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 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 2
A Solutions Architect is designing a public-facing web application for employees to upload images to
their social media account. The application consists of multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an
elastic load balancer, an Amazon S3 bucket where uploaded images are stored, and an Amazon
DynamoDB table for storing image metadata.

Which AWS service can the Architect use to automate the process of updating metadata in the
DynamoDB table upon image upload?

 Amazon CloudWatch
 AWS CloudFormation
 AWS Lambda
 Amazon SQS

Question 3
A company is looking for a fully-managed solution to store its players’ state information for a rapidly
growing game. The application runs on multiple Amazon EC2 nodes, which can scale according to the
incoming traffic. The request can be routed to any of the nodes, therefore, the state information
must be stored in a centralized database. The players’ state information needs to be read with strong
consistency and needs conditional updates for any changes.

Which service would be MOST cost-effective, and scale seamlessly?

 Amazon S3
 Amazon DynamoDB
 Amazon RDS
 Amazon Redshift

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Question 4
A company has an Amazon RDS-managed online transaction processing system that has very heavy
read and write. The Solutions Architect notices throughput issues with the system.

How can the responsiveness of the primary database be improved?

 Use asynchronous replication for standby to maximize throughput during peak

demand.
 Offload SELECT queries that can tolerate stale data to READ replica.
 Offload SELECT and UPDATE queries to READ replica.
 Offload SELECT query that needs the most current data to READ replica.
Explanation:

Reference https://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/

Question 5
A company’s policy requires that all data stored in Amazon S3 is encrypted. The company wants to
use the option with the least overhead and does not want to manage any encryption keys.

Which of the following options will meet the company’s requirements?

 ASW CloudHSM
 AWS Trusted Advisor
 Server Side Encryption (SSE-S3)
 Server Side Encryption (SSE-KMS)
Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/bucket-encryption.html

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