1. A recently acquired company is required to build its own infrastructure on AWS and migrate multiple applications to the cloud within a month. Each application has approximately 50 TB of data to be transferred. After the migration is complete, this company and its parent company will both require secure network connectivity with consistent throughput from their data centers to the applications. A solution architect must ensure one-time data migration and ongoing network connectivity.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A) AWS Direct Connect for both the initial transfer and ongoing connectivity.
B) AWS Site-to-Site VPN for both the initial transfer and ongoing connectivity.
C) AWS Snowball for the initial transfer and AWS Site-to-Site VPN for ongoing connectivity.
D) AWS Snowball for the initial transfer and AWS Direct Connect for ongoing connectivity.



2. An e-commerce application is hosted in AWS. The last time a new product was launched, the application experienced a performance issue due to an enormous spike in traffic. Management decided that capacity must be doubled the week after the product is launched.Which is the MOST efficient way for management to ensure that capacity requirements are met?

A) Add a Step Scaling policy.
B) Add Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.
C) Add a Scheduled Scaling action.
D) Add a Dynamic Scaling policy.



3. A solution architect has created a new AWS account and must secure AWS account root user access.Which combination of actions will accomplish this? (Choose two.)(Select 2answers)

A) Ensure the root user uses a strong password.
B) Add the root user to a group containing administrative permissions.
C) Enable multi-factor authentication to the root user.
D) Store root user access keys in an encrypted Amazon S3 bucket.
E) Apply the required permissions to the root user with an inline policy document.


4. A Solution Architect is designing a disaster recovery solution for a 5 TB Amazon Redshift cluster. The recovery site must be at least 500 miles (805 kilometers) from the live site.How should the Architect meet these requirements?

A) Enable cross-region snapshots to a different region.
B) Take a snapshot of the cluster and copy it to another Availability Zone.
C) Use AWS CloudFormation to deploy the cluster in a second region.
D) Modify the Redshift cluster to span two regions.



5. A company wants to migrate a high performance computing (HPC) application and data from on-premises to the AWS Cloud. The company uses tiered storage on premises with hot high-performance parallel storage to support the application during periodic runs of the application, and more economical cold storage to hold the data when the application is not actively running.Which combination of solutions should a solutions architect recommend to support the storage needs of the application? (Choose two.)(Select 2answers)

A) Amazon EFS for cold data storage
B) Amazon S3 for high-performance parallel storage
C) Amazon S3 for cold data storage
D) Amazon FSx for Windows for high-performance parallel storage
E) Amazon FSx for Lustre for high-performance parallel storage