research company conducts mathematical simulations in the AWS Cloud. The simulations run on several hundred Amazon EC2 Linux instances. If a simulation encounters an issue, an engineer establishes an SSH connection to the affected EC2 instance.
Company policy requires that each EC2 instance session is established with a unique SSH key and that all SSH connections are logged in AWS CloudTrail. CloudTrail is enabled for the company’s account and the AWS Regions that the company uses.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda. The application stores temporary data in Amazon 53. The 53 objects are deleted after 24 hours.
The company deploys new versions of the application by launching AWS CloudFormation stacks. The stacks create the required resources. After validating a new version, the company deletes the old stack. The deletion of an old development stack recently failed. A solutions architect needs to resolve this Issue without major architecture changes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A travel company built a web application that uses Amazon SES to send email notifications to users. The company needs to enable logging to help troubleshoot email delivery issues. The company also needs the ability to do searches that are based on recipient, subject, and time sent.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company is deploying a third-party web application on AWS. The application is packaged as a Docker image. The company has deployed the Docker image as an AWS
Fargate service in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). An Application Load Balancer (ALB) directs traffic to the application.
The company needs to give only a specific list of users the ability to access the application from the internet. The company cannot change the application and cannot integrate the application with an identity provider. All users must be authenticated through multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is migrating its legacy .NET workload to AWS. The company has a containerized setup that includes a base container image. The base image is tens of
gigabytes in size because of legacy libraries and other dependencies. The company has images for custom developed components that are dependent on the base image.
The company will use Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) as part of its solution on AWS.
Which solution will provide the LOWEST container startup time on AWS?
A company is running a three-tier web application in an on-premises data center. The frontend is a PHP application that is served by an Apache web server. The middle tier is a monolithic Java SE application. The storage tier is a 60 TB PostgreSQL database.
The three-tier web application recently crashed and became unresponsive. The database also reached capacity because of read operations. The company wants to migrate to AWS to resolve these issues and improve scalability,
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort? (Select THREE.)
A company hosts a payment processing platform across multiple AWS Regions. The processing platform exposes payment processing API endpoints. The company uses Amazon Route 53 to route traffic to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in each Region to distribute requests to backend payment gateways. The company has implemented Auto Scaling for the payment gateways.
The company needs to improve reliability and availability by handling application failures quickly.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST response time for global users?
A financial services company sells its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for application compliance to large global banks. The SaaS platform runs on AWS and uses multiple AWS accounts that are managed in an organization in AWS Organizations. The SaaS platform uses many AWS resources globally.
For regulatory compliance, all API calls to AWS resources must be audited, tracked for changes, and stored in a durable and secure data store.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company runs an application across three AWS accounts. The company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage the AWS accounts. One account hosts a development environment. The second account hosts a testing environment. The third account hosts a production environment. The application runs on Amazon ECS with the AWS Fargate launch type. The application stores data in an Amazon Aurora MySQL database.
The company expects production environment traffic to be consistent and predictable for the next year. The production environment remains active throughout each week. However, the development environment and the testing environment shut down during weekends and 12 hours each weekday.
The company wants to optimize costs for the application.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company has several AWS Lambda functions written in Python. The functions are deployed with the .zip package deployment type. The functions use a Lambda layer that contains common libraries and packages in a .zip file. The Lambda .zip packages and the Lambda layer .zip file are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket.
The company must implement automatic scanning of the Lambda functions and the Lambda layer to identify CVEs. A subset of the Lambda functions must receive automated code scans to detect potential data leaks and other vulnerabilities. The code scans must occur only for selected Lambda functions, not all the Lambda functions.
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company has many AWS accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. The accounts contain many Amazon EC2 instances that run different types of workloads. The workloads have different usage patterns.
The company needs recommendations for how to rightsize the EC2 instances based on CPU and memory usage during the last 90 days.
Which combination of steps will provide these recommendations? (Select THREE.)
A company needs to modernize an application and migrate the application to AWS. The application stores user profile data as text in a single table in an on-premises MySQL database.
