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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - Part 52

Mary Smith

Thu, 15 May 2025

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - Part 52

1. A company's website provides users with downloadable historical performance reports. The website needs a solution that will scale to meet the company's website demands globally. The solution should be cost-effective, limit the provisioning of infrastructure resources, and provide the fastest possible response time.Which combination should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

A) AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB
B) Amazon CloudFront and Amazon S3
C) Amazon Route 53 with internal Application Load Balancers
D) Application Load Balancer with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling



2. A recent analysis of a company's IT expenses highlights the need to reduce backup costs. The company's chief information officer wants to simplify the on- premises backup infrastructure and reduce costs by eliminating the use of physical backup tapes. The company must preserve the existing investment in the on- premises backup applications and workflows.What should a solutions architect recommend?

A) Set up an Amazon EFS file system that connects with the backup applications using the NFS interface.
B) Set up AWS Storage Gateway to connect with the backup applications using the iSCSI-virtual tape library (VTL) interface.
C) Set up an Amazon EFS file system that connects with the backup applications using the iSCSI interface.
D) Set up AWS Storage Gateway to connect with the backup applications using the NFS interface.



3. A company has 150 TB of archived image data stored on-premises that needs to be moved to the AWS Cloud within the next month. The company's current network connection allows up to 100 Mbps uploads for this purpose during the night only.What is the MOST cost-effective mechanism to move this data and meet the migration deadline?

A) Order multiple AWS Snowball devices to ship the data to AWS
B) Enable Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration and securely upload the data
C) Create an Amazon S3 VPC endpoint and establish a VPN to upload the data
D) Use AWS Snowmobile to ship the data to AWS



4. A healthcare company stores highly sensitive patient records. Compliance requires that multiple copies be stored in different locations. Each record must be stored for 7 years. The company has a service level agreement to provide records to government agencies immediately for the first 30 days and then within 4 hours of a request thereafter. What should a solutions architect recommend?

A) Use Amazon S3 with cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) enable. After 30 days, transition the data to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive using a lifecycle policy
B) Use Amazon S3 with cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) enabled. After 30 days, transition the data to Amazon S3 Glacier using a lifecycle policy
C) Use Amazon S3 with cross-Region replication enabled. After 30 days, transition the data to Amazon S3 Glacier using a lifecycle policy.
D) Use Amazon S3 with cross-Region replication enabled. After 30 days, transition the data to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive using a lifecycle policy



5. 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? Select two(Select 2answers)

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


1. Right Answer: B
Explanation:

2. Right Answer: B
Explanation: https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/vtl/

3. Right Answer: A
Explanation:

4. Right Answer: C
Explanation:

5. Right Answer: A,E
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