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A developer is working on an AWS Lambda function that accesses Amazon DynamoDB. The Lambda function must retrieve an item and update some of its attributes, or create the item if it does not exist. The Lambda function has access to the primary key. Which IAM permissions should the developer request for the Lambda function to achieve this functionality?

A developer has built a market application that stores pricing data in Amazon DynamoDB with Amazon ElastiCache in front. The prices of items in the market change frequently. Sellers have begun complaining that, after they update the price of an item, the price does not actually change in the product listing. What could be causing this issue?

A company requires that all applications running on Amazon EC2 use IAM roles to gain access to AWS services. A developer is modifying an application that currently relies on IAM user access keys stored in environment variables to access Amazon DynamoDB tables using boto, the AWS SDK for Python. The developer associated a role with the same permissions as the IAM user to the EC2 instance, then deleted the IAM user. When the application was restarted, the AWS AccessDeniedException messages started appearing in the application logs. The developer was able to use their personal account on the server to run DynamoDB API commands using the AWS CLI. What is the MOST likely cause of the exception?

A company has an existing application that has hardcoded database credentials. A developer needs to modify the existing application. The application is deployed in two AWS Regions with an active-passive failover configuration to meet company’s disaster recovery strategy. The developer needs a solution to store the credentials outside the code. The solution must comply with the company’s disaster recovery strategy. Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST secure way?

A developer is creating an application that will store personal health information (PHI). The PHI needs to be encrypted at all times. An encrypted Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance is storing the data. The developer wants to increase the performance of the application by caching frequently accessed data while adding the ability to sort or rank the cached datasets. Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances open connections to an Amazon RDS for SQL Server database. A developer needs to store and access the credentials and wants to automatically rotate the credentials. The developer does not want to store the credentials for the database in the code. Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST secure way?

A company wants to test its web application more frequently. The company deploys the application by using a separate AWS CloudFormation stack for each environment. The company deploys the same CloudFormation template to each stack as the application progresses through the development lifecycle. A developer needs to build in notifications for the quality assurance (QA) team. The developer wants the notifications to occur for new deployments in the final preproduction environment. Which solution will meet these requirements?

A developer manages three AWS accounts. Each account contains an Amazon RDS DB instance in a private subnet. The developer needs to define users in each database in a consistent way. The developer must ensure that the same users are created and updated later in all three accounts. Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?

A company is building a new application that runs on AWS and uses Amazon API Gateway to expose APIs. Teams of developers are working on separate components of the application in parallel. The company wants to publish an API without an integrated backend so that teams that depend on the application backend can continue the development work before the API backend development is complete. Which solution will meet these requirements?

An application that runs on AWS receives messages from an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue and processes the messages in batches. The application sends the data to another SQS queue to be consumed by another legacy application. The legacy system can take up to 5 minutes to process some transaction data. A developer wants to ensure that there are no out-of-order updates in the legacy system. The developer cannot alter the behavior of the legacy system. Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company is implementing an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application needs to process incoming transactions. When the application detects a transaction that is not valid, the application must send a chat message to the company's support team. To send the message, the application needs to retrieve the access token to authenticate by using the chat API. A developer needs to implement a solution to store the access token. The access token must be encrypted at rest and in transit. The access token must also be accessible from other AWS accounts. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST management overhead?

A developer is deploying a new application to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The developer needs to securely store and retrieve different types of variables. These variables include authentication information for a remote API, the URL for the API, and credentials. The authentication information and API URL must be available to all current and future deployed versions of the application across development, testing, and production environments. How should the developer retrieve the variables with the FEWEST application changes?

A company uses AWS Lambda functions and an Amazon S3 trigger to process images into an S3 bucket. A development team set up multiple environments in a single AWS account. After a recent production deployment, the development team observed that the development S3 buckets invoked the production environment Lambda functions. These invocations caused unwanted execution of development S3 files by using production Lambda functions. The development team must prevent these invocations. The team must follow security best practices. Which solution will meet these requirements?

A developer is creating an application. New users of the application must be able to create an account and register by using their own social media accounts. Which AWS service or resource should the developer use to meet these requirements?

A social media application uses the AWS SDK for JavaScript on the frontend to get user credentials from AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS). The application stores its assets in an Amazon S3 bucket. The application serves its content by using an Amazon CloudFront distribution with the origin set to the S3 bucket. The credentials for the role that the application assumes to make the SDK calls are stored in plaintext in a JSON file within the application code. The developer needs to implement a solution that will allow the application to get user credentials without having any credentials hardcoded in the application code. Which solution will meet these requirements?

