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Question # 4

A delivery company needs to migrate its third-party route planning application to AWS. The third party supplies a supported Docker image from a public registry. The image can run in as many containers as required to generate the route map.

The company has divided the delivery area into sections with supply hubs so that delivery drivers travel the shortest distance possible from the hubs to the customers. To reduce the time necessary to generate route maps, each section uses its own set of Docker containers with a custom configuration that processes orders only in the section's area.

The company needs the ability to allocate resources cost-effectively based on the number of running containers.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A.

Create an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster on Amazon EC2. Use the Amazon EKS CLI to launch the planning application in pods by using the -tags option to assign a custom tag to the pod.

B.

Create an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster on AWS Fargate. Use the Amazon EKS CLI to launch the planning application. Use the AWS CLI tag-resource API call to assign a custom tag to the pod.

C.

Create an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster on Amazon EC2. Use the AWS CLI with run-tasks set to true to launch the planning application by using the -tags option to assign a custom tag to the task.

D.

Create an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster on AWS Fargate. Use the AWS CLI run-task command and set enableECSManagedTags to true to launch the planning application. Use the --tags option to assign a custom tag to the task.

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Question # 5

A weather service provides high-resolution weather maps from a web application hosted on AWS in the eu-west-1 Region. The weather maps are updated frequently and stored in Amazon S3 along with static HTML content. The web application is fronted by Amazon CloudFront.

The company recently expanded to serve users in the us-east-1 Region, and these new users report that viewing their respective weather maps is slow from time to time.

Which combination of steps will resolve the us-east-1 performance issues? (Choose two.)

A.

Configure the AWS Global Accelerator endpoint for the S3 bucket in eu-west-1. Configure endpoint groups for TCP ports 80 and 443 in us-east-1.

B.

Create a new S3 bucket in us-east-1. Configure S3 cross-Region replication to synchronize from the S3 bucket in eu-west-1.

C.

Use Lambda@Edge to modify requests from North America to use the S3 Transfer Acceleration endpoint in us-east-1.

D.

Use Lambda@Edge to modify requests from North America to use the S3 bucket in us-east-1.

E.

Configure the AWS Global Accelerator endpoint for us-east-1 as an origin on the CloudFront distribution. Use Lambda@Edge to modify requests from North America to use the new origin.

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Question # 6

An adventure company has launched a new feature on its mobile app. Users can use the feature to upload their hiking and ratting photos and videos anytime. The photos and videos are stored in Amazon S3 Standard storage in an S3 bucket and are served through Amazon CloudFront.

The company needs to optimize the cost of the storage. A solutions architect discovers that most of the uploaded photos and videos are accessed infrequently after 30 days. However, some of the uploaded photos and videos are accessed frequently after 30 days. The solutions architect needs to implement a solution that maintains millisecond retrieval availability of the photos and videos at the lowest possible cost.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Configure S3 Intelligent-Tiering on the S3 bucket.

B.

Configure an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition image objects and video objects from S3 Standard to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 30 days.

C.

Replace Amazon S3 with an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system that is mounted on Amazon EC2 instances.

D.

Add a Cache-Control: max-age header to the S3 image objects and S3 video objects. Set the header to 30 days.

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Question # 7

A company has an asynchronous HTTP application that is hosted as an AWS Lambda function. A public Amazon API Gateway endpoint invokes the Lambda function. The Lambda function and the API Gateway endpoint reside in the us-east-1 Region. A solutions architect needs to redesign the application to support failover to another AWS Region.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Create an API Gateway endpoint in the us-west-2 Region to direct traffic to the Lambda function in us-east-1. Configure Amazon Route 53 to use a failover routing policy to route traffic for the two API Gateway endpoints.

B.

Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. Configure API Gateway to direct traffic to the SQS queue instead of to the Lambda function. Configure the Lambda function to pull messages from the queue for processing.

C.

Deploy the Lambda function to the us-west-2 Region. Create an API Gateway endpoint in us-west-2 to direct traffic to the Lambda function in us-west-2. Configure AWS Global Accelerator and an Application Load Balancer to manage traffic across the two API Gateway endpoints.

D.

Deploy the Lambda function and an API Gateway endpoint to the us-west-2 Region. Configure Amazon Route 53 to use a failover routing policy to route traffic for the two API Gateway endpoints.

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Question # 8

A company runs a new application as a static website in Amazon S3. The company has deployed the application to a production AWS account and uses Amazon CloudFront to deliver the website. The website calls an Amazon API Gateway REST API. An AWS Lambda function backs each API method.

The company wants to create a CSV report every 2 weeks to show each API Lambda function’s recommended configured memory, recommended cost, and the price difference between current configurations and the recommendations. The company will store the reports in an S3 bucket.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development time?

A.

Create a Lambda function that extracts metrics data for each API Lambda function from Amazon CloudWatch Logs for the 2-week penod_ Collate the data into tabular format. Store the data as a _csvfile in an S3 bucket. Create an Amazon Eventaridge rule to schedulethe Lambda function to run every 2 weeks.

B.

Opt in to AWS Compute Optimizer. Create a Lambda function that calls the ExportLambdaFunctionRecommendatlons operation. Export the _csv file to an S3 bucket. Create an Amazon Eventaridge rule to schedule the Lambda function to run every 2 weeks.

C.

Opt in to AWS Compute Optimizer. Set up enhanced infrastructure metrics. Within the Compute Optimizer console, schedule a job to export the Lambda recommendations to a _csvfile_ Store the file in an S3 bucket every 2 weeks.

D.

Purchase the AWS Business Support plan for the production account. Opt in to AWS Compute Optimizer for AWS Trusted Advisor checks. In the Trusted Advisor console, schedule a job to export the cost optimization checks to a _csvfile_ Store the file in an S3 bucket every 2 weeks.

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Question # 9

A company is running several workloads in a single AWS account. A new company policy states that engineers can provision only approved resources and that engineers must use AWS CloudFormation to provision these resources. A solutions architect needs to create a solution to enforce the new restriction on the IAM role that the engineers use for access.

What should the solutions architect do to create the solution?

A.

Upload AWS CloudFormation templates that contain approved resources to an Amazon S3 bucket. Update the IAM policy for the engineers' IAM role to only allow access to Amazon S3 and AWS CloudFormation. Use AWS CloudFormation templates to provision resources.

B.

Update the IAM policy for the engineers' IAM role with permissions to only allow provisioning of approved resources and AWS CloudFormation. Use AWS CloudFormation templates to create stacks with approved resources.

C.

Update the IAM policy for the engineers' IAM role with permissions to only allow AWS CloudFormation actions. Create a new IAM policy with permission to provision approved resources, and assign the policy to a new IAM service role. Assign the IAM service role to AWS CloudFormation during stack creation.

D.

Provision resources in AWS CloudFormation stacks. Update the IAM policy for the engineers' IAM role to only allow access to their own AWS CloudFormation stack.

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Question # 10

A company has an organization in AWS Organizations. The company is using AWS Control Tower to deploy a landing zone for the organization. The company wants to implement governance and policy enforcement. The company must implement a policy that will detect Amazon RDS DB instances that are not encrypted at rest in the company’s production OU.

Which solution will meet this requirement?

A.

Turn on mandatory guardrails in AWS Control Tower. Apply the mandatory guardrails to the production OU.

B.

Enable the appropriate guardrail from the list of strongly recommended guardrails in AWS Control Tower. Apply the guardrail to the production OU.

C.

Use AWS Config to create a new mandatory guardrail. Apply the rule to all accounts in the production OU.

D.

Create a custom SCP in AWS Control Tower. Apply the SCP to the production OU.

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Question # 11

A company is refactoring its on-premises order-processing platform in the AWS Cloud. The platform includes a web front end that is hosted on a fleet of VMs RabbitMQ to connect the front end to the backend, and a Kubernetes cluster to run a containerized backend system to process the orders. The company does not want to make any major changes to the application

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A.

Create an AMI of the web server VM Create an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group that uses the AMI and an Application Load Balancer Set up Amazon MQ to replace the on-premises messaging queue Configure Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to host the order-processing backend

B.

Create a custom AWS Lambda runtime to mimic the web server environment Create an Amazon API Gateway API to replace the front-end web servers Set up Amazon MQ to replace the on-premises messaging queue Configure Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to host the order-processing backend

C.

Create an AMI of the web server VM Create an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group that uses the AMI and an Application Load Balancer Set up Amazon MQ to replace the on-premises messaging queue Install Kubernetes on a fleet of different EC2 instances to host the order-processing backend

D.

Create an AMI of the web server VM Create an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group that uses the AMI and an Application Load Balancer Set up an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue to replace the on-premises messaging queue Configure Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to host the order-processing backend

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Question # 12

A company uses AWS Organizations for a multi-account setup in the AWS Cloud. The company uses AWS Control Tower for governance and uses AWS Transit Gateway for VPC connectivityacross accounts.

In an AWS application account, the company's application team has deployed a web application that uses AWS Lambda and Amazon RDS. The company's database administrators have a separate DBA account and use the account to centrally manage all the databases across the organization. The database administrators use an Amazon EC2 instance that is deployed in the DBA account to access an RDS database that is deployed in the application account.

The application team has stored the database credentials as secrets in AWS Secrets Manager in the application account. The application team is manually sharing the secrets with the database administrators. The secrets are encrypted by the default AWS managed key for Secrets Manager in the application account. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that gives the database administrators access to the database and eliminates the need to manually share the secrets.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) to share the secrets from the application account with the DBA account. In the DBA account, create an IAM role that is named DBA-Admin. Grant the role the required permissions to access the shared secrets. Attach the DBA-Admin role to the EC2 instance for access to the cross-account secrets.

B.

In the application account, create an IAM role that is named DBA-Secret. Grant the role the required permissions to access the secrets. In the DBA account, create an IAM role that is named DBA-Admin. Grant the DBA-Admin role the required permissions to assume the DBA-Secret role in the application account. Attach the DBA-Admin role to the EC2 instance for access to the cross-account secrets.

C.

In the DBA account, create an IAM role that is named DBA-Admin. Grant the role the required permissions to access the secrets and the default AWS managed key in the application account. In the application account, attach resource-based policies to the key to allow access from the DBA account. Attach the DBA-Admin role to the EC2 instance for access to the cross-account secrets.

D.

In the DBA account, create an IAM role that is named DBA-Admin. Grant the role the required permissions to access the secrets in the application account. Attach an SCP to the application account to allow access to the secrets from the DBA account. Attach the DBA-Admin role to the EC2 instance for access to the cross-account secrets.

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Question # 13

An international delivery company hosts a delivery management system on AWS. Drivers use the system to upload confirmation of delivery. Confirmation includes the recipient's signature or a photo of the package with the recipient. The driver's handheld device uploads signatures and photos through FTP to a single Amazon EC2 instance. Each handheld device saves a file in a directory based on the signed-in user, and the file name matches the delivery number. The EC2 instance then adds metadata to the file after querying a central database to pull delivery information. The file is then placed in Amazon S3 for archiving.

As the company expands, drivers report that the system is rejecting connections. The FTP server is having problems because of dropped connections and memory issues. In response to these problems, a system engineer schedules a cron task to reboot the EC2 instance every 30 minutes. The billing team reports that files are not always in the archive and that the central system is not always updated.

A solutions architect needs to design a solution that maximizes scalability to ensure that the archive always receives the files and that systems are always updated. The handheld devices cannot be modified, so the company cannot deploy a new application.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Create an AMI of the existing EC2 instance. Create an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. Configure the Auto Scaling group to have a minimum of three instances.

B.

Use AWS Transfer Family to create an FTP server that places the files in Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). Mount the EFS volume to the existing EC2 instance. Point the EC2 instance to the new path for file processing.

C.

Use AWS Transfer Family to create an FTP server that places the files in Amazon S3. Use an S3 event notification through Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to invoke an AWS Lambda function. Configure the Lambda function to add the metadata and update the delivery system.

D.

Update the handheld devices to place the files directly in Amazon S3. Use an S3 eventnotification through Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to invoke an AWS Lambda function. Configure the Lambda function to add the metadata and update the delivery system.

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Question # 14

A video processing company has an application that downloads images from an Amazon S3 bucket, processes the images, stores a transformed image in a second S3 bucket, and updates metadata about the image in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The application is written in Node.js and runs by using an AWS Lambda function. The Lambda function is invoked when a new image is uploaded to Amazon S3.

The application ran without incident for a while. However, the size of the images has grown significantly. The Lambda function is now failing frequently with timeout errors. The function timeout is set to its maximum value. A solutions architect needs to refactor the application’s architecture to prevent invocation failures. The company does not want to manage the underlying infrastructure.

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

A.

Modify the application deployment by building a Docker image that contains the application code. Publish the image to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR).

B.

Create a new Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) task definition with a compatibility type of AWS Fargate. Configure the task definition to use the new image in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). Adjust the Lambda function to invoke an ECS task by using the ECS task definition when a new file arrives in Amazon S3.

C.

Create an AWS Step Functions state machine with a Parallel state to invoke the Lambda function. Increase the provisioned concurrency of the Lambda function.

D.

Create a new Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) task definition with a compatibility type of Amazon EC2. Configure the task definition to use the new image in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). Adjust the Lambda function to invoke an ECS task by using the ECS task definition when a new file arrives in Amazon S3.

E.

Modify the application to store images on Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) and to store metadata on an Amazon RDS DB instance. Adjust the Lambda function to mount the EFS file share.

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Question # 15

A company wants to use a third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. The third-party SaaS application is consumed through several API calls. The third-party SaaS application also runs on AWS inside a VPC.

The company will consume the third-party SaaS application from inside a VPC. The company has internal security policies that mandate the use of private connectivity that does not traverse the internet. No resources that run in the company VPC are allowed to be accessed from outside the company’s VPC. All permissions must conform to the principles of least privilege.

Which solution meets these requirements?

A.

Create an AWS PrivateLink interface VPC endpoint. Connect this endpoint to the endpoint service that the third-party SaaS application provides. Create a security group to limit the access to the endpoint. Associate the security group with the endpoint.

B.

Create an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection between the third-party SaaS application and thecompany VPC. Configure network ACLs to limit access across the VPN tunnels.

C.

Create a VPC peering connection between the third-party SaaS application and the company VPUpdate route tables by adding the needed routes for the peering connection.

D.

Create an AWS PrivateLink endpoint service. Ask the third-party SaaS provider to create an interface VPC endpoint for this endpoint service. Grant permissions for the endpoint service to the specific account of the third-party SaaS provider.

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Question # 16

A solutions architect has developed a web application that uses an Amazon API Gateway Regional endpoint and an AWS Lambda function. The consumers of the web application are all close to the AWS Region where the application will be deployed. The Lambda function only queries an Amazon Aurora MySQL database. The solutions architect has configured the database to have three read replicas.

During testing, the application does not meet performance requirements. Under high load, the application opens a large number of database connections. The solutions architect must improve the application's performance.

Which actions should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A.

Use the cluster endpoint of the Aurora database.

B.

Use RDS Proxy to set up a connection pool to the reader endpoint of the Aurora database.

C.

Use the Lambda Provisioned Concurrency feature.

D.

Move the code for opening the database connection in the Lambda function outside of the event handler.

E.

Change the API Gateway endpoint to an edge-optimized endpoint.

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Question # 17

A video streaming company recently launched a mobile app for video sharing. The app uploads various files to an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region. The files range in size from 1 GB to 10 GB.

Users who access the app from Australia have experienced uploads that take long periods of time Sometimes the files fail to completely upload for these users . A solutions architect must improve the app' performance for these uploads

Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

A.

Enable S3 Transfer Acceleration on the S3 bucket Configure the app to use the Transfer Acceleration endpoint for uploads

B.

Configure an S3 bucket in each Region to receive the uploads. Use S3 Cross-Region Replication to copy the files to the distribution S3 bucket.

C.

Set up Amazon Route 53 with latency-based routing to route the uploads to the nearest S3 bucket Region.

D.

Configure the app to break the video files into chunks Use a multipart upload to transfer files to Amazon S3.

E.

Modify the app to add random prefixes to the files before uploading

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Question # 18

A company wants to use AWS to create a business continuity solution in case the company's main on-premises application fails. The application runs on physical servers that also run other applications. The on-premises application that the company is planning to migrate uses a MySQL database as a data store. All the company's on-premises applications use operating systems that are compatible with Amazon EC2.

Which solution will achieve the company's goal with the LEAST operational overhead?

A.

Install the AWS Replication Agent on the source servers, including the MySQL servers. Set up replication for all servers. Launch test instances for regular drills. Cut over to the test instances to fail over the workload in the case of a failure event.

B.

Install the AWS Replication Agent on the source servers, including the MySQL servers. Initialize AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery in the target AWS Region. Define the launch settings. Frequently perform failover and fallback from the most recent point in time.

C.

Create AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) replication servers and a target Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster to host the database. Create a DMS replication task to copy the existing data to the target DB cluster. Create a local AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) change data capture (CDC) task to keep the data synchronized. Install the rest of the software on EC2 instances by starting with a compatible base AMI.

D.

Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway Volume Gateway on premises. Mount volumes on all on-premises servers. Install the application and the MySQL database on the new volumes. Take regular snapshots. Install all the software on EC2 Instances by starting with a compatible base AMI. Launch a Volume Gateway on an EC2 instance. Restore the volumes from the latest snapshot. Mount the new volumes on the EC2 instances in the case of a failure event.

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Question # 19

A company is subject to regulatory audits of its financial information. External auditors who use a single AWS account need access to the company's AWS account. A solutions architect must provide the auditors with secure, read-only access to the company's AWS account. The solution must comply with AWS security best practices.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

In the company's AWS account, create resource policies for all resources in the account to grant access to the auditors' AWS account. Assign a unique external ID to the resource policy.

B.

In the company's AWS account create an IAM role that trusts the auditors' AWS account Create an IAM policy that has the required permissions. Attach the policy to the role. Assign a unique external ID to the role's trust policy.

C.

In the company's AWS account, create an IAM user. Attach the required IAM policies to the IAM user. Create API access keys for the IAM user. Share the access keys with the auditors.

D.

In the company's AWS account, create an IAM group that has the required permissions Create an IAM user in the company s account for each auditor. Add the IAM users to the IAM group.

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Question # 20

A company runs an application on AWS. The company curates data from several different sources. The company uses proprietary algorithms to perform data transformations and aggregations. After the company performs E TL processes, the company stores the results in Amazon Redshift tables. The company sells this data to other companies. The company downloads the data as files from the Amazon Redshift tables and transmits the files to several data customers by using FTP. The number of data customers has grown significantly. Management of the data customers has become difficult.

The company will use AWS Data Exchange to create a data product that the company can use to share data with customers. The company wants to confirm the identities of the customers before the company shares data. The customers also need access to the most recent data when the company publishes the data.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A.

Use AWS Data Exchange for APIs to share data with customers. Configure subscription verification. In the AWS account of the company that produces the data, create an Amazon API Gateway Data API service integration with Amazon Redshift. Require the data customers to subscribe to the data product.

