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1. A Solutions Architect needs to design an architecture for a new, mission-critical batch processing billing application. The application is required to run Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 5 AM to 11 AM. Which is the MOST cost-effective Amazon EC2 pricing model?
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2. An AWS workload in a VPC is running a legacy database on an Amazon EC2 instance. Data is stored on a 200GB Amazon EBS (gp2) volume. At peak load times, logs show excessive wait time. What solution should be implemented to improve database performance using persistent storage?
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3. An application stack includes an Elastic Load Balancer in a public subnet, a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group, and an Amazon RDS MySQL cluster. Users connect to the application from the Internet. The application servers and database must be secure. How should a Solutions Architect perform this task?
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4. A Solutions Architect needs to build a resilient data warehouse using Amazon Redshift. The Architect needs to rebuild the Redshift cluster in another region. Which approach can the Architect take to address this requirement?
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5. A company plans to use AWS for all new batch processing workloads. The company's developers use Docker containers for the new batch processing. The system design must accommodate critical and non-critical batch processing workloads 24/7. How should a Solutions Architect design this architecture in a cost-efficient manner?
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6. A Solutions Architect is developing software on AWS that requires access to multiple AWS services, including an Amazon EC2 instance. This is a security sensitive application, and AWS credentials such as Access Key ID and Secret Access Key need to be protected and cannot be exposed anywhere in the system. What security measure would satisfy these requirements?
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7. A company wants to migrate a highly transactional database to AWS. Requirements state that the database has more than 6 TB of data and will grow exponentially. Which solution should a Solutions Architect recommend?
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8. A Solutions Architect needs to deploy a node.js-based web application that is highly available and scales automatically. The Marketing team needs to roll back on application releases quickly, and they need to have an operational dashboard. The Marketing team does not want to manage deployment of OS patches to the Linux servers. Use of which AWS service will satisfy these requirements?
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9. A web application stores all data in an Amazon RDS Aurora database instance. A Solutions Architect wants to provide access to the data for a detailed report for the Marketing team, but is concerned that the additional load on the database will affect the performance of the web application. How can the report be created without affecting the performance of the application?
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10. A manufacturing company captures data from machines running at customer sites. Currently, thousands of machines send data every 5 minutes, and this is expected to grow to hundreds of thousands of machines in the near future. The data is logged with the intent to be analyzed in the future as needed. What is the SIMPLEST method to store this streaming data at scale?
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11. A company hosts a popular web application. The web application connects to a database running in a private VPC subnet. The web servers must be accessible only to customers on an SSL connection. The RDS MySQL database server must be accessible only from the web servers. How should the Architect design a solution to meet the requirements without impacting running applications?
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12. A call center application consists of a three-tier application using Auto Scaling groups to automatically scale resources as needed. Users report that every morning at 9:00 AM the system becomes very slow for about 15 minutes. A Solution Architect determines that a large percentage of the call center staff starts work at 9:00 AM, so Auto Scaling does not have enough time to scale out to meet demand. How can the Architect fix the problem?
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13. An application is running on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. Four instances are required to handle a predictable traffic load. The Solutions Architect wants to ensure that the operation is fault-tolerant up to the loss of one Availability Zone. Which is the MOST cost-efficient way to meet these requirements?
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14. A Solutions Architect is designing a mobile application that will capture receipt images to track expenses. The Architect wants to store the images on Amazon S3. However, uploading images through the web server will create too much traffic. What is the MOST efficient method to store images from a mobile application on Amazon S3?
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15. A Solutions Architect is designing the storage layer for a production relational database. The database will run on Amazon EC2. The database is accessed by an application that performs intensive reads and writes, so the database requires the LOWEST random I/O latency. Which data storage method fulfills the above requirements?
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16. A company is launching an application that it expects to be very popular. The company needs a database that can scale with the rest of the application. The schema will change frequently. The application cannot afford any downtime for database changes. Which AWS service allows the company to achieve these objectives?
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17. A Solution Architect has a two-tier application with a single Amazon EC2 instance web server and Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instances. The Architect is re-architecting the application for high availability by adding instances in a second Availability Zone. Which additional services will improve the availability of the application? (Choose two.)
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18. A Solutions Architect is designing a solution to store a large quantity of event data in Amazon S3. The Architect anticipates that the workload will consistently exceed 100 requests each second. What should the Architect do in Amazon S3 to optimize performance?
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19. A company wants to improve the performance of their web application after receiving customer complaints. An analysis concluded that the same complex database queries were causing increased latency. What should a Solutions Architect recommend to improve the application’s performance?
