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Question #1
A global company is using Amazon API Gateway to design REST APIs for its loyalty club users in the us-east-1 Region and the ap-southeast-2 Region. A solutions architect must design a solution to protect these API Gateway managed REST APIs across multiple accounts from SQL injection and cross-site scripting attacks. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of administrative effort?
A. Set up AWS WAF in both Region
B. Associate Regional web ACLs with an API stage
C. Set up AWS Firewall Manager in both Region
D. Centrally configure AWS WAF rules
E. Set up AWS Shield in bath Region
F. Associate Regional web ACLs with an API stage
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Correct Answer: A
Question #2
An application running on an Amazon EC2 instance in VPC-A needs to access files in another EC2 instance in VPC-B. Both VPCs are in separate AWS accounts. The network administrator needs to design a solution to configure secure access to EC2 instance in VPC-B from VPC-A. The connectivity should not have a single point of failure or bandwidth concerns. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Set up a VPC peering connection between VPC-A and VPC-B
B. Set up VPC gateway endpoints for the EC2 instance running in VPC-B
C. Attach a virtual private gateway to VPC-B and set up routing from VPC-A
D. Create a private virtual interface (VIF) for the EC2 instance running in VPC-B and add appropriate routes from VPC-A
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Correct Answer: C
Question #3
A solutions architect is designing a customer-facing application for a company. The application's database will have a clearly defined access pattern throughout the year and will have a variable number of reads and writes that depend on the time of year. The company must retain audit records for the database for 7 days. The recovery point objective (RPO) must be less than 5 hours. Which solution meets these requirements?
A. Use Amazon DynamoDB with auto scaling Use on-demand backups and Amazon DynamoDB Streams
B. Use Amazon Redshif
C. Configure concurrency scalin
D. Activate audit loggin
E. Perform database snapshots every 4 hours
F. Use Amazon RDS with Provisioned IOPS Activate the database auditing parameter Perform database snapshots every 5 hours G
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Correct Answer: C
Question #4
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 wi
A. Refactor the Lambda function code to Apache Tomcat code that runs on Amazon EC2 instances
B. Change the platform from Aurora to Amazon DynamoD
C. Provision a DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) cluste
D. Use the DAX client SDK to point the existing DynamoDB API calls at the DAX cluster
E. Set up two Lambda function
F. Configure one function to receive the informatio G
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Correct Answer: B
Question #5
A company runs an application using Amazon ECS. The application creates esi/ed versions of an original image and then makes Amazon S3 API calls to store the resized images in Amazon S3. How can a solutions architect ensure that the application has permission to access Amazon S3?
A. Update the S3 role in AWS IAM to allow read/write access from Amazon ECS, and then relaunch the container
B. Create an IAM role with S3 permissions, and then specify that role as the taskRoleAm in the task definition
C. Create a security group that allows access from Amazon ECS to Amazon S3, and update the launch configuration used by the ECS cluster
D. Create an IAM user with S3 permissions, and then relaunch the Amazon EC2 instances for the ECS cluster while logged in as this account
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Correct Answer: C
Question #6
A company is using AWS to design a web application that will process insurance quotes Users will request quotes from the application Quotes must be separated by quote type, must be responded to within 24 hours, and must not get lost The solution must maximize operational efficiency and must minimize maintenance. Which solution meets these requirements?
