Amazon SAA-C03 Exam Dumps

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03)

Amazon SAA-C03 Sample Questions

Question # 1

A company is developing a mobile game that streams score updates to a backendprocessor and then posts results on a leaderboard A solutions architect needs to design asolution that can handle large traffic spikes process the mobile game updates in order ofreceipt, and store the processed updates in a highly available database The company alsowants to minimize the management overhead required to maintain the solutionWhat should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A. Push score updates to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Process the updates in KinesisData Streams with AWS Lambda Store the processed updates in Amazon DynamoDB.
B. Push score updates to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Process the updates with a fleetof Amazon EC2 instances set up for Auto Scaling Store the processed updates in AmazonRedshift.
C. Push score updates to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topicSubscribe an AWS Lambda function to the SNS topic to process the updates. Store theprocessed updates in a SQL database running on Amazon EC2.
D. Push score updates to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. Use afleet of Amazon EC2 instances with Auto Scaling to process the updates in the SQSqueue. Store the processed updates in an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance.

Answer: A

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Question # 2

A company runs an SMB file server in its data center. The file server stores large files thatthe company frequently accesses for up to 7 days after the file creation date. After 7 days,the company needs to be able to access the files with a maximum retrieval time of 24hours.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Use AWS DataSync to copy data that is older than 7 days from the SMB file server toAWS.
B. Create an Amazon S3 File Gateway to increase the company's storage space. Createan S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 7 days.
C. Create an Amazon FSx File Gateway to increase the company's storage space. Createan Amazon S3 Lifecycle policy to transition the data after 7 days.
D. Configure access to Amazon S3 for each user. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy totransition the data to S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval after 7 days.

Answer: B

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Question # 3

A company has an organization in AWS Organizations that has all features enabled Thecompany requires that all API calls and logins in any existing or new AWS account must beaudited The company needs a managed solution to prevent additional work and tominimize costs The company also needs to know when any AWS account is not compliantwith the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices (FSBP) standard.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Deploy an AWS Control Tower environment in the Organizations management accountEnable AWS Security Hub and AWS Control Tower Account Factory in the environment.
B. Deploy an AWS Control Tower environment in a dedicated Organizations memberaccount Enable AWS Security Hub and AWS Control Tower Account Factory in theenvironment.
C. Use AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate to build a multi-account landing zone(MALZ) Submit an RFC to self-service provision Amazon GuardDuty in the MALZ.
D. Use AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate to build a multi-account landing zone(MALZ) Submit an RFC to self-service provision AWS Security Hub in the MALZ.

Answer: A

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Question # 4

A solutions architect is designing a user authentication solution for a company The solutionmust invoke two-factor authentication for users that log in from inconsistent geographicallocations. IP addresses, or devices. The solution must also be able to scale up toaccommodate millions of users.Which solution will meet these requirements'?

A. Configure Amazon Cognito user pools for user authentication Enable the nsk-basedadaptive authentication feature with multi-factor authentication (MFA)
B. Configure Amazon Cognito identity pools for user authentication Enable multi-factorauthentication (MFA).
C. Configure AWS Identity and Access Management (1AM) users for user authenticationAttach an 1AM policy that allows the AllowManageOwnUserMFA action
D. Configure AWS 1AM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On) authentication for userauthentication Configure the permission sets to require multi-factor authentication(MFA)

Answer: A

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Question # 5

A solutions architect needs to design the architecture for an application that a vendorprovides as a Docker container image The container needs 50 GB of storage available fortemporary files The infrastructure must be serverless.Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Create an AWS Lambda function that uses the Docker container image with an AmazonS3 mounted volume that has more than 50 GB of space
B. Create an AWS Lambda function that uses the Docker container image with an AmazonElastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume that has more than 50 GB of space
C. Create an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster that uses the AWSFargate launch type Create a task definition for the container image with an AmazonElastic File System (Amazon EFS) volume. Create a service with that task definition.
D. Create an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster that uses theAmazon EC2 launch type with an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume thathas more than 50 GB of space Create a task definition for the container image. Create aservice with that task definition.

