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Questions 4

A company's web application is running on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The company recently changed its policy, which now requires the application to be accessed from one specific country only.

Which configuration will meet this requirement?

Options:

A.

Configure the security group for the EC2 instances.

B.

Configure the security group on the Application Load Balancer.

C.

Configure AWS WAF on the Application Load Balancer in a VPC.

D.

Configure the network ACL for the subnet that contains the EC2 instances.

Questions 5

A company is hosting a static website on Amazon S3 and is using Amazon Route 53 for DNS. The website is experiencing increased demand from around the world. The company must decrease latency for users who access the website.

Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Options:

A.

Replicate the S3 bucket that contains the website to all AWS Regions. Add Route 53 geolocation routing entries.

B.

Provision accelerators in AWS Global Accelerator. Associate the supplied IP addresses with the S3 bucket. Edit the Route 53 entries to point to the IP addresses of the accelerators.

C.

Add an Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of the S3 bucket. Edit the Route 53 entries to point to the CloudFront distribution.

D.

Enable S3 Transfer Acceleration on the bucket. Edit the Route 53 entries to point to the new endpoint.

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Questions 6

A company wants to improve its ability to clone large amounts of production data into a test environment in the same AWS Region. The data is stored in Amazon EC2 instances on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. Modifications to the cloned data must not affect the production environment. The software that accesses this data requires consistently high I/O performance.

A solutions architect needs to minimize the time that is required to clone the production data into the test environment.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Take EBS snapshots of the production EBS volumes. Restore the snapshots onto EC2 instance store volumes in the test environment.

B.

Configure the production EBS volumes to use the EBS Multi-Attach feature. Take EBS snapshots of the production EBS volumes. Attach the production EBS volumes to the EC2 instances in the test environment.

C.

Take EBS snapshots of the production EBS volumes. Create and initialize new EBS volumes. Attach the new EBS volumes to EC2 instances in the test environment before restoring the volumes from the production EBS snapshots.

D.

Take EBS snapshots of the production EBS volumes. Turn on the EBS fast snapshot restore feature on the EBS snapshots. Restore the snapshots into new EBS volumes. Attach the new EBS volumes to EC2 instances in the test environment.

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Questions 7

A company's HTTP application is behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). The NLB's target group is configured to use an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with multiple EC2 instances that run the web service.

The company notices that the NLB is not detecting HTTP errors for the application. These errors require a manual restart of the EC2 instances that run the web service. The company needs to improve the application's availability without writing custom scripts or code.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Enable HTTP health checks on the NLB. supplying the URL of the company's application.

B.

Add a cron job to the EC2 instances to check the local application's logs once each minute. If HTTP errors are detected, the application will restart.

C.

Replace the NLB with an Application Load Balancer. Enable HTTP health checks by supplying the URL of the company's application. Configure an Auto Scaling action to replace unhealthy instances.

D.

Create an Amazon Cloud Watch alarm that monitors the UnhealthyHostCount metric for the NLB. Configure an Auto Scaling action to replace unhealthy instances when the alarm is in the ALARM state.

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Questions 8

A company needs to store its accounting records in Amazon S3. The records must be immediately accessible for 1 year and then must be archived for an additional 9 years. No one at the company, including administrative users and root users, can be able to delete the records during the entire 10-year period. The records must be stored with maximum resiliency.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Store the records in S3 Glacier for the entire 10-year period. Use an access control policy to deny deletion of the records for a period of 10 years.

B.

Store the records by using S3 Intelligent-Tiering. Use an IAM policy to deny deletion of the records. After 10 years, change the IAM policy to allow deletion.

C.

Use an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the records from S3 Standard to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 year. Use S3 Object Lock in compliance mode for a period of 10 years.

D.

Use an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the records from S3 Standard to S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) after 1 year. Use S3 Object Lock in governance mode for a period of 10 years.

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Questions 9

A company hosts its web applications in the AWS Cloud. The company configures Elastic Load Balancers to use certificate that are imported into AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). The company’s security team must be notified 30 days before the expiration of each certificate.

What should a solutions architect recommend to meet the requirement?

Options:

A.

Add a rule m ACM to publish a custom message to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic every day beginning 30 days before any certificate will expire.

B.

Create an AWS Config rule that checks for certificates that will expire within 30 days. Configure Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) to invoke a custom alert by way of Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) when AWS Config reports a noncompliant resource

C.

Use AWS trusted Advisor to check for certificates that will expire within to days. Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that is based on Trusted Advisor metrics for check status changes Configure the alarm to send a custom alert by way of Amazon Simple rectification Service (Amazon SNS)

D.

Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule to detect any certificates that will expire within 30 days. Configure the rule to invoke an AWS Lambda function. Configure the Lambda function to send a custom alert by way of Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS).

Questions 10

A company has an on-premises application that generates a large amount of time-sensitive data that is backed up to Amazon S3. The application has grown and there are user complaints about internet bandwidth limitations. A solutions architect needs to design a long-term solution that allows for both timely backups to Amazon S3 and with minimal impact on internet connectivity for internal users.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

Establish AWS VPN connections and proxy all traffic through a VPC gateway endpoint

B.

Establish a new AWS Direct Connect connection and direct backup traffic through this new connection.

C.

Order daily AWS Snowball devices Load the data onto the Snowball devices and return the devices to AWS each day.

D.

Submit a support ticket through the AWS Management Console Request the removal of S3 service limits from the account.

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Questions 11

An image-processing company has a web application that users use to upload images. The application uploads the images into an Amazon S3 bucket. The company has set up S3 event notifications to publish the object creation events to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) standard queue. The SQS queue serves as the event source for an AWS Lambda function that processes the images and sends the results to users through email.

Users report that they are receiving multiple email messages for every uploaded image. A solutions architect determines that SQS messages are invoking the Lambda function more than once, resulting in multiple email messages.

What should the solutions architect do to resolve this issue with the LEAST operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Set up long polling in the SQS queue by increasing the ReceiveMessage wait time to 30 seconds.

B.

Change the SQS standard queue to an SQS FIFO queue. Use the message deduplication ID to discard duplicate messages.

C.

Increase the visibility timeout in the SQS queue to a value that is greater than the total of the function timeout and the batch window timeout.

D.

Modify the Lambda function to delete each message from the SQS queue immediately after the message is read before processing.

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Questions 12

A company is preparing to store confidential data in Amazon S3 For compliance reasons the data must be encrypted at rest Encryption key usage must be logged tor auditing purposes. Keys must be rotated every year.

Which solution meets these requirements and «the MOST operationally efferent?

Options:

A.

Server-side encryption with customer-provided keys (SSE-C)

B.

Server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3)

C.

Server-side encryption with AWS KMS (SSE-KMS) customer master keys (CMKs) with manual rotation

D.

Server-side encryption with AWS KMS (SSE-KMS) customer master keys (CMKs) with automate rotation

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Questions 13

A survey company has gathered data for several years from areas m\ the United States. The company hosts the data in an Amazon S3 bucket that is 3 TB m size and growing. The company has started to share the data with a European marketing firm that has S3 buckets The company wants to ensure that its data transfer costs remain as low as possible

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Configure the Requester Pays feature on the company's S3 bucket

B.

Configure S3 Cross-Region Replication from the company’s S3 bucket to one of the marketing firm's S3 buckets.

C.

Configure cross-account access for the marketing firm so that the marketing firm has access to the company’s S3 bucket.

D.

Configure the company’s S3 bucket to use S3 Intelligent-Tiering Sync the S3 bucket to one of the marketing firm’s S3 buckets

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Questions 14

A company is running a popular social media website. The website gives users the ability to upload images to share with other users. The company wants to make sure that the images do not contain inappropriate content. The company needs a solution that minimizes development effort.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use Amazon Comprehend to detect inappropriate content. Use human review for low-confidence predictions.

B.

Use Amazon Rekognition to detect inappropriate content. Use human review for low-confidence predictions.

C.

Use Amazon SageMaker to detect inappropriate content. Use ground truth to label low-confidence predictions.

D.

Use AWS Fargate to deploy a custom machine learning model to detect inappropriate content. Use ground truth to label low-confidence predictions.

Questions 15

A company is storing sensitive user information in an Amazon S3 bucket The company wants to provide secure access to this bucket from the application tier running on Ama2on EC2 instances inside a VPC.

Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Select TWO.)

Options:

A.

Configure a VPC gateway endpoint for Amazon S3 within the VPC

B.

Create a bucket policy to make the objects to the S3 bucket public

C.

Create a bucket policy that limits access to only the application tier running in the VPC

D.

Create an IAM user with an S3 access policy and copy the IAM credentials to the EC2 instance

E.

Create a NAT instance and have the EC2 instances use the NAT instance to access the S3 bucket

Questions 16

An application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in a VPC. The application processes logs that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. The EC2 instance needs to access the S3 bucket without connectivity to the internet.

Which solution will provide private network connectivity to Amazon S3?

Options:

A.

Create a gateway VPC endpoint to the S3 bucket.

B.

Stream the logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Export the logs to the S3 bucket.

C.

Create an instance profile on Amazon EC2 to allow S3 access.

D.

Create an Amazon API Gateway API with a private link to access the S3 endpoint.

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Questions 17

A company sells ringtones created from clips of popular songs. The files containing the ringtones are stored in Amazon S3 Standard and are at least 128 KB in size. The company has millions of files, but downloads are infrequent for ringtones older than 90 days. The company needs to save money on storage while keeping the most accessed files readily available for its users.

Which action should the company take to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Options:

A.

Configure S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) storage for the initial storage tier of the objects.

B.

Move the files to S3 Intelligent-Tiering and configure it to move objects to a less expensive storage tier after 90 days.

C.

Configure S3 inventory to manage objects and move them to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-1A) after 90 days.

D.

Implement an S3 Lifecycle policy that moves the objects from S3 Standard to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-1A) after 90 days.

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Questions 18

A security team wants to limit access to specific services or actions in all of the team's AWS accounts. All accounts belong to a large organization in AWS Organizations. The solution must be scalable and there must be a single point where permissions can be maintained.

What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Options:

A.

Create an ACL to provide access to the services or actions.

B.

Create a security group to allow accounts and attach it to user groups.

C.

Create cross-account roles in each account to deny access to the services or actions.

D.

Create a service control policy in the root organizational unit to deny access to the services or actions.

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Questions 19

A company runs an application using Amazon ECS. The application creates esi/ed versions of an original image and then makes Amazon S3 API calls to store the resized images in Amazon S3.

How can a solutions architect ensure that the application has permission to access Amazon S3?

Options:

A.

Update the S3 role in AWS IAM to allow read/write access from Amazon ECS, and then relaunch the container.

B.

Create an IAM role with S3 permissions, and then specify that role as the taskRoleAm in the task definition.

C.

Create a security group that allows access from Amazon ECS to Amazon S3, and update the launch configuration used by the ECS cluster.

D.

Create an IAM user with S3 permissions, and then relaunch the Amazon EC2 instances for the ECS cluster while logged in as this account.

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Questions 20

A company is running an SMB file server in its data center. The file server stores large files that are accessed frequently for the first few days after the files are created. After 7 days the files are rarely accessed.

The total data size is increasing and is close to the company's total storage capacity. A solutions architect must increase the company's available storage space without losing low-latency access to the most recently accessed files. The solutions architect must also provide file lifecycle management to avoid future storage issues.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use AWS DataSync to copy data that is older than 7 days from the SMB file server to AWS.

B.

Create an Amazon S3 File Gateway to extend the company's storage space. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 7 days.

C.

Create an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system to extend the company's storage space.

D.

Install a utility on each user's computer to access Amazon S3. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the data to S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval after 7 days.

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Questions 21

A company wants to migrate its MySQL database from on premises to AWS. The company recently experienced a database outage that significantly impacted the business. To ensure this does not happen again, the company wants a reliable database solution on AWS that minimizes data loss and stores every transaction on at least two nodes.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create an Amazon RDS DB instance with synchronous replication to three nodes in three Availability Zones.

B.

Create an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance with Multi-AZ functionality enabled to synchronously replicate the data.

C.

Create an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance and then create a read replica in a separate AWS Region that synchronously replicates the data.

D.

Create an Amazon EC2 instance with a MySQL engine installed that triggers an AWS Lambda function to synchronously replicate the data to an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance.

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Questions 22

An online retail company has more than 50 million active customers and receives more than 25,000 orders each day. The company collects purchase data for customers and stores this data in Amazon S3. Additional customer data is stored in Amazon RDS.

The company wants to make all the data available to various teams so that the teams can perform analytics. The solution must provide the ability to manage fine-grained permissions for the data and must minimize operational overhead.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Migrate the purchase data to write directly to Amazon RDS. Use RDS access controls to limit access.

B.

Schedule an AWS Lambda function to periodically copy data from Amazon RDS to Amazon S3. Create an AWS Glue crawler. Use Amazon Athena to query the data. Use S3 policies to limit access.

C.

Create a data lake by using AWS Lake Formation. Create an AWS Glue JDBC connection to Amazon RDS. Register (he S3 bucket in Lake Formation. Use Lake Formation access controls to limit access.

D.

Create an Amazon Redshift cluster. Schedule an AWS Lambda function to periodically copy data from Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS to Amazon Redshift. Use Amazon Redshift access controls to limit access.

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Questions 23

A company is implementing a shared storage solution for a media application that is hosted m the AWS Cloud The company needs the ability to use SMB clients to access data The solution must he fully managed.

Which AWS solution meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create an AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway. Create a file share that uses the required client protocol Connect the application server to the file share.

B.

Create an AWS Storage Gateway tape gateway Configure (apes to use Amazon S3 Connect the application server lo the tape gateway

C.

Create an Amazon EC2 Windows instance Install and configure a Windows file share role on the instance. Connect the application server to the file share.

D.

Create an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server tile system Attach the fie system to the origin server. Connect the application server to the file system

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Questions 24

A company has an automobile sales website that stores its listings in a database on Amazon RDS When an automobile is sold the listing needs to be removed from the website and the data must be sent to multiple target systems.

Which design should a solutions architect recommend?

Options:

A.

Create an AWS Lambda function triggered when the database on Amazon RDS is updated to send the information to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS> queue for the targets to consume

B.

Create an AWS Lambda function triggered when the database on Amazon RDS is updated to send the information to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queue for the targets to consume

C.

Subscribe to an RDS event notification and send an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue fanned out to multiple Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics Use AWS Lambda functions to update the targets

D.

Subscribe to an RDS event notification and send an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic fanned out to multiple Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queues Use AWS Lambda functions to update the targets

Questions 25

A company runs an ecommerce application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The Auto Scaling group scales based on CPU utilization metrics. The ecommerce application stores the transaction data in a MySQL 8.0 database that is hosted on a large EC2 instance.

The database's performance degrades quickly as application load increases. The application handles more read requests than write transactions. The company wants a solution that will automatically scale the database to meet the demand of unpredictable read workloads while maintaining high availability.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use Amazon Redshift with a single node for leader and compute functionality.

B.

Use Amazon RDS with a Single-AZ deployment Configure Amazon RDS to add reader instances in a different Availability Zone.

C.

Use Amazon Aurora with a Multi-AZ deployment. Configure Aurora Auto Scaling with Aurora Replicas.

D.

Use Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached with EC2 Spot Instances.

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Questions 26

A company wants to build a scalable key management Infrastructure to support developers who need to encrypt data in their applications.

What should a solutions architect do to reduce the operational burden?

Options:

A.

Use multifactor authentication (MFA) to protect the encryption keys.

B.

Use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to protect the encryption keys

C.

Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to create, store, and assign the encryption keys

D.

Use an IAM policy to limit the scope of users who have access permissions to protect the encryption keys

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Questions 27

A hospital wants to create digital copies for its large collection of historical written records. The hospital will continue to add hundreds of new documents each day. The hospital's data team will scan the documents and will upload the documents to the AWS Cloud.

A solutions architect must implement a solution to analyze the documents, extract the medical information, and store the documents so that an application can run SQL queries on the data. The solution must maximize scalability and operational efficiency.

Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Options:

A.

Write the document information to an Amazon EC2 instance that runs a MySQL database.

B.

Write the document information to an Amazon S3 bucket. Use Amazon Athena to query the data.

C.

Create an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances to run a custom application that processes the scanned files and extracts the medical information.

D.

Create an AWS Lambda function that runs when new documents are uploaded. Use Amazon Rekognition to convert the documents to raw text. Use Amazon Transcribe Medical to detect and extract relevant medical information from the text.

E.

Create an AWS Lambda function that runs when new documents are uploaded. Use Amazon Textract to convert the documents to raw text. Use Amazon Comprehend Medical to detect and extract relevant medical information from the text.

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Questions 28

A company has implemented a self-managed DNS solution on three Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB) in the us-west-2 Region. Most of the company's users are located in the United States and Europe. The company wants to improve the performance and availability of the solution. The company launches and configures three EC2 instances in the eu-west-1 Region and adds the EC2 instances as targets for a new NLB.

Which solution can the company use to route traffic to all the EC2 instances?

Options:

A.

Create an Amazon Route 53 geolocation routing policy to route requests to one of the two NLBs. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution. Use the Route 53 record as the distribution's origin.

B.

Create a standard accelerator in AWS Global Accelerator. Create endpoint groups in us-west-2 and eu-west-1. Add the two NLBs as endpoints for the endpoint groups.

C.

Attach Elastic IP addresses to the six EC2 instances. Create an Amazon Route 53 geolocation routing policy to route requests to one of the six EC2 instances. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution. Use the Route 53 record as the distribution's origin.

D.

Replace the two NLBs with two Application Load Balancers (ALBs). Create an Amazon Route 53 latency routing policy to route requests to one of the two ALBs. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution. Use the Route 53 record as the distribution's origin.

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Questions 29

A solutions architect needs to securely store a database user name and password that an application uses to access an Amazon RDS DB instance. The application that accesses the database runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The solutions architect wants to create a secure parameter in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.

What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Options:

A.

Create an IAM role that has read access to the Parameter Store parameter. Allow Decrypt access to an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key that is used to encrypt the parameter. Assign this IAM role to the EC2 instance.

