Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 -

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 1. A company collects data for temperature, humidity, and atmospheric 1/1
pressure in cities across multiple continents. The average volume of data
that the company collects from each site daily is 500 GB. Each site has a
high-speed Internet connection.The company wants to aggregate the data
from all these global sites as quickly as possible in a single Amazon S3
bucket. The solution must minimize operational complexity.Which solution
meets these requirements?

Turn on S3 Transfer Acceleration on the destination S3 bucket. Use multipart

uploads to directly upload site data to the destination S3 bucket.

Upload the data from each site to an S3 bucket in the closest Region. Use S3 Cross-
Region Replication to copy objects to the destination S3 bucket. Then remove the
data from the origin S3 bucket.

Schedule AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized device jobs daily to transfer data
from each site to the closest Region. Use S3 Cross-Region Replication to copy
objects to the destination S3 bucket.

Upload the data from each site to an Amazon EC2 instance in the closest Region.
Store the data in an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. At regular
intervals, take an EBS snapshot and copy it to the Region that contains the
destination S3 bucket. Restore the EBS volume in that Region.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Turn on S3 Transfer Acceleration on the destination S3
bucket. Use multipart uploads to directly upload site data to the destination S3 bucket.
 2. A company needs the ability to analyze the log files of its proprietary 1/1
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?

Use Amazon Redshift to load all the content into one place and run the SQL queries
as needed.

Use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to store the logs. Run SQL queries as needed from
the Amazon CloudWatch console.

Use Amazon Athena directly with Amazon S3 to run the queries as needed.

Use AWS Glue to catalog the logs. Use a transient Apache Spark cluster on Amazon
EMR to run the SQL queries as needed.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Use Amazon Athena directly with Amazon S3 to run the
queries as needed.
 3. A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts 1/1
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?

Add the aws PrincipalOrgID global condition key with a reference to the
organization ID to the S3 bucket policy.

Create an organizational unit (OU) for each department. Add the

aws:PrincipalOrgPaths global condition key to the S3 bucket policy.

Use AWS CloudTrail to monitor the CreateAccount, InviteAccountToOrganization,

LeaveOrganization, and RemoveAccountFromOrganization events. Update the S3
bucket policy accordingly.

Tag each user that needs access to the S3 bucket. Add the aws:PrincipalTag global
condition key to the S3 bucket policy.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Add the aws PrincipalOrgID global condition key with a
reference to the organization ID to the S3 bucket policy.
 4. An application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in a VPC. The 1/1
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?

Create a gateway VPC endpoint to the S3 bucket.

Stream the logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Export the logs to the S3 bucket.

Create an instance profile on Amazon EC2 to allow S3 access.

Create an Amazon API Gateway API with a private link to access the S3 endpoint.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Create a gateway VPC endpoint to the S3 bucket.
 5. A company is hosting a web application on AWS using a single Amazon 0/1
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?

Copy the data so both EBS volumes contain all the documents

Configure the Application Load Balancer to direct a user to the server with the
documents

Copy the data from both EBS volumes to Amazon EFS. Modify the application to
save new documents to Amazon EFS

Configure the Application Load Balancer to send the request to both servers.
Return each document from the correct server

Correct answer

Copy the data from both EBS volumes to Amazon EFS. Modify the application to
save new documents to Amazon EFS

Feedback

Incorrect! The correct answer is: Copy the data from both EBS volumes to Amazon EFS.
Modify the application to save new documents to Amazon EFS
 6. A company uses NFS to store large video files in on-premises network 1/1
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?

Create an S3 bucket. Create an IAM role that has permissions to write to the S3
bucket. Use the AWS CLI to copy all files locally to the S3 bucket.

Create an AWS Snowball Edge job. Receive a Snowball Edge device on

premises. Use the Snowball Edge client to transfer data to the device. Return
the device so that AWS can import the data into Amazon S3.

Deploy an S3 File Gateway on premises. Create a public service endpoint to

connect to the S3 File Gateway. Create an S3 bucket. Create a new NFS file share
on the S3 File Gateway. Point the new file share to the S3 bucket. Transfer the data
from the existing NFS file share to the S3 File Gateway.

Set up an AWS Direct Connect connection between the on-premises network and
AWS. Deploy an S3 File Gateway on premises. Create a public virtual interface (VIF)
to connect to the S3 File Gateway. Create an S3 bucket. Create a new NFS file share
on the S3 File Gateway. Point the new file share to the S3 bucket. Transfer the data
from the existing NFS file share to the S3 File Gateway.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Create an AWS Snowball Edge job. Receive a Snowball
Edge device on premises. Use the Snowball Edge client to transfer data to the device.
Return the device so that AWS can import the data into Amazon S3.
 7. A company has an application that ingests incoming messages. Dozens 1/1
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?

Persist the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. Configure the consumer
applications to read and process the messages.

Deploy the ingestion application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling

group to scale the number of EC2 instances based on CPU metrics.

Write the messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with a single shard. Use an
AWS Lambda function to preprocess messages and store them in Amazon
DynamoDB. Configure the consumer applications to read from DynamoDB to
process the messages.

Publish the messages to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

topic with multiple Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) subscriptions.
Configure the consumer applications to process the messages from the
queues.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Publish the messages to an Amazon Simple Notification
Service (Amazon SNS) topic with multiple Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS)
subscriptions. Configure the consumer applications to process the messages from the
queues.
 8. A company is migrating a distributed application to AWS. The 1/1
application serves variable workloads. The legacy platform consists of a
primary server that coordinates jobs across multiple compute nodes. The
company wants to modernize the application with a solution that
maximizes resiliency and scalability.How should a solutions architect
design the architecture to meet these requirements?

Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue as a destination

for the jobs. Implement the compute nodes with Amazon EC2 instances that are
managed in an Auto Scaling group. Configure EC2 Auto Scaling to use scheduled
scaling.

Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue as a

destination for the jobs. Implement the compute nodes with Amazon EC2
instances that are managed in an Auto Scaling group. Configure EC2 Auto
Scaling based on the size of the queue.

Implement the primary server and the compute nodes with Amazon EC2 instances
that are managed in an Auto Scaling group. Configure AWS CloudTrail as a
destination for the jobs. Configure EC2 Auto Scaling based on the load on the
primary server.

Implement the primary server and the compute nodes with Amazon EC2 instances
that are managed in an Auto Scaling group. Configure Amazon EventBridge
(Amazon CloudWatch Events) as a destination for the jobs. Configure EC2 Auto
Scaling based on the load on the compute nodes.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
queue as a destination for the jobs. Implement the compute nodes with Amazon EC2
instances that are managed in an Auto Scaling group. Configure EC2 Auto Scaling based
on the size of the queue.
 9. A company is running an SMB file server in its data center. The file server0/1
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?

