AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Practice Questions Part 3

Your company wants you to keep a check on the active EBS volumes, active snapshots, and Elastic IP addresses that your organization use. Also, ensure that you don’t go beyond the service limit. Which service will be helpful in this regard?

You work in an organization as a solutions architect; they want you to manage a RedShift cluster and monitor its performance to make sure that it is working efficiently as possible. What services would you use for fulfilling this requirement?

A person who uses S3 for storage wants you to make sure that his data is encrypted. But, he doesn’t want to manage the encryption keys. You know a lot, can you tell him the encryption mechanism that could help him in this case?

You have set up an S3 bucket for your company which is accessed quite frequently. The management wants you to implement something that could reduce the cost of accessing it. What step would you take to do this?

Your organization is in Seoul, and your EC2 instance is in the same region, i.e., the Asia Pacific. A preconfigured software is running on this instance, and you are requested to make DR solution if the instance in the region fails. What could be the best solution for this?

You have been tasked to create a cost-effective solution. The scenario is, users will upload the videos, and after a defined period (a month), these videos can be deleted. What will you do?

The company that you work for is required to have an ability of data archival. They want this ability in a cost-efficient way, what would you do?

A group of Ph.D. students is in need of a fully managed NoSQL database on the cloud. They asked you for a highly available and backup enabled database solution. Which Amazon database would you suggest?

You are hosting a MySQL database for your company using AWS RDS service. To offload the reads, you created a read replica and made the reports flee to the read replica database. However, you are noticing that the reports show old data. Why do you think it is happening?

An idea of building a 2 tier architecture is floating in your organization. This architecture will be containing a web server and a database server that is hosted on EC2 instances. Heavy read/write operations are expected on the database server while the web server will have a standard load of work. You, as a solutions architect, which EBS volumes would you choose for optimum performance? Choose 2; one for the web server and the other for the database.

You have hosted your company’s web server on an EC2 instance. A larger part of the CPU is being consumed by the number of requests, resulting in degraded performance of the application. What would you do to diminish the problem to provide a better response time?

To make the best use of the serverless aspects of the AWS cloud, you have decided to use SQS and Lambda services. Each call to Lambda function will add a message in the SQS queue. To send the messages, which of the following you must do?

You have set the data layer for your organization in S3. There are a lot of requests that include read/write and updates to the objects in the S3 bucket. A complaint has arisen; users are saying that the updates to an object are not reflected. What could be the reason for this?

An organization is planning to move to the cloud; they want to use their existing chef recipes for configuration management of their infrastructure. Which AWS service do you think is ideal for them?

Your company is planning to host a web application that contains a web server and a database server. You work for this company as a solutions architect, you have planned to host these servers on different EC2 instances in different subnets inside a VPC. Which of the following would you use to ensure that the database server only allows traffic from the web server?

For the AWS account that is in use of your organization, you have enabled CloudTrail logs. The IT security department also wants these logs to be encrypted. How will you fulfil their requirement?

You have a web application that contains two servers, i.e., web and database servers. These servers are hosted on separate EC2 instances. Heavy read requests on the database are degrading the performance of your application. What can you do to improve the performance of your application?

The IT supervisor in your organization is fed up with the users that accidentally delete objects in an S3 bucket. Can you solve his problem? Is there any way to prevent accidental deletion? (Choose 2)

Your organization has planned and wanted you to move their PostgreSQL database to the AWS cloud. Replicas of the database and automated backup are the key requirements. Which database service would ideally fit this scenario?

A friend of yours works for an organization as a solutions architect; he is designing a solution to store and archive corporate documents, the data has to be retrieved within 3-5 hours as directed by the management. He has decided to use Amazon Glacier for this. Now, he wants your suggestion about the features of Amazon Glacier that can help him in meeting the requirements while ensuring the cost-effectiveness. What would you suggest?

For document storage, users within your organization need a place. It is required that each user must have his/her own location for placing the objects and should not be able to see other user’s documents. Document retrieval should be an easy process. Which AWS service do you think is ideal for this?

You created a set of lambda functions and embedded business logics in them. You want to configure these functions in a way that the users can call these via HTTPS requests. How can this be achieved?

