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

How long will this take to take effect?

You are a security architect working for a large antivirus company. The production environment has recently
been moved to AWS and is in a public subnet. You are able to view the production environment over HTTP
however when your customers try to update their virus definition files over a custom port, that port is blocked.
You log in to the console and you allow traffic in over the custom port. How long will this take to take effect?

What options below can prevent this?

You are a solutions architect working for a biotech company who is pioneering research in immunotherapy.
They have developed a new cancer treatment that may be able to cure up to 94% of cancers. They store their
research data on S3, however recently an intern accidentally deleted some critical files. You’ve been asked to
prevent this from happening in the future. What options below can prevent this?

After some research you discover that the problem is;

Your company has decided to set up a new AWS account for test and dev purposes. They already use AWS for
production, but would like a new account dedicated for test and dev so as to not accidentally break the
production environment. You launch an exact replica of your production environment using a CloudFormation
template that your company uses in production. However CloudFormation fails. You use the exact same
CloudFormation template in production, so the failure is something to do with your new AWS account. The
CloudFormation template is trying to launch 60 new EC2 instances in a single AZ. After some research you
discover that the problem is;

Which storage media should you use to keep costs as low…

You work for a major news network in Europe. They have just released a new app which allows users to report
on events as and when they happen using their mobile phone. Users are able to upload pictures from the app
and then other users will be able to view these pics. Your organization expects this app to grow very quickly,
essentially doubling it’s user base every month. The app uses S3 to store the media and you are expecting
sudden and large increases in traffic to S3 when a major news event takes place (as people will be uploading
content in huge numbers). You need to keep your storage costs to a minimum however and it does not matter if
some objects are lost. Which storage media should you use to keep costs as low as possible?

How would you do this, each answer has 2 answers, selec…

You have developed a new web application in us-west-2 that requires six Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(EC2) instances running at all times. You have three availability zones available in that region (us-west-2a, uswest-2b, and us-west-2c). You need 100 percent fault tolerance if any single Availability Zone in us-west-2
becomes unavailable. How would you do this, each answer has 2 answers, select the answer with BOTH
correct answers.


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