A. Create multiple Amazon Kinesis data streams based on the quote type Configure the web application to send messages to the proper data stream Configure each backend group of application servers to use the Kinesis Client Library (KCL) to pool messages from its own data stream
B. Create an AWS Lambda function and an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for each quote type Subscribe the Lambda function to its associated SNS topic Configure the application to publish requests tot quotes to the appropriate SNS topic
C. Create a single Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic Subscribe Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queues to the SNS topic Configure SNS message filtering to publish messages to the proper SQS queue based on the quote type Configure each backend application server to use its own SQS queue
D. Create multiple Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery streams based on the quote type to deliver data streams to an Amazon Elasucsearch Service (Amazon ES) cluster Configure the application to send messages to the proper delivery stream Configure each backend group of application servers to search for the messages from Amazon ES and process them accordingly
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Correct Answer: B
Question #7
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 Configure the S3 buckets to use server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed encryption keys (SSE-S3) Configure replication between the S3 buckets
B. Create a customer managed multi-Region KMS ke
C. Create an S3 bucket in each Regio
D. Configure replication between the S3 bucket
E. Configure the application to use the KMS key with client-side encryption
F. Create a customer managed KMS key and an S3 bucket in each Region Configure the S3 buckets to use server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed encryption keys (SSE-S3) Configure replication between the S3 buckets
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Correct Answer: C
Question #8
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. Use AWS Snowball to migrate data out of the on-premises solution to Amazon S3
B. Use AWS Snowball Edge to migrate data out of the on-premises solution to Amazon S3
C. Use AWS Storage Gateway and configure a cached volume gatewa
D. Run the Storage Gateway software application on premises and configure a percentage of data to cache locall
E. Mount the gateway storage volumes to provide local access to the data
F. Use AWS Storage Gateway and configure a stored volume gatewa G
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Correct Answer: B
Question #9
A company uses NFS to store large video files in on-premises network attached storage. Each video file ranges in size from 1MB 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 Create an IAM role that has permissions to write to the S3 bucke
B. Use the AWS CLI to copy all files locally to the S3 bucket
C. Create an AWS Snowball Edge jo
D. Receive a Snowball Edge device on premise
E. Use the Snowball Edge client to transfer data to the devic
F. Return the device so that AWS can import the data into Amazon S3
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Correct Answer: A
Question #10
A company is preparing to store confidential data in Amazon S3 For compliance reasons the data must be encrypted at rest Encryption key usage must be logged tor auditing purposes. Keys must be rotated every year. Which solution meets these requirements and ?the MOST operationally efferent?
A. Server-side encryption with customer-provided keys (SSE-C)
B. Server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3)
C. Server-side encryption with AWS KMS (SSE-KMS) customer master keys (CMKs) with manual rotation
D. Server-side encryption with AWS KMS (SSE-KMS) customer master keys (CMKs) with automate rotation
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Correct Answer: D
Question #11
A company produces batch data that comes from different databases. The company also produces live stream data from network sensors and application APIs. The company needs to consolidate all the data into one place for business analytics. The company needs to process the incoming data and then stage the data in different Amazon S3 buckets. Teams will later run one-time queries and import the data into a business intelligence tool to show key performance indicators (KPIs). Which combination of steps will meet
A. Use Amazon Athena foe one-time queries Use Amazon QuickSight to create dashboards for KPIs
B. Use Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for one-time queries Use Amazon QuickSight to create dashboards for KPIs
C. Create custom AWS Lambda functions to move the individual records from me databases to an Amazon Redshift duster
D. Use an AWS Glue extract transform, and toad (ETL) job to convert the data into JSON format Load the data into multiple Amazon OpenSearch Service (Amazon Elasticsearch Service) dusters
E. Use blueprints in AWS Lake Formation to identify the data that can be ingested into a data lake Use AWS Glue to crawl the source extract the data and load the data into Amazon S3 in Apache Parquet format
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Correct Answer: A
Question #12
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 table
B. For RPO recovery, point the application to a different AWS Region
C. Configure DynamoDB point-in-time recover
D. For RPO recovery, restore to the desired point in time
E. Export the DynamoDB data to Amazon S3 Glacier on a daily basi
F. For RPO recovery, import the data from S3 Glacier to DynamoDB
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Correct Answer: A
Question #13
An online retail company has more than 50 million active customers and receives more than 25,000 orders each day. The company collects purchase data for customers and stores this data in Amazon S3. Additional customer data is stored in Amazon RDS. The company wants to make all the data available to various teams so that the teams can perform analytics. The solution must provide the ability to manage fine-grained permissions for the data and must minimize operational overhead. Which solution will meet these
A. Migrate the purchase data to write directly to Amazon RD
B. Use RDS access controls to limit access
C. Schedule an AWS Lambda function to periodically copy data from Amazon RDS to Amazon S3
