AWS Certified Solution Architect-Associate Practice Test 1

A company has a multi-tier application that runs six front-end web servers in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group in a single Availability Zone behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). A solutions architect needs to modify the infrastructure to be highly available without modifying the application. Which architecture should the solutions architect choose that provides high availability?

A solutions architect needs to ensure that API calls to Amazon DynamoDB from Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC do not traverse the internet. What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this? (Select TWO )

A company has been storing analytics data in an Amazon RDS instance for the past few years. The company asked a solutions architect to find a solution that allows users to access this data using an API. The expectation is that the application will experience periods of inactivity but could receive bursts of traffic within seconds. Which solution should the solutions architect suggest?

A company is managing health records on-premises. The company must keep these records indefinitely, disable any modifications to the records once they are stored, and granularly audit access at all levels. The chief technology officer (CTO) is concerned because there are already millions of records not being used by any application, and the current infrastructure is running out of space. The CTO has requested a solutions architect design a solution to move existing data and support future records. Which services can the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements'?

An application running in a private subnet accesses an Amazon DynamoDB table. There is a security requirement that the data never leave the AWS network. How should this requirement be met?

A Solutions Architect is creating an application running in an Amazon VPC that needs to access AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. Network security rules prohibit any route table entry with a 0.0.0.0/0 destination. What infrastructure addition will allow access to the AWS service while meeting the requirements?

A solutions architect at an ecommerce company wants to back up application log data to Amazon S3. The solutions architect is unsure how frequently the logs will be accessed or which logs will be accessed the most. The company wants to keep costs as low as possible by using the appropriate S3 storage class. Which S3 storage class should be implemented to meet these requirements?

A financial services company has a web application that serves users in the United States and Europe. The application consists of a database tier and a web server tier. The database tier consists of a MySQL database hosted in us-east-1 Amazon Route 53 geoproximity routing is used to direct traffic to instances in the closest Region. A performance review of the system reveals that European users are not receiving the same level of query performance as those in the United States. Which changes should be made to the database tier to improve performance?

A client needs you to import some existing infrastructure from a dedicated hosting provider to AWS to try and save on the cost of running his current website. He also needs an automated process that manages backups, software patching, automatic failure detection, and recovery. You are aware that his existing set up currently uses an Oracle database. Which of the following AWS databases would be best for accomplishing this task?

Amazon EC2 provides a ____. It is an HTTP or HTTPS request that uses the HTTP verbs GET or POST.

Which of the below mentioned options is not available when an instance is launched by Auto Scaling with EC2 Classic?

A company's website provides users with downloadable historical performance reports. The website needs a solution that will scale to meet the company's website demands globally. The solution should be cost effective, limit the? provisioning of Into and provide the fastest possible response time. Which combination should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

A company's packaged application dynamically creates and returns single-use text files in response to user requests. The company is using Amazon CloudFront for distribution, but wants to future reduce data transfer costs. The company modify the application's source code. What should a solution architect do to reduce costs?

A company plans to store sensitive user data on Amazon S3. Internal security compliance requirement mandata encryption of data before sending it to Amazon S3. What should a solution architect recommend to satisfy these requirements?

A company that develops web applications has launched hundreds of Application Load Balancers (ALBs) in multiple Regions. The company wants to create an allow list (or the IPs of all the load balancers on its firewall device. A solutions architect is looking for a one-time, highly available solution to address this request, which will also help reduce the number of IPs that need to be allowed by the firewall. What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

A company needs a secure connection between its on-premises environment and AWS. This connection does not need high bandwidth and will handle a small amount of traffic. The connection should be set up quickly. What is the MOST cost-effective method to establish this type of connection?

An application uses an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. The RDS database is becoming low on disk space. A solutions architect wants to increase the disk space without downtime. Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort?

A company has several Amazon EC2 instances set up in a private subnet for security reasons. These instances host applications that read and write large amounts of data to and from Amazon S3 regularly. Currently, subnet routing directs all the traffic destined for the internet through a NAT gateway. The company wants to optimize the overall cost without impacting the ability of the application to communicate with Amazon S3 or the outside internet. What should a solutions architect do to optimize costs?

A company is hosting its static website in an Amazon S3 bucket, which is the origin for Amazon CloudFront. The company has users in the United States, Canada, and Europe and wants to reduce. What should a solutions architect recommend?

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

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 over 10 million rows. The database has 2 TB of General Purpose SSD (gp2) storage. There are millions of updates against this data every day through the company's website. The company has noticed some operations are taking 10 seconds or longer, and has determined that the database storage performance is bottleneck. Which solution addresses the performance issues?

A company hosts an online shopping application that stores all orders in an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Single-AZ DB instance. Management wants to eliminate single points of failure and has asked a solutions architect to recommend an approach to minimize database downtime without requiring any changes to the application code. Which solution meets these requirements?

Company is designing a website that uses an Amazon S3 bucket to store static images. The company wants ail future requests have taster response times while reducing both latency and cost. Which service configuration should a solutions architect recommend?