After the modernization, users will use the application to upload video files that are up to 4 GB in size. Other users must be able to download the video files from the application. The company needs a video storage solution that provides rapid scaling. The solution must not affect application performance.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses infrastructure as code (IaC) to provision Amazon EC2 instances. The company uses a launch template to implement an EC2 Auto Scaling group to manage traffic increases. The company applies monthly security updates to all EC2 instances in place.
After a recent update that required instance reboots, the Auto Scaling group terminated the instances and launched new, unpatched instances. New instances that the Auto Scaling group launches in response to traffic load are also unpatched. The company must ensure that the Auto Scaling group launches instances that have the latest security patches.
Which combination of solutions will meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)
A company recently started hosting new application workloads in the AWS Cloud. The company is using Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems, and Amazon RDS DB instances.
To meet regulatory and business requirements, the company must make the following changes for data backups:
* Backups must be retained based on custom daily, weekly, and monthlyrequirements.
* Backups must be replicated to at least one other AWS Region immediately after capture.
* The backup solution must provide a single source of backup status across the AWS environment.
* The backup solution must send immediate notifications upon failure of any resource backup.
Which combination of steps will meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of operational overhead? (Select THREE.)
An online survey company runs its application in the AWS Cloud. The application is distributed and consists of microservices that run in an automatically scaled Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster. The ECS cluster is a target for an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The ALB is a custom origin for an Amazon CloudFront distribution.
The company has a survey that contains sensitive data. The sensitive data must be encrypted when it moves through the application. The application ' s data-handling microservice is the only microservice that should be able to decrypt the data.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is planning a one-time migration of an on-premises MySQL database to Amazon Aurora MySQL in the us-east-1 Region. The company ' s current internet connection has limited bandwidth. The on-premises MySQL database is 60 TB in size The company estimates that it will take a month to transfer the data to AWS over the current internet connection.
The company needs a migration solution that will migrate the database more quickly
Which solution will migrate the database in the LEAST amount of time?
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A company hosts an ecommerce site using EC2, ALB, and DynamoDB in one AWS Region. The site uses a custom domain in Route 53. The company wants toreplicate the stack to a second Regionfordisaster recoveryandfaster accessfor global customers.
What should the architect do?
A company has multiple AWS accounts and manages these accounts with AWS Organizations. A developer was given IAM user credentials to access AWS resources. The developer should have read-only access to all Amazon S3 buckets in the account. However, when the developer tries to access the S3 buckets from the console, they receive an access denied error message with no buckets listed.
A solutions architect reviews the permissions and finds that the developer’s IAM user is listed as having read-only access to all S3 buckets in the account.
Which additional steps should the solutions architect take to troubleshoot the issue? (Select TWO.)
A company is preparing to deploy an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster for a workload. The company expects the cluster to support an
unpredictable number of stateless pods. Many of the pods will be created during a short time period as the workload automatically scales the number of replicas that the workload uses.
Which solution will MAXIMIZE node resilience?
A company hosts an intranet web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Currently, users authenticate to the application against an internal user database.
The company needs to authenticate users to the application by using an existing AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory directory. All users with accounts in the directory must have access to the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is creating a sequel for a popular online game. A large number of users from all over the world will play the game within the first week after launch. Currently, the game consists of the following components deployed in a single AWS Region:
• Amazon S3 bucket that stores game assets
• Amazon DynamoDB table that stores player scores
A solutions architect needs to design a multi-Region solution that will reduce latency improve reliability, and require the least effort to implement
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company manages hundreds of AWS accounts centrally in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company recently started to allow product teams to create and manage their own S3 access points in their accounts. The S3 access points can be accessed only within VPCs not on the internet.
What is the MOST operationally efficient way to enforce this requirement?
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A company needs to copy backups of 40 RDS for MySQL databases from a production account to a central backup account within AWS Organizations. The databases usedefault AWS-managed KMS encryption keys. The backups must be stored in aWORM (Write Once Read Many)backup account.
What is the correct approach to enable cross-account backup?