Use AWS DataSync to copy data that is older than 7 days from the SMB file server
to AWS.

Create an Amazon S3 File Gateway to extend the company's storage space. Create
an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 7 days.

Create an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system to extend the
company's storage space.

Install a utility on each user's computer to access Amazon S3. Create an S3

Lifecycle policy to transition the data to S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval after 7 days.

Correct answer

Create an Amazon S3 File Gateway to extend the company's storage space. Create
an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 7 days.

Feedback

Incorrect! The correct answer is: Create an Amazon S3 File Gateway to extend the
company's storage space. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the data to S3 Glacier
Deep Archive after 7 days.
 10. A company is building an ecommerce web application on AWS. The 1/1
application sends information about new orders to an Amazon API
Gateway REST API to process. The company wants to ensure that orders
are processed in the order that they are received.Which solution will meet
these requirements?

Use an API Gateway integration to publish a message to an Amazon Simple

Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic when the application receives an order.
Subscribe an AWS Lambda function to the topic to perform processing.

Use an API Gateway integration to send a message to an Amazon Simple

Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queue when the application receives an
order. Configure the SQS FIFO queue to invoke an AWS Lambda function for
processing.

Use an API Gateway authorizer to block any requests while the application
processes an order.

Use an API Gateway integration to send a message to an Amazon Simple Queue

Service (Amazon SQS) standard queue when the application receives an order.
Configure the SQS standard queue to invoke an AWS Lambda function for
processing.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Use an API Gateway integration to send a message to an
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queue when the application receives
an order. Configure the SQS FIFO queue to invoke an AWS Lambda function for
processing.
 11. A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances and 0/1
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?

Use AWS Secrets Manager. Turn on automatic rotation.

Use AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. Turn on automatic rotation.

Create an Amazon S3 bucket to store objects that are encrypted with an AWS Key
Management Service (AWS KMS) encryption key. Migrate the credential file to the
S3 bucket. Point the application to the S3 bucket.

Create an encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume for each
EC2 instance. Attach the new EBS volume to each EC2 instance. Migrate the
credential file to the new EBS volume. Point the application to the new EBS volume.

Correct answer

Use AWS Secrets Manager. Turn on automatic rotation.

Feedback

Incorrect! The correct answer is: Use AWS Secrets Manager. Turn on automatic rotation.
 12. A global company hosts its web application on Amazon EC2 instances 0/1
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?

Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the S3 bucket and the ALB as
origins. Configure Route 53 to route traffic to the CloudFront distribution.

Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the ALB as an origin. Create
an AWS Global Accelerator standard accelerator that has the S3 bucket as an
endpoint Configure Route 53 to route traffic to the CloudFront distribution.

Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the S3 bucket as an origin.

Create an AWS Global Accelerator standard accelerator that has the ALB and the
CloudFront distribution as endpoints. Create a custom domain name that points to
the accelerator DNS name. Use the custom domain name as an endpoint for the
web application.

Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the ALB as an origin. Create an
AWS Global Accelerator standard accelerator that has the S3 bucket as an
endpoint. Create two domain names. Point one domain name to the CloudFront
DNS name for dynamic content. Point the other domain name to the accelerator
DNS name for static content. Use the domain names as endpoints for the web
application.

Correct answer

Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the S3 bucket and the ALB as
origins. Configure Route 53 to route traffic to the CloudFront distribution.

Feedback

Incorrect! The correct answer is: Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the S3
bucket and the ALB as origins. Configure Route 53 to route traffic to the CloudFront
distribution.
 13. A company performs monthly maintenance on its AWS infrastructure. 0/1
During these maintenance activities, the company needs to rotate the
credentials for its Amazon RDS for MySQL databases across multiple AWS
Regions.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST
operational overhead?

Store the credentials as secrets in AWS Secrets Manager. Use multi-Region secret
replication for the required Regions. Configure Secrets Manager to rotate the
secrets on a schedule.

Store the credentials as secrets in AWS Systems Manager by creating a secure

string parameter. Use multi-Region secret replication for the required Regions.
Configure Systems Manager to rotate the secrets on a schedule.

Store the credentials in an Amazon S3 bucket that has server-side encryption (SSE)
enabled. Use Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) to invoke an AWS
Lambda function to rotate the credentials.

Encrypt the credentials as secrets by using AWS Key Management Service (AWS
KMS) multi-Region customer managed keys. Store the secrets in an Amazon
DynamoDB global table. Use an AWS Lambda function to retrieve the secrets from
DynamoDB. Use the RDS API to rotate the secrets.

Correct answer

Store the credentials as secrets in AWS Secrets Manager. Use multi-Region secret
replication for the required Regions. Configure Secrets Manager to rotate the
secrets on a schedule.

Feedback

Incorrect! The correct answer is: Store the credentials as secrets in AWS Secrets Manager.
Use multi-Region secret replication for the required Regions. Configure Secrets Manager to
rotate the secrets on a schedule.
 14. A company runs an ecommerce application on Amazon EC2 instances 1/1
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?

Use Amazon Redshift with a single node for leader and compute functionality.

Use Amazon RDS with a Single-AZ deployment Configure Amazon RDS to add
reader instances in a different Availability Zone.

Use Amazon Aurora with a Multi-AZ deployment. Configure Aurora Auto Scaling
with Aurora Replicas.

Use Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached with EC2 Spot Instances.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Use Amazon Aurora with a Multi-AZ deployment. Configure
Aurora Auto Scaling with Aurora Replicas.
 15. A company recently migrated to AWS and wants to implement a 0/1
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?

Use Amazon GuardDuty for traffic inspection and traffic filtering in the production
VPC.

Use Traffic Mirroring to mirror traffic from the production VPC for traffic
inspection and filtering.

Use AWS Network Firewall to create the required rules for traffic inspection and
traffic filtering for the production VPC.

Use AWS Firewall Manager to create the required rules for traffic inspection and
traffic filtering for the production VPC.

Correct answer

Use AWS Network Firewall to create the required rules for traffic inspection and
traffic filtering for the production VPC.

Feedback

Incorrect! The correct answer is: Use AWS Network Firewall to create the required rules for
traffic inspection and traffic filtering for the production VPC.
 16. A company hosts a data lake on AWS. The data lake consists of data in 0/1
Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The company needs a
reporting solution that provides data visualization and includes all the data
sources within the data lake. Only the company's management team
should have full access to all the visualizations. The rest of the company
should have only limited access.Which solution will meet these
requirements?

