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[Domain 2] A company is building a new data lake on AWS. Data will be ingested from various sources, including relational databases, application logs, and third-party APIs. The requirements are: 1. Store raw data in its original format. 2. Transform and catalog data for consumption by analysts using SQL and BI tools. 3. Ensure data quality and schema enforcement for processed data. 4. Provide fine-grained access control to data based on user roles. The solution should be scalable and minimize operational overhead.
This is a standard, robust data lake architecture. S3 stores raw and processed data. AWS Glue crawlers and the Data Catalog handle schema discovery and metadata. Glue ETL jobs perform transformations. Amazon Athena provides SQL querying capabilities. AWS Lake Formation centralizes and simplifies fine-grained access control. This solution is serverless, scalable, and minimizes operational overhead.
[Domain 1] An enterprise has a hybrid cloud strategy, with many applications running on-premises and a growing footprint in AWS. They need a consistent way to resolve DNS queries for resources in both their on-premises data centers and their AWS VPCs. On-premises DNS servers manage internal corporate domains. AWS resources use Route 53 private hosted zones. The solution must enable bidirectional DNS resolution. What is the most effective way to achieve this?
Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints are designed for hybrid DNS resolution. Inbound endpoints allow on-premises queries to resolve AWS resources. Outbound endpoints allow AWS resources to resolve on-premises domains by forwarding queries to on-premises DNS servers. This setup provides a robust, AWS-native solution for bidirectional DNS resolution.
[Domain 3] An e-commerce platform runs its primary database on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. During peak shopping seasons, the database experiences high read contention, leading to increased query latency and user-facing errors. Write operations are manageable. The company wants to improve read performance and scalability with minimal changes to the application code. The solution must also be highly available.
RDS read replicas are the ideal solution for offloading read traffic from a primary database instance. This directly addresses the read contention issue. It requires minimal application changes (updating the connection string for read queries) and improves read scalability and availability, as replicas can be placed in different Availability Zones.
[Domain 2] A startup is developing a new serverless application that will process real-time streaming data from IoT devices. The data arrives in high volumes and varying velocity. The application needs to perform complex event processing, enrich the data with information from a DynamoDB table, and then store the processed results in Amazon S3 for batch analytics and in a separate Kinesis Data Stream for real-time dashboards. The solution must be highly scalable, resilient, and cost-effective. Which combination of AWS services is most appropriate for this workload?
This solution effectively addresses all requirements for a scalable, real-time stream processing application. Kinesis Data Streams handles ingestion. Kinesis Data Analytics provides powerful complex event processing (CEP) and can enrich data using Lambda functions as a reference source. It supports multiple outputs, efficiently sending data to Kinesis Data Firehose (for S3) and another Kinesis Data Stream (for dashboards).
[Domain 1] A global retail company has its main AWS infrastructure in `us-east-1` and a disaster recovery (DR) site in `eu-west-1`. They use AWS Direct Connect for hybrid connectivity at both sites. They need to design a cost-effective and resilient network architecture that allows VPCs in both regions to communicate with each other and with the on-premises data centers. The solution should avoid single points of failure. Which design should be chosen?
Using AWS Transit Gateway in each region and peering them together creates a highly scalable and resilient global network. Each Transit Gateway can connect to local VPCs and the local Direct Connect gateway. The inter-region peering allows for cross-region VPC communication. This design is more scalable and manageable than a complex mesh of VPC peering and avoids the higher cost and complexity of a full-mesh Direct Connect setup.
[Domain 1] A financial services company is migrating its on-premises applications to AWS. They have a strict requirement for network traffic inspection and filtering between VPCs, their on-premises network connected via AWS Direct Connect, and internet-facing applications. The solution must provide centralized control, high availability, and scalability for traffic inspection. They are considering AWS Network Firewall. How should they deploy Network Firewall to meet these requirements effectively?
A centralized inspection VPC architecture using AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Network Firewall is a common and recommended pattern. The Transit Gateway acts as a network hub, routing traffic from spoke VPCs through the inspection VPC where Network Firewall endpoints are deployed. This model offers centralized policy management, scalability, and high availability.