A company is migrating infrastructure for its massive multiplayer game to AWS. The game ' s application features a leaderboard where players can see rankings in real time. The leaderboard requires microsecond reads and single-digit-millisecond write latencies. The datasets are single- digit terabytes in size and must be available to accept writes in less than a minute if a primary node failure occurs.
The company needs a solution in which data can persist for further analytical processing through a data pipeline.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A finance company is running its business-critical application on current-generation Linux EC2 instances The application includes a self-managed MySQL database performing heavy I/O operations. The application is working fine to handle a moderate amount of traffic during the month. However, it slows down during the final three days of each month due to month-end reporting, even though the company is using Elastic Load Balancers and Auto Scaling within its infrastructure to meet the increased demand.
Which of the following actions would allow the database to handle the month-end load with the LEAST impact on performance?
A company has a website that runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances are in an Auto Scaling group. The ALB is associated with an AWS WAF web ACL.
The website often encounters attacks in the application layer. The attacks produce sudden and significant increases in traffic on the application server. The access logs show that each attack originates from different IP addresses. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to mitigate these attacks.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
An online gaming company needs to optimize the cost of its workloads on AWS. The company uses a dedicated account to host the production environment for its online gaming application and an analytics application.
Amazon EC2 instances host the gaming application and must always be vailable. The EC2 instances run all year. The analytics application uses data that is stored in Amazon S3. The analytics application can be interrupted and resumed without issue.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is hosting a monolithic REST-based API for a mobile app on five Amazon EC2 instances in public subnets of a VPC. Mobile clients connect to the API by using a domain name that is hosted on Amazon Route 53. The company has created a Route 53 multivalue answer routing policy with the IP addresses of all the EC2 instances. Recently, the app has been overwhelmed by large and sudden increases to traffic. The app has not been able to keep up with the traffic.
A solutions architect needs to implement a solution so that the app can handle the new and varying load.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
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A company is migrating a containerized Kubernetes app with manifest files to AWS. What is the easiest migration path?
A company runs many workloads on AWS and uses AWS Organizations to manage its accounts. The workloads are hosted on Amazon EC2. AWS Fargate. and AWS Lambda. Some of the workloads have unpredictable demand. Accounts record high usage in some months and low usage in other months.
The company wants to optimize its compute costs over the next 3 years A solutions architect obtains a 6-month average for each of the accounts across the organization to calculate usage.
Which solution will provide the MOST cost savings for all the organization ' s compute usage?
A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. Recent application metrics show inconsistent response times and a significant increase in error rates. Calls to third-party services are causing the delays. Currently, the application calls third-party services synchronously by directly invoking an AWS Lambda function.
A solutions architect needs to decouple the third-party service calls and ensure that all the calls are eventually completed.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An AWS customer has a web application that runs on premises. The web application fetches data from a third-party API that is behind a firewall. The third party accepts only one public CIDR block in each client ' s allow list.
The customer wants to migrate their web application to the AWS Cloud. The application will be hosted on a set of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in a VPC. The ALB is located in public subnets. The EC2 instances are located in private subnets. NAT gateways provide internet access to the private subnets.
How should a solutions architect ensure that the web application can continue to call the third-parly API after the migration?
A company built an application based on AWS Lambda deployed in an AWS CloudFormation stack. The last production release of the web application introduced an issue that resulted in an outage lasting several minutes. A solutions architect must adjust the deployment process to support a canary release.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect is designing a solution to automatically provision new AWS accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. The solutions architect has enabled AWS Control Tower for the organization. The solution must enable security controls and create resources such as billing alarms after creating new AWS accounts. The solution must be scalable. Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has registered 10 new domain names. The company uses the domains for online marketing. The company needs a solution that will redirect online visitors to a specific URL for each domain. All domains and target URLs are defined in a JSON document. All DNS records are managed by Amazon Route 53.
A solutions architect must implement a redirect service that accepts HTTP and HTTPS requests.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational effort? (Choose three.)
