Cloud Architecture and Design

A company needs to choose a disaster recovery strategy with an RTO of 4 hours and an RPO of 15 minutes. Which of the following is the most cost-effective approach that meets these requirements?

A company runs a stateless web application on auto-scaling EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application experiences sudden traffic spikes. Which scaling approach will handle the spikes most efficiently while minimizing cost?

A cloud engineer needs to store database backups that must be retained for seven years. The backups are rarely accessed. Which storage type is most cost-effective for this use case?

Which cloud characteristic allows a user to provision additional resources automatically without requiring human intervention?

A company runs a stateless web application on virtual machines. To handle increased traffic, they add more virtual machines and distribute incoming requests among them. What is this scaling method called?

A cloud engineer is designing a disaster recovery plan with an RTO of 2 hours and RPO of 15 minutes. Which strategy best meets these requirements?

A company is considering using a public cloud provider. Which TWO characteristics are typical of a public cloud deployment? (Select TWO.)

A cloud architect is designing a disaster recovery plan for a critical application. Which TWO metrics should be defined to establish recovery objectives?

An organization is designing a disaster recovery plan with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 4 hours and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 hour. Which disaster recovery strategy best meets these requirements while minimizing cost?

A cloud engineer is deploying a web application that requires SSL termination and content-based routing. Which type of load balancer should be used?

A cloud architect is designing a web application that must remain available during a full region outage. They plan to deploy identical resources in two separate geographical regions. Which high availability architecture is described?

A financial services firm requires low latency between on-premises resources and its public cloud VPC. They also need a dedicated, consistent network connection that bypasses the internet. Which connectivity option should they use?

Which of the following is a key benefit of using object storage like Amazon S3 over block storage?

A cloud architect is designing a VPC for a three-tier web application. The web servers must be accessible from the internet, the application servers should only be reachable from the web tier, and the database servers should not have any public IP addresses and should be isolated. Which subnet design meets these requirements?

A company deploys a stateless web application across two AWS Availability Zones behind a load balancer. This design primarily improves which characteristic?

A company wants to migrate its on-premises workloads to the cloud but must keep sensitive customer data on-premises due to regulatory compliance. Which cloud deployment model should they use?

A company wants to migrate its on-premises virtualized workloads to the cloud while maintaining control over the operating system and middleware. Which cloud service model should they choose?

A company is evaluating storage options for different use cases. Which TWO storage types are most suitable for hosting a relational database in the cloud? (Select TWO.)

A company is designing a hybrid cloud architecture connecting their on-premises data center to AWS. Which TWO options provide dedicated, private network connectivity? (Select TWO.)

An e-commerce application experiences variable traffic with sudden spikes during flash sales. The application is designed to be stateless. Which scaling approach should the cloud architect implement to handle these spikes efficiently?

Which cloud service model provides the customer with the most control over the operating system and applications?

Which cloud service model provides the customer with the ability to deploy and manage custom applications without managing the underlying operating system or runtime environment?

Which cloud service model provides the customer with the highest level of control over the operating system and middleware?

A company wants to ensure fault tolerance for a critical application by deploying across multiple availability zones. Which THREE design decisions contribute to fault tolerance? (Select THREE.)

A company hosts a web application on AWS and wants to improve latency for global users. Which service should they use to cache static content at edge locations?

A cloud architect is designing a multi-region application on AWS. The application has a critical database that must tolerate the failure of an entire AWS region. Which strategy provides the lowest RTO while ensuring data consistency?

A company is using a PaaS offering to host a web application. Which THREE management responsibilities are retained by the customer? (Select THREE.)

A cloud architect is evaluating a multi-cloud strategy to improve resilience. Which THREE factors should be considered when designing multi-cloud architecture? (Select THREE.)

A company wants to migrate its on-premises workload to the cloud and needs to maintain full control over the operating system, middleware, and applications. Which cloud service model should the company choose?

A company wants to reduce cloud storage costs for data that is accessed frequently for 30 days, then rarely accessed for 90 days, and then must be retained for 7 years for compliance. Which storage lifecycle policy should be implemented?

A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to the cloud. The application currently runs on a single server with 16 vCPUs and 64 GB RAM. The cloud architect recommends redesigning the application to be stateless and horizontally scalable. What is the primary benefit of this approach?

A company is experiencing increased traffic to its web application. They want to handle the load by adding more web server instances behind a load balancer. This approach is known as:

A cloud architect is designing a highly available web application. The application must remain available even if an entire AWS Availability Zone fails. The architect decides to deploy identical application instances in two separate Availability Zones and distribute traffic equally. Which architecture is being implemented?