B.

In the AWS account of the company that produces the data, create an AWS Data Exchange datashare by connecting AWS Data Exchange to the Redshift cluster. Configure subscription verification. Require the data customers to subscribe to the data product.

C.

Download the data from the Amazon Redshift tables to an Amazon S3 bucket periodically. Use AWS Data Exchange for S3 to share data with customers. Configure subscription verification. Require the data customers to subscribe to the data product.

D.

Publish the Amazon Redshift data to an Open Data on AWS Data Exchange. Require the customers to subscribe to the data product in AWS Data Exchange. In the AWS account of the company that produces the data, attach 1AM resource-based policies to the Amazon Redshift tables to allow access only to verified AWS accounts.

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Question # 21

A company has a website that runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances are in an Auto Scaling group. The ALB is associated with an AWS WAF web ACL.

The website often encounters attacks in the application layer. The attacks produce sudden and significant increases in traffic on the application server. The access logs show that each attack originates from different IP addresses. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to mitigate these attacks.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A.

Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that monitors server access. Set a threshold based on access by IP address. Configure an alarm action that adds the IP address to the web ACL’s deny list.

B.

Deploy AWS Shield Advanced in addition to AWS WAF. Add the ALB as a protected resource.

C.

Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that monitors user IP addresses. Set a threshold based on access by IP address. Configure the alarm to invoke an AWS Lambda function to add a deny rule in the application server’s subnet route table for any IP addresses that activate the alarm.

D.

Inspect access logs to find a pattern of IP addresses that launched the attacks. Use an Amazon Route 53 geolocation routing policy to deny traffic from the countries that host those IP addresses.

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Question # 22

A solutions architect must analyze a company's Amazon EC2 Instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes to determine whether the company is using resources efficiently The company is running several large, high-memory EC2 instances lo host database dusters that are deployed in active/passive configurations The utilization of these EC2 instances varies by the applications that use the databases, and the company has not identified a pattern

The solutions architect must analyze the environment and take action based on the findings.

Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A.

Create a dashboard by using AWS Systems Manager OpsConter Configure visualizations tor Amazon CloudWatch metrics that are associated with the EC2 instances and their EBS volumes Review the dashboard periodically and identify usage patterns Right size the EC2 instances based on the peaks in the metrics

B.

Turn on Amazon CloudWatch detailed monitoring for the EC2 instances and their EBS volumes Create and review a dashboard that is based on the metrics Identify usage patterns Right size the FC? instances based on the peaks In the metrics

C.

Install the Amazon CloudWatch agent on each of the EC2 Instances Turn on AWS Compute Optimizer, and let it run for at least 12 hours Review the recommendations from Compute Optimizer, and right size the EC2 instances as directed

D.

Sign up for the AWS Enterprise Support plan Turn on AWS Trusted Advisor Wait 12 hours Review the recommendations from Trusted Advisor, and rightsize the EC2 instances as directed

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Question # 23

A company uses an on-premises data analytics platform. The system is highly available in a fully redundant configuration across 12 servers in the company's data center.

The system runs scheduled jobs, both hourly and daily, in addition to one-time requests from users.Scheduled jobs can take between 20 minutes and 2 hours to finish running and have tight SLAs. The scheduled jobs account for 65% of the system usage. User jobs typically finish running in less than 5 minutes and have no SLA. The user jobs account for 35% of system usage. During system failures, scheduled jobs must continue to meet SLAs. However, user jobs can be delayed.

A solutions architect needs to move the system to Amazon EC2 instances and adopt a consumption-based model to reduce costs with no long-term commitments. The solution must maintain high availability and must not affect the SLAs.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A.

Split the 12 instances across two Availability Zones in the chosen AWS Region. Run two instances in each Availability Zone as On-Demand Instances with Capacity Reservations. Run four instances in each Availability Zone as Spot Instances.

B.

Split the 12 instances across three Availability Zones in the chosen AWS Region. In one of the Availability Zones, run all four instances as On-Demand Instances with Capacity Reservations. Run the remaining instances as Spot Instances.

C.

Split the 12 instances across three Availability Zones in the chosen AWS Region. Run two instances in each Availability Zone as On-Demand Instances with a Savings Plan. Run two instances in each Availability Zone as Spot Instances.

D.

Split the 12 instances across three Availability Zones in the chosen AWS Region. Run three instances in each Availability Zone as On-Demand Instances with Capacity Reservations. Run one instance in each Availability Zone as a Spot Instance.

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Question # 24

A company developed a pilot application by using AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Java. To save costs during development, the company's development team deployed the application into a single-instance environment. Recent tests indicate that the application consumes more CPU than expected. CPU utilization is regularly greater than 85%, which causes some performance bottlenecks.

A solutions architect must mitigate the performance issues before the company launches the application to production.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A.

Create a new Elastic Beanstalk application. Select a load-balanced environment type. Select all Availability Zones. Add a scale-out rule that will run if the maximum CPU utilization is over 85% for 5 minutes.

B.

Create a second Elastic Beanstalk environment. Apply the traffic-splitting deployment policy. Specify a percentage of incoming traffic to direct to the new environment in the average CPU utilization is over 85% for 5 minutes.

C.

Modify the existing environment's capacity configuration to use a load-balanced environment type. Select all Availability Zones. Add a scale-out rule that will run if the average CPU utilization is over 85% for 5 minutes.

D.

Select the Rebuild environment action with the load balancing option Select an Availability Zones Add a scale-out rule that will run if the sum CPU utilization is over 85% for 5 minutes.

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Question # 25

A company has 10 accounts that are part of an organization in AWS Organizations AWS Config is configured in each account All accounts belong to either the Prod OU or the NonProd OU

The company has set up an Amazon EventBridge rule in each AWS account to notify an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic when an Amazon EC2 security group inbound rule is created with 0.0.0.0/0 as the source The company's security team is subscribed to the SNS topic

For all accounts in the NonProd OU the security team needs to remove the ability to create a security group inbound rule that includes 0.0.0.0/0 as the source

Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?

A.

Modify the EventBridge rule to invoke an AWS Lambda function to remove the security group inbound rule and to publish to the SNS topic Deploy the updated rule to the NonProd OU

B.

Add the vpc-sg-open-only-to-authorized-ports AWS Config managed rule to the NonProd OU

C.

Configure an SCP to allow the ec2 AulhonzeSecurityGrouplngress action when the value of the aws Sourcelp condition key is not 0.0.0.0/0 Apply the SCP to the NonProd OU

D.

Configure an SCP to deny the ec2 AuthorizeSecurityGrouplngress action when the value of the aws Sourcelp condition key is 0.0.0.0/0 Apply the SCP to the NonProd OU

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Question # 26

A company wants to change its internal cloud billing strategy for each of its business units. Currently, the cloud governance team shares reports for overall cloud spending with the head of each business unit. The company uses AWS Organizations lo manage the separate AWS accounts for each business unit. The existing tagging standard in Organizations includes the application, environment, and owner. The cloud governance team wants a centralized solution so each business unit receives monthly reports on its cloud spending. The solution should also send notifications for any cloud spending that exceeds a set threshold.

Which solution is the MOST cost-effective way to meet these requirements?

A.

Configure AWS Budgets in each account and configure budget alerts that are grouped by application, environment, and owner. Add each business unit to an Amazon SNS topic for each alert. Use Cost Explorer in each account to create monthly reports for each business unit.

B.

Configure AWS Budgets in the organization's master account and configure budget alerts that are grouped by application, environment, and owner. Add each business unit to an Amazon SNS topic for each alert. Use Cost Explorer in the organization's master account to create monthly reports for each business unit.

C.

Configure AWS Budgets in each account and configure budget alerts lhat are grouped by application, environment, and owner. Add each business unit to an Amazon SNS topic for each alert. Use the AWS Billing and Cost Management dashboard in each account to create monthly reports for each business unit.

D.

Enable AWS Cost and Usage Reports in the organization's master account and configure reports grouped by application, environment, and owner. Create an AWS Lambda function that processes AWS Cost and Usage Reports, sends budget alerts, and sends monthly reports to each business unit's email list.

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Question # 27

A software company hosts an application on AWS with resources in multiple AWS accounts and Regions. The application runs on a group of Amazon EC2 instances in an application VPC located in the us-east-1 Region with an IPv4 CIDR block of 10.10.0.0/16. In a different AWS account, a shared services VPC is located in the us-east-2 Region with an IPv4 CIDR block of 10.10.10.0/24. When a cloud engineer uses AWS CloudFormation to attempt to peer the application

VPC with the shared services VPC, an error message indicates a peering failure.

Which factors could cause this error? (Choose two.)

A.

The IPv4 CIDR ranges of the two VPCs overlap

B.

The VPCs are not in the same Region

C.

One or both accounts do not have access to an Internet gateway

D.

One of the VPCs was not shared through AWS Resource Access Manager

E.

The IAM role in the peer accepter account does not have the correct permissions

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Question # 28

A company has a legacy monolithic application that is critical to the company's business. The company hosts the application on an Amazon EC2 instance that runs Amazon Linux 2. The company's application team receives a directive from the legal department to back up the data from the instance's encrypted Amazon

Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume to an Amazon S3 bucket. The application team does not have the administrative SSH key pair for the instance. The application must continue to serve the users.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Attach a role to the instance with permission to write to Amazon S3. Use the AWS Systems Manager Session Manager option to gain access to the instance and run commands to copy data into Amazon S3.

B.

Create an image of the instance with the reboot option turned on. Launch a new EC2 instance from the image. Attach a role to the new instance with permission to write to Amazon S3. Run a command to copy data into Amazon S3.

C.

Take a snapshot of the EBS volume by using Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (Amazon DLM). Copy the data to Amazon S3.

D.

Create an image of the instance. Launch a new EC2 instance from the image. Attach a role to the new instance with permission to write to Amazon S3. Run a command to copy data into Amazon S3.

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Question # 29

A company has deployed an application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The application uses Amazon Aurora for the database layer. An Amazon CloudFront distribution serves web requests and includes the Elastic Beanstalk domain name as the origin server. The distribution is configured with an alternate domain name that visitors use when they access the application.

Each week, the company takes the application out of service for routine maintenance. During the time that the application is unavailable, the company wants visitors to receive an informational message instead of a CloudFront error message.

A solutions architect creates an Amazon S3 bucket as the first step in the process.

Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take next to meet the requirements? (Choose three.)

A.

Upload static informational content to the S3 bucket.

B.

Create a new CloudFront distribution. Set the S3 bucket as the origin.

C.

Set the S3 bucket as a second origin in the original CloudFront distribution. Configure the distribution and the S3 bucket to use an origin access identity (OAI).

D.

During the weekly maintenance, edit the default cache behavior to use the S3 origin. Revert the change when the maintenance is complete.

E.

During the weekly maintenance, create a cache behavior for the S3 origin on the new distribution. Set the path pattern to \ Set the precedence to 0. Delete the cache behavior when the maintenance is complete.

F.

During the weekly maintenance, configure Elastic Beanstalk to serve traffic from the S3 bucket.

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Question # 30

A company has created an OU in AWS Organizations for each of its engineering teams Each OU owns multiple AWS accounts. The organization has hundreds of AWS accounts A solutions architect must design a solution so that each OU can view a breakdown of usage costs across its AWS accounts. Which solution meets these requirements?

A.

Create an AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) for each OU by using AWS Resource Access Manager Allow each team to visualize the CUR through an Amazon QuickSight dashboard.

B.

Create an AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) from the AWS Organizations management account- Allow each team to visualize the CUR through an Amazon QuickSight dashboard

C.

Create an AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) in each AWS Organizations member account Allow each team to visualize the CUR through an Amazon QuickSight dashboard.

D.

Create an AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) by using AWS Systems Manager Allow each team to visualize the CUR through Systems Manager OpsCenter dashboards

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Question # 31

A security engineer determined that an existing application retrieves credentials to an Amazon RDS for MySQL database from an encrypted file in Amazon S3. For the next version of the application, the security engineer wants to implement the following application design changes to improve security:

    The database must use strong, randomly generated passwords stored in a secure AWS managed service.

    The application resources must be deployed through AWS CloudFormation.

    The application must rotate credentials for the database every 90 days.

A solutions architect will generate a CloudFormation template to deploy the application.

Which resources specified in the CloudFormation template will meet the security engineer's requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

A.

Generate the database password as a secret resource using AWS Secrets Manager. Create an AWS Lambda function resource to rotate the database password. Specify a Secrets Manager RotationSchedule resource to rotate the database password every 90 days.

B.

Generate the database password as a SecureString parameter type using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. Create an AWS Lambda function resource to rotate the database password. Specifya Parameter Store RotationSchedule resource to rotate the database password every 90 days.

C.

Generate the database password as a secret resource using AWS Secrets Manager. Create an AWS Lambda function resource to rotate the database password. Create an Amazon EventBridge scheduled rule resource to trigger the Lambda function password rotation every 90 days.

D.

Generate the database password as a SecureString parameter type using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. Specify an AWS AppSync DataSource resource to automatically rotate the database password every 90 days.

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Question # 32

A retail company has an on-premises data center in Europe. The company also has a multi-Region AWS presence that includes the eu-west-1 and us-east-1 Regions. The company wants to be able to route network traffic from its on-premises infrastructure into VPCs in either of those Regions. The company also needs to support traffic that is routed directly between VPCs in those Regions. No single points of failure can exist on the network.

The company already has created two 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connections from its on-premises data center. Each connection goes into a separate Direct Connect location in Europe for high availability. These two locations are named DX-A and DX-B, respectively. Each Region has a single AWS Transit Gateway that is configured to route all inter-VPC traffic within that Region.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Create a private VIF from the DX-A connection into a Direct Connect gateway. Create a private VIF from the DX-B connection into the same Direct Connect gateway for high availability. Associate both the eu-west-1 and us-east-1 transit gateways with the Direct Connect gateway. Peer the transit gateways with each other to support cross-Region routing.

B.

Create a transit VIF from the DX-A connection into a Direct Connect gateway. Associate the eu-west-1 transit gateway with this Direct Connect gateway. Create a transit VIF from the DX-B connection into a separate Direct Connect gateway. Associate the us-east-1 transit gateway with this separate Direct Connect gateway. Peer the Direct Connect gateways with each other to support high availability and cross-Region routing.

C.

Create a transit VIF from the DX-A connection into a Direct Connect gateway. Create a transit VIF from the DX-B connection into the same Direct Connect gateway for high availability. Associate both the eu-west-1 and us-east-1 transit gateways with this Direct Connect gateway. Configure the Direct Connect gateway to route traffic between the transit gateways.

D.

Create a transit VIF from the DX-A connection into a Direct Connect gateway. Create a transit VIF from the DX-B connection into the same Direct Connect gateway for high availability. Associate both the eu-west-1 and us-east-1 transit gateways with this Direct Connect gateway. Peer the transit gateways with each other to support cross-Region routing.

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Question # 33

A company recently acquired several other companies. Each company has a separate AWS account with a different billing and reporting method. The acquiring company has consolidated all the accounts into one organization in AWS Organizations. However, the acquiring company has found it difficult to generate a cost report that contains meaningful groups for all the teams.

The acquiring company’s finance team needs a solution to report on costs for all the companies through a self-managed application.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Create an AWS Cost and Usage Report for the organization. Define tags and cost categories in the report. Create a table in Amazon Athena. Create an Amazon QuickSight dataset based on the Athena table. Share the dataset with the finance team.

B.

Create an AWS Cost and Usage Report for the organization. Define tags and cost categories in the report. Create a specialized template in AWS Cost Explorer that the finance department will use to build reports.

C.

Create an Amazon QuickSight dataset that receives spending information from the AWS Price List Query API. Share the dataset with the finance team.

D.

Use the AWS Price List Query API to collect account spending information. Create a specialized template in AWS Cost Explorer that the finance department will use to build reports.

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Question # 34

The company needs to determine which costs on the monthly AWS bill are attributable to each application or team. The company also must be able to create reports to compare costs from the last 12 months and to help forecast costs for the next 12 months. A solutions architect must recommend an AWS Billing and Cost Management solution that provides these cost reports.

Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)

A.

Activate the user-defined cost allocation tags that represent the application and the team.

B.

Activate the AWS generated cost allocation tags that represent the application and the team.

C.

Create a cost category for each application in Billing and Cost Management.

D.

Activate IAM access to Billing and Cost Management.

E.

Create a cost budget.

F.

Enable Cost Explorer.

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Question # 35

A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. The company's security team must approve the creation of all new IAM users. When a new IAM user is created, all access for the user must be removed automatically. The security team must then receive a notification to approve the user. The company has a multi-Region AWS CloudTrail trail In the AWS account.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)

A.

Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule. Define a pattern with the detail-type value set to AWS API Call via CloudTrail and an eventName of CreateUser.

B.

Configure CloudTrail to send a notification for the CreateUser event to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic.

C.

Invoke a container that runs in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with AWS Fargate technology to remove access

D.

Invoke an AWS Step Functions state machine to remove access.

E.

Use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to notify the security team.

F.

Use Amazon Pinpoint to notify the security team.

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Question # 36

A software company has deployed an application that consumes a REST API by using Amazon API Gateway. AWS Lambda functions, and an Amazon DynamoDB table. The application is showing an increase in the number of errors during PUT requests. Most of the PUT calls come from a small number of clients that are authenticated with specific API keys.

A solutions architect has identified that a large number of the PUT requests originate from one client. The API is noncritical, and clients can tolerate retries of unsuccessful calls. However, the errors are displayed to customers and are causing damage to the API's reputation.

What should the solutions architect recommend to improve the customer experience?

A.

Implement retry logic with exponential backoff and irregular variation in the client application. Ensure that the errors are caught and handled with descriptive error messages.

B.

Implement API throttling through a usage plan at the API Gateway level. Ensure that the client application handles code 429 replies without error.

C.

Turn on API caching to enhance responsiveness for the production stage. Run 10-minute load tests. Verify that the cache capacity is appropriate for the workload.

D.

Implement reserved concurrency at the Lambda function level to provide the resources that are needed during sudden increases in traffic.

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Question # 37

A company recently deployed an application on AWS. The application uses Amazon DynamoDB.The company measured the application load and configured the RCUs and WCUs on the DynamoDB table to match the expected peak load. The peak load occurs once a week for a 4-hour period and is double the average load. The application load is close to the average load tor the rest of the week. The access pattern includes many more writes to the table than reads of the table.

A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to minimize the cost of the table.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Use AWS Application Auto Scaling to increase capacity during the peak period. Purchase reserved RCUs and WCUs to match the average load.

B.

Configure on-demand capacity mode for the table.

C.

Configure DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) in front of the table. Reduce the provisioned read capacity to match the new peak load on the table.

D.

Configure DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) in front of the table. Configure on-demand capacity mode for the table.

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Question # 38

An application is using an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance in the us-east-1 Region. After a failover test, the application lost the connections to the database and could not re-establish the connections. After a restart of the application, the application re-established the connections.

