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A retail company has structured its AWS accounts to be part of an organization in AWS Organizations. The company has set up consolidated billing and has mapped its departments to the following OUs: Finance, Sales, Human Resources (HR), Marketing, and Operations. Each OU has multiple AWS accounts, one for each environment within a department. These environments are development, test, pre-production, and production.
The HR department is releasing a new system that will launch in 3 months. In preparation, the HR department has purchased several Reserved Instances (RIs) in its production AWS account. The HR department will install the new application on this account. The HR department wants to make sure that other departments cannot share the RI discounts.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. The company uses AWS CodePipeline to deploy the application. The instances that run in the Auto Scaling group are constantly changing because of scaling events
When the company deploys new application code versions the company Installs the AWS CodeDeploy agent on any new target EC2 instances and associates the instances with the CodeDeploy deployment group The application is set to go live within the next 24 hours
What should a solutions architect recommend to automate the application deployment process with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
A large company with hundreds of AWS accounts has a newly established centralized internal process for purchasing new or modifying existing Reserved Instances. This process requires all business units that want to purchase or modify Reserved Instances to submit requests to a dedicated team for procurement or execution. Previously, business units would directly purchase or modify Reserved Instances in their own respective AWS accounts autonomously.
Which combination of steps should be taken to proactively enforce the new process in the MOST secure way possible? (Select TWO.)
A company is in the process of implementing AWS Organizations to constrain its developers to use only Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon DynamoDB. The developers account resides in a dedicated organizational unit (OU). The solutions architect has implemented the following SCP on the developers account:
When this policy is deployed, IAM users in the developers account are still able to use AWS services that are not listed in the policy.
What should the solutions architect do to eliminate the developers’ ability to use services outside the scope of this policy?
A company wants to migrate its website from an on-premises data center onto AWS At the same time it wants to migrate the website to a containerized microservice-based architecture to improve the availability and cost efficiency The company's security policy states that privileges and network permissions must be configured according to best practice, using least privilege
A solutions architect must create a containerized architecture that meets the security requirements and has deployed the application to an Amazon ECS cluster
What steps are required after the deployment to meet the requirements'? (Select TWO.)
A company is using an existing orchestration tool to manage thousands of Amazon EC2 instances. A recent penetration test found a vulnerability in the company's software stack. This vulnerability has prompted the company to perform a full evaluated of its current production environment The analysts determined that the following vulnerabilities exist within the environment:
• Operating systems with outdated libraries and known vulnerabilities are being used in production
• Relational databases hosted and managed by the company are running unsupported versions with known vulnerabilities
• Data stored in databases Is not encrypted.
The solutions architect intends to use AWS Config to continuously audit and assess the compliance of the company's AWS resource configurations with the company's polices and guidelines What additional steps will enable the company to secure its environments and track resources while adhering to best practices?
A company is migrating a legacy application from an on-premises data center to AWS. The application uses MangeDB as a key-value database According to the company's technical guidelines, all Amazon EC2 instances must be hosted in a private subnet without an internet connection In addition, all connectivity between applications and databases must be encrypted. The database must be able to scale based on demand
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A large education company recently introduced Amazon Workspaces to provide access to internal applications across multiple universities. The company is storing user proxies on an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server tile system. The Me system is configured with a DNS alias and is connected to a self-managed Active Directory As more users begin to use the Workspaces login time increases to unacceptable levels
An investigation reveals a degradation in performance of the file system. The company created the file system on HDD storage with a throughput of 16 MBps A solutions architect must improve the performance of the file system during a defined maintenance window
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative effort?
A company wants to migrate its workloads from on premises to AWS. The workloads run on Linux and Windows. The company has a large on-premises intra structure that consists of physical machines and VMs that host numerous applications.
The company must capture details about the system configuration. system performance. running processure and network coi.net lions of its o. -premises ,on boards. The company also must divide the on-premises applications into groups for AWS migrations. The company needs recommendations for Amazon EC2 instance types so that the company can run its workloads on AWS in the most cost-effective manner.
Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company has a web application that allows users to upload short videos. The videos are stored on Amazon EBS volumes and analyzed by custom recognition software for categorization.
The website contains stat c content that has variable traffic with peaks in certain months. The architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances running in an Auto Scaling group for the web application and EC2 instances running in an Auto Scaling group to process an Amazon SQS queue The company wants to re-architect the application to reduce operational overhead using AWS managed services where possible and remove dependencies on third-party software.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company that has multiple AWS accounts is using AWS Organizations. The company’s AWS accounts host VPCs, Amazon EC2 instances, and containers.
