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Question #1
A company needs the ability to analyze the log files of its proprietary application. The logs are stored in JSON format in an Amazon S3 bucket. Queries will be simple and will run on-demand. A solutions architect needs to perform the analysis with minimal changes to the existing architecture.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
A. Use Amazon Redshift to load all the content into one place and run the SQL queries as needed
B. Use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to store the logs
C. Use Amazon Athena directly with Amazon S3 to run the queries as needed
D. Use AWS Glue to catalog the logs
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Correct Answer: C

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Question #2
An application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in a VPC. The application processes logs that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. The EC2 instance needs to access the S3 bucket without connectivity to the internet.Which solution will provide private network connectivity to Amazon S3?
A. Create a gateway VPC endpoint to the S3 bucket
B. Stream the logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs
C. Create an instance profile on Amazon EC2 to allow S3 access
D. Create an Amazon API Gateway API with a private link to access the S3 endpoint
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Correct Answer: A
Question #3
A security team needs to enforce the rotation of all IAM users' access keys every 90 days. If an access key is found to be older, the key must be made inactive and removed. A solutions architect must create a solution that will check for and remediate any keys older than 90 days.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?
A. Create an AWS Config rule to check for the key age
B. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule to check for the key age
C. Create an AWS Config rule to check for the key age
D. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule to check for the key age
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Correct Answer: C
Question #4
A company has a three-tier web application that is deployed on AWS. The web servers are deployed in a public subnet in a VPC. The application servers and database servers are deployed in private subnets in the same VPC. The company has deployed a third-party virtual firewall appliance from AWS Marketplace in an inspection VPC. The appliance is configured with an IP interface that can accept IP packets.A solutions architect needs to integrate the web application with the appliance to inspect all traffic to the application before the traffic reaches the web server.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A. Create a Network Load Balancer in the public subnet of the application's VPC to route the traffic to the appliance for packet inspection
B. Create an Application Load Balancer in the public subnet of the application's VPC to route the traffic to the appliance for packet inspection
C. Deploy a transit gateway in the inspection VPConfigure route tables to route the incoming packets through the transit gateway
D. Deploy a Gateway Load Balancer in the inspection VPC
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Correct Answer: D
Question #5
A company is developing a SaaS solution for customers. The solution runs on Amazon EC2 instances that have Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes attached.Within the SaaS application, customers can request how much storage they need. The application needs to allocate the amount of block storage each customer requests.A solutions architect must design an operationally efficient solution that meets the storage scaling requirement.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A. nvoke an AWS Lambda function to increase the size of EBS volumes based on user input by using EBS Elastic Volumes
B. igrate the data from the EBS volumes to an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system
C. igrate the data from the EBS volumes to an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system
D. igrate the data from the EBS volumes to an Amazon S3 bucket
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Correct Answer: A
Question #6
A company has several web servers that need to frequently access a common Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance. The company wants a secure method for the web servers to connect to the database while meeting a security requirement to rotate user credentials frequently.Which solution meets these requirements?
A. Store the database user credentials in AWS Secrets Manager
B. Store the database user credentials in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter
C. Store the database user credentials in a secure Amazon S3 bucket
D. Store the database user credentials in files encrypted with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) on the web server file system
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Correct Answer: A
Question #7
A company is migrating applications to AWS. The applications are deployed in different accounts. The company manages the accounts centrally by using AWS Organizations. The company's security team needs a single sign-on (SSO) solution across all the company's accounts. The company must continue managing the users and groups in its on-premises self-managed Microsoft Active Directory.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Enable AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) from the AWS SSO console
B. Enable AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) from the AWS SSO console
C. Use AWS Directory Service
D. Deploy an identity provider (IdP) on premises
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Correct Answer: B
Question #8
A company has a production workload that runs on 1,000 Amazon EC2 Linux instances. The workload is powered by third-party software. The company needs to patch the third-party software on all EC2 instances as quickly as possible to remediate a critical security vulnerability.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A. Create an AWS Lambda function to apply the patch to all EC2 instances
B. Configure AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to apply the patch to all EC2 instances
C. Schedule an AWS Systems Manager maintenance window to apply the patch to all EC2 instances
D. Use AWS Systems Manager Run Command to run a custom command that applies the patch to all EC2 instances
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Correct Answer: D
Question #9
A company is deploying a new public web application to AWS. The application will run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application needs to be encrypted at the edge with an SSL/TLS certificate that is issued by an external certificate authority (CA). The certificate must be rotated each year before the certificate expires.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A. Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to issue an SSL/TLS certificate
B. Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to issue an SSL/TLS certificate
C. Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority to issue an SSL/TLS certificate from the root CA
D. Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to import an SSL/TLS certificate
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Correct Answer: D
Question #10
A solutions architect is using Amazon S3 to design the storage architecture of a new digital media application. The media files must be resilient to the loss of an Availability Zone. Some files are accessed frequently while other files are rarely accessed in an unpredictable pattern. The solutions architect must minimize the costs of storing and retrieving the media files.Which storage option meets these requirements?
A. S3 Standard
B. S3 Intelligent-Tiering
C. S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)
D. S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)
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Correct Answer: B
Question #11
A company has thousands of edge devices that collectively generate 1 TB of status alerts each day. Each alert is approximately 2 KB in size. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to ingest and store the alerts for future analysis.The company wants a highly available solution. However, the company needs to minimize costs and does not want to manage additional infrastructure. Additionally, the company wants to keep 14 days of data available for immediate analysis and archive any data older than 14 days.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?
A. Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to ingest the alerts
B. Launch Amazon EC2 instances across two Availability Zones and place them behind an Elastic Load Balancer to ingest the alerts
C. Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to ingest the alerts
D. Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) standard queue to ingest the alerts, and set the message retention period to 14 days
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Correct Answer: A
Question #12
A company has an application that runs only on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with scheduled scaling actions. However, the capacity does not always increase at the scheduled times, and instances terminate many times a day. A solutions architect must ensure that the instances launch on time and have fewer interruptions.Which action will meet these requirements?
A. pecify the capacity-optimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances
B. pecify the lowest-price allocation strategy for Spot Instances
C. pecify the capacity-optimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances
D. pecify the lowest-price allocation strategy for Spot Instances
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Correct Answer: A
Question #13
A survey company has gathered data for several years from areas in the United States. The company hosts the data in an Amazon S3 bucket that is 3 TB in size and growing. The company has started to share the data with a European marketing firm that has S3 buckets. The company wants to ensure that its data transfer costs remain as low as possible.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Configure the Requester Pays feature on the company's S3 bucket
B. Configure S3 Cross-Region Replication from the company's S3 bucket to one of the marketing firm's S3 buckets
C. Configure cross-account access for the marketing firm so that the marketing firm has access to the company's S3 bucket
D. Configure the company's S3 bucket to use S3 Intelligent-Tiering
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Correct Answer: B
Question #14
A solutions architect is using Amazon S3 to design the storage architecture of a new digital media application. The media files must be resilient to the loss of an Availability Zone. Some files are accessed frequently while other files are rarely accessed in an unpredictable pattern. The solutions architect must minimize the costs of storing and retrieving the media files.Which storage option meets these requirements?