B.

Create an IAM policy that allows read access to the Parameter Store parameter. Allow Decrypt access to an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key that is used to encrypt the parameter. Assign this IAM policy to the EC2 instance.

C.

Create an IAM trust relationship between the Parameter Store parameter and the EC2 instance. Specify Amazon RDS as a principal in the trust policy.

D.

Create an IAM trust relationship between the DB instance and the EC2 instance. Specify Systems Manager as a principal in the trust policy.

Questions 30

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

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

Options:

A.

Enable the versioning and MFA Delete features on the S3 bucket.

B.

Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) on the IAM user credentials for each audit team IAM user account.

C.

Add an S3 Lifecycle policy to the audit team's IAM user accounts to deny the s3:DeleteObject action during audit dates.

D.

Use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt the S3 bucket and restrict audit team IAM user accounts from accessing the KMS key.

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Questions 31

A company wants to use the AWS Cloud to make an existing application highly available and resilient. The current version of the application resides in the company's data center. The application recently experienced data loss after a database server crashed because of an unexpected power outage.

The company needs a solution that avoids any single points of failure. The solution must give the application the ability to scale to meet user demand.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Deploy the application servers by using Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. Use an Amazon RDS DB instance in a Multi-AZ configuration.

B.

Deploy the application servers by using Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group in a single Availability Zone. Deploy the database

on an EC2 instance. Enable EC2 Auto Recovery.

C.

Deploy the application servers by using Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. Use an Amazon RDS DB instance with a read replica in a single Availability Zone. Promote the read replica to replace the primary DB instance if the primary DB instance fails.

D.

Deploy the application servers by using Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones Deploy the primary and secondary database servers on EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones Use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Multi-Attach to create shared storage between the instances.

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Questions 32

A large media company hosts a web application on AWS. The company wants to start caching confidential media files so that users around the world will have reliable access to the files. The content is stored in Amazon S3 buckets. The company must deliver the content quickly, regardless of where the requests originate geographically.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use AWS DataSync to connect the S3 buckets to the web application.

B.

Deploy AWS Global Accelerator to connect the S3 buckets to the web application.

C.

Deploy Amazon CloudFront to connect the S3 buckets to CloudFront edge servers.

D.

Use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to connect the S3 buckets to the web application.

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Questions 33

A company runs its two-tier ecommerce website on AWS. The web tier consists of a load balancer that sends traffic to Amazon EC2 instances. The database tier uses an Amazon RDS DB instance. The EC2 instances and the RDS DB instance should not be exposed to the public internet. The EC2 instances require internet access to complete payment processing of orders through a third-party web service. The application must be highly available.

Which combination of configuration options will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Use an Auto Scaling group to launch the EC2 instances in private subnets. Deploy an RDS Multi-AZ DB instance in private subnets.

B.

Configure a VPC with two private subnets and two NAT gateways across two Availability Zones. Deploy an Application Load Balancer in the private subnets.

C.

Use an Auto Scaling group to launch the EC2 instances in public subnets across two Availability Zones. Deploy an RDS Multi-AZ DB instance in private subnets.

D.

Configure a VPC with one public subnet, one private subnet, and two NAT gateways across two Availability Zones. Deploy an Application Load Balancer in the public subnet.

E.

Configure a VPC with two public subnets, two private subnets, and two NAT gateways across two Availability Zones. Deploy an Application Load Balancer in the public subnets.

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Questions 34

A company has registered its domain name with Amazon Route 53. The company uses Amazon API Gateway in the ca-central-1 Region as a public interface for its backend microservice APIs. Third-party services consume the APIs securely. The company wants to design its API Gateway URL with the company's domain name and corresponding certificate so that the third-party services can use HTTPS.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create stage variables in API Gateway with Name="Endpoint-URL" and Value="Company Domain Name" to overwrite the default URL. Import the public certificate associated with the company's domain name into AWS Certificate Manager (ACM).

B.

Create Route 53 DNS records with the company's domain name. Point the alias record to the Regional API Gateway stage endpoint. Import the public certificate associated with the company's domain name into AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) in the us-east-1 Region.

C.

Create a Regional API Gateway endpoint. Associate the API Gateway endpoint with the company's domain name. Import the public certificate associated with the company's domain name into AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) in the same Region. Attach the certificate to the API Gateway endpoint. Configure Route 53 to route traffic to the API Gateway endpoint.

D.

Create a Regional API Gateway endpoint. Associate the API Gateway endpoint with the company's domain name. Import the public certificate associated with the company's domain name into AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) in the us-east-1 Region. Attach the certificate to the API Gateway APIs. Create Route 53 DNS records with the company's domain name. Point an A record to the company's domain name.

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Questions 35

A company has a three-tier web application that is deployed on AWS. The web servers are deployed in a public subnet in a VPC. The application servers and database servers are deployed in private subnets in the same VPC. The company has deployed a third-party virtual firewall appliance from AWS Marketplace in an inspection VPC. The appliance is configured with an IP interface that can accept IP packets.

A solutions architect needs to Integrate the web application with the appliance to inspect all traffic to the application before the traffic teaches the web server. Which solution will moot these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Create a Network Load Balancer the public subnet of the application's VPC to route the traffic lo the appliance for packet inspection

B.

Create an Application Load Balancer in the public subnet of the application's VPC to route the traffic to the appliance for packet inspection

C.

Deploy a transit gateway m the inspection VPC Configure route tables to route the incoming pockets through the transit gateway

D.

Deploy a Gateway Load Balancer in the inspection VPC Create a Gateway Load Balancer endpoint to receive the incoming packets and forward the packets to the appliance

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Questions 36

A company has an application that generates a large number of files, each approximately 5 MB in size. The files are stored in Amazon S3. Company policy requires the files to be stored for 4 years before they can be deleted Immediate accessibility is always required as the files contain critical business data that is not easy to reproduce. The files are frequently accessed in the first 30 days of the object creation but are rarely accessed after the first 30 days

Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?

Options:

A.

Create an S3 bucket lifecycle policy to move Mm from S3 Standard to S3 Glacier 30 days from object creation Delete the Tiles 4 years after object creation

B.

Create an S3 bucket lifecycle policy to move tiles from S3 Standard to S3 One Zone-infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA] 30 days from object creation. Delete the fees 4 years after object creation

C.

Create an S3 bucket lifecycle policy to move files from S3 Standard-infrequent Access (S3 Standard -lA) 30 from object creation. Delete the ties 4 years after object creation

D.

Create an S3 bucket Lifecycle policy to move files from S3 Standard to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) 30 days from object creation Move the files to S3 Glacier 4 years after object carton.

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Questions 37

A company has a Windows-based application that must be migrated to AWS. The application requires the use of a shared Windows file system attached to multiple Amazon EC2 Windows instances that are deployed across multiple Availability Zones.

What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Options:

A.

Configure AWS Storage Gateway in volume gateway mode. Mount the volume to each Windows instance.

B.

Configure Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Mount the Amazon FSx file system to each Windows instance.

C.

Configure a file system by using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). Mount the EFS file system to each Windows instance.

D.

Configure an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume with the required size. Attach each EC2 instance to the volume. Mount the file system within the volume to each Windows instance.

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Questions 38

An ecommerce company has an order-processing application that uses Amazon API Gateway and an AWS Lambda function. The application stores data in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database. During a recent sales event, a sudden surge in customer orders occurred. Some customers experienced timeouts and the application did not process the orders of those customers A solutions architect determined that the CPU utilization and memory utilization were high on the database because of a large number of open connections The solutions architect needs to prevent the timeout errors while making the least possible changes to the application.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Configure provisioned concurrency for the Lambda function Modify the database to be a global database in multiple AWS Regions

B.

Use Amazon RDS Proxy to create a proxy for the database Modify the Lambda function to use the RDS Proxy endpoint instead of the database endpoint

C.

Create a read replica for the database in a different AWS Region Use query string parameters in API Gateway to route traffic to the read replica

D.

Migrate the data from Aurora PostgreSQL to Amazon DynamoDB by using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS| Modify the Lambda function to use the OynamoDB table

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Questions 39

A company has a legacy data processing application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. Data is processed sequentially, but the order of results does not matter. The application uses a monolithic architecture. The only way that the company can scale the application to meet increased demand is to increase the size of the instances.

The company's developers have decided to rewrite the application to use a microservices architecture on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).

What should a solutions architect recommend for communication between the microservices?

Options:

A.

Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. Add code to the data producers, and send data to the queue. Add code to the data consumers to process data from the queue.

B.

Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. Add code to the data producers, and publish notifications to the topic. Add code to the data consumers to subscribe to the topic.

C.

Create an AWS Lambda function to pass messages. Add code to the data producers to call the Lambda function with a data object. Add code to the data consumers to receive a data object that is passed from the Lambda function.

D.

Create an Amazon DynamoDB table. Enable DynamoDB Streams. Add code to the data producers to insert data into the table. Add code to the data consumers to use the DynamoDB Streams API to detect new table entries and retrieve the data.

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Questions 40

A solutions architect is creating a new Amazon CloudFront distribution for an application. Some of the information submitted by users is sensitive. The application uses HTTPS but needs another layer of security. The sensitive information should be protected throughout the entire application stack, and access to the information should be restricted to certain applications.

Which action should the solutions architect take?

Options:

A.

Configure a CloudFront signed URL.

B.

Configure a CloudFront signed cookie.

C.

Configure a CloudFront field-level encryption profile.

D.

Configure CloudFront and set the Origin Protocol Policy setting to HTTPS Only for the Viewer Protocol Policy.

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Questions 41

A company has an event-driven application that invokes AWS Lambda functions up to 800 times each minute with varying runtimes. The Lambda functions access data that is stored in an Amazon Aurora MySQL OB cluster. The company is noticing connection timeouts as user activity increases The database shows no signs of being overloaded. CPU. memory, and disk access metrics are all low.

Which solution will resolve this issue with the LEAST operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Adjust the size of the Aurora MySQL nodes to handle more connections. Configure retry logic in the Lambda functions for attempts to connect to the database

B.

Set up Amazon ElastiCache tor Redls to cache commonly read items from the database. Configure the Lambda functions to connect to ElastiCache for reads.

C.

Add an Aurora Replica as a reader node. Configure the Lambda functions to connect to the reader endpoint of the OB cluster rather than lo the writer endpoint.

D.

Use Amazon ROS Proxy to create a proxy. Set the DB cluster as the target database Configure the Lambda functions lo connect to the proxy rather than to the DB cluster.

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Questions 42

A company's application Is having performance issues The application staleful and needs to complete m-memory tasks on Amazon EC2 instances. The company used AWS CloudFormation to deploy infrastructure and used the M5 EC2 Instance family As traffic increased, the application performance degraded Users are reporting delays when the users attempt to access the application.

Which solution will resolve these issues in the MOST operationally efficient way?

Options:

A.

Replace the EC2 Instances with T3 EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group. Made the changes by using the AWS Management Console.

B.

Modify the CloudFormation templates to run the EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. Increase the desired capacity and the maximum capacity of the Auto Scaling group manually when an increase is necessary

C.

Modify the CloudFormation templates. Replace the EC2 instances with R5 EC2 instances. Use Amazon CloudWatch built-in EC2 memory metrics to track the application performance for future capacity planning.

D.

Modify the CloudFormation templates. Replace the EC2 instances with R5 EC2 instances. Deploy the Amazon CloudWatch agent on the EC2 instances to generate custom application latency metrics for future capacity planning.

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Questions 43

A company is running an online transaction processing (OLTP) workload on AWS. This workload uses an unencrypted Amazon RDS DB instance in a Multi-AZ deployment. Daily database snapshots are taken from this instance.

What should a solutions architect do to ensure the database and snapshots are always encrypted moving forward?

Options:

A.

Encrypt a copy of the latest DB snapshot. Replace existing DB instance by restoring the encrypted snapshot

B.

Create a new encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume and copy the snapshots to it Enable encryption on the DB instance

C.

Copy the snapshots and enable encryption using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) Restore encrypted snapshot to an existing DB instance

D.

Copy the snapshots to an Amazon S3 bucket that is encrypted using server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) managed keys (SSE-KMS)

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Questions 44

A company runs a global web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The application stores data in Amazon Aurora. The company needs to create a disaster recovery solution and can tolerate up to 30 minutes of downtime and potential data loss. The solution does not need to handle the load when the primary infrastructure is healthy

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Deploy the application with the required infrastructure elements in place Use Amazon Route 53 to configure active-passive failover Create an Aurora Replica in a second AWS Region

B.

Host a scaled-down deployment of the application in a second AWS Region Use Amazon Route 53 to configure active-active failover Create an Aurora Replica in the second Region

C.

Replicate the primary infrastructure in a second AWS Region Use Amazon Route 53 to configure active-active failover Create an Aurora database that is restored from the latest snapshot

D.

Back up data with AWS Backup Use the backup to create the required infrastructure in a second AWS Region Use Amazon Route 53 to configure active-passive failover Create an Aurora second primary instance in the second Region

Questions 45

A company has a production workload that runs on 1,000 Amazon EC2 Linux instances. The workload is powered by third-party software. The company needs to patch the third-party software on all EC2 instances as quickly as possible to remediate a critical security vulnerability.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create an AWS Lambda function to apply the patch to all EC2 instances.

B.

Configure AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to apply the patch to all EC2 instances.

C.

Schedule an AWS Systems Manager maintenance window to apply the patch to all EC2 instances.

D.

Use AWS Systems Manager Run Command to run a custom command that applies the patch to all EC2 instances.

Questions 46

A company needs to configure a real-time data ingestion architecture for its application. The company needs an API, a process that transforms data as the data is streamed, and a storage solution for the data.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Deploy an Amazon EC2 instance to host an API that sends data to an Amazon Kinesis data stream. Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream that uses the Kinesis data stream as a data source. Use AWS Lambda functions to transform the data. Use the Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to send the data to Amazon S3.

B.

Deploy an Amazon EC2 instance to host an API that sends data to AWS Glue. Stop source/destination checking on the EC2 instance. Use AWS Glue to transform the data and to send the data to Amazon S3.

C.

Configure an Amazon API Gateway API to send data to an Amazon Kinesis data stream. Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream that uses the Kinesis data stream as a data source. Use AWS Lambda functions to transform the data. Use the Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to send the data to Amazon S3.

D.

Configure an Amazon API Gateway API to send data to AWS Glue. Use AWS Lambda functions to transform the data. Use AWS Glue to send the data to Amazon S3.

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Questions 47

A company is planning to build a high performance computing (HPC) workload as a service solution that Is hosted on AWS A group of 16 AmazonEC2Ltnux Instances requires the lowest possible latency for node-to-node communication. The instances also need a shared block device volume for high-performing storage.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use a duster placement group. Attach a single Provisioned IOPS SSD Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon E BS) volume to all the instances by using Amazon EBS Multi-Attach

B.

Use a cluster placement group. Create shared 'lie systems across the instances by using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

C.

Use a partition placement group. Create shared tile systems across the instances by using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS).

D.

Use a spread placement group. Attach a single Provisioned IOPS SSD Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume to all the instances by using Amazon EBS Multi-Attach

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Questions 48

A company has two applications: a sender application that sends messages with payloads to be processed and a processing application intended to receive the messages with payloads. The company wants to implement an AWS service to handle messages between the two applications. The sender application can send about 1.000 messages each hour. The messages may take up to 2 days to be processed. If the messages fail to process, they must be retained so that they do not impact the processing of any remaining messages.

Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally efficient?

Options:

A.

Set up an Amazon EC2 instance running a Redis database. Configure both applications to use the instance. Store, process, and delete the messages, respectively.

B.

Use an Amazon Kinesis data stream to receive the messages from the sender application. Integrate the processing application with the Kinesis Client Library (KCL).

C.

Integrate the sender and processor applications with an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. Configure a dead-letter queue to collect the messages that failed to process.

D.

Subscribe the processing application to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to receive notifications to process. Integrate the sender application to write to the SNS topic.

Questions 49

A company runs an Oracle database on premises. As part of the company’s migration to AWS, the company wants to upgrade the database to the most recent available version. The company also wants to set up disaster recovery (DR) for the database. The company needs to minimize the operational overhead for normal operations and DR setup. The company also needs to maintain access to the database's underlying operating system.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Migrate the Oracle database to an Amazon EC2 instance. Set up database replication to a different AWS Region.

B.

Migrate the Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. Activate Cross-Region automated backups to replicate the snapshots to another AWS Region.

C.

Migrate the Oracle database to Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle. Create a read replica for the database in another AWS Region.

D.

Migrate the Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. Create a standby database in another Availability Zone.

Questions 50

A company has a dynamic web application hosted on two Amazon EC2 instances. The company has its own SSL certificate, which is on each instance to perform SSL termination.

There has been an increase in traffic recently, and the operations team determined that SSL encryption and decryption is causing the compute capacity of the web servers to reach their maximum limit.

What should a solutions architect do to increase the application's performance?

Options:

A.

Create a new SSL certificate using AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) install the ACM certificate on each instance

B.

Create an Amazon S3 bucket Migrate the SSL certificate to the S3 bucket Configure the EC2 instances to reference the bucket for SSL termination

C.

Create another EC2 instance as a proxy server Migrate the SSL certificate to the new instance and configure it to direct connections to the existing EC2 instances

D.

Import the SSL certificate into AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Create an Application Load Balancer with an HTTPS listener that uses the SSL certificate from ACM

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Questions 51

A company wants to move its application to a serverless solution. The serverless solution needs to analyze existing and new data by using SL. The company stores the data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The data requires encryption and must be replicated to a different AWS Region.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Create a new S3 bucket. Load the data into the new S3 bucket. Use S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) to replicate encrypted objects to an S3 bucket in another Region. Use server-side encryption with AWS KMS multi-Region kays (SSE-KMS). Use Amazon Athena to query the data.

B.

Create a new S3 bucket. Load the data into the new S3 bucket. Use S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) to replicate encrypted objects to an S3 bucket in another Region. Use server-side encryption with AWS KMS multi-Region keys (SSE-KMS). Use Amazon RDS to query the data.

C.