The company’s compliance team has deployed a security tool in each VPC where the company has deployments. The security tools run on EC2 instances and send information to the AWS account that is dedicated for the compliance team. The company has tagged all the compliance-related resources with a key of “costCenter” and a value or “compliance”.
The company wants to identify the cost of the security tools that are running on the EC2 instances so that the company can charge the compliance team’s AWS account. The cost calculation must be as accurate as possible.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company is hosting a three-tier web application in an on-premises environment. Due to a recent surge in traffic that resulted in downtime and a significant financial impact, company management has ordered that the application be moved to AWS. The application is written in .NET and has a dependency on a MySQL database A solutions architect must design a scalable and highly available solution to meet the demand of 200000 daily users.
Which steps should the solutions architect take to design an appropriate solution?
A company has migrated an application from on premises to AWS. The application frontend is a static website that runs on two Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application backend is a Python application that runs on three EC2 instances behind another ALB. The EC2 instances are large, general purpose On-Demand Instances that were sized to meet the on-premises specifications for peak usage of the application.
The application averages hundreds of thousands of requests each month. However, the application is used mainly during lunchtime and receives minimal traffic during the rest of the day.
A solutions architect needs to optimize the infrastructure cost of the application without negatively affecting the application availability.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A retail company has structured its AWS accounts to be part of an organization in AWS Organizations. The company has set up consolidated billing and has mapped its departments to the following OUs: Finance. Sales. Human Resources The HR department is releasing a new system thai will launch in 3 months. In preparation, the HR department has purchased several Reserved Instances (RIs) in its production AWS account. The HR department will install the new application on this account. The HR department wants to make sure that other departments cannot share the Rl discounts. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is planning to migrate 1,000 on-premises servers to AWS. The servers run on several VMware clusters in the company’s data center. As part of the migration plan, the company wants to gather server metrics such as CPU details, RAM usage, operating system information, and running processes. The company then wants to query and analyze the data.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A video processing company has an application that downloads images from an Amazon S3 bucket, processes the images, stores a transformed image in a second S3 bucket, and updates metadata about the image in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The application is written in Node.js and runs by using an AWS Lambda function. The Lambda function is invoked when a new image is uploaded to Amazon S3.
The application ran without incident for a while. However, the size of the images has grown significantly. The Lambda function is now failing frequently with timeout errors. The function timeout is set to its maximum value. A solutions architect needs to refactor the application’s architecture to prevent invocation failures. The company does not want to manage the underlying infrastructure.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company's security compliance requirements state that all Amazon EC2 images must be scanned for vulnerabilities and must pass a CVE assessment A solutions architect is developing a mechanism to create security-approved AMIs that can be used by developers Any new AMIs should go through an automated assessment process and be marked as approved before developers can use them The approved images must be scanned every 30 days to ensure compliance
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements while following best practices'? (Select TWO )
A company has an organization in AWS Organizations. The company is using AWS Control Tower to deploy a landing zone for the organization. The company wants to implement governance and policy enforcement. The company must implement a policy that will detect Amazon RDS DB instances that are not encrypted at rest in the company’s production OU.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company recently started hosting new application workloads in the AWS Cloud. The company is using Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems, and Amazon RDS DB instances.
To meet regulatory and business requirements, the company must make the following changes for data backups:
• Backups must be retained based on custom daily, weekly, and monthly requirements.
• Backups must be replicated to at least one other AWS Region immediately after capture.
• The backup solution must provide a single source of backup status across the AWS environment.
• The backup solution must send immediate notifications upon failure of any resource backup.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead? (Select THREE.)
A company runs a Python script on an Amazon EC2 instance to process data. The script runs every 10 minutes. The script ingests files from an Amazon S3 bucket and processes the files. On average, the script takes approximately 5 minutes to process each file The script will not reprocess a file that the script has already processed.
The company reviewed Amazon CloudWatch metrics and noticed that the EC2 instance is idle for approximately 40% of the time because of the file processing speed. The company wants to make the workload highly available and scalable. The company also wants to reduce long-term management overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company processes environmental data. The company has set up sensors to provide a continuous stream of data from different areas in a city. The data is available in JSON format.
