SAP-C02 — questions

A company needs to optimize the cost of its application on AWS. The application uses AWS Lambda functions and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) containers that run on AWS Fargate. The application is write-heavy and stores data in an Amazon Aurora MySQL database. The load on the application is not consistent. The application experiences long periods of no usage, followed by sudden and significant increases and decreases in traffic. The database runs on a memory optimized DB instance that cannot handle the load. A solutions architect must design a solution that can scale to handle the changes in traffic. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A company migrated an application to the AWS Cloud. The application runs on two Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Application data is stored in a MySQL database that runs on an additional EC2 instance. The application's use of the database is read-heavy. The application loads static content from Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that are attached to each EC2 instance. The static content is updated frequently and must be copied to each EBS volume. The load on the application changes throughout the day. During peak hours, the application cannot handle all the incoming requests. Trace data shows that the database cannot handle the read load during peak hours. Which solution will improve the reliability of the application?

A solutions architect wants to make sure that only AWS users or roles with suitable permissions can access a new Amazon API Gateway endpoint. The solutions architect wants an end-to-end view of each request to analyze the latency of the request and create service maps. How can the solutions architect design the API Gateway access control and perform request inspections?

A company is using AWS CodePipeline for the CI/CD of an application to an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. All AWS resources are defined in AWS CloudFormation templates. The application artifacts are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket and deployed to the Auto Scaling group using instance user data scripts. As the application has become more complex, recent resource changes in the CloudFormation templates have caused unplanned downtime. How should a solutions architect improve the CI/CD pipeline to reduce the likelihood that changes in the templates will cause downtime?

A North American company with headquarters on the East Coast is deploying a new web application running on Amazon EC2 in the us-east-1 Region. The application should dynamically scale to meet user demand and maintain resiliency. Additionally, the application must have disaster recovery capabilities in an active-passive configuration with the us-west-1 Region. Which steps should a solutions architect take after creating a VPC in the us-east-1 Region?

A company has a legacy application that runs on multiple NET Framework components. The components share the same Microsoft SQL Server database and communicate with each other asynchronously by using Microsoft Message Queueing (MSMQ). The company is starting a migration to containerized .NET Core components and wants to refactor the application to run on AWS. The .NET Core components require complex orchestration. The company must have full control over networking and host configuration. The application's database model is strongly relational. Which solution will meet these requirements?

A solutions architect has launched multiple Amazon EC2 instances in a placement group within a single Availability Zone. Because of additional load on the system, the solutions architect attempts to add new instances to the placement group. However, the solutions architect receives an insufficient capacity error. What should the solutions architect do to troubleshoot this issue?

A company has used infrastructure as code (IaC) to provision a set of two Amazon EC2 instances. The instances have remained the same for several years. The company's business has grown rapidly in the past few months. In response, the company’s operations team has implemented an Auto Scaling group to manage the sudden increases in traffic. Company policy requires a monthly installation of security updates on all operating systems that are running. The most recent security update required a reboot. As a result, the Auto Scaling group terminated the instances and replaced them with new, unpatched instances. Which combination of steps should a solutions architect recommend to avoid a recurrence of this issue? (Choose two.)

A team of data scientists is using Amazon SageMaker instances and SageMaker APIs to train machine learning (ML) models. The SageMaker instances are deployed in a VPC that does not have access to or from the internet. Datasets for ML model training are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. Interface VPC endpoints provide access to Amazon S3 and the SageMaker APIs. Occasionally, the data scientists require access to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository to update Python packages that they use as part of their workflow. A solutions architect must provide access to the PyPI repository while ensuring that the SageMaker instances remain isolated from the internet. Which solution will meet these requirements?

A solutions architect works for a government agency that has strict disaster recovery requirements. All Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots are required to be saved in at least two additional AWS Regions. The agency also is required to maintain the lowest possible operational overhead. Which solution meets these requirements?

