A company plans to migrate to AWS. A solutions architect uses AWS Application Discovery Service over the fleet and discovers that there is an Oracle data warehouse and several PostgreSQL databases. Which combination of migration patterns will reduce licensing costs and operational overhead? (Select TWO.)
A company has implemented an ordering system using an event-dnven architecture. Dunng initial testing, the system stopped processing orders Further tog analysis revealed that one order message in an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) standard queue was causing an error on the backend and blocking all subsequent order messages The visibility timeout of the queue is set to 30 seconds, and the backend processing timeout is set to 10 seconds. A solutions architect needs to analyze faulty order messages and ensure that the system continues to process subsequent messages
Which step should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements?
A company has a new application that needs to run on five Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region. The application requires high-throughput, low-latency network connections between all of the EC2 instances where the application will run. There is no requirement for the application to be fault tolerant.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A large company is running a popular web application. The application runs on several Amazon EC2 Linux Instances in an Auto Scaling group in a private subnet. An Application Load Balancer is targeting the Instances In the Auto Scaling group in the private subnet. AWS Systems Manager Session Manager Is configured, and AWS Systems Manager Agent is running on all the EC2 instances.
The company recently released a new version of the application Some EC2 instances are now being marked as unhealthy and are being terminated As a result, the application is running at reduced capacity A solutions architect tries to determine the root cause by analyzing Amazon CloudWatch logs that are collected from the application, but the logs are inconclusive
How should the solutions architect gain access to an EC2 instance to troubleshoot the issue1?
A company wants to retire its Oracle Solaris NFS storage arrays. The company requires rapid data migration over its internet network connection to a combination of destinations for Amazon S3. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), and Amazon FSx lor Windows File Server. The company also requires a full initial copy, as well as incremental transfers of changes until the retirement of the storage arrays. All data must be encrypted and checked for integrity.
What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company is migrating applications from on premises to the AWS Cloud. These applications power the company's internal web forms. These web forms collect data for specific events several times each quarter. The web forms use simple SQL statements to save the data to a local relational database.
Data collection occurs for each event, and the on-premises servers are idle most of the time. The company needs to minimize the amount of idle infrastructure that supports the web forms.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company stores sales transaction data in Amazon DynamoDB tables. To detect anomalous behaviors and respond quickly, all changes lo the items stored in the DynamoDB tables must be logged within 30 minutes.
Which solution meets the requirements?
The company needs to determine which costs on the monthly AWS bill are attributable to each application or team. The company also must be able to create reports to compare costs from the last 12 months and to help forecast costs for the next 12 months. A solutions architect must recommend an AWS Billing and Cost Management solution that provides these cost reports.
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company is creating a REST API to share information with six of its partners based in the United States. The company has created an Amazon API Gateway Regional endpoint. Each of the six partners will access the API once per day to post daily sales figures.
After initial deployment, the company observes 1.000 requests per second originating from 500 different IP addresses around the world. The company believes this traffic is originating from a botnet and wants to secure its API while minimizing cost.
Which approach should the company take to secure its API?
A solutions architect needs to advise a company on how to migrate its on-premises data processing application to the AWS Cloud. Currently, users upload input files through a web portal. The web server then stores the uploaded files on NAS and messages the processing server over a message queue. Each media file can take up to 1 hour to process. The company has determined that the number of media files awaiting processing is significantly higher during business hours, with the number of files rapidly declining after business hours.
What is the MOST cost-effective migration recommendation?
A company provides a centralized Amazon EC2 application hosted in a single shared VPC. The centralized application must be accessible from client applications running in the VPCs of other business units. The centralized application front end is configured with a Network Load Balancer (NLB) for scalability.
Up to 10 business unit VPCs will need to be connected to the shared VPC. Some of the business unit VPC CIDR blocks overlap with the shared VPC. and some overlap with each other. Network connectivity to the centralized application in the shared VPC should be allowed from authorized business unit VPCs only.