A solutions architect must implement a solution so that the application can re-establish connections to the database without requiring a restart.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Create an Amazon Aurora MySQL Serverless v1 DB instance. Migrate the RDS DB instance to the Aurora Serverless v1 DB instance. Update the connection settings in the application to point to the Aurora reader endpoint.

B.

Create an RDS proxy. Configure the existing RDS endpoint as a target. Update the connection settings in the application to point to the RDS proxy endpoint.

C.

Create a two-node Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster. Migrate the RDS DB instance to the Aurora DB cluster. Create an RDS proxy. Configure the existing RDS endpoint as a target. Update the connection settings in the application to point to the RDS proxy endpoint.

D.

Create an Amazon S3 bucket. Export the database to Amazon S3 by using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). Configure Amazon Athena to use the S3 bucket as a data store. Install the latest Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver for the application. Update the connection settings in the application to point to the Athena endpoint

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Question # 39

A company processes environment data. The has a set up sensors to provide a continuous stream of data from different areas in a city. The data is available in JSON format.

The company wants to use an AWS solution to send the data to a database that does not require fixed schemas for storage. The data must be send in real time.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehouse to send the data to Amazon Redshift.

B.

Use Amazon Kinesis Data streams to send the data to Amazon DynamoDB.

C.

Use Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) to send the data to Amazon Aurora.

D.

Use Amazon Kinesis Data firehouse to send the data to Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra).

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Question # 40

A company has a few AWS accounts for development and wants to move its production application to AWS. The company needs to enforce Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) encryption at rest current production accounts and future production accounts only. The company needs a solution that includes built-in blueprints and guardrails.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)

A.

Use AWS CloudFormation StackSets to deploy AWS Config rules on production accounts.

B.

Create a new AWS Control Tower landing zone in an existing developer account. Create OUs for accounts. Add production and development accounts to production and development OUs, respectively.

C.

Create a new AWS Control Tower landing zone in the company’s management account. Addproduction and development accounts to production and development OUs. respectively.

D.

Invite existing accounts to join the organization in AWS Organizations. Create SCPs to ensure compliance.

E.

Create a guardrail from the management account to detect EBS encryption.

F.

Create a guardrail for the production OU to detect EBS encryption.

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Question # 41

A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. The application collects and stores a large amount of unstructured data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The S3 bucket contains several terabytes of data and uses the S3 Standard storage class. The data increases in size by several gigabytes every day.

The company needs to query and analyze the data. The company does not access data that is more than 1-year-old. However, the company must retain all the data indefinitely for compliance reasons.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A.

Use S3 Select to query the data. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition data that is more than 1 year old to S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

B.

Use Amazon Redshift Spectrum to query the data. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition data that is more than 1 year old to S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

C.

Use an AWS Glue Data Catalog and Amazon Athena to query the data. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition data that is more than 1 year old to S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

D.

Use Amazon Redshift Spectrum to query the data. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition data that is more than 1 year old to S3 Intelligent-Tiering.

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Question # 42

A company is running a containerized application in the AWS Cloud. The application is running by using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on a set of Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group.

The company uses Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) to store its container images. When a new image version is uploaded, the new image version receives a unique tag.

The company needs a solution that inspects new image versions for common vulnerabilities and exposures. The solution must automatically delete new image tags that have Critical or High severity findings. The solution also must notify the development team when such a deletion occurs.

Which solution meets these requirements?

A.

Configure scan on push on the repository Use Amazon EventBridge to invoke an AWS Step Functions state machine when a scan is complete for images that have Critical or High severity findings. Use the Step Functions state machine to delete the image tag for those images and to notify the development team through Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS).

B.

Configure scan on push on the repository Configure scan results to be pushed to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. Invoke an AWS Lambda function when a new message is added to the SQS queue. Use the Lambda function to delete the image tag for images that have Critical or High seventy findings. Notify the development team by using Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES).

C.

Schedule an AWS Lambda function to start a manual image scan every hour. Configure Amazon EventBridge to invoke another Lambda function when a scan is complete. Use the second Lambda function to delete the image tag for images that have Critical or High severity findings. Notify the development team by using Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS).

D.

Configure periodic image scan on the repository. Configure scan results to be added lo an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. Invoke an AWS Step Functions state machine when a new message is added to the SQS queue. Use the Step Functions state machine to delete the image tag for imagesthat have Critical or High severity findings. Notify the development team by using Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES).

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Question # 43

A company is running a compute workload by using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The launch template uses two placement groups and a single instance type.

Recently, a monitoring system reported Auto Scaling instance launch failures that correlated with longer wait times for system users. The company needs to improve the overall reliability of the workload.

Which solution will meet this requirement?

A.

Replace the launch template with a launch configuration to use an Auto Scaling group thatuses attribute-based instance type selection.

B.

Create a new launch template version that uses attribute-based instance type selection. Configure the Auto Scaling group to use the new launch template version.

C.

Update the launch template Auto Scaling group to increase the number of placement groups.

D.

Update the launch template to use a larger instance type.

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Question # 44

A company is migrating a document processing workload to AWS. The company has updated many applications to natively use the Amazon S3 API to store, retrieve, and modify documents that a processing server generates at a rate of approximately 5 documents every second. After the document processing is finished, customers can download the documents directly from Amazon S3.

During the migration, the company discovered that it could not immediately update the processing server that generates many documents to support the S3 API. The server runs on Linux and requires fast local access to the files that the server generates and modifies. When the server finishes processing, the files must be available to the public for download within 30 minutes.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort?

A.

Migrate the application to an AWS Lambda function. Use the AWS SDK for Java to generate, modify, and access the files that the company stores directly in Amazon S3.

B.

Set up an Amazon S3 File Gateway and configure a file share that is linked to the document store. Mount the file share on an Amazon EC2 instance by using NFS. When changes occur in Amazon S3, initiate a RefreshCache API call to update the S3 File Gateway.

C.

Configure Amazon FSx for Lustre with an import and export policy. Link the new file system to an S3 bucket. Install the Lustre client and mount the document store to an Amazon EC2 instance by using NFS.

D.

Configure AWS DataSync to connect to an Amazon EC2 instance. Configure a task to synchronize the generated files to and from Amazon S3.

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Question # 45

A company wants to containerize a multi-tier web application and move the application from an on-premises data center to AWS. The application includes web. application, and database tiers. The company needs to make the application fault tolerant and scalable. Some frequently accessed data must always be available across application servers. Frontend web servers need session persistence and must scale to meet increases in traffic.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST ongoing operational overhead?

A.

Run the application on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate. Use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) for data that is frequently accessed between the web and application tiers. Store the frontend web server session data in Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS).

B.

Run the application on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on Amazon EC2. Use Amazon ElastiCache for Redis to cache frontend web server session data. Use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) with Multi-Attach on EC2 instances that are distributed across multiple Availability Zones.

C.

Run the application on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Configure Amazon EKS to use managed node groups. Use ReplicaSets to run the web servers and applications. Create an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Me system. Mount the EFS file system across all EKS pods to store frontend web server session data.

D.

Deploy the application on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Configure Amazon EKS to use managed node groups. Run the web servers and application as Kubernetes deployments in the EKS cluster. Store the frontend web server session data in an Amazon DynamoDB table. Create an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) volume that all applications will mount at the time of deployment.

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Question # 46

A company plans to migrate a three-tiered web application from an on-premises data center to AWS The company developed the Ui by using server-side JavaScript libraries The business logic and API tier uses a Python-based web framework The data tier runs on a MySQL database

The company custom built the application to meet business requirements The company does not want to re-architect the application The company needs a solution to replatform the application to AWS with the least possible amount of development The solution needs to be highly available and must reduce operational overhead

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Deploy the UI to a static website on Amazon S3 Use Amazon CloudFront to deliver the website Build the business logic in a Docker image Store the image in AmazonElastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with the Fargate launch type to host the website with an Application Load Balancer in front Deploy the data layer to an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster

B.

Build the UI and business logic in Docker images Store the images in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with the Fargate launch type to host the UI and business logic applications with an Application LoadBalancer in front Migrate the database to an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance

C.

Deploy the UI to a static website on Amazon S3 Use Amazon CloudFront to deliver the website Convert the business logic to AWS Lambda functions Integrate the functions with Amazon API Gateway Deploy the data layer to an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster

D.

Build the UI and business logic in Docker images Store the images in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service(Amazon EKS) with Fargate profiles to host the UI and business logic Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate the data layer to Amazon DynamoDB

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Question # 47

A company hosts a blog post application on AWS using Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda. The application currently does not use

API keys to authorize requests. The API model is as follows:

GET/posts/[postid] to get post details

GET/users[userid] to get user details

GET/comments/[commentid] to get comments details

The company has noticed users are actively discussing topics in the comments section, and the company wants to increase user engagement by marking the comments appears in real time.

Which design should be used to reduce comment latency and improve user experience?

A.

Use edge-optimized API with Amazon CloudFront to cache API responses.

B.

Modify the blog application code to request GET comment[commented] every 10 seconds.

C.

Use AWS AppSync and leverage WebSockets to deliver comments.

D.

Change the concurrency limit of the Lambda functions to lower the API response time.

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Question # 48

A company has a data lake in Amazon S3 that needs to be accessed by hundreds of applications across many AWS accounts. The company's information security policy states that the S3 bucket must not be accessed over the public internet and that each application should have the minimum permissions necessary to function.

To meet these requirements, a solutions architect plans to use an S3 access point that is restricted to specific VPCs for each application.

Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to implement this solution? (Select TWO.)

A.

Create an S3 access point for each application in the AWS account that owns the S3 bucket. Configure each access point to be accessible only from the application's VPC. Update the bucket policy to require access from an access point.

B.

Create an interface endpoint for Amazon S3 in each application's VPC. Configure the endpoint policy to allow access to an S3 access point. Create a VPC gateway attachment for the S3 endpoint.

C.

Create a gateway endpoint for Amazon S3 in each application's VPC. Configure the endpoint policy to allow access to an S3 access point. Specify the route table that is used to access the access point.

D.

Create an S3 access point for each application in each AWS account and attach the access points to the S3 bucket. Configure each access point to be accessible only from the application's VPC. Update the bucket policy to require access from an access point.

E.

Create a gateway endpoint for Amazon S3 in the data lake's VPC. Attach an endpoint policy to allow access to the S3 bucket. Specify the route table that is used to access the bucket.

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Question # 49

A company has built a high performance computing (HPC) cluster in AWS tor a tightly coupled workload that generates a large number of shared files stored in Amazon EFS. The cluster was performing well when the number of Amazon EC2 instances in the cluster was 100. However, when the company increased the cluster size to 1,000 EC2 instances, overall performance was well below expectations.

Which collection of design choices should a solutions architect make to achieve the maximum performance from the HPC cluster? (Select THREE.)

A.

Ensure the HPC cluster Is launched within a single Availability Zone.

B.

Launch the EC2 instances and attach elastic network interfaces in multiples of four.

C.

Select EC2 Instance types with an Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) enabled.

D.

Ensure the cluster Is launched across multiple Availability Zones.

E.

Replace Amazon EFS with multiple Amazon EBS volumes in a RAID array.

F.

Replace Amazon EFS with Amazon FSx for Lustre.

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Question # 50

A company needs to optimize the cost of backups for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). A solutions architect has already configured a backup plan in AWS Backup for the EFS backups. The backup plan contains a rule with a lifecycle configuration to transition EFS backups to cold storage after 7 days and to keep the backups for an additional 90 days.

After I month, the company reviews its EFS storage costs and notices an increase in the EFS backup costs. The EFS backup cold storage produces almost double the cost of the EFS warm backup storage.

What should the solutions architect do to optimize the cost?

A.

Modify the backup rule's lifecycle configuration to move the EFS backups to cold storage after 1 day. Set the backup retention period to 30 days.

B.

Modify the backup rule's lifecycle configuration to move the EFS backups to cold storage after 8 days. Set the backup retention period to 30 days.

C.

Modify the backup rule's lifecycle configuration to move the EFS backups to cold storage after 1 day. Set the backup retention period to 90 days.

D.

Modify the backup rule's lifecycle configuration to move the EFS backups to cold storage after 8 days. Set the backup retention period to 98 days.

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Question # 51

A solutions architect must provide a secure way for a team of cloud engineers to use the AWS CLI to upload objects into an Amazon S3 bucket Each cloud engineer has an IAM user. IAM access keys and a virtual multi-factor authentication (MFA) device The IAM users for the cloud engineers are in a group that is named S3-access The cloud engineers must use MFA to perform any actions in Amazon S3

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Attach a policy to the S3 bucket to prompt the 1AM user for an MFA code when the 1AM user performs actions on the S3 bucket Use 1AM access keys with the AWS CLI tocall Amazon S3

B.

Update the trust policy for the S3-access group to require principals to use MFA when principals assume the group Use 1AM access keys with the AWS CLI to call Amazon S3

C.

Attach a policy to the S3-access group to deny all S3 actions unless MFA is present Use 1AM access keys with the AWS CLI to call Amazon S3

D.

Attach a policy to the S3-access group to deny all S3 actions unless MFA is present Request temporary credentials from AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) Attach the temporary credentials in a profile that Amazon S3 will reference when the user performs actions in Amazon S3

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Question # 52

A company that provides image storage services wants to deploy a customer-lacing solution to AWS. Millions of individual customers will use the solution. The solution will receive batches of large image files, resize the files, and store the files in an Amazon S3 bucket for up to 6 months.

The solution must handle significant variance in demand. The solution must also be reliable at enterprise scale and have the ability to rerun processing jobs in the event of failure.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A.

Use AWS Step Functions to process the S3 event that occurs when a user stores an image. Run an AWS Lambda function that resizes the image in place and replaces the original file in the S3 bucket. Create an S3 Lifecycle expiration policy to expire all stored images after 6 months.

B.

Use Amazon EventBridge to process the S3 event that occurs when a user uploads an image. Run an AWS Lambda function that resizes the image in place and replaces the original file in the S3 bucket. Create an S3 Lifecycle expiration policy to expire all stored images after 6 months.

C.

Use S3 Event Notifications to invoke an AWS Lambda function when a user stores an image. Use the Lambda function to resize the image in place and to store the original file in the S3 bucket. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to move all stored images to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) after 6 months.

D.

Use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to process the S3 event that occurs when a user stores an image. Run an AWS Lambda function that resizes the image and stores the resized file in an S3 bucket that uses S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA). Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to move all stored images to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 6 months.

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Question # 53

A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. The application is using a MongoDB database with a replica set as its data tier. The MongoDB database is installed on systems in the company's on-premises data center and is accessible through an AWS Direct Connect connection to the data center environment.

A solutions architect must migrate the on-premises MongoDB database to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility).

Which strategy should the solutions architect choose to perform this migration?

A.

Create a fleet of EC2 instances. Install MongoDB Community Edition on the EC2 instances, and create a database. Configure continuous synchronous replication with the database that is running in the on-premises data center.

B.

Create an AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) replication instance. Create a source endpoint for the on-premises MongoDB database by using change data capture (CDC). Create a target endpoint for the Amazon DocumentDB database. Create and run a DMS migration task.

C.

Create a data migration pipeline by using AWS Data Pipeline. Define data nodes for the on-premises MongoDB database and the Amazon DocumentDB database. Create a scheduled task to run the data pipeline.

D.

Create a source endpoint for the on-premises MongoDB database by using AWS Glue crawlers. Configure continuous asynchronous replication between the MongoDB database and the Amazon DocumentDB database.

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Question # 54

A solutions architect is planning to migrate critical Microsoft SOL Server databases to AWS. Because the databases are legacy systems, the solutions architect will move the databases to a modern data architecture. The solutions architect must migrate the databases with near-zero downtime.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Use AWS Application Migration Service and the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT). Perform an In-place upgrade before the migration. Export the migrated data to Amazon Aurora Serverless after cutover. Repoint the applications to Amazon Aurora.

B.

Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to Rehost the database. Set Amazon S3 as a target. Set up change data capture (CDC) replication. When the source and destination are fully synchronized, load the data from Amazon S3 into an Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server DB Instance.

C.

Use native database high availability tools Connect the source system to an Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server DB instance Configure replication accordingly. When data replication is finished, transition the workload to an Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server DB instance.

D.

Use AWS Application Migration Service. Rehost the database server on Amazon EC2. When data replication is finished, detach the database and move the database to an Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server DB instance. Reattach the database and then cut over all networking.

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Question # 55

A company is creating a centralized logging service running on Amazon EC2 that will receive and analyze logs from hundreds of AWS accounts. AWS PrivateLink is being used to provide connectivity between the client services and the logging service.

In each AWS account with a client, an interface endpoint has been created for the logging service and is available. The logging service running on EC2 instances with a Network Load Balancer (NLB) are deployed in different subnets. The clients are unable to submit logs using the VPC endpoint.

Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to resolve this issue? (Select TWO.)

A.

Check that the NACL is attached to the logging service subnet to allow communications to and from the NLB subnets. Check that the NACL is attached to the NLB subnet to allow communications to and from the logging service subnets running on EC2 instances.

B.

Check that the NACL is attached to the logging service subnets to allow communications to and from the interface endpoint subnets. Check that the NACL is attached to the interface endpoint subnet to allow communications to and from the logging service subnets running on EC2 instances.

C.

Check the security group for the logging service running on the EC2 instances to ensure it allows Ingress from the NLB subnets.

D.

Check the security group for the loggia service running on EC2 instances to ensure it allows ingress from the clients.

E.

Check the security group for the NLB to ensure it allows ingress from the interlace endpoint subnets.

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Question # 56

A company is creating a REST API to share information with six of its partners based in the United States. The company has created an Amazon API Gateway Regional endpoint. Each of the six partners will access the API once per day to post daily sales figures.

After initial deployment, the company observes 1.000 requests per second originating from 500 different IP addresses around the world. The company believes this traffic is originating from a botnet and wants to secure its API while minimizing cost.

Which approach should the company take to secure its API?

A.

Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution with the API as the origin. Create an AWS WAF web ACL with a rule lo block clients thai submit more than fiverequests per day. Associate the web ACL with the CloudFront distnbution. Configure CloudFront with an origin access identity (OAI) and associate it with the distribution. Configure API Gateway to ensure only the OAI can run the POST method.

B.

Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution with the API as the origin. Create an AWS WAF web ACL with a rule to block clients that submit more than five requests per day. Associate the web ACL with the CloudFront distnbution. Add a custom header to the CloudFront distribution populated with an API key. Configure the API to require an API key on the POST method.

C.

Create an AWS WAF web ACL with a rule to allow access to the IP addresses used by the six partners. Associate the web ACL with the API. Create a resource policy with a request limit and associate it with the API. Configure the API to require an API key on the POST method.

D.

Create an AWS WAF web ACL with a rule to allow access to the IP addresses used by the six partners. Associate the web ACL with the API. Create a usage plan with a request limit and associate it with the API. Create an API key and add it to the usage plan.