A. S3 Standard
B. S3 Intelligent-Tiering
C. S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)
D. S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)
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Correct Answer: B
Question #15
A company is developing an application that provides order shipping statistics for retrieval by a REST API. The company wants to extract the shipping statistics, organize the data into an easy-to-read HTML format, and send the report to several email addresses at the same time every morning.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A. Configure the application to send the data to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
B. Use Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to format the data and to send the report by email
C. Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) scheduled event that invokes an AWS Glue job to query the application's API for the data
D. Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) scheduled event that invokes an AWS Lambda function to query the application's API for the data
E. Store the application data in Amazon S3
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Correct Answer: BD
Question #16
A company needs guaranteed Amazon EC2 capacity in three specific Availability Zones in a specific AWS Region for an upcoming event that will last 1 week.What should the company do to guarantee the EC2 capacity?
A. Purchase Reserved Instances that specify the Region needed
B. Create an On-Demand Capacity Reservation that specifies the Region needed
C. Purchase Reserved Instances that specify the Region and three Availability Zones needed
D. Create an On-Demand Capacity Reservation that specifies the Region and three Availability Zones needed
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Correct Answer: D
Question #17
A company observes an increase in Amazon EC2 costs in its most recent bill. The billing team notices unwanted vertical scaling of instance types for a couple of EC2 instances. A solutions architect needs to create a graph comparing the last 2 months of EC2 costs and perform an in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of the vertical scaling.How should the solutions architect generate the information with the LEAST operational overhead?
A. Use AWS Budgets to create a budget report and compare EC2 costs based on instance types
B. Use Cost Explorer's granular filtering feature to perform an in-depth analysis of EC2 costs based on instance types
C. Use graphs from the AWS Billing and Cost Management dashboard to compare EC2 costs based on instance types for the last 2 months
D. Use AWS Cost and Usage Reports to create a report and send it to an Amazon S3 bucket
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Correct Answer: B
Question #18
A development team needs to host a website that will be accessed by other teams. The website contents consist of HTML, CSS, client-side JavaScript, and images.Which method is the MOST cost-effective for hosting the website?
A. Containerize the website and host it in AWS Fargate
B. Create an Amazon S3 bucket and host the website there
C. Deploy a web server on an Amazon EC2 instance to host the website
D. Configure an Application Load Balancer with an AWS Lambda target that uses the Express
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Correct Answer: B
Question #19
A company recently signed a contract with an AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner for help with an application migration initiative. A solutions architect needs ta share an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from an existing AWS account with the MSP Partner's AWS account. The AMI is backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and uses an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key to encrypt EBS volume snapshots.What is the MOST secure way for the solutions architect to share the AMI with the MSP Partner's AWS account?
A. Make the encrypted AMI and snapshots publicly available
B. Modify the launchPermission property of the AMI
C. Modify the launchPermission property of the AMI
D. Export the AMI from the source account to an Amazon S3 bucket in the MSP Partner's AWS account, Encrypt the S3 bucket with a new KMS key that is owned by the MSP Partner
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Correct Answer: B
Question #20
A company is hosting a web application on AWS using a single Amazon EC2 instance that stores user-uploaded documents in an Amazon EBS volume. For better scalability and availability, the company duplicated the architecture and created a second EC2 instance and EBS volume in another Availability Zone, placing both behind an Application Load Balancer. After completing this change, users reported that, each time they refreshed the website, they could see one subset of their documents or the other, but never all of the documents at the same time.What should a solutions architect propose to ensure users see all of their documents at once?
A. Copy the data so both EBS volumes contain all the documents
B. Configure the Application Load Balancer to direct a user to the server with the documents
C. Copy the data from both EBS volumes to Amazon EFS
D. Configure the Application Load Balancer to send the request to both servers
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Correct Answer: C
Question #21
A company is building an application in the AWS Cloud. The application will store data in Amazon S3 buckets in two AWS Regions. The company must use an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key to encrypt all data that is stored in the S3 buckets. The data in both S3 buckets must be encrypted and decrypted with the same KMS key. The data and the key must be stored in each of the two Regions.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A. Create an S3 bucket in each Region
B. Create a customer managed multi-Region KMS key
C. Create a customer managed KMS key and an S3 bucket in each Region
D. Create a customer managed KMS key and an S3 bucket in each Region
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Correct Answer: B
Question #22
A company runs a shopping application that uses Amazon DynamoDB to store customer information. In case of data corruption, a solutions architect needs to design a solution that meets a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 hour.What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A. Configure DynamoDB global tables
B. Configure DynamoDB point-in-time recovery
C. Export the DynamoDB data to Amazon S3 Glacier on a daily basis
D. Schedule Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots for the DynamoDB table every 15 minutes
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Correct Answer: B
Question #23
A company uses NFS to store large video files in on-premises network attached storage. Each video file ranges in size from 1 MB to 500 GB. The total storage is 70 TB and is no longer growing. The company decides to migrate the video files to Amazon S3. The company must migrate the video files as soon as possible while using the least possible network bandwidth.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Create an S3 bucket
B. Create an AWS Snowball Edge job
C. Deploy an S3 File Gateway on premises
D. Set up an AWS Direct Connect connection between the on-premises network and AWS
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Correct Answer: B
Question #24
A company has a three-tier web application that is deployed on AWS. The web servers are deployed in a public subnet in a VPC. The application servers and database servers are deployed in private subnets in the same VPC. The company has deployed a third-party virtual firewall appliance from AWS Marketplace in an inspection VPC. The appliance is configured with an IP interface that can accept IP packets.A solutions architect needs to integrate the web application with the appliance to inspect all traffic to the application before the traffic reaches the web server.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A. Create a Network Load Balancer in the public subnet of the application's VPC to route the traffic to the appliance for packet inspection
B. Create an Application Load Balancer in the public subnet of the application's VPC to route the traffic to the appliance for packet inspection
C. Deploy a transit gateway in the inspection VPConfigure route tables to route the incoming packets through the transit gateway
D. Deploy a Gateway Load Balancer in the inspection VPC
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Correct Answer: D
Question #25
A company is building an application in the AWS Cloud. The application will store data in Amazon S3 buckets in two AWS Regions. The company must use an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key to encrypt all data that is stored in the S3 buckets. The data in both S3 buckets must be encrypted and decrypted with the same KMS key. The data and the key must be stored in each of the two Regions.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A. Create an S3 bucket in each Region
B. Create a customer managed multi-Region KMS key
C. Create a customer managed KMS key and an S3 bucket in each Region
D. Create a customer managed KMS key and an S3 bucket in each Region
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Correct Answer: B
Question #26
A hospital recently deployed a RESTful API with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The hospital uses API Gateway and Lambda to upload reports that are in PDF format and JPEG format. The hospital needs to modify the Lambda code to identify protected health information (PHI) in the reports.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A. Use existing Python libraries to extract the text from the reports and to identify the PHI from the extracted text
B. Use Amazon Textract to extract the text from the reports
C. Use Amazon Textract to extract the text from the reports
D. Use Amazon Rekognition to extract the text from the reports
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Correct Answer: C
Question #27
A company needs to review its AWS Cloud deployment to ensure that its Amazon S3 buckets do not have unauthorized configuration changes.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?
