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 needs to aggregate Amazon CloudWatch logs from its AWS accounts into one central logging account. The collected logs must remain in the AWS Region of
creation. The central logging account will then process the logs, normalize the logs into standard output format, and stream the output logs to a security tool for more processing.
A solutions architect must design a solution that can handle a large volume of logging data that needs to be ingested. Less logging will occur outside normal business hours than during normal business hours. The logging solution must scale with the anticipated load. The solutions architect has decided to use an AWS Control Tower design to handle the multi-account logging process.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet the requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations that has multiple AWS accounts. The accounts host multiple resources that are tagged with a CostCenter tag key. The tag value is the name of the team. The company wants to accurately identify the cost of the resources so that the company can charge each team accordingly.
Which solution meets these requirements?
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 multiple lines of business (LOBs) that toll up to the parent company. The company has asked its solutions architect to develop a solution with the following requirements
• Produce a single AWS invoice for all of the AWS accounts used by its LOBs.
• The costs for each LOB account should be broken out on the invoice
• Provide the ability to restrict services and features in the LOB accounts, as defined by the company's governance policy
• Each LOB account should be delegated full administrator permissions regardless of the governance policy
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements'? (Select TWO.)
A company is planning to migrate to the AWS Cloud. The company hosts many applications on Windows servers and Linux servers. Some of the servers are physical, and some of the servers are virtual. The company uses several types of databases in its on-premises environment. The company does not have an accurate inventory of its on-premises servers and applications.
The company wants to rightsize its resources during migration. A solutions architect needs to obtain information about the network connections and the application relationships. The solutions architect must assess the company's current environment and develop a migration plan.
Which solution will provide the solutions architect with the required information to develop the migration plan?
A company implements a containerized application by using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon API Gateway. The application data is stored in Amazon Aurora databases and Amazon DynamoDB databases The company automates infrastructure provisioning by using AWS CloudFormation The company automates application deployment by using AWS CodePipeline.
A solutions architect needs to implement a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that meets an RPO of 2 hours and an RTO of 4 hours.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively'?
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'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 has a Windows-based desktop application that is packaged and deployed to the users' Windows machines. The company recently acquired another company that has employees who primarily use machines with a Linux operating system. The acquiring company has decided to migrate and rehost the Windows-based desktop application lo AWS.
All employees must be authenticated before they use the application. The acquiring company uses Active Directory on premises but wants a simplified way to manage access to the application on AWS (or all the employees.
Which solution will rehost the application on AWS with the LEAST development effort?
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 needs to store and process image data that will be uploaded from mobile devices using a custom mobile app. Usage peaks between 8 AM and 5 PM on weekdays, with thousands of uploads per minute. The app is rarely used at any other time. A user is notified when image processing is complete.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to ensure image processing can scale to handle the load? (Select THREE.)
A company runs an loT application in the AWS Cloud. The company has millions of sensors that collect data from houses in the United States. The sensors use the MOTT protocol to connect and send data to a custom MQTT broker. The MQTT broker stores the data on a single Amazon EC2 instance. The sensors connect to the broker through the domain named iot.example.com. The company uses Amazon Route 53 as its DNS service. The company stores the data in Amazon DynamoDB.
On several occasions, the amount of data has overloaded the MOTT broker and has resulted in lost sensor data. The company must improve the reliability of the solution.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company stores application data in many Amazon S3 buckets in one AWS account. Some of the S3 buckets contain sensitive data. The company does not have data inventory for the S3 buckets. The company uses server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3) to encrypt all data in the S3 buckets.
A solutions architect must design a solution to encrypt sensitive data with a key that only administrators can access.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect is auditing the security setup of an AWS Lambda function for a company. The Lambda function retrieves the latest changes from an Amazon Aurora database. The Lambda function and the database run in the same VPC. Lambda environment variables are providing the database credentials to the Lambda function.
The Lambda function aggregates data and makes the data available in an Amazon S3 bucket that is configured for server-side encryption with AWS KMS managed encryption keys (SSE-KMS). The data must not travel across the internet. If any database credentials become compromised, the company needs a solution that minimizes the impact of the compromise.
What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
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A company runs workloads on EC2 inmultiple VPCsin a single Region. They also have anon-premises DNS server(via Direct Connect). All EC2 instances must resolve internal.company.com usingprivate communication.
What should a solutions architect do? (Select THREE.)
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A company that uses AWS Organizations allows developers to experiment on AWS. As part of the landing zone that the company has deployed, developers use their company email address to request an account. The company wants to ensure that developers are not launching costly services or running services unnecessarily. The company must give developers a fixed monthly budget to limit their AWS costs.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
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 company hosts its primary API on AWS using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda functions. Internal applications and external customers use this API. Some customers also use a legacy API hosted on a standalone EC2 instance.
The company wants to increase security across all APIs to prevent denial of service (DoS) attacks, check for vulnerabilities, and guard against common exploits.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
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A company is replicating an application in asecondary Region. The application usesDynamoDBandRDS for MySQL. The secondary Region must function independently during adisaster.
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage a multi-account structure. The company has hundreds of AWS accounts and expects the number of accounts to increase. The company is building a new application that uses Docker images. The company will push the Docker images to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). Only accounts that are within the company's organization should have
access to the images.
The company has a CI/CD process that runs frequently. The company wants to retain all the tagged images. However, the company wants to retain only the five most recent untagged images.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has a complex web application that leverages Amazon CloudFront for global scalability and performance Over time, users report that the web application is slowing down
The company's operations team reports that the CloudFront cache hit ratio has been dropping steadily. The cache metrics report indicates that query strings on some URLs are inconsistently ordered and are specified sometimes in mixed-case letters and sometimes in lowercase letters.