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20. A company hosts a website on premises. The website has a mix of static and dynamic content, but users experience latency when loading static files. Which AWS service can help reduce latency?
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21. A company wants to analyze all of its sales information aggregated over the last 12 months. The company expects there to be over 10TB of data from multiple sources. What service should be used?
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22. A company has an Amazon RDS database backing its production website. The Sales team needs to run queries against the database to track training program effectiveness. Queries against the production database cannot impact performance, and the solution must be easy to maintain. How can these requirements be met?
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23. A restaurant reservation application needs the ability to maintain a waiting list. When a customer tries to reserve a table, and none are available, the customer must be put on the waiting list, and the application must notify the customer when a table becomes free. What service should the Solutions Architect recommend to ensure that the system respects the order in which the customer requests are put onto the waiting list?
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24. A Solutions Architect is designing a VPC. Instances in a private subnet must be able to establish IPv6 traffic to the Internet. The design must scale automatically and not incur any additional cost. This can be accomplished with:
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25. Two Auto Scaling applications, Application A and Application B, currently run within a shared set of subnets. A Solutions Architect wants to make sure that Application A can make requests to Application B, but Application B should be denied from making requests to Application A. Which is the SIMPLEST solution to achieve this policy?
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26. A Solutions Architect is designing a stateful web application that will run for one year (24/7) and then be decommissioned. Load on this platform will be constant, using a number of r4.8xlarge instances. Key drivers for this system include high availability, but elasticity is not required. What is the MOST cost-effective way to purchase compute for this platform?
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27. An interactive, dynamic website runs on Amazon EC2 instances in a single subnet behind an ELB Classic Load Balancer. Which design changes will make the site more highly available?
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28. A Solutions Architect is designing a solution that can monitor memory and disk space utilization of all Amazon EC2 instances running Amazon Linux and Windows. Which solution meets this requirement?  
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29. A Solutions Architect is designing an Amazon VPC. Applications in the VPC must have private connectivity to Amazon DynamoDB in the same AWS Region. The design should route DynamoDB traffic through:
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30. A company must collect temperature data from thousands of remote weather devices. The company must also store this data in a data warehouse to run aggregations and visualizations. Which services will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
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31. An organization has a long-running image processing application that runs on Spot Instances that will be terminated when interrupted. A highly available workload must be designed to respond to Spot Instance interruption notices. The solution must include a two-minute warning when there is not enough capacity. How can these requirements be met?
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32. A Solution Architect is designing a three-tier web application. The Architect wants to restrict access to the database tier to accept traffic from the application servers only. However, these application servers are in an Auto Scaling group and may vary in quantity. How should the Architect configure the database servers to meet the requirements?
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33. An application hosted on AWS uses object storage for storing internal reports that are accessed daily by the CFO. Currently, these reports are publicly available. How should a Solutions Architect re-design this architecture to prevent unauthorized access to these reports?
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34. An on-premises database is experiencing significant performance problems when running SQL queries. With 10 users, the lookups are performing as expected. As the number of users increases, the lookups take three times longer than expected to return values to an application.   Which action should a Solutions Architect take to maintain performance as the user count increases?
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35. An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. When instances are terminated, the Systems Operations team cannot determine the route cause, because the logs reside on the terminated instances and are lost. How can the root cause be determined?
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36. Which one do you like?
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37. An application stack includes an Elastic Load Balancer in a public subnet, a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group, and an Amazon RDS MySQL cluster. Users connect to the application from the Internet. The application servers and database must be secure. How should a Solutions Architect perform this task?
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38. A customer owns a MySQL database that is accessed by various clients who expect, at most, 100 ms latency on requests. Once a record is stored in the database, it rarely changed. Clients only access one record at a time. Database access has been increasing exponentially due to increased client demand. The resultant load will soon exceed the capacity of the most expensive hardware available for purchase. The customer wants to migrate to AWS, and is willing to change database systems. Which service would alleviate the database load issue and offer virtually unlimited scalability for the future?
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39. An organization designs a mobile application for their customers to upload photos to a site. The application needs a secure login with MFA. The organization wants to limit the initial build time and maintenance of the solution. Which solution should a Solutions Architect recommend to meet the requirements?
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40. A media company has deployed a multi-tier architecture on AWS. Web servers are deployed in two Availability Zones using an Auto Scaling group with a default Auto Scaling termination policy. The web servers Auto Scaling group currently has 15 instances running. Which instance will be terminated first during a scale-in operation?