A. Turn on AWS Config with the appropriate rules
B. Turn on AWS Trusted Advisor with the appropriate checks
C. Turn on Amazon Inspector with the appropriate assessment template
D. Turn on Amazon S3 server access logging
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Correct Answer: A
Question #28
A company stores call transcript files on a monthly basis. Users access the files randomly within 1 year of the call, but users access the files infrequently after 1 year. The company wants to optimize its solution by giving users the ability to query and retrieve files that are less than 1-year-old as quickly as possible. A delay in retrieving older files is acceptable.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A. Store individual files with tags in Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
B. Store individual files in Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering
C. Store individual files with tags in Amazon S3 Standard storage
D. Store individual files in Amazon S3 Standard storage
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Correct Answer: B
Question #29
A company is building a data analysis platform on AWS by using AWS Lake Formation. The platform will ingest data from different sources such as Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS. The company needs a secure solution to prevent access to portions of the data that contain sensitive information.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A. reate data filters to implement row-level security and cell-level security
B. reate an IAM role that includes permissions to access Lake Formation tables
C. reate an AWS Lambda function that removes sensitive information before Lake Formation ingests the data
D. reate an AWS Lambda function that periodically queries and removes sensitive information from Lake Formation tables
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Correct Answer: A
Question #30
A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances that have instance store volumes attached. The application uses Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to store files that are shared across a cluster of Linux servers. The shared files are at least 1 GB in size.The company accesses the files often for the first 7 days after creation. The files must remain readily available after the first 7 days.The company wants to optimize costs for the application.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. ove the files from Amazon EFS, and store the files locally on each EC2 instance
B. onfigure a lifecycle policy to move the files to the EFS Infrequent Access (IA) storage class after 7 days
C. eploy AWS DataSync to automatically move files older than 7 days to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
D. onfigure an AWS Storage Gateway Amazon S3 File Gateway to cache frequently accessed files locally
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Correct Answer: B
Question #31
A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that can handle up to 5,000 messages per second. The solution must publish messages as events to multiple consumers. The messages are up to 500 KB in size. The message consumers need to have the ability to use multiple programming languages to consume the messages with minimal latency. The solution must retain published messages for more than 3 months. The solution must enforce strict ordering of the messages.
A. ublish messages to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic
B. ublish messages to Amazon EventBridge
C. ublish messages to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic
D. ublish messages to an Amazon Kinesis Data Streams data stream
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Correct Answer: D
Question #32
A company maintains a searchable repository of items on its website. The data is stored in an Amazon RDS for MySQL database table that contains more than 10 million rows. The database has 2 TB of General Purpose SSD storage. There are millions of updates against this data every day through the company's website.The company has noticed that some insert operations are taking 10 seconds or longer. The company has determined that the database storage performance is the problem.Which solution addresses this performance issue?
A. Change the storage type to Provisioned IOPS SSD
B. Change the DB instance to a memory optimized instance class
C. Change the DB instance to a burstable performance instance class
D. Enable Multi-AZ RDS read replicas with MySQL native asynchronous replication
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Correct Answer: A
Question #33
A company has an application that provides marketing services to stores. The services are based on previous purchases by store customers. The stores upload transaction data to the company through SFTP, and the data is processed and analyzed to generate new marketing offers. Some of the files can exceed 200 GB in size.Recently, the company discovered that some of the stores have uploaded files that contain personally identifiable information (PII) that should not have been included. The company wants administrators to be alerted if PII is shared again. The company also wants to automate remediation.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?
A. Use an Amazon S3 bucket as a secure transfer point
B. Use an Amazon S3 bucket as a secure transfer point
C. Implement custom scanning algorithms in an AWS Lambda function
D. Implement custom scanning algorithms in an AWS Lambda function
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Correct Answer: B
Question #34
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts for different departments. The management account has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains project reports. The company wants to limit access to this S3 bucket to only users of accounts within the organization in AWS Organizations.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
A. Add the aws PrincipalOrgID global condition key with a reference to the organization ID to the S3 bucket policy
B. Create an organizational unit (OU) for each department
C. Use AWS CloudTrail to monitor the CreateAccount, InviteAccountToOrganization, LeaveOrganization, and RemoveAccountFromOrganization events
D. Tag each user that needs access to the S3 bucket
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Correct Answer: A
Question #35
A company needs to store its accounting records in Amazon S3. The records must be immediately accessible for 1 year and then must be archived for an additional 9 years. No one at the company, including administrative users and root users, can be able to delete the records during the entire 10-year period. The records must be stored with maximum resiliency.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Store the records in S3 Glacier for the entire 10-year period
B. Store the records by using S3 Intelligent-Tiering
C. Use an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the records from S3 Standard to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 year
D. Use an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the records from S3 Standard to S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) after 1 year
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Correct Answer: C
Question #36
A company has an application that ingests incoming messages. Dozens of other applications and microservices then quickly consume these messages. The number of messages varies drastically and sometimes increases suddenly to 100,000 each second. The company wants to decouple the solution and increase scalability.Which solution meets these requirements?
A. Persist the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
B. Deploy the ingestion application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group to scale the number of EC2 instances based on CPU metrics
C. Write the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with a single shard
D. Publish the messages to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic with multiple Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) subscriptions
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Correct Answer: D
Question #37
A company that hosts its web application on AWS wants to ensure all Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon RDS DB instances. and Amazon Redshift clusters are configured with tags. The company wants to minimize the effort of configuring and operating this check.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?