Which set of actions should the solutions architect take to increase the cache hit ratio as quickly as possible?
A company recently acquired several other companies. Each company has a separate AWS account with a different billing and reporting method. The acquiring company has consolidated all the accounts into one organization in AWS Organizations. However, the acquiring company has found it difficult to generate a cost report that contains meaningful groups for all the teams.
The acquiring company’s finance team needs a solution to report on costs for all the companies through a self-managed application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 has a legacy application that runs on multiple .NET Framework components. The components share the same Microsoft SQL Server database and
communicate with each other asynchronously by using Microsoft Message Queueing (MSMQ).
The company is starting a migration to containerized .NET Core components and wants to refactor the application to run on AWS. The .NET Core components require complex orchestration. The company must have full control over networking and host configuration. The application's database model is strongly relational.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect has deployed a web application that serves users across two AWS Regionsunder a custom domain The application uses Amazon Route 53 latency-based routing The solutions architect has associated weighted record sets with a pair of web servers in separate Availability Zones for each Region
The solutions architect runs a disaster recovery scenario When all the web servers in one Region are stopped. Route 53 does not automatically redirect users to the other Region
Which of the following are possible root causes of this issue1? (Select TWO)
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 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 use a third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. The third-party SaaS application is consumed through several API calls. The third-party SaaS application also runs on AWS inside a VPC.
The company will consume the third-party SaaS application from inside a VPC. The company has internal security policies that mandate the use of private connectivity that does not traverse the internet. No resources that run in the company VPC are allowed to be accessed from outside the company’s VPC. All permissions must conform to the principles of least privilege.
Which solution meets these requirements?
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 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 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 has migrated an application from on premises to AWS. The application frontend is a static website that runs on two Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application backend is a Python application that runs on three EC2 instances behind another ALB. The EC2 instances are large, general purpose On-Demand Instances that were sized to meet the on-premises specifications for peak usage of the application.
The application averages hundreds of thousands of requests each month. However, the application is used mainly during lunchtime and receives minimal traffic during the rest of the day.
A solutions architect needs to optimize the infrastructure cost of the application without negatively affecting the application availability.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company is currently in the design phase of an application that will need an RPO of less than 5 minutes and an RTO of less than 10 minutes. The solutions architecture team is forecasting that the database will store approximately 10 TB of data. As part of the design, they are looking for a database solution that will provide the company with the ability to fail over to a secondary Region.
Which solution will meet these business requirements at the LOWEST cost?
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 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 wants to migrate to AWS. The company wants to use a multi-account structure with centrally managed access to all accounts and applications. The company also wants to keep the traffic on a private network. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is required at login, and specific roles are assigned to user groups.
The company must create separate accounts for development. staging, production, and shared network. The production account and the shared network account must have connectivity to all accounts. The development account and the staging account must have access only to each other.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take 10 meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
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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 has an application that analyzes and stores image data on premises The application receives millions of new image files every day Files are an average of 1 MB in size The files are analyzed in batches of 1 GB When the application analyzes a batch the application zips the imagestogether The application then archives the images as a single file in an on-premises NFS server for long-term storage
The company has a Microsoft Hyper-V environment on premises and has compute capacity available The company does not have storage capacity and wants to archive the images on AWS The company needs the ability to retrieve archived data within t week of a request.
The company has a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection between its on-premises data center and AWS. The company needs to set bandwidth limits and schedule archived images to be copied to AWS dunng non-business hours.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is running a containerized application in the AWS Cloud. The application is running by using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on a set of Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group.
The company uses Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) to store its container images. When a new image version is uploaded, the new image version receives a unique tag.
The company needs a solution that inspects new image versions for common vulnerabilities and exposures. The solution must automatically delete new image tags that have Critical or High severity findings. The solution also must notify the development team when such a deletion occurs.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company has migrated a legacy application to the AWS Cloud. The application runs on three Amazon EC2 instances that are spread across three Availability Zones. One EC2 instance is in each Availability Zone. The EC2 instances are running in three private subnets of the VPC and are set up as targets for an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that is associated with three public subnets.
The application needs to communicate with on-premises systems. Only traffic from IP addresses in the company's IP address range are allowed to access the on-premises systems. The company's security team is bringing only one IP address from its internal IP address range to the cloud. The company has added this IP address to the allow list for the company firewall. The company also has created an Elastic IP address for this IP address.
A solutions architect needs to create a solution that gives the application the ability to communicate with the on-premises systems. The solution also must be able to mitigate failures automatically.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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How should EC2 instances in AWS synchronize their clocks with an on-premisesatomic clock NTP server, with theleast administrative overhead?
A company has developed a new release of a popular video game and wants to make it available for public download The new release package is approximately 5 GB in size. The company provides downloads for existing releases from a Linux-based publicly facing FTP site hosted in an on-premises data center The company expects the new release will be downloaded by users worldwide The company wants a solution that provides improved download performance and low transfer costs regardless of a user's location
Which solutions will meet these requirements'?
A company needs to gather data from an experiment in a remote location that does not have internet connectivity. During the experiment, sensors that are connected to a total network will generate 6 TB of data in a preprimary formal over the course of 1 week. The sensors can be configured to upload their data files to an FTP server periodically, but the sensors do not have their own FTP server. The sensors also do not support other protocols. The company needs to collect the data centrally and move lie data to object storage in the AWS Cloud as soon. as possible after the experiment.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda. The application stores temporary data in Amazon S3. The S3 objects are deleted after 24 hours.
