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How can database downtime be minimized in an online shopping application without changing the code?

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A company hosts an online shopping application that stores all orders in an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Single-AZ DB instance. Management wants to eliminate single points of failure and has asked a solutions architect to recommend an approach to minimize database downtime without requiring any changes to the application code.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Convert the existing database instance to a Multi-AZ deployment by modifying the database instance and specifying the Multi-AZ option.

Create a new RDS Multi-AZ deployment. Take a snapshot of the current RDS instance and restore the new Multi-AZ deployment with the snapshot.

Create a read-only replica of the PostgreSQL database in another Availability Zone. Use Amazon Route 53 weighted record sets to distribute requests across the databases.

Place the RDS for PostgreSQL database in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with a minimum group size of two. Use Amazon Route 53 weighted record sets to distribute requests across instances.

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How can a solutions architect migrate a static website to AWS for optimal performance and cost-effectiveness?

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A company hosts a static website on-premises and wants to migrate the website to AWS. The website should load as quickly as possible for users around the world. The company also wants the most cost-effective solution.

What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

Copy the website content to an Amazon S3 bucket. Configure the bucket to serve static webpage content. Replicate the S3 bucket to multiple AWS Regions.

Copy the website content to an Amazon S3 bucket. Configure the bucket to serve static webpage content. Configure Amazon CloudFront with the S3 bucket as the origin.

Copy the website content to an Amazon EBS-backed Amazon EC2 instance running Apache HTTP Server. Configure Amazon Route 53 geolocation routing policies to select the closest origin.

Copy the website content to multiple Amazon EBS-backed Amazon EC2 instances running Apache HTTP Server in multiple AWS Regions. Configure Amazon CloudFront geolocation routing policies to select the closest origin.

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Correct Answer:

Copy the website content to an Amazon S3 bucket. Configure the bucket to serve static webpage content. Configure Amazon CloudFront with the S3 bucket as the origin.

Explanation:

What Is Amazon CloudFront?
Amazon CloudFront is a web service that speeds up distribution of your static and dynamic web content, such as .html, .css, .js, and image files, to your users. CloudFront delivers your content through a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations. When a user requests content that you're serving with CloudFront, the user is routed to the edge location that provides the lowest latency (time delay), so that content is delivered with the best possible performance.
Using Amazon S3 Buckets for Your Origin
When you use Amazon S3 as an origin for your distribution, you place any objects that you want CloudFront to deliver in an Amazon S3 bucket. You can use any method that is supported by Amazon S3 to get your objects into Amazon S3, for example, the Amazon S3 console or API, or a third-party tool. You can create a hierarchy in your bucket to store the objects, just as you would with any other Amazon S3 bucket.
Using an existing Amazon S3 bucket as your CloudFront origin server doesn't change the bucket in any way; you can still use it as you normally would to store and access Amazon S3 objects at the standard Amazon S3 price. You incur regular Amazon S3 charges for storing the objects in the bucket.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/Introduction.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/DownloadDistS3AndCustomOrigins.html

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https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/Introduction.htmlhttps://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/DownloadDistS3AndCustomOrigins.html

How can a solutions architect ensure data recovery for a static website hosted in an Amazon S3 bucket?

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A company hosts a static website within an Amazon S3 bucket. A solutions architect needs to ensure that data can be recovered in case of accidental deletion.

Which action will accomplish this?

Enable Amazon S3 versioning.

Enable Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering.

Enable an Amazon S3 lifecycle policy.

Enable Amazon S3 cross-Region replication.

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How can a solutions architect minimize server load for a popular training site on Amazon EC2?

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A company hosts a training site on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The company anticipates that its new course, which consists of dozens of training videos on the site, will be extremely popular when it is released in 1 week.

What should a solutions architect do to minimize the anticipated server load?

Store the videos in Amazon ElastiCache for Redis. Update the web servers to serve the videos using the ElastiCache API.

Store the videos in Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). Create a user data script for the web servers to mount the EFS volume.

Store the videos in an Amazon S3 bucket. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution with an origin access identity (OAI) of that S3 bucket. Restrict Amazon S3 access to the OAI.

Store the videos in an Amazon S3 bucket. Create an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway to access the S3 bucket. Create a user data script for the web servers to mount the file gateway.

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How can a solutions architect provide path-based routing for a website migration to AWS?

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A company hosts a website on premises and wants to migrate it to the AWS Cloud. The website exposes a single hostname to the internet but it routes its functions to different on-premises server groups based on the path of the URL. The server groups are scaled independently depending on the needs of the functions they support. The company has an AWS Direct Connect connection configured to its on-premises network.

What should a solutions architect do to provide path-based routing to send the traffic to the correct group of servers?

Route all traffic to an internet gateway. Configure pattern matching rules at the internet gateway to route traffic to the group of servers supporting that path.

Route all traffic to a Network Load Balancer (NLB) with target groups for each group of servers. Use pattern matching rules at the NLB to route traffic to the correct target group.

