Cloud Concepts

A university research department is transitioning its scientific simulation workloads to AWS. These workloads run for approximately $12$ hours at the end of each month, requiring $64$ high-performance compute nodes. The rest of the month, the department only requires a single low-power server to host their results archive. The IT director is evaluating the economic impact of this migration compared to their legacy on-premises hardware.

Which of the following describes the most cost-effective provisioning strategy that illustrates the economic benefit of cloud elasticity for this workload?

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.)

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.)

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.)

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)

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.)

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.)

A healthcare startup wants to rapidly test and deploy a new patient wellness application. In the cloud, the company can provision compute resources in minutes to run experiments and launch the app, compared to waiting weeks for physical hardware procurement in an on-premises data center. Which benefit of the AWS Cloud does this scenario represent?

A healthcare organization is migrating its digital health record system to AWS. The system must remain available even if a physical data center experiences a complete power outage. The architecture team deploys the application servers across three Availability Zones behind an Application Load Balancer, and configures a Multi-AZ deployment for their database. Which design principle of the AWS Cloud does this architectural strategy directly implement?

A retail company wants to implement a system on AWS that processes customer product reviews. The system must detect the sentiment of the reviews, translate non-English reviews to English, and save the results. The team wants to deploy this solution with the lowest possible operational overhead, avoiding tasks like operating system patching, capacity provisioning, and software installation. Which of the following designs best adheres to the AWS Cloud design principle of 'services not servers' to accomplish this goal?

A digital publishing company wants to migrate its legacy on-premises email marketing tool to a modern, cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution available in AWS Marketplace. Which migration strategy does this change represent?

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.)

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.)

An insurance firm is migrating its claims processing system to AWS. The system consists of a web portal, a document generation service, and a document archiving service. Currently, the web portal calls the document generation and archiving services synchronously. If the archiving service is temporarily unavailable, the entire claim submission fails. How should the firm redesign the application on AWS to resolve this issue?

A smart-home technology company is migrating its device telemetry processing system to the AWS Cloud. The workload experiences significant demand fluctuations, with peak traffic occurring in the morning and evening, and near-zero activity overnight. Which of the following describe the primary cloud economic benefits of this migration? (Select TWO.)

An online gaming portal manages player matchmaking and game lobby orchestration. The current architecture relies on a single monolithic server to run the matchmaking logic, store active session states, and send notification emails to players when a match is found. During peak tournament events, the system struggles to handle the load, resulting in delayed notifications and failed match setups. To align with AWS Cloud design principles, which of the following architectural changes should the portal implement? (Select TWO.)

A digital art auction platform hosts live virtual auctions once a week for exactly one hour. During this hour, user traffic increases five-fold, while the platform remains mostly idle for the rest of the week. Under their traditional on-premises model, the company had to purchase and configure high-end servers to handle this short weekly peak, which resulted in low resource utilization. By migrating to AWS, the company can automatically scale their resources up during the auction hour and scale down afterwards. Which AWS Cloud benefit is most directly demonstrated by this transition?

A genomics research institute processes large datasets for DNA sequencing. These analysis runs occur sporadically, lasting only a few days each month, but require high-performance computing resources. Additionally, the institute wants to eliminate the operational overhead of managing physical hardware, power, and cooling in their local server rooms.

Which two benefits of the AWS Cloud directly address this institute's requirements? (Select TWO.)

A multi-national retail corporation plans to migrate its inventory analysis system to AWS. The current on-premises system runs on a cluster of physical servers that cost $120,000 to purchase (depreciated over 3 years) plus$ 3,000 monthly for datacenter space and power. The database utilization spikes heavily during seasonal sales events (about 15 days a year) but is minimal otherwise. To maximize the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction and leverage cloud economics, which strategy should the financial team approve?

A logistics enterprise is migrating its legacy supply chain optimization tool to AWS. The application requires massive computing power for $3$ hours every Sunday night to calculate optimal delivery routes, but remains completely idle for the rest of the week. Under their traditional on-premises model, the company had to purchase and maintain high-end physical servers that sat underutilized for $98\%$ of the week. Which of the following describes the financial transformation and the specific AWS Cloud benefit this migration achieves?