- (Exam Topic 2)
A new startup is running a serverless application using AWS Lambda as the primary source of compute New versions of the application must be made available to a subset of users before deploying changes to all users Developers should also have the ability to stop the deployment and have access to an easy rollback mechanism A solutions architect decides to use AWS CodeDeploy to deploy changes when a new version is available.
Which CodeDeploy configuration should the solutions architect use?
Correct Answer:
C
- (Exam Topic 1)
An e-commerce company is revamping its IT infrastructure and is planning to use AWS services. The company's CIO has asked a solutions architect to design a simple, highly available, and loosely coupled order processing application. The application is responsible (or receiving and processing orders before storing them in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The application has a sporadic traffic pattern and should be able to scale during markeling campaigns to process the orders with minimal delays.
Which of the following is the MOST reliable approach to meet the requirements?
Correct Answer:
B
Q: How does Amazon Kinesis Data Streams differ from Amazon SQS?
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams enables real-time processing of streaming big data. It provides ordering of records, as well as the ability to read and/or replay records in the same order to multiple Amazon Kinesis Applications. The Amazon Kinesis Client Library (KCL) delivers all records for a given partition key to the same record processor, making it easier to build multiple applications reading from the same Amazon Kinesis data stream (for example, to perform counting, aggregation, and filtering).
https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-streams/faqs/
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/unite-real-time-and-batch-analytics-using-the-big-data-lambda-architect
- (Exam Topic 2)
A company is finalizing the architecture for its backup solution for applications running on AWS. All of the applications run on AWS and use at least two Availability Zones in each tier.
Company policy requires IT to durably store nightly backups of all its data in at least two locations: production and disaster recovery. The locations must be m different geographic regions. The company also needs the backup to be available to restore immediately at the production data center, and within 24 hours at the disaster recovery location backup processes must be fully automated.
What is the MOST cost-effective backup solution that will meet all requirements?
Correct Answer:
D
- (Exam Topic 1)
A solutions architect is designing the data storage and retrieval architecture for a new application that a company will be launching soon. The application is designed to ingest millions of small records per minute from devices all around the world. Each record is less than 4 KB in size and needs to be stored in a durable location where it can be retrieved with low latency. The data is ephemeral and the company is required to store the data for 120 days only, after which the data can be deleted.
The solutions architect calculates that, during the course of a year, the storage requirements would be about 10-15 TB.
Which storage strategy is the MOST cost-effective and meets the design requirements?
Correct Answer:
B
DynamoDB with TTL, cheaper for sustained throughput of small items + suited for fast retrievals. S3 cheaper for storage only, much higher costs with writes. RDS not designed for this use case.
- (Exam Topic 1)
A finance company hosts a data lake in Amazon S3. The company receives financial data records over SFTP each night from several third parties. The company runs its own SFTP server on an Amazon EC2 instance in a public subnet of a VPC. After the files ate uploaded, they are moved to the data lake by a cron job that runs on the same instance. The SFTP server is reachable on DNS sftp.examWe.com through the use of Amazon Route 53.
What should a solutions architect do to improve the reliability and scalability of the SFTP solution?
Correct Answer:
B
https://aws.amazon.com/aws-transfer-family/faqs/ https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transfer/latest/userguide/what-is-aws-transfer-family.html
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/aws-transfer-for-sftp-fully-managed-sftp-for-s3/?nc1=h_