D. Use Amazon Athena to query the dat
E. Use S3 policies to limit access
F. Create a data lake by using AWS Lake Formatio G
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Correct Answer: BE
Question #14
A company needs to retain application logs files for a critical application for 10 years. 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. Store the Iogs in Amazon S3 Use AWS Backup lo move logs more than 1 month old to S3 Glacier Deep Archive
B. Store the logs in Amazon S3 Use S3 Lifecycle policies to move logs more than 1 month old to S3 Glacier Deep Archive
C. Store the logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs Use AWS Backup to move logs more then 1 month old toS3 Glacier Deep Archive
D. Store the logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs Use Amazon S3 Lifecycle policies to move logs more than 1 month old to S3 Glacier Deep Archive
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Correct Answer: C
Question #15
A company is building a containerized application on premises and decides to move the application to AWS. The application will have thousands of users soon after li is deployed. The company Is unsure how to manage the deployment of containers at scale. The company needs to deploy the containerized application in a highly available architecture that minimizes operational overhead. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Store container images In an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repositor
B. Use an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster with the AWS Fargate launch type to run the container
C. Use target tracking to scale automatically based on demand
D. Store container images in an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repositor
E. Use an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster with the Amazon EC2 launch type to run the container
F. Use target tracking to scale automatically based on demand
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Correct Answer: D
Question #16
A company needs to export its database once a day to Amazon S3 for other teams to access. The exported object size vanes between 2 GB and 5 GB. The S3 access pattern for the data is variable and changes rapidly. The data must be immediately available and must remain accessible for up to 3 months. The company needs the most cost-effective solution that will not increase retrieval time Which S3 storage class should the company use to meet these requirements?
A. S3 Intelligent-Tiering
B. S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
C. S3 Standard
D. S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)
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Correct Answer: D
Question #17
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 Add Permission API call to add appropriate permissions
C. Use the ReceiveMessage API call to set an appropriate wail time
D. Use the ChangeMessageVisibility APi call to increase the visibility timeout
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Correct Answer: B
Question #18
A company wants to configure its Amazon CloudFront distribution to use SSL/TLS certificates. The company does not want to use the default domain name for the distribution. Instead, the company wants to use a different domain name for the distribution. Which solution will deploy the certificate with icurring any additional costs?
A. Request an Amazon issued private certificate from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) in the us-east-1 Region
B. Request an Amazon issued private certificate from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) in the us-west-1 Region
C. Request an Amazon issued public certificate from AWS Certificate Manager (ACU) in the us-east-1 Region
D. Request an Amazon issued public certificate from AWS Certificate Manager (ACU) in the us-west-1 Regon
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Correct Answer: D
Question #19
A company uses a popular content management system (CMS) for its corporate website. However, the required patching and maintenance are burdensome. The company is redesigning its website and wants anew solution. The website will be updated four times a year and does not need to have any dynamic content available. The solution must provide high scalability and enhanced security. Which combination of changes will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Choose two.)
A. Deploy an AWS WAF web ACL in front of the website to provide HTTPS functionality
B. Create and deploy an AWS Lambda function to manage and serve the website content
C. Create the new website and an Amazon S3 bucket Deploy the website on the S3 bucket with static website hosting enabled
D. Create the new websit
E. Deploy the website by using an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer
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Correct Answer: A
Question #20
A solutions architect needs to help a company optimize the cost of running an application on AWS. The application will use Amazon EC2 instances, AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda for compute within the architecture. The EC2 instances will run the data ingestion layer of the application. EC2 usage will be sporadic and unpredictable. Workloads that run on EC2 instances can be interrupted at any time. The application front end will run on Fargate, and Lambda will serve the API layer. The front-end utilization and AP
A. Use Spot Instances for the data ingestion layer
B. Use On-Demand Instances for the data ingestion layer
C. Purchase a 1-year Compute Savings Plan for the front end and API layer
D. Purchase 1-year All Upfront Reserved instances for the data ingestion layer
E. Purchase a 1-year EC2 instance Savings Plan for the front end and API layer
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Correct Answer: C
Question #21
A survey company has gathered data for several years from areas m\ the United States. The company hosts the data in an Amazon S3 bucket that is 3 TB m 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 Sync the S3 bucket to one of the marketing firm’s S3 buckets
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Correct Answer: D
Question #22
An Amazon EC2 administrator created the following policy associated with an IAM group containing several users What is the effect of this policy?