The company deploys new versions of the application by launching AWS CloudFormation stacks. The stacks create the required resources. After validating a new version, the company deletes the old stack. The deletion of an old development stack recently failed.
A solutions architect needs to resolve this issue without major architecture changes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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How should a companyefficiently processinfrequently uploaded S3 data using a long-running (up to 25 minutes) custom application?
A company is migrating an application from on-premises infrastructure to the AWS Cloud. During migration design meetings, the company expressed concerns about the availability and recovery options for its legacy Windows file server. The file server contains sensitive business-critical data that cannot be recreated in the event of data corruption or data loss. According to compliance requirements, the data must not travel across the public internet. The company wants to move to AWS managed services where possible.
The company decides to store the data in an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system. A solutions architect must design a solution that copies the data to another AWS Region for disaster recovery (DR) purposes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 at a large company needs to set up network security tor outbound traffic to the internet from all AWS accounts within an organization in AWS Organizations. The organization has more than 100 AWS accounts, and the accounts route to each other by using a centralized AWS Transit Gateway. Each account has both an internet gateway and a NAT gateway tor outbound traffic to the internet The company deploys resources only into a single AWS Region.
The company needs the ability to add centrally managed rule-based filtering on all outbound traffic to the internet for all AWS accounts in the organization. The peak load of outbound traffic will not exceed 25 Gbps in each Availability Zone.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company is refactoring its on-premises order-processing platform in the AWS Cloud. The platform includes a web front end that is hosted on a fleet of VMs RabbitMQ to connect the front end to the backend, and a Kubernetes cluster to run a containerized backend system to process the orders. The company does not want to make any major changes to the application
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company's solutions architect needs to provide secure Remote Desktop connectivity to users for Amazon EC2 Windows instances that are hosted in a VPC. The solution must integrate centralized user management with the company's on-premises Active Directory. Connectivity to the VPC is through the internet. The company has hardware that can be used to establish an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
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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 has an application that is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances are part of an Auto Scaling group.Theapplication has unpredictable workloads and frequently scales out and in. The company's development team wants to analyze application logs to find ways to improve the application's performance. However, the logs are no longer available after instances scale in.
Which solution will give the development team the ability to view the application logs after a scale-in event?
A company is collecting a large amount of data from a fleet of loT devices Data is stored as Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) files in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) on a persistent Amazon EMR cluster. The company's data analytics team queries the data by using SQL in Apache Presto deployed on the same EMR cluster Queries scan large amounts of data, always run for less than 15 minutes, and run only between 5 PM and 10 PM.
The company is concerned about the high cost associated with the current solution A solutions architect must propose the most cost-effective solution that will allow SQL data queries
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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How can applications in multiple AWS accounts privately access aPostgreSQL RDS instancein a separate AWS account, while managing the number of connections?
A company processes environment data. The has a set up sensors to provide a continuous stream of data from different areas in a city. The data is available in JSON format.
The company wants to use an AWS solution to send the data to a database that does not require fixed schemas for storage. The data must be send in real time.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is building a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution on AWS. The company has deployed an Amazon API Gateway REST API with AWS Lambda integration in multiple AWS Regions and in the same production account.
The company offers tiered pricing that gives customers the ability to pay for the capacity to make a certain number of API calls per second. The premium tier offers up to 3,000 calls per second, and customers are identified by a unique API key. Several premium tier customers in various Regions report that they receive error responses of 429 Too Many Requests from multiple API methods during peak usage hours. Logs indicate that the Lambda function is never invoked.
What could be the cause of the error messages for these customers?
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A company is deploying a newbig data analytics clusteracross multiple Availability Zones. All nodes must haveread/write access to shared file storagethat ishighly available,POSIX-compatible, andhigh-throughput.
A company wants to migrate its on-premises application to AWS. The database for the application stores structured product data and temporary user session data. The company needs to decouple the product data from the user session data. The company also needs to implement replication in another AWS Region for disaster recovery.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the HIGHEST performance?
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?
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 is developing a new on-demand video application that is based on microservices. The application will have 5 million users at launch and will have 30 million users after 6 months. The company has deployed the application on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate. The company developed the application by using ECS services that use the HTTPS protocol.
A solutions architect needs to implement updates to the application by using blue/green deployments. The solution must distribute traffic to each ECS service through a load balancer. The application must automatically adjust the number of tasks in response to an Amazon CloudWatch alarm.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An external audit of a company's serverless application reveals IAM policies that grant too many permissions. These policies are attached to the company's AWS Lambda execution roles. Hundreds of the company's Lambda functions have broad access permissions, such as full access to Amazon S3 buckets and Amazon DynamoDB tables. The company wants each function to have only the minimum permissions that the function needs to complete its task.
A solutions architect must determine which permissions each Lambda function needs.
What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of effort?
A company is building a hybrid environment that includes servers in an on-premises data center and in the AWS Cloud. The company has deployed Amazon EC2 instances in three VPCs. Each VPC is in a different AWS Region. The company has established an AWS Direct Connect connection to the data center from the Region that is closest to the data center.
The company needs the servers in the on-premises data center to have access to the EC2 instances in all three VPCs. The servers in the on-premises data center also must have access to AWS public services.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST cost? (Select TWO.)
A live-events company is designing a scaling solution for its ticket application on AWS. The application has high peaks of utilization during sale events. Each sale event is a one-time event that is scheduled. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group.
The application uses PostgreSQL for the database layer.
The company needs a scaling solution to maximize availability during the sale events.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is storing data in several Amazon DynamoDB tables. A solutions architect must use a serverless architecture to make the data accessible publicly through a simple API over HTTPS. The solution must scale automatically in response to demand.
