SAP-C02 Amazon Web Services AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

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Question # 1

A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. The application is using a MongoDB database with a replica set as its data tier. The MongoDB database is installed on systems in the company ' s on-premises data center and is accessible through an AWS Direct Connect connection to the data center environment.

A solutions architect must migrate the on-premises MongoDB database to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility).

Which strategy should the solutions architect choose to perform this migration?

Create a fleet of EC2 instances. Install MongoDB Community Edition on the EC2 instances, and create a database. Configure continuous synchronous replication with the database that is running in the on-premises data center.

Create an AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) replication instance. Create a source endpoint for the on-premises MongoDB database by using change data capture (CDC). Create a target endpoint for the Amazon DocumentDB database. Create and run a DMS migration task.

Create a data migration pipeline by using AWS Data Pipeline. Define data nodes for the on-premises MongoDB database and the Amazon DocumentDB database. Create a scheduled task to run the data pipeline.

Create a source endpoint for the on-premises MongoDB database by using AWS Glue crawlers. Configure continuous asynchronous replication between the MongoDB database and the Amazon DocumentDB database.

Question # 2

Example Corp uses an organization in AWS Organizations with all features enabled to manage multiple AWS accounts. Example Corp acquires AnyCompany, which currently hosts its AWS environment in a single AWS account. Example Corp wants to add AnyCompany’s AWS account to Example Corp’s existing organization.

Which solution will meet this requirement?

From AnyCompany’s AWS account, invite Example Corp’s existing AWS management account to start the join process. Ensure that Organizations creates the OrganizationAccountAccessRole IAM role with the required permissions.

From Example Corp’s management AWS account, send an AWS Support request to AWS to add AnyCompany’s AWS account to the existing organization. Ensure that Organizations creates the OrganizationAccountAccessRole IAM role with the required permissions.

From Example Corp’s management AWS account, send an invitation to AnyCompany’s AWS account. Accept the invitation in AnyCompany’s account. Create an OrganizationAccountAccessRole IAM role with the appropriate managed IAM policy.

From AnyCompany’s AWS account, create an OrganizationAccountAccessRole IAM role with the appropriate managed IAM policy. Configure AnyCompany’s AWS account to be a member of Example Corp’s organization.

Question # 3

A company is using AWS to develop and manage its production web application. The application includes an Amazon API Gateway HTTP API that invokes an AWS Lambda function. The Lambda function processes and then stores data in a database.

The company wants to implement user authorization for the web application in an integrated way. The company already uses a third-party identity provider that issues OAuth tokens for the company ' s other applications.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Integrate the company ' s third-party identity provider with API Gateway. Configure an API Gateway Lambda authorizer to validate tokens from the identity provider. Require the Lambda authorizer on all API routes. Update the web application to get tokens from the identity provider and include the tokens in the Authorization header when calling the API Gateway HTTP API.

Integrate the company ' s third-party identity provider with AWS Directory Service. Configure Directory Service as an API Gateway authorizer to validate tokens from the identity provider. Require the Directory Service authorizer on all API routes. Configure AWS IAM Identity Center as a SAML 2.0 identity provider. Configure the web application as a custom SAML 2.0 application.

Integrate the company ' s third-party identity provider with AWS IAM Identity Center. Configure API Gateway to use IAM Identity Center for zero-configuration authentication and authorization. Update the web application to retrieve AWS STS tokens from IAM Identity Center and include the tokens in the Authorization header when calling the API Gateway HTTP API.

Integrate the company ' s third-party identity provider with AWS IAM Identity Center. Configure IAM users with permissions to call the API Gateway HTTP API. Update the web application to extract request parameters from the IAM users and include the parameters in the Authorization header when calling the API Gateway HTTP API.

Question # 4

A company runs an intranet application on premises. The company wants to configure a cloud backup of the application. The company has selected AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery for this solution.

The company requires that replication traffic does not travel through the public internet. The application also must not be accessible from the internet. The company does not want this solution to consume all available network bandwidth because other applications require bandwidth.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)

Create a VPC that has at least two private subnets, two NAT gateways, and a virtual private gateway.

Create a VPC that has at least two public subnets, a virtual private gateway, and an internet gateway.

Create an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection between the on-premises network and the target AWS network.