A company runs a video-on-demand (VOD) content streaming application on AWS. The application includes an Amazon CloudFront distribution that uses the default cache behavior. The distribution has a single origin that points to an Amazon S3 bucket that contains the video files.
The company wants to improve the application’s reliability. The company creates a second S3 bucket and configures S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) between the S3 buckets. The company must implement high availability for the CloudFront deployment and must ensure that failover begins within 1 second.
Which change to the current architecture will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A life sciences company is using a combination of open source tools to manage data analysis workflows and Docker containers running on servers in its on-premises data center to process genomics data Sequencing data is generated and stored on a local storage area network (SAN), and then the data is processed. The research and development teams are running into capacity issues and have decided to re-architect their genomics analysis platform on AWS to scale based on workload demands and reduce the turnaround time from weeks to days
The company has a high-speed AWS Direct Connect connection Sequencers will generate around 200 GB of data for each genome, and individual jobs can take several hours to process the data with ideal compute capacity. The end result will be stored in Amazon S3. The company is expecting 10-15 job requests each day
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company wants to design a disaster recovery (DR) solution for an application that runs in the company ' s data center. The application writes to an SMB file share and creates a copy on a second file share. Both file shares are in the data center. The application uses two types of files: metadata files and image files.
The company wants to store the copy on AWS. The company needs the ability to use SMB to access the data from either the data center or AWS if a disaster occurs. The copy of the data is rarely accessed but must be available within 5 minutes.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company uses Microsoft Active Directory for user management and Microsoft Entra ID as an identity provider (IdP). The company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. The company establishes an AWS IAM Identity Center instance that is integrated with the IdP and creates the required user groups.
Multiple company departments and applications use Amazon S3. The company uses S3 bucket policies to manage permissions. As a result of the granular permissions the company creates, the policies grow so large that they reach the quota for S3 bucket policy length. The company needs to simplify the process of managing granular S3 bucket permissions for company identities.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is designing an AWS Organizations structure. The company wants to standardize a process to apply tags across the entire organization. The company will require tags with specific values when a user creates a new resource. Each of the company ' s OUs will have unique tag values.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs a web application on a single Amazon EC2 instance. End users experience slow application performance during times of peak usage, when CPU utilization is consistently more than 95%.
A user data script installs required custom packages on the EC2 instance. The process of launchingthe instance takes several minutes.
The company is creating an Auto Scaling group that has mixed instance groups, varied CPUs, and a maximum capacity limit. The Auto Scaling group will use a launch template for various configuration options. The company needs to decrease application latency when new instances are launched during auto scaling.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has automated the nightly retraining of its machine learning models by using AWS Step Functions. The workflow consists of multiple steps that use AWS Lambda Each step can fail for various reasons and any failure causes a failure of the overall workflow
A review reveals that the retraining has failed multiple nights in a row without the company noticing the failure A solutions architect needs to improve the workflow so that notifications are sent for all types of failures in the retraining process
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE)
A company has dozens of AWS accounts for different teams, applications, and environments. The company has defined a custom set of controls that all accounts must have. The company is concerned that potential misconfigurations in the accounts could lead to security issues or noncompliance. A solutions architect must design a solution that deploys the custom controls by using infrastructure as code (IaC) in a repeatable way. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A retail company is mounting IoT sensors in all of its stores worldwide. During the manufacturing of each sensor, the company ' s private certificate authority (CA) issues an X.509 certificate that contains a unique serial number. The company then deploys each certificate to its respective sensor.
A solutions architect needs to give the sensors the ability to send data to AWS after they are installed. Sensors must not be able to send data to AWS until they are installed.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is subject to regulatory audits of its financial information. External auditors who use a single AWS account need access to the company ' s AWS account. A solutions architect must provide the auditors with secure, read-only access to the company ' s AWS account. The solution must comply with AWS security best practices.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has loT sensors that monitor traffic patterns throughout a large city. The company wants to read and collect data from the sensors and perform aggregations on the data.