A. Use AWS Config rules to define and detect resources that are not properly tagged
B. Use Cost Explorer to display resources that are not properly tagged
C. Write API calls to check all resources for proper tag allocation
D. Write API calls to check all resources for proper tag allocation
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Correct Answer: A
Question #38
A development team runs monthly resource-intensive tests on its general purpose Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance with Performance Insights enabled. The testing lasts for 48 hours once a month and is the only process that uses the database. The team wants to reduce the cost of running the tests without reducing the compute and memory attributes of the DB instance.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A. Stop the DB instance when tests are completed
B. Use an Auto Scaling policy with the DB instance to automatically scale when tests are completed
C. Create a snapshot when tests are completed
D. Modify the DB instance to a low-capacity instance when tests are completed
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Correct Answer: C
Question #39
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts for different departments. The management account has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains project reports. The company wants to limit access to this S3 bucket to only users of accounts within the organization in AWS Organizations. Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
A. Add the aws:PrincipalOrgID global condition key with a reference to the organization ID to the S3 bucket policy
B. Create an organizational unit (OU) for each department
C. Use AWS CloudTrail to monitor the CreateAccount, InviteAccountToOrganization, LeaveOrganization, and RemoveAccountFromOrganization events
D. Tag each user that needs access to the S3 bucket
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Correct Answer: A
Question #40
A company has an on-premises application that generates a large amount of time-sensitive data that is backed up to Amazon S3. The application has grown and there are user complaints about internet bandwidth limitations. A solutions architect needs to design a long-term solution that allows for both timely backups to Amazon S3 and with minimal impact on internet connectivity for internal users.Which solution meets these requirements?
A. Establish AWS VPN connections and proxy all traffic through a VPC gateway endpoint
B. Establish a new AWS Direct Connect connection and direct backup traffic through this new connection
C. Order daily AWS Snowball devices
D. Submit a support ticket through the AWS Management Console
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Correct Answer: B
Question #41
A company wants to improve its ability to clone large amounts of production data into a test environment in the same AWS Region. The data is stored in Amazon EC2 instances on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. Modifications to the cloned data must not affect the production environment. The software that accesses this data requires consistently high I/O performance.A solutions architect needs to minimize the time that is required to clone the production data into the test environment.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Take EBS snapshots of the production EBS volumes
B. Configure the production EBS volumes to use the EBS Multi-Attach feature
C. Take EBS snapshots of the production EBS volumes
D. Take EBS snapshots of the production EBS volumes
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Correct Answer: D
Question #42
A company has several web servers that need to frequently access a common Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance. The company wants a secure method for the web servers to connect to the database while meeting a security requirement to rotate user credentials frequently.Which solution meets these requirements?
A. Store the database user credentials in AWS Secrets Manager
B. Store the database user credentials in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter
C. Store the database user credentials in a secure Amazon S3 bucket
D. Store the database user credentials in files encrypted with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) on the web server file system
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Correct Answer: A
Question #43
A company hosts multiple applications on AWS for different product lines. The applications use different compute resources, including Amazon EC2 instances and Application Load Balancers. The applications run in different AWS accounts under the same organization in AWS Organizations across multiple AWS Regions. Teams for each product line have tagged each compute resource in the individual accounts.The company wants more details about the cost for each product line from the consolidated billing feature in Organizations.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A. Select a specific AWS generated tag in the AWS Billing console
B. Select a specific user-defined tag in the AWS Billing console
C. Select a specific user-defined tag in the AWS Resource Groups console
D. Activate the selected tag from each AWS account
E. Activate the selected tag from the Organizations management account
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Correct Answer: BE
Question #44
A company runs an online marketplace web application on AWS. The application serves hundreds of thousands of users during peak hours. The company needs a scalable, near-real-time solution to share the details of millions of 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. Store the transactions data into Amazon DynamoDB
B. Stream the transactions data into Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to store data in Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3
C. Stream the transactions data into Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
D. Store the batched transactions data in Amazon S3 as files
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Correct Answer: C
Question #45
A company has a data ingestion workflow that consists of the following:• An Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for notifications about new data deliveries• An AWS Lambda function to process the data and record metadataThe company observes that the ingestion workflow fails occasionally because of network connectivity issues. When such a failure occurs, the Lambda function does not ingest the corresponding data unless the company manually reruns the job.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to ensure that the Lambda function ingests all data in the future? (Choose two.)
A. Deploy the Lambda function in multiple Availability Zones
B. Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue, and subscribe it to the SNS topic
C. Increase the CPU and memory that are allocated to the Lambda function
D. Increase provisioned throughput for the Lambda function
E. Modify the Lambda function to read from an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue
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Correct Answer: BE
Question #46
A solutions architect needs to connect a company's corporate network to its VPC to allow on-premises access to its AWS resources. The solution must provide encryption of all trafficbetween the corporate network and the VPC at the network layer and the session layer. The solution also must provide security controls to prevent unrestricted access between AWS and the on-premises systems.Which solution meets these requirements?
A. onfigure AWS Transit Gateway to connect to the VPC
B. reate an IAM policy to allow access to the AWS Management Console only from a defined set of corporate IP addresses Restrict user access based on job responsibility by using an IAM policy and roles
C. onfigure AWS Direct Connect to connect to the VPC
D. onfigure AWS Site-to-Site VPN to connect to the VPC
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Correct Answer: D
Question #47
A company provides a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service that uses UDP connections. The service consists of Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group. The company has deployments across multiple AWS Regions.The company needs to route users to the Region with the lowest latency. The company also needs automated failover between Regions.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Deploy a Network Load Balancer (NLB) and an associated target group
B. Deploy an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and an associated target group
C. Deploy a Network Load Balancer (NLB) and an associated target group
D. Deploy an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and an associated target group
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Correct Answer: A
Question #48
A company has a three-tier web application that is deployed on AWS. The web servers are deployed in a public subnet in a VPC. The application servers and database servers are deployed in private subnets in the same VPC. The company has deployed a third-party virtual firewall appliance from AWS Marketplace in an inspection VPC. The appliance is configured with an IP interface that can accept IP packets.A solutions architect needs to integrate the web application with the appliance to inspect all traffic to the application before the traffic reaches the web server.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A. Create a Network Load Balancer in the public subnet of the application's VPC to route the traffic to the appliance for packet inspection
B. Create an Application Load Balancer in the public subnet of the application's VPC to route the traffic to the appliance for packet inspection
C. Deploy a transit gateway in the inspection VPConfigure route tables to route the incoming packets through the transit gateway
D. Deploy a Gateway Load Balancer in the inspection VPC
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Correct Answer: D
Question #49
A company hosts an application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The application processes messages from an Amazon SQS queue, writes to an Amazon RDS table, and deletes the message from the queue. Occasional duplicate records are found in the RDS table. The SQS queue does not contain any duplicate messages.What should a solutions architect do to ensure messages are being processed once only?
A. Use the CreateQueue API call to create a new queue
B. Use the AddPermission API call to add appropriate permissions
C. Use the ReceiveMessage API call to set an appropriate wait time
D. Use the ChangeMessageVisibility API call to increase the visibility timeout
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Correct Answer: D
Question #50
A company needs to keep user transaction data in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company must retain the data for 7 years.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?
