Cloud Technology and Services

A startup is deploying a critical database on AWS and is evaluating options for high availability and disaster recovery. The database must be resilient to localized physical events such as fires, earthquakes, or power grid failures in a metropolitan area, but the data must not leave the host country due to legal compliance. A developer suggests deploying a primary database instance in one AWS Region and a read replica in a different AWS Region within the same country, while another suggestion is to deploy the database across multiple Availability Zones within a single AWS Region. Which of the following statements correctly evaluates these proposals in the context of AWS Global Infrastructure design principles?

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?

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).

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.)

A company is building a batch processing solution for genetic sequencing data. The application requires direct access to GPU hardware, a customized Linux kernel with specific compliance patches, and runs jobs that can take up to 4 hours to complete. The workload is highly unpredictable, and the company wants to minimize costs by ensuring resources are only active during processing. Which AWS compute option best meets these requirements?

A system administrator needs to perform two tasks: first, they want to deploy and update a collection of AWS resources in a repeatable way using templates; second, they need to run interactive queries and administrative commands directly from their local terminal. Which two AWS tools should the administrator use to perform these tasks? (Select TWO.)

A financial startup is planning to deploy its multi-tier application infrastructure on AWS. The startup has the following requirements:
1. The infrastructure must be defined as declarative templates that are version-controlled and can be repeated across development, testing, and production environments with zero manual intervention.
2. The application's custom Python code must programmatically interact with Amazon S3 to upload reports and write transactions to an Amazon DynamoDB table.

Which two AWS deployment and management methods or tools should the startup use to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

A media company is building an online blogging platform on AWS. The platform requires a database tier to support two distinct use cases: first, it needs to store customer subscription details, billing history, and support complex SQL join queries for financial reports; second, it needs to store user session states, preferences, and unstructured comment metadata with single-digit millisecond latency. Which AWS database services should the company select to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

A financial institution needs to retain historical transaction logs to meet regulatory compliance requirements. These logs are rarely accessed but must be kept secure for seven years. The institution can tolerate a retrieval time of 12 hours for any requested log. Which AWS storage service is the most cost-effective choice for this storage requirement?

A company is migrating its application to AWS and requires a database solution that supports transactional SQL queries. Additionally, the company wants to minimize administrative overhead by ensuring that OS patching and database engine maintenance are handled by AWS. Which two of the following options represent correct services or architectural decisions for this setup? (Select TWO.)

A company is migrating a legacy retail web application to AWS. The application uses a traditional relational database that requires complex SQL transactional queries and table joins. The company wants a fully managed solution that reduces administrative tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups, while separating the database tier from the application tier to ensure high availability. Which database solution should the company choose?

An administrator needs to perform a one-time audit of the security group configurations for several Amazon EC2 instances. The administrator wants to visually review the inbound and outbound traffic rules through an interactive graphical interface in a web browser without writing scripts or using command-line commands. Which AWS tool or interface should the administrator use to meet these requirements?

An organization is designing a governance and monitoring strategy on AWS. They need to meet the following operational requirements:

1. Continuously evaluate and audit resource configurations against predefined security policies (such as verifying that all EBS volumes are encrypted).
2. Collect, track, and analyze performance metrics from their cloud resources, and configure automated alarms if utilization exceeds specific thresholds.

Which of the following AWS services should the organization select to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

A company is migrating a containerized application to AWS. The application runs on multiple Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) tasks hosted on AWS Fargate. These tasks must concurrently share access to a common directory containing data files that are frequently updated. The storage solution must scale automatically as files are added or deleted, and must support standard Linux file system permissions. Which AWS storage service should the company select to meet these requirements?

An enterprise wants to deploy a multi-tier web application on AWS with high availability. The database tier must replicate data synchronously to a standby instance in a separate, independent facility with its own power infrastructure, cooling, and network connectivity, located within the same geographic territory. Which of the following AWS Global Infrastructure components should the database instances be deployed across to achieve this configuration?

A company is planning to connect multiple Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) in their AWS environment. Which of the following statements correctly describe the features of AWS Transit Gateway and VPC Peering? (Select TWO.)

A global retail platform is expanding its customer support operations. The platform needs to implement two new features: a conversational chatbot to automatically answer frequently asked questions about order statuses, and a real-time text translation system to help support agents communicate with customers who speak different languages. Which two AWS services should the platform use to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

An online gaming company wants to design its architecture on AWS. The company has two key requirements:

1. It must deploy its database across multiple isolated locations within a single geographic area to ensure high availability and automatic failover.
2. It must replicate its critical data to a separate geographic location hundreds of miles away to comply with its disaster recovery policy.

Which of the following AWS Global Infrastructure components should the company use to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

A financial analytics firm is deploying $15$ virtual private clouds (VPCs) across multiple AWS accounts to isolate different customer datasets. The firm requires a simplified, central routing hub to enable communication between all VPCs. Furthermore, the security team needs to enforce traffic filtering at the boundary of each subnet to explicitly reject incoming requests from a list of known malicious IP ranges.

Which two AWS network services or configuration components should the firm implement to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

An enterprise has deployed $50$ Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) across multiple AWS accounts to segment different business units. The network administration team wants to interconnect all of these VPCs to allow full communication between them. They need a solution that acts as a centralized cloud router to simplify the routing configuration and avoid managing a complex web of individual point-to-point connections.

Which AWS service or feature should the enterprise use to meet these requirements?