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41. A Solutions Architect is designing a web application that is running on an Amazon EC2 instance. The application stores data in DynamoDB. The Architect needs to secure access to the DynamoDB table. What combination of steps does AWS recommend to achieve secure authorization? (Select two.)
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42. A Solutions Architect is deploying a new production MySQL database on AWS. It is critical that the database is highly available. What should the Architect do to achieve this goal with Amazon RDS?
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43. A company runs a legacy application with a single-tier architecture on an Amazon EC2 instance. Disk I/O is low, with occasional small spikes during business hours. The company requires the instance to be stopped from 8 PM to 8 AM daily. Which storage option is MOST appropriate for this workload?
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44. A customer has written an application that uses Amazon S3 exclusively as a data store. The application works well until the customer increases the rate at which the application is updating information. The customer now reports that outdated data occasionally appears when the application accesses objects in Amazon S3. What could be the problem, given that the application logic is otherwise correct?
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45. A Solutions Architect is developing a new web application on AWS. The Architect expects the application to become very popular, so the application must scale to support the load. The Architect wants to focus on software development and deploying new features without provisioning or managing instances. What solution is appropriate?
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46. An application is running on an Amazon EC2 instance in a private subnet. The application needs to read and write data onto Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, and corporate policy requires that this traffic should not go to the internet. How can these requirements be met?
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47. Which requirements must be met in order for a Solutions Architect to specify that an Amazon EC2 instance should stop rather than terminate when its Spot Instance is interrupted? (Choose two.)
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48. A legacy application needs to interact with local storage using iSCSI. A team needs to design a reliable storage solution to provision all new storage on AWS. Which storage solution meets the legacy application requirements?
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49. A company has a Node.js application running on Amazon EC2 that currently retrieves data for customers from a DynamoDB table. The company is seeing many repeat queries for the same items, and the number of queries is continuing to increase as the application gains popularity. What solution will reduce the number of read capacity units (RCUs) required while minimizing the amount of refactoring that must be done to the application?
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50. A Solutions Architect needs to design a centralized logging solution for a group of web applications running on Amazon EC2 instances. The solution requires minimal development effort due to budget constraints. Which of the following should the Architect recommend?
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51. An application runs on EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancing Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The application provides a RESTful interface with both synchronous and asynchronous operations. The asynchronous operations require up to 5 minutes to complete. Although the application must remain available at all times, after business hours, the traffic going to the application is greatly reduced and often results in the Auto Scaling group running the minimum number of On-Demand Instances. What should the Solutions Architect recommend to optimize the cost of the environment after business hours?
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52. A company wants to migrate a three-tier web application to AWS. The company wants to control the placement of the instances and have visibility into underlying sockets and cores for licensing purposes. Which compute model should a Solutions Architect choose to accomplish this task?
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53. A company's development team plans to create an Amazon S3 bucket that contains millions of images. The team wants to maximize the read performance of Amazon S3. Which naming scheme should the company use?
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54. A Solutions Architect must select the storage type for a big data application that requires very high sequential I/O. The data must persist if the instance is stopped. Which of the following storage types will provide the best fit at the LOWEST cost for the application?
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55. A Solutions Architect is designing the architecture for a new three-tier web-based e-commerce site that must be available 24/7. Requests are expected to range from 100 to 10,000 each minute. Usage can vary depending on time of day, holidays, and promotions. The design should be able to handle these volumes, with the ability to handle higher volumes if necessary. How should the Architect design the architecture to ensure the web tier is cost-optimized and can handle the expected traffic? (Select two.)
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56. A customer is looking for a storage archival solution for 1,000 TB of data. The customer requires that the solution be durable and data be available within a few hours of requesting it, but not exceeding a day. The solution should be as cost-effective as possible. To meet security compliance policies, data must be encrypted at rest. The customer expects they will need to fetch the data two times in a year. Which storage solution should a Solutions Architect recommend to meet these requirements?
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57. Which one do you like?
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58. A media company has more than 100TB of data to be stored and retrieved infrequently. However, the company occasionally receives requests for data within an hour. The company needs a low-cost retrieval method to handle the requests. Which service meets this requirement?
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59. An Administrator is hosting an application on a single Amazon EC2 instance, which users can access by the public hostname. The administrator is adding a second instance, but does not want users to have to decide between many public hostnames. Which AWS service will decouple the users from specific Amazon EC2 instances?