A. Use DynamoDB point-in-time recovery to back up the table continuously
B. Use AWS Backup to create backup schedules and retention policies for the table
C. Create an on-demand backup of the table by using the DynamoDB console
D. Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule to invoke an AWS Lambda function
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Correct Answer: B
Question #51
A company recently launched a variety of new workloads on Amazon EC2 instances in its AWS account. The company needs to create a strategy to access and administer the instances remotely and securely. The company needs to implement a repeatable process that works with native AWS services and follows the AWS Well-Architected Framework.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A. se the EC2 serial console to directly access the terminal interface of each instance for administration
B. ttach the appropriate IAM role to each existing instance and new instance
C. reate an administrative SSH key pair
D. stablish an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection
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Correct Answer: B
Question #52
A company is running an SMB file server in its data center. The file server stores large files that are accessed frequently for the first few days after the files are created. After 7 days the files are rarely accessed.The total data size is increasing and is close to the company's total storage capacity. A solutions architect must increase the company's available storage space without losing low-latency access to the most recently accessed files. The solutions architect must also provide file lifecycle management to avoid future storage issues.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Use AWS DataSync to copy data that is older than 7 days from the SMB file server to AWS
B. Create an Amazon S3 File Gateway to extend the company's storage space
C. Create an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system to extend the company's storage space
D. Install a utility on each user's computer to access Amazon S3
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Correct Answer: B
Question #53
A company recently migrated to AWS and wants to implement a solution to protect the traffic that flows in and out of the production VPC. The company had an inspection server in its on-premises data center. The inspection server performed specific operations such as traffic flow inspection and traffic filtering. The company wants to have the same functionalities in the AWS Cloud.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Use Amazon GuardDuty for traffic inspection and traffic filtering in the production VPC
B. Use Traffic Mirroring to mirror traffic from the production VPC for traffic inspection and filtering
C. Use AWS Network Firewall to create the required rules for traffic inspection and traffic filtering for the production VP
D. Use AWS Firewall Manager to create the required rules for traffic inspection and traffic filtering for the production VPC
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Correct Answer: C
Question #54
A company is developing a containerized web application that needs to be highly available and scalable. The application requires access to GPU resources.
A. ackage the application as an AWS Lambda function in a container image
B. eploy the application container to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)
C. eploy the application container to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
D. un the application on Amazon EC2 instances from a GPU instance family by using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) for orchestration
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Correct Answer: D
Question #55
A company uses Amazon EC2 instances to host its internal systems. As part of a deployment operation, an administrator tries to use the AWS CLI to terminate an EC2 instance. However, the administrator receives a 403 (Access Denied) error message.The administrator is using an IAM role that has the following IAM policy attached:What is the cause of the unsuccessful request?
A. he "Action" field does not grant the actions that are required to terminate the EC2 instance
B. he request to terminate the EC2 instance does not originate from the CIDR blocks 192
C. he principal has not been specified in the policy statement
D. he EC2 instance has a resource-based policy with a Deny statement
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Correct Answer: B
Question #56
A company is developing a photo-hosting application in the us-east-1 Region. The application gives users across multiple countries the ability to upload and view photos. Some photos are heavily viewed for months, while other photos are viewed for less than a week. The application allows users to upload photos that are up to 20 MB in size. The application uses photo metadata to determine which photos to display to each user.The company needs a cost-effective storage solution to support the application.
A. tore the photos in the Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class
B. tore the photos in Amazon DynamoDB
C. tore the photos in an Amazon DynamoDB table
D. tore the photos in the Amazon S3 Standard storage class
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Correct Answer: A
Question #57
A company has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains critical data. The company must protect the data from accidental deletion.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A. Enable versioning on the S3 bucket
B. Enable MFA Delete on the S3 bucket
C. Create a bucket policy on the S3 bucket
D. Enable default encryption on the S3 bucket
E. Create a lifecycle policy for the objects in the S3 bucket
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Correct Answer: AB
Question #58
A company that hosts its web application on AWS wants to ensure all Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon RDS DB instances. and Amazon Redshift clusters are configured with tags. The company wants to minimize the effort of configuring and operating this check.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?
A. se AWS Config rules to define and detect resources that are not properly tagged
B. se Cost Explorer to display resources that are not properly tagged
C. rite API calls to check all resources for proper tag allocation
D. rite API calls to check all resources for proper tag allocation
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Correct Answer: A
Question #59
A company runs multiple Windows workloads on AWS. The company's employees use Windows file shares that are hosted on two Amazon EC2 instances. The file shares synchronize data between themselves and maintain duplicate copies. The company wants a highly available and durable storage solution that preserves how users currently access the files.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A. Migrate all the data to Amazon S3
B. Set up an Amazon S3 File Gateway
C. Extend the file share environment to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server with a Multi-AZ configuration
D. Extend the file share environment to Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) with a Multi-AZ configuration
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Correct Answer: C
Question #60
A global company hosts its web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The web application has static data and dynamic data. The company stores its static data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company wants to improve performance and reduce latency for the static data and dynamic data. The company is using its own domain name registered with Amazon Route 53.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the S3 bucket and the ALB as origins
B. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the ALB as an origin
C. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the S3 bucket as an origin
D. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the ALB as an origin
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Correct Answer: A
Question #61
A company wants to reduce the cost of its existing three-tier web architecture. The web, application, and database servers are running on Amazon EC2 instances for the development, test, and production environments. The EC2 instances average 30% CPU utilization during peak hours and 10% CPU utilization during non-peak hours.The production EC2 instances run 24 hours a day. The development and test EC2 instances run for at least 8 hours each day. The company plans to implement automation to stop the development and test EC2 instances when they are not in use.Which EC2 instance purchasing solution will meet the company's requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A. Use Spot Instances for the production EC2 instances
B. Use Reserved Instances for the production EC2 instances
C. Use Spot blocks for the production EC2 instances
D. Use On-Demand Instances for the production EC2 instances
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Correct Answer: B
Question #62
A company is deploying a critical application by using Amazon RDS for MySQL. The application must be highly available and must recover automatically. The company needs to support interactive users (transactional queries) and batch reporting (analytical queries) with no more than a 4-hour lag. The analytical queries must not affect the performance of the transactional queries.
A. onfigure Amazon RDS for MySQL in a Multi-AZ DB instance deployment with one standby instance
B. onfigure Amazon RDS for MySQL as the primary database for the transactional queries with automated backups enabled
C. onfigure Amazon RDS for MySQL to use multiple read replicas across multiple Availability Zones
D. onfigure Amazon RDS for MySQL in a Multi-AZ DB cluster deployment with two standby instances
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Correct Answer: C
Question #63
A company is deploying a new public web application to AWS. The application will run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application needs to be encrypted at the edge with an SSL/TLS certificate that is issued by an external certificate authority (CA). The certificate must be rotated each year before the certificate expires.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A. Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to issue an SSL/TLS certificate
B. Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to issue an SSL/TLS certificate
C. Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority to issue an SSL/TLS certificate from the root CA
D. Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to import an SSL/TLS certificate
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Correct Answer: D
Question #64
A company needs to review its AWS Cloud deployment to ensure that its Amazon S3 buckets do not have unauthorized configuration changes.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?
