AWS certified solutions

A company is implementing a new business application. The application runs on two Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon S3 bucket for document storage. A solutions architect needs to ensure that the EC2 instances can access the S3 bucket. What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement? A. Create an IAM role that grants access to the S3 bucket. Attach the role to the EC2 instances. B. Create an IAM policy that grants access to the S3 bucket. Attach the policy to the EC2 instances. C. Create an IAM group that grants access to the S3 bucket. Attach the group to the EC2 instances. D. Create an IAM user that grants access to the S3 bucket. Attach the user account to the EC2 instances.

Correct Answer: A

A company's website uses an Amazon EC2 instance store for its catalog of items. The company wants to make sure that the catalog is highly available and that the catalog is stored in a durable location. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements? A. Move the catalog to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis. B. Deploy a larger EC2 instance with a larger instance store. C. Move the catalog from the instance store to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive. D. Move the catalog to an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) 8le system.

Correct Answer: A

A company is storing backup 8les by using Amazon S3 Standard storage. The 8les are accessed frequently for 1 month. However, the 8les are not accessed after 1 month. The company must keep the 8les inde8nitely. Which storage solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? A. Con8gure S3 Intelligent-Tiering to automatically migrate objects. B. Create an S3 Lifecycle con8guration to transition objects from S3 Standard to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 month. C. Create an S3 Lifecycle con8guration to transition objects from S3 Standard to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) after 1 month. D. Create an S3 Lifecycle con8guration to transition objects from S3 Standard to S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) after 1 month.

Correct Answer: B

A company wants to run its critical applications in containers to meet requirements for scalability and availability. The company prefers to focus on maintenance of the critical applications. The company does not want to be responsible for provisioning and managing the underlying infrastructure that runs the containerized workload. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements? A. Use Amazon EC2 instances, and install Docker on the instances. B. Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on Amazon EC2 worker nodes. C. Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate. D. Use Amazon EC2 instances from an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)-optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI).

Correct Answer: C

An ecommerce company wants to launch a one-deal-a-day website on AWS. Each day will feature exactly one product on sale for a period of 24 hours. The company wants to be able to handle millions of requests each hour with millisecond latency during peak hours. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? A. Use Amazon S3 to host the full website in different S3 buckets. Add Amazon CloudFront distributions. Set the S3 buckets as origins for the distributions. Store the order data in Amazon S3. B. Deploy the full website on Amazon EC2 instances that run in Auto Scaling groups across multiple Availability Zones. Add an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute the website traic. Add another ALB for the backend APIs. Store the data in Amazon RDS for MySQL. C. Migrate the full application to run in containers. Host the containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Use the Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler to increase and decrease the number of pods to process bursts in traic. Store the data in Amazon RDS for MySQL. D. Use an Amazon S3 bucket to host the website's static content. Deploy an Amazon CloudFront distribution. Set the S3 bucket as

Correct Answer: D

A company is developing an application that provides order shipping statistics for retrieval by a REST API. The company wants to extract the shipping statistics, organize the data into an easy-to-read HTML format, and send the report to several email addresses at the same time every morning. Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.) A. Con8gure the application to send the data to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. B. Use Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to format the data and to send the report by email. C. Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) scheduled event that invokes an AWS Glue job to query the application's API for the data. D. Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) scheduled event that invokes an AWS Lambda function to query the application's API for the data. E. Store the application data in Amazon S3. Create an Amazon Simple Noti8cation Service (Amazon SNS) topic as an S3 event destination to send the report by email.

Correct Answer: DE

A company collects data for temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure in cities across multiple continents. The average volume of data that the company collects from each site daily is 500 GB. Each site has a high-speed Internet connection. The company wants to aggregate the data from all these global sites as quickly as possible in a single Amazon S3 bucket. The solution must minimize operational complexity. Which solution meets these requirements? A. Turn on S3 Transfer Acceleration on the destination S3 bucket. Use multipart uploads to directly upload site data to the destination S3 bucket. B. Upload the data from each site to an S3 bucket in the closest Region. Use S3 Cross-Region Replication to copy objects to the destination S3 bucket. Then remove the data from the origin S3 bucket. C. Schedule AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized device jobs daily to transfer data from each site to the closest Region. Use S3 Cross- Region Replication to copy objects to the destination S3 bucket. D. Upload the data from each site to an Amazon EC2 instance in the closest Region. Store the data in an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. At regular intervals, take an EBS snapshot and c

Correct Answer: A

A company has a production web application in which users upload documents through a web interface or a mobile app. According to a new regulatory requirement. new documents cannot be modi8ed or deleted after they are stored. What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement? A. Store the uploaded documents in an Amazon S3 bucket with S3 Versioning and S3 Object Lock enabled. B. Store the uploaded documents in an Amazon S3 bucket. Con8gure an S3 Lifecycle policy to archive the documents periodically. C. Store the uploaded documents in an Amazon S3 bucket with S3 Versioning enabled. Con8gure an ACL to restrict all access to read-only. D. Store the uploaded documents on an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) volume. Access the data by mounting the volume in readonly mode.

Correct Answer: A

A company has an application that ingests incoming messages. Dozens of other applications and microservices then quickly consume these messages. The number of messages varies drastically and sometimes increases suddenly to 100,000 each second. The company wants to decouple the solution and increase scalability. Which solution meets these requirements? A. Persist the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. Con8gure the consumer applications to read and process the messages. B. Deploy the ingestion application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group to scale the number of EC2 instances based on CPU metrics. C. Write the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with a single shard. Use an AWS Lambda function to preprocess messages and store them in Amazon DynamoDB. Con8gure the consumer applications to read from DynamoDB to process the messages. D. Publish the messages to an Amazon Simple Noti8cation Service (Amazon SNS) topic with multiple Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) subscriptions. Con8gure the consumer applications to process the messages from the queues.

Correct Answer: A

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 traic from the applications is allowed to travel across the internet. Which solution will meet these requirements? A. Con8gure an S3 gateway endpoint. B. Create an S3 bucket in a private subnet. C. Create an S3 bucket in the same AWS Region as the EC2 instances. D. Con8gure a NAT gateway in the same subnet as the EC2 instances.

Correct Answer: A

A company has more than 5 TB of 8le data on Windows 8le servers that run on premises. Users and applications interact with the data each day. The company is moving its Windows workloads to AWS. As the company continues this process, the company requires access to AWS and onpremises 8le storage with minimum latency. The company needs a solution that minimizes operational overhead and requires no signi8cant changes to the existing 8le access patterns. The company uses an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection for connectivity to AWS. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements? A. Deploy and con8gure Amazon FSx for Windows File Server on AWS. Move the on-premises 8le data to FSx for Windows File Server. Recon8gure the workloads to use FSx for Windows File Server on AWS. B. Deploy and con8gure an Amazon S3 File Gateway on premises. Move the on-premises 8le data to the S3 File Gateway. Recon8gure the onpremises workloads and the cloud workloads to use the S3 File Gateway. C. Deploy and con8gure an Amazon S3 File Gateway on premises. Move the on-premises 8le data to Amazon S3. Recon8gure the workloads to use either Amazon S3 directly or the S3 File Gateway. depending on each wor

Correct Answer: A

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? 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 8les encrypted with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) on the web server 8le system. The web server should be able to decrypt the 8les and access the database.

