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A company plans to host a survey website on AWS. The company anticipates an unpredictable amount of traffic. This traffic results in asynchronous updates to the database. The company wants to ensure that writes to the database hosted on AWS do not get dropped.

Haw should the company write Its application to handle these database requests?

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A company receives data from millions of users totaling about 1 TB each flay. The company provides its use's with usage reports gang back 12 months Al usage data must be stored tor at least 5 years to comply with regulatory and auditing requirements

Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?

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A company has a two-tier application architecture that runs in public and private subnets Amazon EC2 instances running the web application are in the public subnet and a database runs on the private subnet The web application instances and the database are running in a single Availability Zone (AZ).

Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to provide high availability for this architecture?

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A company that recently started using AWS establishes a Site-to-Site VPN between its on-premises data center and AWS. The company's security mandate states that traffic originating from on premises should stay within the company's private IP space when communicating with an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster that is hosting a sample web application.

Which solution meets this require

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A company wants to improve the availability and performance of its stateless UDP-based workload. The workload is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple AWS Regions

What should a solutions architect recommend to accomplish this

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A company runs a website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an ELB Application Load Balancer. Amazon Route 53 is used for the DNS. The company wants to set up a backup website with a message including a phone number and email address that users can reach if the primary website is down.

How should the company deploy this solution

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A financial services company has a web application that serves users in the United States and Europe The application consists of a database tier and a web server tier The database tier consists of a MySQL database hosted in us-east-1 Amazon Route 53 geoproximity routing is used to direct traffic to instances in the closest Region A performance review of the system reveals that European users are not receiving the same level of query performance as those in the United States

Which changes should be made to the database tier to improve performance?

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A company is hosting 60 TB of production-level data in an Amazon S3 bucket A solutions architect needs to bring that data on premises for quarterly audit requirements This export of data must be encrypted while in transit The company has low network bandwidth in place between AWS and its on-premises data center

What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements9

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A company has a custom application running on an Amazon EC2 instance that:

• Reads a large amount of data from Amazon S3

 

• Performs a multi-stage analysis.

 

• Writes the results to Amazon DynamoDB.

 

The application writes a significant number of large, temporary files during the multi-stage analysis. The process performance depends on the temporary storage performance.

What would be the fastest storage option for holding the temporary files?

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A company hosts its application using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and wants to ensure high availability. The company wants to be able (o deploy updates to its application even if nodes in one Availability Zone are not accessible.

The expected request volume for the application is 100 requests per second, and each container task is able to serve at least 60 requests pet second The company set up Amazon ECS with a rolling update deployment type with the minimum healthy percent parameter set to 50% and the maximum percent set lo 100%.

Which configuration of tasks and Availability Zones meets these requirements?

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A solutions architect must design a database solution for a high-traffic ecommerce web application. The database stores customer profiles and shopping cart information. The database must support a peak load of several million requests each second and deliver responses in milliseconds. The operational overhead for managing and scaling the database must be minimized.

Which database solution should the solutions architect recommend?

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A company wants to run a hybrid workload for data processing. The data needs to be accessed by on-premises applications for local data processing using an NFS protocol, and must also be accessible from the AWS Cloud for further analytics and batch processing.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

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A company wants to automate the security assessment of its Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs to validate and demonstrate that security and compliance standards are being followed throughout the development process

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

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A web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The application allows users to create custom reports of historical weather data. Generating a report can take up to 5 minutes. These long-running requests use many of the available incoming connections, making the system unresponsive to other users

How can a solutions architect make the system more responsive?

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A company serves a multilingual website from a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) This architecture is currently running in the us-west-l Region but is exhibiting high request latency for users located in other parts of the world

The website needs to serve requests quickly and efficiently regardless of a user's location However, the company does not want to recreate the existing architecture across multiple Regions.

How should a solutions architect accomplish this?

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A solutions architect is helping a developer design a new ecommerce shopping cart application using AWS services. The developer is unsure of the current database schema and expects to make changes as the ecommerce site grows. The solution needs to be highly resilient and capable of automatically scaling read and write capacity.

Which database solution meets these requirements?