Answer: C

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Question # 6

A company uses AWS Organizations to run workloads within multiple AWS accounts Atagging policy adds department tags to AWS resources when the company creates tags.An accounting team needs to determine spending on Amazon EC2 consumption Theaccounting team must determine which departments are responsible for the costsregardless of AWS account The accounting team has access to AWS Cost Explorer for allAWS accounts within the organization and needs to access all reports from Cost Explorer.Which solution meets these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way'?

A. From the Organizations management account billing console, activate a user-definedcost allocation tag named department Create one cost report in Cost Explorer grouping by tag name, and filter by EC2.
B. From the Organizations management account billing console, activate an AWS-definedcost allocation tag named department. Create one cost report in Cost Explorer grouping bytag name, and filter by EC2.
C. From the Organizations member account billing console, activate a user-defined costallocation tag named department. Create one cost report in Cost Explorer grouping by thetag name, and filter by EC2.
D. From the Organizations member account billing console, activate an AWS-defined costallocation tag named department. Create one cost report in Cost Explorer grouping by tagname and filter by EC2.

Answer: B

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Question # 7

A company is building an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster for itsworkloads. All secrets that are stored in Amazon EKS must be encrypted in the Kubernetesetcd key-value store.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Create a new AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key Use AWS SecretsManager to manage rotate, and store all secrets in Amazon EKS.
B. Create a new AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key Enable Amazon EKSKMS secrets encryption on the Amazon EKS cluster.
C. Create the Amazon EKS cluster with default options Use the Amazon Elastic BlockStore (Amazon EBS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver as an add-on.
D. Create a new AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key with the ahas/aws/ebsalias Enable default Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume encryption for theaccount.

Answer: B

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Question # 8

A retail company has several businesses. The IT team for each business manages its ownAWS account. Each team account is part of an organization in AWS Organizations. Eachteam monitors its product inventory levels in an Amazon DynamoDB table in the team'sown AWS account.The company is deploying a central inventory reporting application into a shared AWSaccount. The application must be able to read items from all the teams' DynamoDB tables.Which authentication option will meet these requirements MOST securely?

A. Integrate DynamoDB with AWS Secrets Manager in the inventory application account.Configure the application to use the correct secret from Secrets Manager to authenticateand read the DynamoDB table. Schedule secret rotation for every 30 days.
B. In every business account, create an 1AM user that has programmatic access.Configure the application to use the correct 1AM user access key ID and secret access keyto authenticate and read the DynamoDB table. Manually rotate 1AM access keys every 30days.
C. In every business account, create an 1AM role named BU_ROLE with a policy that givesthe role access to the DynamoDB table and a trust policy to trust a specific role in theinventory application account. In the inventory account, create a role named APP_ROLEthat allows access to the STS AssumeRole API operation. Configure the application to useAPP_ROLE and assume the cross-account role BU_ROLE to read the DynamoDB table.
D. Integrate DynamoDB with AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). Generate identitycertificates to authenticate DynamoDB. Configure the application to use the correctcertificate to authenticate and read the DynamoDB table.

Answer: C

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Question # 9

A company built an application with Docker containers and needs to run the application inthe AWS Cloud The company wants to use a managed sen/ice to host the applicationThe solution must scale in and out appropriately according to demand on the individualcontainer services The solution also must not result in additional operational overhead orinfrastructure to manageWhich solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO)

A. Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with AWS Fargate.
B. Use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with AWS Fargate.
C. Provision an Amazon API Gateway API Connect the API to AWS Lambda to run the containers.
D. Use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with Amazon EC2 worker nodes.
E. Use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with Amazon EC2 workernodes.

Answer: A,B

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Question # 10

A company uses Amazon S3 as its data lake. The company has a new partner that mustuse SFTP to upload data files A solutions architect needs to implement a highly availableSFTP solution that minimizes operational overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Use AWS Transfer Family to configure an SFTP-enabled server with a publiclyaccessible endpoint Choose the S3 data lake as the destination
B. Use Amazon S3 File Gateway as an SFTP server Expose the S3 File Gateway endpointURL to the new partner Share the S3 File Gateway endpoint with the newpartner
C. Launch an Amazon EC2 instance in a private subnet in a VPC. Instruct the new partnerto upload files to the EC2 instance by using a VPN. Run a cron job script on the EC2instance to upload files to the S3 data lake
D. Launch Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet in a VPC. Place a Network LoadBalancer (NLB) in front of the EC2 instances. Create an SFTP listener port for the NLB Share the NLB hostname with the new partner Run a cron job script on the EC2 instancesto upload files to the S3 data lake.