Which network configuration should a solutions architect use to provide connectivity from the client applications in the business unit VPCs to the centralized application in the shared VPC?
A company needs to create and manage multiple AWS accounts for a number of departments from a central location. The security team requires read-only access to all accounts from its own AWs account. The company is using AWS Organizations and created an account tor the security team.
How should a solutions architect meet these requirements?
A team collects and routes behavioral data for an entire company The company runs a Multi-AZ VPC environment with public subnets, private subnets, and in internet gateway Each public subnet also contains a NAT gateway Most of the company's applications read from and write to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Most of the workloads am in private subnets.
A solutions architect must review the infrastructure The solutions architect needs to reduce costs and maintain the function of the applications The solutions architect uses Cost Explorer and notices that the cost in the EC2-Other category is consistently high A further review shows that NatGateway-Bytes charges are increasing the cost in the EC2-Other category.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company needs to run a software package that has a license that must be run on the same physical host for the duration of Its use. The software package is only going to be used for 90 days The company requires patching and restarting of all instances every 30 days
How can these requirements be met using AWS?
A company runs an application that gives users the ability to search for videos and related information by using keywords that are curated from content providers. The application data is stored in an on-premises Oracle database that is 800 GB in size.
The company wants to migrate the data to an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB instance. A solutions architect plans to use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) for the migration. During the migration, the existing database must serve ongoing requests. The migration must be completed with minimum downtime
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A scientific organization requires the processing of text and picture data stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. The data is gathered from numerous radar stations during a mission's live, time-critical phase. The data is uploaded by the radar stations to the source S3 bucket. The data is preceded with the identification number of the radar station.
In a second account, the business built a destination S3 bucket. To satisfy a compliance target, data must be transferred from the source S3 bucket to the destination S3 bucket. Replication is accomplished by using an S3 replication rule that covers all items in the source S3 bucket.
A single radar station has been recognized as having the most precise data. At this radar station, data replication must be completed within 30 minutes of the radar station uploading the items to the source S3 bucket.
What actions should a solutions architect take to ensure that these criteria are met?
A company is migrating a legacy application from an on-premises data center to AWS. The application uses MangeDB as a key-value database According to the company's technical guidelines, all Amazon EC2 instances must be hosted in a private subnet without an internet connection In addition, all connectivity between applications and databases must be encrypted. The database must be able to scale based on demand
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is using AWS CloudFormation to deploy its infrastructure. The company is concerned that if a production CloudFormation stack is deleted, important data stored in Amazon RD5 databases or Amazon EBS volumes might also be deleted.
now can the company prevent users from accidentally deleting data m this way?
A solutions architect needs to implement a client-side encryption mechanism for objects that will be stored in a new Amazon S3 bucket. The solutions architect created a CMK that is stored in AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) for this purpose.
The solutions architect created the following IAM policy and attached it to an IAM role:
During tests, me solutions architect was able to successfully get existing test objects m the S3 bucket However, attempts to upload a new object resulted in an error message. The error message stated that me action was forbidden.
Which action must me solutions architect add to the IAM policy to meet all the requirements?
A company wants to migrate its website from an on-premises data center onto AWS At the same time it wants to migrate the website to a containerized microservice-based architecture to improve the availability and cost efficiency The company's security policy states that privileges and network permissions must be configured according to best practice, using least privilege
A solutions architect must create a containerized architecture that meets the security requirements and has deployed the application to an Amazon ECS cluster
What steps are required after the deployment to meet the requirements'? (Select TWO.)
A company has an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server database that writes a nightly 200 GB export to a local drive. The company wants to move the backups to more robust cloud storage on Amazon S3. The company has set up a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection between the on-premises data center and AWS. Which solution meets these requirements Most cost effectively?
