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Which AWS service can be used to implement serverless applications?
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AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
Amazon RDS
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What is the primary benefit of using Amazon S3 for storage?
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Scalability
Limited access control
High latency
Fixed pricing
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Which AWS service can be used to implement serverless applications?
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What is the primary benefit of using Amazon S3 for storage?
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Which AWS service provides a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse?
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Which AWS service allows you to automate infrastructure provisioning through code?
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Which AWS service provides a managed NoSQL database solution?
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What is the primary purpose of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?
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Which service can be used to improve the performance of your web applications by distributing traffic?
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Which AWS service can be used to create a scalable and cost-effective caching layer for your applications?
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Which AWS service can be used for monitoring and logging AWS resources and applications?
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Which AWS service provides a central hub for managing multiple AWS accounts?
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Which AWS service is primarily used for managing and scaling virtual servers in the cloud?
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What is the primary function of an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in AWS?
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What feature does Auto Scaling provide in AWS?
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Which AWS service is best suited for handling network traffic at the transport layer (Layer 4)?
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What is the purpose of Elastic Block Store (EBS) in relation to EC2 instances?
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Which component of AWS enables users to create multiple instances and easily scale based on traffic patterns?
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What is a key benefit of using an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) in AWS?
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Which AWS service helps to automatically scale your EC2 instances based on defined metrics and policies?
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What type of Elastic Load Balancer should be used for HTTP and HTTPS traffic with advanced application routing features?
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What is the primary use case for Network Load Balancer (NLB) in AWS?
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Which AWS service is designed for block storage and is often used for EC2 instances?
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Which AWS service provides a scalable database solution that is designed for key-value and document data models?
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Which AWS storage service is best suited for unstructured data and allows for scalable storage of vast amounts of data?
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Which AWS service is optimized for file storage and provides shared access across multiple Amazon EC2 instances?
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Which AWS service is specifically designed for relational database management?
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Which AWS service is best suited for applications that require rapid access to large amounts of structured data?
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Which AWS storage option provides high-performance block storage specifically designed for low-latency applications?
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Which AWS service is designed for object storage and provides features like data archiving and versioning?
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Which AWS service allows you to connect multiple AWS resources to a network-based file system?
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Which AWS service is best suited for managed relational database services and includes features like automated backups and scaling?
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What is the primary purpose of Amazon S3?
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Which service is primarily used for deploying and managing applications in a serverless environment on AWS?
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What is the purpose of Amazon RDS?
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Which AWS service is used for monitoring and logging AWS resources and applications?
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What does Amazon EC2 stand for?
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Which AWS service is designed for secure communication and data transfer between instances in a virtual cloud environment?
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What is the function of AWS IAM?
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What is Amazon Route 53 used for?
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Which AWS service provides fully managed Kubernetes for running containerized applications?
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What is the primary use of Amazon CloudFront?
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Which AWS service is primarily used for building data lakes?
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What is the purpose of AWS CloudFormation?
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What does AWS Auto Scaling do?
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Which AWS service provides a fully managed NoSQL database?
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Which service would you use to implement a serverless architecture in AWS?
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What is the primary use of AWS IAM?
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Which AWS service is designed for scalable object storage?
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What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk primarily used for?
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Which AWS service is used for data warehousing?
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What is the function of Amazon CloudFront?
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What is the most effective solution for enforcing a policy that prevents S3 buckets from being public, prohibits the creation of IAM users, and restricts the use of AWS regions in a multi-account AWS environment?
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Which architecture is best suited for ensuring an authentication service can handle failures in one Availability Zone while maintaining low latency and secure private connectivity?
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What is the best approach for a media company looking to improve query performance and minimize costs for petabyte-scale data processing without duplicating data?
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Which disaster recovery strategy is most suited for a mission-critical application that requires a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 5 minutes and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) close to zero?
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What is the best method for providing scalable and auditable read-only access to CloudTrail logs stored in S3 buckets across multiple AWS accounts, without using long-term credentials?
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What design best supports an order-processing application that must handle unpredictable spikes while ensuring order processing is guaranteed, operates with loose coupling, and includes automatic scaling?
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What architecture is best for centralized outbound internet traffic inspection while providing VPC isolation for different business units and maintaining minimal operational complexity?
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Which AWS service provides a fully managed solution for running containerized applications, enabling automatic scaling, load balancing, and service discovery?
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Which AWS service enables you to create a secure private connection between your on-premises data center and your AWS VPC without requiring traffic to traverse the public internet?
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What is the best way to ensure that sensitive data in S3 buckets is encrypted both at rest and in transit, complying with regulatory requirements?
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What is the BEST solution for global traffic acceleration and automatic failover readiness without deploying the application to multiple regions?
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What design BEST satisfies the security constraints for a large number of developers deploying infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation?
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What is the MOST appropriate solution for storing regulated data in Amazon S3 with specific encryption and compliance requirements?
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Which solution BEST meets the requirements for service-to-service communication with mutual TLS, traffic control, and observability across multiple Amazon EKS clusters and VPCs?
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What design BEST improves performance and resilience for a production MySQL workload running on Amazon RDS with high read traffic and automatic failover requirements?