Route all traffic to an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Configure path-based routing at the ALB to route traffic to the correct target group for the servers supporting that path.

Use Amazon Route 53 as the DNS server. Configure Route 53 path-based alias records to route traffic to the correct Elastic Load Balancer for the group of servers supporting that path.

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How can the company consolidate contracts, reduce latency, and reduce costs for serving content to subscribers?

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A company hosts historical weather records in Amazon S3. The records are downloaded from the company s website by a way of a URL that resolves to a domain name. Users all over the world access this content through subscriptions. A third-party provider hosts the company s root domain name, but the company recently migrated some of its services to Amazon Route 53. The company wants to consolidate contracts, reduce latency for users, and reduce costs related to serving the application to subscribers.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Create a web distribution on Amazon CloudFront to serve the S3 content for the application. Create a CNAME record in a Route 53 hosted zone that points to the CloudFront distribution, resolving to the application s URL domain name.

Create a web distribution on Amazon CloudFront to serve the S3 content for the application. Create an ALIAS record in the Amazon Route 53 hosted zone that points to the CloudFront distribution, resolving to the application s URL domain name.

Create an A record in a Route 53 hosted zone for the application. Create a Route 53 traffic policy for the web application, and configure a geolocation rule. Configure health checks to check the health of the endpoint and route DNS queries to other endpoints if an endpoint is unhealthy.

Create an A record in a Route 53 hosted zone for the application. Create a Route 53 traffic policy for the web application, and configure a geoproximity rule. Configure health checks to check the health of the endpoint and route DNS queries to other endpoints if an endpoint is unhealthy.

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How can a solutions architect minimize downtime when making an application available in another AWS Region?

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A company hosts its application in the AWS Cloud. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group and with an Amazon DynamoDB table. The company wants to ensure the application can be made available in another AWS Region with minimal downtime.

What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of downtime?

Create an Auto Scaling group and a load balancer in the disaster recovery Region. Configure the DynamoDB table as a global table. Configure DNS failover to point to the new disaster recovery Region s load balancer.

Create an AWS CloudFormation template to create EC2 instances, load balancers, and DynamoDB tables to be executed when needed. Configure DNS failover to point to the new disaster recovery Region s load balancer.

Create an AWS CloudFormation template to create EC2 instances and a load balancer to be executed when needed. Configure the DynamoDB table as a global table. Configure DNS failover to point to the new disaster recovery Region s load balancer.

Create an Auto Scaling group and load balancer in the disaster recovery Region. Configure the DynamoDB table as a global table. Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to trigger and AWS Lambda function that updates Amazon Route 53 pointing to the disaster recovery load balancer.

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What is the optimal configuration of tasks and Availability Zones for high availability in Amazon ECS?

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A company hosts its application using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and wants to ensure high availability. The company wants to be able to deploy updates to its application even if nodes in one Availability Zone are not accessible.

The expected request volume for the application is 100 requests per second, and each container task is able to serve at least 60 requests per second. The company set up Amazon ECS with a rolling update deployment type with the minimum healthy percent parameter set to 50% and the maximum percent set to 100%.

Which configuration of tasks and Availability Zones meets these requirements?

Deploy the application across two Availability Zones, with one task in each Availability Zone.

Deploy the application across two Availability Zones, with two tasks in each Availability Zone.

Deploy the application across three Availability Zones, with one task in each Availability Zone.

Deploy the application across three Availability Zones, with two tasks in each Availability Zone.

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How can a solutions architect provide quick, cost-effective, and consistent access to network services in AWS?

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A company hosts its core network services, including directory services and DNS, in its on-premises data center. The data center is connected to the AWS Cloud using AWS Direct Connect (DX). Additional AWS accounts are planned that will require quick, cost-effective, and consistent access to these network services.

What should a solutions architect implement to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Create a DX connection in each new account. Route the network traffic to the on-premises servers.

Configure VPC endpoints in the DX VPC for all required services. Route the network traffic to the on-premises servers.

Create a VPN connection between each new account and the DX VPC. Route the network traffic to the on-premises servers.

Configure AWS Transit Gateway between the accounts. Assign DX to the transit gateway and route network traffic to the on-premises servers.

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How to deploy an enterprise content management platform across multiple AWS Regions using Amazon EKS?

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A company hosts its enterprise content management platform in one AWS Region but needs to operate the platform across multiple Regions. The company has an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster that runs its microservices. The EKS cluster stores and retrieves objects from Amazon S3. The EKS cluster also stores and retrieves metadata from Amazon DynamoDB.

Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to deploy the platform across multiple Regions? (Choose two.)

Replicate the EKS cluster with cross-Region replication.

Use Amazon API Gateway to create a global endpoint to the EKS cluster.

Use AWS Global Accelerator endpoints to distribute the traffic to multiple Regions.

Use Amazon S3 access points to give access to the objects across multiple Regions. Configure DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX). Connect DAX to the relevant tables.

Deploy an EKS cluster and an S3 bucket in another Region. Configure cross-Region replication on both S3 buckets. Turn on global tables for DynamoDB.

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