Run - My ASP.NET Application

Test 1

1. A company's dynamic website is hosted using on-premises servers in the United States. The company is launching its product in Europe, and it wants to optimize site loading times for new European users. The site's backend must remain in the United States. The product is being launched in a few days, and an immediate solution is needed. What should the solutions architect recommend?
Launch an Amazon EC2 instance in us-east-1 and migrate the site to it. Use Amazon CloudFront with a custom origin pointing to the on-premises servers. Use an Amazon Route 53 geo-proximity routing policy pointing to on-premises servers. Move the website to Amazon S3. Use cross-Region replication between Regions.
2. A company needs to implement a relational database with a multi-Region disaster recovery Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 second and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 minute. Which AWS solution can achieve this?
Amazon RDS for MySQL with Multi-AZ enabled Amazon Aurora Global Database Amazon DynamoDB global tables Amazon RDS for MySQL with a cross-Region snapshot copy
3. A company?€™s website provides users with downloadable historical performance reports. The website needs a solution that will scale to meet the company?€™s website demands globally. The solution should be cost-effective, limit the provisioning of infrastructure resources, and provide the fastest possible response time. Which combination should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
Amazon CloudFront and Amazon S3 Amazon Route 53 with internal Application Load Balancers AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB Application Load Balancer with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
4. A company runs a web service on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones. The company needs a minimum of four instances at all times to meet the required service level agreement (SLA) while keeping costs low. If an Availability Zone fails, how can the company remain compliant with the SLA?
Add a target tracking scaling policy with a short cooldown period. Change the Auto Scaling group launch configuration to use a larger instance type. Change the Auto Scaling group to use eight servers across two Availability Zones. Change the Auto Scaling group to use six servers across three Availability Zones.
5. A development team needs to host a website that will be accessed by other teams. The website contents consist of HTML, CSS, client-side JavaScript, and images. Which method is the MOST cost-effective for hosting the website?
Deploy a web server on an Amazon EC2 instance to host the website. Create an Amazon S3 bucket and host the website there. Configure an Application Load Balancer with an AWS Lambda target that uses the Express.js framework. Containerize the website and host it in AWS Fargate.
6. A company is running a two-tier ecommerce website using services. The current architect uses a publish-facing Elastic Load Balancer that sends traffic to Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet. The static content is hosted on EC2 instances, and the dynamic content is retrieved from a MYSQL database. The application is running in the United States. The company recently started selling to users in Europe and Australia. A solutions architect needs to design solution so their international users have an improved browsing experience. Which solution is MOST cost-effective?
Use Amazon CloudFront and Amazon S3 to host static images. Host the entire website on Amazon S3. Deploy the two-tier website in AWS Regions in Europe and Australia. Increase the number of public load balancers and EC2 instances.
7. A company is planning to migrate its virtual server-based workloads to AWS. The company has internet-facing load balancers backed by application servers. The application servers rely on patches from an internet-hosted repository. Which services should a solutions architect recommend be hosted on the public subnet? (Choose two.)
NAT gateway Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) volumes Amazon RDS DB instances Application Load Balancers Amazon EC2 application servers
8. 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?
Amazon DynamoDB on-demand Amazon DynamoDB Streams Amazon RDS for SqlServer Amazon Aurora
9. A solutions architect must migrate a Windows internet information Services (IIS) web application to AWS. The application currently relies on a file share hosted in the user?€™s on-premises network-attached storage (NAS). The solutions architected has proposed migrating the IIS web servers to Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones that are connected to the storage solution, and configuring an Elastic Load Balancer attached to the instances. Which replacement to the on-premises file share is MOST resilient and durable?
Migrate the file Share to AWS Storage Gateway Migrate the file share to Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Migrate the file Share to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Migrate the file Share to Amazon RDS.
10. A solutions architect is designing a hybrid application using the AWS cloud. The network between the on-premises data center and AWS will use an AWS Direct Connect (DX) connection. The application connectivity between AWS and the on-premises data center must be highly resilient. Which DX configuration should be implemented to meet these requirements?
