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2024 AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT PRACTICE EXAM 1WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
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2024 AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTPRACTICE EXAM 1WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
A tech company has a CRM application hosted on an Auto Scaling group of
On-Demand EC2 instances. The application is extensively used during office
hours from 9 in the morning till 5 in the afternoon. Their users are
complaining that the performance of the application is slow during the start
of the day but then works normally after a couple of hours.
Which of the following can be done to ensure that the application works
properly at the beginning of the day? - CORRECT-ANSWERSConfigure a
Scheduled scaling policy for the Auto Scaling group to launch new instances
before the start of the day.
There are a lot of outages in the Availability Zone of your RDS database
instance to the point that you have lost access to the database. What could
you do to prevent losing access to your database in case that this event
happens again? - CORRECT-ANSWERSEnabled Multi-AZ failover
You are working for a large financial company as an IT consultant. Your role
is to help their development team to build a highly available web application
using stateless web servers. In this scenario, which AWS services are suitable
for storing session state data? - CORRECT-ANSWERSDynamoDB
ElastiCache
A popular social media website uses a CloudFront web distribution to serve
their static contents to their millions of users around the globe. They are
receiving a number of complaints recently that their users take a lot of time
to log into their website. There are also occasions when their users are
getting HTTP 504 errors. You are instructed by your manager to significantly
reduce the user's login time to further optimize the system. Which of the
following options should you use together to set up a cost-effective solution
that can improve your application's performance? - CORRECT-
ANSWERSCustomize the content that the CloudFront web distribution
delivers to your users using Lambda@Edge, which allows your Lambda
functions to execute the authentication process in AWS locations closer to
the users.
, Set up an origin failover by creating an origin group with two origins. Specify
one as the primary origin and the other as the second origin which
CloudFront automatically switches to when the primary origin returns specific
HTTP status code failure responses.
You have a new joiner in your organization. You have provisioned an IAM
user for the new employee in AWS however, the user is not able to perform
any actions. What could be the reason for this? - CORRECT-ANSWERSIAM
users are created by default with no permissions
Your company announced that there would be a surprise IT audit on all of the
AWS resources being used in the production environment. During the audit
activities, it was noted that you are using a combination of Standard and
Scheduled Reserved EC2 instances in your applications. They argued that
you should have used Spot EC2 instances instead as it is cheaper than the
Reserved Instance.
Which of the following are the characteristics and benefits of using these two
types of Reserved EC2 instances, which you can use as justification? -
CORRECT-ANSWERSReserved Instances doesn't get interrupted unlike Spot
instances in the event that there are not enough unused EC2 instances to
meet the demand.
You are working as a Solutions Architect for a government project in which
they are building an online portal to allow people to pay their taxes and
claim their tax refunds online. Due to the confidentiality of data, the security
policy requires that the application hosted in EC2 encrypts the data first
before writing it to the disk for storage.
In this scenario, which service would you use to meet this requirement? -
CORRECT-ANSWERSAWS KMS API
You are working as a Solutions Architect in a new startup that provides
storage for high-quality photos which are infrequently accessed by the users.
To make the architecture cost-effective, you designed the cloud service to
use an S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) storage type for
free users and an S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) storage
type for premium users. When your manager found out about this, he asked
you about the trade-offs of using S3 One Zone-IA instead of the S3 Standard-
IA.
What will you say to your manager? - CORRECT-ANSWERSUnlike other
Amazon object storage classes, which store data in a minimum of three
Availability Zones (AZs), S3 One Zone-IA stores data in a single AZ.
Storing data in S3 One Zone-IA costs less than storing it in S3 Standard-IA.
A Docker application, which is running on an Amazon ECS cluster behind a
load balancer, is heavily using DynamoDB. You are instructed to improve the
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