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Question # 57

A company runs an intranet application on premises. The company wants to configure a cloud backup of the application. The company has selected AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery for this solution.

The company requires that replication traffic does not travel through the public internet. The application also must not be accessible from the internet. The company does not want this solution to consume all available network bandwidth because other applications require bandwidth.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)

A.

Create a VPC that has at least two private subnets, two NAT gateways, and a virtual private gateway.

B.

Create a VPC that has at least two public subnets, a virtual private gateway, and an internet gateway.

C.

Create an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection between the on-premises network and the target AWS network.

D.

Create an AWS Direct Connect connection and a Direct Connect gateway between the on-premises network and the target AWS network.

E.

During configuration of the replication servers, select the option to use private IP addresses for data replication.

F.

During configuration of the launch settings for the target servers, select the option to ensure that the Recovery instance's private IP address matches the source server's private IP address.

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Question # 58

A company consists of two separate business units. Each business unit has its own AWS account within a single organization in AWS Organizations. The business units regularly share sensitive documents with each other. To facilitate sharing, the company created an Amazon S3 bucket in each account and configured two-way replication between the S3 buckets. The S3 buckets have millions of objects.

Recently, a security audit identified that neither S3 bucket has encryption at rest enabled. Company policy requires that all documents must be stored with encryption at rest. The company wants to implement server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed encryption keys (SSE-S3).

What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

A.

Turn on SSE-S3 on both S3 buckets. Use S3 Batch Operations to copy and encrypt the objects in the same location.

B.

Create an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in each account. Turn on server-side encryption with AWS KMS keys (SSE-KMS) on each S3 bucket by using the corresponding KMS key in that AWS account. Encrypt the existing objects by using an S3 copy command in the AWS CLI.

C.

Turn on SSE-S3 on both S3 buckets. Encrypt the existing objects by using an S3 copy command in the AWS CLI.

D.

Create an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in each account. Turn on server-side encryption with AWS KMS keys (SSE-KMS) on each S3 bucket by using the corresponding KMS key in that AWS account. Use S3 Batch Operations to copy the objects into the same location.

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Question # 59

A company wants to optimize AWS data-transfer costs and compute costs across developer accounts within the company's organization in AWS Organizations Developers can configure VPCs and launch Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region The EC2 instances retrieve approximately 1 TB of data each day from Amazon S3

The developer activity leads to excessive monthly data-transfer charges and NAT gateway processing charges between EC2 instances and S3 buckets, along with high compute costs The company wants to proactively enforce approved architectural patterns for any EC2 instance and VPC infrastructure that developers deploy within the AWS accounts The company does not wantthis enforcement to negatively affect the speed at which the developers can perform their tasks

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A.

Create SCPs to prevent developers from launching unapproved EC2 instance types Provide the developers with an AWS CloudFormation template to deploy an approved VPC configuration with S3 interface endpoints Scope the developers* IAM permissions so that the developers can launch VPC resources only with CloudFormation

B.

Create a daily forecasted budget with AWS Budgets to monitor EC2 compute costs and S3 data-transfer costs across the developer accounts When the forecasted cost is 75% of the actual budget cost, send an alert to the developer teams If the actual budget cost is 100%. create a budget action to terminate the developers' EC2 instances and VPC infrastructure

C.

Create an AWS Service Catalog portfolio that users can use to create an approved VPC configuration with S3 gateway endpoints and approved EC2 instances Share the portfolio with the developer accounts Configure an AWS Service Catalog launch constraint to use an approved IAM role Scope the developers' IAM permissions to allow access only to AWS Service Catalog

D.

Create and deploy AWS Config rules to monitor the compliance of EC2 and VPC resources in the developer AWS accounts If developers launch unapproved EC2 instances or if developers create VPCs without S3 gateway endpoints perform a remediation action to terminate the unapproved resources

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Question # 60

A company wants to refactor its retail ordering web application that currently has a load-balanced Amazon EC2 instance fleet for web hosting, database API services, and business logic. The company needs to create a decoupled, scalable architecture with a mechanism for retaining failed orders while also minimizing operational costs.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Use Amazon S3 for web hosting with Amazon API Gateway for database API services. Use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) for order queuing. Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) for business logic with Amazon SQS long polling for retaining failed orders.

B.

Use AWS Elastic Beanstalk for web hosting with Amazon API Gateway for database API services. Use Amazon MQ for order queuing. Use AWS Step Functionsfor business logic with Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive for retaining failed orders.

C.

Use Amazon S3 for web hosting with AWS AppSync for database API services. Use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) for order queuing. Use AWS Lambda for business logic with an Amazon SQS dead-letter queue for retaining failed orders.

D.

Use Amazon Lightsail for web hosting with AWS AppSync for database API services. Use Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) for order queuing. UseAmazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) for business logic with Amazon OpenSearch Service for retaining failed orders.

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Question # 61

A company is migrating its development and production workloads to a new organization in AWS Organizations. The company has created a separate member account for development and a separate member account for production. Consolidated billing is linked to the management account. In the management account, a solutions architect needs to create an 1AM user that can stop or terminate resources in both member accounts.

Which solution will meet this requirement?

A.

Create an IAM user and a cross-account role in the management account. Configure the cross-account role with least privilege access to the member accounts.

B.

Create an IAM user in each member account. In the management account, create a cross-account role that has least privilege access. Grant the IAM users access to the cross-account role by using a trust policy.

C.

Create an IAM user in the management account. In the member accounts, create an IAM group that has least privilege access. Add the IAM user from the management account to each IAM group in the member accounts.

D.

Create an IAM user in the management account. In the member accounts, create cross-account roles that have least privilege access. Grant the IAM user access to the roles by using a trust policy.

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Question # 62

A company is implementing a serverless architecture by using AWS Lambda functions that need to access a Microsoft SQL Server DB instance on Amazon RDS. The company has separate environments for development and production, including a clone of the database system.

The company's developers are allowed to access the credentials for the development database. However, the credentials for the production database must be encrypted with a key that only members of the IT security team's IAM user group can access. This key must be rotated on a regular basis.

What should a solutions architect do in the production environment to meet these requirements?

A.

Store the database credentials in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store by using a SecureString parameter that is encrypted by an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key. Attach a role to each Lambda function to provide access to the SecureString parameter. Restrict access to the Securestring parameter and the customer managed key so that only the IT security team can access the parameter and the key.

B.

Encrypt the database credentials by using the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) default Lambda key. Store the credentials in the environment variables of each Lambda function. Load the credentials from the environment variables in the Lambda code. Restrict access to the KMS key o that only the IT security team can access the key.

C.

Store the database credentials in the environment variables of each Lambda function.Encrypt the environment variables by using an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key. Restrict access to the customer managed key so that only the IT security team can access the key.

D.

Store the database credentials in AWS Secrets Manager as a secret that is associated with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customermanaged key. Attach a role to each Lambda function to provide access to the secret. Restrict access to the secret and the customer managed key so that only the IT security team can access the secret and the key.

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Question # 63

A company has loT sensors that monitor traffic patterns throughout a large city. The company wants to read and collect data from the sensors and perform aggregations on the data.

A solutions architect designs a solution in which the loT devices are streaming to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Several applications are reading from the stream. However, several consumers are experiencing throttling and are periodically and are periodically encountering a RealProvisioned Throughput Exceeded error.

Which actions should the solution architect take to resolve this issue? (Select THREE.)

A.

Reshard the stream to increase the number of shards s in the stream.

B.

Use the Kinesis Producer Library KPL). Adjust the polling frequency.

C.

Use consumers with the enhanced fan-out feature.

D.

Reshard the stream to reduce the number of shards in the stream.

E.

Use an error retry and exponential backoff mechanism in the consumer logic.

F.

Configure the stream to use dynamic partitioning.

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Question # 64

A retail company needs to provide a series of data files to another company, which is its business partner These files are saved in an Amazon S3 bucket under Account A. which belongs to the retail company. The business partner company wants one of its 1AM users. User_DataProcessor. to access the files from its own AWS account (Account B).

Which combination of steps must the companies take so that User_DataProcessor can access the S3 bucket successfully? (Select TWO.)

A.

Turn on the cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) feature for the S3 bucket in Account

B.

In Account A. set the S3 bucket policy to the following:

C.

C. In Account A. set the S3 bucket policy to the following:

D.

D. In Account B. set the permissions of User_DataProcessor to the following:

E.

E. In Account Bt set the permissions of User_DataProcessor to the following:

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Question # 65

A company is using an organization in AWS Organizations to manage hundreds of AWS accounts. A solutions architect is working on a solution to provide baseline protection for the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) top 10 web application vulnerabilities. The solutions architect is using AWS WAF for all existing and new Amazon CloudFront distributions that are deployed within the organization.

Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to provide the baseline protection? (Select THREE.)

A.

Enable AWS Config in all accounts.

B.

Enable Amazon GuardDuty in all accounts.

C.

Enable all features for the organization.

D.

Use AWS Firewall Manager to deploy AWS WAF rules in all accounts for all CloudFront distributions.

E.

Use AWS Shield Advanced to deploy AWS WAF rules in all accounts for all CloudFront distributions.

F.

Use AWS Security Hub to deploy AWS WAF rules in all accounts for all CloudFront distributions.

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Question # 66

A solutions architect needs to assess a newly acquired company’s portfolio of applications and databases. The solutions architect must create a business case to migrate the portfolio to AWS. The newly acquired company runs applications in an on-premises data center. The data center is not well documented. The solutions architect cannot immediately determine how many applications and databases exist. Traffic for the applications is variable. Some applications are batch processes that run at the end of each month.

The solutions architect must gain a better understanding of the portfolio before a migration to AWS can begin.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Use AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to evaluate migration. Use AWS Service Catalog to understand application and database dependencies.

B.

Use AWS Application Migration Service. Run agents on the on-premises infrastructure. Manage the agents by using AWS Migration Hub. Use AWS Storage Gateway to assess local storage needs and database dependencies.

C.

Use Migration Evaluator to generate a list of servers. Build a report for a business case. Use AWS Migration Hub to view the portfolio. Use AWS Application Discovery Service to gain anunderstanding of application dependencies.

D.

Use AWS Control Tower in the destination account to generate an application portfolio. Use AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) to generate deeper reports and a business case. Use a landing zone for core accounts and resources.

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Question # 67

A company ingests and processes streaming market data. The data rate is constant. A nightly process that calculates aggregate statistics is run, and each execution takes about 4 hours to complete. The statistical analysis is not mission critical to the business, and previous data points are picked up on the next execution if a particular run fails.

The current architecture uses a pool of Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances with 1-year reservations running full time to ingest and store the streaming data in attached Amazon EBS volumes. On-Demand EC2 instances are launched each night to perform the nightly processing, accessing the stored data from NFS shares on the ingestion servers, and terminating the nightly processing servers when complete. The Reserved Instance reservations are expiring, and the company needs to determine whether to purchase new reservations or implement a new design.

Which is the most cost-effective design?

A.

Update the ingestion process to use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to save data to Amazon S3. Use a scheduled script to launch a fleet of EC2 On-Demand Instances each night to perform the batch processing of the S3 data. Configure the script to terminate the instances when the processing is complete.

B.

Update the ingestion process to use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to save data to Amazon S3. Use AWS Batch with Spot Instances to perform nightlyprocessing with a maximum Spot price that is 50% of the On-Demand price.

C.

Update the ingestion process to use a fleet of EC2 Reserved Instances with 3-year reservations behind a Network Load Balancer. Use AWS Batch with SpotInstances to perform nightly processing with a maximum Spot price that is 50% of the On-Demand price.

D.

Update the ingestion process to use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to save data to Amazon Redshift. Use Amazon EventBridge to schedule an AWS Lambdafunction to run nightly to query Amazon Redshift to generate the daily statistics.

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Question # 68

A company is running an application that uses an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis cluster as a caching layer A recent security audit revealed that the company has configured encryption at rest for ElastiCache However the company did not configure ElastiCache to use encryption in transit Additionally, users can access the cache without authentication

A solutions architect must make changes to require user authentication and to ensure that the company is using end-to-end encryption

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Create an AUTH token Store the token in AWS System Manager Parameter Store, as anencrypted parameter Create a new cluster with AUTH and configure encryption in transit Update the application to retrieve the AUTH token from Parameter Store when necessary and to use the AUTH token for authentication

B.

Create an AUTH token Store the token in AWS Secrets Manager Configure the existing cluster to use the AUTH token and configure encryption in transit Update the application to retrieve the AUTH token from Secrets Manager when necessary and to use the AUTH token for authentication.

C.

Create an SSL certificate Store the certificate in AWS Secrets Manager Create a new cluster and configure encryption in transit Update the application to retrieve the SSL certificate from Secrets Manager when necessary and to use the certificate for authentication.

D.

Create an SSL certificate Store the certificate in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, as an encrypted advanced parameter Update the existing cluster to configure encryption in transit Update the application to retrieve the SSL certificate from Parameter Store when necessary and to use the certificate for authentication

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Question # 69

A company has several AWS accounts. A development team is building an automation framework for cloud governance and remediation processes. The automation framework uses AWS Lambda functions in a centralized account. A solutions architect must implement a least privilege permissions policy that allows the Lambda functions to run in each of the company's AWS accounts.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A.

In the centralized account, create an IAM role that has the Lambda service as a trusted entity. Add an inline policy to assume the roles of the other AWS accounts.

B.

In the other AWS accounts, create an IAM role that has minimal permissions. Add the centralized account's Lambda IAM role as a trusted entity.

C.

In the centralized account, create an IAM role that has roles of the other accounts as trusted entities. Provide minimal permissions.

D.

In the other AWS accounts, create an IAM role that has permissions to assume the role of the centralized account. Add the Lambda service as a trusted entity.

E.

In the other AWS accounts, create an IAM role that has minimal permissions. Add the Lambda service as a trusted entity.

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Question # 70

A company wants to use AWS for disaster recovery for an on-premises application. The company has hundreds of Windows-based servers that run the application. All the servers mount a common share.

The company has an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of 5 minutes. The solution must support native failover and fallback capabilities.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A.

Create an AWS Storage Gateway File Gateway. Schedule daily Windows server backups. Save the data lo Amazon S3. During a disaster, recover the on-premises servers from the backup. During failback. run the on-premises servers on Amazon EC2 instances.

B.

Create a set of AWS CloudFormation templates to create infrastructure. Replicate all data to Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) by using AWS DataSync. During a disaster, use AWS CodePipeline to deploy the templates to restore the on-premises servers. Fail back the data by using DataSync.

C.

Create an AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) pipeline to stand up a multi-site active-active environment on AWS. Replicate data into Amazon S3 by using the s3 sync command. During a disaster, swap DNS endpoints to point to AWS. Fail back the data by using the s3 sync command.

D.

Use AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery to replicate the on-premises servers. Replicate data to an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system by using AWS DataSync. Mount the file system to AWS servers. During a disaster, fail over the on-premises servers to AWS. Fail back to new or existing servers by using Elastic Disaster Recovery.

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Question # 71

A company operates an on-premises software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that ingests several files daily. The company provides multiple public SFTP endpoints to its customers to facilitate the file transfers. The customers add the SFTP endpoint IP addresses to their firewall allow list for outbound traffic. Changes to the SFTP endmost IP addresses are not permitted.

The company wants to migrate the SaaS solution to AWS and decrease the operational overhead of the file transfer service.

Which solution meets these requirements?

A.

Register the customer-owned block of IP addresses in the company's AWS account. Create Elastic IP addresses from the address pool and assign them to an AWS Transfer for SFTP endpoint. Use AWS Transfer to store the files in Amazon S3.

B.

Add a subnet containing the customer-owned block of IP addresses to a VPC Create Elastic IP addresses from the address pool and assign them to an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Launch EC2 instances hosting FTP services in an Auto Scaling group behind the ALB. Store the files in attached Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes.

C.

Register the customer-owned block of IP addresses with Amazon Route 53. Create alias records in Route 53 that point to a Network Load Balancer (NLB). Launch EC2 instances hosting FTP services in an Auto Scaling group behind the NLB. Store the files in Amazon S3.

D.

Register the customer-owned block of IP addresses in the company's AWS account. Create Elastic IP addresses from the address pool and assign them to an Amazon S3 VPC endpoint. Enable SFTP support on the S3 bucket.

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Question # 72

A company needs to establish a connection from its on-premises data center to AWS. The company needs to connect all of its VPCs that are located in different AWS Regions with transitive routing capabilities between VPC networks. The company also must reduce network outbound traffic costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a consistent network experience for end users.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Create an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection between the on-premises data center and a new central VPC. Create VPC peering connections that initiate from the central VPC to all other VPCs.

B.

Create an AWS Direct Connect connection between the on-premises data center and AWS. Provision a transit VIF, and connect it to a Direct Connect gateway. Connect the Direct Connect gateway to all the other VPCs by using a transit gateway in each Region.

C.

Create an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection between the on-premises data centerand a new central VPC. Use a transit gateway with dynamic routing. Connect the transit gateway to all other VPCs.

D.

Create an AWS Direct Connect connection between the on-premises data center and AWS Establish an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection between all VPCs in each Region. Create VPC peering connections that initiate from the central VPC to all other VPCs.

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Question # 73

A company has millions of objects in an Amazon S3 bucket. The objects are in the S3 Standard storage class. All the S3 objects are accessed frequently. The number of users and applications that access the objects is increasing rapidly. The objects are encrypted with server-side encryption with AWS KMS Keys (SSE-KMS).

A solutions architect reviews the company's monthly AWS invoice and notices that AWS KMS costs are increasing because of the high number of requests from Amazon S3. The solutions architect needs to optimize costs with minimal changes to the application.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A.

Create a new S3 bucket that has server-side encryption with customer-provided keys (SSE-C) as the encryption type. Copy the existing objects to the new S3 bucket. Specify SSE-C.

B.

Create a new S3 bucket that has server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3) as the encryption type. Use S3 Batch Operations to copy the existing objects to the new S3 bucket. Specify SSE-S3.

C.

Use AWS CloudHSM to store the encryption keys. Create a new S3 bucket. Use S3 Batch Operations to copy the existing objects to the new S3 bucket. Encrypt the objects by using the keys from CloudHSM.

D.

Use the S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class for the S3 bucket. Create an S3 Intelligent-Tiering archive configuration to transition objects that are not accessed for 90 days to S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

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Question # 74

A solutions architect is redesigning a three-tier application that a company hosts onpremises. The application provides personalized recommendations based on user profiles. The company already has an AWS account and has configured a VPC to host the application.

The frontend is a Java-based application that runs in on-premises VMs. The company hosts a personalization model on a physical application server and uses TensorFlow to implement the model. The personalization model uses artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). The company stores user information in a Microsoft SQL Server database. The web application calls the personalization model, which reads the user profiles from the database and provides recommendations.

The company wants to migrate the redesigned application to AWS.

Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?

A.