Correct Answer: A

A company has thousands of edge devices that collectively generate 1 TB of status alerts each day. Each alert is approximately 2 KB in size. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to ingest and store the alerts for future analysis. The company wants a highly available solution. However, the company needs to minimize costs and does not want to manage additional infrastructure. Additionally, the company wants to keep 14 days of data available for immediate analysis and archive any data older than 14 days. What is the MOST operationally eicient solution that meets these requirements? A. Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to ingest the alerts. Con8gure the Kinesis Data Firehose stream to deliver the alerts to an Amazon S3 bucket. Set up an S3 Lifecycle con8guration to transition data to Amazon S3 Glacier after 14 days. B. Launch Amazon EC2 instances across two Availability Zones and place them behind an Elastic Load Balancer to ingest the alerts. Create a script on the EC2 instances that will store the alerts in an Amazon S3 bucket. Set up an S3 Lifecycle con8guration to transition data to Amazon S3 Glacier after 14 days. C. Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Fir

Correct Answer: A

A company hosts an application on AWS Lambda functions that are invoked by an Amazon API Gateway API. The Lambda functions save customer data to an Amazon Aurora MySQL database. Whenever the company upgrades the database, the Lambda functions fail to establish database connections until the upgrade is complete. The result is that customer data is not recorded for some of the event. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that stores customer data that is created during database upgrades. Which solution will meet these requirements? A. Provision an Amazon RDS proxy to sit between the Lambda functions and the database. Con8gure the Lambda functions to connect to the RDS proxy. B. Increase the run time of the Lambda functions to the maximum. Create a retry mechanism in the code that stores the customer data in the database. C. Persist the customer data to Lambda local storage. Con8gure new Lambda functions to scan the local storage to save the customer data to the database. D. Store the customer data in an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queue. Create a new Lambda function that polls the queue and stores the customer data in the database.

Correct Answer: A

A company is building an ecommerce web application on AWS. The application sends information about new orders to an Amazon API Gateway REST API to process. The company wants to ensure that orders are processed in the order that they are received. Which solution will meet these requirements? A. Use an API Gateway integration to publish a message to an Amazon Simple Noti8cation Service (Amazon SNS) topic when the application receives an order. Subscribe an AWS Lambda function to the topic to perform processing. B. Use an API Gateway integration to send a message to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queue when the application receives an order. Con8gure the SQS FIFO queue to invoke an AWS Lambda function for processing. C. Use an API Gateway authorizer to block any requests while the application processes an order. D. Use an API Gateway integration to send a message to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) standard queue when the application receives an order. Con8gure the SQS standard queue to invoke an AWS Lambda function for processing.

Correct Answer: A

A company is migrating applications to AWS. The applications are deployed in different accounts. The company manages the accounts centrally by using AWS Organizations. The company's security team needs a single sign-on (SSO) solution across all the company's accounts. The company must continue managing the users and groups in its on-premises self-managed Microsoft Active Directory. Which solution will meet these requirements? A. Enable AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) from the AWS SSO console. Create a one-way forest trust or a one-way domain trust to connect the company's self-managed Microsoft Active Directory with AWS SSO by using AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory. B. Enable AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) from the AWS SSO console. Create a two-way forest trust to connect the company's self-managed Microsoft Active Directory with AWS SSO by using AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory. C. Use AWS Directory Service. Create a two-way trust relationship with the company's self-managed Microsoft Active Directory. D. Deploy an identity provider (IdP) on premises. Enable AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) from the AWS SSO console.

Correct Answer: A

A company is planning to use an Amazon DynamoDB table for data storage. The company is concerned about cost optimization. The table will not be used on most mornings. In the evenings, the read and write traic will often be unpredictable. When traic spikes occur, they will happen very quickly. What should a solutions architect recommend? A. Create a DynamoDB table in on-demand capacity mode. B. Create a DynamoDB table with a global secondary index. C. Create a DynamoDB table with provisioned capacity and auto scaling. D. Create a DynamoDB table in provisioned capacity mode, and con8gure it as a global table.

Correct Answer: A

A company needs to review its AWS Cloud deployment to ensure that its Amazon S3 buckets do not have unauthorized con8guration changes. What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal? A. Turn on AWS Con8g with the appropriate rules. B. Turn on AWS Trusted Advisor with the appropriate checks. C. Turn on Amazon Inspector with the appropriate assessment template. D. Turn on Amazon S3 server access logging. Con8gure Amazon EventBridge (Amazon Cloud Watch Events).

Correct Answer: A

A company performs monthly maintenance on its AWS infrastructure. During these maintenance activities, the company needs to rotate the credentials for its Amazon RDS for MySQL databases across multiple AWS Regions. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? A. Store the credentials as secrets in AWS Secrets Manager. Use multi-Region secret replication for the required Regions. Con8gure Secrets Manager to rotate the secrets on a schedule. B. Store the credentials as secrets in AWS Systems Manager by creating a secure string parameter. Use multi-Region secret replication for the required Regions. Con8gure Systems Manager to rotate the secrets on a schedule. C. Store the credentials in an Amazon S3 bucket that has server-side encryption (SSE) enabled. Use Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) to invoke an AWS Lambda function to rotate the credentials. D. Encrypt the credentials as secrets by using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) multi-Region customer managed keys. Store the secrets in an Amazon DynamoDB global table. Use an AWS Lambda function to retrieve the secrets from DynamoDB. Use the RDS API to rotate the secrets.

Correct Answer: A

A company runs its infrastructure on AWS and has a registered base of 700,000 users for its document management application. The company intends to create a product that converts large .pdf 8les to .jpg image 8les. The .pdf 8les average 5 MB in size. The company needs to store the original 8les and the converted 8les. A solutions architect must design a scalable solution to accommodate demand that will grow rapidly over time. Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively? A. Save the .pdf 8les to Amazon S3. Con8gure an S3 PUT event to invoke an AWS Lambda function to convert the 8les to .jpg format and store them back in Amazon S3. B. Save the .pdf 8les to Amazon DynamoDUse the DynamoDB Streams feature to invoke an AWS Lambda function to convert the 8les to .jpg format and store them back in DynamoDB. C. Upload the .pdf 8les to an AWS Elastic Beanstalk application that includes Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage, and an Auto Scaling group. Use a program in the EC2 instances to convert the 8les to .jpg format. Save the .pdf 8les and the .jpg 8les in the EBS store. D. Upload the .pdf 8les to an AWS Elastic Beanstalk application that inclu

Correct Answer: A

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 con8gured with tags. The company wants to minimize the effort of con8guring and operating this check. What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this? A. Use AWS Con8g rules to de8ne 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.

Correct Answer: A

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? 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.

Correct Answer: A

A company uses Amazon S3 to store its con8dential 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? 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.

Correct Answer: A

A company wants to move a multi-tiered application from on premises to the AWS Cloud to improve the application's performance. The application consists of application tiers that communicate with each other by way of RESTful services. Transactions are dropped when one tier becomes overloaded. A solutions architect must design a solution that resolves these issues and modernizes the application. Which solution meets these requirements and is the MOST operationally eicient? A. Use Amazon API Gateway and direct transactions to the AWS Lambda functions as the application layer. Use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as the communication layer between application services. B. Use Amazon CloudWatch metrics to analyze the application performance history to determine the servers' peak utilization during the performance failures. Increase the size of the application server's Amazon EC2 instances to meet the peak requirements. C. Use Amazon Simple Noti8cation Service (Amazon SNS) to handle the messaging between application servers running on Amazon EC2 in an Auto Scaling group. Use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor the SNS queue length and scale up and down as required. D. Use Amazon Simple Queue

Correct Answer: A

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 traic if the primary connection fails. What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements? 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.

