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 solutions architect is designing a solution to process events. The solution must have the ability to scale in and out based on the number of events that the solution receives. If a processing error occurs, the event must move into a separate queue for review.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A global media company is planning a multi-Region deployment of an application. Amazon DynamoDB global tables will back the deployment to keep the user experience consistent across the two continents where users are concentrated. Each deployment will have a public Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company manages public DNS internally. The company wants to make the application available through an apex domain.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?
A company used Amazon EC2 instances to deploy a web fleet to host a blog site The EC2 instances are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and are configured in an Auto ScaSng group The web application stores all blog content on an Amazon EFS volume.
The company recently added a feature 'or Moggers to add video to their posts, attracting 10 times the previous user traffic At peak times of day. users report buffering and timeout issues while attempting to reach the site or watch videos
Which is the MOST cost-efficient and scalable deployment that win resolve the issues for users?
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 migrating to AWS and needs to inventory physical and virtual servers, apps, and database relationships to properly rightsize and plan migration.
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 solutions architect is importing a VM from an on-premises environment by using the Amazon EC2 VM Import feature of AWS Import/Export. The solutions architect has created an AMI and has provisioned an Amazon EC2 instance that is based on that AMI. The EC2 instance runs inside a public subnet in a VPC and has a public IP address assigned.
The EC2 instance does not appear as a managed instance in the AWS Systems Manager console.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to troubleshoot this issue? (Select TWO.)
A solutions architect is reviewing an application's resilience before launch. The application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance that is deployed in a private subnet of a VPC.
The EC2 instance is provisioned by an Auto Scaling group that has a minimum capacity of I and a maximum capacity of I. The application stores data on an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The VPC has subnets configured in three Availability Zones and is configured with a single NAT gateway.
The solutions architect needs to recommend a solution to ensure that the application will operate across multiple Availability Zones.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company is using AWS CodePipeline for the CI/CD of an application to an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. All AWS resources are defined in AWS
CloudFormation templates. The application artifacts are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket and deployed to the Auto Scaling group using instance user data scripts.
As the application has become more complex, recent resource changes in the CloudFormation templates have caused unplanned downtime.
How should a solutions architect improve the CI/CD pipeline to reduce the likelihood that changes in the templates will cause downtime?
A company is migrating an on-premises application and a MySQL database to AWS. The application processes highly sensitive data, and new data is constantly updated in the database. The data must not be transferred over the internet. The company also must encrypt the data in transit and at rest.
The database is 5 TB in size. The company already has created the database schema in an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The company has set up a 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection to AWS. The company also has set up a public VIF and a private VIF. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that will migrate the data to AWS with the least possible downtime.
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 company is planning to migrate an application to AWS. The application runs as a Docker container and uses an NFS version 4 file share.
A solutions architect must design a secure and scalable containerized solution that does not require provisioning or management of the underlying infrastructure.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has developed a mobile game. The backend for the game runs on several virtual machines located in an on-premises data center. The business logic is exposed using a REST API with multiple functions. Player session data is stored in central file storage. Backend services use different API keys for throttling and to distinguish between live and test traffic.
The load on the game backend varies throughout the day. During peak hours, the server capacity is not sufficient. There are also latency issues when fetching player session data. Management has asked a solutions architect to present a cloud architecture that can handle the game's varying load and provide low-latency data access. The API model should not be changed.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company’s web application uses an Amazon API Gateway API, AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon DynamoDB global tables to handle backend requests. The web application is deployed in two AWS Regions in an active-passive model. The company uses Amazon Route 53 for DNS. The web application requires a manual DNS update to fail over to the secondary Region. An analytics Lambda function runs in the same AWS account. The function has caused Lambda concurrency to reach 90% of the current quota on an average day. A recent surge in traffic for the analytics workload resulted in throttled Lambda requests and a poor user experience for the web application users. A solutions architect must increase the reliability of the web application. The solution must use an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to send an Amazon SNS notification when the Lambda concurrency reaches a specific utilization threshold. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company wants to migrate virtual Microsoft workloads from an on-premises data center to AWS The company has successfully tested a few sample workloads on AWS. The company also has created an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection to a VPC A solutions architect needs to generate a total cost of ownership (TCO) report for the migration of all the workloads from the data center
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) has been enabled on each VM in the data center The company cannot add more VMs m the data center and cannot install additional software on the VMs The discovery data must be automatically imported into AWS Migration Hub
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an application that stores user-uploaded videos in an Amazon S3 bucket that uses S3 Standard storage. Users access the videos frequently in the first 180 days after the videos are uploaded. Access after 180 days is rare. Named users and anonymous users access the videos. Most of the videos are more than 100 MB in size. Users often have poor internet connectivity when they upload videos, resulting in failed uploads. The company uses multipart uploads for the videos. A solutions architect needs to optimize the S3 costs of the application. Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company uses an AWS CloudFormation template to deploy an Amazon ECS service into a production environment. The template includes an Amazon S3 bucket that is named by using a common prefix with the CloudFormation stack name.
The company uses the same template to create temporary environments for development and continuous integration. Developers can create environments successfully, but they receive errors from CloudFormation when they attempt to delete the environments. The developers often need to delete and recreate stacks with the same names as part of the development and testing process.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to modify the solution to resolve this issue? (Select TWO.)