Which solutions meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
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 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 weather service provides high-resolution weather maps from a web application hosted on AWS in the eu-west-1 Region. The weather maps are updated frequently and stored in Amazon S3 along with static HTML content. The web application is fronted by Amazon CloudFront.
The company recently expanded to serve users in the us-east-1 Region, and these new users report that viewing their respective weather maps is slow from time to time.
Which combination of steps will resolve the us-east-1 performance issues? (Choose two.)
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 is migrating its blog platform to AWS. The company's on-premises servers connect to AWS through an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection. The blog content is updated several times a day by multiple authors and is served from a file share on a network-attached storage (NAS) server.
The company needs to migrate the blog platform without delaying the content updates. The company has deployed Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones to run the blog platform behind an Application Load Balancer. The company also needs to move 200 TB of archival data from its on-premises servers to Amazon S3 as soon as possible.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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.)
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A company is migrating a containerized Kubernetes app with manifest files to AWS. What is the easiest migration path?
An adventure company has launched a new feature on its mobile app. Users can use the feature to upload their hiking and ratting photos and videos anytime. The photos and videos are stored in Amazon S3 Standard storage in an S3 bucket and are served through Amazon CloudFront.
The company needs to optimize the cost of the storage. A solutions architect discovers that most of the uploaded photos and videos are accessed infrequently after 30 days. However, some of the uploaded photos and videos are accessed frequently after 30 days. The solutions architect needs to implement a solution that maintains millisecond retrieval availability of the photos and videos at the lowest possible cost.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A retail company is mounting IoT sensors in all of its stores worldwide. During the manufacturing of each sensor, the company's private certificate authority (CA) issues an X.509 certificate that contains a unique serial number. The company then deploys each certificate to its respective sensor.
A solutions architect needs to give the sensors the ability to send data to AWS after they are installed. Sensors must not be able to send data to AWS until they are installed.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is 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 life sciences company is using a combination of open source tools to manage data analysis workflows and Docker containers running on servers in its on-premises data center to process genomics data Sequencing data is generated and stored on a local storage area network (SAN), and then the data is processed. The research and development teams are running into capacity issues and have decided to re-architect their genomics analysis platform on AWS to scale based on workload demands and reduce the turnaround time from weeks to days
The company has a high-speed AWS Direct Connect connection Sequencers will generate around 200 GB of data for each genome, and individual jobs can take several hours to process the data with ideal compute capacity. The end result will be stored in Amazon S3. The company is expecting 10-15 job requests each day
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. The application is using a MongoDB database with a replica set as its data tier. The MongoDB database is installed on systems in the company's on-premises data center and is accessible through an AWS Direct Connect connection to the data center environment.
A solutions architect must migrate the on-premises MongoDB database to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility).
Which strategy should the solutions architect choose to perform this migration?
A company has an organization in AWS Organizations that includes a separate AWS account for each of the company's departments. Application teams from different
departments develop and deploy solutions independently.
The company wants to reduce compute costs and manage costs appropriately across departments. The company also wants to improve visibility into billing for individual departments. The company does not want to lose operational flexibility when the company selects compute resources.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is migrating some of its applications to AWS. The company wants to migrate and modernize the applications quickly after it finalizes networking and security strategies. The company has set up an AWS Direct Connection connection in a central network account.
The company expects to have hundreds of AWS accounts and VPCs in the near future. The corporate network must be able to access the resources on AWS seamlessly and also must be able to communicate with all the VPCs. The company also wants to route its cloud resources to the internet through its on-premises data center.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
A company is migrating an application to the AWS Cloud. The application runs in an on-premises data center and writes thousands of images into a mounted NFS file system each night. After the company migrates the application, the company will host the application on an Amazon EC2 instance with a mounted Amazon
Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system.
The company has established an AWS Direct Connect connection to AWS. Before the migration cutover, a solutions architect must build a process that will replicate the newly created on-premises images to the EFS file system.
What is the MOST operationally efficient way to replicate the images?
A software company has deployed an application that consumes a REST API by using Amazon API Gateway. AWS Lambda functions, and an Amazon DynamoDB table. The application is showing an increase in the number of errors during PUT requests. Most of the PUT calls come from a small number of clients that are authenticated with specific API keys.
A solutions architect has identified that a large number of the PUT requests originate from one client. The API is noncritical, and clients can tolerate retries of unsuccessful calls. However, the errors are displayed to customers and are causing damage to the API's reputation.
What should the solutions architect recommend to improve the customer experience?
A company has deployed its database on an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in the us-east-1 Region. The company needs to make its data available to customers in Europe. The customers in Europe must have access to the same data as customers in the United States (US) and will not tolerate high application latency or stale data. The customers in Europe and the customers in the USneed to write to the database. Both groups of customers need to see updates from the other group in real time.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has a web application that allows users to upload short videos. The videos are stored on Amazon EBS volumes and analyzed by custom recognition software for categorization.
The website contains stat c content that has variable traffic with peaks in certain months. The architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances running in an Auto Scaling group for the web application and EC2 instances running in an Auto Scaling group to process an Amazon SQS queue The company wants to re-architect the application to reduce operational overhead using AWS managed services where possible and remove dependencies on third-party software.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A 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 flood monitoring agency has deployed more than 10.000 water-level monitoring sensors. Sensors send continuous data updates, and each update is less than 1 MB in size. The agency has a fleet of on-premises application servers. These servers receive upda.es 'on the sensors, convert the raw data into a human readable format, and write the results loan on-premises relational database server. Data analysts then use simple SOL queries to monitor the data.