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A company is hosting a website behind multiple Application Load Balancers. The company has different

distribution rights for its content around the world. A solutions architect needs to ensure that users are served the correct content without violating distribution rights.

Which configuration should the solutions architect choose to meet these requirements?

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A company needs guaranteed Amazon EC2 capacity in three specific Availability Zones in a specific AWS Region for an upcoming event that will last 1 week. What should the company do to guarantee the EC2 capacity?

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A company wants to migrate a high performance computing (HPC) application and data from on-premises to the AWS Cloud. The company uses tiered storage on-premises with hoi high-performance parallel storage to support the application during periodic runs of the application, and more economical cold storage to hold the data when the application is not actively running.

Which combination of solutions should a solutions architect recommend to support the storage needs of the application?

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A company hosts its multi-tier public web application in the AWS Cloud. The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and its database runs on Amazon RDS The company is anticipating a large increase in sales during an upcoming holiday weekend A solutions architect needs to build a solution to analyze the performance of the web application with a granularity of no more than 2 minutes

What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

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A company has a web application with sporadic usage patterns. There is heavy usage at the beginning of each month, moderate usage at the start of each week, and unpredictable usage during the week. The application consists of a web server and a MySQL database server running inside the data center. The company would like to move the application to the AWS Cloud, and needs to select a cost-effective database platform that will not require database modifications.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

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A solutions architect wants all new users to have specific complexity requirements and mandatory rotation periods for 1AM user passwords What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?

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A company has an ecommerce application that stores data in an on-premises SQL database. The company has decided to migrate this database to AWS. However as part of the migration, the company wants to find a way to attain sub-millisecond responses to common read requests.

A solutions architect knows that the increase in speed is paramount and that a small percentage of stale data returned in the database reads is acceptable

What should the solutions architect recommend?

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A company Is launching an ecommerce website on AWS. This website is built with a three-tier architecture that includes a MySQL database In a Multi-AZ deployment of Amazon Aurora MySQL. The website application must be highly available and will initially be launched in an AWS Region with three Availability Zones The application produces a metric that describes the load the application experiences.

Which solution meets these requirements?

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A company has a multi-tier application that runs six front-end web servers in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group in a single Availability Zone behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) A solutions architect needs to modify the infrastructure to be highly available without modifying the application

Which architecture should the solutions architect choose that provides high availability?

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A recent analysis of a company's IT expenses highlights the need to reduce backup costs. The company's chief information officer wants to simplify the on-premises backup infrastructure and reduce costs by eliminating the use of physical backup tapes. The company must preserve the existing investment in the on-premises backup applications and workflows.

What should a solutions architect recommend?

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A company is using a third-party vendor to manage its marketplace analytics. The vendor needs limited programmatic access to resources in the company's account. All the needed policies have been created to grant appropriate access.

Which additional component will provide the vendor with the MOST secure access to the account?

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A solutions architect must design a solution for a persistent database that is being migrated from on-premises to AWS. The database requires 64,000 IOPS according to the database administrator. If possible, the database administrator wants to use a single Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume to host the database instance.

Which solution effectively meets the database administrator's criteria?

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A company wants to move its on-premises network, attached storage (NAS) to AWS. The company wants to make the data available to any Linux instances within its VPC and ensure changes are automatically synchronized across all instances accessing the data store. The majority of the data is accessed very rarely, and some files are accessed by multiple users at the same time.

Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?

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A software vendor is deploying a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that will be utilized by many AWS users. The service is hosted in a VPC behind a Network Load Balancer. The software vendor wants to provide access to this service to users with the least amount of administrative overhead and without exposing the service to the public internet

What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?

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A company Is migrating lo the AWS Cloud. A file server is the first workload to migrate. Users must be able to access the file share using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.

Which AWS managed service meets these requirements?

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A meteorological startup company has a custom web application to sell weather data to its users online. The company uses Amazon DynamoDB to store its data and wants to build a new service that sends an alert to the managers of four internal teams every time a new weather event is recorded The company does not want this new service to affect the performance of the current application

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

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A company uses an Amazon S3 bucket to store static images for its website. The company configured permissions to allow access to Amazon S3 objects by privileged users only.

What should a solutions architect do to protect against data loss?