A healthcare organization must store patient imaging data that is accessed infrequently but must be retained for 7 years. They need the lowest-cost storage option while ensuring data can be retrieved within 12 hours if needed. Which storage class should they use?

A company wants to migrate a legacy application to the cloud. The application has a monolithic design and requires low-latency access to on-premises databases. The company needs to keep sensitive data on-premises due to regulatory compliance. Which cloud deployment model is most suitable?

A company is designing a VPC in AWS. They need to host a web application with a public-facing load balancer, web servers in private subnets, and a database in a separate private subnet. Which network architecture is most secure and aligns with best practices?

A company wants to migrate a stateful application to the cloud but needs to ensure it can scale horizontally. What architectural change is required?

A cloud architect is designing a VPC with public and private subnets. Which component is required to allow instances in the private subnet to access the internet for software updates?

A cloud architect is designing a VPC with multiple tiers. The web servers must be accessible from the internet, but the database servers must not be directly accessible. Which subnet design should the architect implement?

An organization wants to minimize costs for a batch processing workload that runs nightly for 2 hours and can tolerate interruptions. Which pricing model is most cost-effective?

A company is migrating a legacy application to the cloud. The application has a stateful design and requires low-latency access to a shared file system. The application must scale horizontally to handle increased load. Which THREE of the following architectural changes should be recommended to enable horizontal scaling?

A company wants to reduce cloud costs for a stateless batch processing workload that runs nightly for about 3 hours. The workload can tolerate interruptions. Which pricing model is most cost-effective?

An organization runs a batch processing job that runs for 2 hours every night. The job can tolerate interruptions and can resume from the last checkpoint. Which cloud purchasing option minimizes cost?

A financial services company requires a recovery time objective (RTO) of 15 minutes and a recovery point objective (RPO) of 5 minutes for its critical database. Which high availability architecture should they implement?

A startup wants to run code in response to events without provisioning or managing servers. Which cloud service model should they use?

A company wants to migrate its on-premises workloads to the cloud and requires full control over the operating system, installed software, and security configurations. Which cloud service model should they choose?

A company wants to migrate its on-premises workloads to the cloud but must keep sensitive data on-premises due to regulatory requirements. Which cloud deployment model should the company use?

A company deploys a multi-region active-active application on AWS. They use Route 53 with a latency routing policy. Traffic from Europe is routed to the eu-west-1 region, but during a regional failure, some European users experience timeouts. Which routing policy should be added to improve availability?

A cloud architect is designing a highly available application on AWS. The application must be fault-tolerant and able to withstand the failure of an entire Availability Zone. Which TWO actions should the architect take? (Select TWO.)

A cloud architect is designing a VPC with three tiers: web, application, and database. Which subnet design provides the best security posture?

Which storage type is most suitable for hosting a shared file system accessible by multiple virtual machines in a cloud environment?

A cloud architect is designing a multi-region application with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 hour and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. The application runs on virtual machines in a public cloud. Which disaster recovery strategy best meets these objectives?

A company uses AWS and Azure for different workloads. To improve latency for global users, the company wants to direct traffic to the cloud provider and region closest to the user. Which DNS routing policy should the company implement?

A company is deploying a global web application that serves static content (images, CSS, JavaScript) to users worldwide. They want to reduce latency and offload traffic from the origin servers. Which service should they implement?

A cloud architect is designing a multi-tier application on a public cloud. The application must be highly available and fault-tolerant within a single region. Which three items should be included in the architecture? (Select THREE.)

A company is running a stateless web application on a public cloud. They expect traffic to spike during certain hours. Which scaling strategy would be most cost-effective and efficient?

Which of the following storage types is most suitable for hosting a shared file system that multiple virtual machines need to access concurrently using NFS?

A company runs a stateless web application on AWS EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. To reduce costs, they want to use the most cost-effective compute option that can handle variable traffic and be interrupted. Which pricing model should they use for the EC2 instances?

A company wants to connect its on-premises data center to a public cloud provider with a dedicated, high-bandwidth, low-latency connection. The connection must be private and not traverse the internet. Which connectivity option should be used?

A company is designing a disaster recovery solution with a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 hour and a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. Which TWO strategies would meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Which cloud service model provides the customer with the most control over the operating system and software stack?

A company is migrating its on-premises application to a public cloud. The application consists of a web server, an application server, and a database. They want to minimize management overhead while ensuring the application can scale automatically. Which THREE cloud service models should they consider for each component to achieve this goal? (Select THREE.)

Which of the following is a characteristic of serverless computing (FaaS)?

