SAP-C02 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A company wants to retire its Oracle Solaris NFS storage arrays. The company requires rapid data migration over its internet network connection to a combination of destinations for Amazon S3. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), and Amazon FSx lor Windows File Server. The company also requires a full initial copy, as well as incremental transfers of changes until the retirement of the storage arrays. All data must be encrypted and checked for integrity.

What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

A. Configure CloudEndure. Create a project and deploy the CloudEndure agent and token to the storage array. Run the migration plan to start the transfer.

B. Configure AWS DataSync. Configure the DataSync agent and deploy it to the local network. Create a transfer task and start the transfer.

C. Configure the aws S3 sync command. Configure the AWS client on the client side with credentials. Run the sync command to start the transfer.

D. Configure AWS Transfer (or FTP. Configure the FTP client with credentials. Script the client to connect and sync to start the transfer.

A company is moving a business-critical multi-tier application to AWS. The architecture consists of a desktop client application and server infrastructure. The server infrastructure resides in an on-premises data center that frequently fails to maintain the application uptime SLA of 99.95%. A solutions architect must re-architect the application to ensure that it can meet or exceed the SLA.

The application contains a PostgreSQL database running on a single virtual machine. The business logic and presentation layers are load balanced between multiple virtual machines. Remote users complain about slow load times while using this latency-sensitive application.

Which of the following will meet the availability requirements with little change to the application while improving user experience and minimizing costs?

A. Migrate the database to a PostgreSQL database in Amazon EC2. Host the application and presentation layers in automatically scaled Amazon ECS containers behind an Application Load Balancer. Allocate an Amazon Workspaces Workspace for each end user to improve the user experience.

B. Migrate the database to an Amazon RDS Aurora PostgreSQL configuration. Host the application and presentation layers in an Auto Scaling configuration on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. Use Amazon AppStream 2.0 to improve the user experience.

C. Migrate the database to an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL Mulli-AZ configuration. Host the application and presentation layers in automatically scaled AWS Fargate containers behind a Network Load Balancer. Use Amazon ElastiCache to improve the user experience.

D. Migrate the database to an Amazon Redshift cluster with at least two nodes. Combine and host the application and presentation layers in automatically scaled Amazon ECS containers behind an Application Load Balancer. Use Amazon CloudFront to improve the user experience.

An adventure company has launched a new feature on its mobile app. Users can use the feature to upload their hiking and ratting photos and videos anytime. The photos and videos are stored in Amazon S3 Standard storage in an S3 bucket and are served through Amazon CloudFront.

The company needs to optimize the cost of the storage. A solutions architect discovers that most of the uploaded photos and videos are accessed infrequently after 30 days. However, some of the uploaded photos and videos are accessed frequently after 30 days. The solutions architect needs to implement a solution that maintains millisecond retrieval availability of the photos and videos at the lowest possible cost.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Configure S3 Intelligent-Tiering on the S3 bucket.

B. Configure an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition image objects and video objects from S3 Standard to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 30 days.

C. Replace Amazon S3 with an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system that is mounted on Amazon EC2 instances.

D. Add a Cache-Control: max-age header to the S3 image objects and S3 video objects. Set the header to 30 days.

A company needs to create a centralized logging architecture for all of its AWS accounts. The architecture should provide near-real-time data analysis for all AWS CloudTrail logs and VPC Flow Logs across all AWS accounts. The company plans to use Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) to perform log analysis in the logging account.

Which strategy a solutions architect use to meet these requirements?

A. Configure CloudTrail and VPC Flow Logs in each AWS account to send data to a centralized Amazon S3 bucket in the logging account. Create and AWS Lambda function to load data from the S3 bucket to Amazon ES in the logging account.

B. Configure CloudTrail and VPC Flow Logs to send data to a log group in Amazon CloudWatch account. Configure a CloudWatch subscription filter in each AWS account to send data to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehouse in the logging account. Load data from Kinesis Data Firehouse into Amazon ES in the logging account.