Configure a DX connection using the most reliable DX partner. Configure multiple virtual interfaces on top of a DX connection. Configure a DX connection with a VPN on top of it. Configure DX connections at multiple DX locations.
11. A company that develops web applications has launched hundreds of Application Load Balancers (ALBs) in multiple Regions. The company wants to create an allow list for the IPs of all the load balancers on its firewall device. A solutions architect is looking for a one-time, highly available solution to address this request, which will also help reduce the number of IPs that need to be allowed by the firewall. What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
Create a AWS Lambda function to keep track of the IPs for all the ALBs in different Regions. Keep refreshing this list. Launch AWS Global Accelerator and create endpoints for all the Regions. Register all the ALBs in different Regions to the corresponding endpoints. Set up an Amazon EC2 instance, assign an Elastic IP to this EC2 instance, and configure the instance as a proxy to forward traffic to all the ALBs. Set up a Network Load Balancer (NLB) with Elastic IPs. Register the private IPs of all the ALBs as targets to this NLB.
12. A solutions architect is helping a developer design a new ecommerce shopping cart application using AWS services. The developer is unsure of the current database schema and expects to make changes as the ecommerce site grows. The solution needs to be highly resilient and capable of automatically scaling read and write capacity. Which database solution meets these requirements?
Amazon SQS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Amazon DynamoDB with DynamoDB Streams enabled Amazon DynamoDB with on-demand enabled
13. A solutions architect is using Amazon S3 to design the storage architecture of a new digital media application. The media files must be resilient to the loss of an Availability Zone. Some files are accessed frequently while other files are rarely accessed in an unpredictable pattern. The solutions architect must minimize the costs of storing and retrieving the media files. Which storage option meets these requirements?
S3 Intelligent-Tiering S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) S3 Standard
14. A media company stores video content in an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. A certain video file has become popular and a large number of users across the world are accessing this content. This has resulted in a cost increase. Which action will DECREASE cost without compromising user accessibility?
Split the video into multiple, smaller segments so users are routed to the requested video segments only. Change the EBS volume to Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS). Store the video in an Amazon S3 bucket and create an Amazon CloudFront distribution. Clear an Amazon S3 bucket in each Region and upload the videos so users are routed to the nearest S3 bucket.
15. A company is running a three-tier web application to process credit card payments. The front-end user interface consists of static webpages. The application tier can have long-running processes. The database tier uses MySQL. The application is currently running on a single, general purpose large Amazon EC2 instance. A solutions architect needs to decouple the services to make the web application highly available. Which solution would provide the HIGHEST availability?
Move static assets and the application into a medium EC2 instance. Leave the database on the large instance. Place both instances in an Auto Scaling group. Move static assets to Amazon S3. Move the application to AWS Lambda with the concurrency limit set. Move the database to Amazon DynamoDB with on- demand enabled. Move static assets to Amazon CloudFront. Leave the application in EC2 in an Auto Scaling group. Move the database to Amazon RDS to deploy Multi-AZ. Move static assets to Amazon S3. Move the application to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) containers with Auto Scaling enabled. Move the database to Amazon RDS to deploy Multi-AZ.
16. A company is designing a web application using AWS that processes insurance quotes. Users will request quotes from the application. Quotes must be separated by quote type must be responded to within 24 hours, and must not be lost. The solution should be simple to set up and maintain. Which solution meets these requirements?
Create multiple Amazon Kinesis data streams based on the quote type. Configure the web application to send messages to the proper data stream. Configure each backend group of application servers to pool messages from its own data stream using the Kinesis Client Library (KCL). Create multiple Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery streams based on the quote type to deliver data streams to an Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) cluster. Configure the web application to send messages to the proper delivery stream. Configure each backend group of application servers to search for the messages from Amazon ES and process them accordingly. Create multiple Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics and register Amazon SQS queues to their own SNS topic based on the quote type. Configure the web application to publish messages to the SNS topic queue. Configure each backend application server to work its own SQS queue. Create a single Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic and subscribe the Amazon SQS queues to the SNS topic. Configure SNS message filtering to publish messages to the proper SQS queue based on the quote type. Configure each backend application server to work its own SQS queue.