Answer: A

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Question # 11

A company hosts an application used to upload files to an Amazon S3 bucket Onceuploaded, the files are processed to extract metadata which takes less than 5 seconds Thevolume and frequency of the uploads varies from a few files each hour to hundreds ofconcurrent uploads The company has asked a solutions architect to design a cost-effectivearchitecture that will meet these requirements.What should the solutions architect recommend?

A. Configure AWS CloudTrail trails to tog S3 API calls Use AWS AppSync to process thefiles.
B. Configure an object-created event notification within the S3 bucket to invoke an AWSLambda function to process the files.
C. Configure Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to process and send data to Amazon S3.Invoke an AWS Lambda function to process the files.
D. Configure an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to process thefiles uploaded to Amazon S3 Invoke an AWS Lambda function to process the files.

Answer: B

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Question # 12

A company runs analytics software on Amazon EC2 instances The software accepts jobrequests from users to process data that has been uploaded to Amazon S3 Users reportthat some submitted data is not being processed Amazon CloudWatch reveals that theEC2 instances have a consistent CPU utilization at or near 100% The company wants toimprove system performance and scale the system based on user load.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A. Create a copy of the instance Place all instances behind an Application Load Balancer
B. Create an S3 VPC endpoint for Amazon S3 Update the software to reference theendpoint
C. Stop the EC2 instances. Modify the instance type to one with a more powerful CPU andmore memory. Restart the instances.
D. Route incoming requests to Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) Configurean EC2 Auto Scaling group based on queue size Update the software to read from the queue.

Answer: D

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Question # 13

A company is deploying an application that processes streaming data in near-real time Thecompany plans to use Amazon EC2 instances for the workload The network architecturemust be configurable to provide the lowest possible latency between nodesWhich combination of network solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO)

A. Enable and configure enhanced networking on each EC2 instance
B. Group the EC2 instances in separate accounts
C. Run the EC2 instances in a cluster placement group
D. Attach multiple elastic network interfaces to each EC2 instance
E. Use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) optimized instance types.

Answer: A,C

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Question # 14

A company runs a container application on a Kubernetes cluster in the company's datacenter The application uses Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) tocommunicate with a message queue The data center cannot scale fast enough to meet thecompany's expanding business needs The company wants to migrate the workloads toAWSWhich solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? \

A. Migrate the container application to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)Use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to retrieve the messages.
B. Migrate the container application to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)Use Amazon MQ to retrieve the messages.
C. Use highly available Amazon EC2 instances to run the application Use Amazon MQ toretrieve the messages.
D. Use AWS Lambda functions to run the application Use Amazon Simple Queue Service(Amazon SQS) to retrieve the messages.

Answer: B

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Question # 15

A company runs a real-time data ingestion solution on AWS. The solution consists of themost recent version of Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). Thesolution is deployed in a VPC in private subnets across three Availability Zones.A solutions architect needs to redesign the data ingestion solution to be publicly availableover the internet. The data in transit must also be encrypted.Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?

A. Configure public subnets in the existing VPC. Deploy an MSK cluster in the publicsubnets. Update the MSK cluster security settings to enable mutual TLS authentication.
B. Create a new VPC that has public subnets. Deploy an MSK cluster in the publicsubnets. Update the MSK cluster security settings to enable mutual TLS authentication.
C. Deploy an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that uses private subnets. Configure an ALBsecurity group inbound rule to allow inbound traffic from the VPC CIDR block for HTTPSprotocol.
D. Deploy a Network Load Balancer (NLB) that uses private subnets. Configure an NLBlistener for HTTPS communication over the internet.

Answer: A

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Question # 16

A company runs a Java-based job on an Amazon EC2 instance. The job runs every hourand takes 10 seconds to run. The job runs on a scheduled interval and consumes 1 GB ofmemory. The CPU utilization of the instance is low except for short surges during which thejob uses the maximum CPU available. The company wants to optimize the costs to run thejob.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Use AWS App2Container (A2C) to containerize the job. Run the job as an AmazonElastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) task on AWS Fargate with 0.5 virtual CPU(vCPU) and 1 GB of memory.
B. Copy the code into an AWS Lambda function that has 1 GB of memory. Create anAmazon EventBridge scheduled rule to run the code each hour.
C. Use AWS App2Container (A2C) to containerize the job. Install the container in theexisting Amazon Machine Image (AMI). Ensure that the schedule stops the container whenthe task finishes.
D. Configure the existing schedule to stop the EC2 instance at the completion of the joband restart the EC2 instance when the next job starts.

