AWS - SOLUTION ARCHITECT
ASSOCIATE (PRACTICE EXAM 4)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective solution for this use-case?
Migrate the data to Amazon RDS for SQL Server database in a Multi-AZ deployment
- Answer-An e-commerce company wants to migrate its on-premises application to
AWS. The application consists of application servers and a Microsoft SQL Server
database. The solution should result in the maximum possible availability for the
database layer while minimizing operational and management overhead.
As a solutions architect, which of the following would you recommend to meet the
given requirements?
Use Amazon S3 Object Lock - Answer-A healthcare company is evaluating storage
options on Amazon S3 to meet regulatory guidelines. The data should be stored in
such a way on Amazon S3 that it cannot be deleted until the regulatory time period
has expired.
As a solutions architect, which of the following would you recommend for the given
requirement?
Use Amazon Aurora Read Replicas - Answer-A company has built a serverless
application using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The backend is
leveraging an Amazon Aurora MySQL database. The web application was initially
launched in the Americas and the company would now like to expand it to Europe,
where a read-only version will be available to improve latency. You plan on
deploying the Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda using AWS CloudFormation,
but would like to have a read-only copy of your data in Europe as well.
As a Solutions Architect, what do you recommend?
Use Tape Gateway, which can be used to move on-premises tape data onto AWS
Cloud. Then, Amazon S3 archiving storage classes can be used to store data cost-
effectively for years - Answer-An enterprise has decided to move its secondary
workloads such as backups and archives to AWS cloud. The CTO wishes to move
the data stored on physical tapes to Cloud, without changing their current tape
backup workflows. The company holds petabytes of data on tapes and needs a cost-
optimized solution to move this data to cloud.
What is an optimal solution that meets these requirements while keeping the costs to
a minimum?
Use Amazon DynamoDB DAX - Answer-A niche social media application allows
users to connect with sports athletes. As a solutions architect, you've designed the
architecture of the application to be fully serverless using Amazon API Gateway and
, AWS Lambda. The backend uses an Amazon DynamoDB table. Some of the star
athletes using the application are highly popular, and therefore Amazon DynamoDB
has increased the read capacity units (RCUs). Still, the application is experiencing a
hot partition problem.
What can you do to improve the performance of Amazon DynamoDB and eliminate
the hot partition problem without a lot of application refactoring?
Use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with AWS Fargate for
serverless orchestration of the containerized services
Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with AWS Fargate for
serverless orchestration of the containerized services - Answer-An IT company has a
large number of clients opting to build their application programming interface (API)
using Docker containers. To facilitate the hosting of these containers, the company is
looking at various orchestration services available with AWS.
As a Solutions Architect, which of the following solutions will you suggest? (Select
two)
Amazon MQ - Answer-A company's business logic is built on several microservices
that are running in the on-premises data center. They currently communicate using a
message broker that supports the MQTT protocol. The company is looking at
migrating these applications and the message broker to AWS Cloud without
changing the application logic.
Which technology allows you to get a managed message broker that supports the
MQTT protocol?
Create a Lifecycle Policy to transition objects to Amazon S3 Standard IA using a
prefix after 45 days
Create a Lifecycle Policy to transition all objects to Amazon S3 Glacier after 180
days - Answer-You have an Amazon S3 bucket that contains files in two different
folders - s3://my-bucket/images and s3://my-bucket/thumbnails. When an image is
first uploaded and new, it is viewed several times. But after 45 days, analytics prove
that image files are on average rarely requested, but the thumbnails still are. After
180 days, you would like to archive the image files and the thumbnails. Overall you
would like the solution to remain highly available to prevent disasters happening
against a whole Availability Zone (AZ).
How can you implement an efficient cost strategy for your Amazon S3 bucket?
(Select two)
As a solutions architect, which of the following AWS database services would you
suggest as the BEST fit to handle such use cases?
AWS Secrets Manager - Answer-The engineering team at a company is running
batch workloads on AWS Cloud. The team has embedded Amazon RDS database
connection strings within each web server hosting the flagship application. After
ASSOCIATE (PRACTICE EXAM 4)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective solution for this use-case?
