A company is evaluating whether to modernize a monolithic application by breaking it into microservices. Which potential benefit is most directly associated with this modernization approach?

Elimination of the need for monitoring and logging

Improved scalability by allowing individual services to scale independently

Guaranteed reduction in infrastructure costs

Automatic improvement of application security

A company is planning to migrate a critical legacy application from a data center to AWS. The application has a hard dependency on a legacy authentication service that cannot be moved to the cloud. The company wants to modernize the application to use AWS managed services, but the migration must be completed within a tight deadline. Which implementation plan should the company follow?

Rehost the application on EC2 and connect to the legacy authentication service over a VPN.

Replatform the application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk and use AWS Directory Service for authentication.

Refactor the application to use Amazon Cognito and migrate all components at once.

Replace the application with a SaaS solution that includes authentication.

A solutions architect is reviewing an existing application that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance. The application uses a self-managed MySQL database and a monolithic codebase. The architect wants to identify components that could benefit from modernization. Which action is an example of analyzing the workload to find a modernization opportunity?

Increasing the EC2 instance size to handle higher traffic without changing the application architecture

Creating a second EC2 instance and using a load balancer to distribute traffic

Replacing the self-managed MySQL database with Amazon RDS for MySQL to reduce operational overhead

Purchasing reserved instances to reduce the cost of the existing EC2 instance

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A company has a custom-built application that is tightly coupled to a legacy database. They want to modernize it by moving to a managed database service like Amazon RDS, but they do not want to rewrite the application code. Which modernization strategy should they use?
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A company is evaluating whether to modernize a monolithic application by breaking it into microservices. Which potential benefit is most directly associated with this modernization approach?
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A company is planning to migrate a critical legacy application from a data center to AWS. The application has a hard dependency on a legacy authentication service that cannot be moved to the cloud. The company wants to modernize the application to use AWS managed services, but the migration must be completed within a tight deadline. Which implementation plan should the company follow?
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A solutions architect is reviewing an existing application that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance. The application uses a self-managed MySQL database and a monolithic codebase. The architect wants to identify components that could benefit from modernization. Which action is an example of analyzing the workload to find a modernization opportunity?
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15foundation · easy
A company wants to migrate a legacy application to AWS with minimal changes. The application is currently running on a single server and the company wants to move it to the cloud quickly without modifying the code. Which modernization strategy is most appropriate?
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Questions 11–15

A company has a custom-built application that is tightly coupled to a legacy database. They want to modernize it by moving to a managed database service like Amazon RDS, but they do not want to rewrite the application code. Which modernization strategy should they use?

A company is evaluating whether to modernize a monolithic application by breaking it into microservices. Which potential benefit is most directly associated with this modernization approach?

A company wants to migrate a legacy application to AWS with minimal changes. The application is currently running on a single server and the company wants to move it to the cloud quickly without modifying the code. Which modernization strategy is most appropriate?

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