Correct Answer: A

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? 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 pro8le on Amazon EC2 to allow S3 access. D. Create an Amazon API Gateway API with a private link to access the S3 endpoint.

Correct Answer: A

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 noti8cations 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? 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 aft

Correct Answer: A

An application development team is designing a microservice that will convert large images to smaller, compressed images. When a user uploads an image through the web interface, the microservice should store the image in an Amazon S3 bucket, process and compress the image with an AWS Lambda function, and store the image in its compressed form in a different S3 bucket. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that uses durable, stateless components to process the images automatically. Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.) A. Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. Con8gure the S3 bucket to send a noti8cation to the SQS queue when an image is uploaded to the S3 bucket. B. Con8gure the Lambda function to use the Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue as the invocation source. When the SQS message is successfully processed, delete the message in the queue. C. Con8gure the Lambda function to monitor the S3 bucket for new uploads. When an uploaded image is detected, write the 8le name to a text 8le in memory and use the text 8le to keep track of the images that were processed. D. Launch an Amazon EC2 instance to monitor an A

Correct Answer: AB

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 Amazon EC2 instances inside a VPC. Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Choose two.) A. Con8gure a VPC gateway endpoint for Amazon S3 within the VPC. B. Create a bucket policy to make the objects in 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.

Correct Answer: AC

A solutions architect is designing a two-tier web application. The application consists of a public-facing web tier hosted on Amazon EC2 in public subnets. The database tier consists of Microsoft SQL Server running on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet. Security is a high priority for the company. How should security groups be con8gured in this situation? (Choose two.) A. Con8gure the security group for the web tier to allow inbound traic on port 443 from 0.0.0.0/0. B. Con8gure the security group for the web tier to allow outbound traic on port 443 from 0.0.0.0/0. C. Con8gure the security group for the database tier to allow inbound traic on port 1433 from the security group for the web tier. D. Con8gure the security group for the database tier to allow outbound traic on ports 443 and 1433 to the security group for the web tier. E. Con8gure the security group for the database tier to allow inbound traic on ports 443 and 1433 from the security group for the web tier.

Correct Answer: AC

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 8rewall appliance from AWS Marketplace in an inspection VPC. The appliance is con8gured with an IP interface that can accept IP packets. A solutions architect needs to integrate the web application with the appliance to inspect all traic to the application before the traic reaches the web server. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? A. Create a Network Load Balancer in the public subnet of the application's VPC to route the traic to the appliance for packet inspection. B. Create an Application Load Balancer in the public subnet of the application's VPC to route the traic to the appliance for packet inspection. C. Deploy a transit gateway in the inspection VPCon8gure route tables to route the incoming packets 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 pa

Correct Answer: B

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 8les can exceed 200 GB in size. Recently, the company discovered that some of the stores have uploaded 8les that contain personally identi8able 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? A. Use an Amazon S3 bucket as a secure transfer point. Use Amazon Inspector to scan the objects in the bucket. If objects contain PII, trigger an S3 Lifecycle policy to remove the objects that contain PII. B. Use an Amazon S3 bucket as a secure transfer point. Use Amazon Macie to scan the objects in the bucket. If objects contain PII, use Amazon Simple Noti8cation Service (Amazon SNS) to trigger a noti8cation to the administrators to remove the objects that contain PII. C. Implement custom scannin

Correct Answer: B

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 8le. The company wants to minimize the operational overhead of credential management. What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal? 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 to store objects that are encrypted with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) encryption key. Migrate the credential 8le to the S3 bucket. Point the application to the S3 bucket. D. Create an encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume for each EC2 instance. Attach the new EBS volume to each EC2 instance. Migrate the credential 8le to the new EBS volume. Point the application to the new EBS volume.

Correct Answer: B

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? A. Establish AWS VPN connections and proxy all traic through a VPC gateway endpoint. B. Establish a new AWS Direct Connect connection and direct backup traic 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.

Correct Answer: B

A company hosts its multi-tier applications on AWS. For compliance, governance, auditing, and security, the company must track con8guration changes on its AWS resources and record a history of API calls made to these resources. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements? A. Use AWS CloudTrail to track con8guration changes and AWS Con8g to record API calls. B. Use AWS Con8g to track con8guration changes and AWS CloudTrail to record API calls. C. Use AWS Con8g to track con8guration changes and Amazon CloudWatch to record API calls. D. Use AWS CloudTrail to track con8guration changes and Amazon CloudWatch to record API calls.

Correct Answer: B

A company is launching a new application and will display application metrics on an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard. The company's product manager needs to access this dashboard periodically. The product manager does not have an AWS account. A solutions architect must provide access to the product manager by following the principle of least privilege. Which solution will meet these requirements? A. Share the dashboard from the CloudWatch console. Enter the product manager's email address, and complete the sharing steps. Provide a shareable link for the dashboard to the product manager. B. Create an IAM user speci8cally for the product manager. Attach the CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess AWS managed policy to the user. Share the new login credentials with the product manager. Share the browser URL of the correct dashboard with the product manager. C. Create an IAM user for the company's employees. Attach the ViewOnlyAccess AWS managed policy to the IAM user. Share the new login credentials with the product manager. Ask the product manager to navigate to the CloudWatch console and locate the dashboard by name in the Dashboards section. D. Deploy a bastion server in a public subnet. When the product m

Correct Answer: B

A company is running a business-critical web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group. The application uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database that is deployed in a single Availability Zone. The company wants the application to be highly available with minimum downtime and minimum loss of data. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational effort? A. Place the EC2 instances in different AWS Regions. Use Amazon Route 53 health checks to redirect traic. Use Aurora PostgreSQL Cross- Region Replication. B. Con8gure the Auto Scaling group to use multiple Availability Zones. Con8gure the database as Multi-AZ. Con8gure an Amazon RDS Proxy instance for the database. C. Con8gure the Auto Scaling group to use one Availability Zone. Generate hourly snapshots of the database. Recover the database from the snapshots in the event of a failure. D. Con8gure the Auto Scaling group to use multiple AWS Regions. Write the data from the application to Amazon S3. Use S3 Event Noti8cations to launch an AWS Lambda function to write the data to the database.

Correct Answer: B

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? A. Use Amazon Comprehend to detect inappropriate content. Use human review for low-con8dence predictions. B. Use Amazon Rekognition to detect inappropriate content. Use human review for low-con8dence predictions. C. Use Amazon SageMaker to detect inappropriate content. Use ground truth to label low-con8dence predictions. D. Use AWS Fargate to deploy a custom machine learning model to detect inappropriate content. Use ground truth to label low-con8dence predictions.

Correct Answer: B

A company maintains a searchable repository of items on its website. The data is stored in an Amazon RDS for MySQL database table that contains more than 10 million rows. The database has 2 TB of General Purpose SSD storage. There are millions of updates against this data every day through the company's website. The company has noticed that some insert operations are taking 10 seconds or longer. The company has determined that the database storage performance is the problem. Which solution addresses this performance issue? A. Change the storage type to Provisioned IOPS SSD. B. Change the DB instance to a memory optimized instance class. C. Change the DB instance to a burstable performance instance class. D. Enable Multi-AZ RDS read replicas with MySQL native asynchronous replication.