Create an analysis in Amazon QuickSight. Connect all the data sources and
create new datasets. Publish dashboards to visualize the data. Share the
dashboards with the appropriate IAM roles.

Create an analysis in Amazon QuickSight. Connect all the data sources and create
new datasets. Publish dashboards to visualize the data. Share the dashboards with
the appropriate users and groups.

Create an AWS Glue table and crawler for the data in Amazon S3. Create an AWS
Glue extract, transform, and load (ETL) job to produce reports. Publish the reports
to Amazon S3. Use S3 bucket policies to limit access to the reports.

Create an AWS Glue table and crawler for the data in Amazon S3. Use Amazon
Athena Federated Query to access data within Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.
Generate reports by using Amazon Athena. Publish the reports to Amazon S3. Use
S3 bucket policies to limit access to the reports.

Correct answer

Create an analysis in Amazon QuickSight. Connect all the data sources and create
new datasets. Publish dashboards to visualize the data. Share the dashboards with
the appropriate users and groups.

Feedback

Incorrect! The correct answer is: Create an analysis in Amazon QuickSight. Connect all the
data sources and create new datasets. Publish dashboards to visualize the data. Share the
dashboards with the appropriate users and groups.
 17. A company is implementing a new business application. The 1/1
application runs on two Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon S3
bucket for document storage. A solutions architect needs to ensure that
the EC2 instances can access the S3 bucket.What should the solutions
architect do to meet this requirement?

Create an IAM role that grants access to the S3 bucket. Attach the role to the
EC2 instances.

Create an IAM policy that grants access to the S3 bucket. Attach the policy to the
EC2 instances.

Create an IAM group that grants access to the S3 bucket. Attach the group to the
EC2 instances.

Create an IAM user that grants access to the S3 bucket. Attach the user account to
the EC2 instances.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Create an IAM role that grants access to the S3 bucket.
Attach the role to the EC2 instances.
 18. An application development team is designing a microservice that will 1/1
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 combination of actions will meet these requirements?
(Choose two.)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Configure an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) event to monitor

the S3 bucket. When an image is uploaded, send an alert to an Amazon ample
Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic with the application owner's email address
for further processing.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: 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.
 19. A company has a three-tier web application that is deployed on AWS. 1/1
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?

Create a Network Load Balancer in the public subnet of the application's VPC to
route the traffic to the appliance for packet inspection.

Create an Application Load Balancer in the public subnet of the application's VPC to
route the traffic to the appliance for packet inspection.

Deploy a transit gateway in the inspection VPConfigure route tables to route the
incoming packets through the transit gateway.

Deploy a Gateway Load Balancer in the inspection VPC. Create a Gateway Load
Balancer endpoint to receive the incoming packets and forward the packets to
the appliance.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Deploy a Gateway Load Balancer in the inspection VPC.
Create a Gateway Load Balancer endpoint to receive the incoming packets and forward
the packets to the appliance.
 20. A company wants to improve its ability to clone large amounts of 1/1
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?

Take EBS snapshots of the production EBS volumes. Restore the snapshots onto
EC2 instance store volumes in the test environment.

Configure the production EBS volumes to use the EBS Multi-Attach feature. Take
EBS snapshots of the production EBS volumes. Attach the production EBS volumes
to the EC2 instances in the test environment.

Take EBS snapshots of the production EBS volumes. Create and initialize new EBS
volumes. Attach the new EBS volumes to EC2 instances in the test environment
before restoring the volumes from the production EBS snapshots.

Take EBS snapshots of the production EBS volumes. Turn on the EBS fast
snapshot restore feature on the EBS snapshots. Restore the snapshots into new
EBS volumes. Attach the new EBS volumes to EC2 instances in the test
environment.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Take EBS snapshots of the production EBS volumes. Turn
on the EBS fast snapshot restore feature on the EBS snapshots. Restore the snapshots
into new EBS volumes. Attach the new EBS volumes to EC2 instances in the test
environment.
 21. An ecommerce company wants to launch a one-deal-a-day website on 0/1
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?

Use Amazon S3 to host the full website in different S3 buckets. Add Amazon
CloudFront distributions. Set the S3 buckets as origins for the distributions.
Store the order data in Amazon S3.

Deploy the full website on Amazon EC2 instances that run in Auto Scaling groups
across multiple Availability Zones. Add an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to
distribute the website traffic. Add another ALB for the backend APIs. Store the data
in Amazon RDS for MySQL.

Migrate the full application to run in containers. Host the containers on Amazon
Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Use the Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler
to increase and decrease the number of pods to process bursts in traffic. Store the
data in Amazon RDS for MySQL.

Use an Amazon S3 bucket to host the website's static content. Deploy an Amazon
CloudFront distribution. Set the S3 bucket as the origin. Use Amazon API Gateway
and AWS Lambda functions for the backend APIs. Store the data in Amazon
DynamoDB.

Correct answer

Use an Amazon S3 bucket to host the website's static content. Deploy an Amazon
CloudFront distribution. Set the S3 bucket as the origin. Use Amazon API Gateway
and AWS Lambda functions for the backend APIs. Store the data in Amazon
DynamoDB.

Feedback

Incorrect! The correct answer is: Use an Amazon S3 bucket to host the website's static
content. Deploy an Amazon CloudFront distribution. Set the S3 bucket as the origin. Use
Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda functions for the backend APIs. Store the data in
Amazon DynamoDB.
 22. A solutions architect is using Amazon S3 to design the storage 1/1
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?

S3 Standard

S3 Intelligent-Tiering

S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)

S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: S3 Intelligent-Tiering

 23. A company is storing backup files by using Amazon S3 Standard 1/1
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?

Configure S3 Intelligent-Tiering to automatically migrate objects.

Create an S3 Lifecycle configuration to transition objects from S3 Standard to

S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 month.

Create an S3 Lifecycle configuration to transition objects from S3 Standard to S3

Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) after 1 month.

Create an S3 Lifecycle configuration to transition objects from S3 Standard to S3

One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) after 1 month.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Create an S3 Lifecycle configuration to transition objects
from S3 Standard to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 month.
 24. A company observes an increase in Amazon EC2 costs in its most 0/1
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?

Use AWS Budgets to create a budget report and compare EC2 costs based on
instance types.

Use Cost Explorer's granular filtering feature to perform an in-depth analysis of EC2
costs based on instance types.

Use graphs from the AWS Billing and Cost Management dashboard to compare
EC2 costs based on instance types for the last 2 months.

Use AWS Cost and Usage Reports to create a report and send it to an Amazon
S3 bucket. Use Amazon QuickSight with Amazon S3 as a source to generate an
interactive graph based on instance types.