A. Users can terminate an EC2 instance in any AWS Region except us-east-1
B. Users can terminate an EC2 instance with the IP address 10 100 100 1 in the us-east-1 Region
C. Users can terminate an EC2 instance in the us-east-1 Region when the user's source IP is 10
D. Users cannot terminate an EC2 instance in the us-east-1 Region when the user's source IP is 10
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Correct Answer: C
Question #23
A company hosts a website analytics application on a single Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instance. The analytics software is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database. The analytics software, the web server that provides PHP, and the database server are all hosted on the EC2 instance. The application is showing signs of performance degradation during busy times and is presenting 5xx errors. The company needs to make the application scale seamlessly. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A. Migrate the database to an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instanc
B. Create an AMI of the web applicatio
C. Use the AMI to launch a second EC2 On-Demand Instanc
D. Use an Application Load Balancer to distribute the load to each EC2 instance
E. Migrate the database to an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instanc
F. Create an AMI of the web applicatio G
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Correct Answer: B
Question #24
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 128 KB in 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 these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A. Configure S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) storage for the initial storage tier of the objects
B. Move the files to S3 Intelligent-Tiering and configure it to move objects to a less expensive storage tier after 90 days
C. Configure S3 inventory to manage objects and move them to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-1A) after 90 days
D. Implement an S3 Lifecycle policy that moves the objects from S3 Standard to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-1A) after 90 days
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Correct Answer: A
Question #25
A company needs to store data in Amazon S3 and must prevent the data from being changed. The company wants new objects that are uploaded to Amazon S3 to remain unchangeable for a nonspecific amount of time until the company decides to modify the objects. Only specific users in the company’s AWS account can have the ability to delete the objects. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A. Create an S3 Glacier vault Apply a write-once, read-many (WORM) vault lock policy to the objects
B. Create an S3 bucket with S3 Object Lock enabled Enable versioning Set a retention period of 100 years Use governance mode as the S3 bucket's default retention mode for new objects
C. Create an S3 bucket Use AWS CloudTrail to (rack any S3 API events that modify the objects Upon notification, restore the modified objects from any backup versions that the company has
D. Create an S3 bucket with S3 Object Lock enabled Enable versioning Add a legal hold to the objects Add the s3 PutObjectLegalHold permission to the IAM policies of users who need to delete the objects
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Correct Answer: B
Question #26
A company is implementing a shared storage solution for a media application that is hosted m the AWS Cloud The company needs the ability to use SMB clients to access data The solution must he fully managed. Which AWS solution meets these requirements?
A. Create an AWS Storage Gateway volume gatewa
B. Create a file share that uses the required client protocol Connect the application server to the file share
C. Create an AWS Storage Gateway tape gateway Configure (apes to use Amazon S3 Connect the application server lo the tape gateway
D. Create an Amazon EC2 Windows instance Install and configure a Windows file share role on the instanc
E. Connect the application server to the file share
F. Create an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server tile system Attach the fie system to the origin server
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Correct Answer: A
Question #27
A company has a Windows-based application that must be migrated to AWS. The application requires the use of a shared Windows file system attached to multiple Amazon EC2 Windows instances that are deployed across multiple Availability Zones. What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
A. Configure AWS Storage Gateway in volume gateway mod
B. Mount the volume to each Windows instance
C. Configure Amazon FSx for Windows File Serve
D. Mount the Amazon FSx file system to each Windows instance
E. Configure a file system by using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
F. Configure an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume with the required siz G
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Correct Answer: A
Question #28
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 loggin
E. Configure Amazon EventBridge (Amazon Cloud Watch Events)
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Correct Answer: C
Question #29
