1. A solutions architect is designing storage for a high performance computing (HPC) environment based on Amazon Linux. The workload stores and processes a large amount of engineering drawings that require shared storage and heavy computing.Which storage option would be the optimal solution?

A) Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
B) Amazon FSx for Lustre
C) Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1)
D) Amazon EC2 instance store



2. A company hosts a static website on-premises and wants to migrate the website to AWS. The website should load as quickly as possible for users around the world. The company also wants the most cost-effective solution.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?

A) Copy the website content to an Amazon S3 bucket. Configure the bucket to serve static webpage content. Replicate the S3 bucket to multiple AWS Regions.
B) Copy the website content to an Amazon S3 bucket. Configure the bucket to serve static webpage content. Configure Amazon CloudFront with the S3 bucket as the origin.
C) Copy the website content to an Amazon EBS-backed Amazon EC2 instance running Apache HTTP Server. Configure Amazon Route 53 geolocation routing policies to select the closest origin.
D) Copy the website content to multiple Amazon EBS-backed Amazon EC2 instances running Apache HTTP Server in multiple AWS Regions. Configure Amazon CloudFront geolocation routing policies to select the closest origin.



3. A company captures clickstream data from multiple websites and analyzes it using batch processing. The data is loaded nightly into Amazon Redshift and is consumed by business analysts. The company wants to move towards near-real-time data processing for timely insights. The solution should process the streaming data with minimal effort and operational overhead.Which combination of AWS services are MOST cost-effective for this solution? (Choose two.)(Select 2answers)

A) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
B) AWS Lambda
C) Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
D) Amazon EC2
E) Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose


4. A company's legacy application is currently relying on a single-instance Amazon RDS MySQL database without encryption. Due to new compliance requirements, all existing and new data in this database must be encrypted.How should this be accomplished?

A) Create an RDS read replica with encryption at rest enabled. Promote the read replica to master and switch the over to the new master. Delete the old RDS instance.
B) Enable RDS Multi-AZ mode with encryption at rest enabled. Perform a failover to the standby instance.
C) Create an Amazon S3 bucket with server-side encryption enabled. Move all the data to Amazon S3. Delete the RDS instance.
D) Take a Snapshot of the RDS instance. Create an encrypted copy of the snapshot. Restore the RDS instance from the encrypted snapshot.



5. A solutions architect is designing an application for a two-step order process. The first step is synchronous and must return to the user with little latency. The second step takes longer, so it will be implemented in a separate component. Orders must be processed exactly once and in the order in which they are received.How should the solutions architect integrate these components?

A) Create an SNS topic and subscribe an Amazon SQS Standard queue to that topic.
B) Create an SNS topic and subscribe an Amazon SQS FIFO queue to that topic.
C) Use Amazon SQS FIFO queues.
D) Use an AWS Lambda function along with Amazon SQS standard queues.