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Questions # 161:

A company deploys its applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) behind an Application Load Balancer in an AWS Region. The application needs to store data in a PostgreSQL database engine. The company wants the data in the database to be highly available. The company also needs increased capacity for read workloads.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?

Options:

A.

Create an Amazon DynamoDB database table configured with global tables.

B.

Create an Amazon RDS database with Multi-AZ deployments

C.

Create an Amazon RDS database with Multi-AZ DB cluster deployment.

D.

Create an Amazon RDS database configured with cross-Region read replicas.

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Questions # 162:

A company runs a production application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The application reads the data from an Amazon SQS queue and processes the messages in parallel. The message volume is unpredictable and often has intermittent traffic. This application should continually process messages without any downtime.

Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Options:

A.

Use Spot Instances exclusively to handle the maximum capacity required.

B.

Use Reserved Instances exclusively to handle the maximum capacity required.

C.

Use Reserved Instances for the baseline capacity and use Spot Instances to handle additional capacity.

D.

Use Reserved Instances for the baseline capacity and use On-Demand Instances to handle additional capacity.

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Questions # 163:

A solutions architect must design a solution that uses Amazon CloudFront with an Amazon S3 origin to store a static website. The company's security policy requires that all website traffic be inspected by AWS WAR

How should the solutions architect comply with these requirements?

Options:

A.

Configure an S3 bucket policy lo accept requests coming from the AWS WAF Amazon Resource Name (ARN) only.

B.

Configure Amazon CloudFront to forward all incoming requests to AWS WAF before requesting content from the S3 origin.

C.

Configure a security group that allows Amazon CloudFront IP addresses to access Amazon S3 only. Associate AWS WAF to CloudFront.

D.

Configure Amazon CloudFront and Amazon S3 to use an origin access identity (OAI) to restrict access to the S3 bucket. Enable AWS WAF on the distribution.

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Questions # 164:

A hospital is designing a new application that gathers symptoms from patients. The hospital has decided to use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) in the architecture.

A solutions architect is reviewing the infrastructure design Data must be encrypted at test and in transit. Only authorized personnel of the hospital should be able to access the data.

Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Options:

A.

Turn on server-side encryption on the SQS components Update tie default key policy to restrict key usage to a set of authorized principals.

B.

Turn on server-side encryption on the SNS components by using an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key Apply a key policy to restrict key usage to a set of authorized principals.

C.

Turn on encryption on the SNS components Update the default key policy to restrict key usage to a set of authorized principals. Set a condition in the topic pokey to allow only encrypted connections over TLS.

D.

Turn on server-side encryption on the SOS components by using an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key Apply a key pokey to restrict key usage to a set of authorized principals. Set a condition in the queue pokey to allow only encrypted connections over TLS.

E.

Turn on server-side encryption on the SOS components by using an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key. Apply an IAM pokey to restrict key usage to a set of authorized principals. Set a condition in the queue pokey to allow only encrypted connections over TLS

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Questions # 165:

A company runs workloads on AWS. The company needs to connect to a service from an external provider. The service is hosted in the provider's VPC. According to the company’s security team, the connectivity must be private and must be restricted to the target service. The connection must be initiated only from the company’s VPC.

Which solution will mast these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create a VPC peering connection between the company's VPC and the provider's VPC. Update the route table to connect to the target service.

B.

Ask the provider to create a virtual private gateway in its VPC. Use AWS PrivateLink to connect to the target service.

C.

Create a NAT gateway in a public subnet of the company's VPC. Update the route table to connect to the target service.

D.

Ask the provider to create a VPC endpoint for the target service. Use AWS PrivateLink to connect to the target service.

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Questions # 166:

A security team wants to limit access to specific services or actions in all of the team's AWS accounts. All accounts belong to a large organization in AWS Organizations. The solution must be scalable and there must be a single point where permissions can be maintained.

What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Options:

A.

Create an ACL to provide access to the services or actions.

B.

Create a security group to allow accounts and attach it to user groups.

C.

Create cross-account roles in each account to deny access to the services or actions.

D.

Create a service control policy in the root organizational unit to deny access to the services or actions.