A. Turn on AWS Config with the appropriate rules
B. Turn on AWS Trusted Advisor with the appropriate checks
C. Turn on Amazon Inspector with the appropriate assessment template
D. Turn on Amazon S3 server access logging
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Correct Answer: A
Question #65
A company's application integrates with multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) sources for data collection. The company runs Amazon EC2 instances to receive the data and to upload the data to an Amazon S3 bucket for analysis. The same EC2 instance that receives and uploads the data also sends a notification to the user when an upload is complete. The company has noticed slow application performance and wants to improve the performance as much as possible.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A. Create an Auto Scaling group so that EC2 instances can scale out
B. Create an Amazon AppFlow flow to transfer data between each SaaS source and the S3 bucket
C. Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule for each SaaS source to send output data
D. Create a Docker container to use instead of an EC2 instance
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Correct Answer: B
Question #66
A company uses Amazon S3 to store its confidential audit documents. The S3 bucket uses bucket policies to restrict access to audit team IAM user credentials according to the principle of least privilege. Company managers are worried about accidental deletion of documents in the S3 bucket and want a more secure solution.What should a solutions architect do to secure the audit documents?
A. Enable the versioning and MFA Delete features on the S3 bucket
B. Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) on the IAM user credentials for each audit team IAM user account
C. Add an S3 Lifecycle policy to the audit team's IAM user accounts to deny the s3:DeleteObject action during audit dates
D. Use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt the S3 bucket and restrict audit team IAM user accounts from accessing the KMS key
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Correct Answer: A
Question #67
A company is developing a two-tier web application on AWS. The company's developers have deployed the application on an Amazon EC2 instance that connects directly to a backend Amazon RDS database. The company must not hardcode database credentials in the application. The company must also implement a solution to automatically rotate the database credentials on a regular basis.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A. Store the database credentials in the instance metadata
B. Store the database credentials in a configuration file in an encrypted Amazon S3 bucket
C. Store the database credentials as a secret in AWS Secrets Manager
D. Store the database credentials as encrypted parameters in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
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Correct Answer: C
Question #68
A development team runs monthly resource-intensive tests on its general purpose Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance with Performance Insights enabled. The testing lasts for 48 hours once a month and is the only process that uses the database. The team wants to reduce the cost of running the tests without reducing the compute and memory attributes of the DB instance.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A. Stop the DB instance when tests are completed
B. Use an Auto Scaling policy with the DB instance to automatically scale when tests are completed
C. Create a snapshot when tests are completed
D. Modify the DB instance to a low-capacity instance when tests are completed
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Correct Answer: C
Question #69
A company runs an ecommerce application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The Auto Scaling group scales based on CPU utilization metrics. The ecommerce application stores the transaction data in a MySQL 8.0 database that is hosted on a large EC2 instance.The database's performance degrades quickly as application load increases. The application handles more read requests than write transactions. The company wants a solution that will automatically scale the database to meet the demand of unpredictable read workloads while maintaining high availability.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Use Amazon Redshift with a single node for leader and compute functionality
B. Use Amazon RDS with a Single-AZ deployment Configure Amazon RDS to add reader instances in a different Availability Zone
C. Use Amazon Aurora with a Multi-AZ deployment
D. Use Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached with EC2 Spot Instances
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Correct Answer: C
Question #70
A company that hosts its web application on AWS wants to ensure all Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon RDS DB instances. and Amazon Redshift clusters are configured with tags. The company wants to minimize the effort of configuring and operating this check.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?
A. Use AWS Config rules to define and detect resources that are not properly tagged
B. Use Cost Explorer to display resources that are not properly tagged
C. Write API calls to check all resources for proper tag allocation
D. Write API calls to check all resources for proper tag allocation
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Correct Answer: A
Question #71
A company is storing backup files by using Amazon S3 Standard storage. The files are accessed frequently for 1 month. However, the files are not accessed after 1 month. The company must keep the files indefinitely.Which storage solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A. Configure S3 Intelligent-Tiering to automatically migrate objects
B. Create an S3 Lifecycle configuration to transition objects from S3 Standard to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 month
C. Create an S3 Lifecycle configuration to transition objects from S3 Standard to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) after 1 month
D. Create an S3 Lifecycle configuration to transition objects from S3 Standard to S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) after 1 month
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Correct Answer: B
Question #72
A company is running a popular social media website. The website gives users the ability to upload images to share with other users. The company wants to make sure that the images do not contain inappropriate content. The company needs a solution that minimizes development effort.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A. Use Amazon Comprehend to detect inappropriate content
B. Use Amazon Rekognition to detect inappropriate content
C. Use Amazon SageMaker to detect inappropriate content
D. Use AWS Fargate to deploy a custom machine learning model to detect inappropriate content
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Correct Answer: B
Question #73
A company needs guaranteed Amazon EC2 capacity in three specific Availability Zones in a specific AWS Region for an upcoming event that will last 1 week.What should the company do to guarantee the EC2 capacity?