Correct Answer: B

A company needs to keep user transaction data in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company must retain the data for 7 years. What is the MOST operationally eicient solution that meets these requirements? A. Use DynamoDB point-in-time recovery to back up the table continuously. B. Use AWS Backup to create backup schedules and retention policies for the table. C. Create an on-demand backup of the table by using the DynamoDB console. Store the backup in an Amazon S3 bucket. Set an S3 Lifecycle con8guration for the S3 bucket. D. Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule to invoke an AWS Lambda function. Con8gure the Lambda function to back up the table and to store the backup in an Amazon S3 bucket. Set an S3 Lifecycle con8guration for the S3 bucket.

Correct Answer: B

A company receives 10 TB of instrumentation data each day from several machines located at a single factory. The data consists of JSON 8les 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-time analytics. A secure transfer is important because the data is considered sensitive. Which solution offers the MOST reliable data transfer? 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

Correct Answer: B

A company recently launched a variety of new workloads on Amazon EC2 instances in its AWS account. The company needs to create a strategy to access and administer the instances remotely and securely. The company needs to implement a repeatable process that works with native AWS services and follows the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? A. Use the EC2 serial console to directly access the terminal interface of each instance for administration. B. Attach the appropriate IAM role to each existing instance and new instance. Use AWS Systems Manager Session Manager to establish a remote SSH session. C. Create an administrative SSH key pair. Load the public key into each EC2 instance. Deploy a bastion host in a public subnet to provide a tunnel for administration of each instance. D. Establish an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection. Instruct administrators to use their local on-premises machines to connect directly to the instances by using SSH keys across the VPN tunnel.

Correct Answer: B

A company recently signed a contract with an AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner for help with an application migration initiative. A solutions architect needs ta share an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from an existing AWS account with the MSP Partner's AWS account. The AMI is backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and uses an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key to encrypt EBS volume snapshots. What is the MOST secure way for the solutions architect to share the AMI with the MSP Partner's AWS account? A. Make the encrypted AMI and snapshots publicly available. Modify the key policy to allow the MSP Partner's AWS account to use the key. B. Modify the launchPermission property of the AMI. Share the AMI with the MSP Partner's AWS account only. Modify the key policy to allow the MSP Partner's AWS account to use the key. C. Modify the launchPermission property of the AMI. Share the AMI with the MSP Partner's AWS account only. Modify the key policy to trust a new KMS key that is owned by the MSP Partner for encryption. D. Export the AMI from the source account to an Amazon S3 bucket in the MSP Partner's AWS account, Encrypt the S3 bucket with a new KMS key

Correct Answer: B

A company runs a shopping application that uses Amazon DynamoDB to store customer information. In case of data corruption, a solutions architect needs to design a solution that meets a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 hour. What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements? A. Con8gure DynamoDB global tables. For RPO recovery, point the application to a different AWS Region. B. Con8gure DynamoDB point-in-time recovery. For RPO recovery, restore to the desired point in time. C. Export the DynamoDB data to Amazon S3 Glacier on a daily basis. For RPO recovery, import the data from S3 Glacier to DynamoDB. D. Schedule Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots for the DynamoDB table every 15 minutes. For RPO recovery, restore the DynamoDB table by using the EBS snapshot.

Correct Answer: B

A company runs an on-premises application that is powered by a MySQL database. The company is migrating the application to AWS to increase the application's elasticity and availability. The current architecture shows heavy read activity on the database during times of normal operation. Every 4 hours, the company's development team pulls a full export of the production database to populate a database in the staging environment. During this period, users experience unacceptable application latency. The development team is unable to use the staging environment until the procedure completes. A solutions architect must recommend replacement architecture that alleviates the application latency issue. The replacement architecture also must give the development team the ability to continue using the staging environment without delay. Which solution meets these requirements? A. Use Amazon Aurora MySQL with Multi-AZ Aurora Replicas for production. Populate the staging database by implementing a backup and restore process that uses the mysqldump utility. B. Use Amazon Aurora MySQL with Multi-AZ Aurora Replicas for production. Use database cloning to create the staging database on-demand. C. Use Am

Correct Answer: B

A company wants to reduce the cost of its existing three-tier web architecture. The web, application, and database servers are running on Amazon EC2 instances for the development, test, and production environments. The EC2 instances average 30% CPU utilization during peak hours and 10% CPU utilization during non-peak hours. The production EC2 instances run 24 hours a day. The development and test EC2 instances run for at least 8 hours each day. The company plans to implement automation to stop the development and test EC2 instances when they are not in use. Which EC2 instance purchasing solution will meet the company's requirements MOST cost-effectively? A. Use Spot Instances for the production EC2 instances. Use Reserved Instances for the development and test EC2 instances. B. Use Reserved Instances for the production EC2 instances. Use On-Demand Instances for the development and test EC2 instances. C. Use Spot blocks for the production EC2 instances. Use Reserved Instances for the development and test EC2 instances. D. Use On-Demand Instances for the production EC2 instances. Use Spot blocks for the development and test EC2 instances.

Correct Answer: B

A company's application integrates with multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) sources for data collection. The company runs Amazon EC2 instances to receive the data and to upload the data to an Amazon S3 bucket for analysis. The same EC2 instance that receives and uploads the data also sends a noti8cation to the user when an upload is complete. The company has noticed slow application performance and wants to improve the performance as much as possible. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? A. Create an Auto Scaling group so that EC2 instances can scale out. Con8gure an S3 event noti8cation to send events to an Amazon Simple Noti8cation Service (Amazon SNS) topic when the upload to the S3 bucket is complete. B. Create an Amazon AppFlow jow to transfer data between each SaaS source and the S3 bucket. Con8gure an S3 event noti8cation to send events to an Amazon Simple Noti8cation Service (Amazon SNS) topic when the upload to the S3 bucket is complete. C. Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule for each SaaS source to send output data. Con8gure the S3 bucket as the rule's target. Create a second EventBridge (Cloud Watch Events

Correct Answer: B

A development team needs to host a website that will be accessed by other teams. The website contents consist of HTML, CSS, client-side JavaScript, and images. Which method is the MOST cost-effective for hosting the website? A. Containerize the website and host it in AWS Fargate. B. Create an Amazon S3 bucket and host the website there. C. Deploy a web server on an Amazon EC2 instance to host the website. D. Con8gure an Application Load Balancer with an AWS Lambda target that uses the Express.js framework.

Correct Answer: B

A solutions architect is using Amazon S3 to design the storage architecture of a new digital media application. The media 8les must be resilient to the loss of an Availability Zone. Some 8les are accessed frequently while other 8les are rarely accessed in an unpredictable pattern. The solutions architect must minimize the costs of storing and retrieving the media 8les. Which storage option meets these requirements? 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)

Correct Answer: B

A survey company has gathered data for several years from areas in the United States. The company hosts the data in an Amazon S3 bucket that is 3 TB in size and growing. The company has started to share the data with a European marketing 8rm 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? A. Con8gure the Requester Pays feature on the company's S3 bucket. B. Con8gure S3 Cross-Region Replication from the company's S3 bucket to one of the marketing 8rm's S3 buckets. C. Con8gure cross-account access for the marketing 8rm so that the marketing 8rm has access to the company's S3 bucket. D. Con8gure the company's S3 bucket to use S3 Intelligent-Tiering. Sync the S3 bucket to one of the marketing 8rm's S3 buckets.

