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A company is managing health records on-premises. The company must keep these records indefinitely, disable any modifications to the records once they are stored, and granularly audit access at all levels. The chief technology officer (CTO) is concerned because there are already millions of records not being used by any application, and the current infrastructure is running out of space The CTO has requested a solutions architect design a solution to move existing data and support future records

Which services can the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements'?

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A company needs to implement a relational database with a multi-Region disaster recovery Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 second and an Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 minute.

Which AWS solution can achieve this?

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A company delivers files in Amazon S3 to certain users who do not have AWS credentials. These users must be given access for a limited lime. What should a solutions architect do to securely meet these requirements?

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A company wants to host a scalable web application on AWS. The application will be accessed by users from different geographic regions of the world. Application users will be able to download and upload unique data up to gigabytes in size. The development team wants a cost-effective solution to minimize upload and download latency and maximize performance.

What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

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A company's website runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The website has a mix of dynamic and static content Users around the globe are reporting that the website is slow

Which set of actions will improve website performance for users worldwide?

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A solutions architect is designing a mission-critical web application. It will consist of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer and a relational database. The database should be highly available and fault tolerant.

Which database implementations will meet these requirements?

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A solutions architect is tasked with transferring 750 TB of data from a network-attached file system located at a branch office to Amazon S3 Glacier The solution must avoid saturating the branch office's low-bandwidth internet connection.

What is the MOST cost-effective solution?

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A solutions architect needs to design a low-latency solution for a static single-page application accessed by users utilizing a custom domain name. The solution must be serverless, encrypted in transit, and cost-effective.

Which combination of AWS services and features should the solutions architect use?

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A solutions architect is designing an architecture for a new application that requires low network latency and high network throughput between Amazon EC2 instances. Which component should be included in the architectural design?

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a website on Amazon S3. The website serves petabytes of outbound traffic monthly, which accounts for most of the company's AWS costs. What should a solutions architect do to reduce costs?

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An Amazon EC2 administrator created the following policy associated with an IAM group containing several users.

{

          "Version" : "2012-10-17",

          "Statement" : [

{

                   "Effect" : "Allow",

                   "Action" : "ec2 : TerminatesInstances",

                   "Resource" : "*",

                   "Condition" : {

                             "IpAdress" : {

                                      "aws : sourceIp": "10.100.100.0/24"

                             }

                   }

          },      

        {

                  "Effect" :   "Deny",

                   "Action" : "ec2:* ",

                   "Resource": "*",

                   "Condition" :  {

                             "StringNotEquals": {

                                                 "ec2 : Region": "us-east-1"

                                       }

                             }

                    }

            ]

     }   

What is the effect of this policy?

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A solutions architect has created a new AWS account and must secure AWS account root user access Which combination of actions will accomplish this?

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A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new application being deployed on AWS The process should run in parallel while adding and removing application nodes as needed based on the number of jobs to be processed The processor application is stateless The solutions architect must ensure that the application is loosely coupled and the job items are durably stored

Which design should the solutions architect use?

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A company must re-evaluate its need for the Amazon EC2 instances it currently has provisioned in an Auto Scaling group. At present, the Auto Scaling group is configured for minimum of two instances and a maximum of four instances across two Availability zones. A Solutions architect reviewed Amazon CloudWatch metrics and found that CPU utilization is consistently low for the EC2 instances.

What should the solutions architect recommend to maximize utilization while ensuring the application remains fault tolerant?

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A solutions architect is designing an application for a two-step order process The first step is synchronous and must return to the user with little latency The second step takes longer, so it will be implemented in a separate component Orders must be processed exactly once and in the order in which they are received

How should the solutions architect integrate these components?

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A company needs to share an Amazon S3 bucket with an external vendor. The bucket owner must be able to access all objects.

Which action should be taken to share the S3 bucket?

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A company is using a VPC peering strategy to connect its VPCs in a single Region to allow for cross-communication. A recent increase in account creations and VPCs has made it difficult to maintain the VPC peering strategy, and the company expects to grow to hundreds of VPCs. There are also new requests to create site-to-site VPNs with some of the VPCs. A solutions architect has been tasked with creating a centrally networking setup for multiple accounts, VPNS, and VPNs.

Which networking solution meets these requirements?

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A solutions architect is designing a solution where users will De directed to a backup static error page it the primary website is unavailable The primary website's DNS records are hosted in Amazon Route 53 where their domain is pointing to an Application Load Balancer (ALB)

Which configuration should the solutions architect use to meet the company's needs while minimizing changes and infrastructure overhead?