Create an AWS Direct Connect connection and a Direct Connect gateway between the on-premises network and the target AWS network.

During configuration of the replication servers, select the option to use private IP addresses for data replication.

During configuration of the launch settings for the target servers, select the option to ensure that the Recovery instance ' s private IP address matches the source server ' s private IP address.

Answer:

B, D, E

Explanation:

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) is a service that minimizes downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications using affordable storage, minimal compute, and point-in-time recovery1. Users can set up AWS DRS on their source servers to initiate secure data replication to a staging area subnet in their AWS account, in the AWS Region they select. Users can then launch recovery instances on AWS within minutes, using the most up-to-date server state or a previous point in time.

To configure a cloud backup of the application with AWS DRS, users need to create a VPC that has at least two public subnets, a virtual private gateway, and an internet gateway. AVPC is a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where users can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that they define2. A public subnet is a subnet that has a route to an internet gateway3. A virtualprivate gateway is the VPN concentrator on the Amazon side of the Site-to-Site VPN connection4. An internet gateway is a horizontally scaled, redundant, and highly available VPC component that allows communication between instances in the VPC and the internet. Users need to create at least two public subnets for redundancy and high availability. Users need to create a virtual private gateway and attach it to the VPC to enable VPN connectivity between the on-premises network and the target AWS network. Users need to create an internet gateway and attach it to the VPC to enable internet access for the replication servers.

To ensure that replication traffic does not travel through the public internet, users need to create an AWS Direct Connect connection and a Direct Connect gateway between the on-premises network and the target AWS network. AWS Direct Connect is a service that establishes a dedicated network connection from an on-premises network to one or more VPCs. A Direct Connect gateway is a globally available resource that allows users to connect multiple VPCs across different Regions to their on-premises networks using one or more Direct Connect connections. Users need to create an AWS Direct Connect connection between their on-premises network and an AWS Region. Users need to create a Direct Connect gateway and associate it with their VPC and their Direct Connect connection.

To ensure that the application is not accessible from the internet, users need to select the option to use private IP addresses for data replication during configuration of the replication servers. This option configures the replication servers with private IP addresses only, without assigning any public IP addresses or Elastic IP addresses. This way, the replication servers can only communicate with other resources within the VPC or through VPN connections.

Option A is incorrect because creating a VPC that has at least two private subnets, two NAT gateways, and a virtual private gateway is not necessary or cost-effective. A private subnet is a subnet that does not have a route to an internet gateway3. A NAT gateway is a highly available, managed Network Address Translation (NAT) service that enables instances in a private subnet to connect to the internet or other AWS services, but prevents the internet from initiating connections with those instances. Users do not need to createprivate subnets or NAT gateways for this use case, as they can use public subnets with private IP addresses for data replication.

Option C is incorrect because creating an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection between the on-premises network and the target AWS network will not ensure that replication traffic does not travel through the public internet. A Site-to-Site VPN connection consists of two VPN tunnels between an on-premises customer gateway device and a virtual private gateway in your VPC4. The VPN tunnels are encrypted using IPSec protocols, but they still use public IP addresses for communication. Users need to use AWS Direct Connect instead of Site-to-Site VPN for this use case.

Option F is incorrect because selecting the option to ensure that the Recovery instance’s private IP address matches the source server’s private IP address during configuration of the launch settings for the target servers will not ensure that the application is not accessible from the internet. This option configures the Recovery instance with an identical private IP address as its source server when launched in drills or recovery mode. However, this option does not prevent assigning public IP addresses or Elastic IP addresses to the Recovery instance. Users need to select the option to use private IP addresses for data replication instead.

Question # 5

A company manufactures smart vehicles. The company uses a custom application to collect vehicle data. The vehicles use the MQTT protocol to connect to the application.

The company processes the data in 5-minute intervals. The company then copies vehicle telematics data to on-premises storage. Custom applications analyze this data to detect anomalies.

The number of vehicles that send data grows constantly. Newer vehicles generate high volumes of data. The on-premises storage solution is not able to scale for peak traffic, which results in data loss. The company must modernize the solution and migrate the solution to AWS to resolve the scaling challenges.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Use AWS IOT Greengrass to send the vehicle data to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). Create an Apache Kafka application to store the data in Amazon S3. Use a pretrained model in Amazon SageMaker to detect anomalies.