Answer: B

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Question # 17

An ecommerce company runs applications in AWS accounts that are part of anorganization in AWS Organizations The applications run on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQLdatabases across all the accounts The company needs to prevent malicious activity andmust identify abnormal failed and incomplete login attempts to the databasesWhich solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?

A. Attach service control policies (SCPs) to the root of the organization to identify the failedlogin attempts
B. Enable the Amazon RDS Protection feature in Amazon GuardDuty for the memberaccounts of the organization
C. Publish the Aurora general logs to a log group in Amazon CloudWatch Logs Export thelog data to a central Amazon S3 bucket
D. Publish all the Aurora PostgreSQL database events in AWS CloudTrail to a centralAmazon S3 bucket

Answer: C

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Question # 18

A company needs to provide customers with secure access to its data. The companyprocesses customer data and stores the results in an Amazon S3 bucket.All the data is subject to strong regulations and security requirements. The data must beencrypted at rest. Each customer must be able to access only their data from their AWSaccount. Company employees must not be able to access the data.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Provision an AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) certificate for each customer. Encrypt thedata client-side. In the private certificate policy, deny access to the certificate for allprincipals except an 1AM role that the customer provides.
B. Provision a separate AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key for eachcustomer. Encrypt the data server-side. In the S3 bucket policy, deny decryption of data forall principals except an 1AM role that the customer provides.
C. Provision a separate AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key for eachcustomer. Encrypt the data server-side. In each KMS key policy, deny decryption of datafor all principals except an 1AM role that the customer provides.
D. Provision an AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) certificate for each customer. Encrypt thedata client-side. In the public certificate policy, deny access to the certificate for allprincipals except an 1AM role that the customer provides.

Answer: C

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Question # 19

A company has a nightly batch processing routine that analyzes report files that an onpremisesfile system receives daily through SFTP. The company wants to move thesolution to the AWS Cloud. The solution must be highly available and resilient. The solutionalso must minimize operational effort.Which solution meets these requirements?

A. Deploy AWS Transfer for SFTP and an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) filesystem for storage. Use an Amazon EC2 instance in an Auto Scaling group with ascheduled scaling policy to run the batch operation.
B. Deploy an Amazon EC2 instance that runs Linux and an SFTP service. Use an AmazonElastic Block Store {Amazon EBS) volume for storage. Use an Auto Scaling group with theminimum number of instances and desired number of instances set to 1.
C. Deploy an Amazon EC2 instance that runs Linux and an SFTP service. Use an AmazonElastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system for storage. Use an Auto Scaling group withthe minimum number of instances and desired number of instances set to 1.
D. Deploy AWS Transfer for SFTP and an Amazon S3 bucket for storage. Modify theapplication to pull the batch files from Amazon S3 to an Amazon EC2 instance forprocessing. Use an EC2 instance in an Auto Scaling group with a scheduled scaling policyto run the batch operation.

Answer: D

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Question # 20

A company uses high concurrency AWS Lambda functions to process a constantlyincreasing number of messages in a message queue during marketing events. TheLambda functions use CPU intensive code to process the messages. The company wantsto reduce the compute costs and to maintain service latency for its customers.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Configure reserved concurrency for the Lambda functions. Decrease the memoryallocated to the Lambda functions.
B. Configure reserved concurrency for the Lambda functions. Increase the memoryaccording to AWS Compute Optimizer recommendations.
C. Configure provisioned concurrency for the Lambda functions. Decrease the memoryallocated to the Lambda functions.
D. Configure provisioned concurrency for the Lambda functions. Increase the memoryaccording to AWS Compute Optimizer recommendations.

