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Exam AWS-SAA: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (udpate May 2nd, 2017)

How do you design SQS?

You run a website which hosts videos and you have two types of members, premium fee paying members and
free members. All videos uploaded by both your premium members and free members are processed by a fleet
of EC2 instances which will poll SQS as videos are uploaded. However you need to ensure that your premium
fee paying members videos have a higher priority than your free members. How do you design SQS?

What option would help you to achieve this?

You work for a toy company that has a busy online store. As you are approaching christmas you find that your
store is getting more and more traffic. You ensure that the web tier of your store is behind an Auto Scaling
group, however you notice that the web tier is frequently scaling, sometimes multiple times in an hour, only to
scale back after peak usage. You need to prevent this so that Auto Scaling does not scale as rapidly, just to
scale back again. What option would help you to achieve this?

how to reduced the completion time?

You work in the genomics industry and you process large amounts of genomic data using a nightly Elastic Map
Reduce (EMR) job. This job processes a single 3 Tb file which is stored on S3. The EMR job runs on 3 ondemand core nodes and four on-demand task nodes. The EMR job is now taking longer than anticipated and
you have been asked to advise how to reduced the completion time?


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