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Your company is storing millions of sensitive transactions across thousands of 100-GB files that must be encrypted in transit and at rest. Analysts concurrently depend on subsets of files, which can consume up to 5 TB of space, to generate simulations that can be used to steer business decisions.
You are required to design an AWS solution that can cost effectively accommodate the long-term storage and in-flight subsets of data.
Which approach can satisfy these objectives?

  • A. Use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) with server-side encryption, and run simulations on subsets in ephemeral drives on Amazon EC2.
  • B. Use Amazon S3 with server-side encryption, and run simulations on subsets in-memory on Amazon EC2.
  • C. Use HDFS on Amazon EMR, and run simulations on subsets in ephemeral drives on Amazon EC2.
  • D. Use HDFS on Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), and run simulations on subsets in-memory on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
  • E. Store the full data set in encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, and regularly capture snapshots that can be cloned to EC2 workstations.
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amministrazione
8 months, 3 weeks ago
A. Use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) with server-side encryption, and run simulations on subsets in ephemeral drives on Amazon EC2.
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KevinYao
1 year, 5 months ago
Selected Answer: A
S3 is best option for long term storage.
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sr987654
2 years, 2 months ago
Selected Answer: A
many explanations below, long term storage + 5TB capacity needed makes A the best option
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TigerInTheCloud
2 years, 4 months ago
Selected Answer: A
A is the best one among the answers S3 (storage) + Anthan or Redshift Spectrum could be a better solution. HDFS is expensive non-long-term storage. 5TB in-memory (RAM) is expensive. EBS expensive than S3
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hobokabobo
2 years, 5 months ago
Selected Answer: A
That said HDFS cached on local EBS is the most reasonable approach of the given approaches: A. HDFS vrs S3: small files and store only nectling EMR features. Store on disk because 5TB in ram would be huge. A
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hobokabobo
2 years, 4 months ago
It should read s3 cached on EBS. Hence the selection of A.
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LeoExam
2 years, 7 months ago
why not B, the u-24tb1.metal can provide 24TB memory, and data handled in memory will be more secure than in EBS
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davideccc
2 years, 8 months ago
Selected Answer: A
the only reasonable options are A and C (5TB in memory? no way). However C does not mention any long-term storage service, leaving A as the only reasonable answer (not the best approach though - which would be have the processing in EMR and the storage in S3. The EMR cluster can get subset data directly from S3 using EMRFS)
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virtual
3 years ago
Selected Answer: A
Because of "long term storage" specified. EMR is not a service designed for that. So S3 seems to be accurate.
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jj22222
3 years, 1 month ago
Selected Answer: A
A. Use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) with server-side encryption, and run simulations on subsets in ephemeral drives on Amazon EC2.
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Alvindo
3 years, 2 months ago
Selected Answer: A
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ManagementGuide/emr-plan-file-systems.html this link tells us hdfs isn't long-term which by itself cancels out c and d, leaving a as only practical answer
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pititcu667
3 years, 3 months ago
Selected Answer: D
because of emr
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Vendu
3 years, 4 months ago
Selected Answer: A
S3 would be cist effective compare to EMR
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wahlbergusa
3 years, 4 months ago
Asks for a cost effective solution. S3 is better than EMR.
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dv1
3 years, 4 months ago
EMR can do encryption at rest and in transit: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ManagementGuide/emr-data-encryption.html Also, you can combine EMR with EC2 for running simulations: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/hands-on/optimize-amazon-emr-clusters-with-ec2-spot/
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Bhagirathi
3 years, 6 months ago
can someone pls help explain - why / how it should be A?
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Akhil254
3 years, 6 months ago
A Correct
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ciberado
3 years, 6 months ago
The question does not explictly says the ephemeral storage is going to be encrypted in any way, so I would discard this option.
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backfringe
3 years, 6 months ago
I go with A as it says cost-effective
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