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage more than 1.000 AWS accounts. The company has created a new developer organization. There are 540 developer member accounts that must be moved to the new developer organization All accounts are set up with all the required Information so mat each account can be operated as a standalone account
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to move all of the developer accounts to the new developer organization? (Select THREE )
A media storage application uploads user photos to Amazon S3 for processing by AWS Lambda functions. Application state is stored in Amazon DynamoDB tables. Users are reporting that some uploaded photos are not being processed properly. The application developers trace the logs and find that Lambda is experiencing photo processing issues when thousands of users upload photos simultaneously. The issues are the result of Lambda concurrency limits and the performance of DynamoDB when data is saved.
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to increase the performance and reliability of the application? (Select TWO.)
A company has implemented a global multiplayer gaming platform The platform requires gaming clients to have reliable, low-latency access to the server infrastructure that is hosted on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region
The gaming clients use a custom TCP protocol to connect to the server infrastructure The application architecture requires client IP addresses to be available to the server software
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company has its cloud infrastructure on AWS A solutions architect needs to define the infrastructure as code. The infrastructure is currently deployed in one AWS Region. The company's business expansion plan includes deployments in multiple Regions across multiple AWS accounts
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A life sciences company is using a combination of open source tools to manage data analysis workflows and Docker containers running on servers in its on-premises data center to process genomics data Sequencing data is generated and stored on a local storage area network (SAN), and then the data is processed. The research and development teams are running into capacity issues and have decided to re-architect their genomics analysis platform on AWS to scale based on workload demands and reduce the turnaround time from weeks to days
The company has a high-speed AWS Direct Connect connection Sequencers will generate around 200 GB of data for each genome, and individual jobs can take several hours to process the data with ideal compute capacity. The end result will be stored in Amazon S3. The company is expecting 10-15 job requests each day
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company has an organization in AWS Organizations. The organization consists of a large number of AWS accounts that belong to separate business units. The company requires all Amazon EC2 instances to be provisioned with custom, hardened AMIs. The company wants a solution that provides each AWS account access to the AMIs
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company is creating a sequel for a popular online game. A large number of users from all over the world will play the game within the first week after launch. Currently, the game consists of the following components deployed in a single AWS Region:
• Amazon S3 bucket that stores game assets
• Amazon DynamoDB table that stores player scores
A solutions architect needs to design a multi-Region solution that will reduce latency improve reliability, and require the least effort to implement
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company has a serverless multi-tenant content management system on AWS. The architecture contains a web-based front end that interacts with an Amazon API Gateway API that uses a custom AWS Lambda authorizes The authorizer authenticates a user to its tenant ID and encodes the information in a JSON Web Token (JWT) token. After authentication, each API call through API Gateway targets a Lambda function that interacts with a single Amazon DynamoOB table to fulfill requests.
To comply with security standards, the company needs a stronger isolation between tenants. The company will have hundreds of customers within the first year.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational?
A solutions architect is migrating an existing workload to AWS Fargate. The task can only run in a private subnet within the VPC where there is no direct connectivity from outside the system to the application When the Fargate task is launched the task fails with the following error:
How should the solutions architect correct this error?
A company's AWS architecture currently uses access keys and secret access keys stored on each instance to access AWS services Database credentials are hard-coded on each instance SSH keys for command-line remote access are stored in a secured Amazon S3 bucket The company has asked its solutions architect to improve the security posture of the architecture without adding operational complexly.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Select THREE.)
A company is using multiple AWS accounts. The company has a shared services account and several other accounts (or different projects.
A team has a VPC in a project account. The team wants to connect this VPC to a corporate network through an AWS Direct Connect gateway that exists in the shared services account. The team wants to automatically perform a virtual private gateway association with the Direct Connect gateway by using an already-tested AWS Lambda function while deploying its VPC networking stack. The Lambda function code can assume a role by using AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS). The team is using AWS Cloud Formation to deploy its infrastructure.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A large company has many business units Each business unit has multiple AWS accounts for different purposes. The CIO of the company sees that each business unit has data that would be useful to share with other parts of the company in total there are about 10 PB of data that needs to be shared with users in 1.000 AWS accounts. The data is proprietary so some of it should only be available to users with specific job types Some of the data is used for throughput of intensive workloads such as simulations. The number of accounts changes frequently because of new initiatives acquisitions and divestitures
A solutions architect has been asked to design a system that will allow for sharing data for use in AWS with all of the employees in the company
Which approach will allow for secure data sharing in scalable way?