Correct answer

Use Cost Explorer's granular filtering feature to perform an in-depth analysis of EC2
costs based on instance types.

Feedback

Incorrect! The correct answer is: Use Cost Explorer's granular filtering feature to perform
an in-depth analysis of EC2 costs based on instance types.
 25. A company is designing an application. The application uses an AWS 1/1
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?

Refactor the Lambda function code to Apache Tomcat code that runs on Amazon
EC2 instances. Connect the database by using native Java Database Connectivity
(JDBC) drivers.

Change the platform from Aurora to Amazon DynamoDProvision a DynamoDB

Accelerator (DAX) cluster. Use the DAX client SDK to point the existing DynamoDB
API calls at the DAX cluster.

Set up two Lambda functions. Configure one function to receive the information.
Configure the other function to load the information into the database. Integrate the
Lambda functions by using Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS).

Set up two Lambda functions. Configure one function to receive the

information. Configure the other function to load the information into the
database. Integrate the Lambda functions by using an Amazon Simple Queue
Service (Amazon SQS) queue.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Set up two Lambda functions. Configure one function to
receive the information. Configure the other function to load the information into the
database. Integrate the Lambda functions by using an Amazon Simple Queue Service
(Amazon SQS) queue.
 26. A company needs to review its AWS Cloud deployment to ensure that 1/1
its Amazon S3 buckets do not have unauthorized configuration
changes.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?

Turn on AWS Config with the appropriate rules.

Turn on AWS Trusted Advisor with the appropriate checks.

Turn on Amazon Inspector with the appropriate assessment template.

Turn on Amazon S3 server access logging. Configure Amazon EventBridge

(Amazon Cloud Watch Events).

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Turn on AWS Config with the appropriate rules.
 27. A company is launching a new application and will display application 1/1
metrics on an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard. The company's product
manager needs to access this dashboard periodically. The product
manager does not have an AWS account. A solutions architect must
provide access to the product manager by following the principle of least
privilege.Which solution will meet these requirements?

Share the dashboard from the CloudWatch console. Enter the product
manager's email address, and complete the sharing steps. Provide a shareable
link for the dashboard to the product manager.

Create an IAM user specifically for the product manager. Attach the
CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess AWS managed policy to the user. Share the new login
credentials with the product manager. Share the browser URL of the correct
dashboard with the product manager.

Create an IAM user for the company's employees. Attach the ViewOnlyAccess AWS
managed policy to the IAM user. Share the new login credentials with the product
manager. Ask the product manager to navigate to the CloudWatch console and
locate the dashboard by name in the Dashboards section.

Deploy a bastion server in a public subnet. When the product manager requires
access to the dashboard, start the server and share the RDP credentials. On the
bastion server, ensure that the browser is configured to open the dashboard URL
with cached AWS credentials that have appropriate permissions to view the
dashboard.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Share the dashboard from the CloudWatch console. Enter
the product manager's email address, and complete the sharing steps. Provide a
shareable link for the dashboard to the product manager.
 28. A company is migrating applications to AWS. The applications are 0/1
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?

Enable AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) from the AWS SSO console. Create a
one-way forest trust or a one-way domain trust to connect the company's self-
managed Microsoft Active Directory with AWS SSO by using AWS Directory
Service for Microsoft Active Directory.

Enable AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) from the AWS SSO console. Create a two-
way forest trust to connect the company's self-managed Microsoft Active Directory
with AWS SSO by using AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory.

Use AWS Directory Service. Create a two-way trust relationship with the company's
self-managed Microsoft Active Directory.

Deploy an identity provider (IdP) on premises. Enable AWS Single Sign-On (AWS
SSO) from the AWS SSO console.

Correct answer

Enable AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) from the AWS SSO console. Create a two-
way forest trust to connect the company's self-managed Microsoft Active Directory
with AWS SSO by using AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory.

Feedback

Incorrect! The correct answer is: Enable AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) from the AWS
SSO console. Create a two-way forest trust to connect the company's self-managed
Microsoft Active Directory with AWS SSO by using AWS Directory Service for Microsoft
Active Directory.
 29. A company provides a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service that 0/1
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?

Deploy a Network Load Balancer (NLB) and an associated target group. Associate
the target group with the Auto Scaling group. Use the NLB as an AWS Global
Accelerator endpoint in each Region.

Deploy an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and an associated target group.

Associate the target group with the Auto Scaling group. Use the ALB as an AWS
Global Accelerator endpoint in each Region.

Deploy a Network Load Balancer (NLB) and an associated target group.

Associate the target group with the Auto Scaling group. Create an Amazon
Route 53 latency record that points to aliases for each NLB. Create an Amazon
CloudFront distribution that uses the latency record as an origin.

Deploy an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and an associated target group.

Associate the target group with the Auto Scaling group. Create an Amazon Route
53 weighted record that points to aliases for each ALB. Deploy an Amazon
CloudFront distribution that uses the weighted record as an origin.

Correct answer

Deploy a Network Load Balancer (NLB) and an associated target group. Associate
the target group with the Auto Scaling group. Use the NLB as an AWS Global
Accelerator endpoint in each Region.

Feedback

Incorrect! The correct answer is: Deploy a Network Load Balancer (NLB) and an
associated target group. Associate the target group with the Auto Scaling group. Use the
NLB as an AWS Global Accelerator endpoint in each Region.
 30. A development team runs monthly resource-intensive tests on its 1/1
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?

Stop the DB instance when tests are completed. Restart the DB instance when
required.

Use an Auto Scaling policy with the DB instance to automatically scale when tests
are completed.

Create a snapshot when tests are completed. Terminate the DB instance and
restore the snapshot when required.

Modify the DB instance to a low-capacity instance when tests are completed.

Modify the DB instance again when required.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Create a snapshot when tests are completed. Terminate
the DB instance and restore the snapshot when required.
 31. A company that hosts its web application on AWS wants to ensure all 1/1
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?

Use AWS Config rules to define and detect resources that are not properly
tagged.

Use Cost Explorer to display resources that are not properly tagged. Tag those
resources manually.

Write API calls to check all resources for proper tag allocation. Periodically run the
code on an EC2 instance.

Write API calls to check all resources for proper tag allocation. Schedule an AWS
Lambda function through Amazon CloudWatch to periodically run the code.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Use AWS Config rules to define and detect resources that
are not properly tagged.
 32. A development team needs to host a website that will be accessed by 1/1
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?

Containerize the website and host it in AWS Fargate.

Create an Amazon S3 bucket and host the website there.

Deploy a web server on an Amazon EC2 instance to host the website.

