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Table of Contents
- Exam Question 241
- Correct Answer
- Exam Question 242
- Correct Answer
- Answer Description
- References
- Exam Question 243
- Correct Answer
- References
- Exam Question 244
- Correct Answer
- Exam Question 245
- Correct Answer
- Exam Question 246
- Correct Answer
- References
- Exam Question 247
- Correct Answer
- Exam Question 248
- Correct Answer
- Exam Question 249
- Correct Answer
- Exam Question 250
- Correct Answer
Exam Question 241
A company is using a third-party vendor to manage its marketplace analytics. The vendor needs limited programmatic access to resources in the company’s account. All the needed policies have been created to grant appropriate access.
Which additional component will provide the vendor with the MOST secure access to the account?
A. Create an IAM user.
B. Implement a service control policy (SCP)
C. Use a cross-account role with an external ID.
D. Configure a single sign-on (SSO) identity provider.
Correct Answer
B. Implement a service control policy (SCP)
Exam Question 242
A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a company that needs to host hundreds of machine learning models for its users. During startup, the models need to load up to 10 GB of data from Amazon S3 into memory, but they do not need disk access. Most of the models are used sporadically, but the users expect all of them to be highly available and accessible with low latency.
Which solution meets the requirements and is MOST cost-effective?
A. Deploy models as AWS Lambda functions behind an Amazon API Gateway for each model.
B. Deploy models as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) services behind an Application Load Balancer for each model.
C. Deploy models as AWS Lambda functions behind a single Amazon API Gateway with path-based routing where one path corresponds to each model.
D. Deploy models as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) services behind a single Application Load Balancer with path-based routing where one path corresponds to each model.
Correct Answer
C. Deploy models as AWS Lambda functions behind a single Amazon API Gateway with path-based routing where one path corresponds to each model.
Answer Description
AWS just update Lambda to support 10G memory and helping compute intensive applications like machine learning…
No disk access, lowest cost.
References
AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of memory and 6 vCPU cores for Lambda Functions
Exam Question 243
A company has created a multi-tier application for its eCommerce website. The website uses an Application Load Balancer that resides in the public subnets, a web tier in the public subnets, and a MySQL cluster hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in the private subnets. The MySQL database needs to retrieve product catalog and pricing information that is hosted on the internet by a third-party provider. A solutions architect must devices a strategy that maximizes security without increasing operational overhead.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A. Deploy a NAT instance in the VPC. Route all the internet-based traffic through the NAT instance.
B. Deploy a NAT gateway in the public subnets. Modify the private subnet route table to direct all internet-bound traffic to the NAT gateway.
C. Configure an internet gateway and attach it to the VPC. Modify the private subnet route table to direct internet-bound traffic to the internet gateway.
D. Configure a virtual private gateway and attach it to the VPC. Modify the private subnet route table to direct internet-bound traffic to the virtual private gateway.
Correct Answer
C. Configure an internet gateway and attach it to the VPC. Modify the private subnet route table to direct internet-bound traffic to the internet gateway.
References
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud > User Guide > NAT gateways
Exam Question 244
A solutions architect is designing a new API using Amazon API Gateway that will receive requests from users. The volume of requests is highly variable; several hours can pass without receiving a single request.
The data processing will take place asynchronously, but should be completed within a few seconds after a request is made.
Which compute service should the solutions architect have the API invoke to deliver the requirements at the lowest cost?
A. An AWS Glue job
B. An AWS Lambda function
C. A containerized service hosted in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
D. A containerized service hosted in Amazon ECS with Amazon EC2
Correct Answer
B. An AWS Lambda function
Exam Question 245
A company hosts its application in the AWS Cloud. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group and with an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company wants to ensure the application can be made available in another AWS Region with minimal downtime.
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of downtime?
A. Create an Auto Scaling group and a load balancer in the disaster recovery Region. Configure the DynamoDB table as a global table. Configure DNS failover to point to the new disaster recovery Region’s load balancer.
B. Create an AWS CloudFormation template to create EC2 instances, load balancers, and DynamoDB tables to be executed when needed. Configure DNS failover to point to the new disaster recovery Region’s load balancer.
C. Create an AWS CloudFormation template to create EC2 instances and a load balancer to be executed when needed. Configure the DynamoDB table as a global table. Configure DNS failover to point to the new disaster recovery Region’s load balancer.
D. Create an Auto Scaling group and load balancer in the disaster recovery Region. Configure the DynamoDB table as a global table. Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to trigger and AWS Lambda function that updates Amazon Route 53 pointing to the disaster recovery load balancer.
Correct Answer
D. Create an Auto Scaling group and load balancer in the disaster recovery Region. Configure the DynamoDB table as a global table. Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to trigger and AWS Lambda function that updates Amazon Route 53 pointing to the disaster recovery load balancer.