Correct Answer: B

A company has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains critical data. The company must protect the data from accidental deletion. Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.) A. Enable versioning on the S3 bucket. B. Enable MFA Delete on the S3 bucket. C. Create a bucket policy on the S3 bucket. D. Enable default encryption on the S3 bucket. E. Create a lifecycle policy for the objects in the S3 bucket.

Correct Answer: BD

A company has a data ingestion workjow that consists of the following: • An Amazon Simple Noti8cation Service (Amazon SNS) topic for noti8cations about new data deliveries • An AWS Lambda function to process the data and record metadata The company observes that the ingestion workjow fails occasionally because of network connectivity issues. When such a failure occurs, the Lambda function does not ingest the corresponding data unless the company manually reruns the job. Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to ensure that the Lambda function ingests all data in the future? (Choose two.) A. Deploy the Lambda function in multiple Availability Zones. B. Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue, and subscribe it to the SNS topic. C. Increase the CPU and memory that are allocated to the Lambda function. D. Increase provisioned throughput for the Lambda function. E. Modify the Lambda function to read from an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue.

Correct Answer: BE

A company has a website hosted on AWS. The website is behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that is con8gured to handle HTTP and HTTPS separately. The company wants to forward all requests to the website so that the requests will use HTTPS. What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement? A. Update the ALB's network ACL to accept only HTTPS traic. B. Create a rule that replaces the HTTP in the URL with HTTPS. C. Create a listener rule on the ALB to redirect HTTP traic to HTTPS. D. Replace the ALB with a Network Load Balancer con8gured to use Server Name Indication (SNI).

Correct Answer: C

A company has an application that generates a large number of 8les, each approximately 5 MB in size. The 8les are stored in Amazon S3. Company policy requires the 8les to be stored for 4 years before they can be deleted. Immediate accessibility is always required as the 8les contain critical business data that is not easy to reproduce. The 8les are frequently accessed in the 8rst 30 days of the object creation but are rarely accessed after the 8rst 30 days. Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective? A. Create an S3 bucket lifecycle policy to move 8les from S3 Standard to S3 Glacier 30 days from object creation. Delete the 8les 4 years after object creation. B. Create an S3 bucket lifecycle policy to move 8les from S3 Standard to S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) 30 days from object creation. Delete the 8les 4 years after object creation. C. Create an S3 bucket lifecycle policy to move 8les from S3 Standard to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) 30 days from object creation. Delete the 8les 4 years after object creation. D. Create an S3 bucket lifecycle policy to move 8les from S3 Standard to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) 30 days from object c

Correct Answer: C

A company is building an application in the AWS Cloud. The application will store data in Amazon S3 buckets in two AWS Regions. The company must use an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key to encrypt all data that is stored in the S3 buckets. The data in both S3 buckets must be encrypted and decrypted with the same KMS key. The data and the key must be stored in each of the two Regions. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? A. Create an S3 bucket in each Region. Con8gure the S3 buckets to use server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed encryption keys (SSE-S3). Con8gure replication between the S3 buckets. B. Create a customer managed multi-Region KMS key. Create an S3 bucket in each Region. Con8gure replication between the S3 buckets. Con8gure the application to use the KMS key with client-side encryption. C. Create a customer managed KMS key and an S3 bucket in each Region. Con8gure the S3 buckets to use server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed encryption keys (SSE-S3). Con8gure replication between the S3 buckets. D. Create a customer managed KMS key and an S3 bucket in each Region. Con8gure the S3 buckets to use se

Correct Answer: C

A company is designing an application where users upload small 8les into Amazon S3. After a user uploads a 8le, the 8le requires one-time simple processing to transform the data and save the data in JSON format for later analysis. Each 8le must be processed as quickly as possible after it is uploaded. Demand will vary. On some days, users will upload a high number of 8les. On other days, users will upload a few 8les or no 8les. Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? A. Con8gure Amazon EMR to read text 8les from Amazon S3. Run processing scripts to transform the data. Store the resulting JSON 8le in an Amazon Aurora DB cluster. B. Con8gure Amazon S3 to send an event noti8cation to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. Use Amazon EC2 instances to read from the queue and process the data. Store the resulting JSON 8le in Amazon DynamoDB. C. Con8gure Amazon S3 to send an event noti8cation to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. Use an AWS Lambda function to read from the queue and process the data. Store the resulting JSON 8le in Amazon DynamoDB. D. Con8gure Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) to send an event to Amaz

Correct Answer: C

A company is developing a two-tier web application on AWS. The company's developers have deployed the application on an Amazon EC2 instance that connects directly to a backend Amazon RDS database. The company must not hardcode database credentials in the application. The company must also implement a solution to automatically rotate the database credentials on a regular basis. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? A. Store the database credentials in the instance metadata. Use Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rules to run a scheduled AWS Lambda function that updates the RDS credentials and instance metadata at the same time. B. Store the database credentials in a con8guration 8le in an encrypted Amazon S3 bucket. Use Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rules to run a scheduled AWS Lambda function that updates the RDS credentials and the credentials in the con8guration 8le at the same time. Use S3 Versioning to ensure the ability to fall back to previous values. C. Store the database credentials as a secret in AWS Secrets Manager. Turn on automatic rotation for the secret. Attach the required permission to the EC2 role to

Correct Answer: C

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? 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.

Correct Answer: C

A company is hosting a web application on AWS using a single Amazon EC2 instance that stores user-uploaded documents in an Amazon EBS volume. For better scalability and availability, the company duplicated the architecture and created a second EC2 instance and EBS volume in another Availability Zone, placing both behind an Application Load Balancer. After completing this change, users reported that, each time they refreshed the website, they could see one subset of their documents or the other, but never all of the documents at the same time. What should a solutions architect propose to ensure users see all of their documents at once? A. Copy the data so both EBS volumes contain all the documents B. Con8gure the Application Load Balancer to direct a user to the server with the documents C. Copy the data from both EBS volumes to Amazon EFS. Modify the application to save new documents to Amazon EFS D. Con8gure the Application Load Balancer to send the request to both servers. Return each document from the correct server

Correct Answer: C

A company is migrating a distributed application to AWS. The application serves variable workloads. The legacy platform consists of a primary server that coordinates jobs across multiple compute nodes. The company wants to modernize the application with a solution that maximizes resiliency and scalability. How should a solutions architect design the architecture to meet these requirements? A. Con8gure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue as a destination for the jobs. Implement the compute nodes with Amazon EC2 instances that are managed in an Auto Scaling group. Con8gure EC2 Auto Scaling to use scheduled scaling. B. Con8gure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue as a destination for the jobs. Implement the compute nodes with Amazon EC2 instances that are managed in an Auto Scaling group. Con8gure EC2 Auto Scaling based on the size of the queue. C. Implement the primary server and the compute nodes with Amazon EC2 instances that are managed in an Auto Scaling group. Con8gure AWS CloudTrail as a destination for the jobs. Con8gure EC2 Auto Scaling based on the load on the primary server. D. Implement the primary server and the compute nodes with Amazon EC2 instanc

Correct Answer: C

A company needs the ability to analyze the log 8les of its proprietary application. The logs are stored in JSON format in an Amazon S3 bucket. Queries will be simple and will run on-demand. A solutions architect needs to perform the analysis with minimal changes to the existing architecture. What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead? A. Use Amazon Redshift to load all the content into one place and run the SQL queries as needed. B. Use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to store the logs. Run SQL queries as needed from the Amazon CloudWatch console. C. Use Amazon Athena directly with Amazon S3 to run the queries as needed. D. Use AWS Glue to catalog the logs. Use a transient Apache Spark cluster on Amazon EMR to run the SQL queries as needed.

