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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Exam 2

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A healthcare provider is planning to store patient data on AWS as PDF files. To comply with regulations, the company must encrypt the data and store the files in multiple locations. The data must be available for immediate access from any environment.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Store the files in an Amazon S3 bucket. Use the Standard storage class. Enable server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3) on the bucket. Configure cross-Region replication on the bucket.

Store the files in an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) volume. Use an AWS KMS managed key to encrypt the EFS volume. Use AWS DataSync to replicate the EFS volume to a second AWS Region.

Store the files in an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. Configure AWS Backup to back up the volume on a regular schedule. Use an AWS KMS key to encrypt the backups.

Store the files in an Amazon S3 bucket. Use the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval storage class. Ensure that all PDF files are encrypted by using client-side encryption before the files are uploaded. Configure cross-Region replication on the bucket.

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A company needs to migrate a MySQL database from an on-premises data center to AWS within 2 weeks.

The database is 180 TB in size. The company cannot partition the database. The company wants to minimize downtime during the migration. The company's internet connection speed is 100 Mbps.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Establish an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection between the data center and AWS. Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) and the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) to migrate the database to Amazon RDS for MySQL and replicate ongoing changes.

Use the company's existing internet connection. Use AWS DataSync to replicate the database to Amazon S3. Create a script to import the data from Amazon S3 to a new Amazon RDS for MySQL database instance.

Order an AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized device. Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) and the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) to migrate the database to Amazon RDS for MySQL and replicate ongoing changes. Send the Snowball Edge device back to AWS to finish the migration. Continue to replicate ongoing changes.

Establish a 10 Gbps dedicated AWS Direct Connect connection between the data center and AWS. Use AWS DataSync to replicate the database to Amazon S3. Create a script to import the data from Amazon S3 to a new Amazon RDS for MySQL database instance.

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An ecommerce company runs applications in AWS accounts that are part of an organization in AWS Organizations. The applications run on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL databases across all the accounts. The company needs to prevent malicious activity and must identify abnormal failed and incomplete login attempts to the databases.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Attach service control policies (SCPs) to the root of the organization to identify the failed login attempts.

Enable the Amazon RDS Protection feature in Amazon GuardDuty for the member accounts of the organization.

Publish the Aurora general logs to a log group in Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Export the log data to a central Amazon S3 bucket.

Publish all the Aurora PostgreSQL database events in AWS CloudTrail to a central Amazon S3 bucket.

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A city's weather forecast team is using Amazon DynamoDB in the data tier for an application. The application has several components. The analysis component of the application requires repeated reads against a large dataset. The application has started to temporarily consume all the read capacity in the DynamoDB table and is negatively affecting other applications that need to access the same data.

Which solution will resolve this issue with the LEAST development effort?

Use Amazon CloudFront in front of DynamoDB.

Create a DynamoDB table with a local secondary index (LSI).

Use Amazon ElastiCache in front of DynamoDB.

Use DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX).

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A company processes large amounts of data by using Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The data processing jobs run for up to 48 hours each week. The data processing jobs can handle interruptions. However, the company wants to minimize the interruptions. The company wants to use the latest generation of Amazon EC2 instances each year.

Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective way?

Purchase Spot Instances with a capacity-optimized allocation strategy. Override instance types in the Auto Scaling group.

Purchase Convertible Reserved Instances (RIs) on an All Upfront basis for a 3-year term for the instance types currently in use.

Purchase Standard Reserved Instances (RIs) on an All Upfront basis for a 1-year term for the instance types in use.

Purchase Spot Instances with a price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy. Override instance types in the Auto Scaling group.

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A company has a large data workload that runs for 6 hours each day. The company cannot lose any data while the process is running. A solutions architect is designing an Amazon EMR cluster configuration to support this critical data workload.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Configure a long-running cluster that runs the primary node and core nodes on On-Demand Instances and the task nodes on Spot Instances.

Configure a transient cluster that runs the primary node on an On-Demand Instance and the core nodes and task nodes on Spot Instances.

Configure a transient cluster that runs the primary node and core nodes on On-Demand Instances and the task nodes on Spot Instances.

Configure a long-running cluster that runs the primary node on an On-Demand Instance, the core nodes on Spot Instances, and the task nodes on Spot Instances.

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A company runs an online order management system on AWS. The company stores order and inventory data for the previous 5 years in an Amazon Aurora MySQL database. The company deletes inventory data after 5 years.

The company wants to optimize costs to archive data.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Create an AWS Glue crawler to export data to Amazon S3. Create an AWS Lambda function to compress the data.

Use the SELECT INTO OUTFILE S3 query on the Aurora database to export the data to Amazon S3. Configure S3 Lifecycle rules on the S3 bucket.

Create an AWS Glue DataBrew job to migrate data from Aurora to Amazon S3. Configure S3 Lifecycle rules on the S3 bucket.

Use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) to replicate data from Aurora to Amazon S3. Use the S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) storage class.

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A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances within a private subnet in a VPC. The instances access data in an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region. The VPC contains a NAT gateway in a public subnet to access the S3 bucket. The company wants to reduce costs by replacing the NAT gateway without compromising security or redundancy.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Replace the NAT gateway with a NAT instance.

Replace the NAT gateway with an internet gateway.

Replace the NAT gateway with an AWS Direct Connect connection.

Replace the NAT gateway with a gateway VPC endpoint.

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A genomics research company is designing a scalable architecture for a loosely coupled workload. Tasks in the workload are independent and can be processed in parallel. The architecture needs to minimize management overhead and provide automatic scaling based on demand.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Implement a serverless architecture that uses AWS Lambda functions.

Use a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. Use AWS Systems Manager to manage the workload.

Use AWS ParallelCluster to deploy a dedicated high-performance cluster.

Implement vertical scaling for each workload task.

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A company needs to archive an on-premises relational database. The company wants to retain the data. The company needs to be able to run SQL queries on the archived data to create annual reports.

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

Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate the on-premises database to an Amazon RDS instance. Retire the on-premises database. Maintain the RDS instance in a stopped state until the data is needed for reports.

Set up database replication from the on-premises database to an Amazon EC2 instance. Retire the on-premises database. Make a snapshot of the EC2 instance. Maintain the EC2 instance in a stopped state until the data is needed for reports.

Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate the on-premises database to Amazon S3 in Apache Parquet format. Store the data in S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval. Use Amazon Athena to run reports.

Create a database backup on premises. Use AWS DataSync to transfer the data to Amazon S3. Create an S3 Lifecycle configuration to move the data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive. Restore the backup to Amazon EC2 instances to run reports.

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What this free exam covers

Resilient and highly available AWS architectures
Storage, compute, and database selection decisions
Networking, security, and identity design choices
Cost optimization and operational tradeoffs
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Service selection under real-world constraints

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