A company wants to use AWS for disaster recovery for an on-premises application. The company has hundreds of Windows-based servers that run the application. All the servers mount a common share.
The company has an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of 5 minutes. The solution must support native failover and fallback capabilities.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
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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 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 solutions architect wants to cost-optimize and appropriately size Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS account. The solutions architect wants to ensure that the instances are optimized based on CPU, memory, and network metrics.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
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.)
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 runs a proprietary stateless ETL application on an Amazon EC2 Linux instance. The application is a Linux binary, and the source code cannot be modified. The application is single-threaded, uses 2 GB of RAM. and is highly CPU intensive The application is scheduled to run every 4 hours and runs for up to 20 minutes A solutions architect wants to revise the architecture for the solution.
Which strategy should the solutions architect use?
A company is designing an AWS environment tor a manufacturing application. The application has been successful with customers, and the application's user base has increased. The company has connected the AWS environment to the company's on-premises data center through a 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection. The company has configured BGP for the connection.
The company must update the existing network connectivity solution to ensure that the solution is highly available, fault tolerant, and secure.
Which solution win 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 introduced a new policy that allows employees to work remotely from their homes if they connect by using a VPN The company Is hosting Internal applications with VPCs in multiple AWS accounts Currently the applications are accessible from the company's on-premises office network through an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection The VPC in the company's main AWS account has peering connections established with VPCs in other AWS accounts.
A solutions architect must design a scalable AWS Client VPN solution for employees to use while they work from home
What is the MOST cost-effective solution that meets these requirements?
A company has accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. The organization has all features enabled. The company stores secrets in AWS Secrets Manager in a central AWS account (Account A). The secrets have resource policies that allow read-only access to 1AM roles in an account outside the organization (Account B). A few privileged users in accounts in the organization have access to the secrets by using 1AM roles.
Because of a security incident, the company needs to revoke all access to the secrets in Account A.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has millions of objects in an Amazon S3 bucket. The objects are in the S3 Standard storage class. All the S3 objects are accessed frequently. The number of users and applications that access the objects is increasing rapidly. The objects are encrypted with server-side encryption with AWS KMS Keys (SSE-KMS).
A solutions architect reviews the company's monthly AWS invoice and notices that AWS KMS costs are increasing because of the high number of requests from Amazon S3. The solutions architect needs to optimize costs with minimal changes to the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is running a critical application that uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL database to store data. The RDS DB instance is deployed in Multi-AZ mode.
A recent RDS database failover test caused a 40-second outage to the application A solutions architect needs to design a solution to reduce the outage time to less than 20 seconds.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage more than 1.000 AWS accounts. The company has created a new developer organization. There are 540 developer member accounts that must be moved to the new developer organization. All accounts are set up with all the required Information so that each account can be operated as a standalone account.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to move all of the developer accounts to the new developer organization? (Select THREE.)
A solutions architect is investigating an issue in which a company cannot establish new sessions in Amazon Workspaces. An initial analysis indicates that the issue involves user profiles. The AmazonWorkspaces environment is configured to use Amazon FSx for Windows File Server as the profile share storage. The FSx for Windows File Server file system is configured with 10 TB of storage.
The solutions architect discovers that the file system has reached its maximum capacity. The solutions architect must ensure that users can regain access. The solution also must prevent the problem from occurring again.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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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?
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 completed a successful Amazon Workspaces proof of concept. They now want to make Workspaceshighly available across two AWS Regions. Workspaces are deployed in the failover Region. A hosted zone is available in Amazon Route 53.
What should the solutions architect do?
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?
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A company is modernizing a legacy.NET Frameworkapplication backed by SQL Server. Requirements:
Containerize into microservices.
Control OS patches and storage.
Add load balancing.
Ensure high availability.Which solution meets all of these with minimal refactoring?
A company wants to run a custom network analysis software package to inspect traffic as traffic leaves and enters a VPC. The company has deployed the solution by using AWS Cloud Formation on three Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. All network routing has been established to direct traffic to the EC2 instances.
Whenever the analysis software stops working, the Auto Scaling group replaces an instance. The network routes are not updated when the instance replacement occurs.
Which combination of steps will resolve this issue? {Select THREE.)
A company is planning to migrate its applications from an on-premises data center to AWS. The on-premises data center has an AWS Direct Connect connection. The company needs to test IPv6 connectivity in the VPC so that the applications can communicate with more customers worldwide.
A solutions architect has created a VPC with an IPv6 CIDR block.
Which networking configurations will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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 company runs a software-as-a-service Which solution meets these requirements'?
A company is developing a solution to analyze images. The solution uses a 50 TB reference dataset and analyzes images up to 1 TB in size. The solution spreads requests across an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 Linux instances in a VPC. The EC2 instances are attached to shared Amazon EBS io2 volumes in each Availability Zone. The EBS volumes store the reference dataset.
During testing, multiple parallel analyses led to numerous disk errors, which caused job failures. The company wants the solution to provide seamless data reading for all instances.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is using AWS Organizations with a multi-account architecture. The company's current security configuration for the account architecture includes SCPs, resource-based policies, identity-based policies, trust policies, and session policies.
A solutions architect needs to allow an IAM user in Account A to assume a role in Account B.