Use AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) to migrate the on-premises physical application server and the web application VMs to AWS. Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate the SQL Server database to Amazon RDS for SQL Server.

B.

Export the personalization model. Store the model artifacts in Amazon S3. Deploy the model to Amazon SageMaker and create an endpoint. Host the Java application in AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Use AWS Database Migration Service {AWS DMS) to migrate the SQL Server database to Amazon RDS for SQL Server.

C.

Use AWS Application Migration Service to migrate the on-premises personalization model and VMs to Amazon EC2 instances in Auto Scaling groups. Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate the SQL Server database to an EC2 instance.

D.

Containerize the personalization model and the Java application. Use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) managed node groups to deploy the model and the application to Amazon EKS Host the node groups in a VPC. Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate the SQL Server database to Amazon RDS for SQL Server.

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Question # 75

A company uses a Grafana data visualization solution that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance to monitor the health of the company's AWS workloads. The company has invested time and effort to create dashboards that the company wants to preserve. The dashboards need to be highly available and cannot be down for longer than 10 minutes. The company needs to minimize ongoing maintenance.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A.

Migrate to Amazon CloudWatch dashboards. Recreate the dashboards to match the existing Grafana dashboards. Use automatic dashboards where possible.

B.

Create an Amazon Managed Grafana workspace. Configure a new Amazon CloudWatch data source. Export dashboards from the existing Grafana instance. Import the dashboards into the new workspace.

C.

Create an AMI that has Grafana pre-installed. Store the existing dashboards in Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). Create an Auto Scaling group that uses the new AMI. Set the Auto Scaling group's minimum, desired, and maximum number of instances to one. Create an Application Load Balancer that serves at least two Availability Zones.

D.

Configure AWS Backup to back up the EC2 instance that runs Grafana once each hour. Restore the EC2 instance from the most recent snapshot in an alternate Availability Zone when required.

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Question # 76

A company is migrating its blog platform to AWS. The company's on-premises servers connect to AWS through an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection. The blog content is updated several times a day by multiple authors and is served from a file share on a network-attached storage (NAS) server.

The company needs to migrate the blog platform without delaying the content updates. The company has deployed Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones to run the blog platform behind an Application Load Balancer. The company also needs to move 200 TB of archival data from its on-premises servers to Amazon S3 as soon as possible.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

A.

Create a weekly cron job in Amazon EventBridge. Use the cron job to invoke an AWS Lambda function to update the EC2 instances from the NAS server.

B.

Configure an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Multi-Attach volume for the EC2 instances to share for content access. Write code to synchronize the EBS volume with the NAS server weekly.

C.

Mount an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system to the on-premises servers to act as the NAS server. Copy the blog data to the EFS file system. Mount the EFS file system to the EC2 instances to serve the content.

D.

Order an AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized device. Copy the static data artifacts to the device. Ship the device to AWS.

E.

Order an AWS Snowcone SSD device. Copy the static data artifacts to the device. Ship the device to AWS.

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Question # 77

A company uses AWS Organizations for a multi-account setup in the AWS Cloud. The company's finance team has a data processing application that uses AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB. The company's marketing team wants to access the data that is stored in the DynamoDB table.

The DynamoDB table contains confidential data. The marketing team can have access to only specific attributes of data in the DynamoDB table. The fi-nance team and the marketing team have separate AWS accounts.

What should a solutions architect do to provide the marketing team with the appropriate access to the DynamoDB table?

A.

Create an SCP to grant the marketing team's AWS account access to the specific attributes of the DynamoDB table. Attach the SCP to the OU of the finance team.

B.

Create an IAM role in the finance team's account by using IAM policy conditions for specific DynamoDB attributes (fine-grained access con-trol). Establish trust with the marketing team's account. In the mar-keting team's account, create an IAM role that has permissions to as-sume the IAM role in the finance team's account.

C.

Create a resource-based IAM policy that includes conditions for spe-cific DynamoDB attributes (fine-grained access control). Attach the policy to the DynamoDB table. In the marketing team's account, create an IAM role that has permissions to access the DynamoDB table in the finance team's account.

D.

Create an IAM role in the finance team's account to access the Dyna-moDB table. Use an IAM permissions boundary to limit the access to the specific attributes. In the marketing team's account, create an IAM role that has permissions to assume the IAM role in the finance team's account.

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Question # 78

A financial services company loaded millions of historical stock trades into an Amazon DynamoDB table. The table uses on-demand capacity mode. Once each day at midnight, a few million new records are loaded into the table. Application read activity against the table happens in bursts throughout the day. and a limited set of keys are repeatedly looked up. The company needs to reduce costs associated with DynamoDB.

Which strategy should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement?

A.

Deploy an Amazon ElastiCache cluster in front of the DynamoDB table.

B.

Deploy DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX). Configure DynamoDB auto scaling. Purchase Savings Plans in Cost Explorer

C.

Use provisioned capacity mode. Purchase Savings Plans in Cost Explorer.

D.

Deploy DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX). Use provisioned capacity mode. Configure DynamoDB auto scaling.

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Question # 79

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage more than 1.000 AWS accounts. The company has created a new developer organization. There are 540 developer member accounts that must be moved to the new developer organization. All accounts are set up with all the required Information so that each account can be operated as a standalone account.

Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to move all of the developer accounts to the new developer organization? (Select THREE.)

A.

Call the MoveAccount operation in the Organizations API from the old organization's management account to migrate the developer accounts to the new developer organization.

B.

From the management account, remove each developer account from the old organization using the RemoveAccountFromOrganization operation in the Organizations API.

C.

From each developer account, remove the account from the old organization using the RemoveAccountFromOrganization operation in the Organizations API.

D.

Sign in to the new developer organization's management account and create a placeholder member account that acts as a target for the developer account migration.

E.

Call the InviteAccountToOrganization operation in the Organizations API from the new developer organization's management account to send invitations to the developer accounts.

F.

Have each developer sign in to their account and confirm to join the new developer organization.

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Question # 80

A company has an on-premises Microsoft SOL Server database that writes a nightly 200 GB export to a local drive. The company wants to move the backups to more robust cloud storage on Amazon S3. The company has set up a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection between the on-premises data center and AWS.

Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A.

Create a new S3 bucket. Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway within the VPC that Is connected to the Direct Connect connection. Create a new SMB file share. Write nightly database exports to the new SMB file share.

B.

Create an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Single-AZ file system within the VPC that is connected to the Direct Connect connection. Create a new SMB file share. Write nightly database exports to an SMB file share on the Amazon FSx file system. Enable nightly backups.

C.

Create an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Multi-AZ file system within the VPC that is connected to the Direct Connect connection. Create a new SMB file share. Write nightly database exports to an SMB file share on the Amazon FSx file system. Enable nightly backups.

D.

Create a new S3 bucket. Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway within the VPC that Is connected to the Direct Connect connection. Create a new SMB file share. Write nightly database exports to the new SMB file share on the volume gateway, and automate copies of this data to an S3 bucket.

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Question # 81

A company's interactive web application uses an Amazon CloudFront distribution to serve images from an Amazon S3 bucket. Occasionally, third-party tools ingest corrupted images into the S3 bucket. This image corruption causes a poor user experience in the application later. The company has successfully implemented and tested Python logic to detect corrupt images.

A solutions architect must recommend a solution to integrate the detection logic with minimal latency between the ingestion and serving.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Use a Lambda@Edge function that is invoked by a viewer-response event.

B.

Use a Lambda@Edge function that is invoked by an origin-response event.

C.

Use an S3 event notification that invokes an AWS Lambda function.

D.

Use an S3 event notification that invokes an AWS Step Functions state machine.

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Question # 82

A company is developing a new on-demand video application that is based on microservices. The application will have 5 million users at launch and will have 30 million users after 6 months. The company has deployed the application on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate. The company developed the application by using ECS services that use the HTTPS protocol.

A solutions architect needs to implement updates to the application by using blue/green deployments. The solution must distribute traffic to each ECS service through a load balancer. The application must automatically adjust the number of tasks in response to an Amazon CloudWatch alarm.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Configure the ECS services to use the blue/green deployment type and a Network Load Balancer. Request increases to the service quota for tasks per service to meet the demand.

B.

Configure the ECS services to use the blue/green deployment type and a Network Load Balancer. Implement an Auto Scaling group for each ECS service by using the Cluster Autoscaler.

C.

Configure the ECS services to use the blue/green deployment type and an Application Load Balancer. Implement an Auto Seating group for each ECS service by using the Cluster Autoscaler.

D.

Configure the ECS services to use the blue/green deployment type and an Application Load Balancer. Implement Service Auto Scaling for each ECS service.

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Question # 83

A manufacturing company is building an inspection solution for its factory. The company has IPcameras at the end of each assembly line. The company has used Amazon SageMaker to train a machine learning (ML) model to identify common defects from still images.

The company wants to provide local feedback to factory workers when a defect is detected. The company must be able to provide this feedback even if the factory’s internet connectivity is down. The company has a local Linux server that hosts an API that provides local feedback to the workers.

How should the company deploy the ML model to meet these requirements?

A.

Set up an Amazon Kinesis video stream from each IP camera to AWS. Use Amazon EC2 instances to take still images of the streams. Upload the images to an Amazon S3 bucket. Deploy a SageMaker endpoint with the ML model. Invoke an AWS Lambda function to call the inference endpoint when new images are uploaded. Configure the Lambda function to call the local API when a defect is detected.

B.

Deploy AWS IoT Greengrass on the local server. Deploy the ML model to the Greengrass server. Create a Greengrass component to take still images from the cameras and run inference. Configure the component to call the local API when a defect is detected.

C.

Order an AWS Snowball device. Deploy a SageMaker endpoint the ML model and an Amazon EC2 instance on the Snowball device. Take still images from the cameras. Run inference from the EC2 instance. Configure the instance to call the local API when a defect is detected.

D.

Deploy Amazon Monitron devices on each IP camera. Deploy an Amazon Monitron Gateway on premises. Deploy the ML model to the Amazon Monitron devices. Use Amazon Monitron health state alarms to call the local API from an AWS Lambda function when a defect is detected.

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Question # 84

A global ecommerce company has many data centers around the world. With the growth of its stored data, the company needs to set up a solution to provide scalable storage for legacy on-premises file applications. The company must be able to take point-in-time copies of volumes by using AWS Backup and must retain low-latency access to frequently accessed data. The company also needs to have storage volumes that can be mounted as Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) devices from the company's on-premises application servers.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Provision an AWS Storage Gateway tape gateway. Configure the tape gateway to store data in anAmazon S3 bucket. Deploy AWS Backup to take point-in-time copies of the volumes.

B.

Provision an Amazon FSx File Gateway and an Amazon S3 File Gateway. Deploy AWS Backup to take point-in-time copies of the data.

C.

Provision an AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway in cache mode. Back up the on-premises Storage Gateway volumes with AWS Backup.

D.

Provision an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway in cache mode. Deploy AWS Backup to take point-in-time copies of the volumes.

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Question # 85

An online survey company runs its application in the AWS Cloud. The application is distributed and consists of microservices that run in an automatically scaled Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster. The ECS cluster is a target for an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The ALB is a custom origin for an Amazon CloudFront distribution.

The company has a survey that contains sensitive data. The sensitive data must be encrypted when it moves through the application. The application's data-handling microservice is the only microservice that should be able to decrypt the data.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Create a symmetric AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key that is dedicated to the data-handling microservice. Create a field-level encryption profile and a configuration. Associate the KMS key and the configuration with the CloudFront cache behavior.

B.

Create an RSA key pair that is dedicated to the data-handling microservice. Upload the public key to the CloudFront distribution. Create a field-level encryption profile and a configuration. Add the configuration to the CloudFront cache behavior.

C.

Create a symmetric AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key that is dedicated to the data-handling microservice. Create a Lambda@Edge function. Program the function to use the KMS key to encrypt the sensitive data.

D.

Create an RSA key pair that is dedicated to the data-handling microservice. Create a Lambda@Edge function. Program the function to use the private key of the RSA key pair to encrypt the sensitive data.

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Question # 86

A company has multiple business units that each have separate accounts on AWS. Each business unit manages its own network with several VPCs that have CIDR ranges that overlap. The company’s marketing team has created a new internal application and wants to make the application accessible to all the other business units. The solution must use private IP addresses only.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A.

Instruct each business unit to add a unique secondary CIDR range to the business unit's VPC. Peer the VPCs and use a private NAT gateway in the secondary range to route traffic to the marketing team.

B.

Create an Amazon EC2 instance to serve as a virtual appliance in the marketing account's VPC. Create an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection between the marketing team and each business unit's VPC. Perform NAT where necessary.

C.

Create an AWS PrivateLink endpoint service to share the marketing application. Grant permission to specific AWS accounts to connect to the service. Create interface VPC endpoints in other accounts to access the application by using private IP addresses.

D.

Create a Network Load Balancer (NLB) in front of the marketing application in a private subnet. Create an API Gateway API. Use the Amazon API Gateway private integration to connect the API to the NLB. Activate IAM authorization for the API. Grant access to the accounts of the other business units.

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Question # 87

A company runs an application in an on-premises data center. The application gives users the ability to upload media files. The files persist in a file server. The web application has many users. The application server is overutilized, which causes data uploads to fail occasionally. The company frequently adds new storage to the file server. The company wants to resolve these challenges by migrating the application to AWS.

Users from across the United States and Canada access the application. Only authenticated usersshould have the ability to access the application to upload files. The company will consider a solution that refactors the application, and the company needs to accelerate application development.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A.

Use AWS Application Migration Service to migrate the application server to Amazon EC2 instances. Create an Auto Scaling group for the EC2 instances. Use an Application Load Balancer to distribute the requests. Modify the application to use Amazon S3 to persist the files. Use Amazon Cognito to authenticate users.

B.

Use AWS Application Migration Service to migrate the application server to Amazon EC2 instances. Create an Auto Scaling group for the EC2 instances. Use an Application Load Balancer to distribute the requests. Set up AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On) to give users the ability to sign in to the application. Modify the application to use Amazon S3 to persist the files.

C.

Create a static website for uploads of media files. Store the static assets in Amazon S3. Use AWS AppSync to create an API. Use AWS Lambda resolvers to upload the media files to Amazon S3. Use Amazon Cognito to authenticate users.

D.

Use AWS Amplify to create a static website for uploads of media files. Use Amplify Hosting to serve the website through Amazon CloudFront. Use Amazon S3 to store the uploaded media files. Use Amazon Cognito to authenticate users.

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Question # 88

A company manufactures smart vehicles. The company uses a custom application to collect vehicle data. The vehicles use the MQTT protocol to connect to the application.

The company processes the data in 5-minute intervals. The company then copies vehicle telematics data to on-premises storage. Custom applications analyze this data to detect anomalies.

The number of vehicles that send data grows constantly. Newer vehicles generate high volumes of data. The on-premises storage solution is not able to scale for peak traffic, which results in data loss. The company must modernize the solution and migrate the solution to AWS to resolve the scaling challenges.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A.

Use AWS IOT Greengrass to send the vehicle data to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). Create an Apache Kafka application to store the data in Amazon S3. Use a pretrained model in Amazon SageMaker to detect anomalies.

B.

Use AWS IOT Core to receive the vehicle data. Configure rules to route data to an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream that stores the data in Amazon S3. Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics application that reads from the delivery stream to detect anomalies.

C.

Use AWS IOT FleetWise to collect the vehicle data. Send the data to an Amazon Kinesis data stream. Use an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to store the data in Amazon S3. Use the built-in machine learning transforms in AWS Glue to detect anomalies.

D.

Use Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ to collect the vehicle data. Send the data to an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to store the data in Amazon S3. Use Amazon Lookout for Metrics to detect anomalies.

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Question # 89

A company is migrating a legacy application from an on-premises data center to AWS. The application uses MongoDB as a key-value database According to the company's technical guidelines, all Amazon EC2 instances must be hosted in a private subnet without an internet connection. In addition, all connectivity between applications and databases must be encrypted. The database must be able to scale based on demand.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Create new Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) tables for the application with Provisioned IOPS volumes. Use the instance endpoint to connect to Amazon DocumentDB.

B.

Create new Amazon DynamoDB tables for the application with on-demand capacity. Use a gateway VPC endpoint for DynamoDB to connect to the DynamoDB tables

C.

Create new Amazon DynamoDB tables for the application with on-demand capacity. Use an interface VPC endpoint for DynamoDB to connect to the DynamoDB tables.

D.

Create new Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) tables for the application with Provisioned IOPS volumes Use the cluster endpoint to connect to Amazon DocumentDB

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Question # 90

A company needs to architect a hybrid DNS solution. This solution will use an Amazon Route 53 private hosted zone for the domain cloud.example.com for the resources stored within VPCs.

The company has the following DNS resolution requirements:

• On-premises systems should be able to resolve and connect to cloud.example.com.

• All VPCs should be able to resolve cloud.example.com.

There is already an AWS Direct Connect connection between the on-premises corporate network and AWS Transit Gateway. Which architecture should the company use to meet these requirements with the HIGHEST performance?

A.

Associate the private hosted zone to all the VPCs. Create a Route 53 inbound resolver in theshared services VPC. Attach all VPCs to the transit gateway and create forwarding rules in the on-premises DNS server for cloud.example.com that point to the inbound resolver.

B.

Associate the private hosted zone to all the VPCs. Deploy an Amazon EC2 conditional forwarder in the shared services VPC. Attach all VPCs to the transit gateway and create forwarding rules in the on-premises DNS server for cloud.example.com that point to the conditional forwarder.

C.

Associate the private hosted zone to the shared services VPC. Create a Route 53 outbound resolver in the shared services VPC. Attach all VPCs to the transit gateway and create forwarding rules in the on-premises DNS server for cloud.example.com that point to the outbound resolver.

D.

Associate the private hosted zone to the shared services VPC. Create a Route 53 inbound resolver in the shared services VPC. Attach the shared services VPC to the transit gateway and create forwarding rules in the on-premises DNS server for cloud.example.com that point to the inbound resolver.

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Question # 91

A large company runs workloads in VPCs that are deployed across hundreds of AWS accounts. Each VPC consists to public subnets and private subnets that span across multiple Availability Zones. NAT gateways are deployed in the public subnets and allow outbound connectivity to the internet from the private subnets.

A solutions architect is working on a hub-and-spoke design. All private subnets in the spoke VPCs must route traffic to the internet through an egress VPC. The solutions architect already has deployed a NAT gateway in an egress VPC in a central AWS account.

Which set of additional steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements?

A.

Create peering connections between the egress VPC and the spoke VPCs. Configure the required routing to allow access to the internet.

B.

Create a transit gateway, and share it with the existing AWS accounts. Attach existing VPCs to the transit gateway Configure the required routing to allow access to the internet.

C.

Create a transit gateway in every account. Attach the NAT gateway to the transit gateways. Configure the required routing to allow access to the internet.

D.

