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#111 (Accuracy: 100% / 3 votes)

A company needs to optimize the cost of an AWS environment that contains multiple accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company conducted cost optimization activities 3 years ago and purchased Amazon EC2 Standard Reserved Instances that recently expired.

The company needs EC2 instances for 3 more years. Additionally, the company has deployed a new serverless workload.

Which strategy will provide the company with the MOST cost savings?

A. Purchase the same Reserved Instances for an additional 3-year term with All Upfront payment. Purchase a 3-year Compute Savings Plan with All Upfront payment in the management account to cover any additional compute costs
B. Purchase a 1-year Compute Savings Plan with No Upfront payment in each member account. Use the Savings Plans recommendations in the AWS Cost Management console to choose the Compute Savings Plan.
C. Purchase a 3-year EC2 Instance Savings Plan with No Upfront payment in the management account to cover EC2 costs in each AWS Region. Purchase a 3-year Compute Savings Plan with No Upfront payment in the management account to cover any additional compute costs.
D. Purchase a 3-year EC2 Instance Savings Plan with All Upfront payment in each member account. Use the Savings Plans recommendations in the AWS Cost Management console to choose the EC2 Instance Savings Plan.

#112 (Accuracy: 100% / 5 votes)

A company needs to migrate its on-premises database fleet to Amazon RDS. The company is currently using a mixture of Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle databases. Some of the databases have custom schemas and stored procedures.

Which combination of steps should the company take for the migration? (Choose two.)

A. Use Migration Evaluator Quick Insights to analyze the source databases and to identify the stored procedures that need to be migrated.
B. Use AWS Application Migration Service to analyze the source databases and to identify the stored procedures that need to be migrated.
C. Use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) to analyze the source databases for changes that are required
D. Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate the source databases to Amazon RDS.
E. Use AWS DataSync to migrate the data from the source databases to Amazon RDS.

#113 (Accuracy: 100% / 4 votes)

A company runs a web application on a single Amazon EC2 instance. End users experience slow application performance during times of peak usage, when CPU utilization is consistently more than 95%.

A user data script installs required custom packages on the EC2 instance. The process of launching the instance takes several minutes.

The company is creating an Auto Scaling group that has mixed instance groups, varied CPUs, and a maximum capacity limit. The Auto Scaling group will use a launch template for various configuration options. The company needs to decrease application latency when new instances are launched during auto scaling.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Use a predictive scaling policy. Use an instance maintenance policy to run the user data script. Set the default instance warmup time to 0 seconds.
B. Use a dynamic scaling policy. Use lifecycle hooks to run the user data script. Set the default instance warmup time to 0 seconds.
C. Use a predictive scaling policy. Enable warm pools for the Auto Scaling group. Use an instance maintenance policy to run the user data script.
D. Use a dynamic scaling policy. Enable warm pools for the Auto Scaling group. Use lifecycle hooks to run the user data script.

#114 (Accuracy: 100% / 3 votes)

A company needs to improve the reliability of its ticketing application. The application runs on an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster. The company uses Amazon CloudFront to serve the application. A single ECS service of the ECS cluster is the CloudFront distribution’s origin.

The application allows only a specific number of active users to enter a ticket purchasing flow. These users are identified by an encrypted attribute in their JSON Web Token (JWT). All other users are redirected to a waiting room module until there is available capacity for purchasing.

The application is experiencing high loads. The waiting room module is working as designed, but load on the waiting room is disrupting the applications availability.
This disruption is negatively affecting the application's ticket sale transactions.

Which solution will provide the MOST reliability for ticket sale transactions during periods of high load?

A. Create a separate service in the ECS cluster for the waiting room. Use a separate scaling configuration. Ensure that the ticketing service uses the JWT information and appropriately forwards requests to the waiting room service.
B. Move the application to an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster. Split the waiting room module into a pod that is separate from the ticketing pod. Make the ticketing pod part of a StatefulSet. Ensure that the ticketing pod uses the JWT information and appropriately forwards requests to the waiting room pod.
C. Create a separate service in the ECS cluster for the waiting room. Use a separate scaling configuration. Create a CloudFront function that inspects the JWT information and appropriately forwards requests to the ticketing service or the waiting room service.
D. Move the application to an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster. Split the waiting room module into a pod that is separate from the ticketing pod. Use AWS App Mesh by provisioning the App Mesh controller for Kubernetes. Enable mTLS authentication and service-to-service authentication for communication between the ticketing pod and the waiting room pod. Ensure that the ticketing pod uses the JWT information and appropriately forwards requests to the waiting room pod.