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Questions # 167:

A company uses a three-tier web application to provide training to new employees. The application is accessed for only 12 hours every day. The company is using an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance to store information and wants to minimize costs.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Configure an IAM policy for AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. Create an IAM role for the policy. Update the trust relationship of the role. Set up automatic start and stop for the DB instance.

B.

Create an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis cache cluster that gives users the ability to access the data from the cache when the DB instance is stopped. Invalidate the cache after the DB instance is started.

C.

Launch an Amazon EC2 instance. Create an IAM role that grants access to Amazon RDS. Attach the role to the EC2 instance. Configure a cron job to start and stop the EC2 instance on the desired schedule.

D.

Create AWS Lambda functions to start and stop the DB instance. Create Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) scheduled rules to invoke the Lambda functions. Configure the Lambda functions as event targets for the rules

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Questions # 168:

A solutions architect needs to host a high performance computing (HPC) workload in the AWS Cloud. The workload will run on hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances and will require parallel access to a shared file system to enable distributed processing of large datasets. Datasets will be accessed across multiple instances simultaneously. The workload requires access latency within 1 ms. After processing has completed, engineers will need access to the dataset for manual postprocessing.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) as a shared fie system. Access the dataset from Amazon EFS.

B.

Mount an Amazon S3 bucket to serve as the shared file system. Perform postprocessing directly from the S3 bucket.

C.

Use Amazon FSx for Lustre as a shared file system. Link the file system to an Amazon S3 bucket for postprocessing.

D.

Configure AWS Resource Access Manager to share an Amazon S3 bucket so that it can be mounted to all instances for processing and postprocessing.

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Questions # 169:

A company's web application is running on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The company recently changed its policy, which now requires the application to be accessed from one specific country only.

Which configuration will meet this requirement?

Options:

A.

Configure the security group for the EC2 instances.

B.

Configure the security group on the Application Load Balancer.

C.

Configure AWS WAF on the Application Load Balancer in a VPC.

D.

Configure the network ACL for the subnet that contains the EC2 instances.

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Questions # 170:

A company is migrating an application from on-premises servers to Amazon EC2 instances. As part of the migration design requirements, a solutions architect must implement infrastructure metric alarms. The company does not need to take action if CPU utilization increases to more than 50% for a short burst of time. However, if the CPU utilization increases to more than 50% and read IOPS on the disk are high at the same time, the company needs to act as soon as possible. The solutions architect also must reduce false alarms.

What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create Amazon CloudWatch composite alarms where possible.

B.

Create Amazon CloudWatch dashboards to visualize the metrics and react to issues quickly.

C.

Create Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics canaries to monitor the application and raise an alarm.

D.

Create single Amazon CloudWatch metric alarms with multiple metric thresholds where possible.

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Questions # 171:

A corporation has recruited a new cloud engineer who should not have access to the CompanyConfidential Amazon S3 bucket. The cloud engineer must have read and write permissions on an S3 bucket named AdminTools.

Which IAM policy will satisfy these criteria?

Options:

A.
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Questions # 172:

A solutions architect is optimizing a website for an upcoming musical event. Videos of the performances will be streamed in real time and then will be available on demand. The event is expected to attract a global online audience.

Which service will improve the performance of both the real-lime and on-demand streaming?

Options:

A.

Amazon CloudFront

B.

AWS Global Accelerator

C.

Amazon Route 53

D.

Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

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Questions # 173:

A company needs to save the results from a medical trial to an Amazon S3 repository. The repository must allow a few scientists to add new files and must restrict all other users to read-only access. No users can have the ability to modify or delete any files in the repository. The company must keep every file in the repository for a minimum of 1 year after its creation date.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use S3 Object Lock In governance mode with a legal hold of 1 year

B.

Use S3 Object Lock in compliance mode with a retention period of 365 days.

C.

Use an IAM role to restrict all users from deleting or changing objects in the S3 bucket Use an S3 bucket policy to only allow the IAM role

D.

Configure the S3 bucket to invoke an AWS Lambda function every tune an object is added Configure the function to track the hash of the saved object to that modified objects can be marked accordingly

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Questions # 174:

Organizers for a global event want to put daily reports online as static HTML pages. The pages are expected to generate millions of views from users around the world. The files are stored In an Amazon S3 bucket. A solutions architect has been asked to design an efficient and effective solution.