Load the data into the existing S3 bucket. Use S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) to replicate encrypted objects to an S3 bucket in another Region. Use server-side encryption with Amazon S3

managed encryption keys (SSE-S3). Use Amazon Athena to query the data.

D.

Load the data into the existing S3 bucket. Use S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) to replicate encrypted objects to an S3 bucket in another Region. Use server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed encryption keys (SSE-S3). Use Amazon RDS to query the data.

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Questions 52

A company is migrating its on-premises PostgreSQL database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The on-premises database must remain online and accessible during the migration. The Aurora database must remain synchronized with the on-premises database.

Which combination of actions must a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Create an ongoing replication task.

B.

Create a database backup of the on-premises database

C.

Create an AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) replication server

D.

Convert the database schema by using the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT).

E.

Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule to monitor the database synchronization

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Questions 53

A media company is evaluating the possibility ot moving rts systems to the AWS Cloud The company needs at least 10 TB of storage with the maximum possible I/O performance for video processing. 300 TB of very durable storage for storing media content, and 900 TB of storage to meet requirements for archival media that is not in use anymore

Which set of services should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Amazon EBS for maximum performance, Amazon S3 for durable data storage, and Amazon S3 Glacier for archival storage

B.

Amazon EBS for maximum performance, Amazon EFS for durable data storage and Amazon S3 Glacier for archival storage

C.

Amazon EC2 instance store for maximum performance. Amazon EFS for durable data storage and Amazon S3 for archival storage

D.

Amazon EC2 Instance store for maximum performance. Amazon S3 for durable data storage, and Amazon S3 Glacier for archival storage

Questions 54

A medical records company is hosting an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application processes customer data files that are stored on Amazon S3. The EC2 instances are hosted in public subnets. The EC2 instances access Amazon S3 over the internet, but they do not require any other network access.

A new requirement mandates that the network traffic for file transfers take a private route and not be sent over the internet.

Which change to the network architecture should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?

Options:

A.

Create a NAT gateway. Configure the route table for the public subnets to send traffic to Amazon S3 through the NAT gateway.

B.

Configure the security group for the EC2 instances to restrict outbound traffic so that only traffic to the S3 prefix list is permitted.

C.

Move the EC2 instances to private subnets. Create a VPC endpoint for Amazon S3, and link the endpoint to the route table for the private subnets

D.

Remove the internet gateway from the VPC. Set up an AWS Direct Connect connection, and route traffic to Amazon S3 over the Direct Connect connection.

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Questions 55

A solutions architect is designing a customer-facing application for a company. The application's database will have a clearly defined access pattern throughout the year and will have a variable number of reads and writes that depend on the time of year. The company must retain audit records for the database for 7 days. The recovery point objective (RPO) must be less than 5 hours.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use Amazon DynamoDB with auto scaling Use on-demand backups and Amazon DynamoDB Streams

B.

Use Amazon Redshift. Configure concurrency scaling. Activate audit logging. Perform database snapshots every 4 hours.

C.

Use Amazon RDS with Provisioned IOPS Activate the database auditing parameter Perform database snapshots every 5 hours

D.

Use Amazon Aurora MySQL with auto scaling. Activate the database auditing parameter

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Questions 56

A company runs a stateless web application in production on a group of Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application experiences heavy usage during an 8-hour period each business day. Application usage is moderate and steady overnight Application usage is low during weekends.

The company wants to minimize its EC2 costs without affecting the availability of the application.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use Spot Instances for the entire workload.

B.

Use Reserved instances for the baseline level of usage Use Spot Instances for any additional capacity that the application needs.

C.

Use On-Demand Instances for the baseline level of usage. Use Spot Instances for any additional capacity that the application needs

D.

Use Dedicated Instances for the baseline level of usage. Use On-Demand Instances for any additional capacity that the application needs

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Questions 57

A company is building a containerized application on premises and decides to move the application to AWS. The application will have thousands of users soon after li is deployed. The company Is unsure how to manage the deployment of containers at scale. The company needs to deploy the containerized application in a highly available architecture that minimizes operational overhead.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Store container images In an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository. Use an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster with the AWS Fargate launch type to run the containers. Use target tracking to scale automatically based on demand.

B.

Store container images in an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository. Use an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster with the Amazon EC2 launch type to run the containers. Use target tracking to scale automatically based on demand.

C.

Store container images in a repository that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. Run the containers on EC2 instances that are spread across multiple Availability Zones. Monitor the average CPU utilization in Amazon CloudWatch. Launch new EC2 instances as needed

D.

Create an Amazon EC2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that contains the container image Launch EC2 Instances in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. Use an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to scale out EC2 instances when the average CPU utilization threshold is breached.

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Questions 58

A reporting team receives files each day in an Amazon S3 bucket. The reporting team manually reviews and copies the files from this initial S3 bucket to an analysis S3 bucket each day at the same time to use with Amazon QuickSight. Additional teams are starting to send more files in larger sizes to the initial S3 bucket.

The reporting team wants to move the files automatically analysis S3 bucket as the files enter the initial S3 bucket. The reporting team also wants to use AWS Lambda functions to run pattern-matching code on the copied data. In addition, the reporting team wants to send the data files to a pipeline in Amazon SageMaker Pipelines.

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

Options:

A.

Create a Lambda function to copy the files to the analysis S3 bucket. Create an S3 event notification for the analysis S3 bucket. Configure Lambda and SageMaker Pipelines as destinations of the event notification. Configure s30bjectCreated:Put as the event type.

B.

Create a Lambda function to copy the files to the analysis S3 bucket. Configure the analysis S3 bucket to send event notifications to Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events). Configure an ObjectCreated rule in EventBridge (CloudWatch Events). Configure Lambda and SageMaker Pipelines as targets for the rule.

C.

Configure S3 replication between the S3 buckets. Create an S3 event notification for the analysis S3 bucket. Configure Lambda and SageMaker Pipelines as destinations of the event notification. Configure s30bjectCreated:Put as the event type.

D.

Configure S3 replication between the S3 buckets. Configure the analysis S3 bucket to send event notifications to Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events). Configure an ObjectCreated rule in EventBridge (CloudWatch Events). Configure Lambda and SageMaker Pipelines as targets for the rule.

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Questions 59

A solution architect needs to assign a new microsoft for a company’s application. Clients must be able to call an HTTPS endpoint to reach the micoservice. The microservice also must use AWS identity and Access Management (IAM) to authentication calls. The soltions architect will write the logic for this microservice by using a single AWS Lambda function that is written in Go 1.x.

Which solution will deploy the function in the in the MOST operationally efficient way?

Options:

A.

Create an Amazon API Gateway REST API. Configure the method to use the Lambda function. Enable IAM authentication on the API.

B.

Create a Lambda function URL for the function. Specify AWS_IAM as the authentication type.

C.

Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution. Deploy the function to Lambda@Edge. Integrate IAM authentication logic into the Lambda@Edge function.

D.

Create an Amazon CloudFront distribuion. Deploy the function to CloudFront Functions. Specify AWS_IAM as the authentication type.

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Questions 60

A solutions architect is designing the architecture of a new application being deployed to the AWS Cloud. The application will run on Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances and will automatically scale across multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances will scale up and down frequently throughout the day. An Application Load Balancer (ALB) will handle the load distribution. The architecture needs to support distributed session data management. The company is willing to make changes to code if needed.

What should the solutions architect do to ensure that the architecture supports distributed session data management?

Options:

A.

Use Amazon ElastiCache to manage and store session data.

B.

Use session affinity (sticky sessions) of the ALB to manage session data.

C.

Use Session Manager from AWS Systems Manager to manage the session.

D.

Use the GetSessionToken API operation in AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) to manage the session

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Questions 61

A company has an application that is backed ny an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company's compliance requirements specify that database backups must be taken every month, must be available for 6 months, and must be retained for 7 years.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create an AWS Backup plan to back up the DynamoDB table on the first day of each month. Specify a lifecycle policy that transitions the backup to cold storage after 6 months. Set the retention period for each backup to 7 years.

B.

Create a DynamoDB on-damand backup of the DynamoDB table on the first day of each month Transition the backup to Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval after 6 months. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to delete backups that are older than 7 years.

C.

Use the AWS SDK to develop a script that creates an on-demand backup of the DynamoDB table. Set up an Amzon EvenlBridge rule that runs the script on the first day of each month. Create a second script that will run on the second day of each month to transition DynamoDB backups that are older than 6 months to cold storage and to delete backups that are older than 7 years.

D.

Use the AWS CLI to create an on-demand backup of the DynamoDB table Set up an Amazon EventBridge rule that runs the command on the first day of each month with a cron expression Specify in the command to transition the backups to cold storage after 6 months and to delete the backups after 7 years.

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Questions 62

A rapidly growing global ecommerce company is hosting its web application on AWS. The web application includes static content and dynamic content. The website stores online transaction processing (OLTP) data in an Amazon RDS database. The website’s users are experiencing slow page loads.

Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to resolve this issue? (Select TWO.)

Options:

A.

Configure an Amazon Redshift cluster.

B.

Set up an Amazon CloudFront distribution

C.

Host the dynamic web content in Amazon S3

D.

Create a t wd replica tor the RDS DB instance.

E.

Configure a Multi-AZ deployment for the RDS DB instance

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Questions 63

A company wants to migrate its 1 PB on-premises image repository to AWS. The images will be used by a serverless web application Images stored in the repository are rarely accessed, but they must be immediately available Additionally, the images must be encrypted at rest and protected from accidental deletion

Which solution meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

Implement client-side encryption and store the images in an Amazon S3 Glacier vault Set a vault lock to prevent accidental deletion

B.

Store the images in an Amazon S3 bucket in the S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) storage class Enable versioning default encryption and MFA Delete on the S3 bucket.

C.

Store the images in an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file share Configure the Amazon FSx file share to use an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer master key (CMK) to encrypt the images in the file share Use NTFS permission sets on the images to prevent accidental deletion

D.

Store the images in an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file share in the Infrequent Access storage class Configure the EFS file share to use an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer master key (CMK) to encrypt the images in the file share. Use NFS permission sets on the images to prevent accidental deletion

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Questions 64

A company has an On-premises volume backup solution that has reached its end of life. The company wants to use AWS as part of a new backup solution and wants to maintain local access to all the data while it is backed up on AWS. The company wants to ensure that the data backed up on AWS is automatically and securely transferred.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use AWS Snowball to migrate data out of the on-premises solution to Amazon S3. Configure on-premises systems to mount the Snowball S3 endpoint to provide local access to the data.

B.

Use AWS Snowball Edge to migrate data out of the on-premises solution to Amazon S3.Use the Snowball Edge file interface to provide on-premises systems with local access to the data.

C.

Use AWS Storage Gateway and configure a cached volume gateway. Run the Storage Gateway software application on premises and configure a percentage of data to cache locally. Mount the gateway storage volumes to provide local access to the data.

D.

Use AWS Storage Gateway and configure a stored volume gateway. Run the Storage software application on premises and map the gateway storage volumes to on-premises storage. Mount the gateway storage volumes to provide local access to the data.

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Questions 65

A company is building a new web-based customer relationship management application. The application will use several Amazon EC2 instances that are backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application will also use an Amazon Aurora database. All data for the application must be encrypted at rest and in transit.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) certificates on the ALB to encrypt data in transit. Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to encrypt the EBS volumes and Aurora database storage at rest.

B.

Use the AWS root account to log in to the AWS Management Console. Upload the company’s encryption certificates. While in the root account, select the option to turn on encryption for all data at rest and in transit for the account.

C.

Use a AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt the EBS volumes and Aurora database storage at rest. Attach an AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) certificate to the ALB to encrypt data in transit.

D.

Use BitLocker to encrypt all data at rest. Import the company’s TLS certificate keys to AWS key Management Service (AWS KMS). Attach the KMS keys to the ALB to encrypt data in transit.

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Questions 66

A company wants to use Amazon S3 for the secondary copy of its on-premises dataset. The company would rarely need to access this copy. The storage solution’s cost should be minimal.

Which storage solution meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

S3 Standard

B.

S3 Intelligent-Tiering

C.

S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)

D.

S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)

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Questions 67

A company is using Amazon CloudFront with this website. The company has enabled logging on the CloudFront distribution, and logs are saved in one of the company's Amazon S3 buckets The company needs to perform advanced analyses on the logs and build visualizations

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements'?

Options:

A.

Use standard SQL queries in Amazon Athena to analyze the CloudFront togs in the S3 bucket Visualize the results with AWS Glue

B.

Use standard SQL queries in Amazon Athena to analyze the CloudFront togs in the S3 bucket Visualize the results with Amazon QuickSight

C.

Use standard SQL queries in Amazon DynamoDB to analyze the CloudFront logs m the S3 bucket Visualize the results with AWS Glue

D.

Use standard SQL queries in Amazon DynamoDB to analyze the CtoudFront logs m the S3 bucket Visualize the results with Amazon QuickSight

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Questions 68

A company wants to migrate an Oracle database to AWS. The database consists of a single table that contains millions of geographic information systems (GIS) images that are high resolution and are identified by a geographic code.

When a natural disaster occurs tens of thousands of images get updated every few minutes. Each geographic code has a single image or row that is associated with it. The company wants a solution that is highly available and scalable during such events

Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Options:

A.

Store the images and geographic codes in a database table Use Oracle running on an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance

B.

Store the images in Amazon S3 buckets Use Amazon DynamoDB with the geographic code as the key and the image S3 URL as the value

C.

Store the images and geographic codes in an Amazon DynamoDB table Configure DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) during times of high load

D.

Store the images in Amazon S3 buckets Store geographic codes and image S3 URLs in a database table Use Oracle running on an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance.

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Questions 69

A company has an application that ingests incoming messages. These messages are then quickly consumed by dozens of other applications and microservices.

The number of messages varies drastically and sometimes spikes as high as 100,000 each second. The company wants to decouple the solution and increase scalability.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

Persist the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. All the applications will read and process the messages.

B.

Deploy the application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group, which scales the number of EC2 instances based on CPU metrics.

C.

Write the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with a single shard. All applications will read from the stream and process the messages.

D.

Publish the messages to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic with one or more Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) subscriptions. All applications then process the messages from the queues.

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Questions 70

A gaming company is designing a highly available architecture. The application runs on a modified Linux kernel and supports only UDP-based traffic. The company needs the front-end tier to provide the best possible user experience. That tier must have low latency, route traffic to the nearest edge location, and provide static IP addresses for entry into the application endpoints.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Configure Amazon Route 53 to forward requests to an Application Load Balancer. Use AWS Lambda for the application in AWS Application Auto Scaling.

B.

Configure Amazon CloudFront to forward requests to a Network Load Balancer. Use AWS Lambda for the application in an AWS Application Auto Scaling group.

C.

Configure AWS Global Accelerator to forward requests to a Network Load Balancer. Use Amazon EC2 instances for the application in an EC2 Auto Scaling group.

D.

Configure Amazon API Gateway to forward requests to an Application Load Balancer. Use Amazon EC2 instances for the application in an EC2 Auto Scaling group.

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Questions 71

A company wants to direct its users to a backup static error page if the company's primary website is unavailable. The primary website's DNS records are hosted in Amazon Route 53. The domain is pointing to an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company needs a solution that minimizes changes and infrastructure overhead.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Update the Route 53 records to use a latency routing policy. Add a static error page that is hosted in an Amazon S3

bucket to the records so that the traffic is sent to the most responsive endpoints.

B.

Set up a Route 53 active-passive failover configuration. Direct traffic to a static error page that is hosted in an

Amazon S3 bucket when Route 53 health checks determine that the ALB endpoint is unhealthy.

C.

Set up a Route 53 active-active configuration with the ALB and an Amazon EC2 instance that hosts a static error

page as endpoints. Configure Route 53 to send requests to the instance only if the health checks fail for the ALB.

D.

Update the Route 53 records to use a multivalue answer routing policy. Create a health check. Direct traffic to the

website if the health check passes. Direct traffic to a static error page that is hosted in Amazon S3 if the health check does not pass.

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Questions 72

A company recently started using Amazon Aurora as the data store for its global ecommerce application When large reports are run developers report that the ecommerce application is performing poorly After reviewing metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, a solutions architect finds that the ReadlOPS and CPUUtilization metrics are spiking when monthly reports run.

What is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Options:

A.

Migrate the monthly reporting to Amazon Redshift.

B.

Migrate the monthly reporting to an Aurora Replica

C.

Migrate the Aurora database to a larger instance class

D.

Increase the Provisioned IOPS on the Aurora instance

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Questions 73

A company is launching a new application deployed on an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster and is using the Fargate launch type tor ECS tasks The company is monitoring CPU and memory usage because it is expecting high traffic to the application upon its launch However the company wants to reduce costs when utilization decreases

What should a solutions architect recommend?

Options:

A.

Use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to scale at certain periods based on previous traffic patterns

B.

Use an AWS Lambda function to scale Amazon ECS based on metric breaches that trigger an Amazon CloudWatch alarm

C.

Use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling with simple scaling policies to scale when ECS metric breaches trigger an Amazon CloudWatch alarm

D.

Use AWS Application Auto Scaling with target tracking policies to scale when ECS metric breaches trigger an Amazon CloudWatch alarm

Questions 74

A company is planning to migrate a commercial off-the-shelf application from is on-premises data center to AWS. The software has a software licensing model using sockets and cores with predictable capacity and uptime requirements. The company wants to use its existing licenses, which were purchased earlier this year.

Which Amazon EC2 pricing option is the MOST cost-effective?

Options:

A.

Dedicated Reserved Hosts

B.

Dedicated On-Demand Hosts

C.

Dedicated Reserved Instances

D.

Dedicated On-Oemand Instances

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Questions 75

A company has a three-tier application on AWS that ingests sensor data from its users' devices The traffic flows through a Network Load Balancer (NLB) then to Amazon EC2 instances for the web tier and finally to EC2 instances for the application tier The application tier makes calls to a database

What should a solutions architect do to improve the security of the data in transit?

Options:

A.

Configure a TLS listener Deploy the server certrficate on the NLB

B.

