1. A company is using a tape backup solution to store its key application data offsite. The daily data volume is around 50 TB. The company needs to retain the backups for 7 years for regulatory purposes. The backups are rarely accessed and a week's notice is typically given if a backup needs to be restored.The company is now considering a cloud-based option to reduce the storage costs and operational burden of managing tapes. The company also wants to make sure that the transition from tape backups to the cloud minimizes disruptions.Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?

A) Use Amazon Storage Gateway to back up to Amazon Glacier Deep Archive.
B) Copy the backup data to Amazon S3 and create a lifecycle policy to move the data to Amazon S3 Glacier.
C) Use AWS Snowball Edge to directly integrate the backups with Amazon S3 Glacier.
D) Use Amazon Storage Gateway to back up to Amazon S3 and create a lifecycle policy to move the backup to Amazon S3 Glacier.



2. A company is designing a new service that will run on Amazon EC2 instance behind an Elastic Load Balancer. However, many of the web service clients can only reach IP addresses whitelisted on their firewalls. What should a solution architect recommend to meet the clients' needs?

A) A Network Load Balancer with an associated Elastic IP address.
B) An A record in an Amazon Route 53 hosted zone pointing to an Elastic IP address
C) An EC2 instance with a public IP address running as a proxy in front of the load balancer
D) An Application Load Balancer with an associated Elastic IP address



3. A company runs a web service on Amazon CC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones. The company needs a minimum of tour instances a! all limes to meet the required service level agreement (SLA) while keeping costs low.If an Availability Zone tails, how can the company remain compliant with the SLA?

A) Change the Auto Scaling group launch configuration to use a larger instance type
B) Change the Auto Scaling group to use eight servers across two Availability Zones
C) Add a target tracking scaling policy with a short cooldown period.
D) Change the Auto Scaling group to use six servers across three Availability Zones



4. A company has been storing analytics data in an Amazon RDS instance for the past few years. The company asked a solutions architect to find a solution that allows users to access this data using an API. The expectation is that the application will experience periods of inactivity but could receive bursts of traffic within seconds.Which solution should the solutions architect suggest?

A) Set up an Amazon API Gateway and use Amazon EC2 with Auto Scaling.
B) Set up an Amazon API Gateway and use AWS Lambda functions.
C) Set up an Amazon API Gateway and use AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
D) Set up an Amazon API Gateway and use Amazon ECS.



5. A company runs an application using Amazon ECS. The application creates resized versions of an original image and then makes Amazon S3 API calls to store the resized images in Amazon S3. How can a solutions architect ensure that the application has permission to access Amazon S3?

A) Update the S3 role in AWS IAM to allow read/write access from Amazon ECS, and then relaunch the container.
B) Create an IAM user with S3 permissions, and then relaunch the Amazon EC2 instances for the ECS cluster while logged in as this account.
C) Create a security group that allows access from Amazon ECS to Amazon S3, and update the launch configuration used by the ECS cluster.
D) Create an IAM role with S3 permissions, and then specify that role as the taskRoleArn in the task definition.