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60. A Solutions Architect is designing a Lambda function that calls an API to list all running Amazon RDS instances. How should the request be authorized?
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61. Which one do you like?
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62. An AWS Lambda function requires access to an Amazon RDS for SQL Server instance. It is against company policy to store passwords in Lambda functions. How can a Solutions Architect enable the Lambda function to retrieve the database password without violating company policy?
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63. An e-commerce application is hosted in AWS. The last time a new product was launched, the application experienced a performance issue due to an enormous spike in traffic. Management decided that capacity must be doubled the week after the product is launched. Which is the MOST efficient way for management to ensure that capacity requirements are met?
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64. A company is using an Amazon S3 bucket located in us-west-2 to serve videos to their customers. Their customers are located all around the world and the videos are requested a lot during peak hours. Customers in Europe complain about experiencing slow downloaded speeds, and during peak hours, customers in all locations report experiencing HTTP 500 errors. What can a Solutions Architect do to address these issues?
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65. A Solutions Architect is architecting a workload that requires a performant object-based storage system that must be shared with multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Which AWS service meets this requirement?
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66. As part of a migration strategy, a Solutions Architect needs to analyze workloads that can be optimized for performance and cost. The Solutions Architect has identified a stateless application that serves static content as a potential candidate to move to the cloud. The Solutions Architect has the flexibility to choose an identity solution between Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon. Which AWS solution offers flexibility and ease of use, and the LEAST operational overhead for this migration?
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67. A company has an Amazon RDS-managed online transaction processing system that has very heavy read and write. The Solutions Architect notices throughput issues with the system. How can the responsiveness of the primary database be improved?
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68. A popular e-commerce application runs on AWS. The application encounters performance issues. The database is unable to handle the amount of queries and load during peak times. The database is running on the RDS Aurora engine on the largest instance size available. What should an administrator do to improve performance?
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69. A company is launching a static website using the zone apex (mycompany.com). The company wants to use Amazon Route 53 for DNS. Which steps should the company perform to implement a scalable and cost-effective solution? (Choose two.)
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70. A development team is building an application with front-end and backend application tiers. Each tier consists of Amazon EC2 instances behind an ELB Classic Load Balancer. The instances run in Auto Scaling groups across multiple Availability Zones. The network team has allocated the 10.0.0.0/24 address space for this application. Only the front-end load balancer should be exposed to the Internet. There are concerns about the limited size of the address space and the ability of each tier to scale. What should the VPC subnet design be in each Availability Zone?
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71. A Solutions Architect is designing a web application for document sharing. The users will upload documents that are then made available to other users. There will be tens of thousands of these documents. What is the MOST cost-effective storage solution?
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72. A Solutions Architect is designing a highly-available website that is served by multiple web servers hosted outside of AWS. If an instance becomes unresponsive, the Architect needs to remove it from the rotation. What is the MOST efficient way to fulfill this requirement?
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73. A customer has a production application that frequently overwrites and deletes data, the application requires the most up-to-date version of the data every time it is requested. Which storage should a Solutions Architect recommend to bet accommodate this use case?
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74. A Solutions Architect is creating a new relational database. The Compliance team will use the database, and mandates that data content must be stored across three different Availability Zones. Which of the following options should the Architect Use?
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75. A Solutions Architect has a multi-layer application running in Amazon VPC. The application has an ELB Classic Load Balancer as the front end in a public subnet, and an Amazon EC2-based reverse proxy that performs content-based routing to two backend Amazon EC2 instances hosted in a private subnet. The Architect sees tremendous traffic growth and is concerned that the reverse proxy and current backend set up will be insufficient. Which actions should the Architect take to achieve a cost-effective solution that ensures the application automatically scales to meet traffic demand? (Select two.)
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76. A Solutions Architect must migrate a monolithic on-premises application to AWS. It is a web application with a load balancer, web server, application server, and relational database. The key requirement driving the migration is that the application should perform better and be more elastic. Which of the following architectures would meet these requirements?
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77. A Lambda function must execute a query against an Amazon RDS database in a private subnet. Which steps are required to allow the Lambda function to access the Amazon RDS database? (Select two.)
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78. A Solutions Architect is asked to improve the fault tolerance of an existing Python application. The web application places 1-MB images is an S3 bucket. The application then uses a single t2.large instance to transform the image to include a watermark with the companys brand before writing the image back to the S3 bucket. What should the Solutions Architect recommend to increase the fault tolerance of the solution?