Answer: D

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Question # 21

A company runs applications on AWS that connect to the company's Amazon RDSdatabase. The applications scale on weekends and at peak times of the year. Thecompany wants to scale the database more effectively for its applications that connect tothe database.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Use Amazon DynamoDB with connection pooling with a target group configuration forthe database. Change the applications to use the DynamoDB endpoint.
B. Use Amazon RDS Proxy with a target group for the database. Change the applicationsto use the RDS Proxy endpoint.
C. Use a custom proxy that runs on Amazon EC2 as an intermediary to the database.Change the applications to use the custom proxy endpoint.
D. Use an AWS Lambda function to provide connection pooling with a target groupconfiguration for the database. Change the applications to use the Lambda function.

Answer: B

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Question # 22

A company wants to run its payment application on AWS The application receives paymentnotifications from mobile devices Payment notifications require a basic validation beforethey are sent for further processingThe backend processing application is long running and requires compute and memory tobe adjusted The company does not want to manage the infrastructureWhich solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue Integrate the queuewith an Amazon EventBndge rule to receive payment notifications from mobile devicesConfigure the rule to validate payment notifications and send the notifications to the backend application Deploy the backend application on Amazon Elastic KubernetesService (Amazon EKS) Anywhere Create a standalone cluster
B. Create an Amazon API Gateway API Integrate the API with anAWS Step Functionsstate machine to receive payment notifications from mobile devices Invoke the statemachine to validate payment notifications and send the notifications to the backendapplication Deploy the backend application on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Sen/ice(Amazon EKS). Configure an EKS cluster with self-managed nodes.
C. Create an Amazon Simple Queue Sen/ice (Amazon SQS) queue Integrate the queuewith an Amazon EventBridge rule to receive payment notifications from mobile devicesConfigure the rule to validate payment notifications and send the notifications to thebackend application Deploy the backend application on Amazon EC2 Spot InstancesConfigure a Spot Fleet with a default allocation strategy.
D. Create an Amazon API Gateway API Integrate the API with AWS Lambda to receivepayment notifications from mobile devices Invoke a Lambda function to validate paymentnotifications and send the notifications to the backend application Deploy the backendapplication on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). Configure Amazon ECSwith an AWS Fargate launch type.

Answer: D

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Question # 23

A company has multiple AWS accounts with applications deployed in the us-west-2 RegionApplication logs are stored within Amazon S3 buckets in each account The company wants to build a centralized log analysis solution that uses a single S3 bucket Logs must not leaveus-west-2, and the company wants to incur minimal operational overheadWhich solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?

A. Create an S3 Lifecycle policy that copies the objects from one of the application S3buckets to the centralized S3 bucket
B. Use S3 Same-Region Replication to replicate logs from the S3 buckets to another S3bucket in us-west-2 Use this S3 bucket for log analysis.
C. Write a script that uses the PutObject API operation every day to copy the entirecontents of the buckets to another S3 bucket in us-west-2 Use this S3 bucket for loganalysis.
D. Write AWS Lambda functions in these accounts that are triggered every time logs aredelivered to the S3 buckets (s3 ObjectCreated a event) Copy the logs to another S3 bucketin us-west-2. Use this S3 bucket for log analysis.

Answer: B

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Question # 24

A company runs a highly available web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind anApplication Load Balancer The company uses Amazon CloudWatch metricsAs the traffic to the web application Increases, some EC2 instances become overloadedwith many outstanding requests The CloudWatch metrics show that the number of requestsprocessed and the time to receive the responses from some EC2 instances are both highercompared to other EC2 instances The company does not want new requests to beforwarded to the EC2 instances that are already overloaded.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Use the round robin routing algorithm based on the RequestCountPerTarget and ActiveConnection Count CloudWatch metrics.
B. Use the least outstanding requests algorithm based on the RequestCountPerTarget andActiveConnectionCount CloudWatch metrics.
C. Use the round robin routing algorithm based on the RequestCount andTargetResponseTime CloudWatch metrics.
D. Use the least outstanding requests algorithm based on the RequestCount andTargetResponseTime CloudWatch metrics.

Answer: D

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Question # 25

An analytics company uses Amazon VPC to run its multi-tier services. The company wantsto use RESTful APIs to offer a web analytics service to millions of users. Users must beverified by using an authentication service to access the APIs.Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?