Configure an Application Load Balancer with an AWS Lambda target that uses the
Express.js framework.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Create an Amazon S3 bucket and host the website there.
 33. A company runs an online marketplace web application on AWS. The 1/1
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?

Store the transactions data into Amazon DynamoDB. Set up a rule in DynamoDB to
remove sensitive data from every transaction upon write. Use DynamoDB Streams
to share the transactions data with other applications.

Stream the transactions data into Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to store data in
Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3. Use AWS Lambda integration with Kinesis
Data Firehose to remove sensitive data. Other applications can consume the data
stored in Amazon S3.

Stream the transactions data into Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Use AWS
Lambda integration to remove sensitive data from every transaction and then
store the transactions data in Amazon DynamoDB. Other applications can
consume the transactions data off the Kinesis data stream.

Store the batched transactions data in Amazon S3 as files. Use AWS Lambda to
process every file and remove sensitive data before updating the files in Amazon
S3. The Lambda function then stores the data in Amazon DynamoDB. Other
applications can consume transaction files stored in Amazon S3.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Stream the transactions data into Amazon Kinesis Data
Streams. Use AWS Lambda integration to remove sensitive data from every transaction
and then store the transactions data in Amazon DynamoDB. Other applications can
consume the transactions data off the Kinesis data stream.
 34. A company hosts its multi-tier applications on AWS. For compliance, 1/1
governance, auditing, and security, the company must track configuration
changes on its AWS resources and record a history of API calls made to
these resources.What should a solutions architect do to meet these
requirements?

Use AWS CloudTrail to track configuration changes and AWS Config to record API
calls.

Use AWS Config to track configuration changes and AWS CloudTrail to record
API calls.

Use AWS Config to track configuration changes and Amazon CloudWatch to record
API calls.

Use AWS CloudTrail to track configuration changes and Amazon CloudWatch to

record API calls.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Use AWS Config to track configuration changes and AWS
CloudTrail to record API calls.
 35. A company is preparing to launch a public-facing web application in the 1/1
AWS Cloud. The architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances within a
VPC behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). A third-party service is used
for the DNS. The company's solutions architect must recommend a
solution to detect and protect against large-scale DDoS attacks.Which
solution meets these requirements?

Enable Amazon GuardDuty on the account.

Enable Amazon Inspector on the EC2 instances.

Enable AWS Shield and assign Amazon Route 53 to it.

Enable AWS Shield Advanced and assign the ELB to it.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Enable AWS Shield Advanced and assign the ELB to it.
 36. A company is building an application in the AWS Cloud. The application 1/1
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?

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.

Create a customer managed multi-Region KMS key. Create an S3 bucket in each

Region. Configure replication between the S3 buckets. Configure the application
to use the KMS key with client-side encryption.

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.

Create a customer managed KMS key and an S3 bucket in each Region. Configure
the S3 buckets to use server-side encryption with AWS KMS keys (SSE-KMS).
Configure replication between the S3 buckets.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Create a customer managed multi-Region KMS key. Create
an S3 bucket in each Region. Configure replication between the S3 buckets. Configure the
application to use the KMS key with client-side encryption.
 37. A company recently launched a variety of new workloads on Amazon 1/1
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?

Use the EC2 serial console to directly access the terminal interface of each
instance for administration.

Attach the appropriate IAM role to each existing instance and new instance.
Use AWS Systems Manager Session Manager to establish a remote SSH
session.

Create an administrative SSH key pair. Load the public key into each EC2 instance.
Deploy a bastion host in a public subnet to provide a tunnel for administration of
each instance.

Establish an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection. Instruct administrators to use their

local on-premises machines to connect directly to the instances by using SSH keys
across the VPN tunnel.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Attach the appropriate IAM role to each existing instance
and new instance. Use AWS Systems Manager Session Manager to establish a remote
SSH session.
 38. A company is hosting a static website on Amazon S3 and is using 1/1
Amazon Route 53 for DNS. The website is experiencing increased demand
from around the world. The company must decrease latency for users who
access the website.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-
effectively?

Replicate the S3 bucket that contains the website to all AWS Regions. Add Route 53
geolocation routing entries.

Provision accelerators in AWS Global Accelerator. Associate the supplied IP

addresses with the S3 bucket. Edit the Route 53 entries to point to the IP addresses
of the accelerators.

Add an Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of the S3 bucket. Edit the Route
53 entries to point to the CloudFront distribution.

Enable S3 Transfer Acceleration on the bucket. Edit the Route 53 entries to point to
the new endpoint.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Add an Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of the S3
bucket. Edit the Route 53 entries to point to the CloudFront distribution.
 39. A company maintains a searchable repository of items on its website. 1/1
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?

Change the storage type to Provisioned IOPS SSD.

Change the DB instance to a memory optimized instance class.

Change the DB instance to a burstable performance instance class.

Enable Multi-AZ RDS read replicas with MySQL native asynchronous replication.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Change the storage type to Provisioned IOPS SSD.
 40. A company has thousands of edge devices that collectively generate 1 1/1
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?

Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to ingest the alerts.
Configure the Kinesis Data Firehose stream to deliver the alerts to an Amazon
S3 bucket. Set up an S3 Lifecycle configuration to transition data to Amazon S3
Glacier after 14 days.

Launch Amazon EC2 instances across two Availability Zones and place them
behind an Elastic Load Balancer to ingest the alerts. Create a script on the EC2
instances that will store the alerts in an Amazon S3 bucket. Set up an S3 Lifecycle
configuration to transition data to Amazon S3 Glacier after 14 days.

Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to ingest the alerts.
Configure the Kinesis Data Firehose stream to deliver the alerts to an Amazon
OpenSearch Service (Amazon Elasticsearch Service) cluster. Set up the Amazon
OpenSearch Service (Amazon Elasticsearch Service) cluster to take manual
snapshots every day and delete data from the cluster that is older than 14 days.

Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) standard queue to ingest
the alerts, and set the message retention period to 14 days. Configure consumers
to poll the SQS queue, check the age of the message, and analyze the message
data as needed. If the message is 14 days old, the consumer should copy the
message to an Amazon S3 bucket and delete the message from the SQS queue.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to
ingest the alerts. Configure the Kinesis Data Firehose stream to deliver the alerts to an
Amazon S3 bucket. Set up an S3 Lifecycle configuration to transition data to Amazon S3
Glacier after 14 days.
 41. A company's application integrates with multiple software-as-a-service 1/1
(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?

Create an Auto Scaling group so that EC2 instances can scale out. Configure an S3
event notification to send events to an Amazon Simple Notification Service
(Amazon SNS) topic when the upload to the S3 bucket is complete.