Which combination of steps must the solutions architect take to meet this requirement? (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 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 solutions architect has implemented a SAML 2 0 federated identity solution with their company's on-premises identity provider (IdP) to authenticate users' access to the AWS environment. When the solutions architect tests authentication through the federated identity web portal, access to the AWS environment is granted However when test users attempt to authenticate through the federated identity web portal, they are not able to access the AWS environment
Which items should the solutions architect check to ensure identity federation isproperly configured? (Select THREE)
A company operates an on-premises software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that ingests several files daily. The company provides multiple public SFTP endpoints to its customers to facilitate the file transfers. The customers add the SFTP endpoint IP addresses to their firewall allow list for outbound traffic. Changes to the SFTP endmost IP addresses are not permitted.
The company wants to migrate the SaaS solution to AWS and decrease the operational overhead of the file transfer service.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company has many services running in its on-premises data center. The data center is connected to AWS using AWS Direct Connect (DX)and an IPsec VPN. The service data is sensitive and connectivity cannot traverse the interne. The company wants to expand to a new market segment and begin offering Is services to other companies that are using AWS.
Which solution will 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 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 company has used infrastructure as code (IaC) to provision a set of two Amazon EC2 instances. The instances have remained the same for several years.
The company's business has grown rapidly in the past few months. In response the company's operations team has implemented an Auto Scaling group to manage the sudden increases in traffic. Company policy requires a monthly installation of security updates on all operating systems that are running.
The most recent security update required a reboot. As a result, the Auto Scaling group terminated the instances and replaced them with new, unpatched instances.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect recommend to avoid a recurrence of this issue? (Choose two.)
A company is using an on-premises Active Directory service for user authentication. The company wants to use the same authentication service to sign in to the company's AWS accounts, which are using AWS Organizations. AWS Site-to-Site VPN connectivity already exists between the on-premises environment and all the company's AWS accounts.
The company's security policy requires conditional access to the accounts based on user groups and roles. User identities must be managed in a single location.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company stores data on an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance in a private subnet in an AWS database account. Applications that are deployed in different VPCs access this data from different AWS accounts.
The company needs to manage the number of active connections to the DB instance. Communication between all accounts and the database account must be private and must not travel across the internet. The solution must be scalable to accommodate more consumer accounts in the future.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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An application uses CloudFront, App Runner, and two S3 buckets — one for static assets and one for user-uploaded content. User content is infrequently accessed after 30 days. Users are located only in Europe.
How can the companyoptimize cost?
An e-commerce company is revamping its IT infrastructure and is planning to use AWS services. The company's CIO has asked a solutions architect to design a simple, highly available, and loosely coupled order processing application. The application is responsible for receiving and processing orders before storing them in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The application has a sporadic traffic pattern and should be able to scale during marketing campaigns to process the orders with minimal delays.
Which of the following is the MOST reliable approach to meet the requirements?
A company is deploying a new cluster for big data analytics on AWS. The cluster will run across many Linux Amazon EC2 instances that are spread across multiple Availability Zones.
All of the nodes in the cluster must have read and write access to common underlying file storage. The file storage must be highly available, must be resilient, must be compatible with the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX). and must accommodate high levels of throughput.
Which storage solution will meet these requirements?
A company operates a proxy server on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. Partners in different countries use the proxy server to test the company's functionality. The EC2 instances are running in a VPC. and the instances have access to the internet.
The company's security policy requires that partners can access resources only from domains that the company owns.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 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 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 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 has more than 10.000 sensors that send data to an on-premises Apache Kafka server by using the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol. The on-premises Kafka server transforms the data and then stores the results as objects in an Amazon S3 bucket.
Recently, the Kafka server crashed. The company lost sensor data while the server was being restored. A solutions architect must create a new design on AWS that is highly available and scalable to prevent a similar occurrence.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs to create and manage multiple AWS accounts for a number of departments from a central location. The security team requires read-only access to all accounts from its own AWS account. The company is using AWS Organizations and created an account for the security team.
How should a solutions architect meet these requirements?
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A company is running a large containerized workload in the AWS Cloud using Amazon ECS. The development team recently started usingAWS Fargateinstead of EC2 in the ECS cluster. The company is worried about reaching themaximum number of ECS tasksallowed in the account.
A solutions architect must implement a solution that notifies the development team when Fargate usage reaches80% of the quota.
What should the architect do?
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'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 is planning to migrate 1,000 on-premises servers to AWS. The servers run on several VMware clusters in the company’s data center. As part of the migration plan, the company wants to gather server metrics such as CPU details, RAM usage, operating system information, and running processes. The company then wants to query and analyze the data.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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?
A company is developing a gene reporting device that will collect genomic information to assist researchers with collecting large samples of data from a diverse population. The device will push 8 KB of genomic data every second to a data platform that will need to process and analyze the data and provide information back to researchers. The data platform must meet the following requirements:
•Provide near-real-time analytics of the inbound genomic data
•Ensure the data is flexible, parallel, and durable
•Deliver results of processing to a data warehouse
Which strategy should a solutions architect use to meet these requirements?
A company has implemented a new security requirement According to the new requirement, the company must scan all traffic from corporate AWS instances in the company's VPC for violations of the company's security policies. As a result of these scans the company can block access to and from specific IP addresses.
