SAP-C01: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

A company is developing a gene reporting device that will collect genomic information to assist researchers will collecting large samples of data from a diverse population. The device will push 8 KB of genomic data every second to a data platform that will need to process and analyze the data and provide information back to researchers. The data platform must meet the following requirements:

Provide near-real-time analytics of the inbound genomic data

Ensure the data is flexible, parallel, and durable

Deliver results of processing to a data warehouse

Which strategy should a solutions architect use to meet these requirements?

A medical company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. The application simulates the effect of medical drugs in development. The application consists of two parts: configuration and simulation. The configuration part runs in AWS Fargate containers in an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster. The simulation part runs on large, compute optimized Amazon EC2 instances. Simulations can restart if they are interrupted.

The configuration part runs 24 hours a day with a steady load. The simulation part runs only for a few hours each night with a variable load. The company stores simulation results in Amazon S3, and researchers use the results for 30 days. The company must store simulations for 10 years and must be able to retrieve the simulations within 5 hours. Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A Solutions Architect must build a highly available infrastructure for a popular global video game that runs on a mobile phone platform. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The database tier is an Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ instance. The entire application stack is deployed in both us-east-1 and eu-central-1. Amazon Route 53 is used to route traffic to the two installations using a latency-based routing policy. A weighted routing policy is configured in Route 53 as a fail over to another region in case the installation in a region becomes unresponsive. During the testing of disaster recovery scenarios, after blocking access to the Amazon RDS MySQL instance in eu-central-1 from all the application instances running in that region. Route 53 does not automatically failover all traffic to us- east-1.

Based on this situation, which changes would allow the infrastructure to failover to us-east-1? (Choose two.)

Your firm has uploaded a large amount of aerial image data to S3. In the past, in your on-premises environment, you used a dedicated group of servers to oaten process this data and used Rabbit MQ - An open source messaging system to get job information to the servers. Once processed the data would go to tape and be shipped offsite. Your manager told you to stay with the current design, and leverage AWS archival storage and messaging services to minimize cost.

Which is correct?

A company’s processing team has an AWS account with a production application. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). The EC2 instances are hosted in private subnets in a VPC in the eu- west- 1 Region. The VPC was assigned the CIDR block of 10.0.0.0/16. The billing team recently created a new AWS account and deployed an application on EC2 instances that are hosted in private subnets in a VPC in the eu-central-1 Region. The new VPC is assigned the CIDR block of 10.0.0.0/16.

The processing application needs to securely communicate with the billing application over a proprietary TCP port. What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of operational effort?

A company is using multiple AWS accounts. The DNS records are stored in a private hosted zone for Amazon Route 53 in Account A. The company’s applications and databases are running in Account B. A solutions architect will deploy a two-tier application in a new VPC. To simplify the configuration, the db.example.com CNAME record set for the Amazon RDS endpoint was created in a private hosted zone for Amazon Route 53. During deployment the application failed to start. Troubleshooting revealed that db.example.com is not resolvable on the Amazon EC2 instance. The solutions architect confirmed that the record set was created correctly in Route 53. Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)

A company runs an application on AWS. An AWS Lambda function uses credentials to authenticate to an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. A security risk assessment identified that these credentials are not frequently rotated. Also, encryption at rest is not enabled for the DB instance. The security team requires that both of these issues be resolved. Which strategy should a solutions architect recommend to remediate these security risks?

A company runs a dynamic mission-critical web application that has an SLA of 99.99%. Global application users access the application 24/7. The application is currently hosted on premises and routinely fails to meet its SLA, especially when millions of users access the application concurrently. Remote users complain of latency.

How should this application be redesigned to be scalable and allow for automatic failover at the lowest cost?

A 3-Ber e-commerce web application is currently deployed on-premises, and will be migrated to AWS for greater scalability and elasticity. The web tier currently shares read-only data using a network distributed file system. The app server tier uses a clustering mechanism for discovery and shared session state that depends on IP multicast. The database tier uses sharedstorage clustering to provide database failover capability, and uses several read slaves for scaling. Data on all servers and the distributed file system directory is backed up weekly to off-site tapes.

Which AWS storage and database architecture meets the requirements of the application?