The agency wants to increase overall application availability and reduce the effort that is required to perform maintenance tasks These maintenance tasks, which include updates and patches to the application servers, cause downtime. While an application server is down, data is lost from sensors because the remaining servers cannot handle the entire workload.
The agency wants a solution that optimizes operational overhead and costs. A solutions architect recommends the use of AWS loT Core to collect the sensor data.
What else should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A startup company hosts a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets using the latest Amazon Linux 2 AMI. The company's engineers rely heavily on SSH access to the instances for troubleshooting.
The company's existing architecture includes the following:
• A VPC with private and public subnets, and a NAT gateway
• Site-to-Site VPN for connectivity with the on-premises environment
• EC2 security groups with direct SSH access from the on-premises environment
The company needs to increase security controls around SSH access and provide auditing of commands executed by the engineers.
Which strategy should a solutions architect use?
A company’s solutions architect is evaluating an AWS workload that was deployed several years ago. The application tier is stateless and runs on a single large Amazon EC2 instance that was launched from an AMI. The application stores data in a MySOL database that runs on a single EC2 instance.
The CPU utilization on the application server EC2 instance often reaches 100% and causes the application to stop responding. The company manually installs patches on the instances. Patching has caused
downtime in the past. The company needs to make the application highly available.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development time?
A company is migrating an application to AWS. It wants to use fully managed services as much as possible during the migration The company needs to store large, important documents within the application with the following requirements
1 The data must be highly durable and available
2. The data must always be encrypted at rest and in transit.
3 The encryption key must be managed by the company and rotated periodically
Which of the following solutions should the solutions architect recommend?
A solutions architect is designing an application to accept timesheet entries from employees on their mobile devices. Timesheets will be submitted weekly, with most of the submissions occurring on Friday. The data must be stored in a format that allows payroll administrators to run monthly reports The infrastructure must be highly available and scale to match the rate of incoming data and reporting requests.
Which combination of steps meets these requirements while minimizing operational overhead? (Select TWO}
A company recently deployed an application on AWS. The application uses Amazon DynamoDB.The company measured the application load and configured the RCUs and WCUs on the DynamoDB table to match the expected peak load. The peak load occurs once a week for a 4-hour period and is double the average load. The application load is close to the average load tor the rest of the week. The access pattern includes many more writes to the table than reads of the table.
A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to minimize the cost of the table.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has a project that is launching Amazon EC2 instances that are larger than required. The project's account cannot be part of the company's organization in AWS Organizations due to policy restrictions to keep this activity outside of corporate IT. The company wants to allow only the launch of t3.small
EC2 instances by developers in the project's account. These EC2 instances must be restricted to the us-east-2 Region.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company is migrating mobile banking applications to run on Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC. Backend service applications run in an on-premises data center. The data center has an AWS Direct Connect connection into AWS. The applications that run in the VPC need to resolve DNS requests to an on-premises Active Directory domain that runs in the data center.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?
IoT sensors are manufactured with certificates from a private CA. They must only connect to AWS after physical installation.
A company has multiple AWS accounts that are in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company needs to store AWS account activity and query the data from a central location by using SQL.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants to migrate its on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. This includes thousands of virtualized Linux and Microsoft Windows servers, SAN storage, Java and PHP applications with MYSQL, and Oracle databases. There are many dependent services hosted either in the same data center or externally.
The technical documentation is incomplete and outdated. A solutions architect needs to understand the current environment and estimate the cloud resource costs after the migration.
Which tools or services should solutions architect use to plan the cloud migration? (Choose three.)
A retail company needs to provide a series of data files to another company, which is its business partner These files are saved in an Amazon S3 bucket under Account A. which belongs to the retail company. The business partner company wants one of its 1AM users. User_DataProcessor. to access the files from its own AWS account (Account B).
Which combination of steps must the companies take so that User_DataProcessor can access the S3 bucket successfully? (Select TWO.)
A company 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.)
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A company runs production workloads on EC2 On-Demand Instances and RDS for PostgreSQL. They want to reduce costs without compromising availability or capacity.
A global ecommerce company has many data centers around the world. With the growth of its stored data, the company needs to set up a solution to provide scalable storage for legacy on-premises file applications. The company must be able to take point-in-time copies of volumes by using AWS Backup and must retain low-latency access to frequently accessed data. The company also needs to have storage volumes that can be mounted as Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) devices from the company's on-premises application servers.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A 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 recently wanted a web application from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. The web application infrastructure consists of an Amazon CloudFront distribution that routes to an Application Load Balancer (ALB), with Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) to process requests. A recent security audit revealed that the web application is accessible by using both CloudFront and ALB endpoints. However. the company requires that the web application must be accessible only by using the CloudFront endpoint.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of effort?
A large payroll company recently merged with a small staffing company. The unified company now has multiple business units, each with its own existing AWS account.
A solutions architect must ensure that the company can centrally manage the billing and access policies for all the AWS accounts. The solutions architect configures AWS Organizations by sending an invitation to all member accounts of the company from a centralized management account.
What should the solutions architect do next to meet these requirements?
A company with global offices has a single 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection to a single AWS Region. The company's on-premises network uses the connection to communicate with the company's resources in the AWS Cloud. The connection has a single private virtual interface that connects to a single VPC.
A solutions architect must implement a solution that adds a redundant Direct Connect connection in the same Region. The solution also must provide connectivity to other Regions through the same pair of Direct Connect connections as the company expands into other Regions.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company plans to deploy a new private intranet service on Amazon EC2 instances inside a VPC. An AWS Site-to-Site VPN connects the VPC to the company's on-premises network. The new service must communicate with existing on-premises services The on-premises services are accessible through the use of hostnames that reside in the company example DNS zone This DNS zone is wholly hosted on premises and is available only on the company's private network.