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79. A Solutions Architect is designing a solution for a dynamic website, example.com, that is deployed in two regions: Tokyo, Japan and Sydney, Australia. The Architect wants to ensure that users located in Australia are directed to the website deployed in the Sydney region and users located in Japan are redirected to the website in the Tokyo region when they browse to example.com. Which service should the Architect use to achieve this goal with the LEAST administrative effort?
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80. A customer owns a simple API for their website that receives about 1,000 requests each day and has an average response time of 50 ms. It is currently hosted on one c4.large instance. Which changes to the architecture will provide high availability at the LOWEST cost?
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81. A Solutions Architect is defining a shared Amazon S3 bucket where corporate applications will save objects. How can the Architect ensure that when an application uploads an object to the Amazon S3 bucket, the object is encrypted?
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82. A company is rolling out a new web service, but is unsure how many customers the service will attract. However, the company is unwilling to accept any downtime. What could a Solutions Architect recommend to the company in order to keep track of customers current session data?
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83. A Solutions Architect needs to use AWS to implement pilot light disaster recovery for a three-tier web application hosted in an on-premises datacenter. Which solution allows rapid provision of working, fully-scaled production environment?
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84. An application uses an Amazon RDS MySQL cluster for the database layer. Database growth requires periodic resizing of the instance. Currently, administrators check the available disk space manually once a week. How can this process be improved?
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85. A legacy application running in premises requires a Solutions Architect to be able to open a firewall to allow access to several Amazon S3 buckets. The Architect has a VPN connection to AWS in place. How should the Architect meet this requirement?
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86. A company wants to durably store data in 8 KB chunks. The company will access the data once every few months. However, when the company does access the data, it must be done with as little latency as possible. Which AWS service should a Solutions Architect recommend if cost is NOT a factor?
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87. An application currently stores objects in Amazon S3-Standard. The application accesses new objects frequently for one week. After one week, they are accessed occasionally for analysis batch jobs. A Solutions Architect has been asked to reduce storage costs for the application while allowing immediate access for batch jobs. How can costs be reduced without reducing data durability?
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88. A Solutions Architect is designing a web application that will be hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in a public subnet. The web application uses a MySQL database in a private subnet. The database should be accessible to database administrators. Which of the following options should the Architect recommend? (Choose two.)
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89. A Solutions Architect is designing a service that must have four Amazon EC2 instances running between 8 AM and 6 PM daily. The service requires one EC2 instance outside of those hours. What is the MOST cost-effective way to provide enough compute?
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90. A company has a website running on Amazon EC2. The application DNS name points to an Elastic IP address associated with the EC2 instance. In the event of an attack on the website coming from a specific IP address, the company wants a way to block the offending IP address. Which tool or service should a Solutions Architect recommend to block the IP address?
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91. A workload in an Amazon VPC consists of a single web server launched from a custom AMI. Session state is stored in a database. How should the Solutions Architect modify this workload to be both highly available and scalable?
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92. A team has an application that detects new objects being uploaded into an Amazon S3 bucket. The uploads trigger a Lambda function to write object metadata into an Amazon DynamoDB table and RDS PostgreSQL database. Which action should the team take to ensure high availability?
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93. A company has two different types of reporting needs on their 200-GB data warehouse: ✑ Data scientists run a small number of concurrent ad hoc SQL queries that can take several minutes each to run. ✑ Display screens throughout the company run many fast SQL queries to populate dashboards. Which design would meet these requirements with the LEAST cost?
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94. A Solutions Architect was tasked with reviewing several templates that build VPCs and ensuring that they meet specific security requirements. After reviewing the templates, the Architect realizes that all of the templates are missing important security best practices. What should the Architect do to implement security best practices in an efficient manner?
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95. A team is launching a marketing campaign and the peak database read activity in Amazon Aurora for MySQL is expected to increase. A Solutions Architect decides to add two Read Replicas to the cluster. How should the Solutions Architect ensure that the connections for read activities are load balanced?
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96. A retail company has sensors placed in its physical retail stores. The sensors send messages over HTTP when customers interact with in-store product displays. A Solutions Architect needs to implement a system for processing those sensor messages; the results must be available for the Data Analysis team. Which architecture should be used to meet these requirements?
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97. Employees from several companies use an application once a year during a specific 30-day period. The periods are different for each company. Traffic to the application spikes during these 30-day periods. How can the application be designed to handle these traffic spikes?
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98. A company needs to capture all client connection information from its Application Load Balancer every five minutes. This data will be used to analyze traffic patterns and troubleshoot the application. How can a Solutions Architect meet this requirement?