A company has a dynamic web application hostes on two Amazon EC2 instances. The company has its own SSL certificate, which is on each instance to perform SSL termination. There has been an increase in traffic recently, and the operations team determined that SSL encryption and decryption is causing the compute capacity of the web servers to reach their maximum limit. What should a solutions architect do to increase the application's performance?

A company is deploying an application in three AWS Regions using an Application Load Balancer. Amazon Route 53 will be used to distribute traffic between these Regions. Which Route 53 configuration should a solutions architect use to provide the MOST highperforming experience?

A software vendor is deploying a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that will be utilized by many AWS users. The service is hosted in a VPC behind a Network Load Balancer. The software vendor wants to provide access to this service to users with the least amount of administrative overhead and without exposing the service to the public internet. What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?

A company is experiencing growth as demand for its product has increased. The company's existing purchasing application is slow when traffic spikes. The application is a monolithic three tier application that uses synchronous transactions and sometimes sees bottlenecks in the application tier. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that can meet required application response times while accounting for traffic volume spikes. Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company is migrating a Linux-based web server group to AWS. The web servers must access files in a shared file store for some content to meet the migration date, minimal changes can be made. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A company is planning to migrate a legacy application to AWS. The application currently uses NFS to communicate to an on-premises storage solution to store application data. The application cannot be modified to use any other communication protocols other than NFS for this purpose. Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend for use after the migrations?

As part of budget planning, management wants a report of AWS billed items listed by user. The data will be used to create department budgets. A solutions architect needs to determine the most effective way to obtain this report information. Which solution meets these requirements?

A company is preparing to deploy a data lake on AWS. A solutions architect must define the encryption strategy for data at rest in Amazon S3. The company's security policy states. - Keys must be rotated every 90 days. - Strict separation of duties between key users and key administrators must be implemented. - Auditing key usage must be possible. What should the solutions architect recommend?

A company is using a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances to ingest data from on-premises data sources. The data is in JSON format and ingestion rates can be as high as 1 MB/s. When an EC2 instance is rebooted, the data in-flight is lost. The company's data science team wants to query ingested data near-real time. Which solution provides near-real-time data querying that is scalable with minimal data loss?

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

A company hosts its application in the AWS Cloud. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group and with an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company wants to ensure the application can be made available in another AWS Region with minimal downtime. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of downtime?

A company is developing a mobile game that streams score updates to a backend processor and then posts results on a leaderboard. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that can handle large traffic spikes, process the mobile game updates in order of receipt, and store the processed updates in a highly available database. The company also wants to minimize the management overhead required to maintain the solution. What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A solutions architect is designing a solution that requires frequent updates to a website that is hosted on Amazon S3 with versioning enabled. For compliance reasons, the older versions of the objects will not be accessed frequently and will need to be deleted after 2 years. What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements at the LOWEST cost?

A company has deployed a multiplayer game for mobile devices. The game requires live location tracking of players based on latitude and longitude. The data store for the game must support rapid updates and retrieval of locations. The game uses an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance with read replicas to store the location data. During peak usage periods, the database is unable to maintain the performance that is needed for reading and writing updates. The game's user base is increasing rapidly. What should a solutions architect do to improve the performance of the data tier?

A company needs to store data for 6 years. The company will need to have immediate and highly available access to the data at any point in time, but will not require frequent access. What lifecycle action should be taken to meet these requirements while reducing costs?

A company is building a cloud storage and sharing application for photos. Users can upload photos from their computers and mobile phones to be stored durably in the cloud. After photos are uploaded, most are shared and downloaded frequently for the first 40-90 days. The photos are generally accessed less often after 90 days but some photos maintain a high access rate. The application initially stores photos n Amazon S3 Standard. A solutions architect needs to reduce the application's operational costs without sacrificing user experience or data durability. Which strategy should the solutions architect use to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively

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

A company is building a RESTful serverless web application on AWS by using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The users of this web application will be geographically disturbed, and the company wants to reduce the latency of API requests to these users. Which type of endpoint should a solutions architect use to meet these requirements?

A company finds that, as its use of Amazon EC2 instances grows us Amazon Elasti Block Store (Amazon EDS) storage costs are increasing faster man expected. Which EBS management practices would help reduce costs? (Select TWO. )

A company needs to use its on-premises LDAP directory service to authenticate its users to the AWS Management Console. The directory service is not compatible with Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Which solution meets these requirements?

A company has an AWS account used for software engineering. The AWS account has access to the company's on-premises data center through a pair of AWS Direct Connect connections All non-VPC traffic routes to the virtual private gateway. A development team recently created an AWS Lambada function through the console. The development team needs to allow the function to access a database that runs in a private subnet in the company's data center. Which solution will meet these requirements

A company is using AWS Organizations with two AWS accounts: Logistics and Sales. The Logistics account operates an Amazon Redshift cluster. The Sales account includes Amazon EC2 instances. The Sales account needs to access the Logistics account's Amazon Redshift cluster.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement MOST cost-effectively?