AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

12 questions · 130 min · Pass 720

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#1Design High-Performing Architectures
A development team runs a database that is idle most of the day but has short bursts of heavy activity. They want to avoid paying for unused capacity. Which database option fits?
#2Design High-Performing Architectures
A research team runs tightly coupled HPC workloads that require the lowest possible network latency between EC2 instances. Which placement strategy should be used?
#3Design High-Performing Architectures
A company receives image uploads to S3 and needs to automatically generate thumbnails within seconds. The workload is sporadic with zero traffic at night. Which compute option is most efficient?
#4Design High-Performing Architectures
A multiplayer game server in us-east-1 serves players globally. Players in Asia experience high latency and packet loss due to internet routing inefficiencies. Which AWS service improves network performance without adding new regional deployments?
#5Design High-Performing Architectures
A media company uploads large video files from field offices worldwide to a central S3 bucket in us-west-2. Uploads over long distances are slow. Which S3 feature speeds these up?
#6Design High-Performing Architectures
A database server on EC2 requires consistent IOPS performance of 10,000 IOPS with low latency. Which EBS volume type is most appropriate?
#7Design High-Performing Architectures
An application reads the same database records repeatedly, causing high RDS load. Most reads return identical results within short periods. Which caching solution is most effective?
#8Design High-Performing Architectures
A company serves static images from S3 to users worldwide. Users in distant regions experience slow load times. Which service improves delivery speed?
#9Design High-Performing Architectures
Multiple EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group need shared, POSIX-compliant file storage that scales automatically. Which AWS storage service meets this need?
#10Design High-Performing Architectures
A DynamoDB table experiences throttling because 90% of reads target a single partition key value representing 'today's date'. How should the table design be changed to fix this hot partition issue?
#11Design High-Performing Architectures
A company collects millions of IoT sensor events per second and must process them in real time with sub-second latency. Which ingestion service handles this volume?
#12Design High-Performing Architectures
A startup wants to build a REST API without managing servers. The API should scale automatically and charge only per request. Which architecture is most suitable?

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