The company wants to use an AWS solution to send the data to a database that does not require fixed schemas for storage. The data must be sent in real time.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has deployed an application to multiple environments in AWS. including production and testing the company has separate accounts for production and testing, and users are allowed to create additional application users for team members or services. as needed. The security team has asked the operations team tor better isolation between production and testing with centralized controls on security credentials and improved management of permissions between environments
Which of the following options would MOST securely accomplish this goal?
An auction website enables users to bid on collectible items The auction rules require that each bid is processed only once and in the order it was received The current implementation is based on a fleet of Amazon EC2 web servers that write bid records into Amazon Kinesis Data Streams A single 12 large instance has a cron job that runs the bid processor, which reads incoming bids from Kinesis Data Streams and processes each bid The auction site is growing in popularity, but users are complaining that some bids are not registering
Troubleshooting indicates that the bid processor is too slow during peak demand hours sometimes crashes while processing and occasionally loses track of which record is being processed
What changes should make the bid processing more reliable?
A company has a new security policy. The policy requires the company to log any event that retrieves data from Amazon S3 buckets. The company must save these audit logs in a dedicated S3 bucket. The company created the audit logs S3 bucket in an AWS account that is designated for centralized logging. The S3 bucket has a bucket policy that allows write-only cross-account access A solutions architect must ensure that all S3 object-level access is being logged for current S3 buckets and future S3 buckets. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A solutions architect needs to review the design of an Amazon EMR cluster that is using the EMR File System (EMRFS). The cluster performs tasks that are critical to business needs. The cluster is running Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances at all times for all task, master, and core nodes The EMR tasks run each morning, starting at 1:00 AM, and take 6 hours to finish running. The amount of time to complete the processing is not a priority because the data is not referenced until late in the day.
The solutions architect must review the architecture and suggest a solution to minimize the compute costs
Which solution should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A company manages hundreds of AWS accounts centrally in an organization In AWS Organizations. The company recently started to allow product teams to create and manage their own S3 access points in their accounts. The S3 access points can be accessed only within VPCs. not on the internet.
What is the MOST operationally efficient way to enforce this requirement?
A finance company hosts a data lake in Amazon S3. The company receives financial data records over SFTP each night from several third parties. The company runs its own SFTP server on an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subnet of a VPC. After the files ate uploaded, they are moved to the data lake by a cron job that runs on the same instance. The SFTP server is reachable on DNS sftp.examWe.com through the use of Amazon Route 53.
What should a solutions architect do to improve the reliability and scalability of the SFTP solution?
A solutions architect must provide a secure way for a team of cloud engineers to use the AWS CLI to upload objects into an Amazon S3 bucket Each cloud engineer has an IAM user. IAM access keys and a virtual multi-factor authentication (MFA) device The IAM users for the cloud engineers are in a group that is named S3-access The cloud engineers must use MFA to perform any actions in Amazon S3
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company built an ecommerce website on AWS using a three-tier web architecture. The application is Java-based and composed of an Amazon CloudFront distribution, an Apache web server layer of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group, and a backend Amazon Aurora MySQL database.
Last month, during a promotional sales event, users reported errors and timeouts while adding items to their shopping carts. The operations team recovered the logs created by the web servers and reviewed Aurora DB cluster performance metrics. Some of the web servers were terminated before logs could be collected and the Aurora metrics were not sufficient for query performance analysis.
Which combination of steps must the solutions architect take to improve application performance visibility during peak traffic events? (Select THREE.)
A multimedia company needs to deliver its video-on-demand (VOD) content to its subscribers in a cost-effective way. The video files range in size from 1-15 GB and are typically viewed frequently for the first 6 months alter creation, and then access decreases considerably. The company requires all video files to remain immediately available for subscribers. There are now roughly 30.000 files, and the company anticipates doubling that number over time.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution for delivering the company's VOD content?
A company runs an e-commerce platform with front-end and e-commerce tiers. Both tiers run on LAMP stacks with the front-end instances running behind a load balancing appliance that has a virtual offering on AWS Current*/, the operations team uses SSH to log in to the instances to maintain patches and address other concerns. The platform has recently been the target of multiple attacks, including.
• A DDoS attack.
• An SOL injection attack
• Several successful dictionary attacks on SSH accounts on the web servers
The company wants to improve the security of the e-commerce platform by migrating to AWS. The company's solutions architects have decided to use the following approach;
• Code review the existing application and fix any SQL injection issues.
• Migrate the web application to AWS and leverage the latest AWS Linux AMI to address initial security patching.
• Install AWS Systems Manager to manage patching and allow the system administrators to run commands on all instances, as needed.
