Which steps should a solutions architect take after creating a VPC in the us-east-1 Region?

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...

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Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take in the production account to meet these requirements?

A company is launching a new web application on Amazon EC2 instances. Development and production workloads exist in separate AWS accounts. According to the company's security requirements, only automated configuration tools are allowed to access the production account. The company's security team wants to receive immediate notification if any manual...

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Which combination of steps meets these requirements while minimizing operational overhead?

A solutions architect is designing an application to accept timesheet entries from employees on their mobile devices. Timesheets will be submitted weekly, with most of the submissions occurring on Friday. The data must be stored in a format that allows payroll administrators to run monthly reports. The infrastructure must be...

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Which set of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements?

A company needs to implement a patching process for its servers. The on-premises servers and Amazon EC2 instances use a variety of tools to perform patching. Management requires a single report showing the patch status of all the servers and instances. Which set of actions should a solutions architect take...

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Which combination of changes should a solutions architect make?

A company has a photo sharing social networking application. To provide a consistent experience for users, the company performs some image processing on the photos uploaded by users before publishing on the application. The image processing is implemented using a set of Python libraries. The current architecture is as follows:...

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What additional steps will address all of the identified attack types while providing high availability and minimizing risk?

A company runs an e-commerce platform with front-end and e-commerce tiers. Both tiers run on LAMP stacks with the front-end instances running behind a load balancing appliance that has a virtual offering on AWS Current*/, the operations team uses SSH to log in to the instances to maintain patches and...

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Which combination of actions will meet these requirements?

A company manages an on-premises JavaScript front-end web application. The application is hosted on two servers secured with a corporate Active Directory. The application calls a set of Java-based microservices on an application server and stores data in a clustered MySQL database. The application is heavily used during the day...

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What is the MOST cost-effective solution to meet the company's needs?

A financial company is building a system to generate monthly, immutable bank account statements for its users. Statements are stored in Amazon S3. Users should have immediate access to their monthly statements for up to 2 years. Some users access their statements frequently, whereas others rarely access their statements. The...

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Which strategy should a solutions architect recommend to remediate these security risks?

A company runs an application on AWS. An AWS Lambda function uses credentials to authenticate to an Amazon RDS tor MySQL DB instance. A security risk assessment identified that these credentials are not frequently rotated. Also, encryption at rest is not enabled for the DB instance. The security team requires...

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What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

A company is planning to set up a REST API application on AWS. The application team wants to set up a new identity store on AWS. The IT team does not want to maintain any infrastructure or servers for this deployment. What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets...

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