Configure AWS Shield Advanced Enable AWS WAF on the NLB

C.

Change the load balancer to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) Enable AWS WAF on the ALB

D.

Encrypt the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume on the EC2 instances by using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

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Questions 76

A telemarketing company is designing its customer call center functionality on AWS. The company needs a solution that provides multiples speaker recognition and generates transcript files The company wants to query the transcript files to analyze the business patterns The transcript files must be stored for 7 years for auditing piloses.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use Amazon Recognition for multiple speaker recognition. Store the transcript files in Amazon S3 Use machine teaming models for transcript file analysis

B.

Use Amazon Transcribe for multiple speaker recognition. Use Amazon Athena for transcript file analysts

C.

Use Amazon Translate lor multiple speaker recognition. Store the transcript files in Amazon Redshift Use SQL queues lor transcript file analysis

D.

Use Amazon Recognition for multiple speaker recognition. Store the transcript files in Amazon S3 Use Amazon Textract for transcript file analysis

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Questions 77

A company's containerized application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The application needs to download security certificates before it can communicate with other business applications. The company wants a highly secure solution to encrypt and decrypt the certificates in near real time. The solution also needs to store data in highly available storage after the data is encrypted.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Create AWS Secrets Manager secrets for encrypted certificates. Manually update the certificates as needed. Control access to the data by using fine-grained IAM access.

B.

Create an AWS Lambda function that uses the Python cryptography library to receive and perform encryption operations. Store the function in an Amazon S3 bucket.

C.

Create an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key. Allow the EC2 role to use the KMS key for encryption operations. Store the encrypted data on Amazon S3.

D.

Create an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key. Allow the EC2 role to use the KMS key for encryption operations. Store the encrypted data on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes.

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Questions 78

A solutions architect is designing a new hybrid architecture to extend a company s on-premises infrastructure to AWS The company requires a highly available connection with consistent low latency to an AWS Region. The company needs to minimize costs and is willing to accept slower traffic if the primary connection fails.

What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Provision an AWS Direct Connect connection to a Region Provision a VPN connection as a backup if the primary Direct Connect connection fails.

B.

Provision a VPN tunnel connection to a Region for private connectivity. Provision a second VPN tunnel for private connectivity and as a backup if the primary VPN connection fails.

C.

Provision an AWS Direct Connect connection to a Region Provision a second Direct Connect connection to the same Region as a backup if the primary Direct Connect connection fails.

D.

Provision an AWS Direct Connect connection to a Region Use the Direct Connect failover attribute from the AWS CLI to automatically create a backup connection if the primary Direct Connect connection fails.

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Questions 79

A company runs a containerized application on a Kubernetes cluster in an on-premises data center. The company is using a MongoDB database for data storage.

The company wants to migrate some of these environments to AWS, but no code changes or deployment method changes are possible at this time. The company needs a solution that minimizes operational overhead.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with Amazon EC2 worker nodes for compute and MongoDB on EC2 for data storage.

B.

Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with AWS Fargate for compute and Amazon DynamoDB for data storage.

C.

Use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with Amazon EC2 worker nodes for compute and Amazon DynamoDB for data storage.

D.

Use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with AWS Fargate for compute and Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) for data storage.

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Questions 80

A company has hundreds of Amazon EC2 Linux-based instances in the AWS Cloud. Systems administrators have used shared SSH keys to manage the instances After a recent audit, the company's security team is mandating the removal of all shared keys. A solutions architect must design a solution that provides secure access to the EC2 instances.

Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of administrative overhead?

Options:

A.

Use AWS Systems Manager Session Manager to connect to the EC2 instances.

B.

Use AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) to generate one-time SSH keys on demand.

C.

Allow shared SSH access to a set of bastion instances. Configure all other instances to allow only SSH access from the bastion instances

D.

Use an Amazon Cognito custom authorizer to authenticate users. Invoke an AWS Lambda function to generate a temporary SSH key.

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Questions 81

A company produces batch data that comes from different databases. The company also produces live stream data from network sensors and application APIs. The company needs to consolidate all the data into one place for business analytics. The company needs to process the incoming data and then stage the data in different Amazon S3 buckets. Teams will later run one-time queries and import the data into a business intelligence tool to show key performance indicators (KPIs).

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Use Amazon Athena foe one-time queries Use Amazon QuickSight to create dashboards for KPIs

B.

Use Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for one-time queries Use Amazon QuickSight to create dashboards for KPIs

C.

Create custom AWS Lambda functions to move the individual records from me databases to an Amazon Redshift duster

D.

Use an AWS Glue extract transform, and toad (ETL) job to convert the data into JSON format Load the data into multiple Amazon OpenSearch Service (Amazon Elasticsearch Service) dusters

E.

Use blueprints in AWS Lake Formation to identify the data that can be ingested into a data lake Use AWS Glue to crawl the source extract the data and load the data into Amazon S3 in Apache Parquet format

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Questions 82

A solutions architect must design a highly available infrastructure for a website. The website is powered by Windows web servers that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The solutions architect must implement a solution that can mitigate a large-scale DDoS attack that originates from thousands of IP addresses. Downtime is not acceptable for the website.

Which actions should the solutions architect take to protect the website from such an attack? (Select TWO.)

Options:

A.

Use AWS Shield Advanced to stop the DDoS attack.

B.

Configure Amazon GuardDuty to automatically block the attackers.

C.

Configure the website to use Amazon CloudFront for both static and dynamic content.

D.

Use an AWS Lambda function to automatically add attacker IP addresses to VPC network ACLs.

E.

Use EC2 Spot Instances in an Auto Scaling group with a target tracking scaling policy that is set to 80% CPU utilization

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Questions 83

A company wants to migrate its on-premises application to AWS. The application produces output files that vary in size from tens of gigabytes to hundreds of terabytes The application data must be stored in a standard file system structure The company wants a solution that scales automatically, is highly available, and requires minimum operational overhead.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Migrate the application to run as containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Use Amazon S3 for storage

B.

Migrate the application to run as containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) for storage

C.

Migrate the application to Amazon EC2 instances in a Multi-AZ Auto Scaling group. Use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) for storage.

D.

Migrate the application to Amazon EC2 instances in a Multi-AZ Auto Scaling group. Use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) for storage.

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Questions 84

A company is designing an application. The application uses an AWS Lambda function to receive information through Amazon API Gateway and to store the information in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database.

During the proof-of-concept stage, the company has to increase the Lambda quotas significantly to handle the high volumes of data that the company needs to load into the database. A solutions architect must recommend a new design to improve scalability and minimize the configuration effort.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Refactor the Lambda function code to Apache Tomcat code that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. Connect the database by using native Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) drivers.

B.

Change the platform from Aurora to Amazon DynamoDB. Provision a DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) cluster. Use the DAX client SDK to point the existing DynamoDB API calls at the DAX cluster.

C.

Set up two Lambda functions. Configure one function to receive the information. Configure the other function to load the information into the database. Integrate the Lambda functions by using Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS).

D.

Set up two Lambda functions. Configure one function to receive the information. Configure the other function to load the information into the database. Integrate the Lambda functions by using an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue.

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Questions 85

A company has several web servers that need to frequently access a common Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance The company wants a secure method for the web servers to connect to the database while meeting a security requirement to rotate user credentials frequently.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

Store the database user credentials in AWS Secrets Manager Grant the necessary IAM permissions to allow the web servers to access AWS Secrets Manager

B.

Store the database user credentials in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter Grant the necessary IAM permissions to allow the web servers to access OpsCenter

C.

Store the database user credentials in a secure Amazon S3 bucket Grant the necessary IAM permissions to allow the web servers to retrieve credentials and access the database.

D.

Store the database user credentials in files encrypted with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) on the web server file system. The web server should be able to decrypt the files and access the database

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Questions 86

A company stores call transcript files on a monthly basis. Users access the files randomly within 1 year of the call, but users access the files infrequently after 1 year. The company wants to optimize its solution by giving users the ability to query and retrieve files that are less than 1-year-old as quickly as possible. A delay in retrieving older files is acceptable.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Options:

A.

Store individual files with tags in Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval. Query the tags to retrieve the files from S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval.

B.

Store individual files in Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering. Use S3 Lifecycle policies to move the files to S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval after 1 year. Query and retrieve the files that are in Amazon S3 by using Amazon Athena. Query and retrieve the files that are in S3 Glacier by using S3 Glacier Select.

C.

Store individual files with tags in Amazon S3 Standard storage. Store search metadata for each archive in Amazon S3 Standard storage. Use S3 Lifecycle policies to move the files to S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval after 1 year. Query and retrieve the files by searching for metadata from Amazon S3.

D.

Store individual files in Amazon S3 Standard storage. Use S3 Lifecycle policies to move the files to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 year. Store search metadata in Amazon RDS. Query the files from Amazon RDS. Retrieve the files from S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

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Questions 87

A company is hosting a three-tier ecommerce application in the AWS Cloud. The company hosts the website on Amazon S3 and integrates the website with an API that handles sales requests. The company hosts the API on three Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The API consists of static and dynamic front-end content along with backend workers that process sales requests asynchronously.

The company is expecting a significant and sudden increase in the number of sales requests during events for the launch of new products

What should a solutions architect recommend to ensure that all the requests are processed successfully?

Options:

A.

Add an Amazon CloudFront distribution for the dynamic content. Increase the number of EC2 instances to handle the increase in traffic.

B.

Add an Amazon CloudFront distribution for the static content. Place the EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group to launch new instances based on network traffic.

C.

Add an Amazon CloudFront distribution for the dynamic content. Add an Amazon ElastiCache instance in front of the ALB to reduce traffic for the API to handle.

D.

Add an Amazon CloudFront distribution for the static content. Add an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) queue to receive requests from the website for later processing by the EC2 instances.

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Questions 88

A company runs an application that receives data from thousands of geographically dispersed remote devices that use UDP The application processes the data immediately and sends a message back to the device if necessary No data is stored.

The company needs a solution that minimizes latency for the data transmission from the devices. The solution also must provide rapid failover to another AWS Region

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Configure an Amazon Route 53 failover routing policy Create a Network Load Balancer (NLB) in each of the two Regions Configure the NLB to invoke an AWS Lambda function to process the data

B.

Use AWS Global Accelerator Create a Network Load Balancer (NLB) in each of the two Regions as an endpoint. Create an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster with the Fargate launch type Create an ECS service on the cluster Set the ECS service as the target for the NLB Process the data in Amazon ECS.

C.

Use AWS Global Accelerator Create an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in each of the two Regions as an endpoint Create an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster with the Fargate launch type Create an ECS service on the cluster. Set the ECS service as the target for the ALB Process the data in Amazon ECS

D.

Configure an Amazon Route 53 failover routing policy Create an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in each of the two Regions Create an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster with the Fargate launch type Create an ECS service on the cluster Set the ECS service as the target for the ALB Process the data in Amazon ECS

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Questions 89

A company is designing a shared storage solution for a gaming application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud The company needs the ability to use SMB clients to access data solution must be fully managed.

Which AWS solution meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create an AWS DataSync task that shares the data as a mountable file system Mount the file system to the application server

B.

Create an Amazon EC2 Windows instance Install and configure a Windows file share role on the instance Connect the application server to the file share

C.

Create an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system Attach the file system to the origin server Connect the application server to the file system

D.

Create an Amazon S3 bucket Assign an IAM role to the application to grant access to the S3 bucket Mount the S3 bucket to the application server

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Questions 90

An online learning company is migrating to the AWS Cloud. The company maintains its student records in a PostgreSQL database. The company needs a solution in which its data is available and online across multiple AWS Regions at all times.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Migrate the PostgreSQL database to a PostgreSQL cluster on Amazon EC2 instances.

B.

Migrate the PostgreSQL database to an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance with the Multi-AZ feature turned on.

C.

Migrate the PostgreSQL database to an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance. Create a read replica in another Region.

D.

Migrate the PostgreSQL database to an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance. Set up DB snapshots to be copied to another Region.

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Questions 91

A company stores confidential data in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database in the ap-southeast-3 Region The database is encrypted with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key The company was recently acquired and must securely share a backup of the database with the acquiring company's AWS account in ap-southeast-3.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create a database snapshot Copy the snapshot to a new unencrypted snapshot Share the new snapshot with the acquiring company's AWS account

B.

Create a database snapshot Add the acquiring company's AWS account to the KMS key policy Share the snapshot with the acquiring company's AWS account

C.

Create a database snapshot that uses a different AWS managed KMS key Add the acquiring company's AWS account to the KMS key alias. Share the snapshot with the acquiring company's AWS account.

D.

Create a database snapshot Download the database snapshot Upload the database snapshot to an Amazon S3 bucket Update the S3 bucket policy to allow access from the acquiring company's AWS account

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Questions 92

A company has migrated an application to Amazon EC2 Linux instances. One of these EC2 instances runs several 1-hour tasks on a schedule. These tasks were written by different teams and have no common programming language. The company is concerned about performance and scalability while these tasks run on a single instance. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to resolve these concerns.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Use AWS Batch to run the tasks as jobs. Schedule the jobs by using Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events).

B.

Convert the EC2 instance to a container. Use AWS App Runner to create the container on demand to run the tasks as jobs.

C.

Copy the tasks into AWS Lambda functions. Schedule the Lambda functions by using Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events).

D.

Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) of the EC2 instance that runs the tasks. Create an Auto Scaling group with the AMI to run multiple copies of the instance.

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Questions 93

A solution architect is designing a company’s disaster recovery (DR) architecture. The company has a MySQL database that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in a private subnet with scheduled backup. The DR design to include multiple AWS Regions.

Which solution will meet these requiements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Migrate the MySQL database to multiple EC2 instances. Configure a standby EC2 instance in the DR Region Turn on replication.

B.

Migrate the MySQL database to Amazon RDS. Use a Multi-AZ deployment. Turn on read replication for the primary DB instance in the different Availability Zones.

C.

Migrate the MySQL database to an Amazon Aurora global database. Host the primary DB cluster in the primary Region. Host the secondary DB cluster in the DR Region.

D.

Store the schedule backup of the MySQL database in an Amazon S3 bucket that is configured for S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR). Use the data backup to restore the database in the DR Region.

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Questions 94

A company collects data from thousands of remote devices by using a RESTful web services application that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 instance receives the raw data, transforms the raw data, and stores all the data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The number of remote devices will increase into the millions soon. The company needs a highly scalable solution that minimizes operational overhead.

Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements9 (Select TWO.)

Options:

A.

Use AWS Glue to process the raw data in Amazon S3.

B.

Use Amazon Route 53 to route traffic to different EC2 instances.

C.

Add more EC2 instances to accommodate the increasing amount of incoming data.

D.

Send the raw data to Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS). Use EC2 instances to process the data.

E.

Use Amazon API Gateway to send the raw data to an Amazon Kinesis data stream. Configure Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to use the data stream as a source to deliver the data to Amazon S3.

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Questions 95

A company is designing a cloud communications platform that is driven by APIs. The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). The company uses Amazon API Gateway to provide external users with access to the application through APIs. The company wants to protect the platform against web exploits like SQL injection and also wants to detect and mitigate large, sophisticated DDoS attacks.

Which combination of solutions provides the MOST protection? (Select TWO.)

Options:

A.

Use AWS WAF to protect the NLB.

B.

Use AWS Shield Advanced with the NLB.

C.

Use AWS WAF to protect Amazon API Gateway.

D.

Use Amazon GuardDuty with AWS Shield Standard.

E.

Use AWS Shield Standard with Amazon API Gateway.

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Questions 96

A company wants to run an in-memory database for a latency-sensitive application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. The application processes more than 100,000 transactions each minute and requires high network throughput. A solutions architect needs to provide a cost-effective network design that minimizes data transfer charges.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

Launch all EC2 instances in the same Availability Zone within the same AWS Region. Specify a placement group with cluster strategy when launching EC2 instances.

B.

Launch all EC2 instances in different Availability Zones within the same AWS Region. Specify a placement group with partition strategy when launching EC2 instances.

C.

Deploy an Auto Scaling group to launch EC2 instances in different Availability Zones based on a network utilization target.

D.

Deploy an Auto Scaling group with a step scaling policy to launch EC2 instances in different Availability Zones.

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Questions 97

A company is running a batch application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application consists of a backend with multiple Amazon RDS databases. The application is causing a high number of leads on the databases. A solutions architect must reduce the number of database reads while ensuring high availability.

What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Options:

A.

Add Amazon RDS read replicas

B.

Use Amazon ElastCache for Redis

C.

Use Amazon Route 53 DNS caching

D.

Use Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached

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Questions 98

A company has a web application that is based on Java and PHP The company plans to move the application from on premises to AWS The company needs the ability to test new site features frequently. The company also needs a highly available and managed solution that requires minimum operational overhead

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create an Amazon S3 bucket Enable static web hosting on the S3 bucket Upload the static content to the S3 bucket Use AWS Lambda to process all dynamic content

B.

Deploy the web application to an AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment Use URL swapping to switch between multiple Elastic Beanstalk environments for feature testing

C.

Deploy the web application lo Amazon EC2 instances that are configured with Java and PHP Use Auto Scaling groups and an Application Load Balancer to manage the website's availability

D.

Containerize the web application Deploy the web application to Amazon EC2 instances Use the AWS Load Balancer Controller to dynamically route traffic between containers thai contain the new site features for testing

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Questions 99

A company wants to restrict access to the content of one of its man web applications and to protect the content by using authorization techniques available on AWS. The company wants to implement a serverless architecture end an authentication solution for fewer tian 100 users. The solution needs to integrate with the main web application and serve web content globally. The solution must also scale as to company's user base grows while providing lowest login latency possible.

Options:

A.

Use Amazon Cognito tor authentication. Use Lambda#Edge tor authorization Use Amazon CloudFront 10 serve the web application globally

B.

Use AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory tor authentication Use AWS Lambda for authorization Use an Application Load Balancer to serve the web application globally

C.

Usa Amazon Cognito for authentication Use AWS Lambda tor authorization Use Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration 10 serve the web application globally.

D.