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A company is working with an external vendor that requires write access to the company's Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. The vendor has its own AWS account.

What should a solutions architect do to implement least privilege access7

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A company hosts its core network services, including directory services and DNS. in its on-premises data center. The data center is connected to the AWS Cloud using AWS Direct Connect (DX) Additional AWS accounts are planned that will require quick, cost-effective, and consistent access to these network services

What should a solutions architect implement to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

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A company runs its production workload on an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster that includes six Aurora Replicas. The company wants near-real-lime reporting queries from one of its departments to be automatically distributed across three of the Aurora Replicas. Those three replicas have a different compute and memory specification from the rest of the DB cluster

Which solution meets these requirements?

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A company is running a multi-tier ecommerce web application In the AWS Cloud. The application runs on Amazon EC2 Instances with an Amazon RDS MySQL Mutt>AZ DB instance. Amazon RDS is configured with the latest generation instance with 2,000 GB of storage in an Amazon EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volume. The database performance impacts the application during periods of high demand.

After analyzing the logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs, a database administrator finds that the application performance always degrades when the number of read and write IOPS is higher than 6.000

What should a solutions architect do to improve the application performance?

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An application running on an Amazon EC2 instance in VPC-A needs to access files in another EC2 instance in VPC-B. Both are in separate. AWS accounts. The network administrator needs to design a solution to enable secure access to EC2 instance in VOC-B from VPC-A. The connectivity should not have a single point of failure or bandwidth concerns.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

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A company uses Amazon S3 to store its confidential audit documents. The S3 bucket uses bucket policies to restrict access to audit team 1AM user credentials according to the principle of least privilege. Company managers are worried about accidental deletion of documents in the S3 bucket and want a more secure solution.

What should a solutions architect do to secure the audit documents?

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A bicycle sharing company is developing a multi-tier architecture to track the location of its bicycles during peak operating hours. The company wants to use these data points in its existing analytics platform. A solutions architect must determine the most viable multi-tier option to support this architecture. The data points must be accessible from the REST API.

Which action meets these requirements for storing and retrieving location data?

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A company is processing data on a daily basis. The results of the operations are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket analyzed daily for one week and then must remain immediately accessible for occasional analysis

What is the MOST cost-effective storage solution alternative to the current configuration?

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A solution architect needs to design a highly available application consisting of web, application, and database tiers, HTTPS content delivery should be as close to the edge as possible, with the least delivery time.

Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST secure?

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A company is running a highly sensitive application on Amazon EC2 backed by an Amazon RDS database Compliance regulations mandate that all personally identifiable information (Pll) be encrypted at rest

Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of changes to the infrastructure''

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An application hosted on AWS is experiencing performance problems, and the application vendor wants to perform an analysis of the log file to troubleshoot further. The log file is stored on Amazon S3 and is 10 GB in size. The application owner will make the log file available to the vendor for a limited time.

What is the MOST secure way to do this?

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A business application is hosted on Amazon EC2 and uses Amazon S3 for encrypted object storage. The chief information security officer has directed that no application traffic between the two services should traverse the public internet.

Which capability should the solutions architect use to meet the compliance requirements?

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A company is migrating from an on-premises infrastructure to the AWS Cloud One of the company's applications stores files on a Windows file server farm that uses Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) to keep data in sync A solutions architect needs to replace the file server farm

Which service should the solutions architect use?

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A company is developing an ecommerce application that will consist of a load-balanced front end. a container-based application and a relational database A solutions architect needs to create a highly available solution that operates with as little manual intervention as possible

Which solutions meet these requirements?

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A company runs an application on an Amazon EC2 instance Backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). The instance needs to be available for 12 hours daily. The company wants to save costs by making the instance unavailable outside the window required for the application However the contents of the instance's memory must be preserved whenever the instance is unavailable

What should a solutions architect do lo meet this requirement?

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A solutions architect needs to design a resilient solution for Windows users' home directories. The solution must provide fault tolerance, file-level backup and recovery, and access control, based upon the company's Active Directory.

Which storage solution meets these requirements?

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A company has NFS servers in an on-premises data center that need to periodically back up small amounts of data to Amazon S3. Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?

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