A solutions architect must ensure that the new service can resolve hostnames on the company example domain to integrate with existing services.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A software as a service (SaaS) based company provides a case management solution to customers A3 part of the solution. The company uses a standalone Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server to send email messages from an application. The application also stores an email template for acknowledgement email messages that populate customer data before the application sends the email message to the customer.
The company plans to migrate this messaging functionality to the AWS Cloud and needs to minimize operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
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 solutions architect works for a government agency that has strict disaster recovery requirements. All Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots are required to be saved in at least two additional AWS Regions. The agency also is required to maintain the lowest possible operational overhead.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company wants to migrate its website from an on-premises data center onto AWS. At the same time, it wants to migrate the website to a containerized microservice-based architecture to improve the availability and cost efficiency. The company's security policy states that privileges and network permissions must be configured according to best practice, using least privilege.
A Solutions Architect must create a containerized architecture that meets the security requirements and has deployed the application to an Amazon ECS cluster.
What steps are required after the deployment to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)
A company needs to optimize the cost of backups for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). A solutions architect has already configured a backup plan in AWS Backup for the EFS backups. The backup plan contains a rule with a lifecycle configuration to transition EFS backups to cold storage after 7 days and to keep the backups for an additional 90 days.
After I month, the company reviews its EFS storage costs and notices an increase in the EFS backup costs. The EFS backup cold storage produces almost double the cost of the EFS warm backup storage.
What should the solutions architect do to optimize the cost?
A company is 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 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 has a web application that securely uploads pictures and videos to an Amazon S3 bucket. The company requires that only authenticated users are allowed to post content. The application generates a presigned URL that is used to upload objects through a browser interface. Most users are reporting slow upload times for objects larger than 100 MB.
What can a Solutions Architect do to improve the performance of these uploads while ensuring only authenticated users are allowed to post content?
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 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 is hosting a three-tier web application in an on-premises environment. Due to a recentsurge in traffic that resulted in downtime and a significant financial impact, company management has ordered that the application be moved to AWS. The application is written in .NET and has a dependency on a MySQL database A solutions architect must design a scalable and highly available solution to meet the demand of 200000 daily users.
Which steps should the solutions architect take to design an appropriate solution?
A 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 solutions architect must create a business case for migration of a company's on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. The solutions architect will use a configuration management database (CMDB) export of all the company's servers to create the case.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A solutions architect is determining the DNS strategy for an existing VPC. The VPC is provisioned to use the 10.24.34.0/24 CIDR block. The VPC also uses Amazon Route 53 Resolver for DNS. New requirements mandate that DNS queries must use private hosted zones. Additionally, instances that have public IP addresses must receive corresponding public hostnames.
Which solution will meet these requirements to ensure that the domain names are correctly resolved within the VPC?
A company gives users the ability to upload images from a custom application. The upload process invokes an AWS Lambda function that processes and stores the image in an Amazon S3 bucket. The application invokes the Lambda function by using a specific function version ARN.
The Lambda function accepts image processing parameters by using environment variables. The company often adjusts the environment variables of the Lambda function to achieve optimal image processing output. The company tests different parameters and publishes a new function version with the updated environment variables after validating results. This update process also requires frequent changes to the custom application to invoke the new function version ARN. These changes cause interruptions for users.
A solutions architect needs to simplify this process to minimize disruption to users.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. A solutions architect is designing VPC infrastructure in an AWS Region where the application needs to access an Amazon Aurora DB cluster. The EC2 instances are all associated with the same security group. The DB cluster is associated with its own security group.
The solutions architect needs to add rules to the security groups to provide the application with least privilege access to the DB cluster.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A software company needs to create short-lived test environments to test pull requests as part of its development process. Each test environment consists of a single Amazon EC2 instance that is in an Auto Scaling group.
The test environments must be able to communicate with a central server to report test results. The central server is located in an on-premises data center. A solutions architect must implement a solution so that the company can create and delete test environments without any manual intervention. The company has created a transit gateway with a VPN attachment to the on-premises network.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda. The application stores temporary data in Amazon 53. The 53 objects are deleted after 24 hours.
The company deploys new versions of the application by launching AWS CloudFormation stacks. The stacks create the required resources. After validating a new version, the company deletes the old stack. The deletion of an old development stack recently failed. A solutions architect needs to resolve this Issue without major architecture changes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an application in the AWS Cloud. The application runs on a fleet of 20 Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances are persistent and store data on multiple attached Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes.
The company must maintain backups in a separate AWS Region. The company must be able to recover the EC2 instances and their configuration within I business day, with loss of no more than I day's worth of data. The company has limited staff and needs a backup solution that optimizes operational efficiency and cost. The company already has created an AWS CloudFormation template that can deploy the required network configuration in a secondary Region.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company plans to migrate a three-tiered web application from an on-premises data center to AWS The company developed the Ui by using server-side JavaScript libraries The business logic and API tier uses a Python-based web framework The data tier runs on a MySQL database
The company custom built the application to meet business requirements The company does not want to re-architect the application The company needs a solution to replatform the application to AWS with the least possible amount of development The solution needs to be highly available and must reduce operational overhead
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has set up its entire infrastructure on AWS. The company uses Amazon EC2 instances to host its ecommerce website and uses Amazon S3 to store static data. Three engineers at the company handle the cloud administration and development through one AWS account. Occasionally, an engineer alters an EC2 security group configuration of another engineer and causes noncompliance issues in the environment.
