AWS-SAA Exam Questions And Correct Answers New Update (A+ Pass)
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AWS-SAA Exam Questions And Correct Answers New Update (A+ Pass)
A company wants to analyze all of its sales information aggregated over the last 12 months. The company expects there to be over 10TB of data from multiple sources.What service should be used? - Answers -AmaAmazon Redshiftzon Redshi...
AWS-SAA Exam Questions And Correct
Answers New Update (A+ Pass)
A company wants to analyze all of its sales information aggregated over the last 12
months. The company expects there to be over 10TB of data from multiple
sources.What service should be used? - Answers -AmaAmazon Redshiftzon Redshift
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? - Answers -Use the AWS
KMS Default Customer master key.
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? - Answers -Amazon SQS
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? - Answers -AWS Storage Gateway
in cached mode for the legacy application storage to write data to Amazon S3.
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? -
Answers -Amazon ElastiCache in front of the RDS MySQL Database
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? -
Answers -Amazon DynamoDB
A Solution 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? - Answers -Enable cross-
region snapshots to a different region.
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? - Answers -The
application is updating records by overwriting existing objects with the same keys.
,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 - Answers -Use Amazon S3
with the default private access policy and generate pre-signed URLs each time a new
site profile is created.
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? - Answers -Amazon EBS
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? - Answers -Create lifecycle rules to move files older than 30 days to
Amazon S3 Standard Infrequent Access and move files older than 60 days to Amazon
Glacier.
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? - Answers -Amazon DynamoDB
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? (Select two.) - Answers -Create the Lambda function within the
Amazon RDS VPC.
Change the ingress rules of the Amazon RDS security group, allowing the Lambda
security group
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? - Answers -Modify the Redshift
cluster and configure cross-region snapshots to the other region.
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? -
Answers -Create one or more read replicas.
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? (Select two.)
- Answers -Launch Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an ELB.
Create an CloudFront distribution pointing to static content in Amazon S3.
A Solution 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? - Answers -Configure the database security group to allow database
traffic from the application server security group.
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 AmazonEC2 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? - Answers -NAT instance
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 Solution Architect determines
that a large percentage of the call center staff starts work at 9:00AM, so Auto Scaling
does not have enough time to scale out to meet demand.How can the Architect fix the
problem? - Answers -Create an Auto Scaling scheduled action to scale out the
necessary resources at 8:30 AM every morning.
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 after the product
is launched.Which is the MOST efficient way for management to ensure that capacity
requirements are met? - Answers -Add a Dynamic Scaling policy.
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? - Answers -Recreate the API using Amazon API Gateway and use AWS Lambda
as the service backend.
A Solution Architect is designing an application that uses Amazon EBS volumes. The
volumes must be backed up to a different region.How should the Architect meet this
requirement? - Answers -Create EBS snapshots and then copy them to the desired
region.
, A company is using an Amazon S3 bucket located in us-west-2 to serve videos to their
customers. Their customers are located all around the world and the videos are
requested a lot during peak hours. Customers in Europe complain about experiencing
slow downloaded speeds, and during peak hours, customers in all locations report
experiencing HTTP 500 errors.What can a Solutions Architect do to address these
issues? - Answers -Cache the web content with Amazon CloudFront and use all Edge
locations for content delivery.
A Solutions Architect is designing a solution that includes a managed VPN
connection.To monitor whether the VPN connection is up or down, the Architect should
use: - Answers -the CloudWatch TunnelState Metric.
A social networking portal experiences latency and throughput issues due to an
increased number of users. Application servers use very large datasets from anAmazon
RDS database, which creates a performance bottleneck on the database.Which AWS
service should be used to improve performance? - Answers -Amazon ElastiCache
A Solutions Architect is designing network architecture for an application that has
compliance requirements. The application will be hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in a
private subnet and will be using Amazon S3 for storing data. The compliance
requirements mandate that the data cannot traverse the publicInternet.What is the
MOST secure way to satisfy this requirement? - Answers -Use a VPC endpoint.
Developers are creating a new online transaction processing (OLTP) application for a
small database that is very read-write intensive. A single table in the database is
updated continuously throughout the day, and the developers want to ensure that the
database performance is consistent.Which Amazon EBS storage option will achieve the
MOST consistent performance to help maintain application performance? - Answers -
Provisioned IOPS SSD
A Solutions Architect is designing a log-processing solution that requires storage that
supports up to 500 MB/s throughput. The data is sequentially accessed by an Amazon
EC2 instance.Which Amazon storage type satisfies these requirements? - Answers -
EBS Throughput Optimized HDD (st1)
A company's development team plans to create an Amazon S3 bucket that contains
millions of images. The team wants to maximize the read performance ofAmazon
S3.Which naming scheme should the company use? - Answers -Add a date as the
prefix.
A Solutions Architect needs to design a solution that will enable a security team to
detect, review, and perform root cause analysis of security incidents that occur in a
cloud environment. The Architect must provide a centralized view of all API events for
current and future AWS regions.How should the Architect accomplish this task? -
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