[Domain 2] A media company is launching a new global video-on-demand (VOD) platform. They expect millions of users worldwide and need to ensure low-latency video delivery, robust security against DDoS attacks and content piracy, and cost optimization. Videos will be stored in Amazon S3. Which architecture best meets these requirements?
This architecture is a standard for VOD. MediaConvert transcodes videos into adaptive bitrate formats. CloudFront provides low-latency global delivery by caching content at edge locations. AWS WAF protects against exploits at the edge, and CloudFront signed URLs/cookies secure content against piracy. It is scalable, secure, and cost-effective.
[Domain 1] A multinational corporation uses AWS Organizations with hundreds of member accounts spread across multiple organizational units (OUs). They need to enforce a strict security baseline that ensures specific AWS Config rules are enabled in all existing and new accounts. Additionally, they want to prevent member accounts from disabling these Config rules or modifying their configurations. The solution must be centrally managed and auditable. Which approach best meets these requirements?
AWS Control Tower is designed for setting up and governing a secure, multi-account AWS environment. Its guardrails feature allows for the centralized enforcement of policies, including specific AWS Config rules. Preventive guardrails can restrict actions, while detective guardrails detect noncompliance. Applying these at the OU level ensures all current and future accounts inherit the policies, providing centralized management, enforcement, and auditability.
[Domain 3] A company has a large monolithic application running on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application experiences performance degradation during peak loads, and scaling out more instances is becoming cost-prohibitive. CPU and memory utilization on the instances are high. The development team has identified several independent functionalities within the monolith that could be refactored. What is the most effective strategy to improve performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency for this application in the long term?
Refactoring a monolith into microservices is the most effective long-term strategy to address fundamental scaling and cost issues. A gradual approach (like the strangler fig pattern) reduces risk. Deploying new microservices on scalable platforms like AWS Fargate or Lambda allows each component to scale independently, improving overall application performance and cost-efficiency.
[Domain 4] A financial institution is modernizing its legacy mainframe application. The application has decades of business logic written in COBOL and relies on a VSAM dataset for storage. The goal is to move this functionality to AWS, improve agility, and reduce operational costs, while minimizing the risk associated with a complete rewrite. They want to preserve the existing COBOL code as much as possible. Which modernization approach and AWS service combination is most appropriate?
AWS Mainframe Modernization service is specifically designed for this use case. The replatforming option allows existing COBOL code to be moved to a managed AWS runtime with minimal changes, preserving valuable business logic. The service also includes tools to migrate mainframe data formats like VSAM to modern AWS databases. This approach directly meets the requirements of minimizing rewrite risk while gaining cloud benefits.
[Domain 4] A company is planning to migrate a large on-premises VMware estate (around 500 VMs) to AWS. They want to minimize the migration effort and downtime. The initial phase is a lift-and-shift (rehost) migration. After the VMs are in AWS, they plan to selectively modernize applications. Which AWS service or tool is most suitable for orchestrating and automating the rehost migration of these VMware VMs to Amazon EC2?
AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) is the purpose-built service for automating the migration of on-premises virtual machines (from VMware, Hyper-V, etc.) to Amazon EC2. It performs agentless, incremental replication to minimize downtime and orchestrates the creation of AMIs and EC2 instances from the source VMs, making it ideal for large-scale rehosting.
[Domain 1] A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts. They need to ensure that IAM users and roles in member accounts cannot access a specific set of critical internal S3 buckets located in a central logging account, except for a few designated administrative roles. This policy must be enforced organization-wide and be impossible for member account administrators to override. What is the most effective solution?
A Service Control Policy (SCP) attached at the organization's root or a specific OU is the correct tool for this. By using a `Deny` statement with a `StringNotEquals` condition on `aws:PrincipalArn`, you can deny access to the critical S3 buckets for all principals EXCEPT the ones explicitly listed (the designated administrative roles). SCPs are evaluated before IAM policies and cannot be overridden by administrators in member accounts, ensuring centralized enforcement.
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