A solutions architect designs a solution in which the loT devices are streaming to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Several applications are reading from the stream. However, several consumers are experiencing throttling and are periodically and are periodically encountering a RealProvisioned Throughput Exceeded error.
Which actions should the solution architect take to resolve this issue? (Select THREE.)
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A company is replicating an application in asecondary Region. The application usesDynamoDBandRDS for MySQL. The secondary Region must function independently during adisaster.
A company uses AWS Cloud Formation to deploy its infrastructure. The company is concerned that data stored in Amazon RDS databases or Amazon EBS volumes might be deleted if a production Cloud Formation stack is deleted.
How can the company prevent users from accidentally deleting data in this way?
A software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider exposes APIs through an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The ALB connects to an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster that is deployed in the us-east-I Region. The exposed APIs contain usage of a few non-standard REST methods: LINK, UNLINK, LOCK, and UNLOCK.
Users outside the United States are reporting long and inconsistent response times for these APIs. A solutions architect needs to resolve this problem with a solution that minimizes operational overhead.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company ' s solutions architect is analyzing costs of a multi-application environment. The environment is deployed across multiple Availability Zones in a single AWS Region. After a recent acquisition, the company manages two organizations in AWS Organizations. The company has created multiple service provider applications as AWS PrivateLink-powered VPC endpoint services in one organization. The company has created multiple service consumer applications in the other organization.
Data transfer charges are much higher than the company expected, and the solutions architect needs to reduce the costs. The solutions architect must recommend guidelines for developers to follow when they deploy services. These guidelines must minimize data transfer charges for the whole environment.
Which guidelines meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A solutions architect is auditing the security setup of an AWS Lambda function for a company. The Lambda function retrieves the latest changes from an Amazon Aurora database. The Lambda function and the database run in the same VPC. Lambda environment variables are providing the database credentials to the Lambda function.
The Lambda function aggregates data and makes the data available in an Amazon S3 bucket that is configured for server-side encryption with AWS KMS managed encryption keys (SSE-KMS). The data must not travel across the internet. If any database credentials become compromised, the company needs a solution that minimizes the impact of the compromise.
What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company is building an application that will run on an AWS Lambda function. Hundreds of customers will use the application. The company wants to give each customer a quota of requests for a specific time period. The quotas must match customer usage patterns. Some customers must receive a higher quota for a shorter time period.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants to use an Amazon S3 bucket for its data scientists to store documents. The company uses AWS IAM Identity Center to authenticate users. The company created an IAM Identity Center group for the data scientists.
The company wants to grant the data scientists access to only their specific folders in the S3 bucket. The company also wants to know which documents each data scientist accessed.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company has on-premises Linux, Windows, and Ubuntu servers that run many applications. The servers run on physical machines and VMs. The company plans to migrate the servers to Amazon EC2 instances.
The company needs to accomplish the following goals:
• Measure actual server usage, system performance, and running processes.
• List system configurations.
• Understand details of the network connections between systems.
• Analyze application components and dependencies within on-premises workloads.
• Receive EC2 instance sizing recommendations from AWS.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A retail company needs to provide a series of data files to another company, which is its business partner These files are saved in an Amazon S3 bucket under Account A. which belongs to the retail company. The business partner company wants one of its 1AM users. User_DataProcessor. to access the files from its own AWS account (Account B).
Which combination of steps must the companies take so that User_DataProcessor can access the S3 bucket successfully? (Select TWO.)
A company has a multi-tier web application that runs on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances are in an Auto Scaling group. The ALB and the Auto Scaling group are replicated in a backup AWS Region. The minimum value and the maximum value for the Auto Scaling group are set to zero. An Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance stores the application’s data. The DB instance has a read replica in the backup Region. The application presents an endpoint to end users by using an Amazon Route 53 record.
The company needs to reduce its RTO to less than 15 minutes by giving the application the ability to automatically fail over to the backup Region. The company does not have a large enough budget for an active-active strategy.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. The application collects and stores a large amount of unstructured data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The S3 bucket contains several terabytes of data and uses the S3 Standard storage class. The data increases in size by several gigabytes every day.