To meet the new requirement, the company deploys a set of Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets to serve as transparent proxies The company installs approved proxy server software on these EC2 instances The company modifies the route tables on all subnets to use the corresponding EC2 instances with proxy software as the default route The company also creates security groupsthat are compliant with the security policies and assigns these security groups to the EC2 instances
Despite these configurations, the traffic of the EC2 instances in their private subnets is not being properly forwarded to the internet.
What should a solutions architect do to resolve this issue?
A large company is running a popular web application. The application runs on several Amazon EC2 Linux Instances in an Auto Scaling group in a private subnet. An Application Load Balancer is targeting the Instances In the Auto Scaling group in the private subnet. AWS Systems Manager Session Manager Is configured, and AWS Systems Manager Agent is running on all the EC2 instances.
The company recently released a new version of the application Some EC2 instances are now being marked as unhealthy and are being terminated As a result, the application is running at reduced capacity A solutions architect tries to determine the root cause by analyzing Amazon CloudWatch logs that are collected from the application, but the logs are inconclusive
How should the solutions architect gain access to an EC2 instance to troubleshoot the issue1?
A startup company recently migrated a large ecommerce website to AWS The website has experienced a 70% increase in sates Software engineers are using a private GitHub repository to manage code The DevOps team is using Jenkins for builds and unit testing The engineers need to receive notifications for bad builds and zero downtime during deployments The engineers also need to ensure any changes to production are seamless for users and can be rolled back in the event of a major issue
The software engineers have decided to use AWS CodePipeline to manage their build and deployment process
Which solution will meet these requirements'?
A company has multiple applications that run on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets in a VPC. The company has deployed multiple NAT gateways in multiple Availability Zones for internet access. The company wants to block certain websites from being accessed through the NAT gateways. The company also wants to identify the internet destinations that the EC2 instances access.
The company has already created VPC flow logs for the NAT gateways' elastic network interfaces. Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 has hundreds of AWS accounts. The company recently implemented a centralized internal process for purchasing new Reserved Instances and modifying existing Reserved Instances. This process requires all business units that want to purchase or modify Reserved Instances to submit requests to a dedicated team for procurement. Previously, business units directly purchased or modified Reserved Instances in their own respective AWS accounts autonomously.
A solutions architect needs to enforce the new process in the most secure way possible.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company hosts a metadata API on Amazon EC2 instances behind an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB). Only internal applications that run on EC2 instances in separate AWS accounts need to access the metadata API. All the internal EC2 instances use NAT gateways.
A new policy requires that traffic between internal applications must not travel across the public internet.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company hosts a multi-tier data processing application that consists of a static web application frontend and APIs that are hosted on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The application stores search data on a single-node Amazon OpenSearch Service cluster that runs on an EC2 instance. The application stores additional data in a PostgreSQL database that runs on another EC2 instance. An NGINX server that is hosted on an EC2 instance serves the web application.
The company has experienced some support issues with the application and wants to modernize the application.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is deploying a new web-based application and needs a storage solution for the Linux application servers. The company wants to create a single location for updates to application data for all instances. The active dataset will be up to 100 GB in size. A solutions architect has determined that peak operations will occur for 3 hours daily and will require a total of 225 MiBps of read throughput.
The solutions architect must design a Multi-AZ solution that makes a copy of the data available in another AWS Region for disaster recovery (DR). The DR copy has an RPO of less than 1 hour.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A retail company has an on-premises data center in Europe. The company also has a multi-Region AWS presence that includes the eu-west-1 and us-east-1 Regions. The company wants to be able to route network traffic from its on-premises infrastructure into VPCs in either of those Regions. The company also needs to support traffic that is routed directly between VPCs in those Regions. No single points of failure can exist on the network.
The company already has created two 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connections from its on-premises data center. Each connection goes into a separate Direct Connect location in Europe for high availability. These two locations are named DX-A and DX-B, respectively. Each Region has a single AWS Transit Gateway that is configured to route all inter-VPC traffic within that Region.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A scientific company needs to process text and image data from an Amazon S3 bucket. The data is collected from several radar stations during a live, time-critical phase of a deep space mission. The radar stations upload the data to the source S3 bucket. The data is prefixed by radar station identification number.
The company created a destination S3 bucket in a second account. Data must be copied from the source S3 bucket to the destination S3 bucket to meet a compliance objective. The replication occurs through the use of an S3 replication rule to cover all objects in the source S3 bucket.
One specific radar station is identified as having the most accurate data. Data replication at this radar station must be monitored for completion within 30 minutes after the radar station uploads the objects to the source S3 bucket.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
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 runs an application on AWS. The application uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL database that is encrypted with the default AWS managed AWS KMS key.
The company must implement a solution to rotate the database encryption key every 180 days. The solution must provide a notification if the encryption key is noncompliant with this standard.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 has an application that uses Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The quality assurance (QA) department needs to launch and test the application. The application environments are currently launched by the manager of the department using an AWS CloudFormation template. To launch the stack, the manager uses a role with permission to use CloudFormation, EC2, and Auto Scaling APIs. The manager wants to allow QA to launch environments, but does not want to grant broad permissions to each user.
Which set up would achieve these goals?
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 is migrating its on-premises file transfer solution to AWS Transfer Family. The on-premises host includes an SFTP server to receive files, an application that performs a transformation of the files, and a messaging server. The transformations run every 5 minutes. When a transformation is complete, the application sends a message to a queue on the messaging server. The company needs to simplify the solution and reduce the management of the components. What should the company do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company's factory and automaton applications are running in a single VPC More than 23 applications run on a combination of Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), are Amazon RDS.
