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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate SAA-C03 Exam Questions and Answers – Page 5 Part 2

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Exam Question 491

A company is running a highly sensitive application on Amazon EC2 backed by an Amazon RDS database Compliance regulations mandate that all personally identifiable information (Pll) be encrypted at rest.

Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of changes to the infrastructure”

A. Deploy AWS Certificate Manager to generate certificates Use the certificates to encrypt the database volume
B. Deploy AWS CloudHS
C. generate encryption keys, and use the customer master key (CMK) to encrypt database volumes.
D. Configure SSL encryption using AWS Key Management Service customer master keys (AWS KMS CMKs) to encrypt database volumes
E. Configure Amazon Elastic Block Store {Amazon EBS) encryption and Amazon RDS encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys to encrypt instance and database volumes.

Correct Answer

D. Configure SSL encryption using AWS Key Management Service customer master keys (AWS KMS CMKs) to encrypt database volumes

Exam Question 492

A company recently migrated a message processing system to AWS. The system receives messages into an ActiveMQ queue running on an Amazon EC2 instance. Messages are processed by a consumer application running on Amazon EC2. The consumer application processes the messages and writes results to a MySQL database running on Amazon EC2. The company wants this application to be highly available with low operational complexity

Which architecture offers the HIGHEST availability?

A. Add a second ActiveMQ server to another Availability Zone Add an additional consumer EC2 instance in another Availability Zone Replicate the MySQL database to another Availability Zone.
B. Use Amazon MQ with active/standby brokers configured across two Availability Zones Add an additional consumer EC2 instance in another Availability Zone. Replicate the MySQL database to another Availability Zone
C. Use Amazon MQ with active/standby brokers configured across two Availability Zones. Add an additional consumer EC2 instance in another Availability Zone. Use Amazon RDS for MySQL with Multi-AZ enabled
D. Use Amazon MQ with active/standby brokers configured across two Availability Zones Add an Auto Scaling group for the consumer EC2 instances across two Availability Zones Use Amazon RDS for MySQL with Multi-AZ enabled.

Correct Answer

D. Use Amazon MQ with active/standby brokers configured across two Availability Zones Add an Auto Scaling group for the consumer EC2 instances across two Availability Zones Use Amazon RDS for MySQL with Multi-AZ enabled.

Exam Question 493

A meteorological startup company has a custom web application to sell weather data to its users online. The company uses Amazon DynamoDB to store its data and wants to build a new service that sends an alert to the managers of four internal teams every time a new weather event is recorded. The company does not want this new service to affect the performance of the current application

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

A. Use DynamoDB transactions to write new event data to the table Configure the transactions to notify internal teams.
B. Have the current application publish a message to four Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics. Have each team subscribe to one topic.
C. Enable Amazon DynamoDB Streams on the table Use triggers to write to a single Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to which the teams can subscribe
D. Add a custom attribute to each record to flag new items Write a cron job that scans the table every minute for items that are new and notifies an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue to which the teams can subscribe

Correct Answer

A. Use DynamoDB transactions to write new event data to the table Configure the transactions to notify internal teams.

Exam Question 494

A company needs guaranteed Amazon EC2 capacity in three specific Availability Zones in a specific AWS Region for an upcoming event that will last 1 week.

What should the company do to guarantee the EC2 capacity?

A. Purchase Reserved Instances that specify the Region needed.
B. Create an On-Demand Capacity Reservation that specifies the Region needed.
C. Purchase Reserved Instances that specify the Region and three Availability Zones needed.
D. Create an On-Demand Capacity Reservation that specifies the Region and three Availability Zones needed.

Correct Answer

A. Purchase Reserved Instances that specify the Region needed.

Exam Question 495

A company receives data from millions of users totaling about 1 TB each flay. The company provides its user’s with usage reports gang back 12 months Al usage data must be stored for at least 5 years to comply with regulatory and auditing requirements

Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?

A. Store the data in Amazon S3 Standard. Set a lifecycle -rule to transition the data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 year. Set a Recycle rule to delete the data after5 years.
B. Store. The data in Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA). Set a lifecycle rule to transition the data to S3 Glacier after 1 year Set the lifecycle rule to delete the data after 5 years.
C. Store the data in Amazon S3 Standard Set a lifecycle rule to transition the data to S3 Standard-infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) after 1 year Sol a lifecycle rule to delete the data after 5 years.
D. Store the data in Amazon S3 Standard Set a lifecycle -rule to transition the data to S3 One Zone-infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) after 1 year, Set a Lifecycle rule to delete the data after 5 years.