A. Configure an Amazon Cognito user pool for user authentication. Implement Amazon APIGateway REST APIs with a Cognito authorizer.
B. Configure an Amazon Cognito identity pool for user authentication. Implement AmazonAPI Gateway HTTP APIs with a Cognito authorizer.
C. Configure an AWS Lambda function to handle user authentication. Implement AmazonAPI Gateway REST APIs with a Lambda authorizer.
D. Configure an 1AM user to handle user authentication. Implement Amazon API GatewayHTTP APIs with an 1AM authorizer.

Answer: A

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Question # 26

A company has an AWS Direct Connect connection from its on-premises location to anAWS account The AWS account has 30 different VPCs in the same AWS Region TheVPCs use private virtual interfaces (VIFs) Each VPC has a CIDR block that does notoverlap with other networks under the company's controlThe company wants to centrally manage the networking architecture while still allowingeach VPC to communicate with all other VPCs and on-premises networksWhich solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operationaloverhead?

A. Create a transit gateway and associate the Direct Connect connection with a new transitVIF Turn on the transit gateway's route propagation feature
B. Create a Direct Connect gateway Recreate the private VIFs to use the new gatewayAssociate each VPC by creating new virtual private gateways
C. Create a transit VPC Connect the Direct Connect connection to the transit VPC Create apeenng connection between all other VPCs in the Region Update the route tables
D. Create AWS Site-to-Site VPN connections from on premises to each VPC Ensure thatboth VPN tunnels are UP for each connection Turn on the route propagation feature

Answer: A

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Question # 27

A solutions architect is designing a shared storage solution for a web application that isdeployed across multiple Availability Zones The web application runs on Amazon EC2instances that are in an Auto Scaling group The company plans to make frequent changesto the content The solution must have strong consistency in returning the new content assoon as the changes occur.Which solutions meet these requirements? (Select TWO)

A. Use AWS Storage Gateway Volume Gateway Internet Small Computer SystemsInterface (iSCSI) block storage that is mounted to the individual EC2 instances
B. Create an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system Mount the EFS filesystem on the individual EC2 instances
C. Create a shared Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. Mount the EBSvolume on the individual EC2 instances.
D. Use AWS DataSync to perform continuous synchronization of data between EC2 hostsin the Auto Scaling group
E. Create an Amazon S3 bucket to store the web content Set the metadata for the Cache-Control header to no-cache Use Amazon CloudFront to deliver the content

Answer: B,E

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Question # 28

A company needs to extract the names of ingredients from recipe records that are storedas text files in an Amazon S3 bucket A web application will use the ingredient names toquery an Amazon DynamoDB table and determine a nutrition score.The application can handle non-food records and errors The company does not have anyemployees who have machine learning knowledge to develop this solutionWhich solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A. Use S3 Event Notifications to invoke an AWS Lambda function when PutObjectrequests occur Program the Lambda function to analyze the object and extract theingredient names by using Amazon Comprehend Store the Amazon Comprehend output inthe DynamoDB table.
B. Use an Amazon EventBridge rule to invoke an AWS Lambda function when PutObjectrequests occur. Program the Lambda function to analyze the object by using AmazonForecast to extract the ingredient names Store the Forecast output in the DynamoDB table.
C. Use S3 Event Notifications to invoke an AWS Lambda function when PutObjectrequests occur Use Amazon Polly to create audio recordings of the recipe records. Savethe audio files in the S3 bucket Use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) tosend a URL as a message to employees Instruct the employees to listen to the audio filesand calculate the nutrition score Store the ingredient names in the DynamoDB table.
D. Use an Amazon EventBridge rule to invoke an AWS Lambda function when a PutObjectrequest occurs Program the Lambda function to analyze the object and extract theingredient names by using Amazon SageMaker Store the inference output from theSageMaker endpoint in the DynamoDB table.

Answer: A

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Question # 29

A company has a new mobile app. Anywhere in the world, users can see local news ontopics they choose. Users also can post photos and videos from inside the app.Users access content often in the first minutes after the content is posted. New contentquickly replaces older content, and then the older content disappears. The local nature ofthe news means that users consume 90% of the content within the AWS Region where it isuploaded.Which solution will optimize the user experience by providing the LOWEST latency forcontent uploads?