Correct Answer: C

A company needs to con8gure 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? 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. Con8gure 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. Con8gure an Amazon API Gateway API to send data to AWS Glue. Use

Correct Answer: C

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? 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.

Correct Answer: C

A company observes an increase in Amazon EC2 costs in its most recent bill. The billing team notices unwanted vertical scaling of instance types for a couple of EC2 instances. A solutions architect needs to create a graph comparing the last 2 months of EC2 costs and perform an in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of the vertical scaling. How should the solutions architect generate the information with the LEAST operational overhead? A. Use AWS Budgets to create a budget report and compare EC2 costs based on instance types. B. Use Cost Explorer's granular 8ltering feature to perform an in-depth analysis of EC2 costs based on instance types. C. Use graphs from the AWS Billing and Cost Management dashboard to compare EC2 costs based on instance types for the last 2 months. D. Use AWS Cost and Usage Reports to create a report and send it to an Amazon S3 bucket. Use Amazon QuickSight with Amazon S3 as a source to generate an interactive graph based on instance types.

Correct Answer: C

A company provides a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service that uses UDP connections. The service consists of Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group. The company has deployments across multiple AWS Regions. The company needs to route users to the Region with the lowest latency. The company also needs automated failover between Regions. Which solution will meet these requirements? A. Deploy a Network Load Balancer (NLB) and an associated target group. Associate the target group with the Auto Scaling group. Use the NLB as an AWS Global Accelerator endpoint in each Region. B. Deploy an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and an associated target group. Associate the target group with the Auto Scaling group. Use the ALB as an AWS Global Accelerator endpoint in each Region. C. Deploy a Network Load Balancer (NLB) and an associated target group. Associate the target group with the Auto Scaling group. Create an Amazon Route 53 latency record that points to aliases for each NLB. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that uses the latency record as an origin. D. Deploy an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and an associated target group. Associate the target group with the Auto

Correct Answer: C

A company recently migrated to AWS and wants to implement a solution to protect the traic that jows in and out of the production VPC. The company had an inspection server in its on-premises data center. The inspection server performed speci8c operations such as traic jow inspection and traic 8ltering. The company wants to have the same functionalities in the AWS Cloud. Which solution will meet these requirements? A. Use Amazon GuardDuty for traic inspection and traic 8ltering in the production VPC. B. Use Traic Mirroring to mirror traic from the production VPC for traic inspection and 8ltering. C. Use AWS Network Firewall to create the required rules for traic inspection and traic 8ltering for the production VPC. D. Use AWS Firewall Manager to create the required rules for traic inspection and traic 8ltering for the production VPC.

Correct Answer: C

A company runs a highly available image-processing application on Amazon EC2 instances in a single VPC. The EC2 instances run inside several subnets across multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances do not communicate with each other. However, the EC2 instances download images from Amazon S3 and upload images to Amazon S3 through a single NAT gateway. The company is concerned about data transfer charges. What is the MOST cost-effective way for the company to avoid Regional data transfer charges? A. Launch the NAT gateway in each Availability Zone. B. Replace the NAT gateway with a NAT instance. C. Deploy a gateway VPC endpoint for Amazon S3. D. Provision an EC2 Dedicated Host to run the EC2 instances.

Correct Answer: C

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? A. Use Amazon Redshift with a single node for leader and compute functionality. B. Use Amazon RDS with a Single-AZ deployment Con8gure Amazon RDS to add reader instances in a different Availability Zone. C. Use Amazon Aurora with a Multi-AZ deployment. Con8gure Aurora Auto Scaling with Aurora Replicas. D. Use Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached with EC2 Spot Instances.

Correct Answer: C

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 8nancial 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? 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 transac

Correct Answer: C

A company runs multiple Windows workloads on AWS. The company's employees use Windows 8le shares that are hosted on two Amazon EC2 instances. The 8le 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 8les. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements? A. Migrate all the data to Amazon S3. Set up IAM authentication for users to access 8les. B. Set up an Amazon S3 File Gateway. Mount the S3 File Gateway on the existing EC2 instances. C. Extend the 8le share environment to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server with a Multi-AZ con8guration. Migrate all the data to FSx for Windows File Server. D. Extend the 8le share environment to Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) with a Multi-AZ con8guration. Migrate all the data to Amazon EFS

Correct Answer: C

A company stores call transcript 8les on a monthly basis. Users access the 8les randomly within 1 year of the call, but users access the 8les infrequently after 1 year. The company wants to optimize its solution by giving users the ability to query and retrieve 8les that are less than 1-yearold as quickly as possible. A delay in retrieving older 8les is acceptable. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? A. Store individual 8les with tags in Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval. Query the tags to retrieve the 8les from S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval. B. Store individual 8les in Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering. Use S3 Lifecycle policies to move the 8les to S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval after 1 year. Query and retrieve the 8les that are in Amazon S3 by using Amazon Athena. Query and retrieve the 8les that are in S3 Glacier by using S3 Glacier Select. C. Store individual 8les 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 8les to S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval after 1 year. Query and retrieve the 8les by searching for metadata from Amazon S3. D. Store individual 8les in

Correct Answer: C

A company uses NFS to store large video 8les in on-premises network attached storage. Each video 8le ranges in size from 1 MB to 500 GB. The total storage is 70 TB and is no longer growing. The company decides to migrate the video 8les to Amazon S3. The company must migrate the video 8les as soon as possible while using the least possible network bandwidth. Which solution will meet these requirements? A. Create an S3 bucket. Create an IAM role that has permissions to write to the S3 bucket. Use the AWS CLI to copy all 8les locally to the S3 bucket. B. Create an AWS Snowball Edge job. Receive a Snowball Edge device on premises. Use the Snowball Edge client to transfer data to the device. Return the device so that AWS can import the data into Amazon S3. C. Deploy an S3 File Gateway on premises. Create a public service endpoint to connect to the S3 File Gateway. Create an S3 bucket. Create a new NFS 8le share on the S3 File Gateway. Point the new 8le share to the S3 bucket. Transfer the data from the existing NFS 8le share to the S3 File Gateway. D. Set up an AWS Direct Connect connection between the on-premises network and AWS. Deploy an S3 File Gateway on premises. Create a public virtua

Correct Answer: C

A company wants to migrate its on-premises application to AWS. The application produces output 8les that vary in size from tens of gigabytes to hundreds of terabytes. The application data must be stored in a standard 8le system structure. The company wants a solution that scales automatically. is highly available, and requires minimum operational overhead. Which solution will meet these requirements? 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.

Correct Answer: C

A company's HTTP application is behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). The NLB's target group is con8gured 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? 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. Con8gure an Auto Scaling action to replace unhealthy instances. D. Create an Amazon Cloud Watch alarm that monitors the UnhealthyHostCount metric for the NLB. Con8gure an Auto Scaling action to replace unhealthy instances when the alarm is in the ALARM state.

Correct Answer: C

A company's dynamic website is hosted using on-premises servers in the United States. The company is launching its product in Europe, and it wants to optimize site loading times for new European users. The site's backend must remain in the United States. The product is being launched in a few days, and an immediate solution is needed. What should the solutions architect recommend? A. Launch an Amazon EC2 instance in us-east-1 and migrate the site to it. B. Move the website to Amazon S3. Use Cross-Region Replication between Regions. C. Use Amazon CloudFront with a custom origin pointing to the on-premises servers. D. Use an Amazon Route 53 geoproximity routing policy pointing to on-premises servers.

