Design Cost-Optimized Architectures Practice Question

Question

For a batch analytics job, an architect is reviewing S3 Intelligent-Tiering requirement set 16. Which design choice best fits the requirement while following AWS architectural best practices?

Answer choices

1. A. Place all components on a single large instance to simplify troubleshooting.
2. B. Use long-lived access keys in application configuration so services can call AWS APIs directly.
3. C. Disable monitoring until the workload reaches steady production traffic.
4. D. Optimize storage cost when access patterns are unknown.

Correct Answer

D. Optimize storage cost when access patterns are unknown.

Explanation

The best answer applies S3 Intelligent-Tiering: optimize storage cost when access patterns are unknown. The other options increase operational risk, weaken security, or remove observability that an AWS Solutions Architect should preserve.

Question details

• Difficulty: hard
• Domain: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
• Objective: S3 Intelligent-Tiering

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