A company uses AWS and Azure for redundancy. They deploy the same application on both clouds to avoid vendor lock-in and improve disaster recovery. Which cloud deployment model is this?

Which storage type is most appropriate for a shared file system that multiple virtual machines need to mount simultaneously with read/write access?

A company is designing a highly available architecture for a critical application. The solution must tolerate the failure of an entire availability zone. Which TWO design principles should be implemented? (Choose two.)

Which cloud service model gives the customer the most control over the operating system and applications, while the provider manages the physical hardware, network, and storage?

A company decides to use AWS for compute and Azure for storage to leverage best-of-breed services. This is an example of which cloud deployment model?

A company uses an auto-scaling group to handle variable web traffic. The scaling policy is based on CPU utilization. However, during a flash sale, the application experiences a sudden spike in traffic, and the auto-scaling group takes too long to launch new instances. Which design change would most effectively reduce the time to scale out?

A cloud architect is reviewing costs for a production environment. The environment uses a mix of EC2 instances and RDS databases. Which THREE of the following are effective cost optimization strategies?

A cloud architect is choosing a compute pricing model for a batch processing job that runs for 2 hours every night. The job can be interrupted. Which option is most cost-effective?

A cloud architect is designing a highly available web application on AWS. The application must continue serving traffic even if an entire AWS Availability Zone fails. Which architecture should the architect implement?

A company uses Azure and wants to connect its on-premises data center to Azure with a dedicated, private, and high-bandwidth connection. Which service should the company use?

A company is deploying a web application that requires high availability across two geographically separate data centers. The application must be active in both sites simultaneously, and traffic must be load-balanced between them. Which architecture best meets these requirements?

An organization needs to connect its on-premises data center to a public cloud with a dedicated, low-latency, and consistent network connection. Which connectivity option should they use?

A company is designing stateless application tiers to support horizontal scaling. Which TWO design principles support statelessness? (Select TWO.)

Which cloud deployment model connects an on-premises data center to a public cloud using VPN or dedicated connections like AWS Direct Connect?

A company is deploying a web application on Google Cloud that requires low-latency access to static content (images, CSS) for global users. The application also needs to handle SSL termination to reduce load on backend instances. Which TWO services should the architect use? (Select TWO.)

A cloud architect is evaluating cloud deployment models for a healthcare application that must comply with data sovereignty regulations. The solution must provide the lowest latency for users in North America and Europe, and must avoid vendor lock-in. Which TWO deployment models should the architect consider? (Choose two.)

A cloud architect is selecting a storage solution for a database that requires low-latency reads and writes. The database will run on a single VM and must support consistent performance. Which storage type is most appropriate?

A cloud architect is designing a disaster recovery solution for a critical database. The RTO is 4 hours and the RPO is 1 hour. Which replication strategy should the architect choose to meet these requirements?

A cloud engineer is designing a VPC in AWS for a three-tier web application. The web servers must be accessible from the internet, the application servers must be isolated from the internet but reachable by web servers, and the database servers must be isolated from both. How many subnets should be created, and which type should each be?

A company is using AWS and wants to minimize costs for a batch processing workload that runs for 2 hours every night. The workload can tolerate interruptions. Which pricing model should the company choose?

A company uses a public cloud PaaS service to run a custom application. They need to ensure the application can handle increased load without downtime. Which action should they take?

A company is migrating a legacy stateful application to the cloud. The application currently runs on a single server and stores session data locally. To enable horizontal scaling, which two design changes should the architect recommend? (Select TWO.)

An organization is designing a VPC with public and private subnets. The web servers must be accessible from the internet, but database servers must not. The architecture also requires high availability across two Availability Zones. What is the minimum number of public subnets and private subnets needed?

Which cloud deployment model involves using services from multiple public cloud providers to avoid vendor lock-in and leverage best-of-breed solutions?

A company wants to minimize cloud costs for a batch processing job that runs for a few hours each night and can be interrupted. Which pricing model is most appropriate?

A company is deploying a global web application and wants to reduce latency for users around the world. The application serves static content (images, CSS) and dynamic API responses. Which combination of services should the architect use?

An organization is migrating to AWS and wants to optimize costs for a production database that runs 24/7. Which TWO pricing models would provide the most cost savings while ensuring the database is not interrupted? (Select TWO.)

An organization maintains a private cloud using OpenStack and also uses AWS for additional capacity. They have a critical application that must remain available even if one cloud provider goes offline. The application is deployed in both environments with active load balancing. Which cloud deployment model best describes this architecture?