Correct Answer: C

A development team runs monthly resource-intensive tests on its general purpose Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance with Performance Insights enabled. The testing lasts for 48 hours once a month and is the only process that uses the database. The team wants to reduce the cost of running the tests without reducing the compute and memory attributes of the DB instance. Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively? A. Stop the DB instance when tests are completed. Restart the DB instance when required. B. Use an Auto Scaling policy with the DB instance to automatically scale when tests are completed. C. Create a snapshot when tests are completed. Terminate the DB instance and restore the snapshot when required. D. Modify the DB instance to a low-capacity instance when tests are completed. Modify the DB instance again when required.

Correct Answer: C

A global company hosts its web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The web application has static data and dynamic data. The company stores its static data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company wants to improve performance and reduce latency for the static data and dynamic data. The company is using its own domain name registered with Amazon Route 53. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements? A. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the S3 bucket and the ALB as origins. Con8gure Route 53 to route traic to the CloudFront distribution. B. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the ALB as an origin. Create an AWS Global Accelerator standard accelerator that has the S3 bucket as an endpoint Con8gure Route 53 to route traic to the CloudFront distribution. C. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the S3 bucket as an origin. Create an AWS Global Accelerator standard accelerator that has the ALB and the CloudFront distribution as endpoints. Create a custom domain name that points to the accelerator DNS name. Use the custom domain name as an endpoint for the web application. D. Create an Amazon Clo

Correct Answer: C

A hospital recently deployed a RESTful API with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The hospital uses API Gateway and Lambda to upload reports that are in PDF format and JPEG format. The hospital needs to modify the Lambda code to identify protected health information (PHI) in the reports. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? A. Use existing Python libraries to extract the text from the reports and to identify the PHI from the extracted text. B. Use Amazon Textract to extract the text from the reports. Use Amazon SageMaker to identify the PHI from the extracted text. C. Use Amazon Textract to extract the text from the reports. Use Amazon Comprehend Medical to identify the PHI from the extracted text. D. Use Amazon Rekognition to extract the text from the reports. Use Amazon Comprehend Medical to identify the PHI from the extracted text.

Correct Answer: C

A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new application being deployed on AWS. The process should run in parallel while adding and removing application nodes as needed based on the number of jobs to be processed. The processor application is stateless. The solutions architect must ensure that the application is loosely coupled and the job items are durably stored. Which design should the solutions architect use? A. Create an Amazon SNS topic to send the jobs that need to be processed. Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that consists of the processor application. Create a launch con8guration that uses the AMI. Create an Auto Scaling group using the launch con8guration. Set the scaling policy for the Auto Scaling group to add and remove nodes based on CPU usage. B. Create an Amazon SQS queue to hold the jobs that need to be processed. Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that consists of the processor application. Create a launch con8guration that uses the AMI. Create an Auto Scaling group using the launch con8guration. Set the scaling policy for the Auto Scaling group to add and remove nodes based on network usage. C. Create an Amazon SQS queue to hold the jobs

Correct Answer: C

A solutions architect is developing a VPC architecture that includes multiple subnets. The architecture will host applications that use Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon RDS DB instances. The architecture consists of six subnets in two Availability Zones. Each Availability Zone includes a public subnet, a private subnet, and a dedicated subnet for databases. Only EC2 instances that run in the private subnets can have access to the RDS databases. Which solution will meet these requirements? A. Create a new route table that excludes the route to the public subnets' CIDR blocks. Associate the route table with the database subnets. B. Create a security group that denies inbound traic from the security group that is assigned to instances in the public subnets. Attach the security group to the DB instances. C. Create a security group that allows inbound traic from the security group that is assigned to instances in the private subnets. Attach the security group to the DB instances. D. Create a new peering connection between the public subnets and the private subnets. Create a different peering connection between the private subnets and the database subnets.

Correct Answer: C

An Amazon EC2 administrator created the following policy associated with an IAM group containing several users: "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "ec2: Terminate Instances", "Resource": "*", "Condition": { "IpAddress": { "aws: SourceIp": "10.100.100.0/24" } } } { "Effect": "Deny", "Action": "ec2:*", "Resource": "*", "Condition": { "StringNotEquals": { "ec2:Region": "us-east-1" } } } ] What is the effect of this policy? A. Users can terminate an EC2 instance in any AWS Region except us-east-1. B. Users can terminate an EC2 instance with the IP address 10.100.100.1 in the us-east-1 Region. C. Users can terminate an EC2 instance in the us-east-1 Region when the user's source IP is 10.100.100.254. D. Users cannot terminate an EC2 instance in the us-east-1 Region when the user's source IP is 10.100.100.254.

Correct Answer: C

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? (Choose two.) 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 applicat

Correct Answer: CD

A company has a large Microsoft SharePoint deployment running on-premises that requires Microsoft Windows shared 8le 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? A. Con8gure Amazon EFS storage and set the Active Directory domain for authentication. B. Create an SMB 8le share on an AWS Storage Gateway 8le gateway in two Availability Zones. C. Create an Amazon S3 bucket and con8gure Microsoft Windows Server to mount it as a volume. D. Create an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server 8le system on AWS and set the Active Directory domain for authentication.

Correct Answer: D

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? A. Create an AWS Lambda function to apply the patch to all EC2 instances. B. Con8gure 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.

Correct Answer: D

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 certi8cate so that the third-party services can use HTTPS. Which solution will meet these requirements? A. Create stage variables in API Gateway with Name="Endpoint-URL" and Value="Company Domain Name" to overwrite the default URL. Import the public certi8cate associated with the company's domain name into AWS Certi8cate 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 certi8cate associated with the company's domain name into AWS Certi8cate 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 certi8cate associated with the company's domain name into AWS Certi8cate Manager (ACM) in the same Region. Attach the certi8cate to the API Gateway end

Correct Answer: D

A company hosts a data lake on AWS. The data lake consists of data in Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The company needs a reporting solution that provides data visualization and includes all the data sources within the data lake. Only the company's management team should have full access to all the visualizations. The rest of the company should have only limited access. Which solution will meet these requirements? A. Create an analysis in Amazon QuickSight. Connect all the data sources and create new datasets. Publish dashboards to visualize the data. Share the dashboards with the appropriate IAM roles. B. Create an analysis in Amazon QuickSight. Connect all the data sources and create new datasets. Publish dashboards to visualize the data. Share the dashboards with the appropriate users and groups. C. Create an AWS Glue table and crawler for the data in Amazon S3. Create an AWS Glue extract, transform, and load (ETL) job to produce reports. Publish the reports to Amazon S3. Use S3 bucket policies to limit access to the reports. D. Create an AWS Glue table and crawler for the data in Amazon S3. Use Amazon Athena Federated Query to access data within Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.

Correct Answer: D

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? A. Use the CreateQueue API call to create a new queue. B. Use the AddPermission API call to add appropriate permissions. C. Use the ReceiveMessage API call to set an appropriate wait time. D. Use the ChangeMessageVisibility API call to increase the visibility timeout.