The company has software engineers spread across three teams. One of the three teams owns each application, and each team is responsible for the cost and performance of all of its applications.Team resources have tags that represent their application and team. The learns use IAH access for daily activities.
The company needs to determine which costs on the monthly AWS bill are attributable to each application or team. The company also must be able to create reports to compare costs item the last 12 months and to help forecast costs tor the next 12 months. A solution architect must recommend an AWS Billing and Cost Management solution that provides these cost reports.
Which combination of actions will meet these requirement? Select THREE.)
A company runs a processing engine in the AWS Cloud. The engine processes environmental data from logistics centers to calculate a sustainability index. The company has millions of devices in logistics centers that are spread across Europe. The devices send information to the processing engine through a RESTful API. The API experiences unpredictable bursts of traffic. The company must implement a solution to process all data that the devices send to the processing engine. Data loss is unacceptable. 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 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 health insurance company stores personally identifiable information (PII) in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company uses server-side encryption with S3 managed encryption keys (SSE-S3) to encrypt the objects. According to a new requirement, all current and future objects in the S3 bucket must be encrypted by keys that the company’s security team manages. The S3 bucket does not have versioning enabled.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is developing and hosting several projects in the AWS Cloud. The projects are developed across multiple AWS accounts under the same organization in AWS Organizations. The company requires the cost lor cloud infrastructure to be allocated to the owning project. The team responsible for all of the AWS accounts has discovered that several Amazon EC2 instances are lacking the Project tag used for cost allocation.
Which actions should a solutions architect take to resolve the problem and prevent it from happening in the future? (Select THREE.)
A global ecommerce company has many data centers worldwide. The company needs scalable cloud storage for legacy file applications. Requirements:
Must support iSCSI access from on-premises servers.
Must support point-in-time snapshots via AWS Backup.
Must retain low-latency access to frequently accessed data.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company in the United States (US) has acquired a company in Europe. Both companies use the AWS Cloud. The US company has built a new application with a microservices architecture. The US company is hosting the application across five VPCs in the us-east-2 Region. The application must be able to access resources in one VPC in the eu-west-1 Region. However, the application must not be able to access any other VPCs. The VPCs in both Regions have no overlapping CIDR ranges. All accounts are already consolidated in one organization in AWS Organizations. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company needs to improve the security of its web-based application on AWS. The application uses Amazon CloudFront with two custom origins. The first custom origin routes requests to an Amazon API Gateway HTTP API. The second custom origin routes traffic to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The application integrates with an OpenlD Connect (OIDC) identity provider (IdP) for user management.
A security audit shows that a JSON Web Token (JWT) authorizer provides access to the API The security audit also shows that the ALB accepts requests from unauthenticated users
A solutions architect must design a solution to ensure that all backend services respond to only authenticated users
Which solution will meet this requirement?
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 is running a compute workload by using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The launch template uses two placement groups and a single instance type.
Recently, a monitoring system reported Auto Scaling instance launch failures that correlated with longer wait times for system users. The company needs to improve the overall reliability of the workload.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
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'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 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 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 uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage the company's AWS accounts. The company uses AWS CloudFormation to deploy all infrastructure. A finance team wants to buikJ a chargeback model The finance team asked each business unit to tag resources by using a predefined list of project values.
When the finance team used the AWS Cost and Usage Report in AWS Cost Explorer and filtered based on project, the team noticed noncompliant project values. The company wants to enforce the use of project tags for new resources.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?
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 an loT platform on AWS loT sensors in various locations send data to the company's Node js API servers on Amazon EC2 instances running behind an Application Load Balancer The data is stored in an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance that uses a 4 TB General Purpose SSD volume
The number of sensors the company has deployed in the field has increased over time and is expected to grow significantly The API servers are consistently overloaded and RDS metrics show high write latency
Which of the following steps together will resolve the issues permanently and enable growth as new sensors are provisioned, while keeping this platform cost-efficient? {Select TWO.)
A company needs to monitor a growing number of Amazon S3 buckets across two AWS Regions. The company also needs to track the percentage of objects that are
encrypted in Amazon S3. The company needs a dashboard to display this information for internal compliance teams.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A solutions architect needs to define a reference architecture for a solution for three-tier applications with web. application, and NoSQL data layers. The reference architecture must meet the following requirements:
•High availability within an AWS Region
•Able to fail over in 1 minute to another AWS Region for disaster recovery
•Provide the most efficient solution while minimizing the impact on the user experience
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company is building an application on AWS. The application sends logs to an Amazon OpenSearch Service cluster for analysis. All data must be stored within a VPC.
Some of the company's developers work from home. Other developers work from three different company office locations. The developers need to access OpenSearch Service to analyze and visualize logs directly from their local development machines.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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?
A company has five development teams that have each created five AWS accounts to develop and host applications. To track spending, the development teams log in to each account every month, record the current cost from the AWS Billing and Cost Management console, and provide the information to the company's finance team.
The company has strict compliance requirements and needs to ensure that resources are created only in AWS Regions in the United States. However, some resources have been created in other Regions.
A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that gives the finance team the ability to track and consolidate expenditures for all the accounts. The solution also must ensure that the company can create resources only in Regions in the United States.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way? (Select THREE.)