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A solutions architect is optimizing a website for an upcoming musical event Videos of the performances will be streamed in real time and then will be available on demand The event is expected to attract a global online audience

Which service will improve the performance of both the real-time and on-demand streaming?

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A company captures clickstream data from multiple websites and analyzes it using batch processing. The data is loaded nightly into Amazon Redshift and is consumed by business analysts. The company wants to move towards near-real-time data processing for timely insights. The solution should process the streaming data with minimal effort and operational overhead.

Which combination of AWS services are MOST cost-effective for this solution?

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A company decides to migrate its three-tier web application from on premises to the AWS Cloud. The new database must be capable of dynamically scaling storage capacity and performing table joins.

Which AWS service meets these requirements?

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A company's website provides users with downloadable historical performance reports. The website needs a solution that will scale to meet the company's website demands globally. The solution should be cost effective, limit the? provisioning of Into and provide the fastest possible response time.

Which combination should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

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A Solutions Architect must design a web application that will be hosted on AWS, allowing users to purchase access to premium, shared content that is stored in an S3 bucket. Upon payment, content will be available for download for 14 days before the user is denied access

Which of the following would be the LEAST complicated implementation?

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A company uses Amazon S3 as its object storage solution. The company has thousands of S3 it uses to store data. Some of the S3 bucket have data that is accessed less frequently than others. A solutions architect found that lifecycle policies are not consistently implemented or are implemented partially. resulting in data being stored in high-cost storage.

Which solution will lower costs without compromising the availability of objects?

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A company has an application that calls AWS Lambda functions A recent code review found database credentials stored in the source code The database credentials need to be removed from the Lambda source code The credentials must then be securely stored and rotated on an ongoing basis to meet security policy requirements

What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

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A company has a website running on Amazon EC2 instances across two Availability Zones. The company is expecting spikes in traffic on specific holidays, and wants to provide a consistent user experience. How can a solutions architect meet this requirement?

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A company has created a VPC with multiple private subnets in multiple Availability Zones (AZs) and one public subnet in one of the AZs. The public subnet is used to launch a NAT gateway. There are instance in the private subnet that use a NAT gateway to connect to the internet. In case is used of an AZ failure, the company wants to ensure that the instance are not all experiencing internet connectivity issues and that there is a backup plan ready.

Which solution should a solutions architect recommend that is MOST highly available?

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A company hosts a static website within an Amazon S3 bucket. A solutions architect needs to ensure that data can be recovered in case of accidental deletion.

Which action will accomplish this?

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A solutions architect is designing a solution to access a catalog of images and provide users with the ability to submit requests to customize images Image customization parameters will be in any request sent to an AWS API Gateway API The customized image will be generated on demand, and users will receive a link they can click to view or download their customized image The solution must be highly available for viewing and customizing images

What is the MOST cost-effective solution to meet these requirements?

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A company currently operates a web application backed by an Amazon RDS MySQL database It has automated backups that are run daily and are not encrypted A security audit requires future backups to be encrypted and the unencrypted backups to be destroyed The company will make at least one encrypted backup before destroying the old backups

What should be done to enable encryption for future backups''

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A company has a large Microsoft SharePoint deployment running on-premises that requires Microsoft Windows shared file storage. The company wants to migrate this workload to the AWS Cloud and is considering various storage options. The storage solution must be highly available and integrated with Active Directory for access control.

Which solution will satisfy these requirements?

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Organizers for a global event want to put daily reports online as static HTML pages The pages are expected to generate millions of views from users around the world The files are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket A solutions architect has been asked to design an efficient and effective solution

Which action should the solutions architect take to accomplish this?

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A product team is creating a new application that will store a large amount of data The data will be analyzed hourly and modified by multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances The application team believes the amount of space needed will continue to grow for the next 6 months

Which set of actions should a solutions architect take to support these needs'?

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A data science team requires storage for nightly log processing. The size and number of logs is unknown and will persist for 24 hours only What is the MOST cost-effective solution?

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A company has multiple AWS accounts, for various departments. One of the departments wants to share an Amazon S3 bucket with all other department.

Which solution will require the LEAST amount of effort?

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A company hosts its product information webpages on AWS. The existing solution uses multiple Amazon C2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group. The website also uses a custom DNS name and communicates with HTTPS only using a dedicated SSL certificate. The company is planning a new product launch and wants to be sure that users from around the world have the best possible experience on the new website.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

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A solutions architect is designing a two-tier web application The application consists of a public-facing web tier hosted on Amazon EC2 in public subnets The database tier consists of Microsoft SQL Server running on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet Security is a high priority for the company

How should security groups be configured in this situation?

