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Question 1
A company is developing a highly sensitive application on AWS. The application uses SSH to access Amazon EC2 instances. A security team needs to centrally manage all user access to the application. User management must be fully automated. The team needs to eliminate manual distribution of SSH keys. Which solution will meet these requirements?
Question 2
A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). The application returns HTTP 503 errors when internal service dependencies fail. The application maintains TCP connections to the NLB during these failures. The company terminates affected EC2 instances daily. The company needs to automatically detect application failures and instance replacement without building custom monitoring solutions. Which solution will meet these requirements?
Question 3
A company runs its critical storage application in the AWS Cloud. The application uses Amazon S3 in two AWS Regions. The company wants the application to send remote user data to the nearest S3 bucket with no public network congestion. The company also wants the application to fail over with the least amount of management of Amazon S3. Which solution will meet these requirements?
Question 4
A company provides a three-tier web application to its customers. Each customer has an AWS account in which the application is deployed, and these accounts are members of the company's organization in AWS Organizations. To protect its customers' AWS accounts and applications, the company wants to monitor them for unusual and unexpected behavior. The company needs to analyze and monitor customer VPC Flow Logs, AWS CloudTrail logs, and DNS logs. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
Question 5
A global ecommerce company uses a monolithic architecture. The company needs a solution to manage the increasing volume of product data. The solution must be scalable and have a modular service architecture. The company needs to maintain its structured database schemas. The company also needs a storage solution to store product data and product images. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
Question 6
A company is migrating an application to the AWS Cloud. The application runs in an on-premises data center and writes thousands of images into a mounted NFS file system each night. After the company migrates the application, the company will host the application on an Amazon EC2 instance with a mounted Amazon EFS file system. The company has established an AWS Direct Connect connection to AWS. Before the migration cutover, a solutions architect must build a process that will replicate the newly created on-premises images to the EFS file system. What is the MOST operationally efficient way to replicate the images?

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  • Design Secure Architectures30%
  • Design Resilient Architectures26%
  • Design High-Performing Architectures24%
  • Design Cost-Optimized Architectures20%

Official exam weights describe the vendor’s blueprint. They do not measure coverage in this question bank.

Recommended Experience Before You Start

No experience is required; one year of hands-on AWS solution design experience is recommended.

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  1. 1

    Design secure workload access

    Sketch a workload and identify its users, roles, network boundaries and data. Explain the access and encryption choices before comparing the design with the exam objectives.

  2. 2

    Plan for component failures

    Describe how the workload behaves when an instance or availability zone fails. Compare recovery approaches and explain the consequences for availability, data loss and operational effort.

  3. 3

    Compare performance and cost choices

    Choose compute, storage and database options for two different workload patterns. Explain how access frequency, scaling and latency affect the design and its cost.

  4. 4

    Practise architectural trade-offs

    For each missed scenario, write down the requirement you overlooked and why the alternatives are weaker. Review the relevant AWS documentation, then try a mixed session under a time limit.

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