A company is using AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. For security purposes, the company requires the creation of an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic that enables integration with a third-party alerting system in all the Organizations member accounts.
A solutions architect used an AWS CloudFormation template to create the SNS topic and stack sets to automate the deployment of Cloud Formation stacks. Trustedaccess has been enabled in Organizations.
What should the solutions architect do to deploy the CloudFormation StackSets in all AWS accounts?
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?
A software as a service (SaaS) company uses AWS to host a service that is powered by AWS PrivateLink. The service consists of proprietary software that runs on three Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NL B). The instances are in private subnets in multiple Availability Zones in the eu-west-2 Region. All the company's customers are in eu-west-2.
However, the company now acquires a new customer in the us-east-I Region. The company creates a new VPC and new subnets in us-east-I. The company establishes
inter-Region VPC peering between the VPCs in the two Regions.
The company wants to give the new customer access to the SaaS service, but the company does not want to immediately deploy new EC2 resources in us-east-I
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has implemented an ordering system using an event-driven architecture. During initial testing, the system stopped processing orders. Further log analysis revealed that one order message in an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) standard queue was causing an error on the backend and blocking all subsequentorder messages The visibility timeout of the queue is set to 30 seconds, and the backend processing timeout is set to 10 seconds. A solutions architect needs to analyze faulty order messages and ensure that the system continues to process subsequent messages.
Which step should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements?
A solutions architect is redesigning a three-tier application that a company hosts onpremises. The application provides personalized recommendations based on user profiles. The company already has an AWS account and has configured a VPC to host the application.
The frontend is a Java-based application that runs in on-premises VMs. The company hosts a personalization model on a physical application server and uses TensorFlow to implement the model. The personalization model uses artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). The company stores user information in a Microsoft SQL Server database. The web application calls the personalization model, which reads the user profiles from the database and provides recommendations.
The company wants to migrate the redesigned application to AWS.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
During an audit, a security team discovered that a development team was putting IAM user secret access keys in their code and then committing it to an AWS CodeCommit repository. The security team wants to automatically find and remediate instances of this security vulnerability.
Which solution will ensure that the credentials are appropriately secured automatically7
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 runs a processing engine in the AWS Cloud The engine processes environmental data from logistics centers to calculate a sustainability index The company has millions of devices in logistics centers that are spread across Europe The devices send information to the processing engine through a RESTful API
The API experiences unpredictable bursts of traffic The company must implement a solution to process all data that the devices send to the processing engine Data loss is unacceptable
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A financial services company loaded millions of historical stock trades into an Amazon DynamoDB table. The table uses on-demand capacity mode. Once each day at midnight, a few million new records are loaded into the table. Application read activity against the table happens in bursts throughout the day. and a limited set of keys are repeatedly looked up. The company needs to reduce costs associated with DynamoDB.
Which strategy should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?
A company is planning to migrate an on-premises data center to AWS. The company currently hosts the data center on Linux-based VMware VMs. A solutions architect must collect information about network dependencies between the VMs. The information must be in the form of a diagram that details host IP addresses, hostnames, and network connection information.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has deployed an application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The application uses Amazon Aurora for the database layer. An Amazon CloudFront distribution serves web requests and includes the Elastic Beanstalk domain name as the origin server. The distribution is configured with an alternate domain name that visitors use when they access the application.
Each week, the company takes the application out of service for routine maintenance. During the time that the application is unavailable, the company wants visitors to receive an informational message instead of a CloudFront error message.
A solutions architect creates an Amazon S3 bucket as the first step in the process.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take next to meet the requirements? (Choose three.)
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 has AWS accounts that are in an organization in AWS rganizations. The company wants to track Amazon EC2 usage as a metric.
The company's architecture team must receive a daily alert if the EC2 usage is more than 10% higher than the average EC2 usage from the last 30 days.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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?
A company is migrating to the cloud. It wants to evaluate the configurations of virtual machines in its existing data center environment to ensure that it can size new Amazon EC2 instances accurately. The company wants to collect metrics, such as CPU. memory, and disk utilization, and it needs an inventory of what processes are running on each instance. The company would also like to monitor network connections to map communications between servers.
Which would enable the collection of this data MOST cost effectively?
A North American company with headquarters on the East Coast is deploying a new web application running on Amazon EC2 in the us-east-1 Region. The application should dynamically scale to meet user demand and maintain resiliency. Additionally, the application must have disaster recover capabilities in an active-passive configuration with the us-west-1 Region.
Which steps should a solutions architect take after creating a VPC in the us-east-1 Region?
A company is planning to migrate workloads from its on-premises data center to Amazon EC2 instances. The workloads run on physical servers and VMware virtual servers. The company has gathered details about each on-premises server and virtual server, including server specification, CPU utilization, and memory utilization. The company has stored these details in a .csv file named onprem.csv.
Before the migration, the company must estimate the cost of running the servers on AWS and must determine recommended EC2 instance types for the servers. The company must export this information to a different .csv file.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is running a two-tier web-based application in an on-premises data center. The application layer consists of a single server running a stateful application. The application connects to a PostgreSQL database running on a separate server. The application’s user base is expected to grow significantly, so the company is migrating the application and database to AWS. The solution will use Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing.
Which solution will provide a consistent user experience that will allow the application and database tiers to scale?
