AWS (SAA-C02) Practice Test 3

A solutions architect is designing a solution to access a catalog of images and provide users with the ability to submit requests to customize images. Image customization parameters will be in any request sent to an AWS API Gateway API. The customized image will be generated on demand, and users will receive a link they can click to view or download their customized image. The solution must be highly available for viewing and customizing images What is the MOST cost-effective solution to meet these requirements?

A company's web application is using multiple Linux Amazon EC2 instances and storing data on Amazon EBS volumes. The company is looking for a solution to increase the resiliency of the application in case of a failure and to provide storage that complies with atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID) What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A client reports that they want see an audit log of any changes made to AWS resources in their account. What can the client do to achieve this?

An application generates audit logs of operational activities. Compliance requirements mandate that the application retain the logs for 5 years. How can these requirements be met?

A solutions architect is designing a solution where users will De directed to a backup static error page it the primary website is unavailable. The primary website's DNS records are hosted in Amazon Route 53 where their domain is pointing to an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Which configuration should the solutions architect use to meet the company's needs while minimizing changes and infrastructure overhead?

A company's website runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The website has a mix of dynamic and static content Users around the globe are reporting that the website is slow. Which set of actions will improve website performance for users worldwide?

A product team is creating a new application that will store a large amount of data. The data will be analyzed hourly and modified by multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances. The application team believes the amount of space needed will continue to grow for the next 6 months. Which set of actions should a solutions architect take to support these needs?

A user has created an EBS volume with 1000 IOPS. What is the average IOPS that the user will get for most of the year as per EC2 SLA if the instance is attached to the EBS optimized instance?

A company serves content to its subscribers across the world using an application running on AWS. The application has several Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Due to a recent change in copyright restrictions the chief information officer (CIO) wants to block access for certain countries. Which action will meet these requirements?

A solutions architect is designing a two-tier web application. The application consists of a public-facing web tier hosted on Amazon EC2 in public subnets. The database tier consists of Microsoft SQL Server running on Amazon EC2 in a private subnet Security is a high priority for the company. How should security groups be configured in this situation? (Select TWO)

Your EBS volumes do not seem to be performing as expected and your team leader has requested you look into improving their performance. Which of the following is not a true statement relating to the performance of your EBS volumes?

A Solutions Architect must design a web application that will be hosted on AWS, allowing users to purchase access to premium, shared content that is stored in an S3 bucket. Upon payment, content will be available for download for 14 days before the user is denied access. Which of the following would be the LEAST complicated implementation?

A solutions architect is designing storage for a high performance computing (HPC) environment based on Amazon Linux. The workload stores and processes a large amount of engineering drawings that require shared storage and heavy computing. Which storage option would be the optimal solution?

An application requires a development environment (DEV) and production environment (PROD) for several years. The DEV instances will run for 10 hours each day during normal business hours, while the PROD instances will run 24 hours each day. A solutions architect needs to determine a compute instance purchase strategy to minimize costs. Which solution is the MOST cost-effective?

A company has a large Microsoft SharePoint deployment running on-premises that requires Microsoft Windows shared file storage. The company wants to migrate this workload to the AWS Cloud and is considering various storage options. The storage solution must be highly available and integrated with Active Directory for access control. Which solution will satisfy these requirements?

A three-tier web application processes orders from customers. The web tier consists of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer, a middle tier of three EC2 instances decoupled from the web tier using Amazon SQS. and an Amazon DynamoDB backend. At peak times, customers who submit orders using the site have to wait much longer than normal to receive confirmations due to lengthy processing times. A solutions architect needs to reduce these processing times. Which action will be MOST effective in accomplishing this?

A company running an on-premises application is migrating the application to AWS to increase its elasticity and availability. The current architecture uses a Microsoft SQL Server database with heavy read activity. The company wants to explore alternate database options and migrate database engines, if needed. Every 4 hours, the development team does a full copy of the production database to populate a test database. During this period, users experience latency. What should a solution architect recommend as replacement database?

A solution architect must migrate a Windows internet information Services (IIS) web application to AWS. The application currently relies on a file share hosted in the user's on-premises networkattached storage (NAS). The solution architected has proposed migrating the IIS web servers Which replacement to the on-promises filo share is MOST resilient and durable?

A monolithic application was recently migrated to AWS and is now running on a single Amazon EC2 instance. Due to application limitations, it is not possible to use automatic scaling to scale out the application. The chief technology officer (CTO) wants an automated solution to restore the EC2 instance in the unlikely event the underlying hardware fails. What would allow for automatic recovery of the EC2 instance as quickly as possible?

A company has several business systems that require access to data stored in a file share. the business systems will access the file share using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. The file share solution should be accessible from both of the company's legacy on-premises environment and with AWS. Which services mod the business requirements? (Select TWO.)

A company is running a highly sensitive application on Amazon EC2 backed by an Amazon RDS database Compliance regulations mandate that all personally identifiable information (Pll) be encrypted at rest. Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of changes to the infrastructure''

A company has an application that posts messages to Amazon SQS Another application polls the queue and processes the messages in an l/O-intensive operation. The company has a service level agreement (SLA) that specifies the maximum amount of time that can elapse between receiving the messages and responding to the users. Due to an increase in the number of messages the company has difficulty meeting its SLA consistently. What should a solutions architect do to help improve the application's processing time and ensure it can handle the load at any level?