The company needs to query and analyze the data. The company does not access data that is more than 1-year-old. However, the company must retain all the data indefinitely for compliance reasons.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company wants to use AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On) to manage employee access to AWS services. The company uses AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts.
Each employee has their own IAM user. Each IAM user is a member of at least one IAM group. Each IAM group has an attached policy that allows members to assume
specific roles across the accounts. The roles contain appropriate policies for the expected activities of each group of users in each account. All relevant accounts exist inside a single OU.
The company has already created new users and groups in IAM Identity Center to match the permissions that exist in IAM.
How should the company use IAM Identity Center to implement the existing permissions?
A company runs a customer service center that accepts calls and automatically sends all customers a managed, interactive, two-way experience survey by text message.
The applications that support the customer service center run on machines that the company hosts in an on-premises data center. The hardware that the company uses is old, and the company is experiencing downtime with the system. The company wants to migrate the system to AWS to improve reliability.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST ongoing operational overhead?
To abide by industry regulations, a solutions architect must design a solution that will store a company ' s critical data in multiple public AWS Regions, including in the United States, where the company ' s headquarters is located The solutions architect is required to provide access to the data stored in AWS to the company ' s global WAN network The security team mandates that no traffic accessing this data should traverse the public internet
How should the solutions architect design a highly available solution that meets the requirements and is cost-effective ' ?
A company deploys an AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime. The agent processes customer requests. Some agent actions are classified as high risk and must receive human approval before proceeding. The workflow must pause the agent, notify a human approver, and resume or cancel the action based on the approver ' s decision. Approvals typically take between 5 minutes and 60 minutes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company hosts a data-processing application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application polls an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system for newly uploaded files. When a new file is detected, the application extracts data from the file and runs logic to select a Docker container image to process the file. The application starts the appropriate container image and passes the file location as a parameter.
The data processing that the container performs can take up to 2 hours. When the processing is complete, the code that runs inside the container writes the file back to Amazon EFS and exits.
The company needs to refactor the application to eliminate the EC2 instances that are running the containers
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company processes environment data. The has a set up sensors to provide a continuous stream of data from different areas in a city. The data is available in JSON format.
The company wants to use an AWS solution to send the data to a database that does not require fixed schemas for storage. The data must be send in real time.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect works for a government agency that has strict disaster recovery requirements. All Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots are required to be saved in at least two additional AWS Regions. The agency also is required to maintain the lowest possible operational overhead.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A solutions architect has launched multiple Amazon EC2 instances in a placement group within a single Availability Zone. Because of additional load on the system, the solutions architect attempts to add new instances to the placement group. However, the solutions architect receives an insufficient capacity error.
What should the solutions architect do to troubleshoot this issue?
A large mobile gaming company has successfully migrated all of its on-premises infrastructure tothe AWS Cloud. A solutions architect is reviewing the environment to ensure that it was built according to the design and that it is running in alignment with the Well-Architected Framework.
While reviewing previous monthly costs in Cost Explorer, the solutions architect notices that the creation and subsequent termination of several large instance types account for a high proportion of the costs. The solutions architect finds out that the company ' s developers are launching new Amazon EC2 instances as part of their testing and that the developers are not using the appropriate instance types.
The solutions architect must implement a control mechanism to limit the instance types that only the developers can launch.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. The company ' s security team must approve the creation of all new IAM users. When a new IAM user is created, all access for the user must be removed automatically. The security team must then receive a notification to approve the user. The company has a multi-Region AWS CloudTrail trail In the AWS account.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company is designing its network configuration in the AWS Cloud. The company uses AWS Organizations to manage a multi-account setup. The company has three OUs. Each OU contains more than 100 AWS accounts. Each account has a single VPC, and all the VPCs in each OU are in the same AWS Region.
The CIDR ranges for all the AWS accounts do not overlap. The company needs to implement a solution in which VPCs in the same OU can communicate with each other but cannot communicatewith VPCs in other OUs.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A large company is migrating ils entire IT portfolio to AWS. Each business unit in the company has a standalone AWS account that supports both development and test environments. New accounts to support production workloads will be needed soon.