#115 (Accuracy: 92% / 6 votes)

A company is planning to migrate several applications to AWS. The company does not have a good understanding of its entire application estate. The estate consists of a mixture of physical machines and VMs.

One application that the company will migrate has many dependencies that are sensitive to latency. The company is unsure what all the dependencies are. However the company knows that the low-latency communications use a custom IP-based protocol that runs on port 1000. The company wants to migrate the application and these dependencies together to move all the low-latency interfaces to AWS at the same time.

The company has installed the AWS Application Discovery Agent and has been collecting data for several months.

What should the company do to identify the dependencies that need to be migrated in the same phase as the application?

A. Use AWS Migration Hub and select the servers that host the application. Visualize the network graph to find servers that interact with the application. Turn on data exploration in Amazon Athena. Query the data that is transferred between the servers to identify the servers that communicate on port 1000. Return to Migration Hub. Create a move group that is based on the findings from the Athena queries.
B. Use AWS Application Migration Service and select the servers that host the application. Visualize the network graph to find servers that interact with the application. Configure Application Migration Service to launch test instances for all the servers that interact with the application. Perform acceptance tests on the test instances. If no issues are identified, create a move group that is based on the tested servers.
C. Use AWS Migration Hub and select the servers that host the application. Turn on data exploration in Network Access Analyzer. Use the Network Access Analyzer console to select the servers that host the application. Select a Network Access Scope of port 1000 and note the matching servers. Return to Migration Hub. Create a move group that is based on the findings from Network Access Analyzer.
D. Use AWS Migration Hub and select the servers that host the application. Push the Amazon CloudWalch agent to the identified servers by using the AWS Application Discovery Agent. Export the CloudWatch logs that the agents collect to Amazon S3. Use Amazon Athena to query the logs to find servers that communicate on port 1000. Return to Migration Hub Create a move group that is based on the findings from the Athena queries.

#116 (Accuracy: 91% / 12 votes)

A solutions architect has an operational workload deployed on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The VPC architecture spans two Availability Zones (AZ) with a subnet in each that the Auto Scaling group is targeting. The VPC is connected to an on-premises environment and connectivity cannot be interrupted. The maximum size of the Auto Scaling group is 20 instances in service. The VPC IPv4 addressing is as follows:

VPC CIDR: 10.0.0.0/23 -

AZ1 subnet CIDR: 10.0.0.0/24 -

AZ2 subnet CIDR: 10.0.1.0/24 -

Since deployment, a third AZ has become available in the Region. The solutions architect wants to adopt the new AZ without adding additional IPv4 address space and without service downtime. Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Update the Auto Scaling group to use the AZ2 subnet only. Delete and re-create the AZ1 subnet using half the previous address space. Adjust the Auto Scaling group to also use the new AZ1 subnet. When the instances are healthy, adjust the Auto Scaling group to use the AZ1 subnet only. Remove the current AZ2 subnet. Create a new AZ2 subnet using the second half of the address space from the original AZ1 subnet. Create a new AZ3 subnet using half the original AZ2 subnet address space, then update the Auto Scaling group to target all three new subnets.
B. Terminate the EC2 instances in the AZ1 subnet. Delete and re-create the AZ1 subnet using half the address space. Update the Auto Scaling group to use this new subnet. Repeat this for the second AZ. Define a new subnet in AZ3, then update the Auto Scaling group to target all three new subnets.
C. Create a new VPC with the same IPv4 address space and define three subnets, with one for each AZ. Update the existing Auto Scaling group to target the new subnets in the new VPC.
D. Update the Auto Scaling group to use the AZ2 subnet only. Update the AZ1 subnet to have half the previous address space. Adjust the Auto Scaling group to also use the AZ1 subnet again. When the instances are healthy, adjust the Auto Scaling group to use the AZ1 subnet only. Update the current AZ2 subnet and assign the second half of the address space from the original AZ1 subnet. Create a new AZ3 subnet using half the original AZ2 subnet address space, then update the Auto Scaling group to target all three new subnets.

#117 (Accuracy: 96% / 11 votes)

A company needs to migrate an on-premises SFTP site to AWS. The SFTP site currently runs on a Linux VM. Uploaded files are made available to downstream applications through an NFS share.

As part of the migration to AWS, a solutions architect must implement high availability. The solution must provide external vendors with a set of static public IP addresses that the vendors can allow. The company has set up an AWS Direct Connect connection between its on-premises data center and its VPC.

