Solutions Architect - Professional: Deck 04 Flashcards
A company consists or 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 low-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?
C. Turn on SSE-S3 on both S3 buckets. Encrypt the existing objects by using an S3 copy command in the AWS CLI.
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.
A video processing company wants to build a machine learning (ML) model by using 600 TB of compressed data that is stored as thousands of files in the company’s on-premises network attached storage system. The company does not have the necessary compute resources on premises for ML experiments and wants to use AWS.
The company needs to complete the data transfer to AWS within 3 weeks. The data transfer will be a one-time transfer. The data must be encrypted in transit. The measured upload speed of the company’s internet connection is 100 Mbps. and multiple departments share the connection.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A. Order several AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices by using the AWS Management Console. Configure the devices with a destination S3 bucket. Copy the data to the devices. Ship the devices back to AWS.
A company has migrated Its forms-processing application to AWS. When users interact with the application, they upload scanned forms as files through a web application. A database stores user metadata and references to files that are stored in Amazon S3. The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database.
When forms are uploaded, the application sends notifications to a team through Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS). A team member then logs in and processes each form. The team member performs data validation on the form and extracts relevant data before entering the information into another system that uses an API.
A solutions architect needs to automate the manual processing of the forms. The solution must provide accurate form extraction. minimize time to market, and minimize tong-term operational overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
D. Extend the system with an application tier that uses AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda. Configure this tier to use Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend to perform optical character recognition (OCR) on the forms when forms are uploaded. Store the output in Amazon S3. Parse this output by extracting the data that is required within the application tier. Submit the data to the target system’s API.
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.
A solutions architect needs to implement a client-side encryption mechanism for objects that will be stored in a new Amazon S3 bucket. The solutions architect created a CMK that is stored in AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) for this purpose.
The solutions architect created the following IAM policy and attached it to an IAM role:
{
“Version”: “2012-10-17”
“statement”: [
{
“Sid”: “DownloadUpload”,
“Action”: [
“s3:Getobject”,
“s3:GetobjectVersion”,
“s3:Putobject”,
“s3:PutobjectAcl”
],
“Effect”: “Allow”
“Resource”: “arn:aws:s3:::BucketName/*”
},
{
“Sid”: “KMSAccesS”
“Action”: [
“kms: Decrypt”
“kms: Encrypt”
],
“Effect”: “Allow”,
“Resource”: “arn:aws:kms:Region:Account:key/Key ID”
}
]
}
During tests, the solutions architect was able to successfully get existing test objects in the S3 bucket. However, attempts to upload a new object resulted in an error message. The error message stated that the action was forbidden.
Which action must the solutions architect add to the IAM policy to meet all the requirements?
A. kms:GenerateDataKey
A company has developed a web application. The company is hosting the application on a group of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The company wants to improve the security posture of the application and plans to use AWS WAF web ACLs. The solution must not adversely affect legitimate traffic to the application.
How should a solutions architect configure the web ACLs to meet these requirements?
A. Set the action of the web ACL rules to Count. Enable AWS WAF logging. Analyze the requests for false positives. Modify the rules to avoid any false positive. Over time, change the action of the web ACL rules from Count to Block.
A company has an organization that has many AWS accounts in AWS Organizations. A solutions architect must improve how the company manages common security group rules for the AWS accounts in the organization.
The company has a common set of IP CIDR ranges in an allow list in each AWS account to allow access to and from the company’s on-premises network. Developers within each account are responsible for adding new IP CIDR ranges to their security groups. The security team has its own AWS account. Currently, the security team notifies the owners of the other AWS accounts when changes are made to the allow list.
The solutions architect must design a solution that distributes the common set of CIDR ranges across all accounts.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
C. Create a new customer-managed prefix list in the security team’s AWS account. Populate the customer-managed prefix list with all internal CIDR ranges. Share the customer-managed prefix list with the organization by using AWS Resource Access Manager. Notify the owner of each AWS account to allow the new customer-managed prefix list ID in their security groups.
A company has introduced a new policy that allows employees to work remotely from their homes if they connect by using a VPN. The company is hosting internal applications with VPCs in multiple AWS accounts. Currently, the applications are accessible from the company’s on-premises office network through an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection. The VPC in the company’s main AWS account has peering connections established with VPCs in other AWS accounts.
A solutions architect must design a scalable AWS Client VPN solution for employees to use while they work from home.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution that meets these requirements?
B. Create a Client VPN endpoint in the main AWS account. Configure required routing that allows access to internal applications.
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.
A company is running applications on AWS in a multi-account environment. The company’s sales team and marketing team use separate AWS accounts in AWS Organizations.
The sales team stores petabytes of data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The marketing team uses Amazon QuickSight for data visualizations. The marketing team needs access to data that the sates team stores in the S3 bucket. The company has encrypted the S3 bucket with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key. The marketing team has already created the IAM service role for QuickSight to provide QuickSight access in the marketing AWS account. The company needs a solution that will provide secure access to the data in the S3 bucket across AWS accounts.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
D. Create an IAM role in the sales account and grant access to the S3 bucket. From the marketing account, assume the IAM role in the sales account to access the S3 bucket. Update the QuickSight rote, to create a trust relationship with the new IAM role in the sales account.
A company is planning to migrate its business-critical applications from an on-premises data center to AWS. The company has an on-premises installation of a Microsoft SQL Server Always On cluster. The company wants to migrate to an AWS managed database service. A solutions architect must design a heterogeneous database migration on AWS.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
C. Use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool to translate the database schema to Amazon RDS for MySQL. Then use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate the data from on-premises databases to Amazon RDS.
A publishing company’s design team updates the icons and other static assets that an ecommerce web application uses. The company serves the icons and assets from an Amazon S3 bucket that is hosted in the company’s production account. The company also uses a development account that members of the design team can access.
After the design team tests the static assets in the development account, the design team needs to load the assets into the S3 bucket in the production account. A solutions architect must provide the design team with access to the production account without exposing other parts of the web application to the risk of unwanted changes.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
A. In the production account, create a new IAM policy that allows read and write access to the S3 bucket.
D. In the development account, create a role. Attach the new policy to the role Define the production account as a trusted entity.
E. In the development account, create a group that contains all the IAM users of the design team Attach a different IAM policy to the group to allow the sts:AssumeRole action on the role In the production account.
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.
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?
B. Performing a one-time migration of the database cluster to Amazon RDS, and creating several additional read replicas to handle the load during end of month.
