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A company collects temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure data in cities across multiple continents. The average volume of data collected per site each day is 500 GB. Each site has a high-speed internet connection. The company's weather forecasting applications are based in a single Region and analyze the data daily.

What is the FASTEST way to aggregate data from all of these global sites?
Define Performant Architectures
A company currently has 250 TB of backup files stored in Amazon S3 in a vendor's proprietary format. Using a Linux-based software application provided by the vendor, the company wants to retrieve files from Amazon S3, transform the files to an industry-standard format, and re-upload them to Amazon S3. The company wants to minimize the data transfer charges associated with this conversation.

What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?
Define Performant Architectures Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
A company currently operates a web application backed by an Amazon RDS MySQL database. It has automated backups that are run daily and are not encrypted. A security audit requires future backups to be encrypted and the unencrypted backups to be destroyed. The company will make at least one encrypted backup before destroying the old backups.

What should be done to enable encryption for future backups?
Specify Secure Applications and Architectures
A company currently stores symmetric encryption keys in a hardware security module (HSM). A solutions architect must design a solution to migrate key management to AWS. The solution should allow for key rotation and support the use of customer provided keys.

Where should the key material be stored to meet these requirements?
Define Performant Architectures Specify Secure Applications and Architectures
A company decides to migrate its three-tier web application from on-premises to the AWS Cloud. The new database must be capable of dynamically scaling storage capacity and performing table joins.

Which AWS service meets these requirements?
Design Resilient Architectures Define Performant Architectures
A company delivers files in Amazon S3 to certain users who do not have AWS credentials. These users must be given access for a limited time. What should a solutions architect do to securely meet these requirements?
Specify Secure Applications and Architectures
A company designed a stateless two-tier application that uses Amazon EC2 in a single Availability Zone and an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance. New company management wants to ensure the application is highly available.

What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
Design Resilient Architectures Define Performant Architectures
A company designs a mobile app for its customers to upload photos to a website. The app needs a secure login with multi-factor authentication (MFA). The company wants to limit the initial build time and the maintenance of the solution.

Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
Specify Secure Applications and Architectures Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
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?
Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
A company has 700 TB of backup data stored in network attached storage (NAS) in its data center This backup data need to be accessible for infrequent regulatory requests and must be retained 7 years. The company has decided to migrate this backup data from its data center to AWS. The migration must be complete within 1 month. The company has 500 Mbps of dedicated bandwidth on its public internet connection available for data transfer.

What should a solutions architect do to migrate and store the data at the LOWEST cost?
Design Cost-Optimized Architectures