Create an AWS PrivateLink connection between the egress VPC and the spoke VPCs. Configure the required routing to allow access to the internet

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Question # 92

A finance company is running its business-critical application on current-generation Linux EC2 instances The application includes a self-managed MySQL database performing heavy I/O operations. The application is working fine to handle a moderate amount of traffic during the month. However, it slows down during the final three days of each month due to month-end reporting, even though the company is using Elastic Load Balancers and Auto Scaling within its infrastructure to meet the increased demand.

Which of the following actions would allow the database to handle the month-end load with the LEAST impact on performance?

A.

Pre-warming Elastic Load Balancers, using a bigger instance type, changing all Amazon EBS volumes to GP2 volumes.

B.

Performing a one-time migration of the database cluster to Amazon RDS. and creatingseveral additional read replicas to handle the load during end of month

C.

Using Amazon CioudWatch with AWS Lambda to change the type. size, or IOPS of Amazon EBS volumes in the cluster based on a specific CloudWatch metric

D.

Replacing all existing Amazon EBS volumes with new PIOPS volumes that have the maximum available storage size and I/O per second by taking snapshots before the end of the month and reverting back afterwards.

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Question # 93

A retail company has structured its AWS accounts to be part of an organization in AWS Organizations. The company has set up consolidated billing and has mapped its departments to the following OUs: Finance. Sales. Human Resources

The HR department is releasing a new system thai will launch in 3 months. In preparation, the HR department has purchased several Reserved Instances (RIs) in its production AWS account. The HR department will install the new application on this account. The HR department wants to make sure that other departments cannot share the Rl discounts.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

In the AWS Billing and Cost Management console for the HR department's production account, turn off R1 sharing.

B.

Remove the HR department's production AWS account from the organization. Add the account to the consolidating billing configuration only.

C.

In the AWS Billing and Cost Management console, use the organization's management account to turn off R1 sharing for the HR department's production AWS account.

D.

Create an SCP in the organization to restrict access to the RIs. Apply the SCP to the OUs of the other departments.

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Question # 94

A company with several AWS accounts is using AWS Organizations and service control policies (SCPs). An Administrator created the following SCP and has attached it to an organizational unit (OU) that contains AWS account 1111-1111-1111:

Developers working in account 1111-1111-1111 complain that they cannot create Amazon S3 buckets. How should the Administrator address this problem?

A.

Add s3:CreateBucket withג€Allowג€ effect to the SCP.

B.

Remove the account from the OU, and attach the SCP directly to account 1111-1111-1111.

C.

Instruct the Developers to add Amazon S3 permissions to their IAM entities.

D.

Remove the SCP from account 1111-1111-1111.

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Question # 95

A company has applications in an AWS account that is named Source. The account is in an organization in AWS Organizations. One of the applications uses AWS Lambda functions and store’s inventory data in an Amazon Aurora database. The application deploys the Lambda functions by using a deployment package. The company has configured automated backups for Aurora.

The company wants to migrate the Lambda functions and the Aurora database to a new AWS account that is named Target. The application processes critical data, so the company must minimize downtime.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Download the Lambda function deployment package from the Source account. Use the deployment package and create new Lambda functions in the Target account. Share the automated Aurora DB cluster snapshot with the Target account.

B.

Download the Lambda function deployment package from the Source account. Use the deployment package and create new Lambda functions in the Target account Share the Aurora DB cluster with the Target account by using AWS Resource Access Manager {AWS RAM). Grant the Target account permission to clone the Aurora DB cluster.

C.

Use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) to share the Lambda functions and the Aurora DB cluster with the Target account. Grant the Target account permission to clone the Aurora DB cluster.

D.

Use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) to share the Lambda functions with the Target account. Share the automated Aurora DB cluster snapshot with the Target account.

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Question # 96

An AWS partner company is building a service in AWS Organizations using Its organization named org. This service requires the partner company to have access to AWS resources in a customer account, which is in a separate organization named org2 The company must establish least privilege security access using an API or command line tool to the customer account

What is the MOST secure way to allow org1 to access resources h org2?

A.

The customer should provide the partner company with their AWS account access keys to log inand perform the required tasks

B.

The customer should create an IAM user and assign the required permissions to the IAM user The customer should then provide the credentials to the partner company to log In and perform the required tasks.

C.

The customer should create an IAM role and assign the required permissions to the IAM role. The partner company should then use the IAM rote's Amazon Resource Name (ARN) when requesting access to perform the required tasks

D.

The customer should create an IAM rote and assign the required permissions to the IAM rote. The partner company should then use the IAM rote's Amazon Resource Name (ARN). Including the external ID in the IAM role's trust pokey, when requesting access to perform the required tasks

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Question # 97

A company recently completed the migration from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud by using a replatforming strategy. One of the migrated servers is running a legacy Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service that a critical application relies upon. The application sends outbound email messages to the company’s customers. The legacy SMTP server does not support TLS encryption and uses TCP port 25. The application can use SMTP only.

The company decides to use Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) and to decommission the legacy SMTP server. The company has created and validated the SES domain. The company has lifted the SES limits.

What should the company do to modify the application to send email messages from Amazon SES?

A.

Configure the application to connect to Amazon SES by using TLS Wrapper. Create an IAM role that has ses:SendEmail and ses:SendRawEmail permissions. Attach the IAM role to an Amazon EC2 instance.

B.

Configure the application to connect to Amazon SES by using STARTTLS. Obtain Amazon SES SMTP credentials. Use the credentials to authenticate with Amazon SES.

C.

Configure the application to use the SES API to send email messages. Create an IAM role that has ses:SendEmail and ses:SendRawEmail permissions. Use the IAM role as a service role for Amazon SES.

D.

Configure the application to use AWS SDKs to send email messages. Create an IAM user for Amazon SES. Generate API access keys. Use the access keys to authenticate with Amazon SES.

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Question # 98

A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. The application runs on containers in an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster. The ECS tasks use the Fargate launch type. The application's data is relational and is stored in Amazon Aurora MySQL. To meet regulatory requirements, the application must be able to recover to a separate AWS Region in the event of an application failure. In case of a failure, no data can be lost. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

A.

Provision an Aurora Replica in a different Region.

B.

Set up AWS DataSync for continuous replication of the data to a different Region.

C.

Set up AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to perform a continuous replication of the data to a different Region.

D.

Use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager {Amazon DLM) to schedule a snapshot every 5 minutes.

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Question # 99

A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. Recent application metrics show inconsistent response times and a significant increase in error rates. Calls to third-party services are causing the delays. Currently, the application calls third-party services synchronously by directly invoking an AWS Lambda function.

A solutions architect needs to decouple the third-party service calls and ensure that all the calls are eventually completed.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Use an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue to store events and invoke the Lambda function.

B.

Use an AWS Step Functions state machine to pass events to the Lambda function.

C.

Use an Amazon EventBridge rule to pass events to the Lambda function.

D.

Use an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to store events and Invoke the Lambda function.

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Question # 100

A company used Amazon EC2 instances to deploy a web fleet to host a blog site The EC2 instances are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and are configured in an Auto ScaSng group The web application stores all blog content on an Amazon EFS volume.

The company recently added a feature 'or Moggers to add video to their posts, attracting 10 times the previous user traffic At peak times of day. users report buffering and timeout issues while attempting to reach the site or watch videos

Which is the MOST cost-efficient and scalable deployment that win resolve the issues for users?

A.

Reconfigure Amazon EFS to enable maximum I/O.

B.

Update the Nog site to use instance store volumes tor storage. Copy the site contents to the volumes at launch and to Amazon S3 al shutdown.

C.

Configure an Amazon CloudFront distribution. Point the distribution to an S3 bucket, and migrate the videos from EFS to Amazon S3.

D.

Set up an Amazon CloudFront distribution for all site contents, and point the distribution at the ALB.

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Question # 101

A company has a complex web application that leverages Amazon CloudFront for global scalability and performance Over time, users report that the web application is slowing down

The company's operations team reports that the CloudFront cache hit ratio has been dropping steadily. The cache metrics report indicates that query strings on some URLs are inconsistently ordered and are specified sometimes in mixed-case letters and sometimes in lowercase letters.

Which set of actions should the solutions architect take to increase the cache hit ratio as quickly as possible?

A.

Deploy a Lambda@Edge function to sort parameters by name and force them lo be lowercase Select the CloudFront viewer request trigger to invoke the function

B.

Update the CloudFront distribution to disable caching based on query string parameters.

C.

Deploy a reverse proxy after the load balancer to post-process the emitted URLs in the application to force the URL strings to be lowercase.

D.

Update the CloudFront distribution to specify casing-insensitive query string processing.

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Question # 102

A company needs to audit the security posture of a newly acquired AWS account. The company’s data security team requires a notification only when an Amazon S3 bucket becomes publicly exposed. The company has already established an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic that has the data security team's email address subscribed.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Create an S3 event notification on all S3 buckets for the isPublic event. Select the SNS topic as the target for the event notifications.

B.

Create an analyzer in AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule for the event type “Access Analyzer Finding” with a filter for “isPublic: true.” Select the SNS topic as the EventBridge rule target.

C.

Create an Amazon EventBridge rule for the event type “Bucket-Level API Call via CloudTrail” with a filter for “PutBucketPolicy.” Select the SNS topic as the EventBridge rule target.

D.

Activate AWS Config and add the cloudtrail-s3-dataevents-enabled rule. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule for the event type “Config Rules Re-evaluation Status” with a filter for “NON_COMPLIANT.” Select the SNS topic as the EventBridge rule target.

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Question # 103

A company is using AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts Due to regulatory requirements, the company wants to restrict specific member accounts to certain AWS Regions, where they are permitted to deploy resources The resources in the accounts must be tagged enforced based on a group standard and centrally managed with minimal configuration.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements'?

A.

Create an AWS Config rule in the specific member accounts to limit Regions and apply a tag policy.

B.

From the AWS Billing and Cost Management console in the management account, disable Regions for the specific member accounts and apply a tag policy on the root.

C.

Associate the specific member accounts with the root Apply a tag policy and an SCP using conditions to limit Regions.

D.

Associate the specific member accounts with a new OU. Apply a tag policy and an SCP using conditions to limit Regions.

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Question # 104

A company's CISO has asked a Solutions Architect to re-engineer the company's current CI/CD practices to make sure patch deployments to its applications can happen as quickly as possible with minimal downtime if vulnerabilities are discovered. The company must also be able to quickly roll back a change in case of errors.

The web application is deployed in a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The company is currently using GitHub to host the application source code, and has configured an AWS CodeBuild project to build the application. The company also intends to use AWS CodePipeline to trigger builds from GitHub commits using the existing CodeBuild project.

What CI/CD configuration meets all of the requirements?

A.

Configure CodePipeline with a deploy stage using AWS CodeDeploy configured for in-place deployment. Monitor the newly deployed code, and, if there are any issues, push another code update.

B.

Configure CodePipeline with a deploy stage using AWS CodeDeploy configured for blue/green deployments. Monitor the newly deployed code, and, if there are any issues, trigger a manual rollback using CodeDeploy.

C.

Configure CodePipeline with a deploy stage using AWS CloudFormation to create a pipeline for test and production stacks. Monitor the newly deployed code, and, if there are any issues, push another code update.

D.

Configure the CodePipeline with a deploy stage using AWS OpsWorks and in-place deployments. Monitor the newly deployed code, and, if there are any issues, push another code update.

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Question # 105

A large payroll company recently merged with a small staffing company. The unified company now has multiple business units, each with its own existing AWS account.

A solutions architect must ensure that the company can centrally manage the billing and access policies for all the AWS accounts. The solutions architect configures AWS Organizations by sending an invitation to all member accounts of the company from a centralized management account.

What should the solutions architect do next to meet these requirements?

A.

Create the OrganizationAccountAccess IAM group in each member account. Include the necessary IAM roles for each administrator.

B.

Create the OrganizationAccountAccessPoIicy IAM policy in each member account. Connect the member accounts to the management account by using cross-account access.

C.

Create the OrganizationAccountAccessRoIe IAM role in each member account. Grant permission to the management account to assume the IAM role.

D.

Create the OrganizationAccountAccessRoIe IAM role in the management account. Attach the AdministratorAccess AWS managed policy to the IAM role.Assign the IAM role to the administrators in each member account.

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Question # 106

Question:

How can a company patch EC2 instanceswithout internet access, using apatch source in another account, while accessing Systems Manager and S3?

A.

Custom VPN servers

B.

Transit Gateway + private VIFs

C.

VPC endpoints+VPC peeringwith patch source

D.

Network ACLs + Transit Gateway

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Question # 107

A company needs to optimize the cost of its application on AWS. The application uses AWS Lambda functions and Amazon ECS containers that run on AWS Fargate. The application is write-heavy and stores data in an Amazon Aurora MySQL database.

The load on the application is not consistent. The application experiences long periods of no usage, followed by sudden and significant increases and decreases in traffic. The database runs on a memory optimized DB instance and has high utilization during peak times. A solutions architect must design a solution that can scale to handle the changes in traffic.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A.

Add additional read replicas to the database. Purchase Instance Savings Plans and reserved DB instances for Aurora.

B.

Migrate the database to an Aurora DB cluster that has multiple writer instances. Purchase Instance Savings Plans.

C.

Migrate the database to an Aurora global database. Purchase Compute Savings Plans and reserved DB instances for Aurora.

D.

Migrate the database to Aurora Serverless v2. Purchase Compute Savings Plans.

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Question # 108

A company operates quick-service restaurants. The restaurants follow a predictable model with high sales traffic for 4 hours daily Sales traffic is lower outside of those peak hours.

The point of sale and management platform is deployed in the AWS Cloud and has a backend that is based on Amazon DynamoDB. The database table uses provisioned throughput mode with 100.000 RCUs and 80.000 WCUs to match known peak resource consumption.

The company wants to reduce its DynamoDB cost and minimize the operational overhead for the IT staff.

Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A.

Reduce the provisioned RCUs and WCUs

B.

Change the DynamoDB table to use on-demand capacity.

C.

Enable Dynamo DB auto scaling tor the table

D.

Purchase 1-year reserved capacity that is sufficient to cover the peak load for 4 hours each day.

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Question # 109

Question:

A company mandates that all internal AWS communications useprivate IPs. A solutions architect createdinterface VPC endpointsfor public AWS services like S3. However, service names are still resolving topublic IP addresses, and the internal apps cannot connect.

What should the architect do to resolve this issue?

A.

Update the subnet route table with a route to the interface endpoint.

B.

Enable the private DNS option on the VPC attributes.

C.

Configure the security group on the interface endpoint to allow access.

D.

Configure a private hosted zone with conditional forwarding.

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Question # 110

A company is developing an application that will display financial reports. The company needs a solution that can store financial Information that comes from multiple systems. The solution must provide the reports through a web interface and must serve the data will less man 500 milliseconds or latency to end users. The solution also must be highly available and must have an RTO or 30 seconds.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Use an Amazon Redshift cluster to store the data. Use a state website that is hosted on Amazon S3 with backend APIs that ate served by an Amazon Elastic Cubemates Service (Amazon EKS) cluster to provide the reports to the application.

B.

Use Amazon S3 to store the data Use Amazon Athena to provide the reports to the application. Use AWS App Runner to serve the application to view the reports.

C.

Use Amazon DynamoDB to store the data, use an embedded Amazon QuickStight dashboard with direct Query datasets to provide the reports to the application.

D.

Use Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) to store the data, use AWS Elastic Beanstalk to provide the reports to the application.

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Question # 111

A financial services company runs a complex, multi-tier application on Amazon EC2 instances and AWS Lambda functions. The application stores temporary data in Amazon S3. The S3 objects are valid for only 45 minutes and are deleted after 24 hours.

The company deploys each version of the application by launching an AWS CloudFormation stack. The stack creates all resources that are required to run the application. When the company deploys and validates a new application version, the company deletes the CloudFormation stack of the old version.

The company recently tried to delete the CloudFormation stack of an old application version, but the operation failed. An analysis shows that CloudFormation failed to delete an existing S3 bucket. A solutions architect needs to resolve this issue without making major changes to the application's architecture.

Which solution meets these requirements?

A.

Implement a Lambda function that deletes all files from a given S3 bucket. Integrate this Lambda function as a custom resource into the CloudFormation stack. Ensure that the custom resource has a DependsOn attribute that points to the S3 bucket's resource.

B.

Modify the CloudFormation template to provision an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system to store the temporary files there instead of in Amazon S3. Configure the Lambda functions to run in the same VPC as the file system. Mount the file system to the EC2 instances and Lambda functions.

C.

Modify the CloudFormation stack to create an S3 Lifecycle rule that expires all objects 45 minutes after creation. Add a DependsOn attribute that points to the S3 bucket's resource.

D.

Modify the CloudFormation stack to attach a DeletionPolicy attribute with a value of Delete to the S3 bucket.

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Question # 112

A company runs a web application on a single Amazon EC2 instance. End users experience slow application performance during times of peak usage, when CPU utilization is consistently more than 95%.

A user data script installs required custom packages on the EC2 instance. The process of launchingthe instance takes several minutes.

The company is creating an Auto Scaling group that has mixed instance groups, varied CPUs, and a maximum capacity limit. The Auto Scaling group will use a launch template for various configuration options. The company needs to decrease application latency when new instances are launched during auto scaling.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Use a predictive scaling policy. Use an instance maintenance policy to run the user data script. Set the default instance warmup time to 0 seconds.

B.

Use a dynamic scaling policy. Use lifecycle hooks to run the user data script. Set the default instance warmup time to 0 seconds.

C.

Use a predictive scaling policy. Enable warm pools for the Auto Scaling group. Use an instance maintenance policy to run the user data script.

D.

Use a dynamic scaling policy. Enable warm pools for the Auto Scaling group. Use lifecycle hooks to run the user data script.

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Question # 113

A company runs an ecommerce web application on AWS. The static website is hosted on Amazon S3 and served via Amazon CloudFront. API Gateway invokes AWS Lambda for order processing, and Lambda stores data in an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB cluster (On-Demand Instances).

Recently, SQL injection attacks and latency during peak times (cold starts) have been reported. The company wants to ensure scalability, protect against web exploits, and reduce database costs.

A.

Increase Lambda timeout, use RDS Reserved Instances, and use AWS Shield Advanced

B.

Increase Lambda memory, switch to Redshift, use Amazon Inspector

C.

Use provisioned concurrency, switch to Aurora Serverless, use AWS Shield Advanced

D.

Use provisioned concurrency, use RDS Reserved Instances, use AWS WAF with CloudFront

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Question # 114

A solutions architect needs to migrate an on-premises legacy application to AWS. The application runs on two servers behind a bad balancer. The application requires a license file that is associated with the MAC address of the server's network adapter. It takes the software vendor 12 hours to send new license files. The application also uses configuration files with a static IP address to access a database host names are not supported.

Given these requirements. which combination of steps should be taken to implement highly available architecture for the application servers in AWS? (Select TWO.)

A.