Migrate the data to Amazon RDS for SQL Server database in a Multi-AZ deployment
- Answer-An e-commerce company wants to migrate its on-premises application to
AWS. The application consists of application servers and a Microsoft SQL Server
database. The solution should result in the maximum possible availability for the
database layer while minimizing operational and management overhead.
As a solutions architect, which of the following would you recommend to meet the
given requirements?
Use Amazon S3 Object Lock - Answer-A healthcare company is evaluating storage
options on Amazon S3 to meet regulatory guidelines. The data should be stored in
such a way on Amazon S3 that it cannot be deleted until the regulatory time period
has expired.
As a solutions architect, which of the following would you recommend for the given
requirement?
Use Amazon Aurora Read Replicas - Answer-A company has built a serverless
application using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The backend is
leveraging an Amazon Aurora MySQL database. The web application was initially
launched in the Americas and the company would now like to expand it to Europe,
where a read-only version will be available to improve latency. You plan on
deploying the Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda using AWS CloudFormation,
but would like to have a read-only copy of your data in Europe as well.
As a Solutions Architect, what do you recommend?
Use Tape Gateway, which can be used to move on-premises tape data onto AWS
Cloud. Then, Amazon S3 archiving storage classes can be used to store data cost-
effectively for years - Answer-An enterprise has decided to move its secondary
workloads such as backups and archives to AWS cloud. The CTO wishes to move
the data stored on physical tapes to Cloud, without changing their current tape
backup workflows. The company holds petabytes of data on tapes and needs a cost-
optimized solution to move this data to cloud.
What is an optimal solution that meets these requirements while keeping the costs to
a minimum?
Use Amazon DynamoDB DAX - Answer-A niche social media application allows
users to connect with sports athletes. As a solutions architect, you've designed the
architecture of the application to be fully serverless using Amazon API Gateway and
, AWS Lambda. The backend uses an Amazon DynamoDB table. Some of the star
athletes using the application are highly popular, and therefore Amazon DynamoDB
has increased the read capacity units (RCUs). Still, the application is experiencing a
hot partition problem.
What can you do to improve the performance of Amazon DynamoDB and eliminate
the hot partition problem without a lot of application refactoring?
Use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with AWS Fargate for
serverless orchestration of the containerized services
Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with AWS Fargate for
serverless orchestration of the containerized services - Answer-An IT company has a
large number of clients opting to build their application programming interface (API)
using Docker containers. To facilitate the hosting of these containers, the company is
looking at various orchestration services available with AWS.
As a Solutions Architect, which of the following solutions will you suggest? (Select
two)
Amazon MQ - Answer-A company's business logic is built on several microservices
that are running in the on-premises data center. They currently communicate using a
message broker that supports the MQTT protocol. The company is looking at
migrating these applications and the message broker to AWS Cloud without
changing the application logic.
Which technology allows you to get a managed message broker that supports the
MQTT protocol?
Create a Lifecycle Policy to transition objects to Amazon S3 Standard IA using a
prefix after 45 days
Create a Lifecycle Policy to transition all objects to Amazon S3 Glacier after 180
days - Answer-You have an Amazon S3 bucket that contains files in two different
folders - s3://my-bucket/images and s3://my-bucket/thumbnails. When an image is
first uploaded and new, it is viewed several times. But after 45 days, analytics prove
that image files are on average rarely requested, but the thumbnails still are. After
180 days, you would like to archive the image files and the thumbnails. Overall you
would like the solution to remain highly available to prevent disasters happening
against a whole Availability Zone (AZ).
How can you implement an efficient cost strategy for your Amazon S3 bucket?
(Select two)
As a solutions architect, which of the following AWS database services would you
suggest as the BEST fit to handle such use cases?
AWS Secrets Manager - Answer-The engineering team at a company is running
batch workloads on AWS Cloud. The team has embedded Amazon RDS database
connection strings within each web server hosting the flagship application. After