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A company serves content to its subscribers across the world using an application running on AWS The application has several Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) Due to a recent change in copyright restrictions the chief information officer (CIO) wants to block access for certain countries

Which action will meet these requirements?

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A company running an on-premises application is migrating the application to AWS to increase its elasticity and availability. The current architecture uses a Microsoft SQL Server database with heavy read activity. The company wants to explore alternate database options and migrate database engines, if needed. Every 4 hours, the development team does a full copy of the production database to populate a test database. During this period, users experience latency.

What should a solution architect recommend as replacement database?

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A solutions architect is designing a web application that will run on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The company strictly requires that the application be resilient against malicious internet activity and attacks, and protect against new common vulnerabilities and exposures

What should the solutions architect recommend?

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A solutions architect is designing storage for a high performance computing (HPC) environment based on Amazon Linux. The workload stores and processes a large amount of engineering drawings that require

shared storage and heavy computing.

Which storage option would be the optimal solution?

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A company has been storing analytics data in an Amazon RDS instance for the past few years. The company asked a solutions architect to find a solution that allows users to access this data using an API The expectation is that the application will experience periods of inactivity but could receive bursts of traffic within seconds

Which solution should the solutions architect suggest?

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A solutions architect is deploying a distributed database on multiple Amazon EC2 instances The database stores all data on multiple instances so it can withstand the loss of an instance The database requires block storage with latency and throughput to support several million transactions per second per server

Which storage solution should the solutions architect use?

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A solutions architect is designing a system to analyze the performance of financial markets while the markets are closed The system will run a series of compute-intensive jobs for 4 hours every night The time to complete the compute jobs is expected to remain constant, and jobs cannot be interrupted once started Once completed, the system is expected to run for a minimum of 1 year

Which type of Amazon EC2 instances should be used to reduce the cost of the system?

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A company runs an application using Amazon ECS. The application creates resized versions of an original image and then makes Amazon S3 API calls to store the resized images in Amazon S3. How can a solutions architect ensure that the application has permission to access Amazon S3?

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A company wants to host a web application on AWS that will communicate to a database within a VPC. The application should be highly available.

What should a solutions architect recommend?

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A company's web application is using multiple Linux Amazon EC2 instances and storing data on Amazon EBS volumes. The company is looking for a solution to increase the resiliency of the application in case of a failure and to provide storage that complies with atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID).

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

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A company currently has 250 TB of backup files stored in Amazon S3 in a vendor's proprietary format. Using a Linux-based software application provided by the vendor, the company wants to retrieve files from Amazon S3, transform the files to an industry-standard format, and re-upload them to Amazon S3. The company wants to minimize the data transfer charges associated with this conversation.

What should a solution architect do to accomplish this?

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A solutions architect is designing a high performance computing (HPC) workload on Amazon EC2 The EC2 instances need to communicate to each other frequently and require network performance with low latency and high throughput

Which EC2 configuration meets these requirements'?

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A company is using Site-to-Site VPN connections for secure connectivity to its AWS Cloud resources from on premises. Due to an increase in traffic across the VPN connections to the Amazon EC2 instances, users are experiencing slower VPN connectivity Which solution will improve the VPN throughput?

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A company runs a high performance computing (HPC) workload on AWS. The workload required low-latency network performance and high network throughput with tightly coupled node-to-node communication. The Amazon EC2 instances are properly sized for compute and storage capacity, and are launched using default options.

What should a solutions architect propose to improve the performance of the workload?

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A solutions architect is designing a VPC with public and private subnets. The VPC and subnets use IPv4 CIDR blocks. There is one public subnet and one private subnet in each of three Availability Zones (AZs) for high availability. An interne! gateway is used to provide internet access for the public subnets. The private subnets require access to the internet to allow Amazon EC2 instances to download software updates. What should the solutions architect do to enable internet access for the private subnets?

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A company has an application that posts messages to Amazon SQS Another application polls the queue and processes the messages in an l/O-intensive operation The company has a service level agreement (SLA) that specifies the maximum amount of time that can elapse between receiving the messages and responding to the users Due to an increase in the number of messages the company has difficulty meeting its SLA consistently.

What should a solutions architect do to help improve the application's processing time and ensure it can handle the load at any level?

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A company recently deployed a two-tier application in two Availability Zones in the us-east-1 Region. The databases are deployed in a private subnet while the web servers are deployed in a public subnet. An internet gateway is attached to the VPC. The application and database run on Amazon EC2 instances. The database servers are unable to access patches on the internet. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that maintains database security with the least operational overhead.

Which solution meets these requirements?

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