A company is deploying a multi-instance application within AWS that requires minimal latency between the instances. What should a solutions architect recommend?

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?

A media company stores video content in an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. A certain video files has become popular and a large number of user across the world are accessing this content. This has resulted in a cost increase. Which action will DECREASE cost without compromising user accessibility?

A company stores user data in AWS. The data is used continuously with peak usage during business hours. Access patterns vary, with some data not being used for months at a time. A solutions architect must choose a cost-effective solution that maintains the highest level of durability while maintaining high availability. Which storage solution meets these requirements?

A mobile gaming company runs apllication servers on Amazon EC2 instances. The servers reciev updates from players every 15 minutes. The mobile game creates a JSON object of the progress made in the game since the last update, and sends the JSON object an Application Load Balacer. As the mobile game is played, game updates are being lost. The company wants to create a durable way to get the updates in order. What should a solution architect recommend to decouple the system?

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?

A web application must persist order data to Amazon S3 to support near-real-time processing. A solutions architect needs create an architecture that is both scalable and fault tolerant. Which solutions meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

A company runs an online marketplace web application on AWS. The application serves hundreds of thousands of users during peak hours. The company needs a scalable, near-realtime solution to share the details of millions of financial transactions with several other internal applications. Transactions also need to be processed to remove sensitive data before being stored in a document database for low-latency retrieval. What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

A company is planning to use Amazon S3 to store images uploaded by its users. The images must be encrypted at rest in Amazon S3. The company does not want to spend time managing and rotating the keys, but it does want to control who can access those keys. What should a solutions architect use to accomplish this?

A company Is designing an internet-facing web application. The application runs on Amazon EC2 for Linux-based instances that store sensitive user data in Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instances. The EC2 instances are in public subnets, and the RDS DB instances are in private subnets. The security team has mandated that the DB instances be secured against web-based attacks. What should a solutions architect recommend?

A company is running a media store across multiple Amazon EC2 instances distributed across multiple Availability Zones in a single VPC. The company wants a high-performing solution to share data between all the EC2 instances, and prefers to keep the data within the VPC only. What should a solutions architect recommend?

A company stores 200 GB of data each month in Amazon S3. The company needs to perform analytics on this data at the end of each month to determine the number of items sold in each sales region for the previous month. Which analytics strategy is MOST cost-effective for the company to use?

A company has an on-premises volume backup solution that has reached its end of life. The company wants to use AWS as part of a new backup solution and wants to maintain local access to all the data while it is backed up on AWS. The company wants to ensure that the data backed up on AWS is automatically and securely transferred. Which solution meets these requirements?

A company is hosting 60 TB of production-level data in an Amazon S3 bucket. A solution architect needs to bring that data on premises for quarterly audit requirements. This export of data must be encrypted while in transit. The company has low network bandwidth in place between AWS and its on-premises data center. What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A company hosts historical weather records in Amazon S3. The records are downloaded from the company's website by a way of a URL that resolves to a domain name. Users all over the world access this content through subscriptions. A third-party provider hosts the company's root domain name, but the company recently migrated some of its services to Amazon Route 53. The company wants to consolidate contracts, reduce latency for users, and reduce costs related to serving the application to subscribers. Which solution meets these requirements?

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 is using Amazon DynamoDB to stage its product catalog which is 1 GB. Since a product entry on average consists of100 KB of data, and the average traffic is about 250 requests per second, the database administrator has provisioned 3.000 RCUs of read capacity throughput. However, some products are very popular and users are experiencing delays or timeouts due to throttling. What improvement offers a long-term solution to this problem?

A solutions architect must provide a fully managed replacement for an on-premises solution that allows employees and partners to exchange files The solution must be easily accessible to employees connecting from on-premises systems, remote employees, and external partners Which solution meets these requirements?

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?

A company seeks a storage solution for its application. The solution must be highly available and scalable. The solution also must function as a file system, be mountable by multiple Linux instances in AWS and on premises through native protocols, and have no minimum size requirements. The company has set up a Site-to-Site VPN for access from its on-premises network to its VPC. Which storage solution meets these requirements?

A company has a Microsoft NET application that runs on an on-premises Windows Server. The application stores data by using an Oracle Database Standard Edition server. The company is planning a migration to AWS and wants to minimize development changes while moving the application. The AWS application environment should be highly available. Which combination of actions should the company take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO )

A company is making a prototype of the infrastructure for its new website by manually provisioning the necessary infrastructure. This infrastructure includes an Auto Scaling group an Application Load Balancer, and an Amazon RDS database. After the configuration has been thoroughly validated the company wants the capability to immediately deploy the infrastructure for development and production use in two Availability Zones in an automated fashion. What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

A company has an application that servers clients that are deployed in more than 20,000 retail storefront locations around the world. The application consists of backend web services that are exposed over HTTPS on port 443. The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instance behind an Application Load balancer (ALB). The retail locations communicate with the web applications over the public internet. The company allows each retail location to register the IP address that the retail location has been allocated by its local ISP. The company's security team recommends to increase the security of the application endpoint by restricting access to only the IP addresses registered by the retail locations. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A company is running a publicly accessible serverless application that uses Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The application's traffic recently spiked due to fraudulent requests from botnets. Which steps should a solutions architect take to block requests from unauthorized users? (Select TWO.)

