You are running at desired capacity of 3 and the maximum capacity of 3. You have alarms set at 60% CPU to scale out your application. Your application is now running at 80% capacity. What will happen?

A company runs an application on a group of Amazon Linux EC2 instances. For compliance reasons, the company must retain all application log files for 7 years. The log files will be analyzed by a reporting tool that must access all files concurrently.Which storage solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A company would like to store their old yet confidential corporate files that are infrequently accessed. Which is the MOST cost-efficient solution in AWS that should you recommend?

What are your responsibilities when you host your databases in Amazon EC2?

A company has developed a new video game as a web application. The application is in a three- tier architecture in a VPC with Amazon RDS for MySQL in the database layer. Several players will compete concurrently online. The game’s developers want to display a top-10 scoreboard in near- real time and offer the ability to stop and restore the game while preserving the current scores. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A week before Cyber Monday, your corporate data center experienced a failed air conditioning unit that caused flooding into the server racks. The resulting outage cost your company significant revenue. Your CIO mandated a move to the cloud, but he is still concerned about catastrophic failures in a data center. What can you do to alleviate his concerns?

A web application is deployed in the AWS Cloud. It consists of a two-tier architecture that includes a web layer and a database layer. The web server is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.What should a solutions architect do to remediate the vulnerability?

A company hosts a static website within an Amazon S3 bucket. A solutions architect needs to ensure that data can be recovered in case of accidental deletion.Which action will accomplish this?

You have a test version of a production application in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. The test application is using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for the database. You have just been mandated to move your production version of the application to AWS. The application owner is concerned about the availability of the database. How can you make Amazon RDS highly available ?

A public-facing web application queries a database hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance in a private subnet. A large number of queries involve multiple table joins, and the application performance has been degrading due to an increase in complex queries. The application team will be performing updates to improve performance.What should a solutions architect recommend to the application team? (Choose two.)