A solutions architect needs to provide AWS Cost and Usage Report data from a company's AWS Organizations management account The company already has an Amazon S3 bucket to store the reports The reports must be automatically ingested into a database that can be visualized with other toots.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE )
A solutions architect is designing a solution to connect a company's on-premises network with all the company's current and future VPCs on AWS The company is running VPCs in five different AWS Regions and has at least 15 VPCs in each Region.
The company's AWS usage is constantly increasing and will continue to grow Additionally, all the VPCs throughout all five Regions must be able to communicate with each other
The solution must maximize scalability and ease of management
Which solution meets these requirements'?
During an audit, a security team discovered that a development team was putting IAM user secret access keys in their code and then committing it to an AWS CodeCommit repository . The security team wants to automatically find and remediate instances of this security vulnerability
Which solution will ensure that the credentials are appropriately secured automatically?
A company has more than 10.000 sensors that send data to an on-premises Apache Kafka server by using the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol . The on-premises Kafka server transforms the data and then stores the results as objects in an Amazon S3 bucket
Recently, the Kafka server crashed. The company lost sensor data while the server was being restored A solutions architect must create a new design on AWS that is highly available and scalable to prevent a similar occurrence
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants to improve cost awareness for its Amazon EMR platform The company has aWocated budgets for each team's Amazon EMR usage When a budgetary threshold is reached a notification should be sent by email to the budget office's distribution list Teams should be able lo view their EMR cluster expenses to date A solutions architect needs to create a solution that ensures this policy is proactively and centrally enforced in a multi-account environment
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A medical company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. The application simulates the effect of medical drugs in development.
The application consists of two parts configuration and simulation The configuration part runs in AWS Fargate containers in an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster. The simulation part runs on large, compute optimized Amazon EC2 instances Simulations can restart if they are interrupted
The configuration part runs 24 hours a day with a steady load. The simulation part runs only for a few hours each night with a variable load. The company stores simulation results in Amazon S3, and researchers use the results for 30 days. The company must store simulations for 10 years and must be able to retrieve the simulations within 5 hours
Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company runs an loT platform on AWS loT sensors in various locations send data to the company's Node js API servers on Amazon EC2 instances running behind an Application Load Balancer The data is stored in an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance that uses a 4 TB General Purpose SSD volume
The number of sensors the company has deployed in the field has increased over time and is expected to grow significantly The API servers are consistently overloaded and RDS metrics show high write latency
Which of the following steps together will resolve the issues permanently and enable growth as new sensors are provisioned, while keeping this platform cost-efficient? {Select TWO.)
A solutions architect is building a web application that uses an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance The DB instance is expected to receive many more reads than writes The solutions architect needs to ensure that the large amount of read traffic can be accommodated and that the DB instance is highly available.
Which steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company built an ecommerce website on AWS using a three-tier web architecture. The application is Java-based and composed of an Amazon CloudFront distribution, an Apache web server layer of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group, and a backend Amazon Aurora MySQL database.
Last month, during a promotional sales event, users reported errors and timeouts while adding items to their shopping carts. The operations team recovered the logs created by the web servers and reviewed Aurora DB cluster performance metrics. Some of the web servers were terminated before logs could be collected and the Aurora metrics were not sufficient for query performance analysis.
Which combination of steps must the solutions architect take to improve application performance visibility during peak traffic events? (Select THREE.)
A company is running an Apache Hadoop cluster on Amazon EC2 instances. The Hadoop cluster stores approximately 100 TB of data for weekly operational reports and allows occasional access for data scientists to retrieve data. The company needs to reduce the cost and operational complexity for storing and serving this data.
Which solution meets these requirements in the MOST cost-effective manner?