Create an Amazon AppFlow flow to transfer data between each SaaS source
and the S3 bucket. Configure an S3 event notification to send events to an
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic when the upload to
the S3 bucket is complete.

Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule for each SaaS
source to send output data. Configure the S3 bucket as the rule's target. Create a
second EventBridge (Cloud Watch Events) rule to send events when the upload to
the S3 bucket is complete. Configure an Amazon Simple Notification Service
(Amazon SNS) topic as the second rule's target.

Create a Docker container to use instead of an EC2 instance. Host the

containerized application on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).
Configure Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights to send events to an Amazon
Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic when the upload to the S3 bucket
is complete.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Create an Amazon AppFlow flow to transfer data between
each SaaS source and the S3 bucket. Configure an S3 event notification to send events to
an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic when the upload to the S3
bucket is complete.
 42. A company runs a highly available image-processing application on 1/1
Amazon EC2 instances in a single VPC. The EC2 instances run inside
several subnets across multiple Availability Zones. The EC2 instances do
not communicate with each other. However, the EC2 instances download
images from Amazon S3 and upload images to Amazon S3 through a
single NAT gateway. The company is concerned about data transfer
charges.What is the MOST cost-effective way for the company to avoid
Regional data transfer charges?

Launch the NAT gateway in each Availability Zone.

Replace the NAT gateway with a NAT instance.

Deploy a gateway VPC endpoint for Amazon S3.

Provision an EC2 Dedicated Host to run the EC2 instances.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Deploy a gateway VPC endpoint for Amazon S3.
 43. A company has an on-premises application that generates a large 0/1
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?

Establish AWS VPN connections and proxy all traffic through a VPC gateway
endpoint.

Establish a new AWS Direct Connect connection and direct backup traffic through
this new connection.

Order daily AWS Snowball devices. Load the data onto the Snowball devices and
return the devices to AWS each day.

Submit a support ticket through the AWS Management Console. Request the
removal of S3 service limits from the account.

Correct answer

Establish a new AWS Direct Connect connection and direct backup traffic through
this new connection.

Feedback

Incorrect! The correct answer is: Establish a new AWS Direct Connect connection and
direct backup traffic through this new connection.
 44. A company has an Amazon S3 bucket that contains critical data. The 1/1
company must protect the data from accidental deletion.Which
combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these
requirements? (Choose two.)

Enable versioning on the S3 bucket.

Enable MFA Delete on the S3 bucket.

Create a bucket policy on the S3 bucket.

Enable default encryption on the S3 bucket.

Create a lifecycle policy for the objects in the S3 bucket.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Enable versioning on the S3 bucket.

 45. A company has a data ingestion workflow that consists of the 1/1
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.)

Deploy the Lambda function in multiple Availability Zones.

Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue, and subscribe it
to the SNS topic.

Increase the CPU and memory that are allocated to the Lambda function.

Increase provisioned throughput for the Lambda function.

Modify the Lambda function to read from an Amazon Simple Queue Service
(Amazon SQS) queue.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
queue, and subscribe it to the SNS topic.
 46. A company has an application that provides marketing services to 1/1
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?

Use an Amazon S3 bucket as a secure transfer point. Use Amazon Inspector to

scan the objects in the bucket. If objects contain PII, trigger an S3 Lifecycle policy
to remove the objects that contain PII.

Use an Amazon S3 bucket as a secure transfer point. Use Amazon Macie to

scan the objects in the bucket. If objects contain PII, use Amazon Simple
Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to trigger a notification to the administrators
to remove the objects that contain PII.

Implement custom scanning algorithms in an AWS Lambda function. Trigger the

function when objects are loaded into the bucket. If objects contain PII, use
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to trigger a notification to the
administrators to remove the objects that contain PII.

Implement custom scanning algorithms in an AWS Lambda function. Trigger the

function when objects are loaded into the bucket. If objects contain PII, use
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to trigger a notification to the
administrators and trigger an S3 Lifecycle policy to remove the meats that contain
PII.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Use an Amazon S3 bucket as a secure transfer point. Use
Amazon Macie to scan the objects in the bucket. If objects contain PII, use Amazon
Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to trigger a notification to the administrators to
remove the objects that contain PII.
 47. A company needs guaranteed Amazon EC2 capacity in three specific 1/1
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?

Purchase Reserved Instances that specify the Region needed.

Create an On-Demand Capacity Reservation that specifies the Region needed.

Purchase Reserved Instances that specify the Region and three Availability Zones
needed.

Create an On-Demand Capacity Reservation that specifies the Region and three
Availability Zones needed.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Create an On-Demand Capacity Reservation that specifies
the Region and three Availability Zones needed.
 48. A company's website uses an Amazon EC2 instance store for its 1/1
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?

Move the catalog to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis.

Deploy a larger EC2 instance with a larger instance store.

Move the catalog from the instance store to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

Move the catalog to an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Move the catalog to an Amazon Elastic File System
(Amazon EFS) file system.
 49. A company stores call transcript files on a monthly basis. Users access 1/1
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?

Store individual files with tags in Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval. Query the
tags to retrieve the files from S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval.

Store individual files in Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering. Use S3 Lifecycle policies

to move the files to S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval after 1 year. Query and retrieve
the files that are in Amazon S3 by using Amazon Athena. Query and retrieve the
files that are in S3 Glacier by using S3 Glacier Select.

Store individual files with tags in Amazon S3 Standard storage. Store search
metadata for each archive in Amazon S3 Standard storage. Use S3 Lifecycle
policies to move the files to S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval after 1 year. Query and
retrieve the files by searching for metadata from Amazon S3.

Store individual files in Amazon S3 Standard storage. Use S3 Lifecycle policies to

move the files to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 year. Store search metadata in
Amazon RDS. Query the files from Amazon RDS. Retrieve the files from S3 Glacier
Deep Archive.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Store individual files in Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering. Use
S3 Lifecycle policies to move the files to S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval after 1 year. Query
and retrieve the files that are in Amazon S3 by using Amazon Athena. Query and retrieve
the files that are in S3 Glacier by using S3 Glacier Select.
 50. A company has a production workload that runs on 1,000 Amazon EC2 0/1
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?

Create an AWS Lambda function to apply the patch to all EC2 instances.

Configure AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to apply the patch to all EC2
instances.

Schedule an AWS Systems Manager maintenance window to apply the patch to all
EC2 instances.

Use AWS Systems Manager Run Command to run a custom command that applies
the patch to all EC2 instances.

Correct answer

Use AWS Systems Manager Run Command to run a custom command that applies
the patch to all EC2 instances.

Feedback

Incorrect! The correct answer is: Use AWS Systems Manager Run Command to run a
custom command that applies the patch to all EC2 instances.
 51. A company is developing an application that provides order shipping 1/1
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.)