A solutions architect must set up a system that tracks changes that the engineers make. The system must send alerts when the engineers make noncompliant changes to the security settings for the EC2 instances.
What is the FASTEST way for the solutions architect to meet these requirements?
A company has an application that runs as a ReplicaSet of multiple pods in an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster. The EKS cluster has nodes in multiple Availability Zones. The application generates many small files that must be accessible across all running instances of the application. The company needs to back up the files and retain the backups for 1 year.
Which solution will meet these requirements while providing the FASTEST storage performance?
A company is running a data-intensive application on AWS. The application runs on a cluster of hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances. A shared file system also runs on several EC2 instances that store 200 TB of data. The application reads and modifies the data on the shared file system and generates a report. The job runs once monthly, reads a subset of the files from the shared file system, and takes about 72 hours to complete. The compute instances scale in an Auto Scaling group, but the instances that host the shared file system run continuously. The compute and storage instances are all in the same AWS Region.
A solutions architect needs to reduce costs by replacing the shared file system instances. The file system must provide high performance access to the needed data for the duration of the 72-hour run.
Which solution will provide the LARGEST overall cost reduction while meeting these requirements?
A company needs to move some on-premises Oracle databases to AWS. The company has chosen to keep some of the databases on premises for business compliance reasons. The on-premises databases contain spatial data and run cron jobs for maintenance. The company needs to connect to the on-premises systems directly from AWS to query data as a foreign table. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has separate AWS accounts for each of its departments. The accounts are in OUs that are in an organization in AWS Organizations. The IT department manages a private certificate authority (CA) by using AWS Private Certificate Authority in its account.
The company needs a solution to allow developer teams in the other departmental accounts to access the private CA to issue certificates for their applications. The solution must maintain appropriate security boundaries between accounts.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is building a call center by using Amazon Connect. The company’s operations team is defining a disaster recovery (DR) strategy across AWS Regions. The contact center has dozens of contact flows, hundreds of users, and dozens of claimed phone numbers.
Which solution will provide DR with the LOWEST RTO?
A company needs to audit the security posture of a newly acquired AWS account. The company’s data security team requires a notification only when an Amazon S3 bucket becomes publicly exposed. The company has already established an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic that has the data security team's email address subscribed.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A 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 has a data lake in Amazon S3 that needs to be accessed by hundreds of applications across many AWS accounts. The company's information security policy states that the S3 bucket must not be accessed over the public internet and that each application should have the minimum permissions necessary to function.
To meet these requirements, a solutions architect plans to use an S3 access point that is restricted to specific VPCs for each application.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to implement this solution? (Select TWO.)
A company runs a customer service center that accepts calls and automatically sends all customers a managed, interactive, two-way experience survey by text message.
The applications that support the customer service center run on machines that the company hosts in an on-premises data center. The hardware that the company uses is old, and the company is experiencing downtime with the system. The company wants to migrate the system to AWS to improve reliability.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST ongoing operational overhead?
A retail company has structured its AWS accounts to be part of an organization in AWS Organizations. The company has set up consolidated billing and has mapped its departments to the following OUs: Finance. Sales. Human Resources
The HR department is releasing a new system thai will launch in 3 months. In preparation, the HR department has purchased several Reserved Instances (RIs) in its production AWS account. The HR department will install the new application on this account. The HR department wants to make sure that other departments cannot share the Rl discounts.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 company runs an application in an on-premises data center. The application gives users the ability to upload media files. The files persist in a file server. The web application has many users. The application server is overutilized, which causes data uploads to fail occasionally. The company frequently adds new storage to the file server. The company wants to resolve these challenges by migrating the application to AWS.
Users from across the United States and Canada access the application. Only authenticated usersshould have the ability to access the application to upload files. The company will consider a solution that refactors the application, and the company needs to accelerate application development.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
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?
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 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 running a critical stateful web application on two Linux Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) with an Amazon RDS for MySQL database The company hosts the DNS records for the application in Amazon Route 53 A solutions architect must recommend a solution to improve the resiliency of the application
The solution must meet the following objectives:
• Application tier RPO of 2 minutes. RTO of 30 minutes
• Database tier RPO of 5 minutes RTO of 30 minutes
The company does not want to make significant changes to the existing application architecture The company must ensure optimal latency after a failover
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. Recent application metrics show inconsistent response times and a significant increase in error rates. Calls to third-party services are causing the delays. Currently, the application calls third-party services synchronously by directly invoking an AWS Lambda function.
A solutions architect needs to decouple the third-party service calls and ensure that all the calls are eventually completed.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company hosts a ticketing service on a fleet of Linux Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The ticketing service uses a pricing file. The pricing file is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket that has S3 Standard storage. A central pricing solution that is hosted by a third party updates the pricing file.
The pricing file is updated every 1–15 minutes and has several thousand line items. The pricing file is downloaded to each EC2 instance when the instance launches.
The EC2 instances occasionally use outdated pricing information that can result in incorrect charges for customers.
Which solution will resolve this problem MOST cost-effectively?
A company is planning a one-time migration of an on-premises MySQL database to Amazon Aurora MySQL in the us-east-1 Region. The company's current internet connection has limited bandwidth. The on-premises MySQL database is 60 TB in size The company estimates that it will take a month to transfer the data to AWS over the current internet connection.
The company needs a migration solution that will migrate the database more quickly
Which solution will migrate the database in the LEAST amount of time?
A company has a latency-sensitive trading platform that uses Amazon DynamoDB as a storage backend. The company configured the DynamoDB table to use on-demand capacity mode. A solutions architect needs to design a solution to improve the performance of the trading platform. The new solution must ensure high availability for the trading platform.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST latency?