You are using an S3 bucket as the data layer for your company’s application. When monitoring the bucket, it has been noticed that there are 400 GET requests per second. The IT operations team receives requests of users who get HTTP 500 or 503 errors while accessing the application. What would you do to resolve these errors? (Choose 2)

You have EBS backed EC2 instances for your organization. It is clearly stated in the organization’s IT policy that it is must back up the data efficiently. You, as a solutions architect are responsible for a backup policy. What do you think is the most adaptable way to back up the EBS volumes?

The organization that you work for have RedShift cluster with reserved instances because it has been running for a long duration of a couple of years. Automated and manual snapshots are enabled. These days, the cost being incurred by the cluster in under consideration. You, as a solutions architect, what measures would you make to minimize the cost?

Provide your company with an efficient way to store the backed up data on AWS that has been backed up from an on-premises hosted server.

PimPom company is planning to host their web application on an EC2 instance. It is expected that the users will increase in the coming months, so it is necessary to add elasticity to your system. What steps would you take to add elasticity to your setup? (Choose 2)

A solutions architect is assigned with a task of deploying Docker containers to the cloud. Those who hired him for this, also want a highly scalable service that can help in managing the coordination of these containers. What would be optimal for such a requirement?

An organization named Chingchi has launched EC2 instances for non-production workloads. These instances are also used for non-priority batch loads. The given loads of work, as you know, can be interrupted at any time. For this scenario, which pricing model of the EC2 is the best?

The management of your organization wants you to create a DR strategy for minimizing the cost of the resources in AWS. They want the ability of spinning up the architecture in another region. How will you do this while keeping the cost minimum?

You are running a set of IIS servers on EC2 instances for your organization. The log files of these servers are needed to be collected and processed. Which AWS service would you choose for this requirement?

For high availability solutions, which AWS services do you think can be implemented in multiple AZs? (Choose 2)

You are asked to build a stateless application with auto-scaled web servers. What do you think would be the ideal storage mechanism for storing session data?

To ensure multi-region availability of objects in an S3 bucket, what do you think is the easiest way?

An organization used incident based application hosted on EC2 instances which are placed after the auto scaling group. The organization is facing low performance of the application in the morning at 8:30 AM although the use of autoscaling group give surety that some instances are in place to support the application. In what way we optimized the performance of the application at 8:30 AM.

Which is most quick and ceffective way to host a static website in AWS? (choose any 2)

A set of applications use Docker containers. How to shift these Docker containers in a separate environment in AWS?

A photo is shared on the website, and with the use of S3 this photo is served to the visitors of the website, but other websites are also linking to the photo of your site and make a loss in business. Which solution do you choose to reduce this effect?

An organization has an application in which they need to add port 443 to a security group to make application working properly. How much time taken by an application to work properly after adding a port?

How you manage the infrastructure which has No-SQL database hosted on AWS cloud?

Which AWS service supports the development of a new application which has a microservices architecture? (choose 2)

Which is a most effective way to detect errors in running script on AWS Lambda service?

An organization stored critical data in Amazon S3 and also need that data will be available in the different geographical location. Which solution meets the above requirements?

The client wants to store data in AWS, and after one year he wants to delete that data but before one year that data is frequent access by the client. Which architect is best for given requirements?

Which AWS service is best to monitor database metrics hosted on AWS and send a notification? (choose 2)

If you have data in EBS volumes and they are frequently accessed in 1 month, and after that, you need to move these data to infrequent access storage. Which storage is cost-effective storage of EBS volume type to meet the requirements?

An organization wants to run an application with two EC2 instances in which one is for the database server, and the other is for a web application. Which solution helps to make the high availability of the database layer?

An organization has a setup of VPC with a subnet and internet gateway. They need  connect EC2 instance with internet although EC2 instance is set up with a public IP, and they are the wrong security group, but still, they are unable to connect to the internet. Which solution help to overcome this issue?

An organization is planning to deploy a critical application to AWS whose controls set meet PCI compliance. They also need to detect any malicious activity by monitoring logs of the web application. Which service meets the above requirement?

How you encrypt your critical data when you host an AWS RDS instance?