Use AWS IOT Core to receive the vehicle data. Configure rules to route data to an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream that stores the data in Amazon S3. Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics application that reads from the delivery stream to detect anomalies.

Use AWS IOT FleetWise to collect the vehicle data. Send the data to an Amazon Kinesis data stream. Use an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to store the data in Amazon S3. Use the built-in machine learning transforms in AWS Glue to detect anomalies.

Use Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ to collect the vehicle data. Send the data to an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to store the data in Amazon S3. Use Amazon Lookout for Metrics to detect anomalies.

Question # 6

A company has an application that stores user-uploaded videos in an Amazon S3 bucket that uses S3 Standard storage. Users access the videos frequently in the first 180 days after the videos are uploaded. Access after 180 days is rare. Named users and anonymous users access the videos. Most of the videos are more than 100 MB in size. Users often have poor internet connectivity when they upload videos, resulting in failed uploads. The company uses multipart uploads for the videos. A solutions architect needs to optimize the S3 costs of the application. Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Configure the S3 bucket to be a Requester Pays bucket.

Use S3 Transfer Acceleration to upload the videos to the S3 bucket.

Create an S3 Lifecycle configuration to expire incomplete multipart uploads 7 days after initiation.

Create an S3 Lifecycle configuration to transition objects to S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval after 1 day.

Create an S3 Lifecycle configuration to transition objects to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) after 180 days.

Question # 7

A company is running an application in the AWS Cloud. The company ' s security team must approve the creation of all new IAM users. When a new IAM user is created, all access for the user must be removed automatically. The security team must then receive a notification to approve the user. The company has a multi-Region AWS CloudTrail trail In the AWS account.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)

Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule. Define a pattern with the detail-type value set to AWS API Call via CloudTrail and an eventName of CreateUser.

Configure CloudTrail to send a notification for the CreateUser event to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic.

Invoke a container that runs in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with AWS Fargate technology to remove access

Invoke an AWS Step Functions state machine to remove access.

Use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to notify the security team.

Use Amazon Pinpoint to notify the security team.

Question # 8

A company is running a data-intensive application on AWS. The application runs on a cluster of hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances. A shared file system also runs on several EC2 instances that store 200 TB of data. The application reads and modifies the data on the shared file system and generates a report. The job runs once monthly, reads a subset of the files from the shared file system, and takes about 72 hours to complete. The compute instances scale in an Auto Scaling group, but the instances that host the shared file system run continuously. The compute and storage instances are all in the same AWS Region.

A solutions architect needs to reduce costs by replacing the shared file system instances. The file system must provide high performance access to the needed data for the duration of the 72-hour run.

Which solution will provide the LARGEST overall cost reduction while meeting these requirements?

Migrate the data from the existing shared file system to an Amazon S3 bucket that uses the S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class. Before the job runs each month, use Amazon FSx for Lustre to create a new file system with the data from Amazon S3 by using lazy loading. Use the new file system as the shared storage for the duration of the job. Delete the file system when the job is complete.

Migrate the data from the existing shared file system to a large Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume with Multi-Attach enabled. Attach the EBS volume to each of the instances by using a user data script in the Auto Scaling group launch template. Use the EBS volume as the shared storage for the duration of the job. Detach the EBS volume when the job is complete.

Migrate the data from the existing shared file system to an Amazon S3 bucket that uses the S3 Standard storage class. Before the job runs each month, use Amazon FSx for Lustre to create a new file system with the data from Amazon S3 by using batch loading. Use the new file system as the shared storage for the duration of the job. Delete the file system when the job is complete.

Migrate the data from the existing shared file system to an Amazon S3 bucket. Before the job runs each month, use AWS Storage Gateway to create a file gateway with the data from Amazon S3. Use the file gateway as the shared storage for the job. Delete the file gateway when the job is complete.

Question # 9

A company owns a chain of travel agencies and is running an application in the AWS Cloud. Company employees use the application to search for information about travel destinations. Destination content is updated four times each year.

Two fixed Amazon EC2 instances serve the application. The company uses an Amazon Route 53 public hosted zone with a multivalue record of travel.example.com that returns the Elastic IP addresses for the EC2 instances. The application uses Amazon DynamoDB as its primary data store. The company uses a self-hosted Redis instance as a caching solution.