Configure the application to send the data to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose.

Use Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to format the data and to
send the report by email.

Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) scheduled event that

invokes an AWS Glue job to query the application's API for the data.

Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) scheduled event

that invokes an AWS Lambda function to query the application's API for the
data.

Store the application data in Amazon S3. Create an Amazon Simple Notification
Service (Amazon SNS) topic as an S3 event destination to send the report by email.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Use Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to format
the data and to send the report by email.
 52. A company wants to migrate its on-premises application to AWS. The 1/1
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?

Migrate the application to run as containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service

(Amazon ECS). Use Amazon S3 for storage.

Migrate the application to run as containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

(Amazon EKS). Use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) for storage.

Migrate the application to Amazon EC2 instances in a Multi-AZ Auto Scaling

group. Use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) for storage.

Migrate the application to Amazon EC2 instances in a Multi-AZ Auto Scaling group.
Use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) for storage.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Migrate the application to Amazon EC2 instances in a
Multi-AZ Auto Scaling group. Use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) for storage.
 53. A company needs to store its accounting records in Amazon S3. The 1/1
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?

Store the records in S3 Glacier for the entire 10-year period. Use an access control
policy to deny deletion of the records for a period of 10 years.

Store the records by using S3 Intelligent-Tiering. Use an IAM policy to deny deletion
of the records. After 10 years, change the IAM policy to allow deletion.

Use an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the records from S3 Standard to S3

Glacier Deep Archive after 1 year. Use S3 Object Lock in compliance mode for a
period of 10 years.

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. Use S3 Object Lock in
governance mode for a period of 10 years.

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Correct! The correct answer is: Use an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the records from S3
Standard to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 year. Use S3 Object Lock in compliance mode
for a period of 10 years.
 54. A company runs multiple Windows workloads on AWS. The company's 1/1
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?

Migrate all the data to Amazon S3. Set up IAM authentication for users to access
files.

Set up an Amazon S3 File Gateway. Mount the S3 File Gateway on the existing EC2
instances.

Extend the file share environment to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server with
a Multi-AZ configuration. Migrate all the data to FSx for Windows File Server.

Extend the file share environment to Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
with a Multi-AZ configuration. Migrate all the data to Amazon EFS.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Extend the file share environment to Amazon FSx for
Windows File Server with a Multi-AZ configuration. Migrate all the data to FSx for Windows
File Server.
 55. A solutions architect is developing a VPC architecture that includes 1/1
multiple subnets. The architecture will host applications that use Amazon
EC2 instances and Amazon RDS DB instances. The architecture consists of
six subnets in two Availability Zones. Each Availability Zone includes a
public subnet, a private subnet, and a dedicated subnet for databases. Only
EC2 instances that run in the private subnets can have access to the RDS
databases.Which solution will meet these requirements?

Create a new route table that excludes the route to the public subnets' CIDR blocks.
Associate the route table with the database subnets.

Create a security group that denies inbound traffic from the security group that is
assigned to instances in the public subnets. Attach the security group to the DB
instances.

Create a security group that allows inbound traffic from the security group that
is assigned to instances in the private subnets. Attach the security group to the
DB instances.

Create a new peering connection between the public subnets and the private
subnets. Create a different peering connection between the private subnets and the
database subnets.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Create a security group that allows inbound traffic from the
security group that is assigned to instances in the private subnets. Attach the security
group to the DB instances.
 56. A company has registered its domain name with Amazon Route 53. 0/1
The company uses Amazon API Gateway in the ca-central-1 Region as a
public interface for its backend microservice APIs. Third-party services
consume the APIs securely. The company wants to design its API Gateway
URL with the company's domain name and corresponding certificate so
that the third-party services can use HTTPS.Which solution will meet these
requirements?

Create stage variables in API Gateway with Name="Endpoint-URL" and

Value="Company Domain Name" to overwrite the default URL. Import the public
certificate associated with the company's domain name into AWS Certificate
Manager (ACM).

Create Route 53 DNS records with the company's domain name. Point the alias
record to the Regional API Gateway stage endpoint. Import the public certificate
associated with the company's domain name into AWS Certificate Manager
(ACM) in the us-east-1 Region.

Create a Regional API Gateway endpoint. Associate the API Gateway endpoint with
the company's domain name. Import the public certificate associated with the
company's domain name into AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) in the same Region.
Attach the certificate to the API Gateway endpoint. Configure Route 53 to route
traffic to the API Gateway endpoint.

Create a Regional API Gateway endpoint. Associate the API Gateway endpoint with
the company's domain name. Import the public certificate associated with the
company's domain name into AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) in the us-east-1
Region. Attach the certificate to the API Gateway APIs. Create Route 53 DNS
records with the company's domain name. Point an A record to the company's
domain name.

Correct answer

Create a Regional API Gateway endpoint. Associate the API Gateway endpoint with
the company's domain name. Import the public certificate associated with the
company's domain name into AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) in the same Region.
Attach the certificate to the API Gateway endpoint. Configure Route 53 to route
traffic to the API Gateway endpoint.

Feedback

Incorrect! The correct answer is: Create a Regional API Gateway endpoint. Associate the
API Gateway endpoint with the company's domain name. Import the public certificate
associated with the company's domain name into AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) in the
same Region. Attach the certificate to the API Gateway endpoint. Configure Route 53 to
route traffic to the API Gateway endpoint.

57. A company is running a popular social media website. The website 1/1
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?

Use Amazon Comprehend to detect inappropriate content. Use human review for
low-confidence predictions.

Use Amazon Rekognition to detect inappropriate content. Use human review for
low-confidence predictions.

Use Amazon SageMaker to detect inappropriate content. Use ground truth to label
low-confidence predictions.

Use AWS Fargate to deploy a custom machine learning model to detect

inappropriate content. Use ground truth to label low-confidence predictions.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Use Amazon Rekognition to detect inappropriate content.
Use human review for low-confidence predictions.
 58. A company wants to run its critical applications in containers to meet 1/1
requirements for scalability and availability. The company prefers to focus
on maintenance of the critical applications. The company does not want to
be responsible for provisioning and managing the underlying infrastructure
that runs the containerized workload.What should a solutions architect do
to meet these requirements?

Use Amazon EC2 instances, and install Docker on the instances.

Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on Amazon EC2 worker
nodes.

Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate.

Use Amazon EC2 instances from an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon
ECS)-optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI).

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on
AWS Fargate.
 59. A company hosts more than 300 global websites and applications. The 1/1
company requires a platform to analyze more than 30 TB of clickstream
data each day.What should a solutions architect do to transmit and
process the clickstream data?