A company uses Azure and needs shared file storage accessible from multiple Linux VMs using standard file sharing protocols. Which storage type should they choose?

An organization needs to store archival data for 7 years to meet compliance requirements. The data is rarely accessed, and retrieval time is not critical. Which cloud storage type is most cost-effective?

A company runs a web application on AWS EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. They want to handle traffic spikes automatically. Which scaling approach should they implement?

A company wants to reduce its cloud storage costs for infrequently accessed data that must be retained for 7 years. Which two storage lifecycle policies should they implement? (Select TWO.)

A company is designing a hybrid cloud storage solution. Which TWO storage services are suitable for a shared file system accessible from both on-premises and cloud VMs? (Select TWO.)

A company is designing a disaster recovery plan for its critical application. The application must be recovered within 4 hours (RTO) and can tolerate up to 1 hour of data loss (RPO). Which replication strategy is most cost-effective?

A company is designing an auto-scaling solution for a stateless application. Which TWO features are essential for the application to scale horizontally without issues? (Select TWO.)

A cloud administrator needs to provide a shared file system that can be accessed by multiple Linux-based virtual machines in the same VPC. Which storage type should be used?

A company is deploying a stateless application across multiple Availability Zones in AWS. The application must automatically scale based on CPU utilization. Which combination of services should the architect use to achieve this?

A company is designing a multi-cloud strategy to ensure high availability across AWS and Azure. They want to use a global load balancer to route traffic based on latency. Which THREE components are required for this setup? (Select THREE.)

A cloud administrator is optimizing costs for a batch processing workload that runs nightly for 2 hours. The workload can tolerate interruptions. Which THREE purchasing options should the administrator consider? (Choose three.)

A financial services firm requires a cloud deployment that keeps sensitive customer data on-premises while bursting compute-intensive risk analysis workloads to a public cloud during peak times. Which deployment model best meets this requirement?

A cloud architect is deploying a web application across multiple availability zones within a single region to achieve high availability. The application requires that if one availability zone fails, traffic should automatically be rerouted to the remaining zones without manual intervention. Which configuration is required?

A company is selecting a cloud deployment model. They require the ability to keep sensitive data on-premises due to regulatory compliance, but want to leverage cloud resources for burst computing capacity. Which THREE characteristics describe this model?

A company runs a stateful application that maintains session data in memory on the server. The application experiences performance issues during traffic spikes. Which design change would best improve scalability?

A cloud engineer is designing a VPC in AWS for a three-tier web application. The web servers must be accessible from the internet, the application servers should only be accessible from the web servers, and the database servers should only be accessible from the application servers. What is the most secure VPC design?

A cloud engineer is optimizing costs for a data analytics workload that runs periodically. The workload processes large datasets stored in Amazon S3 and runs on EC2 instances. Which THREE strategies should the engineer consider to reduce costs? (Select THREE.)

A company is designing a hybrid cloud architecture. They need to ensure high availability for a critical application. Which TWO of the following are best practices for achieving high availability in a hybrid cloud environment?

A company uses AWS and Azure to run identical workloads for redundancy. They want to simplify management by using a single set of tools across both clouds. Which architectural approach should they consider?

A company is using AWS and wants to minimize egress costs for data transferred out to the internet. Which strategy would be most effective?

Which cloud deployment model involves connecting an on-premises data center to a public cloud provider using a VPN or dedicated connection?

A company uses a public cloud IaaS model to host a database. They want to ensure the database remains available if an entire availability zone fails. Which configuration would provide the highest availability with automatic failover?

A company runs a stateless web application on AWS EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application experiences varying traffic patterns, with spikes on weekdays. The company wants to minimize costs while ensuring performance during spikes. Which combination of purchasing options and scaling strategy is most cost-effective?

A cloud architect is designing a cost-optimized architecture for a batch processing workload that runs every hour for 10 minutes. The workload is fault-tolerant and can be interrupted. Which TWO pricing models should the architect consider to minimize costs? (Select TWO.)

A cloud architect is designing a solution for a financial analytics application that requires consistent, low-latency block storage for a database. The database will be deployed on a virtual machine in a public cloud. Which TWO storage types are appropriate for this requirement? (Select TWO.)

A company runs a production application on multiple cloud regions for high availability. They want to minimize latency for global users. Which DNS routing policy should they use?

A company wants to migrate its on-premises workloads to the cloud while maintaining the ability to run some sensitive applications on-premises. Which cloud deployment model best meets this requirement?

A company needs to connect its on-premises data center to a public cloud provider with a dedicated, consistent network connection that bypasses the internet. Which connectivity method should be used?