Use AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory for authentication Use Lambda@Edge for authorization Use AWS Elastic Beanstalk to serve the web application.

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Questions 100

A company that primarily runs its application servers on premises has decided to migrate to AWS. The company wants to minimize its need to scale its Internet Small

Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) storage on premises. The company wants only its recently accessed data to remain stored locally.

Which AWS solution should the company use to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Amazon S3 File Gateway

B.

AWS Storage Gateway Tape Gateway

C.

AWS Storage Gateway Volume Gateway stored volumes

D.

AWS Storage Gateway Volume Gateway cachea volumes

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Questions 101

An Amazon EC2 instance is located in a private subnet in a new VPC. This subnet does not have outbound internet access, but the EC2 instance needs the ability to download monthly security updates from an outside vendor.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create an internet gateway, and attach it to the VPC. Configure the private subnet route table to use the internet gateway as the default route.

B.

Create a NAT gateway, and place it in a public subnet. Configure the private subnet route table to use the NAT gateway as the default route.

C.

Create a NAT instance, and place it in the same subnet where the EC2 instance is located. Configure the private subnet route table to use the NAT instance as the default route.

D.

Create an internet gateway, and attach it to the VPC. Create a NAT instance, and place it in the same subnet where the EC2 instance is located. Configure the private subnet route table to use the internet gateway as the default route.

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Questions 102

A company has an application that collects data from loT sensors on automobiles. The data is streamed and stored in Amazon S3 through Amazon Kinesis Date Firehose The data produces trillions of S3 objects each year. Each morning, the company uses the data from the previous 30 days to retrain a suite of machine learning (ML) models.

Four times each year, the company uses the data from the previous 12 months to perform analysis and train other ML models The data must be available with minimal delay for up to 1 year. After 1 year, the data must be retained for archival purposes.

Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Options:

A.

Use the S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition objects to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 year

B.

Use the S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class. Configure S3 Intelligent-Tiering to automatically move objects to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 year.

C.

Use the S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) storage class. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition objects to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 year.

D.

Use the S3 Standard storage class. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition objects to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) after 30 days, and then to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 year.

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Questions 103

A company is moving its data management application to AWS. The company wants to transition to an event-driven architecture. The architecture needs to the more distributed and to use serverless concepts whit performing the different aspects of the workflow. The company also wants to minimize operational overhead.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Build out the workflow in AWS Glue Use AWS Glue to invoke AWS Lambda functions to process the workflow slaps

B.

Build out the workflow in AWS Step Functions Deploy the application on Amazon EC2 Instances Use Step Functions to invoke the workflow steps on the EC2 instances

C.

Build out the workflow in Amazon EventBridge. Use EventBridge to invoke AWS Lambda functions on a schedule to process the workflow steps.

D.

Build out the workflow m AWS Step Functions Use Step Functions to create a stale machine Use the stale machine to invoke AWS Lambda functions to process the workflow steps

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Questions 104

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

Which solutions meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Options:

A.

Create an Amazon RDS DB instance in Multi-AZ mode.

B.

Create an Amazon RDS DB instance and one or more replicas in another Availability Zone.

C.

Create an Amazon EC2 in stance-based Docker cluster to handle the dynamic application load.

D.

Create an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster with a Fargate launch type to handle the dynamic application load.

E.

Create an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster with an Amazon EC2 launch type to handle the dynamic application load.

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Questions 105

A company recently created a disaster recovery site in a Different AWS Region.The company needs to transfer large amounts of data back and forth between NFS file systems in the two Regions on a periods.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Use AWS DataSync.

B.

Use AWS Snowball devices

C.

Set up an SFTP server on Amazon EC2

D.

Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

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Questions 106

A company needs to ingested and handle large amounts of streaming data that its application generates. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and sends data to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. which is contained wild default settings. Every other day the application consumes the data and writes the data to an Amazon S3 bucket for business intelligence (BI) processing the company observes that Amazon S3 is not receiving all the data that trio application sends to Kinesis Data Streams.

What should a solutions architect do to resolve this issue?

Options:

A.

Update the Kinesis Data Streams default settings by modifying the data retention period.

B.

Update the application to use the Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) lo send the data to Kinesis Data Streams.

C.

Update the number of Kinesis shards lo handle the throughput of me data that is sent to Kinesis Data Streams.

D.

Turn on S3 Versioning within the S3 bucket to preserve every version of every object that is ingested in the S3 bucket.

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Questions 107

A company is migrating its on-premises workload to the AWS Cloud. The company already uses several Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon RDS DB instances. The company wants a solution that automatically starts and stops the EC2 instances and D6 instances outside of business hours. The solution must minimize cost and infrastructure maintenance.

Which solution will meet these requirement?

Options:

A.

Scale the EC2 instances by using elastic resize Scale the DB instances to zero outside of business hours

B.

Explore AWS Marketplace for partner solutions that will automatically start and stop the EC2 Instances and OB instances on a schedule

C.

Launch another EC2 instance. Configure a crontab schedule to run shell scripts that will start and stop the existing EC2 instances and DB instances on a schedule.

D.

Create an AWS Lambda function that will start and stop the EC2 instances and DB instances Configure Amazon EventBridge to invoke the Lambda function on a schedule

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Questions 108

A solutions architect is designing a two-tiered architecture that includes a public subnet and a database subnet. The web servers in the public subnet must be open to the internet on port 443. The Amazon RDS for MySQL D6 instance in the database subnet must be accessible only to the web servers on port 3306.

Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Options:

A.

Create a network ACL for the public subnet Add a rule to deny outbound traffic to 0 0 0 0/0 on port 3306

B.

Create a security group for the DB instance Add a rule to allow traffic from the public subnet CIDR block on port 3306

C.

Create a security group for the web servers in the public subnet Add a rule to allow traffic from 0 0 0 O'O on port 443

D.

Create a security group for the DB instance Add a rule to allow traffic from the web servers' security group on port 3306

E.

Create a security group for the DB instance Add a rule to deny all traffic except traffic from the web servers' security group on port 3306

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Questions 109

A transaction processing company has weekly scripted batch jobs that run on Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group. The number of transactions can vary but the beseline CPU utilization that is noted on each run is at least 60%. The company needs to provision the capacity 30 minutes before the jobs run.

Currently engineering complete this task by manually modifying the Auto Scaling group parameters. The company does not have the resources to analyze the required capacity trends for the Auto Scaling group counts. The company needs an automated way to modify the Auto Scaling group’s capacity.

Which solution will meet these requiements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Ceate a dynamic scalling policy for the Auto Scaling group. Configure the policy to scale based on the CPU utilization metric to 60%.

B.

Create a scheduled scaling polcy for the Auto Scaling group. Set the appropriate desired capacity, minimum capacity, and maximum capacity. Set the recurrence to weekly. Set the start time to 30 minutes. Before the batch jobs run.

C.

Create a predictive scaling policy for the Auto Scaling group. Configure the policy to scale based on forecast. Set the scaling metric to CPU utilization. Set the target value for the metric to 60%. In the Policy, set the instances to pre-launch 30 minutes before the jobs run.

D.

Create an Amazon EventBridge event to invoke an AWS Lamda function when the CPU utilization metric value for the Auto Scaling group reaches 60%. Configure the Lambda function to increase the Auto Scaling group’s desired capacity and maximum capacity by 20%.

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Questions 110

A company has an API that receives real-time data from a fleet of monitoring devices. The API stores this data in an Amazon RDS DB instance for later analysis. The amount of data that the monitoring devices send to the API fluctuates. During periods of heavy traffic, the API often returns timeout errors.

After an inspection of the logs, the company determines that the database is not capable of processing the volume of write traffic that comes from the API. A solutions architect must minimize the number of connections to the database and must ensure that data is not lost during periods of heavy traffic.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Increase the size of the DB instance to an instance type that has more available memory.

B.

Modify the DB instance to be a Multi-AZ DB instance. Configure the application to write to all active RDS DB instances.

C.

Modify the API to write incoming data to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. Use an AWS Lambda function that Amazon SQS invokes to write data from the queue to the database.

D.

Modify the API to write incoming data to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. Use an AWS Lambda function that Amazon SNS invokes to write data from the topic to the database.

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Questions 111

A company needs to export its database once a day to Amazon S3 for other teams to access. The exported object size vanes between 2 GB and 5 GB. The S3 access pattern for the data is variable and changes rapidly. The data must be immediately available and must remain accessible for up to 3 months. The company needs the most cost-effective solution that will not increase retrieval time

Which S3 storage class should the company use to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

S3 Intelligent-Tiering

B.

S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval

C.

S3 Standard

D.

S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)

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Questions 112

A company has implemented a self-managed DNS service on AWS. The solution consists of the following:

• Amazon EC2 instances in different AWS Regions

• Endpomts of a standard accelerator m AWS Global Accelerator

The company wants to protect the solution against DDoS attacks What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Options:

A.

Subscribe to AWS Shield Advanced Add the accelerator as a resource to protect

B.

Subscribe to AWS Shield Advanced Add the EC2 instances as resources to protect

C.

Create an AWS WAF web ACL that includes a rate-based rule Associate the web ACL with the accelerator

D.

Create an AWS WAF web ACL that includes a rate-based rule Associate the web ACL with the EC2 instances

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Questions 113

A company has an application thai runs on several Amazon EC2 instances Each EC2 instance has multiple Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) data volumes attached to it The application's EC2 instance configuration and data need to be backed up nightly The application also needs to be recoverable in a different AWS Region

Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?

Options:

A.

Write an AWS Lambda function that schedules nightly snapshots of the application's EBS volumes and copies the snapshots to a different Region

B.

Create a backup plan by using AWS Backup to perform nightly backups. Copy the backups to another Region Add the application's EC2 instances as resources

C.

Create a backup plan by using AWS Backup to perform nightly backups Copy the backups to another Region Add the application's EBS volumes as resources

D.

Write an AWS Lambda function that schedules nightly snapshots of the application's EBS volumes and copies the snapshots to a different Availability Zone

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Questions 114

An ecommerce company is building a distributed application that involves several serverless functions and AWS services to complete order-processing tasks. These tasks require manual approvals as part of the workflow A solutions architect needs to design an architecture for the order-processing application The solution must be able to combine multiple AWS Lambda functions into responsive serverless applications The solution also must orchestrate data and services that run on Amazon EC2 instances, containers, or on-premises servers

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Use AWS Step Functions to build the application.

B.

Integrate all the application components in an AWS Glue job

C.

Use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to build the application

D.

Use AWS Lambda functions and Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) events to build the application

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Questions 115

A solutions architect is designing a multi-tier application for a company. The application's users upload images from a mobile device. The application generates a thumbnail of each image and returns a message to the user to confirm that the image was uploaded successfully.

The thumbnail generation can take up to 60 seconds, but the company wants to provide a faster response time to its users to notify them that the original image was received. The solutions architect must design the application to asynchronously dispatch requests to the different application tiers.

What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Write a custom AWS Lambda function to generate the thumbnail and alert the user. Use the image upload process as an event source to invoke the Lambda function.

B.

Create an AWS Step Functions workflow Configure Step Functions to handle the orchestration between the application tiers and alert the user when thumbnail generation is complete

C.

Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) message queue. As images are uploaded, place a message on the SQS queue for thumbnail generation. Alert the user through an application message that the image was received

D.

Create Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notification topics and subscriptions Use one subscription with the application to generate the thumbnail after the image upload is complete. Use a second subscription to message the user's mobile app by way of a push notification after thumbnail generation is complete.

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Questions 116

A company hosts a three-tier ecommerce application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) All ecommerce data is stored in an Amazon RDS for ManaDB Multi-AZ DB instance

The company wants to optimize customer session management during transactions The application must store session data durably

Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO )

Options:

A.

Turn on the sticky sessions feature (session affinity) on the ALB

B.

Use an Amazon DynamoDB table to store customer session information

C.

Deploy an Amazon Cognito user pool to manage user session information

D.

Deploy an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis cluster to store customer session information

E.

Use AWS Systems Manager Application Manager in the application to manage user session information

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Questions 117

A company wants to deploy a new public web application on AWS The application includes a web server tier that uses Amazon EC2 instances The application also includes a database tier that uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance

The application must be secure and accessible for global customers that have dynamic IP addresses

How should a solutions architect configure the security groups to meet these requirements'?

Options:

A.

Configure the security group tor the web servers lo allow inbound traffic on port 443 from 0.0.0. 0/0) Configure the security group for the DB instance to allow inbound traffic on port 3306 from the security group of the web servers

B.

Configure the security group for the web servers to allow inbound traffic on port 443 from the IP addresses of the customers Configure the security group for the DB instance lo allow inbound traffic on port 3306 from the security group of the web servers

C.

Configure the security group for the web servers to allow inbound traffic on port 443 from the IP addresses of the customers Configure the security group for the DB instance to allow inbound traffic on port 3306 from the IP addresses of the customers

D.

Configure the security group for the web servers to allow inbound traffic on port 443 from 0.0.0.0.0 Configure the security group for the DB instance to allow inbound traffic on port 3306 from 0.0.0.0/0)

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Questions 118

An ecommerce company is experiencing an increase in user traffic. The company's store is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances as a two-tier web application consisting of a web tier and a separate database tier. As traffic increases, the company notices that the architecture is causing significant delays in sending timely marketing and order confirmation email to users. The company wants to reduce the time it spends resolving complex email delivery issues and minimize operational overhead.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create a separate application tier using EC2 instances dedicated to email processing.

B.

Configure the web instance to send email through Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES).

C.

Configure the web instance to send email through Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

D.

Create a separate application tier using EC2 instances dedicated to email processing. Place the instances in an Auto Scaling group.

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Questions 119

A company is running a critical business application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group and access an Amazon RDS DB instance

The design did not pass an operational review because the EC2 instances and the DB instance are all located in a single Availability Zone A solutions architect must update the design to use a second Availability Zone

Which solution will make the application highly available?

Options:

A.

Provision a subnet in each Availability Zone Configure the Auto Scaling group to distribute the EC2 instances across both

Availability Zones Configure the DB instance with connections to each network

B.

Provision two subnets that extend across both Availability Zones Configure the Auto Scaling group to distribute the EC2 instances

across both Availability Zones Configure the DB instance with connections to each network

C.

Provision a subnet in each Availability Zone Configure the Auto Scaling group to distribute the EC2 instances across both Availability Zones Configure the DB instance for Multi-AZ deployment

D.

Provision a subnet that extends across both Availability Zones Configure the Auto Scaling group to distribute the EC2 instances

across both Availability Zones Configure the DB instance for Multi-AZ deployment

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Questions 120

A company s order system sends requests from clients to Amazon EC2 instances The EC2 instances process the orders and men store the orders in a database on Amazon RDS Users report that they must reprocess orders when the system fails. The company wants a resilient solution that can process orders automatically it a system outage occurs.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Move (he EC2 Instances into an Auto Scaling group Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule to target an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) task

B.

Move the EC2 instances into an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) Update the order system to send messages to the ALB endpoint.

C.

Move the EC2 instances into an Auto Scaling group Configure the order system to send messages to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue Configure the EC2 instances to consume messages from the queue

D.

Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic Create an AWS Lambda function, and subscribe the function to the SNS topic Configure the order system to send messages to the SNS topic Send a command to the EC2 instances to process the messages by using AWS Systems Manager Run Command

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Questions 121

A company needs to create an AWS Lambda function that will run in a VPC in the company's primary AWS account. The Lambda function needs to access files that the company stores

in an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system. The EFS file system is located in a secondary AWS account. As the company adds files to the file system the solution must scale to meet the demand.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Options:

A.

Create a new EPS file system in the primary account Use AWS DataSync to copy the contents of the original EPS file system to the new EPS file system

B.

Create a VPC peering connection between the VPCs that are in the primary account and the secondary account

C.

Create a second Lambda function In the secondary account that has a mount that is configured for the file system. Use the primary account's Lambda function to invoke the secondary account's Lambda function

D.

Move the contents of the file system to a Lambda Layer’s Configure the Lambda layer's permissions to allow the company's secondary account to use the Lambda layer.

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Questions 122

A company is using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys to encrypt AWS Lambda environment variables. A solutions architect needs to ensure that the required permissions are in place to decrypt and use the environment variables.

Which steps must the solutions architect take to implement the correct permissions? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Add AWS KMS permissions in the Lambda resource policy.

B.

Add AWS KMS permissions in the Lambda execution role.

C.

Add AWS KMS permissions in the Lambda function policy.

D.

Allow the Lambda execution role in the AWS KMS key policy.

E.

Allow the Lambda resource policy in the AWS KMS key policy.

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Questions 123

A company's application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in multiple Availability Zones. The application needs to ingest real-time data from third-party applications.

The company needs a data ingestion solution that places the ingested raw data in an Amazon S3 bucket.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create Amazon Kinesis data streams for data ingestion. Create Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery streams to consume the Kinesis data streams. Specify the S3 bucket as the destination of the delivery streams.

B.

Create database migration tasks in AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). Specify replication instances of the EC2 instances as the source endpoints. Specify the S3 bucket as the target endpoint. Set the migration type to migrate existing data and replicate ongoing changes.

C.

Create and configure AWS DataSync agents on the EC2 instances. Configure DataSync tasks to transfer data from the EC2 instances to the S3 bucket.

D.

Create an AWS Direct Connect connection to the application for data ingestion. Create Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery streams to consume direct PUT operations from the application. Specify the S3 bucket as the destination of the delivery streams.

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Questions 124

A company is using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to present its application to the internet. The company finds abnormal traffic access patterns across the application. A solutions architect needs to improve visibility into the infrastructure to help the company understand these abnormalities better.

What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create a table in Amazon Athena for AWS CloudTrail logs. Create a query for the relevant information.

B.

Enable ALB access logging to Amazon S3. Create a table in Amazon Athena, and query the logs.

C.

Enable ALB access logging to Amazon S3 Open each file in a text editor, and search each line for the relevant information

D.

Use Amazon EMR on a dedicated Amazon EC2 instance to directly query the ALB to acquire traffic access log information.