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99. A company plans to use an Amazon VPC to deploy a web application consisting of an elastic load balancer, a fleet of web and application servers, and an Amazon RDS MySQL database that should not be accessible from the Internet. The proposed design must be highly available and distributed over two Availability Zones. What would be the MOST appropriate VPC design for this specific use case?
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100. A company has a popular multi-player mobile game hosted in its on-premises datacenter. The current infrastructure can no longer keep up with demand and the company is considering a move to the cloud. Which solution should a Solutions Architect recommend as the MOST scalable and cost-effective solution to meet these needs?
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101. A Solutions Architect needs to allow developers to have SSH connectivity to web servers. The requirements are as follows: ✑ Limit access to users origination from the corporate network. ✑ Web servers cannot have SSH access directly from the Internet. ✑ Web servers reside in a private subnet. Which combination of steps must the Architect complete to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
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102. A company has a legacy application using a proprietary file system and plans to migrate the application to AWS. Which storage service should the company use?
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103. Configure an AWS Direct Connect private virtual interface for Kinesis and route all traffic to Kinesis through the virtual interface.
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104. A company expects its user base to increase five times over one year. Its application is hosted in one region and uses an Amazon RDS MySQL database, an ELB Application Load Balancer, and Amazon ECS to host the website and its microservices. Which design changes should a Solutions Architect recommend to support the expected growth? (Choose two.)
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105. A Solutions Architect is about to deploy an API on multiple EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an ELB. The support team has the following operational requirements: 1 They get an alert when the requests per second go over 50,000 2 They get an alert when latency goes over 5 seconds 3 They can validate how many times a day users call the API requesting highly-sensitive data Which combination of steps does the Architect need to take to satisfy these operational requirements? (Select two.)
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106. A web application runs on 10 EC2 instances launched from a single customer Amazon Machine Image (AMI). The EC2 instances are behind an Internet Application Load Balancer. Amazon Route 53 provides DNS for the application. How should a Solutions Architect automate recovery when a web server instance stops replying to request?
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107. As part of securing an API layer built on Amazon API gateway, a Solutions Architect has to authorize users who are currently authenticated by an existing identity provider. The users must be denied access for a period of one hour after three unsuccessful attempts. How can the Solutions Architect meet these requirements?
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108. A company is using Amazon S3 as its local repository for weekly analysis reports. One of the company-wide requirements is to secure data at rest using encryption. The company chose Amazon S3 server-side encryption. The company wants to know how the object is decrypted when a GET request is issued. Which of the following answers this question?
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109. A Solutions Architect is designing a microservice to process records from Amazon Kinesis Streams. The metadata must be stored in Amazon DynamoDB. The microservice must be capable of concurrently processing 10,000 records daily as they arrive in the Kinesis stream. The MOST scalable way to design the microservice is:
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110. A company has an application that uses Amazon CloudFront for content that is hosted on an Amazon S3 bucket. After an unexpected refresh, the users are still seeing old content. Which step should the Solutions Architect take to ensure that new content is displayed?
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111. A company hosts a two-tier application that consists of a publicly accessible web server that communicates with a private database. Only HTTPS port 443 traffic to the web server must be allowed from the Internet. Which of the following options will achieve these requirements? (Choose two.)
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112. A Solutions Architect is designing a solution that will include a database in Amazon RDS. Corporate security policy mandates that the database, its logs, and its backups are all encrypted. Which is the MOST efficient option to fulfill the security policy using Amazon RDS?
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113. A company has asked the Solutions Architect to modify its AWS-hosted internal application to allow for load balancing. The customer requests always come from the company domain (example.net). The company requires that incoming HTTP and HTTPS traffic is routed based on the path element of the URL in the request. Which implementation can satisfy all requirements?
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114. A university is running an internal web application on AWS that students can access from the university network to check their exam results. The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and pulls results from an Amazon DynamoDB table. Auto Scaling is currently configured to add a new web server when CPU is greater than 80% for 5 minutes. DynamoDB is configured to increase both read and write capacity units by five when utilization is greater than 80%. Exam results are released at 9:00 a.m. each Monday, and 80% of students, attempt to access their unique result within the first 30 minutes. Despite Auto Scaling being enabled, students are complaining of slow response times and errors when they view the site. There are no performance complaints after 9:30 a.m. on Monday. Which recommendation should a Solutions Architect make to improve performance in a cost-effective manner?
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