17. A company has recently updated its internal security standards. The company must now ensure all Amazon S3 buckets and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes are encrypted with keys created and periodically rotated by internal security specialists. The company is looking for a native, software-based AWS service to accomplish this goal. What should a solutions architect recommend as a solution?
Use AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store with customer master keys (CMKs) to store master key material and apply a routine to re-create a new key periodically and replace it in the Parameter Store. Use AWS Secrets Manager with customer master keys (CMKs) to store master key material and apply a routine to create a new CMK periodically and replace it in AWS Secrets Manager. Use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) with customer master keys (CMKs) to store master key material and apply a routine to re-create a new key periodically and replace it in AWS KMS. Use an AWS CloudHSM cluster with customer master keys (CMKs) to store master key material and apply a routine to re-create a new key periodically and replace it in the CloudHSM cluster nodes.
18. A company runs an application using Amazon ECS. The application creates resized versions of an original image and then makes Amazon S3 API calls to store the resized images in Amazon S3. How can a solutions architect ensure that the application has permission to access Amazon S3?
Create an IAM user with S3 permissions, and then relaunch the Amazon EC2 instances for the ECS cluster while logged in as this account. Create an IAM role with S3 permissions, and then specify that role as the taskRoleArn in the task definition. Create a security group that allows access from Amazon ECS to Amazon S3, and update the launch configuration used by the ECS cluster. Update the S3 role in AWS IAM to allow read/write access from Amazon ECS, and then relaunch the container.
19. A company is using a VPC peering strategy to connect its VPCs in a single Region to allow for cross-communication. A recent increase in account creations and VPCs has made it difficult to maintain the VPC peering strategy, and the company expects to grow to hundreds of VPCs. There are also new requests to create site-to-site VPNs with some of the VPCs. A solutions architect has been tasked with creating a centrally managed networking setup for multiple accounts, VPCs, and VPNs. Which networking solution meets these requirements?
Configure a hub-and-spoke VPC and route all traffic through VPC peering. Configure a transit gateway with AWS Transit Gateway and connect all VPCs and VPNs. Configure shared VPCs and VPNs and share to each other. Configure an AWS Direct Connect connection between all VPCs and VPNs.
20. A company requires a durable backup storage solution for its on-premises database servers while ensuring on-premises applications maintain access to these backups for quick recovery. The company will use AWS storage services as the destination for these backups. A solutions architect is designing a solution with minimal operational overhead.Which solution should the solutions architect implement?
Transfer the database backup files to an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume attached to an Amazon EC2 instance. Back up the databases to an AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway and access it using the Amazon S3 API. Back up the database directly to an AWS Snowball device and use lifecycle rules to move the data to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive. Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway on-premises and associate it with an Amazon S3 bucket.
21. A company is using a tape backup solution to store its key application data offsite. The daily data volume is around 50 TB. The company needs to retain the backups for 7 years for regulatory purposes. The backups are rarely accessed, and a week's notice is typically given if a backup needs to be restored. The company is now considering a cloud-based option to reduce the storage costs and operational burden of managing tapes. The company also wants to make sure that the transition from tape backups to the cloud minimizes disruptions. Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?
Use Amazon Storage Gateway to back up to Amazon Glacier Deep Archive. Use AWS Snowball Edge to directly integrate the backups with Amazon S3 Glacier. Copy the backup data to Amazon S3 and create a lifecycle policy to move the data to Amazon S3 Glacier. Use Amazon Storage Gateway to back up to Amazon S3 and create a lifecycle policy to move the backup to Amazon S3 Glacier.
22. A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new application being deployed to AWS. The application allows users to interactively download and upload files. Files older than 2 years will be accessed less frequently. The solutions architect needs to ensure that the application can scale to any number of files while maintaining high availability and durability. Which scalable solutions should the solutions architect recommend? (Choose two.)
Store the files on Amazon S3 with a lifecycle policy that moves objects older than 2 years to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) Store the files in Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. Schedule snapshots of the volumes. Use the snapshots to archive data older than 2 years. Store the files in RAID-striped Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. Schedule snapshots of the volumes. Use the snapshots to archive data older than 2 years. Store the files on Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) with a lifecycle policy that moves objects older than 2 years to EFS Infrequent Access (EFS IA). Store the files on Amazon S3 with a lifecycle policy that moves objects older than 2 years to S3 Glacier.
