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SAP-C02 – AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

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Question 1 (Exam Pool B)

A company has used infrastructure as code (laC) to provision a set of two Amazon EC2 instances. The instances have remained the same tor several years.

The company's business has grown rapidly in the past few months. In response, the company's operations team has implemented an Auto Scaling group to manage the sudden increases in traffic Company policy requires a monthly installation of security updates on all operating systems that are running.

The most recent security update required a reboot. As a result the Auto Scaling group terminated the instances and replaced them with new, unpatched instances.

Which combination of steps should a sol-tons architect recommend to avoid a recurrence of this issue? (Select TWO )

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    Modify the Auto Scaling group by setting the Update policy to target the oldest launch configuration for replacement.
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    Create a new Auto Scaling group before the next patch maintenance During the maintenance window patch both groups and reboot the instances.
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    Create an Elastic Load Balancer in front of the Auto Scaling group Configure monitoring to ensure that target group health checks return healthy after the Auto Scaling group replaces the terminated instances
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    Create automation scripts to patch an AMI. update the launch configuration, and invoke an Auto Scaling instance refresh.
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    Create an Elastic Load Balancer in front of the Auto Scaling group Configure termination protection on the instances.
Question 2 (Exam Pool A)

A company plans to migrate to AWS. A solutions architect uses AWS Application Discovery Service over the fleet and discovers that there is an Oracle data warehouse and several PostgreSQL databases. Which combination of migration patterns will reduce licensing costs and operational overhead? (Select TWO.)

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    Lift and shift the Oracle data warehouse to Amazon EC2 using AWS DMS.
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    Migrate the Oracle data warehouse to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT and AWS QMS.
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    Lift and shift the PostgreSQL databases to Amazon EC2 using AWS DMS.
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    Migrate the PostgreSQL databases to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL using AWS DMS
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    Migrate the Oracle data warehouse to an Amazon EMR managed cluster using AWS DMS.
Question 3 (Exam Pool A)

A solutions architect is building a web application that uses an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance The DB instance is expected to receive many more reads than writes. The solutions architect needs to ensure that the large amount of read traffic can be accommodated and that the DB instance is highly available.

Which steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE)

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    Create multiple read replicas and put them into an Auto Scaling group.
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    Create multiple read replicas in different Availability Zones.
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    Create an Amazon Route 53 hosted zone and a record set for each read replica with a TTL and a weighted routing policy.
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    Create an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and put the read replicas behind the ALB.
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    Configure an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to detect a failed read replica. Set the alarm to directly invoke an AWS Lambda function to delete its Route 53 record set.
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    Configure an Amazon Route 53 health check for each read replica using its endpoint