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AWS Solutions Architect Exam Prep

This document contains a reference exam for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate 2018 certification. It includes 5 multiple choice questions related to services like Amazon S3, Kinesis, SQS, Redshift, EC2, EFS, and more. The questions cover topics like cross-region replication, highly available database design, shared file systems, resilient data warehousing, and rebuilding clusters in other regions.
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AWS Solutions Architect Exam Prep

This document contains a reference exam for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate 2018 certification. It includes 5 multiple choice questions related to services like Amazon S3, Kinesis, SQS, Redshift, EC2, EFS, and more. The questions cover topics like cross-region replication, highly available database design, shared file systems, resilient data warehousing, and rebuilding clusters in other regions.
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  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate 2018 Introduction: This page serves as the cover and introduction to the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate 2018 exam reference guide.
  • Exam A (5 questions): Provides the first set of exam questions, focusing on various AWS services and architecture scenarios for practice.

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Exam A (5 questions)
Question 1
A company needs to quickly ensure that all files created in an Amazon S3 bucket in us-east-1 are also
available in another bucket in ap-southeast-2.

Which option represents the SIMPLIEST way to implement this design?

 Add an S3 lifecycle rule to move any files from the bucket in us-east-1 to the bucket
in ap-southeast-2.
 Create a Lambda function to be triggered for every new file in us-east-1 that copies
the file to the bucket in ap-southeast-2.
 Use SNS to notify the bucket in ap-southeast-2 to create a file whenever the file is
created in the bucket in us-east-1.
 Enable versioning and configure cross-region replication from the bucket in us-east-1
to the bucket in ap-southeast-2.

Question 2
A company must collect temperature data from thousands of remote weather devices. The company
must also store this data in a data warehouse to run aggregations and visualizations.

Which services will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

 Amazon Kinesis Data Firehouse


 Amazon SQS
 Amazon Redshift
 Amazon SNS
 Amazon DynamoDB

Question 3
A Solutions Architect is deploying a new production MySQL database on AWS. It is critical that the
database is highly available.

What should the Architect do to achieve this goal with Amazon RDS?

 Create a read replica of the primary database and deploy it in a different AWS
Region.
 Enable multi-AZ to create a standby database in a different Availability Zone.
 Enable multi-AZ to create a standby database in a different AWS Region.
 Create a read replica of the primary database and deploy it in a different Availability
Zone.

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Question 4
An application runs on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Each running instance of the application must
have access to a shared file system.

Where should the data be stored?

 Amazon S3
 Amazon DynamoDB
 Amazon EFS
 Amazon EBS
Explanation:

Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/features/

Question 5
A Solutions Architect needs to build a resilient data warehouse using Amazon Redshift. The Architect
needs to rebuild the Redshift cluster in another region.

Which approach can the Architect take to address this requirement?

 Modify the Redshift cluster and configure cross-region snapshots to the other region.
 Modify the Redshift cluster to take snapshots of the Amazon EBS volumes each day,
sharing those snapshots with the other region.
 Modify the Redshift cluster and configure the backup and specify the Amazon S3
bucket in the other region.
 Modify the Redshift cluster to use AWS Snowball in export mode with data delivered
to the other region.

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A company needs to quickly ensure that all files created in an Ama
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An application runs on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Each running instance of the appl

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