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Start Resilient Cloud Solutions PracticeA company uses DynamoDB global tables in two AWS Regions with strong consistency reads. They observe occasional write conflicts that are not being resolved automatically. The application uses DynamoDBMapper with optimistic locking. What should the DevOps engineer do to ensure conflict resolution?
Explanation: DynamoDB global tables resolve conflicts automatically using last-writer-wins (LWW). However, if the application requires custom conflict resolution (e.g., to ensure only the latest version is applied or application-specific logic), LWW is insufficient. DynamoDB Streams can capture all updates, and a Lambda function can compare conflicting versions and apply the appropriate resolution. DynamoDBMapper's optimistic locking uses version attributes with conditional writes, but in global tables each replica may have a different version number; a conditional write in one region can succeed even if a newer write exists in another region, so it does not guarantee that the latest version wins.
A company's application runs on EC2 instances in a single Availability Zone. The operations team wants to improve resilience without redesigning the application. Which action is the MOST effective?
Explanation: Deploying EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) using an Auto Scaling group is the most effective action because it eliminates the single point of failure at the AZ level. If one AZ experiences an outage, the Auto Scaling group automatically launches replacement instances in the remaining healthy AZs, ensuring application availability without requiring any application-level changes. This directly addresses the goal of improving resilience by leveraging AWS's fault-isolated infrastructure.
A company uses a third-party backup solution to back up its EC2 instances daily. The backups are stored in an S3 bucket with default settings. The company wants to ensure that backups are protected from accidental deletion and are available for at least one year. Which combination of S3 features should the DevOps engineer implement?
Explanation: S3 Object Lock with Governance mode prevents objects from being deleted or overwritten by any user (including the root user) for the specified retention period of 365 days, meeting the one-year availability requirement. The lifecycle policy to transition to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 30 days reduces storage costs while still keeping the data accessible for retrieval within 12 hours, which is acceptable for backup retention. This combination ensures immutability and cost-effective long-term storage.
A company runs a microservices application on Amazon ECS with Fargate. The application includes a service that processes orders and stores them in an RDS PostgreSQL database. The company wants to ensure that the order service is resilient to AZ failures and can handle a sudden increase in order volume. Which TWO actions should the DevOps engineer take? (Choose TWO.)
Explanation: Deploying the RDS instance in a Multi-AZ configuration provides automatic failover to a standby replica in a different Availability Zone, ensuring database resilience to AZ failures. Option D is correct because configuring the ECS service to run tasks in multiple Availability Zones distributes the order processing workload across AZs, improving both fault tolerance and scalability during sudden traffic spikes.
A company's application uses Amazon DynamoDB as its primary data store. The application experiences occasional throttling errors during traffic spikes. The DevOps team needs to implement a solution that ensures consistent performance without manual intervention. Which TWO actions should the team take? (Choose TWO.)
Explanation: To handle occasional throttling during traffic spikes without manual intervention, the team should use DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) to cache read requests, reducing read load on the table, and enable DynamoDB Auto Scaling to automatically adjust read and write capacity based on traffic patterns. DAX absorbs spikey read traffic, while Auto Scaling ensures sufficient capacity for writes and uncached reads, together providing consistent performance without manual scaling. Option E (On-Demand) also handles spikes automatically but can be costlier for predictable workloads; the combination of DAX and Auto Scaling is often more cost-effective for read-heavy applications.
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