A company has a project that is launching Amazon EC2 instances that are larger than required. The project's account cannot be part of the company's organization in AWS Organizations due to policy restrictions to keep this activity outside of corporate IT. The company wants to allow only the launch of t3.small EC2 instances by developers in the project's account. These EC2 instances must be restricted to the us-east-2 Region. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A scientific company needs to process text and image data from an Amazon S3 bucket. The data is collected from several radar stations during a live, time-critical phase of a deep space mission. The radar stations upload the data to the source S3 bucket. The data is prefixed by radar station identification number. The company created a destination S3 bucket in a second account. Data must be copied from the source S3 bucket to the destination S3 bucket to meet a compliance objective. This replication occurs through the use of an S3 replication rule to cover all objects in the source S3 bucket. One specific radar station is identified as having the most accurate data. Data replication at this radar station must be monitored for completion within 30 minutes after the radar station uploads the objects to the source S3 bucket. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A company wants to migrate its on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud. This includes thousands of virtualized Linux and Microsoft Windows servers, SAN storage, Java and PHP applications with MySQL, and Oracle databases. There are many dependent services hosted either in the same data center or externally. The technical documentation is incomplete and outdated. A solutions architect needs to understand the current environment and estimate the cloud resource costs after the migration. Which tools or services should the solutions architect use to plan the cloud migration? (Choose three.)

A solutions architect is reviewing an application's resilience before launch. The application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance that is deployed in a private subnet of a VPC. The EC2 instance is provisioned by an Auto Scaling group that has a minimum capacity of 1 and a maximum capacity of 1. The application stores data on an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The VPC has subnets configured in three Availability Zones and is configured with a single NAT gateway. The solutions architect needs to recommend a solution to ensure that the application will operate across multiple Availability Zones. Which solution will meet this requirement?

A company is planning to migrate its on-premises transaction-processing application to AWS. The application runs inside Docker containers that are hosted on VMs in the company's data center. The Docker containers have shared storage where the application records transaction data. The transactions are time sensitive. The volume of transactions inside the application is unpredictable. The company must implement a low-latency storage solution that will automatically scale throughput to meet increased demand. The company cannot develop the application further and cannot continue to administer the Docker hosting environment. How should the company migrate the application to AWS to meet these requirements?

A company is planning to migrate to the AWS Cloud. The company hosts many applications on Windows servers and Linux servers. Some of the servers are physical, and some of the servers are virtual. The company uses several types of databases in its on-premises environment. The company does not have an accurate inventory of its on-premises servers and applications. The company wants to rightsize its resources during migration. A solutions architect needs to obtain information about the network connections and the application relationships. The solutions architect must assess the company’s current environment and develop a migration plan. Which solution will provide the solutions architect with the required information to develop the migration plan?

A financial services company sells its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for application compliance to large global banks. The SaaS platform runs on AWS and uses multiple AWS accounts that are managed in an organization in AWS Organizations. The SaaS platform uses many AWS resources globally. For regulatory compliance, all API calls to AWS resources must be audited, tracked for changes, and stored in a durable and secure data store. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A company is deploying a distributed in-memory database on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The fleet consists of a primary node and eight worker nodes. The primary node is responsible for monitoring cluster health, accepting user requests, distributing user requests to worker nodes, and sending an aggregate response back to a client. Worker nodes communicate with each other to replicate data partitions. The company requires the lowest possible networking latency to achieve maximum performance. Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company maintains information on premises in approximately 1 million.csv files that are hosted on a VM. The data initially is 10 TB in size and grows at a rate of 1 TB each week. The company needs to automate backups of the data to the AWS Cloud. Backups of the data must occur daily. The company needs a solution that applies custom filters to back up only a subset of the data that is located in designated source directories. The company has set up an AWS Direct Connect connection. Which solution will meet the backup requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A financial services company has an asset management product that thousands of customers use around the world. The customers provide feedback about the product through surveys. The company is building a new analytical solution that runs on Amazon EMR to analyze the data from these surveys. The following user personas need to access the analytical solution to perform different actions: • Administrator: Provisions the EMR cluster for the analytics team based on the team’s requirements • Data engineer: Runs ETL scripts to process, transform, and enrich the datasets • Data analyst: Runs SQL and Hive queries on the data A solutions architect must ensure that all the user personas have least privilege access to only the resources that they need. The user personas must be able to launch only applications that are approved and authorized. The solution also must ensure tagging for all resources that the user personas create. Which solution will meet these requirements?