A company runs a global web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer The application stores data in Amazon Aurora. The company needs to create a disaster recovery solution and can tolerate up to 30 minutes of downtime and potential data loss. The solution does not need to handle the load when the primary infrastructure is healthy What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A. Deploy the application with the required infrastructure elements in place Use Amazon Route 53 to configure active-passive failover Create an Aurora Replica in a second AWS Region
B. Host a scaled-down deployment of the application in a second AWS Region Use Amazon Route 53 to configure active-active failover Create an Aurora Replica in the second Region
C. Replicate the primary infrastructure in a second AWS Region Use Amazon Route 53 to configure active-active failover Create an Aurora database that is restored from the latest snapshot
D. Back up data with AWS Backup Use the backup to create the required infrastructure in a second AWS Region Use Amazon Route 53 to configure active- passive failover Create an Aurora second primary instance in the second Region
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Correct Answer: D
Question #30
A company wants to measure the effectiveness of its recent marketing campaigns. The company performs batch processing on csv files of sales data and stores the results ?i an Amazon S3 bucket once every hour. The S3 bi petabytes of objects. The company runs one-time queries in Amazon Athena to determine which products are most popular on a particular date for a particular region Queries sometimes fail or take longer than expected to finish. Which actions should a solutions architect take to improve the query
A. Reduce the S3 object sizes to less than 126 MB
B. Partition the data by date and region n Amazon S3
C. Store the files as large, single objects in Amazon S3
D. Use Amazon Kinosis Data Analytics to run the Queries as pan of the batch processing operation
E. Use an AWS duo extract, transform, and load (ETL) process to convert the csv files into Apache Parquet format
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Correct Answer: B
Question #31
A company has two applications: a sender application that sends messages with payloads to be processed and a processing application intended to receive the messages with payloads. The company wants to implement an AWS service to handle messages between the two applications. The sender application can send about 1.000 messages each hour. The messages may take up to 2 days to be processed. If the messages fail to process, they must be retained so that they do not impact the processing of any remaining message
A. Set up an Amazon EC2 instance running a Redis databas
B. Configure both applications to use the instanc
C. Store, process, and delete the messages, respectively
D. Use an Amazon Kinesis data stream to receive the messages from the sender applicatio
E. Integrate the processing application with the Kinesis Client Library (KCL)
F. Integrate the sender and processor applications with an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queu G
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Correct Answer: A
Question #32
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 Manage
B. Turn on automatic rotation
C. Use AWS Systems Manager Parameter Stor
D. Turn on automatic rotation
E. Create an Amazon S3 bucket lo store objects that are encrypted with an AWS Key
F. Management Service (AWS KMS) encryption ke G
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Correct Answer: C
Question #33
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 Load the data onto the Snowball devices and return the devices to AWS each day
D. Submit a support ticket through the AWS Management Console Request the removal of S3 service limits from the account
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Correct Answer: A
Question #34
A company recently migrated a message processing system to AWS. The system receives messages into an ActiveMQ queue running on an Amazon EC2 instance. Messages are processed by a consumer application running on Amazon EC2. The consumer application processes the messages and writes results to a MySQL database funning on Amazon EC2. The company wants this application to be highly available with tow operational complexity Which architecture otters the HGHEST availability?
A. Add a second ActiveMQ server to another Availably Zone Add an additional consumer EC2 instance in another Availability Zon
B. Replicate the MySQL database to another Availability Zone
C. Use Amazon MO with active/standby brokers configured across two Availability Zones Add an additional consumer EC2 instance in another Availability Zon
D. Replicate the MySQL database to another Availability Zone
E. Use Amazon MO with active/standby blotters configured across two Availability Zone
F. Add an additional consumer EC2 instance in another Availability Zon G
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Correct Answer: C
Question #35
A company needs to provide its employee with secure access to confidential and sensitive files. The company wants to ensure that the files can be accessed only by authorized users. The files must be downloaded security to the employees devices. The files are stored in an on-premises Windows files server. However, due to an increase in remote usage, the file server out of capacity. Which solution will meet these requirement?