A company wants to change its internal cloud billing strategy for each of its business units. Currently, the cloud governance team shares reports for overall cloud spending with the head of each business unit. The company uses AWS Organizations lo manage the separate AWS accounts for each business unit. The existing tagging standard in Organizations includes the application, environment, and owner. The cloud governance team wants a centralized solution so each business unit receives monthly reports on its cloud spending. The solution should also send notifications for any cloud spending that exceeds a set threshold.
Which solution is the MOST cost-effective way 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 needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) plan for a web application. The application runs in a single AWS Region.
The application uses microservices that run in containers. The containers are hosted on AWS Fargate in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The application has an Amazon RDS for MYSQL DB instance as its data layer and uses Amazon Route 53 for DNS resolution. An Amazon CloudWatch alarm invokes an
Amazon EventBridge rule if the application experiences a failure.
A solutions architect must design a DR solution to provide application recovery to a separate Region. The solution must minimize the time that is necessary to recover
from a failure.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An online magazine will launch its latest edition this month. This edition will be the first to be distributed globally. The magazine's dynamic website currently uses an Application Load Balancer in front of the web tier, a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances for web and application servers, and Amazon Aurora MySQL. Portions of the website include static content and almost all traffic is read-only.
The magazine is expecting a significant spike in internet traffic when the new edition is launched. Optimal performance is a top priority for the week following the launch.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to reduce system response times for a global audience? (Choose two.)
A company wants to use AWS to create a business continuity solution in case the company's main on-premises application fails. The application runs on physical servers that also run other applications. The on-premises application that the company is planning to migrate uses a MySQL database as a data store. All the company's on-premises applications use operating systems that are compatible with Amazon EC2.
Which solution will achieve the company's goal with the LEAST operational overhead?
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 utility company collects usage data from smart meters every 5 minutes. Data is sent to API Gateway, processed by Lambda, and stored in DynamoDB. As usage increased, Lambda durations increased and DynamoDB PUTs failed with ProvisionedThroughputExceededException. Lambda also experiences TooManyRequestsException errors.
Which combination of changes will resolve these issues? (Select TWO.)
A company uses an on-premises data analytics platform. The system is highly available in a fully redundant configuration across 12 servers in the company's data center.
The system runs scheduled jobs, both hourly and daily, in addition to one-time requests from users.Scheduled jobs can take between 20 minutes and 2 hours to finish running and have tight SLAs. The scheduled jobs account for 65% of the system usage. User jobs typically finish running in less than 5 minutes and have no SLA. The user jobs account for 35% of system usage. During system failures, scheduled jobs must continue to meet SLAs. However, user jobs can be delayed.
A solutions architect needs to move the system to Amazon EC2 instances and adopt a consumption-based model to reduce costs with no long-term commitments. The solution must maintain high availability and must not affect the SLAs.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
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 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 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 company uses AWS Organizations to manage its development environment. Each development team at the company has its own AWS account Each account has a single VPC and CIDR blocks that do not overlap.
The company has an Amazon Aurora DB cluster in a shared services account All the development teams need to work with live data from the DB cluster
Which solution will provide the required connectivity to the DB cluster with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts. The company needs a list of all its Amazon EC2 instances that have underutilized CPU or memory usage. The company also needs recommendations for how to downsize these underutilized instances.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?
A company runs a website on Amazon ECS containers that use the AWS Fargate launch type. The company configures AWS Application Auto Scaling by using a target tracking scaling policy. The company sets the request count as the scaling metric. An Application Load Balancer (ALB) serves traffic to the ECS containers. The website serves images on request and resizes the images to a predefined size to match the viewers' screens. After the website resizes an image, the website caches the image locally in a container and serves subsequent requests from the cache.
During periods of high traffic, the company observed that images load slowly and with high latency. The company wants to minimize the latency to serve images.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
A solutions architect has developed a web application that uses an Amazon API Gateway Regional endpoint and an AWS Lambda function. The consumers of the web application are all close to the AWS Region where the application will be deployed. The Lambda function only queries an Amazon Aurora MySQL database. The solutions architect has configured the database to have three read replicas.
During testing, the application does not meet performance requirements. Under high load, the application opens a large number of database connections. The solutions architect must improve the application's performance.
Which actions should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A solutions architect needs to improve an application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud. The application uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB instance that is experiencing overloaded connections. Most of the application's operations insert records into the database. The application currently stores credentials in a text-based configuration file.
The solutions architect needs to implement a solution so that the application can handle the current connection load. The solution must keep the credentials secure and must provide the ability to rotatethe credentials automatically on a regular basis.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has hundreds of AWS accounts. The company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage all the accounts. The company has turned on all features.
A finance team has allocated a daily budget for AWS costs. The finance team must receive an email notification if the organization's AWS costs exceed 80% of the allocated budget. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to track the costs and deliver the notifications.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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A solutions architect is importing a VM from an on-premises environment by using the Amazon EC2 VM Import feature. The imported instance has a public IP and runs in a public subnet in a VPC. However, the instance doesnot appearin the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) console as a managed instance.
Which combination of steps should the architect take to resolve the issue? (Select TWO.)
A company is building an electronic document management system in which users upload their documents. The application stack is entirely serverless and runs on AWS in the eu-central-1 Region. The system includes a web application that uses an Amazon CloudFront distribution for delivery with Amazon S3 as the origin. The web application communicates with Amazon API Gateway Regional endpoints. The API Gateway APIs call AWS Lambda functions that store metadata in an Amazon Aurora Serverless database and put the documents into an S3 bucket.