What additional steps will address all of the identified attack types while providing high availability and minimizing risk?
A company has a three-tier application running on AWS with a web server, an application server, and an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. A solutions architect is designing a disaster recovery (OR) solution with an RPO of 5 minutes.
Which solution will meet the company's requirements?
A solutions architect is building a web application that uses an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance The DB instance is expected to receive many more reads than writes. The solutions architect needs to ensure that the large amount of read traffic can be accommodated and that the DB instance is highly available.
Which steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE)
A company runs an application on AWS. An AWS Lambda function uses credentials to authenticate to an Amazon RDS tor MySQL DB instance. A security risk assessment identified that these credentials are not frequently rotated. Also, encryption at rest is not enabled for the DB instance. The security team requires that both of these issues be resolved.
Which strategy should a solutions architect recommend to remediate these security risks?
A solutions architect is designing a network for a new cloud deployment. Each account will need autonomy to modify route tables and make changes. Centralized and controlled egress internet connectivity is also needed. The cloud footprint is expected to grow to thousands of AWS accounts.
Which architecture will meet these requirements?
A company is storing data in several Amazon DynamoDB tables. A solutions architect must use a serverless architecture to make the data accessible publicly through a simple API over HTTPS. The solution must scale automatically in response to demand.
Which solutions meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company plans to migrate to AWS. A solutions architect uses AWS Application Discovery Service over the fleet and discovers that there is an Oracle data warehouse and several PostgreSQL databases. Which combination of migration patterns will reduce licensing costs and operational overhead? (Select TWO.)
A web application is hosted in a dedicated VPC that is connected to a company's on-premises data center over a Site-to-Site VPN connection. The application is accessible from the company network only. This is a temporary non-production application that is used during business hours. The workload is generally low with occasional surges.
The application has an Amazon Aurora MySQL provisioned database cluster on the backend. The VPC has an internet gateway and a NAT gateways attached. The web servers are in private subnets in an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancer. The web servers also upload data to an Amazon S3 bucket through the internet.
A solutions architect needs to reduce operational costs and simplify the architecture.
Which strategy should the solutions architect use?
A company wants to migrate its corporate data center from on premises to the AWS Cloud. The data center includes physical servers and VMs that use VMware and Hyper-V. An administrator needs to select the correct services to collect data (or the initial migration discovery process. The data format should be supported by AWS Migration Hub. The company also needs the ability to generate reports from the data.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A team collects and routes behavioral data for an entire company. The company runs a Multi-AZ VPC environment with public subnets, private subnets, and in internet gateway Each public subnet also contains a NAT gateway Most of the company's applications read from and write to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Most of the workloads run in private subnets.
A solutions architect must review the infrastructure The solutions architect needs to reduce costs and maintain the function of the applications. The solutions architect uses Cost Explorer and notices that the cost in the EC2-Other category is consistently high A further review shows that NatGateway-Bytes charges are increasing the cost in the EC2-Other category.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company is developing and hosting several projects in the AWS Cloud. The projects are developed across multiple AWS accounts under the same organization in AWS Organizations. The company requires the cost lor cloud infrastructure to be allocated to the owning project. The team responsible for all of the AWS accounts has discovered that several Amazon EC2 instances are lacking the Project tag used for cost allocation.
Which actions should a solutions architect take to resolve the problem and prevent it from happening in the future? (Select THREE.)
A company is running a traditional web application on Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs to refactor the application as microservices that run on containers. Separate versions of the application exist in two distinct environments: production and testing. Load for the application is variable, but the minimum load and the maximum load are known. A solutions architect needs to design the updated application with a serverless architecture that minimizes operational complexity.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is using AWS CodePipeline for the CI/CO of an application to an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. All AWS resources are defined in AWS CloudFormation templates. The application artifacts are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket and deployed to the Auto Scaling group using instance user data scripts. As the application has become more complex, recent resource changes in the Cloud Formation templates have caused unplanned downtime.
How should a solutions architect improve the CI'CD pipeline to reduce the likelihood that changes in the templates will cause downtime?
A company wants to use a third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. The third-party SaaS application is consumed through several API calls. The third-party SaaS application also runs on AWS inside a VPC.
The company will consume the third-party SaaS application from inside a VPC. The company has internal security policies that mandate the use of private connectivity that does not traverse the internet. No resources that run in the company VPC are allowed to be accessed from outside the company’s VPC. All permissions must conform to the principles of least privilege.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company has a new application that needs to run on five Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region. The application requires high-throughput, low-latency network connections between all of the EC2 instances where the application will run. There is no requirement for the application to be fault tolerant.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs to implement a patching process for its servers. The on-premises servers and Amazon EC2 instances use a variety of tools to perform patching. Management requires a single report showing the patch status of all the servers and instances.