A. Migrate the file server to an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subne
B. Configure the security group to limit inbound traffic to the employees ?IP addresses
C. Migrate the files to an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file syste
D. Integrate the Amazon FSx file system with the on-premises Active Directory Configure AWS Client VPN
E. Migrate the files to Amazon S3, and create a private VPC endpoin
F. Create a signed URL to allow download
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Correct Answer: B
Question #36
An image-processing company has a web application that users use to upload images. The application uploads the images into an Amazon S3 bucket. The company has set up S3 event notifications to publish the object creation events to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) standard queue. The SQS queue serves as the event source for an AWS Lambda function that processes the images and sends the results to users through email. Users report that they are receiving multiple email messages for every uploaded i
A. Set up long polling in the SQS queue by increasing the ReceiveMessage wait time to 30 seconds
B. Change the SQS standard queue to an SQS FIFO queu
C. Use the message deduplication ID to discard duplicate messages
D. Increase the visibility timeout in the SQS queue to a value that is greater than the total of the function timeout and the batch window timeout
E. Modify the Lambda function to delete each message from the SQS queue immediately after the message is read before processing
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Correct Answer: C
Question #37
A company has a web application that is based on Java and PHP The company plans to move the application from on premises to AWS The company needs the ability to test new site features frequently. The company also needs a highly available and managed solution that requires minimum operational overhead Which solution will meet these requirements?
A. Create an Amazon S3 bucket Enable static web hosting on the S3 bucket Upload the static content to the S3 bucket Use AWS Lambda to process all dynamic content
B. Deploy the web application to an AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment Use URL swapping to switch between multiple Elastic Beanstalk environments for feature testing
C. Deploy the web application lo Amazon EC2 instances that are configured with Java and PHP Use Auto Scaling groups and an Application Load Balancer to manage the website's availability
D. Containerize the web application Deploy the web application to Amazon EC2 instances Use the AWS Load Balancer Controller to dynamically route traffic between containers thai contain the new site features for testing
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Correct Answer: CE
Question #38
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 )
A. Configure the security group for the web tier to allow inbound traffic on port 443 from 0
B. Configure the security group for the web tier to allow outbound traffic on port 443 from 0
C. Configure the security group for the database tier to allow inbound traffic on port 1433 from the securitygroup for the web tier
D. Configure the security group for the database tier to allow outbound traffic on ports 443 and 1433 to the security group for the web tier
E. Configure the security group for the database tier to allow inbound traffic on ports 443 and 1433 from the security group for the web tier
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Correct Answer: B
Question #39
A company is running several business applications in three separate VPCs within me us-east-1 Region. The applications must be able to communicate between VPCs. The applications also must be able to consistently send hundreds to gigabytes of data each day to a latency-sensitive application that runs in a single on- premises data center. A solutions architect needs to design a network connectivity solution that maximizes cost-effectiveness Which solution moots those requirements?
A. Configure three AWS Site-to-Site VPN connections from the data center to AWS Establish connectivity by configuring one VPN connection for each VPC
B. Launch a third-party virtual network appliance in each VPC Establish an iPsec VPN tunnel between the Data center and each virtual appliance
C. Set up three AWS Direct Connect connections from the data center to a Direct Connect gateway inus-east-1 Establish connectivity by configuring each VPC to use one of the Direct Connect connections
D. Set up one AWS Direct Connect connection from the data center to AW
E. Create a transit gateway, and attach each VPC to the transit gatewa
F. Establish connectivity between the Direct Connect connection and the transit gateway
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Correct Answer: A
Question #40
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 geo-proximity routing policy pointing to on-premises servers
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Correct Answer: D
Question #41
A company's website uses an Amazon EC2 instance store for its catalog of items. The company wants to make sure that the catalog is highly available and that the catalog is stored in a durable location. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A. Move the catalog to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
B. Deploy a larger EC2 instance with a larger instance store
C. Move the catalog from the instance store to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
D. Move the catalog to an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system
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Correct Answer: D
Question #42
At part of budget planning. management wants a report of AWS billed dams listed by user. The data will be used to create department budgets. A solution architect needs to determine the most efficient way to obtain this report Information Which solution meets these requirement?
A. Run a query with Amazon Athena to generate the report
B. Create a report in Cost Explorer and download the report
C. Access the bill details from the runing dashboard and download Via bill
D. Modify a cost budget in AWS Budgets to alert with Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)
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Correct Answer: A
Question #43
A bicycle sharing company is developing a multi-tier architecture to track the location of its bicycles during peak operating hours The company wants to use these data points in its existing analytics platform A solutions architect must determine the most viable multi-tier option to support this architecture The data points must be accessible from the REST API. Which action meets these requirements for storing and retrieving location data?