Design an AWS Data Pipeline to archive the data to an Amazon S3 bucket and run
an Amazon EMR cluster with the data to generate analytics.

Create an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances to process the data and
send it to an Amazon S3 data lake for Amazon Redshift to use for analysis.

Cache the data to Amazon CloudFront. Store the data in an Amazon S3 bucket.
When an object is added to the S3 bucket. run an AWS Lambda function to process
the data for analysis.

Collect the data from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Use Amazon Kinesis Data
Firehose to transmit the data to an Amazon S3 data lake. Load the data in
Amazon Redshift for analysis.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Collect the data from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Use
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to transmit the data to an Amazon S3 data lake. Load the
data in Amazon Redshift for analysis.
 60. A company has a website hosted on AWS. The website is behind an 1/1
Application Load Balancer (ALB) that is configured to handle HTTP and
HTTPS separately. The company wants to forward all requests to the
website so that the requests will use HTTPS.What should a solutions
architect do to meet this requirement?

Update the ALB's network ACL to accept only HTTPS traffic.

Create a rule that replaces the HTTP in the URL with HTTPS.

Create a listener rule on the ALB to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS.

Replace the ALB with a Network Load Balancer configured to use Server Name
Indication (SNI).

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Create a listener rule on the ALB to redirect HTTP traffic to
HTTPS.
 61. A company is developing a two-tier web application on AWS. The 1/1
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?

Store the database credentials in the instance metadata. Use Amazon EventBridge
(Amazon CloudWatch Events) rules to run a scheduled AWS Lambda function that
updates the RDS credentials and instance metadata at the same time.

Store the database credentials in a configuration file in an encrypted Amazon S3

bucket. Use Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rules to run a
scheduled AWS Lambda function that updates the RDS credentials and the
credentials in the configuration file at the same time. Use S3 Versioning to ensure
the ability to fall back to previous values.

Store the database credentials as a secret in AWS Secrets Manager. Turn on

automatic rotation for the secret. Attach the required permission to the EC2 role
to grant access to the secret.

Store the database credentials as encrypted parameters in AWS Systems Manager

Parameter Store. Turn on automatic rotation for the encrypted parameters. Attach
the required permission to the EC2 role to grant access to the encrypted
parameters.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Store the database credentials as a secret in AWS Secrets
Manager. Turn on automatic rotation for the secret. Attach the required permission to the
EC2 role to grant access to the secret.
 62. A company is deploying a new public web application to AWS. The 1/1
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?

Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to issue an SSL/TLS certificate. Apply the
certificate to the ALB. Use the managed renewal feature to automatically rotate the
certificate.

Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to issue an SSL/TLS certificate. Import the key
material from the certificate. Apply the certificate to the ALUse the managed
renewal feature to automatically rotate the certificate.

Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority to issue an

SSL/TLS certificate from the root CA. Apply the certificate to the ALB. Use the
managed renewal feature to automatically rotate the certificate.

Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to import an SSL/TLS certificate. Apply the
certificate to the ALB. Use Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events)
to send a notification when the certificate is nearing expiration. Rotate the
certificate manually.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to import an SSL/TLS
certificate. Apply the certificate to the ALB. Use Amazon EventBridge (Amazon
CloudWatch Events) to send a notification when the certificate is nearing expiration.
Rotate the certificate manually.
 63. A company runs its infrastructure on AWS and has a registered base of 1/1
700,000 users for its document management application. The company
intends to create a product that converts large .pdf files to .jpg image files.
The .pdf files average 5 MB in size. The company needs to store the
original files and the converted files. A solutions architect must design a
scalable solution to accommodate demand that will grow rapidly over
time.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Save the .pdf files to Amazon S3. Configure an S3 PUT event to invoke an AWS
Lambda function to convert the files to .jpg format and store them back in
Amazon S3.

Save the .pdf files to Amazon DynamoDUse the DynamoDB Streams feature to
invoke an AWS Lambda function to convert the files to .jpg format and store them
back in DynamoDB.

Upload the .pdf files to an AWS Elastic Beanstalk application that includes Amazon
EC2 instances, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage, and an Auto
Scaling group. Use a program in the EC2 instances to convert the files to .jpg
format. Save the .pdf files and the .jpg files in the EBS store.

Upload the .pdf files to an AWS Elastic Beanstalk application that includes Amazon
EC2 instances, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) storage, and an Auto
Scaling group. Use a program in the EC2 instances to convert the file to .jpg format.
Save the .pdf files and the .jpg files in the EBS store.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Save the .pdf files to Amazon S3. Configure an S3 PUT
event to invoke an AWS Lambda function to convert the files to .jpg format and store them
back in Amazon S3.
 64. A company has more than 5 TB of file data on Windows file servers that1/1
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?

Deploy and configure Amazon FSx for Windows File Server on AWS. Move the on-
premises file data to FSx for Windows File Server. Reconfigure the workloads to use
FSx for Windows File Server on AWS.

Deploy and configure an Amazon S3 File Gateway on premises. Move the on-
premises file data to the S3 File Gateway. Reconfigure the on-premises workloads
and the cloud workloads to use the S3 File Gateway.

Deploy and configure an Amazon S3 File Gateway on premises. Move the on-
premises file data to Amazon S3. Reconfigure the workloads to use either Amazon
S3 directly or the S3 File Gateway. depending on each workload's location.

Deploy and configure Amazon FSx for Windows File Server on AWS. Deploy and
configure an Amazon FSx File Gateway on premises. Move the on-premises file
data to the FSx File Gateway. Configure the cloud workloads to use FSx for
Windows File Server on AWS. Configure the on-premises workloads to use the
FSx File Gateway.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Deploy and configure Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
on AWS. Deploy and configure an Amazon FSx File Gateway on premises. Move the on-
premises file data to the FSx File Gateway. Configure the cloud workloads to use FSx for
Windows File Server on AWS. Configure the on-premises workloads to use the FSx File
Gateway.
 65. A hospital recently deployed a RESTful API with Amazon API Gateway 1/1
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?

Use existing Python libraries to extract the text from the reports and to identify the
PHI from the extracted text.

Use Amazon Textract to extract the text from the reports. Use Amazon SageMaker
to identify the PHI from the extracted text.

Use Amazon Textract to extract the text from the reports. Use Amazon
Comprehend Medical to identify the PHI from the extracted text.

Use Amazon Rekognition to extract the text from the reports. Use Amazon
Comprehend Medical to identify the PHI from the extracted text.

Feedback

Correct! The correct answer is: Use Amazon Textract to extract the text from the reports.
Use Amazon Comprehend Medical to identify the PHI from the extracted text.

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