An ecommerce website uses an AWS Lambda function and an Amazon RDS for MySQL database for an order fulfillment service. The service needs to return order confirmation immediately. During a marketing campaign that caused an increase in the number of orders, the website's operations team noticed errors for “too many connections” from Amazon RDS. However, the RDS DB cluster metrics are healthy. CPU and memory capacity are still available. What should a developer do to resolve the errors?

A company stores its data in data tables in a series of Amazon S3 buckets. The company received an alert that customer credit card information might have been exposed in a data table on one of the company's public applications. A developer needs to identify all potential exposures within the application environment. Which solution will meet these requirements?

A software company is launching a multimedia application. The application will allow guest users to access sample content before the users decide if they want to create an account to gain full access. The company wants to implement an authentication process that can identify users who have already created an account. The company also needs to keep track of the number of guest users who eventually create an account. Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A company is updating an application to move the backend of the application from Amazon EC2 instances to a serverless model. The application uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance and runs in a single VPC on AWS. The application and the DB instance are deployed in a private subnet in the VPC. The company needs to connect AWS Lambda functions to the DB instance. Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company has a web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances with a custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI). The company uses AWS CloudFormation to provision the application. The application runs in the us-east-1 Region, and the company needs to deploy the application to the us-west-1 Region. An attempt to create the AWS CloudFormation stack in us-west-1 fails. An error message states that the AMI ID does not exist. A developer must resolve this error with a solution that uses the least amount of operational overhead. Which solution meets these requirements?

A developer creates an AWS Lambda function that is written in Java. During testing, the Lambda function does not work how the developer expected. The developer wants to use tracing capabilities to troubleshoot the problem. Which AWS service should the developer use to accomplish this goal?

A company is developing an application that will be accessed through the Amazon API Gateway REST API. Registered users should be the only ones who can access certain resources of this API. The token being used should expire automatically and needs to be refreshed periodically. How can a developer meet these requirements?

A company used AWS to develop an application for customers. The application includes an Amazon API Gateway API that invokes AWS Lambda functions. The Lambda functions process data and store the data in Amazon DynamoDB tables. The company must monitor the entire application to identify potential bottlenecks in the architecture that can negatively affect customers. Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST development effort?

A company launched an online portal to announce a new product that the company will release in 6 months. The portal requests that users enter an email address to receive communications about the product. The company needs to create a REST API that will store the email addresses in Amazon DynamoDB. A developer has created an AWS Lambda function that can store the email addresses. The developer will deploy the Lambda function by using the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM). The developer must provide access to the Lambda function over HTTP. Which solutions will meet these requirements with the LEAST additional configuration? (Choose two.)

A company has a website that displays a daily newsletter. When a user visits the website, an AWS Lambda function processes the browser's request and queries the company's on-premises database to obtain the current newsletter. The newsletters are stored in English. The Lambda function uses the Amazon Translate TranslateText API operation to translate the newsletters, and the translation is displayed to the user. Due to an increase in popularity, the website's response time has slowed. The database is overloaded. The company cannot change the database and needs a solution that improves the response time of the Lambda function. Which solution meets these requirements?

A company has an application that receives batches of orders from partners every day. The application uses an AWS Lambda function to process the batches. If a batch contains no orders, the Lambda function must publish to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic as soon as possible. Which combination of steps will meet this requirement with the LEAST implementation effort? (Choose two.)

A developer has an application that uses an Amazon DynamoDB table with a configured local secondary index (LSI). During application testing, the DynamoDB table metrics report a ProvisionedThroughputExceededException error message. The number of requests made by the test suite did not exceed the table's provisioned capacity limits. What is the cause of this issue?

A company is planning to securely manage one-time fixed license keys in AWS. The company's development team needs to access the license keys in automaton scripts that run in Amazon EC2 instances and in AWS CloudFormation stacks. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A developer manages a website that distributes its content by using Amazon CloudFront. The website's static artifacts are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. The developer deploys some changes and can see the new artifacts in the S3 bucket. However, the changes do not appear on the webpage that the CloudFront distribution delivers. How should the developer resolve this issue?

A company has a development team that uses AWS CodeCommit for version control. The development team has CodeCommit repositories in multiple AWS accounts. The team is expanding to include developers who work in various locations. The company must ensure that the developers have secure access to the repositories. Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?