A. Purchase Reserved Instances that specify the Region needed
B. Create an On-Demand Capacity Reservation that specifies the Region needed
C. Purchase Reserved Instances that specify the Region and three Availability Zones needed
D. Create an On-Demand Capacity Reservation that specifies the Region and three Availability Zones needed
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Correct Answer: D
Question #74
A company runs an online marketplace web application on AWS. The application serves hundreds of thousands of users during peak hours. The company needs a scalable, near-real-time solution to share the details of millions of 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. tore the transactions data into Amazon DynamoDB
B. tream the transactions data into Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to store data in Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3
C. tream the transactions data into Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
D. tore the batched transactions data in Amazon S3 as files
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Correct Answer: C
Question #75
A gaming company is building an application with Voice over IP capabilities. The application will serve traffic to users across the world. The application needs to be highly available with an automated failover across AWS Regions. The company wants to minimize the latency of users without relying on IP address caching on user devices.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A. reate an Application Load Balancer that uses path-based routing
B. se Amazon Route 53 with a geolocation routing policy
C. se AWS Global Accelerator with health checks
D. reate an Amazon CloudFront distribution that includes multiple origins
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Correct Answer: C
Question #76
A company's HTTP application is behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). The NLB's target group is configured to use an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with multiple EC2 instances that run the web service.The company notices that the NLB is not detecting HTTP errors for the application. These errors require a manual restart of the EC2 instances that run the web service. The company needs to improve the application's availability without writing custom scripts or code.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A. Enable HTTP health checks on the NLB, supplying the URL of the company's application
B. Add a cron job to the EC2 instances to check the local application's logs once each minute
C. Replace the NLB with an Application Load Balancer
D. Create an Amazon Cloud Watch alarm that monitors the UnhealthyHostCount metric for the NLB
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Correct Answer: C
Question #77
A company is designing an application. The application uses an AWS Lambda function to receive information through Amazon API Gateway and to store the information in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database.During the proof-of-concept stage, the company has to increase the Lambda quotas significantly to handle the high volumes of data that the company needs to load into the database. A solutions architect must recommend a new design to improve scalability and minimize the configuration effort.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Refactor the Lambda function code to Apache Tomcat code that runs on Amazon EC2 instances
B. Change the platform from Aurora to Amazon DynamoDProvision a DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) cluster
C. Set up two Lambda functions
D. Set up two Lambda functions
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Correct Answer: D
Question #78
A survey company has gathered data for several years from areas in the United States. The company hosts the data in an Amazon S3 bucket that is 3 TB in size and growing. The company has started to share the data with a European marketing firm that has S3 buckets. The company wants to ensure that its data transfer costs remain as low as possible.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Configure the Requester Pays feature on the company's S3 bucket
B. Configure S3 Cross-Region Replication from the company's S3 bucket to one of the marketing firm's S3 buckets
C. Configure cross-account access for the marketing firm so that the marketing firm has access to the company's S3 bucket
D. Configure the company's S3 bucket to use S3 Intelligent-Tiering
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Correct Answer: B
Question #79
A company wants to reduce the cost of its existing three-tier web architecture. The web, application, and database servers are running on Amazon EC2 instances for the development, test, and production environments. The EC2 instances average 30% CPU utilization during peak hours and 10% CPU utilization during non-peak hours.The production EC2 instances run 24 hours a day. The development and test EC2 instances run for at least 8 hours each day. The company plans to implement automation to stop the development and test EC2 instances when they are not in use.Which EC2 instance purchasing solution will meet the company's requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A. Use Spot Instances for the production EC2 instances
B. Use Reserved Instances for the production EC2 instances
C. Use Spot blocks for the production EC2 instances
D. Use On-Demand Instances for the production EC2 instances
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Correct Answer: B
Question #80
A company is building an application in the AWS Cloud. The application will store data in Amazon S3 buckets in two AWS Regions. The company must use an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key to encrypt all data that is stored in the S3 buckets. The data in both S3 buckets must be encrypted and decrypted with the same KMS key. The data and the key must be stored in each of the two Regions.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A. Create an S3 bucket in each Region
B. Create a customer managed multi-Region KMS key
C. Create a customer managed KMS key and an S3 bucket in each Region
D. Create a customer managed KMS key and an S3 bucket in each Region
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Correct Answer: B
Question #81
An application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in a VPC. The application processes logs that are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. The EC2 instance needs to access the S3 bucket without connectivity to the internet.Which solution will provide private network connectivity to Amazon S3?
A. Create a gateway VPC endpoint to the S3 bucket
B. Stream the logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs
C. Create an instance profile on Amazon EC2 to allow S3 access
D. Create an Amazon API Gateway API with a private link to access the S3 endpoint
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Correct Answer: A
Question #82
A company runs database workloads on AWS that are the backend for the company's customer portals. The company runs a Multi-AZ database cluster on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.The company needs to implement a 30-day backup retention policy. The company currently has both automated RDS backups and manual RDS backups. The company wants to maintain both types of existing RDS backups that are less than 30 days old.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A. isable RDS automated backups
B. onfigure the RDS backup retention policy to 30 days for automated backups
C. onfigure the RDS backup retention policy to 30 days tor automated backups by using AWS Backup
D. isable RDS automated backups
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Correct Answer: C
Question #83
A company recently signed a contract with an AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner for help with an application migration initiative. A solutions architect needs ta share an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from an existing AWS account with the MSP Partner's AWS account. The AMI is backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and uses an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key to encrypt EBS volume snapshots.What is the MOST secure way for the solutions architect to share the AMI with the MSP Partner's AWS account?
A. Make the encrypted AMI and snapshots publicly available
B. Modify the launchPermission property of the AMI
C. Modify the launchPermission property of the AMI
D. Export the AMI from the source account to an Amazon S3 bucket in the MSP Partner's AWS account, Encrypt the S3 bucket with a new KMS key that is owned by the MSP Partner
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Correct Answer: B
Question #84
A company wants to migrate its on-premises application to AWS. The application produces output files that vary in size from tens of gigabytes to hundreds of terabytes. The application data must be stored in a standard file system structure. The company wants a solution that scales automatically. is highly available, and requires minimum operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Migrate the application to run as containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
B. Migrate the application to run as containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
C. Migrate the application to Amazon EC2 instances in a Multi-AZ Auto Scaling group
D. Migrate the application to Amazon EC2 instances in a Multi-AZ Auto Scaling group
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Correct Answer: C
Question #85
A company hosts an application on AWS Lambda functions that are invoked by an Amazon API Gateway API. The Lambda functions save customer data to an Amazon Aurora MySQL database. Whenever the company upgrades the database, the Lambda functions fail to establish database connections until the upgrade is complete. The result is that customer data is not recorded for some of the event.A solutions architect needs to design a solution that stores customer data that is created during database upgrades.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Provision an Amazon RDS proxy to sit between the Lambda functions and the database
B. Increase the run time of the Lambda functions to the maximum
C. Persist the customer data to Lambda local storage
D. Store the customer data in an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queue
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Correct Answer: D
Question #86
A company has more than 5 TB of file data on Windows file servers that run on premises. Users and applications interact with the data each day.The company is moving its Windows workloads to AWS. As the company continues this process, the company requires access to AWS and on-premises file storage with minimum latency. The company needs a solution that minimizes operational overhead and requires no significant changes to the existing file access patterns. The company uses an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection for connectivity to AWS.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A. Deploy and configure Amazon FSx for Windows File Server on AWS
B. Deploy and configure an Amazon S3 File Gateway on premises
C. Deploy and configure an Amazon S3 File Gateway on premises
D. Deploy and configure Amazon FSx for Windows File Server on AWS
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Correct Answer: D
Question #87
A company is running a popular social media website. The website gives users the ability to upload images to share with other users. The company wants to make sure that the images do not contain inappropriate content. The company needs a solution that minimizes development effort.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A. Use Amazon Comprehend to detect inappropriate content
B. Use Amazon Rekognition to detect inappropriate content
C. Use Amazon SageMaker to detect inappropriate content
D. Use AWS Fargate to deploy a custom machine learning model to detect inappropriate content
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Correct Answer: B
Question #88
A company is developing a latency-sensitive application. Part of the application includes several AWS Lambda functions that need to initialize as quickly as possible. The Lambda functions are written in Java and contain initialization code outside the handlers to load libraries, initialize classes, and generate unique IDs.Which solution will meet the startup performance requirement MOST cost-effectively?
A. ublish a version of each Lambda function
B. ublish a version of each Lambda function
C. ove all the initialization code to the handlers for each Lambda function
D. pdate the Lambda functions to add a pre-snapshot hook
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Correct Answer: D
Question #89
A media company hosts its video processing workload on AWS. The workload uses Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group to handle varying levels of demand. The workload stores the original videos and the processed videos in an Amazon S3 bucket.The company wants to ensure that the video processing workload is scalable. The company wants to prevent failed processing attempts because of resource constraints. The architecturemust be able to handle sudden spikes in video uploads without impacting the processing capability.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST overhead?