A. Use Amazon Athena with Amazon S3
B. Use Amazon API Gateway with AWS Lambda
C. Use Amazon QuickSight with Amazon Redshift
D. Use Amazon API Gateway with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
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Correct Answer: A
Question #44
A company wants to run applications in containers in the AWS Cloud. These applications are stateless and can tolerate disruptions within the underlying infrastructure. The company needs a solution that minimizes cost and operational overhead. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A. Use Spot Instances in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to run the application containers
B. Use Spot Instances in an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) managed node group
C. Use On-Demand Instances in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to run the application containers
D. Use On-Demand Instances in an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) managed node group
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Correct Answer: B
Question #45
An application development team is designing a microservice that will convert large images to smaller, compressed images. When a user uploads an image through the web interface, the microservice should store the image in an Amazon S3 bucket, process and compress the image with an AWS Lambda function, and store the image in its compressed form in a different S3 bucket. A solutions architect needs to design a solution that uses durable, stateless components to process the images automatically. Which combinati
A. Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue Configure the S3 bucket to send a notification to the SQS queue when an image is uploaded to the S3 bucket
B. Configure the Lambda function to use the Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue as the invocation source When the SQS message is successfully processed, delete the message in the queue
C. Configure the Lambda function to monitor the S3 bucket for new uploads When an uploaded image is detected write the file name to a text file in memory and use the text file to keep track of the images that were processed
D. Launch an Amazon EC2 instance to monitor an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue When items are added to the queue log the file name in a text file on the EC2 instance and invoke the Lambda function
E. Configure an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) event to monitor the S3 bucket When an image is uploade
F. send an alert to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic with the application owner's email address for further processing
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Correct Answer: AB
Question #46
A company is designing a cloud communications platform that is driven by APIs. The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). The company uses Amazon API Gateway to provide external users with access to the application through APIs. The company wants to protect the platform against web exploits like SQL injection and also wants to detect and mitigate large, sophisticated DDoS attacks. Which combination of solutions provides the MOST protection? (Select TWO.)
A. Use AWS WAF to protect the NLB
B. Use AWS Shield Advanced with the NLB
C. Use AWS WAF to protect Amazon API Gateway
D. Use Amazon GuardDuty with AWS Shield Standard
E. Use AWS Shield Standard with Amazon API Gateway
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Correct Answer: A
Question #47
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 Loa d Balancer with an AWS Lambda target that uses the Express js framework
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Correct Answer: C
Question #48
A media company hosts its website on AWS. The website application's architecture includes a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and a database that is hosted on Amazon Aurora The company's cyber security teem reports that the application is vulnerable to SOL injection. How should the company resolve this issue?
A. Use AWS WAF in front of the ALB Associate the appropriate web ACLs with AWS WAF
B. Create an ALB listener rule to reply to SQL injection with a fixed response
C. Subscribe to AWS Shield Advanced to block all SQL injection attempts automatically
D. Set up Amazon Inspector to block all SOL injection attempts automatically
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Correct Answer: D
Question #49
A company has a Microsoft NET application that runs on an on-premises Windows Server Trie 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. Refactor the application as serverless with AWS Lambda functions running NET Cote
B. Rehost the application in AWS Elastic Beanstalk with the NET platform in a Multi-AZ deployment
C. Replatform the application to run on Amazon EC2 with the Amazon Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
D. Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate from the Oracle database to Amazon DynamoDB in a Multi-AZ deployment
E. Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate from the Oracle database to Oracle on Amazon RDS in a Multi-AZ deployment
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Correct Answer: D
Question #50
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. Configure Amazon EFS storage and set the Active Directory domain for authentication
B. Create an SMB Me share on an AWS Storage Gateway tile gateway in two Availability Zones
C. Create an Amazon S3 bucket and configure Microsoft Windows Server to mount it as a volume
D. Create an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system on AWS and set the Active Directory domain for authentication
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Correct Answer: B

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