During content updates, the load on the EC2 instances and the caching solution increases drastically. This increased load has led to downtime on several occasions. A solutions architect must update the application so that the application is highly available and can handle the load that is generated by the content updates.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Set up DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) as in-memory cache. Update the application to use DAX. Create an Auto Scaling group for the EC2 instances. Create an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Set the Auto Scaling group as a target for the ALB. Update the Route 53 record to use a simple routing policy that targets the ALB ' s DNS alias. Configure scheduled scaling for the EC2 instances before the content updates.

Set up Amazon ElastiCache for Redis. Update the application to use ElastiCache. Create an Auto Scaling group for the EC2 instances. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution, and set the Auto Scaling group as an origin for the distribution. Update the Route 53 record to use a simple routing policy that targets the CloudFront distribution ' s DNS alias. Manually scale up EC2 instances before the content updates.

Set up Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached. Update the application to use ElastiCache Create an Auto Scaling group for the EC2 instances. Create an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Set the Auto Scaling group as a target for the ALB. Update the Route 53 record to use a simple routing policy that targets the ALB ' s DNS alias. Configure scheduled scaling for the application before the content updates.

Set up DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) as in-memory cache. Update the application to use DAX. Create an Auto Scaling group for the EC2 instances. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution, and set the Auto Scaling group as an origin for the distribution. Update the Route 53 record to use a simple routing policy that targets the CloudFront distribution ' s DNS alias. Manually scale up EC2 instances before the content updates.

Question # 10

Question:

A company hosts an ecommerce site using EC2, ALB, and DynamoDB in one AWS Region. The site uses a custom domain in Route 53. The company wants toreplicate the stack to a second Regionfordisaster recoveryandfaster accessfor global customers.

What should the architect do?

Use CloudFormation to deploy to the second Region. Use Route 53 latency-based routing. Enable global tables in DynamoDB.

Use the console to recreate the infra manually in the second Region. Use weighted routing.

Replicate only the S3 and DynamoDB data. Use Route 53 failover routing.

Use Beanstalk and DynamoDB Streams for replication. Use latency-based routing.

Question # 11

A company is planning to migrate to the AWS Cloud. The company hosts many applications on Windows servers and Linux servers. Some of the servers are physical, and some of the servers are virtual. The company uses several types of databases in its on-premises environment. The company does not have an accurate inventory of its on-premises servers and applications.

The company wants to rightsize its resources during migration. A solutions architect needs to obtain information about the network connections and the application relationships. The solutions architect must assess the company ' s current environment and develop a migration plan.

Which solution will provide the solutions architect with the required information to develop the migration plan?

Use Migration Evaluator to request an evaluation of the environment from AWS. Use the AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector to import the details into a Migration Evaluator Quick Insights report.

Use AWS Migration Hub and install the AWS Application Discovery Agent on the servers. Deploy the Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations application data collector. Generate a report by using Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations.

Use AWS Migration Hub and run the AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector on the servers. Group the servers and databases by using AWS Application Migration Service. Generate a report by using Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations.

Use the AWS Migration Hub import tool to load the details of the company ' s on-premises environment. Generate a report by using Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations.

Question # 12

A company is storing sensitive data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company must log all activities for objects in the S3 bucket and must keep the logs for 5 years. The company ' s security team also must receive an email notification every time there is an attempt to delete data in the S3 bucket.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select THREE.)

Configure AWS CloudTrail to log S3 data events.

Configure S3 server access logging for the S3 bucket.

Configure Amazon S3 to send object deletion events to Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES).

Configure Amazon S3 to send object deletion events to an Amazon EventBridge event bus that publishes to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic.

Configure Amazon S3 to send the logs to Amazon Timestream with data storage tiering.

Configure a new S3 bucket to store the logs with an S3 Lifecycle policy.

Question # 13

A company ' s solutions architect is reviewing a web application that runs on AWS. The application references static assets in an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region. The company needs resiliency across multiple AWS Regions. The company already has created an S3 bucket in a second Region.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Configure the application to write each object to both S3 buckets. Set up an Amazon Route 53 public hosted zone with a record set by using a weighted routing policy for each S3 bucket. Configure the application to reference the objects by using the Route 53 DNS name.