Create a pool of ENIs. Request license files from the vendor for the pool, and store the license files in Amazon $3. Create a bootstrap automation script to download a license file and attach the corresponding ENI to anAmazon EC2 instance.

B.

Create a pool of ENIs. Request license files from the vendor for the pool, store the license files on an Amazon EC2 instance. Create an AMI from the instance and use this AMI for all future EC2

C.

Create a bootstrap automation script to request a new license file from the vendor. When the response is received, apply the license file to an Amazon EC2 instance.

D.

Edit the bootstrap automation script to read the database server IP address from the AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. and inject the value into the local configuration files.

E.

Edit an Amazon EC2 instance to include the database server IP address in the configuration files and re-create the AMI to use for all future EC2 instances.

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Question # 115

A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. The application uses AWS Lambda functions and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) containers that run with AWS Fargate technology as its primary compute. The load on the application is irregular. The application experiences long periods of no usage, followed by sudden and significant increases and decreases in traffic. The application is write-heavy and stores data in an Amazon Aurora MySQL database. The database runs on an Amazon RDS memory optimized DB instance that is not able to handle the load.

What is the MOST cost-effective way for the company to handle the sudden and significant changes in traffic?

A.

Add additional read replicas to the database. Purchase Instance Savings Plans and RDS Reserved Instances.

B.

Migrate the database to an Aurora multi-master DB cluster. Purchase Instance Savings Plans.

C.

Migrate the database to an Aurora global database. Purchase Compute Savings Plans and RDS Reserved Instances.

D.

Migrate the database to Aurora Serverless v1. Purchase Compute Savings Plans.

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Question # 116

A company has implemented an ordering system using an event-driven architecture. During initial testing, the system stopped processing orders. Further log analysis revealed that one order message in an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) standard queue was causing an error on the backend and blocking all subsequentorder messages The visibility timeout of the queue is set to 30 seconds, and the backend processing timeout is set to 10 seconds. A solutions architect needs to analyze faulty order messages and ensure that the system continues to process subsequent messages.

Which step should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements?

A.

Increase the backend processing timeout to 30 seconds to match the visibility timeout.

B.

Reduce the visibility timeout of the queue to automatically remove the faulty message.

C.

Configure a new SQS FIFO queue as a dead-letter queue to isolate the faulty messages.

D.

Configure a new SQS standard queue as a dead-letter queue to isolate the faulty messages.

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Question # 117

Question:

An application uses CloudFront, App Runner, and two S3 buckets — one for static assets and one for user-uploaded content. User content is infrequently accessed after 30 days. Users are located only in Europe.

How can the companyoptimize cost?

A.

Expire S3 objects after 30 days.

B.

Transition S3 content toGlacier Deep Archiveafter 30 days.

C.

Use Spot Instances with App Runner.

D.

Add auto scaling to Aurora read replica.

E.

UseCloudFront Price Class 200(Europe & U.S. only).

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Question # 118

A company runs an ecommerce website on Amazon ECS behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company stores the container images in Amazon ECR. The website stores data in an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster. The company uses an Amazon S3 bucket to store backup data.

The company needs to prevent data tampering. The website domain is registered with Amazon Route 53. The company wants to recreate the setup in a second AWS Region with an RPO of 5 minutes and an RTO of 15 minutes. The company has created an ALB in the second Region.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Create a new ECS deployment that uses the Fargate launch type. Use the ECR repository in the current Region to store and pull container images. Set up a cross-Region read replica in Amazon RDS. Create a backup vault in compliance mode and a backup plan in AWS Backup. Set up a Route 53 primary record in the main Region and a secondary record with a multivalue answer routing policy.

B.

Create a new ECS deployment that uses the Fargate launch type. Use the ECR repository in the current Region to store and pull container images. Set up a cross-Region read replica in Amazon RDS. Set up a Route 53 primary record in the main Region and a secondary record with a failover routing policy.

C.

Set up ECR cross-Region replication. Create a new ECS deployment that uses the Fargate launch type. Migrate the DB cluster to an Aurora global database. Create a backup vault in compliance mode and a backup plan in AWS Backup. Enable point-in-time recovery and cross-Region replication for Amazon S3. Set up a Route 53 primary record in the main Region and a secondaryrecord with a failover routing policy.

D.

Set up ECR cross-Region replication. Create a new ECS deployment that uses the Fargate launch type. Migrate the DB cluster to an Aurora global database. Create a backup vault in governance mode and a backup plan in AWS Backup. Set up a Route 53 primary record in the main Region and a secondary record with a geolocation routing policy.

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Question # 119

A company has a project that is launching Amazon EC2 instances that are larger than required. The project's account cannot be part of the company's organization in AWS Organizations due to policy restrictions to keep this activity outside of corporate IT. The company wants to allow only the launch of t3.small

EC2 instances by developers in the project's account. These EC2 instances must be restricted to the us-east-2 Region.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A.

Create a new developer account. Move all EC2 instances, users, and assets into us-east-2. Add the account to the company's organization in AWS Organizations. Enforce a tagging policy that denotes Region affinity.

B.

Create an SCP that denies the launch of all EC2 instances except t3.small EC2 instances in us-east-2. Attach the SCP to the project's account.

C.

Create and purchase a t3.small EC2 Reserved Instance for each developer in us-east-2. Assign each developer a specific EC2 instance with their name as the tag.

D.

Create an IAM policy than allows the launch of only t3.small EC2 instances in us-east-2. Attach the policy to the roles and groups that the developers use in the project's account.

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Question # 120

Question:

A company is migrating its on-premises file transfer solution to AWS Transfer Family. The current system includes an SFTP server, a transformation application, and a messaging server. Transformations run every 5 minutes and notify the messaging server when complete.

The company wants to simplify and reduce operational overhead.

A.

Use Amazon EFS and a cron job to perform the transformations. Notify using SNS.

B.

Use Amazon EMR to perform the transformations and notify via SNS.

C.

Use Amazon S3 as storage with AWS Glue triggered by S3 events for transformations, and notify via SQS.

D.

Use Amazon EFS with a time-based AWS Glue job every 5 minutes.

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Question # 121

A data analytics company has an Amazon Redshift cluster that consists of several reserved nodes. The cluster is experiencing unexpected bursts of usage because a team of employees is compiling a deep audit analysis report. The queries to generate the report are complex read queries and are CPU intensive.

Business requirements dictate that the cluster must be able to service read and write queries at all times. A solutions architect must devise a solution that accommodates the bursts of usage.

Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A.

Provision an Amazon EMR cluster. Offload the complex data processing tasks.

B.

Deploy an AWS Lambda function to add capacity to the Amazon Redshift cluster by using a classic resize operation when the cluster's CPU metrics in Amazon CloudWatch reach 80%.

C.

Deploy an AWS Lambda function to add capacity to the Amazon Redshift cluster by using an elastic resize operation when the cluster's CPU metrics in Amazon CloudWatch reach 80%.

D.

Turn on the Concurrency Scaling feature for the Amazon Redshift cluster.

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Question # 122

A company runs applications in hundreds of production AWS accounts. The company uses AWS Organizations with all features enabled and has a centralized backup

operation that uses AWS Backup.

The company is concerned about ransomware attacks. To address this concern, the company has created a new policy that all backups must be resilient to breaches of privileged-user credentials in any production account.

Which combination of steps will meet this new requirement? (Select THREE.)

A.

Implement cross-account backup with AWS Backup vaults in designated non-production accounts.

B.

Add an SCP that restricts the modification of AWS Backup vaults.

C.

Implement AWS Backup Vault Lock in compliance mode.

D.

Configure the backup frequency, lifecycle, and retention period to ensure that at least one backup always exists in the cold tier.

E.

Configure AWS Backup to write all backups to an Amazon S3 bucket in a designated non-production account. Ensure that the S3 bucket has S3 Object Lock enabled.

F.

Implement least privilege access for the IAM service role that is assigned to AWS Backup.

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Question # 123

A company is currently in the design phase of an application that will need an RPO of less than 5 minutes and an RTO of less than 10 minutes. The solutions architecture team is forecasting that the database will store approximately 10 TB of data. As part of the design, they are looking for a database solution that will provide the company with the ability to fail over to a secondary Region.

Which solution will meet these business requirements at the LOWEST cost?

A.

Deploy an Amazon Aurora DB cluster and take snapshots of the cluster every 5 minutes. Once a snapshot is complete, copy the snapshot to a secondary Region to serve as a backup in the event of a failure.

B.

Deploy an Amazon RDS instance with a cross-Region read replica in a secondary Region. In the event of a failure, promote the read replica to become the primary.

C.

Deploy an Amazon Aurora DB cluster in the primary Region and another in a secondary Region. Use AWS DMS to keep the secondary Region in sync.

D.

Deploy an Amazon RDS instance with a read replica in the same Region. In the event of a failure, promote the read replica to become the primary.

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Question # 124

A company has developed an application that is running Windows Server on VMware vSphere VMs that the company hosts on premises The application data is stored in a proprietary format that must be read through the application The company manually provisioned the servers and the application

As part of its disaster recovery plan, the company wants the ability to host its application on AWS temporarily if the company's on-premises environment becomes unavailable The company wants the application to return to on-premises hosting after a disaster recovery event is complete The RPO is 5 minutes.

Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

A.

Configure AWS DataSync Replicate the data to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes When the on-premises environment is unavailable, use AWS Cloud Format ion templates to provision Amazon EC2 instances and attach the EBS volumes

B.

Configure AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Replicate the data to replication Amazon EC2 instances that are attached to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes When the on-premises environment is unavailable use Elastic Disaster Recovery to launch EC2 instances that use the replicated volumes

C.

Provision an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway. Replicate the data to an Amazon S3 bucket When the on-premises environment is unavailable, use AWS Backup to restore the data to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes and launch Amazon EC2 instances from these EBS volumes

D.

Provision an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system on AWS Replicate the data to the file system When the on-premises environment is unavailable, use AWS Cloud Format ion templates to provision Amazon EC2 instances and use AWS CloudFormation Init commands to mount the Amazon FSx file shares

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Question # 125

A company that is developing a mobile game is making game assets available in two AWS Regions. Game assets are served from a set of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in each Region. The company requires game assets to be fetched from the closest Region. If game assess become unavailable in the closest Region, they should the fetched from the other Region.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirement?

A.

Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution. Create an origin group with one origin for each ALB. Set one of the origins as primary.

B.

Create an Amazon Route 53 health check tor each ALB. Create a Route 53 failover routing record pointing to the two ALBs. Set the Evaluate Target Health value Yes.

C.

Create two Amazon CloudFront distributions, each with one ALB as the origin. Create an Amazon Route 53 failover routing record pointing to the two CloudFront distributions. Set the Evaluate Target Health value to Yes.

D.

Create an Amazon Route 53 health check tor each ALB. Create a Route 53 latency alias record pointing to the two ALBs. Set the Evaluate Target Health value to Yes.

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Question # 126

A company provides a software as a service (SaaS) application that runs in the AWS Cloud. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network LoadBalancer (NLB). The instances are in an Auto Scaling group and are distributed across three Availability Zones in a single AWS Region.

The company is deploying the application into additional Regions. The company must provide static IP addresses for the application to customers so that the customers can add the IP addresses to allow lists.

The solution must automatically route customers to the Region that is geographically closest to them.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution. Create a CloudFront origin group. Add the NLB for each additional Region to the origin group. Provide customers with the IP address ranges of the distribution's edge locations.

B.

Create an AWS Global Accelerator standard accelerator. Create a standard accelerator endpoint for the NLB in each additional Region. Provide customers with the Global Accelerator IP address.

C.

Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution. Create a custom origin for the NLB in each additional Region. Provide customers with the IP address ranges of the distribution's edge locations.

D.

Create an AWS Global Accelerator custom routing accelerator. Create a listener for the custom routing accelerator. Add the IP address and ports for the NLB in each additional Region. Provide customers with the Global Accelerator IP address.

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Question # 127

A solutions architect has implemented a SAML 2 0 federated identity solution with their company's on-premises identity provider (IdP) to authenticate users' access to the AWS environment. When the solutions architect tests authentication through the federated identity web portal, access to the AWS environment is granted However when test users attempt to authenticate through the federated identity web portal, they are not able to access the AWS environment

Which items should the solutions architect check to ensure identity federation isproperly configured? (Select THREE)

A.

The 1AM user's permissions policy has allowed the use of SAML federation for that user

B.

The 1AM roles created for the federated users' or federated groups' trust policy have set the SAML provider as the principal

C.

Test users are not in the AWSFederatedUsers group in the company's IdP

D.

The web portal calls the AWS STS AssumeRoleWithSAML API with the ARN of the SAML provider, the ARN of the 1AM role, and the SAML assertion from IdP

E.

The on-premises IdP's DNS hostname is reachable from the AWS environment VPCs

F.

The company's IdP defines SAML assertions that properly map users or groups in the company to 1AM roles with appropriate permissions

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Question # 128

A company hosts its primary API on AWS using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda functions. Internal applications and external customers use this API. Some customers also use a legacy API hosted on a standalone EC2 instance.

The company wants to increase security across all APIs to prevent denial of service (DoS) attacks, check for vulnerabilities, and guard against common exploits.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A.

Use AWS WAF to protect both APIs. Configure Amazon Inspector to analyze the legacy API. Configure Amazon GuardDuty to monitor for malicious attempts to access the APIs.

B.

Use AWS WAF to protect the API Gateway API. Configure Amazon Inspector to analyze both APIs. Configure Amazon GuardDuty to block malicious attempts.

C.

Use AWS WAF to protect the API Gateway API. Configure Amazon Inspector to analyze the legacy API. Configure Amazon GuardDuty to monitor for malicious attempts to access the APIs.

D.

Use AWS WAF to protect the API Gateway API. Configure Amazon Inspector to protect the legacy API. Configure Amazon GuardDuty to block malicious attempts.

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Question # 129

A company has an application that uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster for the application's database. The DB cluster contains one small primary instance and three larger replica instances. The application runs on an AWS Lambda function. The application makes many short-lived connections to the database's replica instances to perform read-only operations.

During periods of high traffic, the application becomes unreliable and the database reports that too many connections are being established. The frequency of high-traffic periods is unpredictable.

Which solution will improve the reliability of the application?

A.

Use Amazon RDS Proxy to create a proxy for the DB cluster. Configure a read-only endpoint for the proxy. Update the Lambda function to connect to the proxyendpoint.

B.

Increase the max_connections setting on the DB cluster's parameter group. Reboot all the instances in the DB cluster. Update the Lambda function to connect to the DB cluster endpoint.

C.

Configure instance scaling for the DB cluster to occur when the DatabaseConnections metric is close to the max _ connections setting. Update the Lambda function to connect to the Aurora reader endpoint.

D.

Use Amazon RDS Proxy to create a proxy for the DB cluster. Configure a read-only endpoint for the Aurora Data API on the proxy. Update the Lambda function to connect to the proxy endpoint.

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Question # 130

A company has an application that generates reports and stores them in an Amazon S3 bucket When a user accesses their report, the application generates a signed URL to allow the user to download the report. The company's security team has discovered that the files are public and that anyone can download them without authentication The company has suspended the generation of new reports until the problem is resolved.

Which set of actions will immediately remediate the security issue without impacting the application's normal workflow?

A.

Create an AWS Lambda function that applies a deny all policy for users who are not authenticated. Create a scheduled event to invoke the Lambda function

B.

Review the AWS Trusted Advisor bucket permissions check and implement the recommended actions.

C.

Run a script that puts a private ACL on all of the objects in the bucket.

D.

Use the Block Public Access feature in Amazon S3 to set the IgnorePublicAcls option to TRUE on the bucket.

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Question # 131

A medical company is running a REST API on a set of Amazon EC2 instances The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The ALB runs in three public subnets, and the EC2 instances run in three private subnets The company has deployed an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has the ALB as the only origin

Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to enhance the origin security?

A.

Store a random string in AWS Secrets Manager Create an AWS Lambda function for automatic secret rotation Configure CloudFront to inject the random string as a custom HTTP header for the origin request Create an AWS WAF web ACL rule with a string match rule for the custom header Associate the web ACL with the ALB

B.

Create an AWS WAF web ACL rule with an IP match condition of the CloudFront service IP address ranges Associate the web ACL with the ALB Move the ALB into the three private subnets

C.

Store a random string in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store Configure Parameter Store automatic rotation for the string Configure CloudFront to inject the random string as a custom HTTP header for the origin request Inspect the value of the custom HTTP header, and block access in the ALB

D.

Configure AWS Shield Advanced. Create a security group policy to allow connections from CloudFront service IP address ranges. Add the policy to AWS Shield Advanced, and attach the policy to the ALB

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Question # 132

A company runs a web application on AWS. The web application delivers static content from an Amazon S3 bucket that is behind an Amazon CloudFront distribution. The application serves dynamic content by using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that distributes requests to a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances in Auto Scaling groups. The application uses a domain name setup in Amazon Route 53.

Some users reported occasional issues when the users attempted to access the website during peak hours. An operations team found that the ALB sometimes returned HTTP 503 Service Unavailable errors. The company wants to display a custom error message page when these errors occur. The page should be displayed immediately for this error code.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A.

Set up a Route 53 failover routing policy. Configure a health check to determine the status of the ALB endpoint and to fail over to the failover S3 bucket endpoint.

B.

Create a second CloudFront distribution and an S3 static website to host the custom error page. Set up a Route 53 failover routing policy. Use an active-passive configuration between the two distributions.

C.

Create a CloudFront origin group that has two origins. Set the ALB endpoint as the primary origin. For the secondary origin, set an S3 bucket that is configured to host a static website Set up origin failover for the CloudFront distribution. Update the S3 static website to incorporate the custom error page.

D.

Create a CloudFront function that validates each HTTP response code that the ALB returns. Create an S3 static website in an S3 bucket. Upload the custom error page to the S3 bucket as a failover. Update the function to read the S3 bucket and to serve the error page to the end users.

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Question # 133

A company is designing an AWS environment tor a manufacturing application. The application has been successful with customers, and the application's user base has increased. The company has connected the AWS environment to the company's on-premises data center through a 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection. The company has configured BGP for the connection.

The company must update the existing network connectivity solution to ensure that the solution is highly available, fault tolerant, and secure.

Which solution win meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A.

Add a dynamic private IP AWS Site-to-Site VPN as a secondary path to secure data in transit and provide resilience for the Direct Conned connection. Configure MACsec to encrypt traffic inside the Direct Connect connection.

B.

Provision another Direct Conned connection between the company's on-premises data center and AWS to increase the transfer speed and provide resilience. Configure MACsec to encrypt traffic inside the Dried Conned connection.

C.

Configure multiple private VIFs. Load balance data across the VIFs between the on-premises data center and AWS to provide resilience.

D.

Add a static AWS Site-to-Site VPN as a secondary path to secure data in transit and to provide resilience for the Direct Connect connection.