A. Migrate the workload from Amazon EC2 instances to AWS Lambda functions
B. Migrate the workload from Amazon EC2 instances to AWS Lambda functions
C. Configure an Amazon S3 event notification to send a message to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue when a new video is uploaded
D. Configure an Amazon S3 upload trigger to invoke an AWS Step Functions state machine when a new video is uploaded
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Correct Answer: C
Question #90
A company's dynamic website is hosted using on-premises servers in the United States. The company is launching its product in Europe, and it wants to optimize site loading times for new European users. The site's backend must remain in the United States. The product is being launched in a few days, and an immediate solution is needed.What should the solutions architect recommend?
A. Launch an Amazon EC2 instance in us-east-1 and migrate the site to it
B. Move the website to Amazon S3
C. Use Amazon CloudFront with a custom origin pointing to the on-premises servers
D. Use an Amazon Route 53 geoproximity routing policy pointing to on-premises servers
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Correct Answer: C
Question #91
An ecommerce company experiences a surge in mobile application traffic every Monday at 8 AM during the company ' s weekly sales events. The application ' s backend uses an Amazon API Gateway HTTP API and AWS Lambda functions to process user requests. During peak sales periods, users report encountering TooManyRequestsException errors from the Lambda functions. The errors result in a degraded user experience. A solutions architect needs to design a scalable and resilient solution that minimizes the errors and ensures that the application ' s overall functionality remains unaffected.
A. reate an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue
B. reate an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic
C. se AWS Step Functions to orchestrate and process user requests
D. reate an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue
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Correct Answer: A
Question #92
A company needs to store its accounting records in Amazon S3. The records must be immediately accessible for 1 year and then must be archived for an additional 9 years. No one at the company, including administrative users and root users, can be able to delete the records during the entire 10-year period. The records must be stored with maximum resiliency.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Store the records in S3 Glacier for the entire 10-year period
B. Store the records by using S3 Intelligent-Tiering
C. Use an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the records from S3 Standard to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 year
D. Use an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the records from S3 Standard to S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) after 1 year
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Correct Answer: C
Question #93
An ecommerce company wants to launch a one-deal-a-day website on AWS. Each day will feature exactly one product on sale for a period of 24 hours. The company wants to be able to handle millions of requests each hour with millisecond latency during peak hours.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A. Use Amazon S3 to host the full website in different S3 buckets
B. Deploy the full website on Amazon EC2 instances that run in Auto Scaling groups across multiple Availability Zones
C. Migrate the full application to run in containers
D. Use an Amazon S3 bucket to host the website's static content
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Correct Answer: D
Question #94
A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new application being deployed on AWS. The process should run in parallel while adding and removing application nodes as needed based on the number of jobs to be processed. The processor application is stateless. The solutions architect must ensure that the application is loosely coupled and the job items are durably stored.Which design should the solutions architect use?
A. Create an Amazon SNS topic to send the jobs that need to be processed
B. Create an Amazon SQS queue to hold the jobs that need to be processed
C. Create an Amazon SQS queue to hold the jobs that need to be processed
D. Create an Amazon SNS topic to send the jobs that need to be processed
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Correct Answer: C
Question #95
A company has a production web application in which users upload documents through a web interface or a mobile app. According to a new regulatory requirement. new documents cannot be modified or deleted after they are stored.What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
A. Store the uploaded documents in an Amazon S3 bucket with S3 Versioning and S3 Object Lock enabled
B. Store the uploaded documents in an Amazon S3 bucket
C. Store the uploaded documents in an Amazon S3 bucket with S3 Versioning enabled
D. Store the uploaded documents on an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) volume
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Correct Answer: A
Question #96
A company has an application that generates a large number of files, each approximately 5 MB in size. The files are stored in Amazon S3. Company policy requires the files to be stored for 4 years before they can be deleted. Immediate accessibility is always required as the files contain critical business data that is not easy to reproduce. The files are frequently accessed in the first 30 days of the object creation but are rarely accessed after the first 30 days.Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?
A. Create an S3 bucket lifecycle policy to move files from S3 Standard to S3 Glacier 30 days from object creation
B. Create an S3 bucket lifecycle policy to move files from S3 Standard to S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) 30 days from object creation
C. Create an S3 bucket lifecycle policy to move files from S3 Standard to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) 30 days from object creation
D. Create an S3 bucket lifecycle policy to move files from S3 Standard to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) 30 days from object creation
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Correct Answer: C
Question #97
A company has an on-premises SFTP file transfer solution. The company is migrating to the AWS Cloud to scale the file transfer solution and to optimize costs by using Amazon S3. The company's employees will use their credentials for the on-premises Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to access the new solution The company wants to keep the current authentication and file access mechanisms.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A. onfigure an S3 File Gateway
B. onfigure an Auto Scaling group with Amazon EC2 instances to run an SFTP solution Configure the group to scale up at 60% CPU utilization
C. reate an AWS Transfer Family SFTP endpoint
D. reate an AWS Transfer Family server with SFTP endpoints Choose the AWS Directory Service option as the identity provider Use AD Connector to connect the on-premises Active Directory
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Correct Answer: D
Question #98
A company is designing an application. The application uses an AWS Lambda function to receive information through Amazon API Gateway and to store the information in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database.During the proof-of-concept stage, the company has to increase the Lambda quotas significantly to handle the high volumes of data that the company needs to load into the database. A solutions architect must recommend a new design to improve scalability and minimize the configuration effort.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Refactor the Lambda function code to Apache Tomcat code that runs on Amazon EC2 instances
B. Change the platform from Aurora to Amazon DynamoDProvision a DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) cluster
C. Set up two Lambda functions
D. Set up two Lambda functions
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Correct Answer: D
Question #99
A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon Aurora database. The EC2 instances connect to the database by using user names and passwords that are stored locally in a file. The company wants to minimize the operational overhead of credential management.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?
A. Use AWS Secrets Manager
B. Use AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
C. Create an Amazon S3 bucket to store objects that are encrypted with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) encryption key
D. Create an encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume for each EC2 instance
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Correct Answer: A
Question #100
A company plans to use an Amazon S3 bucket to archive backup data. Regulations require the company to retain the backup data for 7 years.During the retention period, the company must prevent users, including administrators, from deleting the data.The company can delete the data after 7 years.Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. reate an S3 Object Lock default retention policy that retains data for 7 years in governance mode
B. reate an S3 bucket policy that denies delete operations for 7 years
C. reate an S3 Object Lock default retention policy that retains data for 7 years in compliance mode
D. reate an S3 Batch Operations job to set a legal hold on each object for 7 years
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Correct Answer: C

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