Create an AWS Lambda function to copy objects from the S3 bucket in us-east-1 to the S3 bucket in the second Region. Invoke the Lambda function each time an object is written to the S3 bucket in us-east-1. Set up an Amazon CloudFront distribution with an origin group that contains the two S3 buckets as origins.

Configure replication on the S3 bucket in us-east-1 to replicate objects to the S3 bucket in the second Region Set up an Amazon CloudFront distribution with an origin group that contains the two S3 buckets as origins.

Configure replication on the S3 bucket in us-east-1 to replicate objects to the S3 bucket in the second Region. If failover is required, update the application code to load S3 objects from the S3 bucket in the second Region.

Question # 14

A company hosts a payment processing platform across multiple AWS Regions. The processing platform exposes payment processing API endpoints. The company uses Amazon Route 53 to route traffic to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in each Region to distribute requests to backend payment gateways. The company has implemented Auto Scaling for the payment gateways.

The company needs to improve reliability and availability by handling application failures quickly.

Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST response time for global users?

Configure Route 53 to use a geolocation routing policy to resolve DNS to an Amazon CloudFront distribution. Configure the distribution with an origin group that includes the ALBs from each Region as origins.

Create an accelerator in AWS Global Accelerator. Create an endpoint group and add each ALB as an endpoint in the group. Update the Route 53 alias records to point to the accelerator.

Configure Route 53 to use a latency-based routing policy and health checks for each Regional endpoint.

Set up cross-Region connectivity by using AWS Cloud WAN to connect VPCs across Regions. Use network policies to route traffic from each Region to the Region that is closest to the origin Region.

Answer:

Explanation:

Answer B (AWS Global Accelerator) best meets both requirements: fastest failover from application failures and the lowest response time for global users. Global Accelerator is designed for global, latency-sensitive, highly available applications. It uses static Anycast IP addresses so users enter the AWS network at the nearest edge location, then traffic is carried over the AWS global backbone to the closest healthy regional endpoint (in this case, each Region’s ALB). It continuously performs health checks and can rapidly shift traffic away from unhealthy endpoints, which helps “handle application failures quickly” without being constrained by DNS caching behavior.

Why the other options are less suitable:

C (Route 53 latency-based routing + health checks) can improve routing and failover, but it is still DNS-based. DNS-based failover can be delayed by DNS resolver caching and TTL propagation, meaning failover may not be as fast or as consistent as Global Accelerator for rapid recovery.

A (CloudFront with origin group) can provide origin failover and performance benefits mainly for cacheable or edge-optimizable content. For a payment processing API (typically dynamic and not cache-friendly), CloudFront is not the primary service for achieving the least response time globally with fast multi-Region failover compared with Global Accelerator’s Anycast + edge routing model.

D (AWS Cloud WAN) addresses private network connectivity and centralized network policy across Regions/VPCs. It does not directly optimize public user-to-application latency or provide the same kind of edge-based, Anycast-driven rapid failover for internet-facing API endpoints.

[References:, AWS Global Accelerator Documentation (concepts: static Anycast IPs, endpoint groups, health checks, traffic routing and failover), Amazon Route 53 Documentation (concepts: latency-based routing, health checks, DNS caching/TTL effects on failover), AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) Exam Guide (domains covering global networking service selection, multi-Region availability, and resilience design), , , , , ]

Question # 15

A company is migrating its development and production workloads to a new organization in AWS Organizations. The company has created a separate member account for development and a separate member account for production. Consolidated billing is linked to the management account. In the management account, a solutions architect needs to create an 1AM user that can stop or terminate resources in both member accounts.

Which solution will meet this requirement?

Create an IAM user and a cross-account role in the management account. Configure the cross-account role with least privilege access to the member accounts.

Create an IAM user in each member account. In the management account, create a cross-account role that has least privilege access. Grant the IAM users access to the cross-account role by using a trust policy.

Create an IAM user in the management account. In the member accounts, create an IAM group that has least privilege access. Add the IAM user from the management account to each IAM group in the member accounts.

Create an IAM user in the management account. In the member accounts, create cross-account roles that have least privilege access. Grant the IAM user access to the roles by using a trust policy.