A media company has deployed a multi-tier architecture on AWS. Web servers are deployed in two Availability Zones using an Auto Scaling group with a default Auto Scaling termination policy. The web servers' Auto Scaling group currently has 15 instances running.
Which instance will be terminated first during a scale-in operation?

• A.The instance with the oldest launch configuration.
• B.The instance in the Availability Zone that has most instances.
• C.The instance closest to the next billing hour.
• D.The oldest instance in the group.

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A solutions architect at an ecommerce company wants to back up application log data to Amazon S3. The solutions architect is unsure how frequently the logs will be accessed or which logs will be accessed the most.
The company wants to keep costs as low as possible by using the appropriate S3 storage class.
Which S3 storage class should be implemented to meet these requirements?

• A.S3 Glacier
• B.S3 Intelligent-Tiering
• C.S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)
• D.S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)

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A company is planning to migrate a commercial off-the-shelf application from is on-premises data center to AWS. The software has a software licensing model using sockets and cores with predictable capacity and uptime requirements. The company wants to use its existing licenses, which were purchased earlier this year.
Which Amazon EC2 pricing option is the MOST cost-effective?

• A.Dedicated Reserved Hosts
• B.Dedicated On-Demand Hosts
• C.Dedicated Reserved Instances
• D.Dedicated On-Oemand Instances

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A Solutions Architect must create a cost-effective backup solution for a company's 500MB source code repository of proprietary and sensitive applications. The repository runs on Linux and backs up daily to tape.
Tape backups are stored for 1 year.
The current solution is not meeting the company's needs because it is a manual process that is prone to error, expensive to maintain, and does not meet the need for a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 hour or Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. The new disaster recovery requirement is for backups to be stored offsite and to be able to restore a single file if needed.
Which solution meets the customer's needs for RTO, RPO, and disaster recovery with the LEAST effort and expense?

• A.Replace the local source code repository storage with a Storage Gateway stored volume. Change the default snapshot frequency to 1 hour. Use Amazon S3 lifecycle policies to archive snapshots to Amazon Glacier and remove old snapshots after 1 year. Use cross-region replication to create a copy of the snapshots in US-WEST-2.
• B.Replace the local source code repository storage with a Storage Gateway cached volume. Create a snapshot schedule to take hourly snapshots. Use an Amazon CloudWatch Events schedule expression rule to run an hourly AWS Lambda task to copy snapshots from US-EAST -1 to US-WEST-2.
• C.Configure the local source code repository to synchronize files to an AWS Storage Gateway file Amazon gateway to store backup copies in an Amazon S3 Standard bucket. Enable versioning on the Amazon S3 bucket. Create Amazon S3 lifecycle policies to automatically migrate old versions of objects to Amazon S3 Standard - Infrequent Access, then Amazon Glacier, then delete backups after 1 year.
• D.Replace local tapes with an AWS Storage Gateway virtual tape library to integrate with current backup software. Run backups nightly and store the virtual tapes on Amazon S3 standard storage in US-EAST-1.
  Use cross-region replication to create a second copy in US-WEST-2. Use Amazon S3 lifecycle policies to perform automatic migration to Amazon Glacier and deletion of expired backups after 1 year?

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A Solutions Architect is designing a solution that includes a managed VPN connection. To monitor whether the VPN connection is up or down, the Architect should use:

• A.an external service to ping the VPN endpoint from outside the VPC
• B.the CloudWatch TunnelState Metric
• C.an AWS Lambda function that parses the VPN connection logs.
• D.AWS CloudTrail to monitor the endpoint

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