Reference Solution for
AWS Certified Solutions Architect -
Associate 2018.exam.35q
Architect-Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
2018
Score: 800/1000
Version:
Time Limit: 120 Minutes
1
Licensed to Trial User
Exam A (5 questions)
Question 1
An Internet-facing multi-tier web application must be highly available. An ELB Classic Load Balancer is
deployed in front of the web tier. Amazon EC2 instances at the web application tier are deployed
evenly across two Availability Zones. The database is deployed using RDS Multi-AZ. A NAT instance is
launched for Amazon EC2 instances and database resources to access the Internet. These instances
are not assigned with public IP addresses.
Which component poses a potential single point of failure in this architecture?
Amazon EC2
NAT instance
ELB Classic Load Balancer
Amazon RDS
Question 2
A news organization plans to migrate their 20 TB video archive to AWS. The files are rarely accessed,
but when they are, a request is made in advance and a 3 to 5-hour retrieval time frame is acceptable.
However, when there is a breaking news story, the editors require access to archived footage within
minutes.
Which storage solution meets the needs of this organization while providing the LOWEST cost of
storage?
Store the archive in Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.
Store the archive in Amazon Glacier and use standard retrieval for all content.
Store the archive in Amazon Glacier and pay the additional charge for expedited
retrieval when needed.
Store the archive in Amazon S3 with a lifecycle policy to move this to S3 Infrequent
Access after 30 days.
Question 3
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?
Add a Step Scaling policy.
Add a Dynamic Scaling policy.
Add a Scheduled Scaling action.
Add Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.
2 Licensed to Trial User
Question 4
A Solutions Architect is building a multi-tier website. The web servers will be in a public subnet, and
the database servers will be in a private subnet. Only the web servers can be accessed from the
Internet. The database servers must have Internet access for software updates.
Which solution meets the requirements?
Assign Elastic IP addresses to the database instances.
Allow Internet traffic on the private subnet through the network ACL.
Use a NAT Gateway.
Use an egress-only Internet Gateway.
Question 5
A Solutions Architect is designing a database solution that must support a high rate of random disk
reads and writes. It must provide consistent performance, and requires long-term persistence.
Which storage solution BEST meets these requirements?
An Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volume
An Amazon EBS General Purpose volume
An Amazon EBS Magnetic volume
An Amazon EC2 Instance Store
3 Licensed to Trial User