Exam Question 246
A business application is hosted on Amazon EC2 and uses Amazon S3 for encrypted object storage. The chief information security officer has directed that no application traffic between the two services should traverse the public internet.
Which capability should the solutions architect use to meet the compliance requirements?
A. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
B. VPC endpoint
C. Private subnet
D. Virtual private gateway
Correct Answer
A. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
References
Exam Question 247
A company runs an application on an Amazon EC2 instance backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). The instance needs to be available for 12 hours daily. The company wants to save costs by making the instance unavailable outside the window required for the application. However, the contents of the instance’s memory must be preserved whenever the instance is unavailable.
What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
A. Stop the instance outside the application’s availability window. Start up the instance again when required.
B. Hibernate the instance outside the application’s availability window. Start up the instance again when required.
C. Use Auto Scaling to scale down the instance outside the application’s availability window. Scale up the instance when required.
D. Terminate the instance outside the application’s availability window. Launch the instance by using a preconfigured Amazon Machine Image (AMI) when required.
Correct Answer
A. Stop the instance outside the application’s availability window. Start up the instance again when required.
Exam Question 248
A solutions architect is creating a new VPC design. There are two public subnets for the load balancer, two private subnets for web servers, and two private subnets for MySQL. The web servers use only HTTPS.
The solutions architect has already created a security group for the load balancer allowing port 443 from 0.0.0.0/0. Company policy requires that each resource has the least access required to still be able to perform its tasks.
Which additional configuration strategy should the solutions architect use to meet these requirements?
A. Create a security group for the web servers and allow port 443 from 0.0.0.0/0. Create a security group for the MySQL servers and allow port 3306 from the web servers security group.
B. Create a network ACL for the web servers and allow port 443 from 0.0.0.0/0. Create a network ACL for the MySQL servers and allow port 3306 from the web servers security group.
C. Create a security group for the web servers and allow port 443 from the load balancer. Create a security group for the MySQL servers and allow port 3306 from the web servers security group.
D. Create a network ACL for the web servers and allow port 443 from the load balancer. Create a network ACL for the MySQL servers and allow port 3306 from the web servers security group.
Correct Answer
B. Create a network ACL for the web servers and allow port 443 from 0.0.0.0/0. Create a network ACL for the MySQL servers and allow port 3306 from the web servers security group.
Exam Question 249
A company hosts historical weather records in Amazon S3. The records are downloaded from the company’s website by a way of a URL that resolves to a domain name. Users all over the world access this content through subscriptions. A third-party provider hosts the company’s root domain name, but the company recently migrated some of its services to Amazon Route 53. The company wants to consolidate contracts, reduce latency for users, and reduce costs related to serving the application to subscribers.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A. Create a web distribution on Amazon CloudFront to serve the S3 content for the application. Create a CNAME record in a Route 53 hosted zone that points to the CloudFront distribution, resolving to the application’s URL domain name.
B. Create a web distribution on Amazon CloudFront to serve the S3 content for the application. Create an ALIAS record in the Amazon Route 53 hosted zone that points to the CloudFront distribution, resolving to the application’s URL domain name.
C. Create an A record in a Route 53 hosted zone for the application. Create a Route 53 traffic policy for the web application, and configure a geolocation rule. Configure health checks to check the health of the endpoint and route DNS queries to other endpoints if an endpoint is unhealthy.
D. Create an A record in a Route 53 hosted zone for the application. Create a Route 53 traffic policy for the web application, and configure a geoproximity rule. Configure health checks to check the health of the endpoint and route DNS queries to other endpoints if an endpoint is unhealthy.
Correct Answer
B. Create a web distribution on Amazon CloudFront to serve the S3 content for the application. Create an ALIAS record in the Amazon Route 53 hosted zone that points to the CloudFront distribution, resolving to the application’s URL domain name.
Exam Question 250
company owns an asynchronous API that is used to ingest user requests and, based on the request type, dispatch requests to the appropriate microservice for processing. The company is using Amazon API Gateway to deploy the API front end, and an AWS Lambda function that invokes Amazon DynamoDB to store user requests before dispatching them to the processing microservices.
The company provisioned as much DynamoDB throughput as its budget allows, but the company is still experiencing availability issues and is losing user requests.
What should a solutions architect do to address this issue without impacting existing users?
A. Add throttling on the API Gateway with server-side throttling limits.
B. Use DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) and Lambda to buffer writes to DynamoDB.
C. Create a secondary index in DynamoDB for the table with the user requests.
D. Use the Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue and Lambda to buffer writes to DynamoDB.
Correct Answer
B. Use DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) and Lambda to buffer writes to DynamoDB.