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Questions 125

A company has data collection sensors at different locations. The data collection sensors stream a high volume of data to the company. The company wants to design a platform on AWS to ingest and process high-volume streaming data. The solution must be scalable and support data collection in near real time. The company must store the data in Amazon S3 for future reporting.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to deliver streaming data to Amazon S3.

B.

Use AWS Glue to deliver streaming data to Amazon S3.

C.

Use AWS Lambda to deliver streaming data and store the data to Amazon S3.

D.

Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to deliver streaming data to Amazon S3.

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Questions 126

A company runs a highly available web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The company uses Amazon CloudWatch metrics

As the traffic to the web application Increases, some EC2 instances become overloaded with many outstanding requests The CloudWatch metrics show that the number of requests processed and the time to receive the responses from some EC2 instances are both higher compared to other EC2 instances The company does not want new requests to be forwarded to the EC2 instances that are already overloaded.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use the round robin routing algorithm based on the RequestCountPerTarget and Active Connection Count CloudWatch metrics.

B.

Use the least outstanding requests algorithm based on the RequestCountPerTarget and ActiveConnectionCount CloudWatch metrics.

C.

Use the round robin routing algorithm based on the RequestCount and TargetResponseTime CloudWatch metrics.

D.

Use the least outstanding requests algorithm based on the RequestCount and TargetResponseTime CloudWatch metrics.

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Questions 127

A solutions architect is using an AWS CloudFormation template to deploy a three-tier web application. The web application consists of a web tier and an application tier that stores and retrieves user data in Amazon DynamoDB tables. The web and application tiers are hosted on Amazon EC2 instances, and the database tier is not publicly accessible. The application EC2 instances need to access the DynamoDB tables without exposing API credentials in the template.

What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create an IAM role to read the DynamoDB tables. Associate the role with the application instances by referencing an instance profile.

B.

Create an IAM role that has the required permissions to read and write from the DynamoDB tables. Add the role to the EC2 instance profile, and associate the instance profile with the application instances.

C.

Use the parameter section in the AWS CloudFormation template to have the user input access and secret keys from an already-created IAM user that has the required permissions to read and write from the DynamoDB tables.

D.

Create an IAM user in the AWS CloudFormation template that has the required permissions to read and write from the DynamoDB tables. Use the GetAtt function to retrieve the access and secret keys, and pass them to the application instances through the user data.

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Questions 128

A company wants to run its experimental workloads in the AWS Cloud. The company has a budget for cloud spending. The company's CFO is concerned about cloud spending accountability for each department. The CFO wants to receive notification when the spending threshold reaches 60% of the budget.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use cost allocation tags on AWS resources to label owners. Create usage budgets in AWS Budgets. Add an alert threshold to receive notification when spending exceeds 60% of the budget.

B.

Use AWS Cost Explorer forecasts to determine resource owners. Use AWS Cost Anomaly Detection to create alert threshold notifications when spending exceeds 60% of the budget.

C.

Use cost allocation tags on AWS resources to label owners. Use AWS Support API on AWS Trusted Advisor to create alert threshold notifications when spending exceeds 60% of the budget

D.

Use AWS Cost Explorer forecasts to determine resource owners. Create usage budgets in AWS Budgets. Add an alert threshold to receive notification when spending exceeds 60% of the budget.

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Questions 129

A solutions architect is designing a user authentication solution for a company The solution must invoke two-factor authentication for users that log in from inconsistent geographical locations. IP addresses, or devices. The solution must also be able to scale up to accommodate millions of users.

Which solution will meet these requirements'?

Options:

A.

Configure Amazon Cognito user pools for user authentication Enable the nsk-based adaptive authentication feature with multi-factor authentication (MFA)

B.

Configure Amazon Cognito identity pools for user authentication Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA).

C.

Configure AWS Identity and Access Management (1AM) users for user authentication Attach an 1AM policy that allows the AllowManageOwnUserMFA action

D.

Configure AWS 1AM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On) authentication for user authentication Configure the permission sets to require multi-factor authentication

(MFA)

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Questions 130

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

What should the solutions architect do to enable Internet access for the private subnets?

Options:

A.

Create three NAT gateways, one for each public subnet in each AZ. Create a private route table for each AZ that forwards non-VPC traffic to the NAT gateway in its AZ.

B.

Create three NAT instances, one for each private subnet in each AZ. Create a private route table for each AZ that forwards non-VPC traffic to the NAT instance in its AZ.

C.

Create a second internet gateway on one of the private subnets. Update the route table for the private subnets that forward non-VPC traffic to the private internet gateway.

D.

Create an egress-only internet gateway on one of the public subnets. Update the route table for the private subnets that forward non-VPC traffic to the egress- only internet gateway.

Questions 131

A social media company allows users to upload images to its website. The website runs on Amazon EC2 instances. During upload requests, the website resizes the images to a standard size and stores the resized images in Amazon S3. Users are experiencing slow upload requests to the website.

The company needs to reduce coupling within the application and improve website performance. A solutions architect must design the most operationally efficient process for image uploads.

Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Configure the application to upload images to S3 Glacier.

B.

Configure the web server to upload the original images to Amazon S3.

C.

Configure the application to upload images directly from each user's browser to Amazon S3 through the use of a presigned URL.

D.

Configure S3 Event Notifications to invoke an AWS Lambda function when an image is uploaded. Use the function to resize the image

E.

Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule that invokes an AWS Lambda function on a schedule to resize uploaded images.

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Questions 132

A company runs an online marketplace web application on AWS. The application serves hundreds of thousands of users during peak hours. The company needs a scalable, near-real-time solution to share the details of millions of financial transactions with several other internal applications Transactions also need to be processed to remove sensitive data before being stored in a document database for low-latency retrieval.

What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Store the transactions data into Amazon DynamoDB Set up a rule in DynamoDB to remove sensitive data from every transaction upon write Use DynamoDB Streams to share the transactions data with other applications

B.

Stream the transactions data into Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to store data in Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3 Use AWS Lambda integration with Kinesis Data Firehose to remove sensitive data. Other applications can consume the data stored in Amazon S3

C.

Stream the transactions data into Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Use AWS Lambda integration to remove sensitive data from every transaction and then store the transactions data in Amazon DynamoDB Other applications can consume the transactions data off the Kinesis data stream.

D.

Store the batched transactions data in Amazon S3 as files. Use AWS Lambda to process every file and remove sensitive data before updating the files in Amazon S3 The Lambda function then stores the data in Amazon DynamoDB Other applications can consume transaction files stored in Amazon S3.

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Questions 133

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

Which solution will satisfy these requirements?

Options:

A.

Configure Amazon EFS storage and set the Active Directory domain for authentication

B.

Create an SMB Me share on an AWS Storage Gateway tile gateway in two Availability Zones

C.

Create an Amazon S3 bucket and configure Microsoft Windows Server to mount it as a volume

D.

Create an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system on AWS and set the Active Directory domain for authentication

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Questions 134

A company hosts an application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances The application processes messages from an Amazon SQS queue writes to an Amazon RDS table and deletes the message from the queue Occasional duplicate records are found in the RDS table. The SQS queue does not contain any duplicate messages.

What should a solutions architect do to ensure messages are being processed once only?

Options:

A.

Use the CreateQueue API call to create a new queue

B.

Use the Add Permission API call to add appropriate permissions

C.

Use the ReceiveMessage API call to set an appropriate wail time

D.

Use the ChangeMessageVisibility APi call to increase the visibility timeout

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Questions 135

A company has an application that provides marketing services to stores. The services are based on previous purchases by store customers. The stores upload transaction data to the company through SFTP, and the data is processed and analyzed to generate new marketing offers. Some of the files can exceed 200 GB in size.

Recently, the company discovered that some of the stores have uploaded files that contain personally identifiable information (PII) that should not have been included. The company wants administrators to be alerted if PII is shared again. The company also wants to automate remediation.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?

Options:

A.

Use an Amazon S3 bucket as a secure transfer point. Use Amazon Inspector to scan me objects in the bucket. If objects contain Pll. trigger an S3 Lifecycle policy to remove the objects that contain Pll.

B.

Use an Amazon S3 bucket as a secure transfer point. Use Amazon Macie to scan the objects in the bucket. If objects contain Pll. Use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to trigger a notification to the administrators to remove the objects mat contain Pll.

C.

Implement custom scanning algorithms in an AWS Lambda function. Trigger the function when objects are loaded into the bucket. It objects contain Rll. use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to trigger a notification to the administrators to remove the objects that contain Pll.

D.

Implement custom scanning algorithms in an AWS Lambda function. Trigger the function when objects are loaded into the bucket. If objects contain Pll. use Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon STS) to trigger a notification to the administrators and trigger on S3 Lifecycle policy to remove the objects mot contain PII.

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Questions 136

A company recently launched Linux-based application instances on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet and launched a Linux-based bastion host on an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subnet of a VPC A solutions architect needs to connect from the on-premises network, through the company's internet connection to the bastion host and to the application servers The solutions architect must make sure that the security groups of all the EC2 instances will allow that access

Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO)

Options:

A.

Replace the current security group of the bastion host with one that only allows inbound access from the application instances

B.

Replace the current security group of the bastion host with one that only allows inbound access from the internal IP range for the company

C.

Replace the current security group of the bastion host with one that only allows inbound access from the external IP range for the company

D.

Replace the current security group of the application instances with one that allows inbound SSH access from only the private IP address of the bastion host

E.

Replace the current security group of the application instances with one that allows inbound SSH access from only the public IP address of the bastion host

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Questions 137

A company hosts a containerized web application on a fleet of on-premises servers that process incoming requests. The number of requests is growing quickly. The on-premises servers cannot handle the increased number of requests. The company wants to move the application to AWS with minimum code changes and minimum development effort.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Use AWS Fargate on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) to run the containerized web application with Service Auto Scaling. Use an Application Load Balancer to distribute the incoming requests.

B.

Use two Amazon EC2 instances to host the containerized web application. Use an Application Load Balancer to distribute the incoming requests

C.

Use AWS Lambda with a new code that uses one of the supported languages. Create multiple Lambda functions to support the load. Use Amazon API Gateway as an entry point to the Lambda functions.

D.

Use a high performance computing (HPC) solution such as AWS ParallelClusterto establish an HPC cluster that can process the incoming requests at the appropriate scale.

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Questions 138

A company is preparing to deploy a new serverless workload. A solutions architect must use the principle of least privilege to configure permissions that will be used to run an AWS Lambda function. An Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule will invoke the function.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

Add an execution role to the function with lambda: InvokeFunction as the action and * as the principal.

B.

Add an execution role to the function with lambda: InvokeFunction as the action and Service:amazonaws.com as the principal.

C.

Add a resource-based policy to the function with lambda:'* as the action and Service:events.amazonaws.com as the principal.

D.

Add a resource-based policy to the function with lambda: InvokeFunction as the action and Service:events.amazonaws.com as the principal.

Questions 139

A company runs an SMB file server in its data center. The file server stores large files that the company frequently accesses for up to 7 days after the file creation date. After 7 days, the company needs to be able to access the files with a maximum retrieval time of 24 hours.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use AWS DataSync to copy data that is older than 7 days from the SMB file server to AWS.

B.

Create an Amazon S3 File Gateway to increase the company's storage space. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 7 days.

C.

Create an Amazon FSx File Gateway to increase the company's storage space. Create an Amazon S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the data after 7 days.

D.

Configure access to Amazon S3 for each user. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the data to S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval after 7 days.

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Questions 140

A solutions architect has created a new AWS account and must secure AWS account root user access.

Which combination of actions will accomplish this? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Ensure the root user uses a strong password.

B.

Enable multi-factor authentication to the root user.

C.

Store root user access keys in an encrypted Amazon S3 bucket.

D.

Add the root user to a group containing administrative permissions.

E.

Apply the required permissions to the root user with an inline policy document.

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Questions 141

A company is moving its on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The database has several applications that write to the same tables. The applications need to be migrated one by one with a month in between each migration. Management has expressed concerns that the database has a high number of reads and writes. The data must be kept in sync across both databases throughout the migration.

What should a solutions architect recommend?

Options:

A.

Use AWS DataSync for the initial migration. Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to create a change data capture (CDC) replication task and a table mapping to select all tables.

B.

Use AWS DataSync for the initial migration. Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to create a full load plus change data capture (CDC) replication task and a table mapping to select all tables.

C.

Use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool with AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) using a memory optimized replication instance. Create a full load plus change data capture (CDC) replication task and a table mapping to select all tables.

D.

Use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool with AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) using a compute optimized replication instance. Create a full load plus change data capture (CDC) replication task and a table mapping to select the largest tables.

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Questions 142

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

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

Options:

A.

Use Amazon Athena with Amazon S3

B.

Use Amazon API Gateway with AWS Lambda

C.

Use Amazon QuickSight with Amazon Redshift.

D.

Use Amazon API Gateway with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

Questions 143

A company uses Amazon S3 to store high-resolution pictures in an S3 bucket. To minimize application changes, the company stores the pictures as the latest version of an S3 object

The company needs to retain only the two most recent versions ot the pictures.

The company wants to reduce costs. The company has identified the S3 bucket as a large expense.

Which solution will reduce the S3 costs with the LEAST operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Use S3 Lifecycle to delete expired object versions and retain the two most recent versions.

B.

Use an AWS Lambda function to check for older versions and delete all but the two most recent versions

C.

Use S3 Batch Operations to delete noncurrent object versions and retain only the two most recent versions

D.

Deactivate versioning on the S3 bucket and retain the two most recent versions.

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Questions 144

A company has an organization in AWS Organizations. The company runs Amazon EC2 instances across four AWS accounts in the root organizational unit (OU). There are three nonproduction accounts and one production account. The company wants to prohibit users from launching EC2 instances of a certain size in the nonproduction accounts. The company has created a service control policy (SCP) to deny access to launch instances that use the prohibited types.

Which solutions to deploy the SCP will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Options:

A.

Attach the SCP to the root OU for the organization.

B.

Attach the SCP to the three nonproduction Organizations member accounts.

C.

Attach the SCP to the Organizations management account.

D.

Create an OU for the production account. Attach the SCP to the OU. Move the production member account into the new OU.

E.

Create an OU for the required accounts. Attach the SCP to the OU. Move the nonproduction member accounts into the new OU.

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Questions 145

A company has an online gaming application that has TCP and UDP multiplayer gaming capabilities. The company uses Amazon Route 53 to point the application traffic to multiple Network Load Balancers (NLBs) in different AWS Regions. The company needs to improve application performance and decrease latency for the online game in preparation for user growth.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Add an Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of the NLBs. Increase the Cache-Control: max-age parameter.

B.

Replace the NLBs with Application Load Balancers (ALBs). Configure Route 53 to use latency-based routing.

C.

Add AWS Global Accelerator in front of the NLBs. Configure a Global Accelerator endpoint to use the correct listener ports.

D.

‘Add an Amazon API Gateway endpoint behind the NLBs. Enable API caching. Override method caching for the different stages.

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Questions 146

A solutions architect is designing the storage architecture for a new web application used for storing and viewing engineering drawings. All application components will be deployed on the AWS infrastructure.

The application design must support caching to minimize the amount of time that users wait for the engineering drawings to load. The application must be able to store petabytes of data. Which combination of storage and caching should the solutions architect use?

Options:

A.

Amazon S3 with Amazon CloudFront

B.

Amazon S3 Glacier with Amazon ElastiCache

C.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes with Amazon CloudFront

D.

AWS Storage Gateway with Amazon ElastiCache

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Questions 147

A company has a mobile game that reads most of its metadata from an Amazon RDS DB instance. As the game increased in popularity, developers noticed slowdowns related to the game's metadata load times Performance metrics indicate that simply scaling the database will not help A solutions architect must explore all options that include capabilities for snapshots, replication, and sub-millisecond response times

What should the solutions architect recommend to solve these issues'?

Options:

A.

Migrate the database to Amazon Aurora with Aurora Replicas

B.

Migrate the database to Amazon DynamoDB with global tables

C.

Add an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis layer in front of the database.

D.

Add an Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached layer in front of the database

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Questions 148

A company recently migrated to AWS and wants to implement a solution to protect the traffic that flows in and out of the production VPC. The company had an inspection server in its on-premises data center. The inspection server performed specific operations such as traffic flow inspection and traffic filtering. The company wants to have the same functionalities in the AWS Cloud.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use Amazon GuardDuty for traffic inspection and traffic filtering in the production VPC

B.

Use Traffic Mirroring to mirror traffic from the production VPC for traffic inspection and filtering.

C.

Use AWS Network Firewall to create the required rules for traffic inspection and traffic filtering for the production VPC.

D.

Use AWS Firewall Manager to create the required rules for traffic inspection and traffic filtering for the production VPC.

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Questions 149

A company needs to store data in Amazon S3 and must prevent the data from being changed. The company wants new objects that are uploaded to Amazon S3 to remain unchangeable for a nonspecific amount of time until the company decides to modify the objects. Only specific users in the company’s AWS account can have the ability to delete the objects. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create an S3 Glacier vault Apply a write-once, read-many (WORM) vault lock policy to the objects

B.

Create an S3 bucket with S3 Object Lock enabled Enable versioning Set a retention period of 100 years Use governance mode as the S3 bucket's default retention mode for new objects

C.

Create an S3 bucket Use AWS CloudTrail to (rack any S3 API events that modify the objects Upon notification, restore the modified objects from any backup versions that the company has

D.

Create an S3 bucket with S3 Object Lock enabled Enable versioning Add a legal hold to the objects Add the s3 PutObjectLegalHold permission to the IAM policies of users who need to delete the objects

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Questions 150

A company wants to run a gaming application on Amazon EC2 instances that are part of an Auto Scaling group in the AWS Cloud. The application will transmit data by using UDP packets. The company wants to ensure that the application can scale out and in as traffic increases and decreases.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Attach a Network Load Balancer to the Auto Scaling group

B.

Attach an Application Load Balancer to the Auto Scaling group.

C.

Deploy an Amazon Route 53 record set with a weighted policy to route traffic appropriately

D.

Deploy a NAT instance that is configured with port forwarding to the EC2 instances in the Auto Scaling group.