Correct Answer

A. Store the data in Amazon S3 Standard. Set a lifecycle -rule to transition the data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 1 year. Set a Recycle rule to delete the data after5 years.

Exam Question 496

A three-tier web application processes orders from customers. The web tier consists of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer, a middle tier of three EC2 instances decoupled from the web tier using Amazon SQS. and an Amazon DynamoDB backend. At peak times, customers who submit orders using the site have to wait much longer than normal to receive confirmations due to lengthy processing times. A solutions architect needs to reduce these processing times.

Which action will be MOST effective in accomplishing this?

A. Replace the SQS queue with Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose.
B. Use Amazon ElastiCache for Redis in front of the DynamoDB backend tier.
C. Add an Amazon CloudFront distribution to cache the responses for the web tier.
D. Use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to scale out the middle tier instances based on the SOS queue depth.

Correct Answer

D. Use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to scale out the middle tier instances based on the SOS queue depth.

Exam Question 497

A company has hired a new cloud engineer who should not have access to an Amazon S3 bucket named Company Confidential. the cloud engineer must be able to read from and write to an S3 bucket called AdminTools.

Which IAM policy will meet these requirements?

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Correct Answer

A.

Exam Question 498

A company needs to store data in Amazon S3 A compliance requirement states that when any changes are made to objects the previous state of the object with any changes must be preserved Additionally files older than 5 years should not be accessed but need to be archived for auditing

What should a solutions architect recommend that is MOST cost-effective?

A. Enable object-level versioning and S3 Object Lock in governance mode
B. Enable object-level versioning and S3 Object Lock in compliance mode
C. Enable object-level versioning Enable a lifecycle policy to move data older than 5 years to S3 Glacier Deep Archive
D. Enable object-level versioning Enable a lifecycle policy to move data older than 5 years to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)

Correct Answer

C. Enable object-level versioning Enable a lifecycle policy to move data older than 5 years to S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Exam Question 499

A company recently migrated a message processing system to AWS. The system receives messages into an ActiveMQ queue running on an Amazon EC2 instance. Messages are processed by a consumer application running on Amazon EC2. The consumer application processes the messages and writes results to a MySQL database running on Amazon EC2. The company wants this application to be highly available with low operational complexity

Which architecture offers the HIGHEST availability?

A. Add a second ActiveMQ server to another Availability Zone Add an additional consumer EC2 instance in another Availability Zone Replicate the MySQL database to another Availability Zone.
B. Use Amazon MQ with active/standby brokers configured across two Availability Zones Add an additional consumer EC2 instance in another Availability Zone. Replicate the MySQL database to another Availability Zone
C. Use Amazon MQ with active/standby brokers configured across two Availability Zones. Add an additional consumer EC2 instance in another Availability Zone. Use Amazon RDS for MySQL with Multi-AZ enabled
D. Use Amazon MQ with active/standby brokers configured across two Availability Zones Add an Auto Scaling group for the consumer EC2 instances across two Availability Zones Use Amazon RDS for MySQL with Multi-AZ enabled.

Correct Answer

D. Use Amazon MQ with active/standby brokers configured across two Availability Zones Add an Auto Scaling group for the consumer EC2 instances across two Availability Zones Use Amazon RDS for MySQL with Multi-AZ enabled.

Exam Question 500

A company hosts its core network services, including directory services and DNS. in its on-premises data center. The data center is connected to the AWS Cloud using AWS Direct Connect (DX) Additional AWS accounts are planned that will require quick, cost-effective, and consistent access to these network services.

What should a solutions architect implement to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

A. Create a DX connection in each new account Route the network traffic to the on-premises servers
B. Configure VPC endpoints in the DX VPC for all required services Route the network traffic to the on-premises servers.
C. Create a VPN connection between each new account and the DX VPC, Route the network traffic to the on-premises servers
D. Configure AWS Transit Gateway between the accounts Assign DX to the transit gateway and route network traffic to the on-premises servers

Correct Answer

D. Configure AWS Transit Gateway between the accounts Assign DX to the transit gateway and route network traffic to the on-premises servers