Which set of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements?
A company has registered 10 new domain names. The company uses the domains for online marketing. The company needs a solution that will redirect online visitors to a specific URL for each domain. All domains and target URLs are defined in a JSON document. All DNS records are managed by Amazon Route 53.
A solutions architect must implement a redirect service that accepts HTTP and HTTPS requests.
Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational effort? (Choose three.)
A company uses an on-premises data analytics platform. The system is highly available in a fully redundant configuration across 12 servers in the company's data center.
The system runs scheduled jobs, both hourly and daily, in addition to one-time requests from users. Scheduled jobs can take between 20 minutes and 2 hours to finish running and have tight SLAs. The scheduled jobs account for 65% of the system usage. User jobs typically finish running in less than 5 minutes and have no SLA. The user jobs account for 35% of system usage. During system failures, scheduled jobs must continue to meet SLAs. However, user jobs can be delayed.
A solutions architect needs to move the system to Amazon EC2 instances and adopt a consumption-based model to reduce costs with no long-term commitments. The solution must maintain high availability and must not affect the SLAs.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is launching a new web application on Amazon EC2 instances. Development and production workloads exist in separate AWS accounts.
According to the company's security requirements, only automated configuration tools are allowed to access the production account. The company's security team wants to receive immediate notification if any manual access to the production AWS account or EC2 instances occurs
Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take in the production account to meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company needs to run a software package that has a license that must be run on the same physical host for the duration of Its use. The software package is only going to be used for 90 days The company requires patching and restarting of all instances every 30 days
How can these requirements be met using AWS?
The company needs to determine which costs on the monthly AWS bill are attributable to each application or team. The company also must be able to create reports to compare costs from the last 12 months and to help forecast costs for the next 12 months. A solutions architect must recommend an AWS Billing and Cost Management solution that provides these cost reports.
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company that is developing a mobile game is making game assets available in two AWS Regions. Game assets ate served from a set of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in each Region. The company requires game assets to be (etched from the closest Region. If game assets become unavailable in the closest Region, they should be fetched from the other Region.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A developer reports receiving an Error 403: Access Denied message when they try to download an object from an Amazon S3 bucket. The S3 bucket is accessed using an S3 endpoint inside a VPC. and is encrypted with an AWS KMS key. A solutions architect has verified that (he developer is assuming the correct IAM role in the account that allows the object to be downloaded. The S3 bucket policy and the NACL are also valid.
Which additional step should the solutions architect take to troubleshoot this issue?
A company uses AWS Transit Gateway for a hub-and-spoke model to manage network traffic between many VPCs. The company is developing a new service that must be able to send data at 100 Gbps. The company needs a faster connection to other VPCs in the same AWS Region.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has many services running in its on-premises data center. The data center is connected to AWS using AWS Direct Connect (DX) and an IPSec VPN. The service data is sensitive and connectivity cannot traverse the internet. The company wants to expand into a new market segment and begin offering its services to other companies that are using AWS.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has multiple AWS accounts as part of an organization created with AWS Organizations. Each account has a VPC in the us-east-2 Region and is used for either production or development workloads. Amazon EC2 instances across production accounts need to communicate with each other, and EC2 instances across development accounts need to communicate with each other, but production and development instances should not be able to communicate with each other.
To facilitate connectivity, the company created a common network account. The company used AWS Transit Gateway to create a transit gateway in the us-east-2 Region in the network account and shared the transit gateway with the entire organization by using AWS Resource Access Manager. Network administrators then attached VPCs in each account to the transit gateway, after which the EC2 instances were able to communicate across accounts. However, production and development accounts were also able to communicate with one another.
Which set of steps should a solutions architect take to ensure production traffic and development traffic are completely isolated?
A company is running a web application with On-Demand Amazon EC2 instances in Auto Scaling groups that scale dynamically based on custom metrics After extensive testing, the company determines that the m5.2xlarge instance size is optimal for the workload Application data is stored in db.r4.4xlarge Amazon RDS instances that are confirmed to be optimal. The traffic to the web application spikes randomly during the day.
What other cost-optimization methods should the company implement to further reduce costs without impacting the reliability of the application?
TESTED 23 Mar 2023