Which action should the solutions architect take to accomplish this?

Options:

A.

Generate presigned URLs for the files.

B.

Use cross-Region replication to all Regions.

C.

Use the geoproximtty feature of Amazon Route 53.

D.

Use Amazon CloudFront with the S3 bucket as its origin.

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Questions # 175:

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?

Options:

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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Questions # 176:

A company has an AWS account used for software engineering. The AWS account has access to the company's on-premises data center through a pair of AWS Direct Connect connections. All non-VPC traffic routes to the virtual private gateway.

A development team recently created an AWS Lambda function through the console. The development team needs to allow the function to access a database that runs in a private subnet in the company's data center.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Configure the Lambda function to run in the VPC with the appropriate security group.

B.

Set up a VPN connection from AWS to the data center. Route the traffic from the Lambda function through the VPN.

C.

Update the route tables in the VPC to allow the Lambda function to access the on-premises data center through Direct Connect.

D.

Create an Elastic IP address. Configure the Lambda function to send traffic through the Elastic IP address without an elastic network interface.

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Questions # 177:

A gaming company hosts a browser-based application on AWS. The users of the application consume a large number of videos and images that are stored in Amazon S3. This content is the same for all users.

The application has increased in popularity, and millions of users worldwide are accessing these media files. The company wants to provide the files to the users while reducing the load on the origin.

Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Options:

A.

Deploy an AWS Global Accelerator accelerator in front of the web servers.

B.

Deploy an Amazon CloudFront web distribution in front of the S3 bucket.

C.

Deploy an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis instance in front of the web servers.

D.

Deploy an Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached instance in front of the web servers.

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Questions # 178:

A new employee has joined a company as a deployment engineer. The deployment engineer will be using AWS CloudFormation templates to create multiple AWS resources. A solutions architect wants the deployment engineer to perform job activities while following the principle of least privilege.

Which steps should the solutions architect do in conjunction to reach this goal? (Select two.)

Options:

A.

Have the deployment engineer use AWS account roof user credentials for performing AWS CloudFormation stack operations.

B.

Create a new IAM user for the deployment engineer and add the IAM user to a group that has the PowerUsers IAM policy attached.

C.

Create a new IAM user for the deployment engineer and add the IAM user to a group that has the Administrate/Access IAM policy attached.

D.

Create a new IAM User for the deployment engineer and add the IAM user to a group that has an IAM policy that allows AWS CloudFormation actions only.

E.

Create an IAM role for the deployment engineer to explicitly define the permissions specific to the AWS CloudFormation stack and launch stacks using Dial IAM role.

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Questions # 179:

A large media company hosts a web application on AWS. The company wants to start caching confidential media files so that users around the world will have reliable access to the files. The content is stored in Amazon S3 buckets. The company must deliver the content quickly, regardless of where the requests originate geographically.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Use AWS DataSync to connect the S3 buckets to the web application.

B.

Deploy AWS Global Accelerator to connect the S3 buckets to the web application.

C.

Deploy Amazon CloudFront to connect the S3 buckets to CloudFront edge servers.

D.

Use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to connect the S3 buckets to the web application.

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Questions # 180:

A company has a legacy data processing application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. Data is processed sequentially, but the order of results does not matter. The application uses a monolithic architecture. The only way that the company can scale the application to meet increased demand is to increase the size of the instances.

The company's developers have decided to rewrite the application to use a microservices architecture on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).

What should a solutions architect recommend for communication between the microservices?

Options:

A.

Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. Add code to the data producers, and send data to the queue. Add code to the data consumers to process data from the queue.

B.

Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. Add code to the data producers, and publish notifications to the topic. Add code to the data consumers to subscribe to the topic.

C.

Create an AWS Lambda function to pass messages. Add code to the data producers to call the Lambda function with a data object. Add code to the data consumers to receive a data object that is passed from the Lambda function.

D.

Create an Amazon DynamoDB table. Enable DynamoDB Streams. Add code to the data producers to insert data into the table. Add code to the data consumers to use the DynamoDB Streams API to detect new table entries and retrieve the data.

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