Correct Answer: D

A company hosts its web applications in the AWS Cloud. The company con8gures Elastic Load Balancers to use certi8cates that are imported into AWS Certi8cate Manager (ACM). The company's security team must be noti8ed 30 days before the expiration of each certi8cate. What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement? A. Add a rule in ACM to publish a custom message to an Amazon Simple Noti8cation Service (Amazon SNS) topic every day, beginning 30 days before any certi8cate will expire. B. Create an AWS Con8g rule that checks for certi8cates that will expire within 30 days. Con8gure Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) to invoke a custom alert by way of Amazon Simple Noti8cation Service (Amazon SNS) when AWS Con8g reports a noncompliant resource. C. Use AWS Trusted Advisor to check for certi8cates that will expire within 30 days. Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that is based on Trusted Advisor metrics for check status changes. Con8gure the alarm to send a custom alert by way of Amazon Simple Noti8cation Service (Amazon SNS). D. Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule to detect any certi8cates that will expire within 30 days. Con8gure the r

Correct Answer: D

A company hosts more than 300 global websites and applications. The company requires a platform to analyze more than 30 TB of clickstream data each day. What should a solutions architect do to transmit and process the clickstream data? A. Design an AWS Data Pipeline to archive the data to an Amazon S3 bucket and run an Amazon EMR cluster with the data to generate analytics. B. Create an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances to process the data and send it to an Amazon S3 data lake for Amazon Redshift to use for analysis. C. Cache the data to Amazon CloudFront. Store the data in an Amazon S3 bucket. When an object is added to the S3 bucket. run an AWS Lambda function to process the data for analysis. D. Collect the data from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to transmit the data to an Amazon S3 data lake. Load the data in Amazon Redshift for analysis.

Correct Answer: D

A company is deploying a new public web application to AWS. The application will run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application needs to be encrypted at the edge with an SSL/TLS certi8cate that is issued by an external certi8cate authority (CA). The certi8cate must be rotated each year before the certi8cate expires. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements? A. Use AWS Certi8cate Manager (ACM) to issue an SSL/TLS certi8cate. Apply the certi8cate to the ALB. Use the managed renewal feature to automatically rotate the certi8cate. B. Use AWS Certi8cate Manager (ACM) to issue an SSL/TLS certi8cate. Import the key material from the certi8cate. Apply the certi8cate to the ALUse the managed renewal feature to automatically rotate the certi8cate. C. Use AWS Certi8cate Manager (ACM) Private Certi8cate Authority to issue an SSL/TLS certi8cate from the root CA. Apply the certi8cate to the ALB. Use the managed renewal feature to automatically rotate the certi8cate. D. Use AWS Certi8cate Manager (ACM) to import an SSL/TLS certi8cate. Apply the certi8cate to the ALB. Use Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) to send a noti8cation when the certi8cate is ne

Correct Answer: D

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 signi8cantly 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 con8guration effort. Which solution will meet these requirements? 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 DynamoDProvision 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. Con8gure one function to receive the information. Con8gure the other function to load the information into the database. Integrate the Lambda functions by using Amazon Simple Noti8cation Service (Amazon SNS). D. Set up two Lambda functions. Con8gure one function to receive the

Correct Answer: D

A company is implementing a shared storage solution for a gaming application that is hosted in an on-premises data center. The company needs the ability to use Lustre clients to access data. The solution must be fully managed. Which solution meets these requirements? A. Create an AWS Storage Gateway 8le gateway. Create a 8le share that uses the required client protocol. Connect the application server to the 8le share. B. Create an Amazon EC2 Windows instance. Install and con8gure a Windows 8le share role on the instance. Connect the application server to the 8le share. C. Create an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) 8le system, and con8gure it to support Lustre. Attach the 8le system to the origin server. Connect the application server to the 8le system. D. Create an Amazon FSx for Lustre 8le system. Attach the 8le system to the origin server. Connect the application server to the 8le system.

Correct Answer: D

A company is preparing to launch a public-facing web application in the AWS Cloud. The architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances within a VPC behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). A third-party service is used for the DNS. The company's solutions architect must recommend a solution to detect and protect against large-scale DDoS attacks. Which solution meets these requirements? A. Enable Amazon GuardDuty on the account. B. Enable Amazon Inspector on the EC2 instances. C. Enable AWS Shield and assign Amazon Route 53 to it. D. Enable AWS Shield Advanced and assign the ELB to it.

Correct Answer: D

A company is running an SMB 8le server in its data center. The 8le server stores large 8les that are accessed frequently for the 8rst few days after the 8les are created. After 7 days the 8les 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 8les. The solutions architect must also provide 8le lifecycle management to avoid future storage issues. Which solution will meet these requirements? A. Use AWS DataSync to copy data that is older than 7 days from the SMB 8le 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 8le 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.

Correct Answer: D

A company is using a SQL database to store movie data that is publicly accessible. The database runs on an Amazon RDS Single-AZ DB instance. A script runs queries at random intervals each day to record the number of new movies that have been added to the database. The script must report a 8nal total during business hours. The company's development team notices that the database performance is inadequate for development tasks when the script is running. A solutions architect must recommend a solution to resolve this issue. Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead? A. Modify the DB instance to be a Multi-AZ deployment. B. Create a read replica of the database. Con8gure the script to query only the read replica. C. Instruct the development team to manually export the entries in the database at the end of each day. D. Use Amazon ElastiCache to cache the common queries that the script runs against the database.

Correct Answer: D

A company needs guaranteed Amazon EC2 capacity in three speci8c Availability Zones in a speci8c AWS Region for an upcoming event that will last 1 week. What should the company do to guarantee the EC2 capacity? A. Purchase Reserved Instances that specify the Region needed. B. Create an On-Demand Capacity Reservation that speci8es the Region needed. C. Purchase Reserved Instances that specify the Region and three Availability Zones needed. D. Create an On-Demand Capacity Reservation that speci8es the Region and three Availability Zones needed.

Correct Answer: D

A company runs a photo processing application that needs to frequently upload and download pictures from Amazon S3 buckets that are located in the same AWS Region. A solutions architect has noticed an increased cost in data transfer fees and needs to implement a solution to reduce these costs. How can the solutions architect meet this requirement? A. Deploy Amazon API Gateway into a public subnet and adjust the route table to route S3 calls through it. B. Deploy a NAT gateway into a public subnet and attach an endpoint policy that allows access to the S3 buckets. C. Deploy the application into a public subnet and allow it to route through an internet gateway to access the S3 buckets. D. Deploy an S3 VPC gateway endpoint into the VPC and attach an endpoint policy that allows access to the S3 buckets.

Correct Answer: D

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. Modi8cations 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? A. Take EBS snapshots of the production EBS volumes. Restore the snapshots onto EC2 instance store volumes in the test environment. B. Con8gure 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 feat

Correct Answer: D

A company's containerized application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The application needs to download security certi8cates before it can communicate with other business applications. The company wants a highly secure solution to encrypt and decrypt the certi8cates 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? A. Create AWS Secrets Manager secrets for encrypted certi8cates. Manually update the certi8cates as needed. Control access to the data by using 8ne-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.

Correct Answer: D

An application allows users at a company's headquarters to access product data. The product data is stored in an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. The operations team has isolated an application performance slowdown and wants to separate read traic from write traic. A solutions architect needs to optimize the application's performance quickly. What should the solutions architect recommend? A. Change the existing database to a Multi-AZ deployment. Serve the read requests from the primary Availability Zone. B. Change the existing database to a Multi-AZ deployment. Serve the read requests from the secondary Availability Zone. C. Create read replicas for the database. Con8gure the read replicas with half of the compute and storage resources as the source database. D. Create read replicas for the database. Con8gure the read replicas with the same compute and storage resources as the source database.

Correct Answer: D