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Questions 151

A company hosts a two-tier application on Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon RDS. The application's demand varies based on the time of day. The load is minimal after work hours and on weekends. The EC2 instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group that is configured with a minimum of two instances and a maximum of five instances. The application must be available at all times, but the company is concerned about overall cost.

Which solution meets the availability requirement MOST cost-effectively?

Options:

A.

Use all EC2 Spot Instances. Stop the RDS database when it is not in use.

B.

Purchase EC2 Instance Savings Plans to cover five EC2 instances. Purchase an RDS Reserved DB Instance

C.

Purchase two EC2 Reserved Instances Use up to three additional EC2 Spot Instances as needed. Stop the RDS database when it is not in use.

D.

Purchase EC2 Instance Savings Plans to cover two EC2 instances. Use up to three additional EC2 On-Demand Instances as needed. Purchase an RDS Reserved DB Instance.

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Questions 152

A company has deployed a Java Spring Boot application as a pod that runs on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in private subnets. The application needs to write data to an Amazon DynamoDB table. A solutions architect must ensure that the application can interact with the DynamoDB table without exposing traffic to the internet.

Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to accomplish this goal? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Attach an IAM role that has sufficient privileges to the EKS pod.

B.

Attach an IAM user that has sufficient privileges to the EKS pod.

C.

Allow outbound connectivity to the DynamoDB table through the private subnets’ network ACLs.

D.

Create a VPC endpoint for DynamoDB.

E.

Embed the access keys in the Java Spring Boot code.

Questions 153

A company is deploying a new public web application toAWS. The application Will run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALE). The application needs to be encrypted at the edge with an SSL/TLS certificate that is issued by an external certificate authority (CA). The certificate must be rotated each year before the certificate expires.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to issue an SSUTLS certificate. Apply the certificate to the ALB Use the managed renewal feature to automatically rotate the

certificate.

B.

Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to issue an SSUTLS certificate_ Import the key material from the certificate. Apply the certificate to the ALB Use the managed

renewal teature to automatically rotate the certificate.

C.

Use AWS Private Certificate Authority to issue an SSL/TLS certificate from the root CA. Apply the certificate to the ALB. use the managed renewal feature to automatically rotate the certificate

D.

Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to import an SSL/TLS certificate. Apply the certificate to the ALB_ Use Amazon EventBridge to send a notification when the certificate is nearing expiration. Rotate the certificate manually.

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Questions 154

A company runs multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances in a VPC across two Availability Zones. The instances host applications that use a hierarchical directory structure. The applications need to read and write rapidly and concurrently to shared storage.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create an Amazon S3 bucket. Allow access from all the EC2 instances in the VPC.

B.

Create an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system. Mount the EFS file system from each EC2 instance.

C.

Create a file system on a Provisioned IOPS SSD (102) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. Attach the EBS volume to all the EC2 instances.

D.

Create file systems on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that are attached to each EC2 instance. Synchromze the EBS volumes across the different EC2 instances.

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Questions 155

A company has an on-premises data center that is running out of storage capacity. The company wants to migrate its storage infrastructure to AWS while minimizing bandwidth costs. The solution must allow for immediate retrieval of data at no additional cost.

How can these requirements be met?

Options:

A.

Deploy Amazon S3 Glacier Vault and enable expedited retrieval. Enable provisioned retrieval capacity for the workload.

B.

Deploy AWS Storage Gateway using cached volumes. Use Storage Gateway to store data in Amazon S3 while retaining copies of frequently accessed data subsets locally.

C.

Deploy AWS Storage Gateway using stored volumes to store data locally. Use Storage Gateway to asynchronously back up point-in-time snapshots of the data to Amazon S3.

D.

Deploy AWS Direct Connect to connect with the on-premises data center. Configure AWS Storage Gateway to store data locally. Use Storage Gateway to asynchronously back up point-in-time snapshots of the data to Amazon S3.

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Questions 156

An analytics company uses Amazon VPC to run its multi-tier services. The company wants to use RESTful APIs to offer a web analytics service to millions of users. Users must be verified by using an authentication service to access the APIs.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?

Options:

A.

Configure an Amazon Cognito user pool for user authentication. Implement Amazon API Gateway REST APIs with a Cognito authorizer.

B.

Configure an Amazon Cognito identity pool for user authentication. Implement Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs with a Cognito authorizer.

C.

Configure an AWS Lambda function to handle user authentication. Implement Amazon API Gateway REST APIs with a Lambda authorizer.

D.

Configure an 1AM user to handle user authentication. Implement Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs with an 1AM authorizer.

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Questions 157

A company has a workload in an AWS Region. Customers connect to and access the workload by using an Amazon API Gateway REST API. The company uses Amazon Route 53 as its DNS provider. The company wants to provide individual and secure URLs for all customers.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency? (Select THREE.)

Options:

A.

Register the required domain in a registrar. Create a wildcard custom domain name in a Route 53 hosted zone and record in the zone that points to the API Gateway endpoint.

B.

Request a wildcard certificate that matches the domains in AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) in a different Region.

C.

Create hosted zones for each customer as required in Route 53. Create zone records that point to the API Gateway endpoint.

D.

Request a wildcard certificate that matches the custom domain name in AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) in the same Region.

E.

Create multiple API endpoints for each customer in API Gateway.

F.

Create a custom domain name in API Gateway for the REST API. Import the certificate from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM).

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Questions 158

A company has a financial application that produces reports. The reports average 50 KB in size and are stored in Amazon S3. The reports are frequently accessed during the first week after production and must be stored for several years. The reports must be retrievable within 6 hours.

Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Options:

A.

Use S3 Standard. Use an S3 Lifecycle rule to transition the reports to S3 Glacier after 7 days.

B.

Use S3 Standard. Use an S3 Lifecycle rule to transition the reports to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) after 7 days.

C.

Use S3 Intelligent-Tiering. Configure S3 Intelligent-Tiering to transition the reports to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) and S3 Glacier.

D.

Use S3 Standard. Use an S3 Lifecycle rule to transition the reports to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 7 days.

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Questions 159

A social media company wants to allow its users to upload images in an application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud. The company needs a solution that automatically resizes the images so that the images can be displayed on multiple device types. The application experiences unpredictable traffic patterns throughout the day. The company is seeking a highly available solution that maximizes scalability.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create a static website hosted in Amazon S3 that invokes AWS Lambda functions to resize the images and store the images in an Amazon S3 bucket.

B.

Create a static website hosted in Amazon CloudFront that invokes AWS Step Functions to resize the images and store the images in an Amazon RDS database.

C.

Create a dynamic website hosted on a web server that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance Configure a process that runs on the EC2 instance to resize the images and store the images in an Amazon S3 bucket.

D.

Create a dynamic website hosted on an automatically scaling Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster that creates a resize job in Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS). Set up an image-resizing program that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance to process the resize jobs

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Questions 160

A company wants to create an application to store employee data in a hierarchical structured relationship. The company needs a minimum-latency response to high-traffic queries for the employee data and must protect any sensitive data. The company also needs to receive monthly email messages if any financial information is present in the employee data.

Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Options:

A.

Use Amazon Redshift to store the employee data in hierarchies. Unload the data to Amazon S3 every month.

B.

Use Amazon DynamoDB to store the employee data in hierarchies. Export the data to Amazon S3 every month.

C.

Configure Amazon fvlacie for the AWS account. Integrate Macie with Amazon EventBridge to send monthly events to AWS Lambda.

D.

Use Amazon Athena to analyze the employee data in Amazon S3. Integrate Athena with Amazon QuickSight to publish analysis dashboards and share the dashboards with users.

E.

Configure Amazon Macie for the AWS account Integrate Macie with Amazon EventBridge to send monthly notifications through an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) subscription.

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Questions 161

A company uses Amazon API Gateway to run a private gateway with two REST APIs in the same VPC. The BuyStock RESTful web service calls the CheckFunds RESTful

web service to ensure that enough funds are available before a stock can be purchased. The company has noticed in the VPC flow logs that the BuyStock RESTful web

service calls the CheckFunds RESTful web service over the internet instead of through the VPC. A solutions architect must implement a solution so that the APIs

communicate through the VPC.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the FEWEST changes to the code?

(Select Correct Option/s and give detailed explanation from AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) Study Manual or documents)

Options:

A.

Add an X-APl-Key header in the HTTP header for authorization.

B.

Use an interface endpoint.

C.

Use a gateway endpoint.

D.

Add an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue between the two REST APIs.

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Questions 162

A company runs an application that uses Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The application receives traffic only on weekdays during business hours. The company wants to optimize costs and reduce operational overhead based on this usage.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use the Instance Scheduler on AWS to configure start and stop schedules.

B.

Turn off automatic backups. Create weekly manual snapshots of the database.

C.

Create a custom AWS Lambda function to start and stop the database based on minimum CPU utilization.

D.

Purchase All Upfront reserved DB instances.

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Questions 163

An loT company is releasing a mattress that has sensors to collect data about a user's sleep. The sensors will send data to an Amazon S3 bucket. The sensors collect approximately 2 MB of data every night for each mattress. The company must process and summarize the data for each mattress. The results need to be available as soon as possible Data processing will require 1 GB of memory and will finish within 30 seconds.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Options:

A.

Use AWS Glue with a Scalajob.

B.

Use Amazon EMR with an Apache Spark script.

C.

Use AWS Lambda with a Python script.

D.

Use AWS Glue with a PySpark job.

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Questions 164

A company offers a food delivery service that is growing rapidly. Because of the growth, the company’s order processing system is experiencing scaling problems during peak traffic hours. The current architecture includes the following:

• A group of Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to collect orders from the application

• Another group of EC2 instances that run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to fulfill orders

The order collection process occurs quickly, but the order fulfillment process can take longer. Data must not be lost because of a scaling event.

A solutions architect must ensure that the order collection process and the order fulfillment process can both scale properly during peak traffic hours. The solution must optimize utilization of the company’s AWS resources.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor the CPU of each instance in the Auto Scaling groups. Configure each Auto Scaling group’s minimum capacity according to peak workload values.

B.

Use Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor the CPU of each instance in the Auto Scaling groups. Configure a CloudWatch alarm to invoke an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic that creates additional Auto Scaling groups on demand.

C.

Provision two Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queues: one for order collection and another for order fulfillment. Configure the EC2 instances to poll their respective queue. Scale the Auto Scaling groups based on notifications that the queues send.

D.

Provision two Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queues: one for order collection and another for order fulfillment. Configure the EC2 instances to poll their respective queue. Create a metric based on a backlog per instance calculation. Scale the Auto Scaling groups based on this metric.

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Questions 165

A solutions architect is designing a REST API in Amazon API Gateway for a cash payback service The application requires 1 GB of memory and 2 GB of storage for its computation resources. The application will require that the data is in a relational format.

Which additional combination of AWS services will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative effort? {Select TWO.)

Options:

A.

Amazon EC2

B.

AWS Lambda

C.

Amazon RDS

D.

Amazon DynamoDB

E.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS)

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Questions 166

A company operates a two-tier application for image processing. The application uses two Availability Zones, each with one public subnet and one private subnet. An Application Load Balancer (ALB) for the web tier uses the public subnets. Amazon EC2 instances for the application tier use the private subnets.

Users report that the application is running more slowly than expected. A security audit of the web server log files shows that the application is receiving millions of illegitimate requests from a small number of IP addresses. A solutions architect needs to resolve the immediate performance problem while the company investigates a more permanent solution.

What should the solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?

Options:

A.

Modify the inbound security group for the web tier. Add a deny rule for the IP addresses that are consuming resources.

B.

Modify the network ACL for the web tier subnets. Add an inbound deny rule for the IP addresses that are consuming resources

C.

Modify the inbound security group for the application tier. Add a deny rule for the IP addresses that are consuming resources.

D.

Modify the network ACL for the application tier subnets. Add an inbound deny rule for the IP addresses that are consuming resources

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Questions 167

A company that hosts its web application on AWS wants to ensure all Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon RDS DB instances. and Amazon Redshift clusters are configured with tags. The company wants to minimize the effort of configuring and operating this check.

What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Options:

A.

Use AWS Config rules to define and detect resources that are not properly tagged.

B.

Use Cost Explorer to display resources that are not properly tagged. Tag those resources manually.

C.

Write API calls to check all resources for proper tag allocation. Periodically run the code on an EC2 instance.

D.

Write API calls to check all resources for proper tag allocation. Schedule an AWS Lambda function through Amazon CloudWatch to periodically run the code.

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Questions 168

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts for different departments. The management account has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains project reports. The company wants to limit access to this S3 bucket to only users of accounts within the organization in AWS Organizations.

Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Add the aws:PrincipalOrgID global condition key with a reference to the organization ID to the S3 bucket policy.

B.

Create an organizational unit (OU) for each department. Add the aws:PrincipalOrgPaths global condition key to the S3 bucket policy.

C.

Use AWS CloudTrail to monitor the CreateAccount, InviteAccountToOrganization, LeaveOrganization, and RemoveAccountFromOrganization events. Update the S3 bucket policy accordingly.

D.

Tag each user that needs access to the S3 bucket. Add the aws:PrincipalTag global condition key to the S3 bucket policy.

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Questions 169

A company has an application that uses Docker containers in its local data center The application runs on a container host that stores persistent data in a volume on the host. The container instances use the stored persistent data.

The company wants to move the application to a fully managed service because the company does not want to manage any servers or storage infrastructure.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with self-managed nodes. Create an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume attached to an Amazon EC2 instance. Use the EBS volume as a persistent volume mounted in the containers.

B.

Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with an AWS Fargate launch type. Create an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) volume. Add the EFS volume as a persistent storage volume mounted in the containers.

C.

Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with an AWS Fargate launch type. Create an Amazon S3 bucket. Map the S3 bucket as a persistent storage volume mounted in the containers.

D.

Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with an Amazon EC2 launch type. Create an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) volume. Add the EFS volume as a persistent storage volume mounted in the containers.

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Questions 170

A company has a multi-tier payment processing application that is based on virtual machines (VMs). The communication between the tiers occurs asynchronously through a third-party middleware solution that guarantees exactly-once delivery.

The company needs a solution that requires the least amount of infrastructure management. The solution must guarantee exactly-once delivery for application messaging

Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Options:

A.

Use AWS Lambda for the compute layers in the architecture.

B.

Use Amazon EC2 instances for the compute layers in the architecture.

C.

Use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) as the messaging component between the compute layers.

D.

Use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queues as the messaging component between the compute layers.

E.

Use containers that are based on Amazon Elastic Kubemetes Service (Amazon EKS) for the compute layers in the architecture.

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Questions 171

A research company uses on-premises devices to generate data for analysis. The company wants to use the AWS Cloud to analyze the data. The devices generate .csv files and support writing the data to SMB file share. Company analysts must be able to use SQL commands to query the data. The analysts will run queries periodically throughout the day.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select THREE.)

Options:

A.

Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway on premises in Amazon S3 File Gateway mode.

B.

Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway on premises in Amazon FSx File Gateway mode.

C.

Set up an AWS Glue crawler to create a table based on the data that is in Amazon S3.

D.

Set up an Amazon EMR cluster with EMR Fife System (EMRFS) to query the data that is in Amazon S3. Provide access to analysts.

E.

Set up an Amazon Redshift cluster to query the data that is in Amazon S3. Provide access to analysts.

F.

Set up Amazon Athena to query the data that is in Amazon S3. Provide access to analysts.

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Questions 172

A company has created a multi-tier application for its ecommerce website. The website uses an Application Load Balancer that resides in the public subnets, a web tier in the public subnets, and a MySQL cluster hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in the private subnets. The MySQL database needs to retrieve product catalog and pricing information that is hosted on the internet by a third-party provider. A solutions architect must devise a strategy that maximizes security without increasing operational overhead.

What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Deploy a NAT instance in the VPC. Route all the internet-based traffic through the NAT instance.

B.

Deploy a NAT gateway in the public subnets. Modify the private subnet route table to direct all internet-bound traffic to the NAT gateway.

C.

Configure an internet gateway and attach it to the VPC. Modify the private subnet route table to direct internet-bound traffic to the internet gateway.

D.

Configure a virtual private gateway and attach it to the VPC. Modify the private subnet route table to direct internet-bound traffic to the virtual private gateway.

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Questions 173

A company is using a centralized AWS account to store log data in various Amazon S3 buckets. A solutions architect needs to ensure that the data is encrypted at rest before the data is uploaded to the S3 buckets. The data also must be encrypted in transit.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use client-side encryption to encrypt the data that is being uploaded to the S3 buckets.

B.

Use server-side encryption to encrypt the data that is being uploaded to the S3 buckets.

C.

Create bucket policies that require the use of server-side encryption with S3 managed encryption keys (SSE-S3) for S3 uploads.

D.

Enable the security option to encrypt the S3 buckets through the use of a default AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key.

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Questions 174

A company needs to retain its AWS CloudTrail logs for 3 years. The company is enforcing CloudTrail across a set of AWS accounts by using AWS Organizations from the parent account. The CloudTrail target S3 bucket is configured with S3 Versioning enabled. An S3 Lifecycle policy is in place to delete current objects after 3 years.

After the fourth year of use of the S3 bucket, the S3 bucket metrics show that the number of objects has continued to rise. However, the number of new CloudTrail logs that are delivered to the S3 bucket has remained consistent.

Which solution will delete objects that are older than 3 years in the MOST cost-effective manner?

Options:

A.

Configure the organization’s centralized CloudTrail trail to expire objects after 3 years.

B.

Configure the S3 Lifecycle policy to delete previous versions as well as current versions.

C.

Create an AWS Lambda function to enumerate and delete objects from Amazon S3 that are older than 3 years.

D.

Configure the parent account as the owner of all objects that are delivered to the S3 bucket.

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Questions 175

A company runs an application on AWS. The application receives inconsistent amounts of usage. The application uses AWS Direct Connect to connect to an on-premises MySQL-compatible database. The on-premises database consistently uses a minimum of 2 GiB of memory.

The company wants to migrate the on-premises database to a managed AWS service. The company wants to use auto scaling capabilities to manage unexpected workload increases.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?

Options:

A.