23. A company has established a new AWS account. The account is newly provisioned and no changed have been made to the default settings. The company is concerned about the security of the AWS account root user. What should be done to secure the root user?
Provide the root user credentials to the most senior solutions architect. Have the solutions architect use the root user for daily administration tasks. Create IAM users for daily administrative tasks. Disable the root user. Generate an access key for the root user. Use the access key for daily administration tasks instead of the AWS Management Console. Create IAM users for daily administrative tasks. Enable multi-factor authentication on the root user.
24. A company is reviewing its AWS Cloud deployment to ensure its data is not accessed by anyone without appropriate authorization. A solutions architect is tasked with identifying all open Amazon S3 buckets and recording any S3 bucket configuration changes. What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?
Enable Amazon S3 server access logging and configure Amazon CloudWatch Events. Write a script using an AWS SDK to generate a bucket report Enable AWS Config service with the appropriate rules Enable AWS Trusted Advisor with the appropriate checks.
25. A company mandates that an Amazon S3 gateway endpoint must allow traffic to trusted buckets only. Which method should a solutions architect implement to meet this requirement?
Create an S3 endpoint policy for each of the company's S3 gateway endpoints that provides access to the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the trusted S3 buckets. Create a bucket policy for each of the company's trusted S3 buckets that allows traffic only from the company's S3 gateway endpoint IDs. Create a bucket policy for each of the company's trusted S3 buckets that allows traffic only from the company's trusted VPCs. Create an S3 endpoint policy for each of the company's S3 gateway endpoints that blocks access from any VPC other than the company's trusted VPCs.
26. A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application is deployed in private subnets in three Availability Zones of the us-east-1 Region. The instances must be able to connect to the internet to download files. The company wants a design that is highly available across the Region. Which solution should be implemented to ensure that there are no disruptions to internet connectivity?
Deploy a NAT gateway in a public subnet of each Availability Zone. Deploy a NAT instance in a private subnet of each Availability Zone. Deploy an internet gateway in a public subnet of each Availability Zone. Deploy a transit gateway in a private subnet of each Availability Zone.
27. Application developers have noticed that a production application is very slow when business reporting users run large production reports against the Amazon RDS instance backing the application. The CPU and memory utilization metrics for the RDS instance do not exceed 60% while the reporting queries are running. The business reporting users must be able to generate reports without affecting the application?€™s performance. Which action will accomplish this?
Create a read replica and connect the application to it. Create a read replica and connect the business reports to it. Enable multiple Availability Zones on the RDS instance. Increase the size of the RDS instance.
28. A company is planning to build a new web application on AWS. The company expects predictable traffic most of the year and very high traffic on occasion. The web application needs to be highly available and fault tolerant with minimal latency. What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
Use Amazon EC2 instances in a cluster placement group and include the cluster placement group within a new Auto Scaling group. Use Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group with an Application Load Balancer across multiple Availability Zones. Use an Amazon Route 53 routing policy to distribute requests to two AWS Regions, each with one Amazon EC2 instance. Use Amazon EC2 instances in a cluster placement group with an Application Load Balancer across multiple Availability Zones.
29. A company wants to deploy a shared file system for its .NET application servers and Microsoft SQL Server databases running on Amazon EC2 instances with Windows Server 2016. The solution must be able to be integrated into the corporate Active Directory domain, be highly durable, be managed by AWS, and provide high levels of throughput and IOPS. Which solution meets these requirements?
Use AWS Storage Gateway in file gateway mode. Use Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Deploy a Windows file server on two On Demand instances across two Availability Zones. Use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS).
30. A solutions architect has configured the following IAM policy. Which action will be allowed by the policy?
An AWS Lambda function can be deleted from any network. An AWS Lambda function can be deleted from the 100.220.0.0/20 network. An AWS Lambda function can be deleted from the 220.100.16.0/20 network. An AWS Lambda function can be created from any network.