Design High-Performing Architectures Questions
Practice questions for Design High-Performing Architectures topic in AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate. 48 questions covering this domain.
An application on EC2 must automatically scale to maintain approximately 60% average CPU utilization. How should the architect configure scaling?
A read-heavy application repeatedly fetches the same database records, causing latency and database load. Which AWS service should be added to improve...
A company needs a private dedicated 1 Gbps connection from its data center to AWS for consistent, high-throughput performance. Which service should be...
Which AWS service provides a global content delivery network to serve cached content to users with low latency?
Objects larger than 100 MB are uploaded to S3 and uploads must resume efficiently after network interruptions. Which approach should be recommended?
An HPC workload requires tightly coupled, low-latency communication between EC2 instances. Which placement strategy is most appropriate?
A gaming application requires a fully managed NoSQL database with single-digit millisecond latency at scale. Which service should be used?
A media company uploads large video files from around the world to a central S3 bucket. Uploads are slow. Which feature improves upload performance?
An Aurora PostgreSQL database is experiencing read latency because the primary instance handles all read traffic. What is the best way to improve read...
A globally distributed TCP application needs to improve user performance by routing traffic onto the AWS global network as quickly as possible. Which ...
A company needs a load balancer for a latency-sensitive TCP application and also wants static IP addresses. Which option is the best fit?
An analytics workload performs large sequential reads and writes and needs high throughput at low storage cost. Which Amazon EBS volume type should be...
Which managed AWS service runs Apache Spark, Hive, and Hadoop frameworks for large-scale data processing?
A data team needs ad-hoc SQL queries directly against data in S3 without managing infrastructure or loading data. Which service is most appropriate?
A static-asset-heavy website is slow for global users when served directly from S3 in us-east-1. Which service should the architect place in front of ...
An application needs a managed in-memory data store with persistence, replication, and pub/sub capabilities. Which engine should the architect choose?
An IoT pipeline ingests 50,000 events per second and requires multiple independent consumers to read the same stream within sub-second latency, with r...
An API Gateway REST API serves repeated GETs returning the same data. Which feature reduces backend load and lowers response time?
A new gp3 EBS volume defaults to 3,000 IOPS and 125 MB/s. The workload requires 10,000 IOPS at the lowest cost. What should the architect do?
An online gaming backend uses TCP and UDP, demands the lowest possible latency over the AWS global network, fast regional failover, and static anycast...
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