AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Dumps

1. A Solutions Architect is designing an application that will encrypt all data in an Amazon Redshift cluster.

Which action will encrypt the data at rest?

2. A website experiences unpredictable traffic. During peak traffic times, the database is unable to keep up with the write request.

Which AWS service will help decouple the web application from the database?

3. A legacy application needs to interact with local storage using iSCSI. A team needs to design a reliable storage solution to provision all new storage on AWS.

Which storage solution meets the legacy application requirements?

4. A Solutions Architect is designing an architecture for a mobile gaming application. The application is expected to be very popular. The Architect needs to prevent the Amazon RDS MySQL database from becoming a bottleneck due to frequently accessed queries.

Which service or feature should the Architect add to prevent a bottleneck?

5. A company is launching an application that it expects to be very popular. The company needs a database that can scale with the rest of the application. The schema will change frequently. The application cannot afford any downtime for database changes.

Which AWS service allows the company to achieve these objectives?

6. A Solutions Architect is designing a disaster recovery solution for a 5 TB Amazon Redshift cluster. The recovery site must be at least 500 miles (805 kilometers) from the live site.

How should the Architect meet these requirements?

7. A customer has written an application that uses Amazon S3 exclusively as a data store. The application works well until the customer increases the rate at which the application is updating information. The customer now reports that outdated data occasionally appears when the application accesses objects in Amazon S3.

What could be the problem, given that the application logic is otherwise correct?

8. A Solutions Architect is designing a new social media application. The application must provide a secure method for uploading profile photos. Each user should be able to upload a profile photo into a shared storage location for one week after their profile is created.

Which approach will meet all of these requirements?

9. An application requires block storage for file updates. The data is 500 GB and must continuously sustain 100 MiB/s of aggregate read/write operations.

Which storage option is appropriate for this application?

10. A mobile application serves scientific articles from individual files in an Amazon S3 bucket. Articles older than 30 days are rarely read. Articles older than 60 days no longer need to be available through the application, but the application owner would like to keep them for historical purposes.

Which cost-effective solution BEST meets these requirements?

11. An organization is currently hosting a large amount of frequently accessed data consisting of key-value pairs and semi-structured documents in their data center. They are planning to move this data to AWS.

Which of one of the following services MOST effectively meets their needs?

12. A Lambda function must execute a query against an Amazon RDS database in a private subnet.

Which steps are required to allow the Lambda function to access the Amazon RDS database? (Choose two.)

13. A Solutions Architect needs to build a resilient data warehouse using Amazon Redshift. The Architect needs to rebuild the Redshift cluster in another region.

Which approach can the Architect take to address this requirement?

14. A popular e-commerce application runs on AWS. The application encounters performance issues. The database is unable to handle the amount of queries and load during peak times. The database is running on the RDS Aurora engine on the largest instance size available.

What should an administrator do to improve performance?

15. A Solutions Architect is designing the architecture for a new three-tier web-based e-commerce site that must be available 24/7. Requests are expected to range from 100 to 10,000 each minute. Usage can vary depending on time of day, holidays, and promotions. The design should be able to handle these volumes, with the ability to handle higher volumes if necessary.

How should the Architect design the architecture to ensure the web tier is cost-optimized and can handle the expected traffic? (Choose two.)

16. A Solutions Architect is designing a three-tier web application. The Architect wants to restrict access to the database tier to accept traffic from the application servers only.

However, these application servers are in an Auto Scaling group and may vary in quantity.

How should the Architect configure the database servers to meet the requirements?

17. An Internet-facing multi-tier web application must be highly available. An ELB Classic Load Balancer is deployed in front of the web tier. Amazon EC2 instances at the web application tier are deployed evenly across two Availability Zones. The database is deployed using RDS Multi-AZ. A NAT instance is launched for Amazon EC2 instances and database resources to access the Internet. These instances are not assigned with public IP addresses.

Which component poses a potential single point of failure in this architecture?

18. A call center application consists of a three-tier application using Auto Scaling groups to automatically scale resources as needed. Users report that every morning at 9:00 AM the system becomes very slow for about 15 minutes. A Solutions Architect determines that a large percentage of the call center staff starts work at 9:00 AM, so Auto Scaling does not have enough time to scale out to meet demand.

How can the Architect fix the problem?

19. An e-commerce application is hosted in AWS. The last time a new product was launched, the application experienced a performance issue due to an enormous spike in traffic. Management decided that capacity must be doubled the week of future product launches.

Which is the MOST efficient way for management to ensure that capacity requirements are met?

20. A customer owns a simple API for their website that receives about 1,000 requests each day and has an average response time of 50 ms. It is currently hosted on one c4.large instance.

Which changes to the architecture will provide high availability at the LOWEST cost?