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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - Part 50

Mary Smith

Mon, 17 Mar 2025

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - Part 50

1. A company's operations teams have an existing Amazon S3 bucket configured to notify an Amazon SQS queue when new object is created within the bucket. The development team also wants to receive events when new objects are created. The existing operations team workflow must remain intact.Which solution would satisfy these requirements?

A) Create an Amazon SNS topic and SQS queue for the bucket updates. Update the bucket to send events to the new topic Add subscription for both queue in the topic.
B) Create a new SQS queue that only allows Amazon S3 to access the queue. Update Amazon S3 update this queue when a new object is created.
C) Create an Amazon SNS topic and SQS queue for the Update. Update the bucket to send events to the new topic. Updates both queues to poll Amazon SNS.
D) Create another SQS queue. Update the S3 events in bucket to also update the new queue when a new object is created.



2. A company has a large Microsoft SharePoint deployment running on-premises that requires Microsoft Windows shared file storage. The company wants to migrate this workload to the AWS Cloud and is considering various storage options. The storage solution must be highly available and integrated with Active Directory for access control.Which solution will satisfy these requirements?

A) Create an SMB file share on an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway in two Availability Zones.
B) Configure Amazon EFS storage and set the Active Directory domain for authentication.
C) Create an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system on AWS and set the Active Directory domain for authentication.
D) Create an Amazon S3 bucket and configure Microsoft Windows Server to mount it as a volume



3. An application requires a development environment (DEV) and production environment (PROD) for several years. The DEV instances will run for 10 hours each day during normal business hours, while the PROD instances will run 24 hours each day. A solutions architect needs to determine a compute instance purchase strategy to minimize costs.Which solution is the MOST cost-effective?

A) DEV with Spot Instances and PROD with On-Demand Instances
B) DEV with Scheduled Reserved Instances and PROD with Reserved Instances
C) DEV with On-Demand Instances and PROD with Spot Instances
D) DEV with On-Demand Instances and PROD with Scheduled Reserved Instances



4. A public-facing web application queries a database hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance in a private subnet. A large number of queries involve multiple table joins, and the application performance has been degrading due to an increase in complex queries. The application team will be performing updates to improve performance.What should a solutions architect recommend to the application team? (Choose two.)(Select 2answers)

A) Create a read replica to offload queries
B) Cache query data in Amazon SQS
C) Implement Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator to cache data.
D) Migrate the database to Amazon Athena
E) Migrate the database to Amazon RDS


5. A company wants to replicate its data to AWS to recover in the event of a disaster. Today, a system administrator has scripts that copy data to a NFS share Individual backup files need to be accessed with low latency by application administrators to deal with errors in processing.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

A) Modify the script to copy data to an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) volume instead of the on-premises NFS share.
B) Modify the script to copy data to an Amazon S3 bucket instead of the on-premises NFS share.
C) Modify the script to copy data to an AWS Storage Gateway for File Gateway virtual appliance instead of the on-premises NFS share.
D) Modify the script to copy data to an Amazon S3 Glacier Archive instead of the on-premises NFS share.



1. Right Answer: A
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2. Right Answer: D
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3. Right Answer: B
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4. Right Answer: A,E
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5. Right Answer: C
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