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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - Part 36

Mary Smith

Sun, 19 Apr 2026

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - Part 36

1. A media company is evaluating the possibility of moving its systems to the AWS Cloud. The company needs at least 10 TB of storage with the maximum possible I/O performance for video processing 300 TB of very durable storage for storing media content, and 900 TB of storage to meet requirements for archival media that is not in use anymore.Which set of services should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

A) Amazon EBS for maximum performance, Amazon S3 for durable data storage, and Amazon S3 Glacier for archival storage.
B) Amazon EC2 instance storage for maximum performance, Amazon S3 for durable storage, and Amazon S3 Glacier for archival storage.
C) Amazon EBS for maximum performance, Amazon EFS for durable data storage, and Amazon S3 Glacier for archival storage
D) Amazon EC2 instance store for maximum performance, Amazon EFS for durable data storage, and Amazon S3 for archival storage



2. A media company stores video content in an Amazon Elastic Block Store volume. A certain video file has become popular and a large number of users across the world are accessing this content. This has resulted in a cost increase. Which action will DECREASE cost without compromising user accessibility?

A) Split the video into multiple, smaller segments so users are routed to the requested video segments only
B) Store the video in an Amazon S3 bucket and create an Amazon CloudFront distribution
C) Change the EBS volume to Provisioned IOPS
D) Create an Amazon S3 bucket in each Region and upload the video so users are routed to the nearest S3 bucket



3. A company has a multi-tier application that runs six front-end web servers in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group in a single Available Zone behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). A solutions architect needs to modify the infrastructure to be highly available without modifying the application.Which architecture should the solutions architect choose that provides high availability?

A) Create an Auto Scaling group that uses three instances across each of two Regions.
B) Change the ALB in front of the Amazon EC2 instances in a round-robin configuration to balance traffic to the web tier.
C) Create an Auto Scaling template that can be used to quickly create more instances in another Regions
D) Modify the Auto Scaling group to use three instances across each of two Availability Zones.



4. A solutions architect needs to design a managed storage solution for a company's application that includes high-performance machine learning. This application runs on AWS Fargate, and the connected storage needs to have concurrent access to files and deliver high performance.Which storage option should the solutions architect recommend?

A) Create an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume for the appliacation and establish an IAM role that allows Fargate to communicate with Amazon EBS.
B) Create an Amazon FSx for Lustre file share and establish an IAM role that allows Fargate to communicate with FSx for Lustre.
C) Create an Amazon S3 bucket for the application and establish an IAM role for Fargate to communicate with Amazon S3
D) Create an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file share and establish an IAM role that allows Fargate to communicate with Amazon EFS.



5. A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application is deployed in private subnets in three Availability Zones of the us-east-1 Region. The instances must be able to connect to the internet to download files. The company wants a design that is highly available across the Region.Which solution should be implemented to ensure that there are no disruptions to internet connectivity?

A) Deploy a transit gateway in a private subnet of each Availability Zone
B) Deploy an internet gateway in a public subnet of each Availability Zone
C) Deploy a NAT instance in a private subnet of each Availability Zone
D) Deploy a NAT gateway in a public subnet of each Availability Zone



1. Right Answer: A
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2. Right Answer: B
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3. Right Answer: D
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4. Right Answer: B
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5. Right Answer: D
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