C. Configure CloudTrail and VPC Flow Logs to send data to a separate Amazon S3 bucket in each AWS account. Create an AWS Lambda function triggered by S3 events to copy the data to a centralized logging bucket. Create another Lambda function to load data from the S3 bucket to Amazon ES in the logging account.

D. Configure CloudTrail and VPC Flow Logs to send data to a log group in Amazon CloudWatch Logs in each AWS account. Create AWS Lambda functions in each AWS accounts to subscribe to the log groups and stream the data to an Amazon S3 bucket in the logging account. Create another Lambda function to load data from the S3 bucket to Amazon ES in the logging account.

A company runs an application in the cloud that consists of a database and a website Users can post data to the website, have the data processed, and have the data sent back to them in an email. Data is stored in a MySQL database running on an Amazon EC2 instance The database is running in a VPC with two private subnets The website is running on Apache Tomcat in a single EC2 instance in a different VPC with one public subnet There is a single VPC peering connection between the database and website VPC.

The website has suffered several outages during the last month due to high traffic

Which actions should a solutions architect take to increase the reliability of the application? (Select THREE )

A. Place the Tomcat server in an Auto Scaling group with multiple EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer

B. Provision an additional VPC peering connection

C. Migrate the MySQL database to Amazon Aurora with one Aurora Replica

D. Provision two NAT gateways in the database VPC

E. Move the Tomcat server to the database VPC

F. Create an additional public subnet in a different Availability Zone in the website VPC

A telecommunications company is running an application on AWS. The company has set up an AWS Direct Connect connection between the company's on-premises data center and AWS. The company deployed the application on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones behind an internal Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company's clients connect from the on-premises network by using HTTPS. The TLS terminates in the ALB. The company has multiple target groups and uses path-based routing to forward requests based on the URL path.

The company is planning to deploy an on-premises firewall appliance with an allow list that is based on IP address. A solutions architect must develop a solution to allow traffic flow to AWS from the on-premises network so that the clients can continue to access the application.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Configure the existing ALB to use static IP addresses. Assign IP addresses in multiple Availability Zones to the ALB. Add the ALB IP addresses to the firewall appliance.

B. Create a Network Load Balancer (NLB). Associate the NLB with one static IP addresses in multiple Availability Zones. Create an ALB-type target group for the NLB and add the existing ALAdd the NLB IP addresses to the firewall appliance. Update the clients to connect to the NLB.

C. Create a Network Load Balancer (NLB). Associate the LNB with one static IP addresses in multiple Availability Zones. Add the existing target groups to the NLB. Update the clients to connect to the NLB. Delete the ALB Add the NLB IP addresses to the firewall appliance.

D. Create a Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB). Assign static IP addresses to the GWLB in multiple Availability Zones. Create an ALB-type target group for the GWLB and add the existing ALB. Add the GWLB IP addresses to the firewall appliance. Update the clients to connect to the GWLB.

A company has deployed its database on an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in the us-east-1 Region. The company needs to make its data available to customers in Europe. The customers in Europe must have access to the same data as customers in the United States (US) and will not tolerate high application latency or stale data. The customers in Europe and the customers in the US need to write to the database. Both groups of customers need to see updates from the other group in real time.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Create an Amazon Aurora MySQL replica of the RDS for MySQL DB instance. Pause application writes to the RDS DB instance. Promote the Aurora Replica to a standalone DB cluster. Reconfigure the application to use the Aurora database and resume writes. Add eu-west-1 as a secondary Region to the 06 cluster. Enable write forwarding on the DB cluster. Deploy the application in eu-west-1. Configure the application to use the Aurora MySQL endpoint in euwest-1.

B. Add a cross-Region replica in eu-west-1 for the RDS for MySQL DB instance. Configure the replica to replicate write queries back to the primary DB instance. Deploy the application in eu-west-1. Configure the application to use the RDS for MySQL endpoint in eu-west-1.

C. Copy the most recent snapshot from the RDS for MySQL DB instance to eu-west-1. Create a new RDS for MySQL DB instance in eu-west-1 from the snapshot. Configure MySQL logical replication from us-east-1 to eu-west-1. Enable write forwarding on the DB cluster. Deploy the application in eu-west-1. Configure the application to use the RDS for MySQL endpoint in eu-west-1.