A. Upload and store content in Amazon S3. Use Amazon CloudFront for the uploads.
B. Upload and store content in Amazon S3. Use S3 Transfer Acceleration for the uploads.
C. Upload content to Amazon EC2 instances in the Region that is closest to the user. Copythe data to Amazon S3.
D. Upload and store content in Amazon S3 in the Region that is closest to the user. Usemultiple distributions of Amazon CloudFront.

Answer: B

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Question # 30

An ecommerce application uses a PostgreSQL database that runs on an Amazon EC2instance. During a monthly sales event, database usage increases and causes databaseconnection issues for the application. The traffic is unpredictable for subsequent monthlysales events, which impacts the sales forecast. The company needs to maintainperformance when there is an unpredictable increase in traffic.Which solution resolves this issue in the MOST cost-effective way?

A. Migrate the PostgreSQL database to Amazon Aurora Serverless v2.
B. Enable auto scaling for the PostgreSQL database on the EC2 instance to accommodateincreased usage.
C. Migrate the PostgreSQL database to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with a largerinstance type
D. Migrate the PostgreSQL database to Amazon Redshift to accommodate increasedusage

Answer: A

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Question # 31

A company's marketing data is uploaded from multiple sources to an Amazon S3 bucket A series ot data preparation jobs aggregate the data for reporting The data preparation jobsneed to run at regular intervals in parallel A few jobs need to run in a specific order laterThe company wants to remove the operational overhead of job error handling retry logic,and state managementWhich solution will meet these requirements?

A. Use an AWS Lambda function to process the data as soon as the data is uploaded tothe S3 bucket Invoke Other Lambda functions at regularly scheduled intervals
B. Use Amazon Athena to process the data Use Amazon EventBndge Scheduler to invokeAthena on a regular internal
C. Use AWS Glue DataBrew to process the data Use an AWS Step Functions statemachine to run the DataBrew data preparation jobs
D. Use AWS Data Pipeline to process the data. Schedule Data Pipeline to process the dataonce at midnight.

Answer: C

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Question # 32

A research company uses on-premises devices to generate data for analysis. Thecompany wants to use the AWS Cloud to analyze the data. The devices generate .csv filesand support writing the data to SMB file share. Company analysts must be able to use SQLcommands to query the data. The analysts will run queries periodically throughout the day.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (SelectTHREE.)

A. Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway on premises in Amazon S3 File Gateway mode.
B. Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway on premises in Amazon FSx File Gateway mode.
C. Set up an AWS Glue crawler to create a table based on the data that is in Amazon S3.
D. Set up an Amazon EMR cluster with EMR Fife System (EMRFS) to query the data thatis in Amazon S3. Provide access to analysts.
E. Set up an Amazon Redshift cluster to query the data that is in Amazon S3. Provideaccess to analysts.
F. Set up Amazon Athena to query the data that is in Amazon S3. Provide access toanalysts.

Answer: A,C,F

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Question # 33

A company website hosted on Amazon EC2 instances processes classified data stored inThe application writes data to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes Thecompany needs to ensure that all data that is written to the EBS volumes is encrypted atrest.Which solution will meet this requirement?

A. Create an 1AM role that specifies EBS encryption Attach the role to the EC2 instances
B. Create the EBS volumes as encrypted volumes Attach the EBS volumes to the EC2instances
C. Create an EC2 instance tag that has a key of Encrypt and a value of True Tag allinstances that require encryption at the EBS level
D. Create an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key policy that enforces EBSencryption in the account Ensure that the key policy is active

Answer: B

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Question # 34

A company has Amazon EC2 instances that run nightly batch jobs to process data. TheEC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group that uses On-Demand billing. If a job fails onone instance: another instance will reprocess the job. The batch jobs run between 12:00AM and 06 00 AM local time every day.Which solution will provide EC2 instances to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively'?

A. Purchase a 1-year Savings Plan for Amazon EC2 that covers the instance family of theAuto Scaling group that the batch job uses.
B. Purchase a 1-year Reserved Instance for the specific instance type and operatingsystem of the instances in the Auto Scaling group that the batch job uses.
C. Create a new launch template for the Auto Scaling group Set the instances to SpotInstances Set a policy to scale out based on CPU usage.
D. Create a new launch template for the Auto Scaling group Increase the instance size Seta policy to scale out based on CPU usage.

Answer: C

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