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A cloud architect is reviewing the compute requirements for a media distribution platform. The platform has two distinct components:
1. A video rendering pipeline that requires deep customization of the underlying Linux kernel and direct access to physical GPU hardware resources.
2. A containerized metadata extraction service that runs on an event-driven basis in response to user uploads, with highly unpredictable traffic and a strict requirement to avoid managing host servers.
Which two of the following compute solutions should the architect select to meet these requirements?
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A global media network is migrating its digital publishing platform to AWS. The network needs to ensure that its primary publishing database is resilient against localized disasters, such as power grid failures or flooding, within its main operating market. Additionally, the network must deliver static image and video assets to a worldwide audience with minimal delay. Which of the following AWS Global Infrastructure design decisions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO).
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A municipal utility enterprise operates a smart grid analytics platform. The workload fluctuates dramatically and unpredictably based on seasonal weather patterns, leading to periods where on-premises servers run at 95% capacity, followed by weeks of near-zero utilization. To address this, the enterprise wants to migrate to a model where they only pay for resources when they are actively consumed, eliminating the need to pre-allocate hardware. Furthermore, they are mandated to quickly replicate their software environment to support municipal grids across South America and Europe with sub-second response times. Which of the following core benefits of the AWS Cloud directly support the resolution of these operational challenges? (Select TWO.)
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A media streaming company is redesigning its video processing and delivery platform to handle highly fluctuating demand. The platform experiences sudden spikes in traffic during popular video releases and very low traffic during off-peak hours. Which two architectural decisions align with the AWS Cloud design principles of elasticity and services not servers? (Select TWO.)
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A multi-department enterprise wants to secure its AWS environment by implementing the principle of least privilege and reducing security risks associated with credential management. The administrator must configure access for both developers (human users) and applications running on Amazon EC2 instances (machine identities). Which two methods represent AWS security best practices for managing these identities? (Select TWO.)
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A retail corporation is designing a hybrid cloud architecture and needs to secure its data at rest on AWS. The security compliance policy states that the keys used for encrypting financial transactions must be stored on dedicated, single-tenant cryptographic hardware controlled entirely by the customer. However, for standard application logs stored in Amazon S3, the company wants to use a fully managed service where AWS handles the physical hardware management, but the customer retains control over key policies and rotation.
Which two of the following actions should the company take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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A community theater company plans to migrate its ticketing platform to AWS. The platform receives extremely high volumes of traffic during the first hour of ticket releases for major shows, but experiences negligible traffic during the rest of the month. The theater needs to avoid paying for idle infrastructure and eliminate upfront server procurement costs.
Which two AWS cloud economics concepts or benefits should the theater leverage to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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NovaSprout Organics, a distributor of organic produce, is migrating its operations to the AWS Cloud. The IT department has finalized plans for two distinct workloads:
1. The company's core inventory tracking database will be moved to Amazon RDS to eliminate the administrative burden of backups and patching, while keeping the database engine and application code unchanged.
2. The legacy customer relationship management (CRM) system, which is complex and expensive to maintain on-premises, will be decommissioned in favor of a cloud-based CRM software-as-a-service (SaaS) application.
Which two migration strategies are being utilized by NovaSprout Organics? (Select TWO)
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A logistics company, RouteLogix, runs a fleet management application that processes vehicle telemetry. The application requires high compute capacity to run route optimization algorithms for 4 hours every morning. During the rest of the day, the system only requires minimal resources to receive and store GPS location pings. The company's management wants to understand the economic impact of migrating this workload from their on-premises data center to AWS. Which of the following describe the financial benefits of this migration? (Select TWO.)
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A logistics company manages separate AWS accounts for its shipping, tracking, and warehousing divisions. The finance department wants to simplify its payment process and lower overall costs.
Which of the following are benefits of combining these accounts under a single organization using AWS Organizations? (Select TWO.)
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A medical research company is designing a new cloud architecture on AWS to handle two distinct processing tasks:
1. A batch processing job that performs genome sequencing simulations. This job must run on a custom Linux distribution with a modified kernel and runs continuously for several days.
2. An image processing task that automatically runs whenever a patient uploads a medical scan to an Amazon S3 bucket. The execution time is less than a minute, and uploads occur sporadically throughout the day.
Which two AWS compute services should the company use to support these workloads? (Select two.)
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An enterprise retail organization is preparing to deploy an e-commerce platform on AWS. The design includes running application containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with AWS Fargate launch type across two AWS Regions, storing structured product catalogs in Amazon Aurora, and storing media assets in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Before deploying any services or writing code, the cloud financial operations team must estimate the monthly costs for this hypothetical infrastructure.
Which of the following actions should the team perform to model and estimate these projected costs? (Select TWO.)
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A fitness technology company is launching a new health-tracking application that collects workout data from smartwatches. To handle unpredictable traffic spikes during morning workouts and prevent data loss if a processing server fails, the development team wants to implement core AWS Cloud design principles. Which two of the following architectural strategies represent the correct application of these design principles? (Select TWO.)
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A retail company is migrating its customer database to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to reduce administrative overhead. Which two of the following tasks are the responsibility of the customer under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model?
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A company's backend application instances in Subnet A must query a PostgreSQL database running on an Amazon EC2 instance in Subnet B. To secure this traffic, a network administrator is configuring network access control lists (Network ACLs) for Subnet B and a security group for the database instance. Which two configuration steps are required to allow this database traffic while maintaining the principle of least privilege? (Select TWO.)
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A global online learning platform hosts virtual classrooms on Amazon EC2 instances and stores course materials in Amazon S3 buckets. The security team needs to implement a solution that continuously scans their EC2 instances for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure. Additionally, they must identify potential security threats across their AWS accounts, such as cryptocurrency mining or brute-force attacks, using machine learning and threat intelligence. Which combination of AWS services will address these requirements? (Select two.)
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A retail company is auditing its AWS account to align with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) security best practices. Currently, developers use shared credentials for daily administrative tasks, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) is not enabled on the account. Which of the following actions should the company perform to secure their environment? (Select TWO.)
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A media company is planning to migrate its application portfolio to the AWS Cloud and wants to minimize implementation time and effort. Which TWO migration strategies should the company use to migrate its workloads with either zero changes to the underlying code, or only minor optimizations to use managed services without changing the core application architecture? (Select TWO.)
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A startup is building a new mobile application backend on AWS. The startup wants to focus on writing code and minimizing infrastructure management while automatically handling fluctuating user demands. Which two of the following design decisions align with AWS cloud design principles to achieve this? (Select TWO.)
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An enterprise is establishing access policies for a newly deployed reporting service hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance and a database administrator who requires CLI access for database maintenance. Which of the following identity configurations represent AWS-recommended practices? (Select TWO.)
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