The company is growing steadily and has completed a proof of concept with its largest customer. The company must improve latency outside of Europe.
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (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 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 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 research center is migrating to the AWS Cloud and has moved its on-premises 1 PB object storage to an Amazon S3 bucket. One hundred scientists are using this object storage to store their work-related documents. Each scientist has a personal folder on the object store. All the scientists are members of a single IAMuser group.
The research center's compliance officer is worried that scientists will be able to access each other's work. The research center has a strict obligation to report on which scientist accesses which documents.
The team that is responsible for these reports has little AWS experience and wants a ready-to-use solution that minimizes operational overhead.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company needs to optimize the cost of its application on AWS. The application uses AWS Lambda functions and Amazon ECS containers that run on AWS Fargate. The application is write-heavy and stores data in an Amazon Aurora MySQL database.
The load on the application is not consistent. The application experiences long periods of no usage, followed by sudden and significant increases and decreases in traffic. The database runs on a memory optimized DB instance and has high utilization during peak times. A solutions architect must design a solution that can scale to handle the changes in traffic.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company hosts a Git repository in an on-premises data center. The company uses webhooks to invoke functionality that runs in the AWS Cloud. The company hosts the webhook logic on a set of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group that the company set as a target for an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The Git server calls the ALB for the configured webhooks. The company wants to move the solution to a serverless architecture.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
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 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 company is storing data on premises on a Windows file server. The company produces 5 GB of new data daily.
The company migrated part of its Windows-based workload to AWS and needs the data to be available on a file system in the cloud. The company already has established an AWS Direct Connect connection between the on-premises network and AWS.
Which data migration strategy should the company use?
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 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 is running a workload that consists of thousands of Amazon EC2 instances. The workload is running in a VPC that contains several public subnets and private subnets. The public subnets have a route for 0.0.0.0/0 to an existing internet gateway. The private subnets have a route for 0.0.0.0/0 to an existing NAT gateway.
A solutions architect needs to migrate the entire fleet of EC2 instances to use IPv6. The EC2 instances that are in private subnets must not be accessible from the public internet.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
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 hosts an application on AWS. The application reads and writes objects that are stored in a single Amazon S3 bucket. The company must modify the application to deploy the application in two AWS Regions.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A large education company recently introduced Amazon Workspaces to provide access to internal applications across multiple universities. The company is storing user profiles on an Amazon FSx (or Windows File Server file system. The tile system is configured with a DNS alias and is connected to a self-managed Active Directory. As more users begin to use the Workspaces, login time increases to unacceptable levels.
An investigation reveals a degradation in performance of the file system. The company created the file system on HDD storage with a throughput of 16 MBps. A solutions architect must improve the performance of the file system during a defined maintenance window.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative effort?
A company has an organization in AWS Organizations that has a large number of AWS accounts. One of the AWS accounts is designated as a transit account and has a transit gateway that is shared with all of the other AWS accounts AWS Site-to-Site VPN connections are configured between ail of the company's global offices and the transit account The company has AWS Config enabled on all of its accounts.
The company's networking team needs to centrally manage a list of internal IP address ranges thatbelong to the global offices Developers Will reference this list to gain access to applications securely.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
A company uses an AWS CodeCommit repository The company must store a backup copy of the data that is in the repository in a second AWS Region
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A retail company is operating its ecommerce application on AWS. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company uses an Amazon RDS DB instance as the database backend. Amazon CloudFront is configured with one origin that points to the ALB. Static content is cached. Amazon Route 53 is used to host all public zones.
After an update of the application, the ALB occasionally returns a 502 status code (Bad Gateway) error. The root cause is malformed HTTP headers that are returned to the ALB. The webpage returns successfully when a solutions architect reloads the webpage immediately after the error occurs.
While the company is working on the problem, the solutions architect needs to provide a custom error page instead of the standard ALB error page to visitors.
Which combination of steps will meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of operational overhead? (Choose two.)
A company uses AWS Organizations for a multi-account setup in the AWS Cloud. The company's finance team has a data processing application that uses AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB. The company's marketing team wants to access the data that is stored in the DynamoDB table.
The DynamoDB table contains confidential data. The marketing team can have access to only specific attributes of data in the DynamoDB table. The fi-nance team and the marketing team have separate AWS accounts.
What should a solutions architect do to provide the marketing team with the appropriate access to the DynamoDB table?
A company uses Amazon S3 to store files and images in a variety of storage classes. The company's S3 costs have increased substantially during the past year.
A solutions architect needs to review data trends for the past 12 months and identity the appropriate storage class for the objects.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is using Amazon API Gateway to deploy a private REST API that will provide access to sensitive data. The API must be accessible only from an application that is deployed in a VPC. The company deploys the API successfully. However, the API is not accessible from an Amazon EC2 instance that is deployed in the VPC.
Which solution will provide connectivity between the EC2 instance and the API?
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 company has several AWS accounts. A development team is building an automation framework for cloud governance and remediation processes. The automation framework uses AWS Lambda functions in a centralized account. A solutions architect must implement a least privilege permissions policy that allows the Lambda functions to run in each of the company's AWS accounts.
Which combination of steps will 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 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 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'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?
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