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

A. Create an AWS Transfer Family server. Configure an internet-facing VPC endpoint for the Transfer Family server. Specify an Elastic IP address for each subnet. Configure the Transfer Family server to place files into an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system that is deployed across multiple Availability Zones. Modify the configuration on the downstream applications that access the existing NFS share to mount the EFS endpoint instead.
B. Create an AWS Transfer Family server. Configure a publicly accessible endpoint for the Transfer Family server. Configure the Transfer Family server to place files into an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system that is deployed across multiple Availability Zones. Modify the configuration on the downstream applications that access the existing NFS share to mount the EFS endpoint instead.
C. Use AWS Application Migration Service to migrate the existing Linux VM to an Amazon EC2 instance. Assign an Elastic IP address to the EC2 instance. Mount an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system to the EC2 instance. Configure the SFTP server to place files in the EFS file system. Modify the configuration on the downstream applications that access the existing NFS share to mount the EFS endpoint instead.
D. Use AWS Application Migration Service to migrate the existing Linux VM to an AWS Transfer Family server. Configure a publicly accessible endpoint for the Transfer Family server. Configure the Transfer Family server to place files into an Amazon FSx for Lustre file system that is deployed across multiple Availability Zones. Modify the configuration on the downstream applications that access the existing NFS share to mount the FSx for Lustre endpoint instead.

#118 (Accuracy: 94% / 9 votes)

A company uses a Grafana data visualization solution that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance to monitor the health of the company's AWS workloads. The company has invested time and effort to create dashboards that the company wants to preserve. The dashboards need to be highly available and cannot be down for longer than 10 minutes. The company needs to minimize ongoing maintenance.

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

A. Migrate to Amazon CloudWatch dashboards. Recreate the dashboards to match the existing Grafana dashboards. Use automatic dashboards where possible.
B. Create an Amazon Managed Grafana workspace. Configure a new Amazon CloudWatch data source. Export dashboards from the existing Grafana instance. Import the dashboards into the new workspace.
C. Create an AMI that has Grafana pre-installed. Store the existing dashboards in Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). Create an Auto Scaling group that uses the new AMI. Set the Auto Scaling group's minimum, desired, and maximum number of instances to one. Create an Application Load Balancer that serves at least two Availability Zones.
D. Configure AWS Backup to back up the EC2 instance that runs Grafana once each hour. Restore the EC2 instance from the most recent snapshot in an alternate Availability Zone when required.

#119 (Accuracy: 96% / 13 votes)

A weather service provides high-resolution weather maps from a web application hosted on AWS in the eu-west-1 Region. The weather maps are updated frequently and stored in Amazon S3 along with static HTML content. The web application is fronted by Amazon CloudFront.

The company recently expanded to serve users in the us-east-1 Region, and these new users report that viewing their respective weather maps is slow from time to time.

Which combination of steps will resolve the us-east-1 performance issues? (Choose two.)

A. Configure the AWS Global Accelerator endpoint for the S3 bucket in eu-west-1. Configure endpoint groups for TCP ports 80 and 443 in us-east-1.
B. Create a new S3 bucket in us-east-1. Configure S3 cross-Region replication to synchronize from the S3 bucket in eu-west-1.
C. Use Lambda@Edge to modify requests from North America to use the S3 Transfer Acceleration endpoint in us-east-1.
D. Use Lambda@Edge to modify requests from North America to use the S3 bucket in us-east-1.
E. Configure the AWS Global Accelerator endpoint for us-east-1 as an origin on the CloudFront distribution. Use Lambda@Edge to modify requests from North America to use the new origin.

#120 (Accuracy: 97% / 6 votes)

A solutions architect needs to assess a newly acquired company’s portfolio of applications and databases. The solutions architect must create a business case to migrate the portfolio to AWS. The newly acquired company runs applications in an on-premises data center. The data center is not well documented. The solutions architect cannot immediately determine how many applications and databases exist. Traffic for the applications is variable. Some applications are batch processes that run at the end of each month.

The solutions architect must gain a better understanding of the portfolio before a migration to AWS can begin.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Use AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to evaluate migration. Use AWS Service Catalog to understand application and database dependencies.
B. Use AWS Application Migration Service. Run agents on the on-premises infrastructure. Manage the agents by using AWS Migration Hub. Use AWS Storage Gateway to assess local storage needs and database dependencies.
C. Use Migration Evaluator to generate a list of servers. Build a report for a business case. Use AWS Migration Hub to view the portfolio. Use AWS Application Discovery Service to gain an understanding of application dependencies.
D. Use AWS Control Tower in the destination account to generate an application portfolio. Use AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) to generate deeper reports and a business case. Use a landing zone for core accounts and resources.

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