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Question # 134

A company is migrating an application to the AWS Cloud. The application runs in an on-premises data center and writes thousands of images into a mounted NFS file system each night. After the company migrates the application, the company will host the application on an Amazon EC2 instance with a mounted Amazon

Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system.

The company has established an AWS Direct Connect connection to AWS. Before the migration cutover, a solutions architect must build a process that will replicate the newly created on-premises images to the EFS file system.

What is the MOST operationally efficient way to replicate the images?

A.

Configure a periodic process to run the aws s3 sync command from the on-premises file system to Amazon S3. Configure an AWS Lambda function to process event notifications from Amazon S3 and copy the images from Amazon S3 to the EFS file system.

B.

Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway with an NFS mount point. Mount the file gateway file system on the on-premises server. Configure a process to periodically copy the images to the mount point.

C.

Deploy an AWS DataSync agent to an on-premises server that has access to the NFS file system. Send data over the Direct Connect connection to an S3 bucket by using public VIF. Configure an AWS Lambda function to process event notifications from Amazon S3 and copy the images from Amazon S3 to the EFS file system.

D.

Deploy an AWS DataSync agent to an on-premises server that has access to the NFS file system. Send data over the Direct Connect connection to an AWS PrivateLink int

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Question # 135

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts. The company needs a list of all its Amazon EC2 instances that have underutilized CPU or memory usage. The company also needs recommendations for how to downsize these underutilized instances.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?

A.

Install a CPU and memory monitoring tool from AWS Marketplace on all the EC2 Instances. Store the findings in Amazon S3. Implement a Python script to identify underutilized instances. Reference EC2 instance pricing information for recommendations about downsizing options.

B.

Install the Amazon CloudWatch agent on all the EC2 instances by using AWS Systems Manager. Retrieve the resource op! nization recommendations from AWS Cost Explorer in the organization's management account. Use the recommendations to downsize underutilized instances in all accounts of the organization.

C.

Install the Amazon CloudWatch agent on all the EC2 instances by using AWS Systems Manager. Retrieve the resource optimization recommendations from AWS Cost Explorer in each account of the organization. Use the recommendations to downsize underutilized instances in all accounts of the organization.

D.

Install the Amazon CloudWatch agent on all the EC2 instances by using AWS Systems Manager Create an AWS Lambda function to extract CPU and memory usage from all the EC2 instances. Store the findings as files in Amazon S3. Use Amazon Athena to find underutilized instances. Reference EC2 instance pricing information for recommendations about downsizing options.

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Question # 136

A company has deployed applications to thousands of Amazon EC2 instances in an AWS account. A security audit discovers that several unencrypted Amazon EBS volumes are attached to the EC2 instances. The company's security policy requires the EBS volumes to be encrypted.

The company needs to implement an automated solution to encrypt the EBS volumes. The solution also must prevent development teams from creating unencrypted EBS volumes.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Configure the AWS Config managed rule that identifies unencrypted EBS volumes. Configure an automatic remediation action. Associate an AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook that includes the steps to create a new encrypted EBS volume. Create an AWS KMS customer managed key. In the key policy, include a statement to deny the creation of unencrypted EBS volumes.

B.

Use AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager to create a list of unencrypted EBS volumes. Create a Systems Manager Automation runbook that includes the steps to create a new encrypted EBS volume. Create an SCP to deny the creation of unencrypted EBS volumes.

C.

Use AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager to create a list of unencrypted EBS volumes. Create a Systems Manager Automation runbook that includes the steps to create a new encrypted EBS volume. Modify the AWS account setting for EBS encryption to always encrypt new EBS volumes.

D.

Configure the AWS Config managed rule that identifies unencrypted EBS volumes. Configure an automatic remediation action. Associate an AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook that includes the steps to create a new encrypted EBS volume. Modify the AWS account setting for EBS encryption to always encrypt new EBS volumes.

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Question # 137

A company needs to migrate its on-premises database fleet to Amazon RDS. The company is currently using a mixture of Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle databases. Some of the databases have custom schemas and stored procedures.

Which combination of steps should the company take for the migration? (Select TWO.)

A.

Use Migration Evaluator Quick Insights to analyze the source databases and to identify the stored procedures that need to be migrated.

B.

Use AWS Application Migration Service to analyze the source databases and to identify the stored procedures that need to be migrated.

C.

Use AWS SCT to analyze the source databases for changes that are required.

D.

Use AWS DM5 to migrate the source databases to Amazon RD5.

E.

Use AWS DataSync to migrate the data from the source databases to Amazon RDS.

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Question # 138

Question:

A SaaS web app runs on EC2 Linux behind an ALB. It storesuser sessionsin an RDS Multi-AZ database. During high traffic, the app suffers latency due to session read/write.

What is the best way to reduce session latency?

Options:

A.

Store session data in Amazon S3.

B.

Use FSx for Windows and mount it.

C.

Use Multi-Attach EBS volumes.

D.

Use ElastiCache for Redis to store sessions.

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Question # 139

A company is migrating to AWS and needs to inventory physical and virtual servers, apps, and database relationships to properly rightsize and plan migration.

A.

Use Migration Evaluator with Agentless Collector.

B.

Use Migration Hub with Discovery Agent and Strategy Recommendations.

C.

Use Migration Hub with Agentless Collector and Migration Service.

D.

Use Migration Hub import tool.

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Question # 140

Question:

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda. The application stores temporary data in Amazon S3. The S3 objects are deleted after 24 hours.

The company deploys new versions of the application by launching AWS CloudFormation stacks. The stacks create the required resources. After validating a new version, the company deletes the old stack. The deletion of an old development stack recently failed.

A solutions architect needs to resolve this issue without major architecture changes.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A.

Create a Lambda function to delete objects from the S3 bucket. Add the Lambda function as a custom resource in the CloudFormation stack with a DependsOn attribute that points to the S3 bucket resource.

B.

Modify the CloudFormation stack to attach a DeletionPolicy attribute with a value of Delete to the S3 bucket.

C.

Update the CloudFormation stack to add a DeletionPolicy attribute with a value of Snapshot for the S3 bucket resource.

D.

Update the CloudFormation template to create an Amazon EFS file system to store temporary files instead of Amazon S3. Configure the Lambda functions to run in the same VPC as the EFS file system.

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Question # 141

Question:

A company has an application that uses AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt and decrypt data. The application stores data in an Amazon S3 bucket in an AWS Region. Company security policies require that the data is encryptedbeforebeing uploaded to S3, and decryptedwhen read. The S3 bucket isreplicated to other AWS Regions.

A solutions architect must design a solution so that the application canencrypt and decrypt data across Regionsusingthe same key.

Options:

A.

Create a KMS multi-Region primary key. Use it to create KMS multi-Region replica keys in each Region. Update application code to use the replica key in each Region.

B.

Create a new customer-managed KMS key in each additional Region. Update application code to use the key in each Region.

C.

Use AWS Private CA to issue TLS certificates and replicate them with AWS RAM.

D.

Export the KMS key material to Systems Manager Parameter Store in each Region. Update the app to use those.

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Question # 142

A company needs to aggregate Amazon CloudWatch logs from its AWS accounts into one central logging account. The collected logs must remain in the AWS Region of

creation. The central logging account will then process the logs, normalize the logs into standard output format, and stream the output logs to a security tool for more processing.

A solutions architect must design a solution that can handle a large volume of logging data that needs to be ingested. Less logging will occur outside normal business hours than during normal business hours. The logging solution must scale with the anticipated load. The solutions architect has decided to use an AWS Control Tower design to handle the multi-account logging process.

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

A.

Create a destination Amazon Kinesis data stream in the central logging account.

B.

Create a destination Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue in the central logging account.

C.

Create an IAM role that grants Amazon CloudWatch Logs the permission to add data to the Amazon Kinesis data stream. Create a trust policy. Specify thetrust policy in the IAM role. In each member account, create a subscription filter for each log group to send data to the Kinesis data stream.

D.

Create an IAM role that grants Amazon CloudWatch Logs the permission to add data to the Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. Create atrust policy. Specify the trust policy in the IAM role. In each member account, create a single subscription filter for all log groups to send datato the SQSqueue.

E.

Create an AWS Lambda function. Program the Lambda function to normalize the logs in the central logging account and to write the logs to the security tool.

F.

Create an AWS Lambda function. Program the Lambda function to normalize the logs in the member accounts and to write the logs to the security tool.

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Question # 143

Question:

How can applications in multiple AWS accounts privately access aPostgreSQL RDS instancein a separate AWS account, while managing the number of connections?

A.

Transit Gateway + NAT Gateway

B.

RDS Proxy + PrivateLink via NLB

C.

VPC Peering + Application Load Balancer

D.

VPC Peering + NAT Gateway

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Question # 144

Question:

A company needs to migratesome Oracle databases to AWSwhile keeping otherson-premisesfor compliance. The on-prem databases containspatial dataand runcron jobs. The solution must allowquerying on-prem data as foreign tablesfrom AWS.

A.

Use DynamoDB, SCT, and Lambda. Move spatial data to S3 and query with Athena.

B.

Use RDS for SQL Server and AWS Glue crawlers for Oracle access.

C.

Use EC2-hosted Oracle with Application Migration Service. Use Step Functions for cron.

D.

Use RDS for PostgreSQL with DMS and SCT. Use PostgreSQL foreign data wrappers. Connectvia Direct Connect.

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Question # 145

A company wants to use Amazon Workspaces in combination with thin client devices to replace aging desktops. Employees use the desktops to access applications that work with clinical trial data. Corporate security policy states that access to the applications must be restricted to only company branch office locations. The company is considering adding an additional branch office in the next 6 months.

Which solution meets these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?

A.

Create an IP access control group rule with the list of public addresses from the branch offices. Associate the IP access control group with the Workspaces directory.

B.

Use AWS Firewall Manager to create a web ACL rule with an IPSet with the list to public addresses from the branch office Locations-Associate the web ACL with the Workspaces directory.

C.

Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to issue trusted device certificates to the machines deployed in the branch office locations. Enable restricted access on the Workspaces directory.

D.

Create a custom Workspace image with Windows Firewall configured to restrict access to the public addresses of the branch offices. Use the image to deploy the Workspaces.

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Question # 146

Question:

A company runs a Linux app on Amazon EKS usingM6iEC2 instances under a Savings Plan that is about to expire. They want toreduce costsafter expiration.

A.

Rebuild containers forARM64architecture.

B.

Rebuild containers for container compatibility (invalid/unclear).

C.

Migrate EKS nodes toGraviton(e.g., C7g, M7g).

D.

Replace nodes with latestx86_64instances.

E.

Purchase new Savings Plan for Graviton instance family.

F.

Purchase new Savings Plan for x86_64 instances.

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Question # 147

A company is using AWS Organizations with a multi-account architecture. The company's current security configuration for the account architecture includes SCPs, resource-based policies, identity-based policies, trust policies, and session policies.

A solutions architect needs to allow an IAM user in Account A to assume a role in Account B.

Which combination of steps must the solutions architect take to meet this requirement? (Select THREE.)

A.

Configure the SCP for Account A to allow the action.

B.

Configure the resource-based policies to allow the action.

C.

Configure the identity-based policy on the user in Account A to allow the action.

D.

Configure the identity-based policy on the user in Account B to allow the action.

E.

Configure the trust policy on the target role in Account B to allow the action.

F.

Configure the session policy to allow the action and to be passed programmatically by the GetSessionToken API operation.

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Question # 148

A company’s solutions architect is evaluating an AWS workload that was deployed several years ago. The application tier is stateless and runs on a single large Amazon EC2 instance that was launched from an AMI. The application stores data in a MySOL database that runs on a single EC2 instance.

The CPU utilization on the application server EC2 instance often reaches 100% and causes the application to stop responding. The company manually installs patches on the instances. Patching has caused

downtime in the past. The company needs to make the application highly available.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development time?

A.

Move the application tier to AWS Lambda functions in the existing VPC. Create an Application Load Balancer to distribute traffic across theLambda functbns. Use Amazon GuardDuty to scan the Lambda functions. Migrate the database to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility).

B.

Change the EC2 instance type to a smaller Graviton powered instance type. use the existing AMI to create a launch template for an Auto Scaling group. Create an Application Load Balancer to distribute traffic across the instances in the Auto Scaling group. Set the Auto Scaling group to scale based on CPU utilization. Migrate the database to Amazon DynamoDB.

C.

Move the application tier to containers by using Docker. Run the containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with EC2 instances. Create an Application Load Balancer to distribute traffic across the ECS cluster Configure the ECS cluster to scale based on CPU utilization. Migrate the database to Amazon Neptune.

D.

Create a new AMI that is configured with AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent). Use the new AMI to create a launch template for an Auto Scaling group. Use smaller instances in the Auto Scaling group. Create an Application Load Balancer to distribute traffic across the instances in the Auto Scaling group. Set the Auto Scaling group to scale based on CPU utilization. Migrate the database to Amazon Aurora MySQL.

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Question # 149

A company has multiple AWS accounts. The company recently had a security audit that revealed many unencrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes attached to Amazon EC2 instances.

A solutions architect must encrypt the unencrypted volumes and ensure that unencrypted volumes will be detected automatically in the future. Additionally, the company wants a solution that can centrally manage multiple AWS accounts with a focus on compliance and security.

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

A.

Create an organization in AWS Organizations. Set up AWS Control Tower, and turn on the strongly recommended guardrails. Join all accounts to the organization. Categorize the AWS accounts into OUs.

B.

Use the AWS CLI to list all the unencrypted volumes in all the AWS accounts. Run a script to encrypt all the unencrypted volumes in place.

C.

Create a snapshot of each unencrypted volume. Create a new encrypted volume from the unencrypted snapshot. Detach the existing volume, and replace it with the encrypted volume.

D.

Create an organization in AWS Organizations. Set up AWS Control Tower, and turn on the mandatory guardrails. Join all accounts to the organization. Categorize the AWS accounts into OUs.

E.

Turn on AWS CloudTrail. Configure an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule to detect and automatically encrypt unencrypted volumes.

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Question # 150

A company has a web application that securely uploads pictures and videos to an Amazon S3 bucket. The company requires that only authenticated users are allowed to post content. The application generates a presigned URL that is used to upload objects through a browser interface. Most users are reporting slow upload times for objects larger than 100 MB.

What can a Solutions Architect do to improve the performance of these uploads while ensuring only authenticated users are allowed to post content?

A.

Set up an Amazon API Gateway with an edge-optimized API endpoint that has a resource as an S3 service proxy. Configure the PUT method for this resource to expose the S3 PutObject operation. Secure the API Gateway using a COGNITO_USER_POOLS authorizer. Have the browser interface use API Gateway instead of the presigned URL to upload objects.

B.

Set up an Amazon API Gateway with a regional API endpoint that has a resource as an S3 service proxy. Configure the PUT method for this resource to expose the S3 PutObject operation. Secure the API Gateway using an AWS Lambda authorizer. Have the browser interface use API Gateway instead of the presigned URL to upload API objects.

C.

Enable an S3 Transfer Acceleration endpoint on the S3 bucket. Use the endpoint when generating the presigned URL. Have the browser interface upload the objects to this URL using the S3 multipart upload API.

D.

Configure an Amazon CloudFront distribution for the destination S3 bucket. Enable PUT and POST methods for the CloudFront cache behavior. Update the CloudFront origin to use an origin access identity (OAI). Give the OAI user s3:PutObject permissions in the bucket policy. Have the browser interface upload objects using the CloudFront distribution

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Question # 151

A company runs a Python script on an Amazon EC2 instance to process data. The script runs every 10 minutes. The script ingests files from an Amazon S3 bucket and processes the files. On average, the script takes approximately 5 minutes to process each file The script will not reprocess a file that the script has already processed.

The company reviewed Amazon CloudWatch metrics and noticed that the EC2 instance is idle for approximately 40% of the time because of the file processing speed. The company wants to make the workload highly available and scalable. The company also wants to reduce long-term management overhead.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A.

Migrate the data processing script to an AWS Lambda function. Use an S3 event notification to invoke the Lambda function to process the objects when the company uploads the objects.

B.

Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. Configure Amazon S3 to send event notifications to the SQS queue. Create an EC2 Auto Scaling group with a minimum size of one instance. Update the data processing script to poll the SQS queue. Process the S3 objects that the SQS message identifies.

C.

Migrate the data processing script to a container image. Run the data processing container on an EC2 instance. Configure the container to poll the S3 bucket for new objects and to process the resulting objects.

D.

Migrate the data processing script to a container image that runs on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate. Create an AWS Lambda function that calls the Fargate RunTaskAPI operation when the container processes the file. Use an S3 event notification to invoke the Lambda function.

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Question # 152

A company has a web application that allows users to upload short videos. The videos are stored on Amazon EBS volumes and analyzed by custom recognition software for categorization.

The website contains stat c content that has variable traffic with peaks in certain months. The architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances running in an Auto Scaling group for the web application and EC2 instances running in an Auto Scaling group to process an Amazon SQS queue The company wants to re-architect the application to reduce operational overhead using AWS managed services where possible and remove dependencies on third-party software.

Which solution meets these requirements?

A.

Use Amazon ECS containers for the web application and Spot Instances for the Auto Scaling group that processes the SQS queue. Replace the custom software with Amazon Recognition to categorize the videos.

B.

Store the uploaded videos n Amazon EFS and mount the file system to the EC2 instances for Te web application. Process the SOS queue with an AWS Lambda function that calls the Amazon Rekognition API to categorize the videos.

C.

Host the web application in Amazon S3. Store the uploaded videos in Amazon S3. Use S3 event notifications to publish events to the SQS queue Process the SQS queue with an AWS Lambda function that calls the Amazon Rekognition API to categorize the videos.

D.

Use AWS Elastic Beanstalk to launch EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group for the web application and launch a worker environment to process the SQS queue Replace the custom software with Amazon Rekognition to categorize the videos.

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Question # 153

A large company is running a popular web application. The application runs on several Amazon EC2 Linux Instances in an Auto Scaling group in a private subnet. An Application Load Balancer is targeting the Instances In the Auto Scaling group in the private subnet. AWS Systems Manager Session Manager Is configured, and AWS Systems Manager Agent is running on all the EC2 instances.

The company recently released a new version of the application Some EC2 instances are now being marked as unhealthy and are being terminated As a result, the application is running at reduced capacity A solutions architect tries to determine the root cause by analyzing Amazon CloudWatch logs that are collected from the application, but the logs are inconclusive

How should the solutions architect gain access to an EC2 instance to troubleshoot the issue1?

A.

Suspend the Auto Scaling group's HealthCheck scaling process. Use Session Manager to log in to an instance that is marked as unhealthy

B.

Enable EC2 instance termination protection Use Session Manager to log In to an instance that is marked as unhealthy.

C.

Set the termination policy to Oldestinstance on the Auto Scaling group. Use Session Manager to log in to an instance that is marked as unhealthy

D.

Suspend the Auto Scaling group's Terminate process. Use Session Manager to log in to an instance that is marked as unhealthy

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