AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) — Question 192

A solutions architect is designing an application to accept timesheet entries from employees on their mobile devices. Timesheets will be submitted weekly, with most of the submissions occurring on Friday. The data must be stored in a format that allows payroll administrators to run monthly reports. The infrastructure must be highly available and scale to match the rate of incoming data and reporting requests.

Which combination of steps meets these requirements while minimizing operational overhead? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Deploy the application to Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances with load balancing across multiple Availability Zones. Use scheduled Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to add capacity before the high volume of submissions on Fridays.
• B. Deploy the application in a container using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with load balancing across multiple Availability Zones. Use scheduled Service Auto Scaling to add capacity before the high volume of submissions on Fridays.
• C. Deploy the application front end to an Amazon S3 bucket served by Amazon CloudFront. Deploy the application backend using Amazon API Gateway with an AWS Lambda proxy integration.
• D. Store the timesheet submission data in Amazon Redshift. Use Amazon QuickSight to generate the reports using Amazon Redshift as the data source.
• E. Store the timesheet submission data in Amazon S3. Use Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight to generate the reports using Amazon S3 as the data source.

Correct answer: C, E

Explanation

The correct option C allows for a serverless architecture, which minimizes operational overhead and scales automatically to handle traffic efficiently. Option E also supports a cost-effective and scalable reporting solution using Amazon S3 and Athena. Options A and B require more management overhead due to the need for EC2 instances, while option D is not optimal for the required reporting structure.