| 1. A university is running an internal web application on AWS that students can access from the university network to check their exam results. The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and pulls results from an Amazon DynamoDB table. Auto Scaling is currently configured to add a new web server when CPU greater than 80% for 5 minutes. DynamoDB is configured to increase both read and write capacity units by five when utilization is greater than 80%. Exam are released at 9:00 a.m, each Monday, and 80% of students attempt to access their unique results within the first 30 minutes. Despite Auto Scaling enabled, students are complaining of slow response times and errors when they view the site. There are no performance complaints after 9:30 am. Which recommendation should a Solutions Architect make to improve performance in a cost-effective manner? |
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2. A Solutions Architect is concerned that the current security group rules for a database tier are too permissive and may permit requests that should be restricted. Below are the current Security group permissions for the database tier:
– Protocol: TCP – Port Range: 1433 (MS SQL) – Source: ALL Currently, the only identified resource that needs to connect to the databases the application tier consisting of an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances. What changes can be made to this security group that would offer the users LEAST privilege? |
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| 3. Which requirements must be met in order for a Solutions Architect to specify that an Amazon EC2 instance should stop rather than terminate its Spot Instance is interrupted? (Select TWO.) |
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