The finance department requires a centralized method for payment but must maintain visibility into each group ' s spending to allocate costs.
The security team requires a centralized mechanism to control 1AM usage in all the company ' s accounts.
What combination of the following options meet the company ' s needs with the LEAST effort? (Select TWO.)
A retailer is deploying a customer service AI agent that uses multiple tools to look up orders, process refunds, and make address changes. The retailer needs a solution for its CI/CD pipeline that blocks promotion if a new release regresses on specific metrics. The specific metrics include task completion, tool selection, and final response quality. The retailer wants to test the metric evaluation against a set of golden interaction traces. After deployment, the solution must also continuously monitor for agent degradation and perform a periodic human audit of production results.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is migrating internal business applications to Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS in a VPC. The migration requires connecting the cloud-based applications to the on-premises internal network. The company wants to set up an AWS 5ite-to-5ite VPN connection. The company has created two separate customer gateways. The gateways are configured for static routing and have been assigned distinct public IP addresses.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is creating a solution that can move 400 employees into a remote working environment in the event of an unexpected disaster. The user desktops have a mix of Windows and Linux operating systems. Multiple types of software, such as web browsers and mail clients, are installed on each desktop.
A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that can be integrated with the company ' s on-premises Active Directory to allow employees to use their existing identity credentials. The solution must provide multi-factor authentication (MFA) and must replicate the user experience from the existing desktops.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses multiple software as a service SaaS applications for messaging, email, and file sharing. The SaaS applications are compatible with AWS AppFabric. The company’s web application runs in a VPC on an Amazon EKS cluster and uses Amazon S3 to store data.
The company wants to detect security incidents across the SaaS applications and the web application that could compromise company data. The company needs a centralized solution that provides a dashboard. The dashboard must show the IP addresses, email addresses, and access frequencies of unique users across its SaaS applications and the web application.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? Select THREE.
A company built an ecommerce website on AWS using a three-tier web architecture. The application is Java-based and composed of an Amazon CloudFront distribution, an Apache web server layer of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group, and a backend Amazon Aurora MySQL database.
Last month, during a promotional sales event, users reported errors and timeouts while adding items to their shopping carts. The operations team recovered the logs created by the web servers and reviewed Aurora DB cluster performance metrics. Some of the web servers were terminated before logs could be collected and the Aurora metrics were not sufficient for query performance analysis.
Which combination of steps must the solutions architect take to improve application performance visibility during peak traffic events? (Choose three.)
A company has an asynchronous HTTP application that is hosted as an AWS Lambda function. A public Amazon API Gateway endpoint invokes the Lambda function. The Lambda function and the API Gateway endpoint reside in the us-east-1 Region. A solutions architect needs to redesign the application to support failover to another AWS Region.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses AWS Organizations for a multi-account setup in the AWS Cloud. The company uses AWS Control Tower for governance and uses AWS Transit Gateway for VPC connectivityacross accounts.
In an AWS application account, the company ' s application team has deployed a web application that uses AWS Lambda and Amazon RDS. The company ' s database administrators have a separate DBA account and use the account to centrally manage all the databases across the organization. The database administrators use an Amazon EC2 instance that is deployed in the DBA account to access an RDS database that is deployed in the application account.
The application team has stored the database credentials as secrets in AWS Secrets Manager in the application account. The application team is manually sharing the secrets with the database administrators. The secrets are encrypted by the default AWS managed key for Secrets Manager in the application account. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that gives the database administrators access to the database and eliminates the need to manually share the secrets.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company migrated to AWS and uses AWS Business Support. The company wants to monitor thecost-effectiveness of Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances have tags for department, business unit, and environment. Development EC2 instances have high cost but low utilization.
The company needs to detect and stop any underutilized development EC2 instances. Instances are underutilized if they had 10% or less average CPU utilization and 5 MB or less network I/O for at least 4 of the past 14 days.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?