A team has an application that detects new objects being uploaded into an Amazon bucket. The upload a trigger AWS Lambda function to write metadata into an Amazon DynamoDB table and an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database. Which action should the team take to ensure high availability?

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 chooses Amazon 53 server-side encryption (SSE) how can the object be decrypted when a GET request is issued?

A company requires operating sys em permission on a relational database server. What should a solutions architect suggest as a configuration for a highly available database architecture?

A company sells ringtones created from clips of popular songs. The files containing the ringtones are stored in Amazon S3 Standard and are at least 123 KB m size. The company has millions of files but downloads are infrequent for ringtones older than 90 days. The company needs to save money on storage while keeping the most accessed files readily available for its users. Which action should the company take to meet hese requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A company requires operating sys em permission on a relational database server. What should a solutions architect suggest as a configuration for a highly available database architecture?

A company sells ringtones created from clips of popular songs. The files containing the ringtones are stored in Amazon S3 Standard and are at least 123 KB m size. The company has millions of files but downloads are infrequent for ringtones older than 90 days. The company needs to save money on storage while keeping the most accessed files readily available for its users. Which action should the company take to meet hese requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A solutions architect is designing a solution for a dynamic website, "example.com," that is deployed in two AWS 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 AWS Region and users located in Japan are directed to the website in the Tokyo AWS Region when they browse to "example.com." Which service should the architect use to achieve this goal with the LEAST administrative effort?

A solution architect is designing an application that will allow business users to upload objects to Amazon S3. The solution needs to maximize object durability. Objects also must be readily available at any time and for any length of time. Users will access objects frequently within the first 30 days after the objects are uploaded, but users are much less likely to access objects that are older than 30 days. Which solution meets these requirements Most cost-effectively?

A company needs to retain application log files for a critical application for 10years. The application team regularly accesses logs from the past month for troubleshooting, but logs older than 1 month are rarely accessed. The application generates more than 10 TB of logs per month. Which storage option meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A city has deployed a web application running on AmazonEC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The Application's users have reported sporadic performance, which appears to be related to DDoS attacks originating from random IP addresses. The City needs a solution that requires minimal configuration changes and provides an audit trail for the DDoS source. Which solution meets these requirements?

A company has an application running as a service in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon EC2) using the Amazon launch type. The application code makes AWS API calls to publish messages to Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS). What is the MOST secure method of giving the application permission to publish messages to Amazon SQS?

A solutions architect is designing an architecture that includes web application and database tiers. The web tier must be capable of auto scaling. The solutions architect has decided to separate each tier into its own subnets. The design includes two public subnets and four private subnets. The security team requires that tiers be able to communicate with each other only when there is a business need and that all other network traffic be blocked. What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A solutions architect is using an AWS Cloud Formation template to deploy a three-tier web application. The web application consists of a web tier and an application tier that stores and retrieves user data in Amazon DynamoDB tables. The web and application tiers are hosted on Amazon EC2 instances, and the database tier is not publicly accessible. The application EC2 instances need to access the DynamoDB tables without exposing API credentials in the template. What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A company has an AWS Direct Connect connection from its corporate data center to its VPC in the useast-1 Region. The company recently acquired a corporation that has several VPCs and a Direct Connect connection between its on-premises data center and the eu-west-2 Region. The CIDR blocks for the VPCs of the company and the corporation do not overlap. The company requires connectivity between two Regions and the data centers. The company needs a solution that is scalable while reducing operational overhead. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A company has an application that uses overnight digital images of products on store shelves to analyze inventory data. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and obtains the images from an Amazon S3 bucket for its metadata to be processed by worker nodes for analysis. A solutions architect needs to ensure that every image is processed by the worker nodes. What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement in the MOST cost-efficient way?

A company that operates a web application on premises is preparing to launch a newer version of the application on AWS. The company needs to route requests to either the AWS-hosted or the on-premises-hosted application based on the URL query string. The on-premises application is not available from the internet, and a VPN connection is established between Amazon VPC and the company's data center. The company wants to use an Application Load Balancer (ALB) for this launch. Which solution meets 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?

A company is migrating its applications to AWS. Currently, applications that run on premises generate hundreds of terabytes of data that is stored on a shared file system. The company is running an analytics application in the cloud that runs hourly to generate insights from this data. The company needs a solution to handle the ongoing data transfer between the on-premises shared file system and Amazon S3. The solution also must be able to handle occasional interruptions in internet connectivity. Which solutions should the company use for the data transfer to meet these requirements?

A solutions architect is designing the architecture for a new web application. The application will run on AWS Fargate containers with an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database. The web application will perform primarily read queries against the database. What should the solutions architect do to ensure that the website can scale with increasing traffic? (Choose two.)