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What architecture BEST meets the goals of collecting and centralizing logs from VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail, and application logs across 150 AWS accounts while ensuring immutability and query capability?
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What is the BEST solution for user-based authentication, application-level access, and no inbound ports open while accommodating both on-prem and AWS workloads?
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What is the BEST design for a serverless workflow that requires automatic retries, logging for audit purposes, and alerting after repeated failures?
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What is the BEST solution for enabling a SaaS application to efficiently handle global traffic and reduce latency without making architectural changes?
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What is the BEST approach to ensure that an AWS Lambda function processes messages from an Amazon SQS queue with at-least-once delivery guarantees?
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A global media company needs to store and distribute high-definition video files. The solution must provide low-latency access to users worldwide, minimize origin server load, and ensure that only authenticated users can access the content. Which architecture best meets these requirements?
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A financial services application requires a database that can handle highly unpredictable traffic spikes, scaling from 5 to 50,000 requests per second within minutes. The data must be stored across three Availability Zones for high availability, and the company only wants to pay for capacity used. Which database solution is most cost-effective?
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A company is hosting a legacy application on AWS that requires static IP addresses to be whitelisted by its partners. The application is deployed behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) across two Public Subnets. How can the architect provide a single, fixed entry point for these partners?
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A manufacturing firm needs to process sensor data from thousands of IoT devices in real-time. The data must be analyzed as it arrives, and the processed results must be stored in a NoSQL database for further reporting. The architecture must be resilient to sudden increases in data volume. Which services should be used?
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An enterprise wants to establish a dedicated, private connection between its on-premises data center and its VPC to reduce network costs and increase bandwidth consistency. They also need a backup connection in case the primary link fails. What is the most reliable and cost-effective backup strategy?
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A dynamic web application stores user-uploaded images on an S3 bucket. These images are rarely accessed after 30 days but must be available immediately if requested. Business requirements state that data must be protected against the accidental deletion of objects. Which combination of features meets these requirements?
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A security audit reveals that several developers are sharing a single IAM user account to manage resources. The architect must implement a change that follows AWS best practices for identity management while minimizing administrative overhead. What is the recommended action?
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An application consists of a fleet of EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group (ASG). Users are reporting that during peak hours, the application is slow to respond, and CloudWatch shows high CPU utilization. However, the ASG is not adding new instances. What is the likely architectural issue?
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An e-commerce site needs to ensure that its database survives a total AWS region failure with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 30 minutes and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of low data loss. Which database configuration should be used?
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A company wants to build a web application using a microservices architecture. Each microservice must scale independently, communicate reliably via asynchronous messaging, and have no server management overhead. Which combination of services fits this design?
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A data analytics company needs to process a massive 100 TB dataset currently stored in an on-premises Hadoop cluster. The processing job is a one-time batch task that will take approximately 48 hours to complete using 50 high-compute nodes. The company has a limited 50 Mbps internet connection. Which approach is the most efficient and cost-effective to transfer the data and run the job on AWS?
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A multinational corporation has a compliance requirement to store financial records for 10 years. These records must be immutable for the entire duration to prevent any user, including the root user, from deleting or modifying them. The records are accessed less than once a year but must be retrievable within 12 hours. Which storage strategy is most appropriate and cost-effective?
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A photo-sharing application stores high-resolution images in an Amazon S3 bucket. To reduce costs, the company wants to generate lower-resolution thumbnails only when a user requests them for the first time. Once generated, the thumbnails should be stored for future requests. The solution must be highly scalable and require minimal server management. Which architecture should the solution architect recommend?
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A global gaming company is launching a new mobile application that requires a database with sub-millisecond latency for real-time leaderboards. The application expects millions of concurrent users during peak hours. The solution must be fully managed, support high-scale read/write operations, and provide automatic global replication. Which architecture should the Solutions Architect recommend?
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A high-traffic e-commerce company is migrating its monolithic application to a microservices architecture on AWS. Each microservice must be isolated in its own private subnet, but services need to communicate with each other securely and with low latency. The architecture must scale automatically as traffic grows and minimize the complexity of managing multiple network peering connections or VPNs. Which solution should the architect implement?
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A media streaming company needs to process log files from their application running on Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Auto Scaling groups. The logs must be aggregated in real-time, analyzed for security threats, and then stored permanently for 7 years to meet compliance regulations. The analysis phase needs to be able to handle sudden spikes in log volume without losing data. Which architecture provides the most resilient and scalable solution?
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A global enterprise is migrating a mission-critical ERP system to AWS that requires a shared file system. The storage must support thousands of Amazon EC2 Linux instances simultaneously, provide sub-millisecond latencies for small file operations, and automatically scale to petabytes of data. The company also requires that the data be replicated across multiple Availability Zones for maximum durability. Which storage solution should the architect select?
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A financial services firm is migrating a high-performance trading application to AWS. The application requires consistent networking performance between EC2 instances with the lowest possible latency and jitter. The workload is distributed across several instances that need to communicate at speeds up to 100 Gbps within a single Availability Zone. Which networking configuration should the Solutions Architect recommend?