Provision an Amazon DynamoDB database with default read and write capacity settings.

B.

Provision an Amazon Aurora database with a minimum capacity of 1 Aurora capacity unit (ACU).

C.

Provision an Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 database with a minimum capacity of 1 Aurora capacity unit (ACU).

D.

Provision an Amazon RDS for MySQL database with 2 GiB of memory.

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Questions 176

A company is conducting an internal audit. The company wants to ensure that the data in an Amazon S3 bucket that is associated with the company's AWS Lake Formation data lake does not contain sensitive customer or employee data. The company wants to discover personally identifiable information (Pll) or financial information, including passport numbers and credit card numbers.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Configure AWS Audit Manager on the account. Select the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) for auditing.

B.

Configure Amazon S3 Inventory on the S3 bucket. Configure Amazon Athena to query the inventory.

C.

Configure Amazon Macie to run a data discovery job that uses managed identifiers for the required data types.

D.

Use Amazon S3 Select to run a report across the S3 bucket.

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Questions 177

A company has deployed a database in Amazon RDS for MySQL. Due to increased transactions, the database support team is reporting slow reads against the DB instance and recommends adding a read replica.

Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take before implementing this change? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Enable binlog replication on the RDS primary node.

B.

Choose a failover priority for the source DB instance.

C.

Allow long-running transactions to complete on the source DB instance.

D.

Create a global table and specify the AWS Regions where the table will be available.

E.

Enable automatic backups on the source instance by setting the backup retention period to a value other than 0.

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Questions 178

A company runs a website that stores images of historical events. Website users need the ability to search and view images based on the year that the event in the image occurred. On average, users request each image only once or twice a year The company wants a highly available solution to store and deliver the images to users.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Options:

A.

Store images in Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). Use a web server that runs on Amazon EC2_

B.

Store images in Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). Use a web server that runs on Amazon EC2.

C.

Store images in Amazon S3 Standard. use S3 Standard to directly deliver images by using a static website.

D.

Store images in Amazon S3 Standard-InfrequentAccess (S3 Standard-IA). use S3 Standard-IA to directly deliver images by using a static website.

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Questions 179

A company is deploying a new application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application writes data to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. The company needs to ensure that all data that is written to the EBS volumes is encrypted at rest.

Which solution will meet this requirement?

Options:

A.

Create an 1AM role that specifies EBS encryption. Attach the role to the EC2 instances.

B.

Create the EBS volumes as encrypted volumes. Attach the EBS volumes to the EC2 instances

C.

Create an EC2 instance tag that has a key of Encrypt and a value of True. Tag all instances that require encryption at the EBS level.

D.

Create an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key policy that enforces EBS encryption in the account. Ensure that the key policy is active

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Questions 180

A company moved its on-premises PostgreSQL database to an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance. The company successfully launched a new product. The workload on the database has increased.

The company wants to accommodate the larger workload without adding infrastructure.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Options:

A.

Buy reserved DB instances for the total workload. Make the Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance larger.

B.

Make the Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance a Multi-AZ DB instance.

C.

Buy reserved DB instances for the total workload. Add another Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance.

D.

Make the Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance an on-demand DB instance.

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Questions 181

A company is designing a tightly coupled high performance computing (HPC) environment in the AWS Cloud The company needs to include features that will optimize the HPC environment for networking and storage.

Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO )

Options:

A.

Create an accelerator in AWS Global Accelerator. Configure custom routing for the accelerator.

B.

Create an Amazon FSx for Lustre file system. Configure the file system with scratch storage.

C.

Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution. Configure the viewer protocol policy to be HTTP and HTTPS.

D.

Launch Amazon EC2 instances. Attach an Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) to the instances.

E.

Create an AWS Elastic Beanstalk deployment to manage the environment.

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Questions 182

A company uses Amazon EC2 instances to host its internal systems. As part of a deployment operation, an administrator tries to use the AWS CLI to terminate an EC2 instance. However, the administrator receives a 403 (Access Denied) error message.

The administrator is using an IAM role that has the following IAM policy attached:

What is the cause of the unsuccessful request?

Options:

A.

The EC2 instance has a resource-based policy with a Deny statement.

B.

The principal has not been specified in the policy statement

C.

The "Action" field does not grant the actions that are required to terminate the EC2 instance.

D.

The request to terminate the EC2 instance does not originate from the CIDR blocks 192.0.2.0/24 or 203.0 113.0/24

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Questions 183

A company deployed a serverless application that uses Amazon DynamoDB as a database layer The application has experienced a large increase in users. The company wants to improve database response time from milliseconds to microseconds and to cache requests to the database.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Use DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX).

B.

Migrate the database to Amazon Redshift.

C.

Migrate the database to Amazon RDS.

D.

Use Amazon ElastiCache for Redis.

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Questions 184

A company designed a stateless two-tier application that uses Amazon EC2 in a single Availability Zone and an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance New company management wants to ensure the application is highly available.

What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Options:

A.

Configure the application to use Multi-AZ EC2 Auto Scaling and create an Application Load Balancer

B.

Configure the application to take snapshots of the EC2 instances and send them to a different AWS Region.

C.

Configure the application to use Amazon Route 53 latency-based routing to feed requests to the application.

D.

Configure Amazon Route 53 rules to handle incoming requests and create a Multi-AZ Application Load Balancer

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Questions 185

A city has deployed a web application running on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application's users have reported sporadic performance, which appears to be related to DDoS attacks originating from random IP addresses. The city needs a solution that requires minimal configuration changes and provides an audit trail for the DDoS sources.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Options:

A.

Enable an AWS WAF web ACL on the ALB, and configure rules to block traffic from unknown sources.

B.

Subscribe to Amazon Inspector. Engage the AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT) to integrate mitigating controls into the service.

C.

Subscribe to AWS Shield Advanced. Engage the AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT) to integrate mitigating controls into the service.

D.

Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution for the application, and set the ALB as the origin. Enable an AWS WAF web ACL on the distribution, and configure rules to block traffic from unknown sources.

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Questions 186

A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage AWS accounts that contain applications. The company sets up a dedicated monitoring member account in the organization. The company wants to query and visualize observability data across the accounts by using Amazon CloudWatch.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Enable CloudWatch cross-account observability for the monitoring account. Deploy an AWS CloudFormation template provided by the monitoring account in each AWS account to share the data with the monitoring account.

B.

Set up service control policies (SCPs) to provide access to CloudWatch in the monitoring account under the Organizations root organizational unit (OU).

C.

Configure a new 1AM user in the monitoring account. In each AWS account, configure an 1AM policy to have access to query and visualize the CloudWatch data in the account. Attach the new 1AM policy to the new I AM user.

D.

Create a new 1AM user in the monitoring account. Create cross-account 1AM policies in each AWS account. Attach the 1AM policies to the new 1AM user.

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Questions 187

The DNS provider that hosts a company's domain name records is experiencing outages that cause service disruption for a website running on AWS. The company needs to migrate to a more resilient managed DNS service and wants the service to run on AWS.

What should a solutions architect do to rapidly migrate the DNS hosting service?

Options:

A.

Create an Amazon Route 53 public hosted zone for the domain name. Import the zone file containing the domain records hosted by the previous provider

B.

Create an Amazon Route 53 private hosted zone for the domain name Import the zone file containing the domain records hosted by the previous provider.

C.

Create a Simple AD directory in AWS. Enable zone transfer between the DNS provider and AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory for the domain records.

D.

Create an Amazon Route 53 Resolver inbound endpomt in the VPC. Specify the IP addresses that the provider's DNS will forward DNS queries to. Configure the provider's DNS to forward DNS queries for the domain to the IP addresses that are specified in the inbound endpoint.

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Questions 188

A company has a service that produces event data. The company wants to use AWS to process the event data as it is received. The data is written in a specific order that must be maintained throughout processing The company wants to implement a solution that minimizes operational overhead.

How should a solutions architect accomplish this?

Options:

A.

Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queue to hold messages Set up an AWS Lambda function to process messages from the queue

B.

Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to deliver notifications containing payloads to process Configure an AWS Lambda function as a subscriber.

C.

Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) standard queue to hold messages. Set up an AWS Lambda function to process messages from the queue independently

D.

Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to deliver notifications containing payloads to process. Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue as a subscriber.

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Questions 189

A company needs to retain application logs files for a critical application for 10 years. The application team regularly accesses logs from the past month for troubleshooting, but logs older than 1 month are rarely accessed. The application generates more than 10 TB of logs per month.

Which storage option meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Options:

A.

Store the Iogs in Amazon S3 Use AWS Backup lo move logs more than 1 month old to S3 Glacier Deep Archive

B.

Store the logs in Amazon S3 Use S3 Lifecycle policies to move logs more than 1 month old to S3 Glacier Deep Archive

C.

Store the logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs Use AWS Backup to move logs more then 1 month old to S3 Glacier Deep Archive

D.

Store the logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs Use Amazon S3 Lifecycle policies to move logs more than 1 month old to S3 Glacier Deep Archive

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Questions 190

A company wants to migrate its on-premises data center to AWS. According to the company's compliance requirements, the company can use only the ap-northeast-3 Region. Company administrators are not permitted to connect VPCs to the internet.

Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Use AWS Control Tower to implement data residency guardrails to deny internet access and deny access to all AWS Regions except ap-northeast-3.

B.

Use rules in AWS WAF to prevent internet access. Deny access to all AWS Regions except ap-northeast-3 in the AWS account settings.

C.

Use AWS Organizations to configure service control policies (SCPS) that prevent VPCs from gaining internet access. Deny access to all AWS Regions except ap-northeast-3.

D.

Create an outbound rule for the network ACL in each VPC to deny all traffic from 0.0.0.0/0. Create an IAM policy for each user to prevent the use of any AWS Region other than ap-northeast-3.

E.

Use AWS Config to activate managed rules to detect and alert for internet gateways and to detect and alert for new resources deployed outside of ap-northeast-3.

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Questions 191

A company runs workloads on AWS. The company needs to connect to a service from an external provider. The service is hosted in the provider's VPC. According to the company’s security team, the connectivity must be private and must be restricted to the target service. The connection must be initiated only from the company’s VPC.

Which solution will mast these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create a VPC peering connection between the company's VPC and the provider's VPC. Update the route table to connect to the target service.

B.

Ask the provider to create a virtual private gateway in its VPC. Use AWS PrivateLink to connect to the target service.

C.

Create a NAT gateway in a public subnet of the company's VPC. Update the route table to connect to the target service.

D.

Ask the provider to create a VPC endpoint for the target service. Use AWS PrivateLink to connect to the target service.

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Questions 192

A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to reduce a company's storage costs. All the company's data is in the Amazon S3 Standard storage class. The company must keep all data for at least 25 years. Data from the most recent 2 years must be highly available and immediately retrievable.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Set up an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition objects to S3 Glacier Deep Archive immediately.

B.

Set up an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition objects to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 2 years.

C.

Use S3 Intelligent-Tiering. Activate the archiving option to ensure that data is archived in S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

D.

Set up an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition objects to S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) immediately and to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 2 years.

Questions 193

A company runs a production application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The application reads the data from an Amazon SQS queue and processes the messages in parallel. The message volume is unpredictable and often has intermittent traffic. This application should continually process messages without any downtime.

Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Options:

A.

Use Spot Instances exclusively to handle the maximum capacity required.

B.

Use Reserved Instances exclusively to handle the maximum capacity required.

C.

Use Reserved Instances for the baseline capacity and use Spot Instances to handle additional capacity.

D.

Use Reserved Instances for the baseline capacity and use On-Demand Instances to handle additional capacity.

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Questions 194

An entertainment company is using Amazon DynamoDB to store media metadata. The application is read intensive and experiencing delays. The company does not have staff to handle additional operational overhead and needs to improve the performance efficiency of DynamoDB without reconfiguring the application.

What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?

Options:

A.

Use Amazon ElastiCache for Redis.

B.

Use Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX).

C.

Replicate data by using DynamoDB global tables.

D.

Use Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached with Auto Discovery enabled.

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Questions 195

A solutions architect needs to help a company optimize the cost of running an application on AWS. The application will use Amazon EC2 instances, AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda for compute within the architecture.

The EC2 instances will run the data ingestion layer of the application. EC2 usage will be sporadic and unpredictable. Workloads that run on EC2 instances can be interrupted at any time. The application front end will run on Fargate, and Lambda will serve the API layer. The front-end utilization and API layer utilization will be predictable over the course of the next year.

Which combination of purchasing options will provide the MOST cost-effective solution for hosting this application? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Use Spot Instances for the data ingestion layer

B.

Use On-Demand Instances for the data ingestion layer

C.

Purchase a 1-year Compute Savings Plan for the front end and API layer.

D.

Purchase 1-year All Upfront Reserved instances for the data ingestion layer.

E.

Purchase a 1-year EC2 instance Savings Plan for the front end and API layer.

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Questions 196

A company is running several business applications in three separate VPCs within me us-east-1 Region. The applications must be able to communicate between VPCs. The applications also must be able to consistently send hundreds to gigabytes of data each day to a latency-sensitive application that runs in a single on-premises data center.

A solutions architect needs to design a network connectivity solution that maximizes cost-effectiveness

Which solution moots those requirements?

Options:

A.

Configure three AWS Site-to-Site VPN connections from the data center to AWS Establish connectivity by configuring one VPN connection for each VPC

B.

Launch a third-party virtual network appliance in each VPC Establish an iPsec VPN tunnel between the Data center and each virtual appliance

C.

Set up three AWS Direct Connect connections from the data center to a Direct Connect gateway in us-east-1 Establish connectivity by configuring each VPC to use one of the Direct Connect connections

D.

Set up one AWS Direct Connect connection from the data center to AWS. Create a transit gateway, and attach each VPC to the transit gateway. Establish connectivity between the Direct Connect connection and the transit gateway.

Questions 197

A solutions architect must design a solution that uses Amazon CloudFront with an Amazon S3 origin to store a static website. The company's security policy requires that all website traffic be inspected by AWS WAR

How should the solutions architect comply with these requirements?

Options:

A.

Configure an S3 bucket policy lo accept requests coming from the AWS WAF Amazon Resource Name (ARN) only.

B.

Configure Amazon CloudFront to forward all incoming requests to AWS WAF before requesting content from the S3 origin.

C.

Configure a security group that allows Amazon CloudFront IP addresses to access Amazon S3 only. Associate AWS WAF to CloudFront.

D.

Configure Amazon CloudFront and Amazon S3 to use an origin access identity (OAI) to restrict access to the S3 bucket. Enable AWS WAF on the distribution.

Questions 198

A company owns an asynchronous API that is used to ingest user requests and, based on the request type, dispatch requests to the appropriate microservice for processing. The company is using Amazon API Gateway to deploy the API front end, and an AWS Lambda function that invokes Amazon DynamoDB to store user requests before dispatching them to the processing microservices.

The company provisioned as much DynamoDB throughput as its budget allows, but the company is still experiencing availability issues and is losing user requests.

What should a solutions architect do to address this issue without impacting existing users?

Options:

A.

Add throttling on the API Gateway with server-side throttling limits.

B.

Use DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) and Lambda to buffer writes to DynamoDB.

C.

Create a secondary index in DynamoDB for the table with the user requests.

D.

Use the Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue and Lambda to buffer writes to DynamoDB.

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Questions 199

A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon Aurora database. The EC2 instances connect to the database by using user names and passwords that are stored locally in a file. The company wants to minimize the operational overhead of credential management.

What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?

Options:

A.

Use AWS Secrets Manager. Turn on automatic rotation.

B.

Use AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. Turn on automatic rotation.

C.

Create an Amazon S3 bucket lo store objects that are encrypted with an AWS Key C. Management Service (AWS KMS) encryption key. Migrate the credential file to the S3 bucket. Point the application to the S3 bucket.

D.

Create an encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume (or each EC2 instance. Attach the new EBS volume to each EC2 instance. Migrate the credential file to the new EBS volume. Point the application to the new EBS volume.

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Questions 200

A company receives 10 TB of instrumentation data each day from several machines located at a single factory. The data consists of JSON files stored on a storage area network (SAN) in an on-premises data center located within the factory. The company wants to send this data to Amazon S3 where it can be accessed by several additional systems that provide critical near-real-lime analytics. A secure transfer is important because the data is considered sensitive.

Which solution offers the MOST reliable data transfer?

Options:

A.

AWS DataSync over public internet

B.

AWS DataSync over AWS Direct Connect

C.

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) over public internet

D.

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) over AWS Direct Connect

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Questions 201

A company needs guaranteed Amazon EC2 capacity in three specific Availability Zones in a specific AWS Region for an upcoming event that will last 1 week.

What should the company do to guarantee the EC2 capacity?

Options:

A.

Purchase Reserved instances that specify the Region needed

B.

Create an On Demand Capacity Reservation that specifies the Region needed

C.

Purchase Reserved instances that specify the Region and three Availability Zones needed

D.

Create an On-Demand Capacity Reservation that specifies the Region and three Availability Zones needed

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Questions 202

A company runs multiple Windows workloads on AWS. The company's employees use Windows file shares that are hosted on two Amazon EC2 instances. The file shares synchronize data between themselves and maintain duplicate copies. The company wants a highly available and durable storage solution that preserves how users currently access the files.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Migrate all the data to Amazon S3 Set up IAM authentication for users to access files

B.

Set up an Amazon S3 File Gateway. Mount the S3 File Gateway on the existing EC2 Instances.

C.

Extend the file share environment to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server with a Multi-AZ configuration. Migrate all the data to FSx for Windows File Server.

D.

Extend the file share environment to Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) with a Multi-AZ configuration. Migrate all the data to Amazon EFS.

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Questions 203

A company has applications that run on Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC. One of the applications needs to call the Amazon S3 API to store and read objects. According to the company's security regulations, no traffic from the applications is allowed to travel across the internet.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Configure an S3 interface endpoint.

B.

Configure an S3 gateway endpoint.

C.

Create an S3 bucket in a private subnet.

D.

Create an S3 bucket in the same Region as the EC2 instance.

Exam Code: SAA-C03
Exam Name: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03)
Last Update: Mar 26, 2024
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