D. Convert the RDS for MySQL DB instance to an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster. Add eu-west-1 as a secondary Region to the DB cluster. Enable write forwarding on the DB cluster. Deploy the application in eu-west-1. Configure the application to use the Aurora MySQL endpoint in eu-west-1.

A company orchestrates a multi-account structure on AWS by using AWS Control Tower. The company is using AWS Organizations, AWS Config, and AWS Trusted Advisor. The company has a specific OU for development accounts that developers use to experiment on AWS. The company has hundreds of developers, and each developer has an individual development account.

The company wants to optimize costs in these development accounts. Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon RDS instances in these accounts must be burstable. The company wants to disallow the use of other services that are not relevant.

What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

A. Create a custom SCP in AWS Organizations to allow the deployment of only burstable instances and to disallow services that are not relevant. Apply the SCP to the development OU.

B. Create a custom detective control (guardrail) in AWS Control Tower. Configure the control (guardrail) to allow the deployment of only burstable instances and to disallow services that are not relevant. Apply the control (guardrail) to the development OU.

C. Create a custom preventive control (guardrail) in AWS Control Tower. Configure the control (guardrail) to allow the deployment of only burstable instances and to disallow services that are not relevant. Apply the control (guardrail) to the development OU.

D. Create an AWS Config rule in the AWS Control Tower account. Configure the AWS Config rule to allow the deployment of only burstable instances and to disallow services that are not relevant. Deploy the AWS Config rule to the development OU by using AWS CloudFormation StackSets.

A company is using GitHub Actions to run a CI/CD pipeline that accesses resources on AWS. The company has an IAM user that uses a secret key in the pipeline to authenticate to AWS. An existing IAM role with an attached policy grants the required permissions to deploy resources.

The company's security team implements a new requirement that pipelines can no longer use long-lived secret keys. A solutions architect must replace the secret key with a short-lived solution.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Create an IAM SAML 2.0 identity provider (IdP) in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Create a new IAM role with the appropriate trust policy that allows the sts:AssumeRole API call. Attach the existing IAM policy to the new IAM role. Update GitHub to use SAML authentication for the pipeline.

B. Create an IAM OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity provider (IdP) in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Create a new IAM role with the appropriate trust policy that allows the sts:AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity API call from the GitHub OIDC IdP. Update GitHub to assume the role for the pipeline.

C. Create an Amazon Cognito identity pool. Configure the authentication provider to use GitHub. Create a new IAM role with the appropriate trust policy that allows the sts:AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity API call from the GitHub authentication provider. Configure the pipeline to use Cognito as its authentication provider.

D. Create a trust anchor to AWS Private Certificate Authority. Generate a client certificate to use with AWS IAM Roles Anywhere. Create a new IAM role with the appropriate trust policy that allows the sts:AssumeRole API call. Attach the existing IAM policy to the new IAM role. Configure the pipeline to use the credential helper tool and to reference the client certificate public key to assume the new IAM role.

A company runs a Java application that has complex dependencies on VMs that are in the company's data center. The application is stable. but the company wants to modernize the technology stack. The company wants to migrate the application to AWS and minimize the administrative overhead to maintain the servers.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST code changes?

A. Migrate the application to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate by using AWS App2Container. Store container images in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). Grant the ECS task execution role permission 10 access the ECR image repository. Configure Amazon ECS to use an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Use the ALB to interact with the application.

B. Migrate the application code to a container that runs in AWS Lambda. Build an Amazon API Gateway REST API with Lambda integration. Use API Gateway to interact with the application.

C. Migrate the application to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) on EKS managed node groups by using AWS App2Container. Store container images in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). Give the EKS nodes permission to access the ECR image repository. Use Amazon API Gateway to interact with the application.

D. Migrate the application code to a container that runs in AWS Lambda. Configure Lambda to use an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Use the ALB to interact with the application.