A solutions architect is creating an application that stores objects in an Amazon S3 bucket The solutions architect must deploy the application in two AWS Regions that will be used simultaneously The objects in the two S3 buckets must remain synchronized with each other.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select THREE)
A company runs an application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances that are in private subnets behind an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB). The ALB is the origin for an Amazon CloudFront distribution. An AWS WAF web ACL that contains various AWS managed rules is associated with the CloudFront distribution.
The company needs a solution that will prevent internet traffic from directly accessing the ALB.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
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 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 uses a service to collect metadata from applications that the company hosts on premises. Consumer devices such as TVs and internet radios access the applications. Many older devices do not support certain HTTP headers and exhibit errors when these headers are present in responses. The company has configured an on-premises load balancer to remove the unsupported headers from responses sent to older devices, which the company identified by the User-Agent headers.
The company wants to migrate the service to AWS, adopt serverless technologies, and retain the ability to support the older devices. The company has already migrated the applications into a set of AWS Lambda functions.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company provides a centralized Amazon EC2 application hosted in a single shared VPC The centralized application must be accessible from client applications running in the VPCs of other business units The centralized application front end is configured with a Network Load Balancer (NLB) for scalability
Up to 10 business unit VPCs will need to be connected to the shared VPC Some ot the business unit VPC CIDR blocks overlap with the shared VPC and some overlap with each other Network connectivity to the centralized application in the shared VPC should be allowed from authorized business unit VPCs only
Which network configuration should a solutions architect use to provide connectivity from the client applications in the business unit VPCs to the centralized application in the shared VPC?
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 finance company is running its business-critical application on current-generation Linux EC2 instances The application includes a self-managed MySQL database performing heavy I/O operations. The application is working fine to handle a moderate amount of traffic during the month. However, it slows down during the final three days of each month due to month-end reporting, even though the company is using Elastic Load Balancers and Auto Scaling within its infrastructure to meet the increased demand.
Which of the following actions would allow the database to handle the month-end load with the LEAST impact on performance?
A company has VPC flow logs enabled for its NAT gateway. The company is seeing Action = ACCEPT for inbound traffic that comes from public IP address
198.51.100.2 destined for a private Amazon EC2 instance.
A solutions architect must determine whether the traffic represents unsolicited inbound connections from the internet. The first two octets of the VPC CIDR block are 203.0.
Which set of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements?
A company has 20 accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. The accounts are in two OUs: development and production. Multiple teams use the development accounts.
The company wants to control the cost that is associated with the development accounts. The company needs a solution that provides a notification when the forecasted monthly cost for all development accounts exceeds a threshold.
A solutions architect creates an Amazon SNS topic and subscribes an email address to the topic.
What should the solutions architect do next to meet the notification requirement with the LEAST configuration effort?
A company has dozens of AWS accounts for different teams, applications, and environments. The company has defined a custom set of controls that all accounts must have. The company is concerned that potential misconfigurations in the accounts could lead to security issues or noncompliance. A solutions architect must design a solution that deploys the custom controls by using infrastructure as code (IaC) in a repeatable way. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has migrated its forms-processing application to AWS. When users interact with the application, they upload scanned forms as files through a web application. A database stores user metadata and references to files that are stored in Amazon S3. The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database.
When forms are uploaded, the application sends notifications to a team through Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS). A team member then logs in and processes each form. The team member performs data validation on the form and extracts relevant data before entering the information into another system that uses an API.
A solutions architect needs to automate the manual processing of the forms. The solution must provide accurate form extraction, minimize time to market, and minimize long-term operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A telecommunications company is running an application on AWS. The company has set up an AWS Direct Connect connection between the company's on-premises data center and AWS. The company deployed the application on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones behind an internal Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company's clients connect from the on-premises network by using HTTPS. The TLS terminates in the ALB. The company has multiple target groups and uses path-based routing to forward requests based on the URL path.
The company is planning to deploy an on-premises firewall appliance with an allow list that is based on IP address. A solutions architect must develop a solution to allow traffic flow to AWS from the on-premises network so that the clients can continue to access the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an application that uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster for the application's database. The DB cluster contains one small primary instance and three larger replica instances. The application runs on an AWS Lambda function. The application makes many short-lived connections to the database's replica instances to perform read-only operations.
During periods of high traffic, the application becomes unreliable and the database reports that too many connections are being established. The frequency of high-traffic periods is unpredictable.
Which solution will improve the reliability of the application?
A company built an ecommerce website on AWS using a three-tier web architecture. The application is Java-based and composed of an Amazon CloudFront distribution, an Apache web server layer of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group, and a backend Amazon Aurora MySQL database.
Last month, during a promotional sales event, users reported errors and timeouts while adding items to their shopping carts. The operations team recovered the logs created by the web servers and reviewed Aurora DB cluster performance metrics. Some of the web servers were terminated before logs could be collected and the Aurora metrics were not sufficient for query performance analysis.
Which combination of steps must the solutions architect take to improve application performance visibility during peak traffic events? (Choose three.)
A company 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 solutions architect is designing an AWS account structure for a company that consists of multiple teams. All the teams will work in the same AWS Region. The company needs a VPC that is connected to the on-premises network. The company expects less than 50 Mbps of total traffic to and from the on-premises network.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select TWO.)
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 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 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 medical company is running a REST API on a set of Amazon EC2 instances The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The ALB runs in three public subnets, and the EC2 instances run in three private subnets The company has deployed an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the ALB as the only origin
Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to enhance the origin security?