A company has a non-production application that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 instance has an instance profile and an associated IAM role.
The company wants to automate patching for the EC2 instance.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company's packaged application dynamically creates and returns single-use text files in response to user requests. The company is using Amazon CloudFront for distribution, but wants to further reduce data transfer costs. The company cannot modify the application's source code.
What should a solutions architect do to reduce costs?
A company has an application that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance. The application uses a MySQL database that runs on the same EC2 instance. The company needs a highly available and automatically scalable solution to handle increased traffic.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An adventure company has launched a new feature on its mobile app. Users can use the feature to upload their hiking and rafting photos and videos anytime. The photos and videos are stored in Amazon S3 Standard storage in an S3 bucket and are served through Amazon CloudFront.
The company needs to optimize the cost of the storage. A solutions architect discovers that most of the uploaded photos and videos are accessed infrequently after 30 days. However, some of the uploaded photos and videos are accessed frequently after 30 days. The solutions architect needs to implement a solution that maintains millisecond retrieval availability of the photos and videos at the lowest possible cost.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
Question:
An ecommerce company hosts an API that handles sales requests. The company hosts the API frontend on Amazon EC2 instances that run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company hosts the API backend on EC2 instances that perform the transactions. The backend tiers are loosely coupled by an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue.
The company anticipates a significant increase in request volume during a new product launch event. The company wants to ensure that the API can handle increased loads successfully.
Options:
A company wants to provide a third-party system that runs in a private data center with access to its AWS account. The company wants to call AWS APIs directly from the third-party system. The company has an existing process for managing digital certificates. The company does not want to use SAML or OpenID Connect (OIDC) capabilities and does not want to store long-term AWS credentials.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An international company needs to share data from an Amazon S3 bucket to employees who are located around the world. The company needs a secure solution to provide employees with access to the S3 bucket. The employees are already enrolled in AWS IAM Identity Center.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is enhancing the security of its AWS environment, where the company stores a significant amount of sensitive customer data. The company needs a solution that automatically identifies and classifies sensitive data that is stored in multiple Amazon S3 buckets. The solution must automatically respond to data breaches and alert the company's security team through email immediately when noncompliant data is found.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has a batch processing application that runs every day. The process typically takes an average 3 hours to complete. The application can handle interruptions and can resume the process after a restart. Currently, the company runs the application on Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances. The company wants to optimize costs while maintaining the same performance level. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company is developing software that uses a PostgreSQL database schema. The company needs to configure development environments and test environments for its developers.
Each developer at the company uses their own development environment, which includes a PostgreSQL database. On average, each development environment is used for an 8-hour workday. The test environments will be used for load testing that can take up to 2 hours each day.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company runs database workloads on AWS that are the backend for the company's customer portals. The company runs a Multi-AZ database cluster on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.
The company needs to implement a 30-day backup retention policy. The company currently has both automated RDS backups and manual RDS backups. The company wants to maintain both types of existing RDS backups that are less than 30 days old.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
An e-commerce company has an application that uses Amazon DynamoDB tables configured with provisioned capacity. Order data is stored in a table named Orders. The Orders table has a primary key of order-ID and a sort key of product-ID. The company configured an AWS Lambda function to receive DynamoDB streams from the Orders table and update a table named Inventory. The company has noticed that during peak sales periods, updates to the Inventory table take longer than the company can tolerate. Which solutions will resolve the slow table updates? (Select TWO.)
A company runs multiple applications in multiple AWS accounts within the same organization in AWS Organizations. A content management system (CMS) runs on Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC. The CMS needs to access shared files from an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system that is deployed in a separate AWS account. The EFS account is in a separate VPC.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
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 this requirement?
A company is building a web application that serves a content management system. The content management system runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. Users are constantly adding and updating files, blogs, and other website assets in the content management system.
A solutions architect must implement a solution in which all the EC2 instances share up-to-date website content with the least possible lag time.
TESTED 21 Nov 2025
