Reference Solution for
AWS Certified Solutions Architect -
Associate 2018
Architect-Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate 2018
Score: 800/1000
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Time Limit: 120 Minutes
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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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